2024 Preservation Month

2024 Preservation Month

Tell us what your favorite historic Utah place is.

Join us in celebrating this year's Preservation Month! 

While every month is historic preservation month for us here at Preservation Utah, May is National Historic Preservation Month, a chance to bring awareness to the importance of saving our historic spaces and cultural resources. Check out the line up below of programs and events you can attend. 

We would love to partner with others, if you are hosting events during Preservation Month please let us know!

Make sure to check back here throughout April as we add more opportunities to celebrate.

Our Events:

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Community Events:

Utah SHPO Brown Bag Lecture Series

  • Using artifacts from the LDS Polynesian Iosepa settlement in Utah, archaeologist Ally Gerlach showcases a real-life example of collaboration between archaeologists and descendant communities. (May 1 at noon). REGISTER HERE.

  • Amber Anderson and Roger Roper examine the architecture and social history behind Salt Lake City’s urban apartments, exploring how they were born out of necessity in a rapidly expanding city and their legacy today. (May 8 at noon.) REGISTER HERE.

  • Archaeologist and photojournalist Matt Stirn shares his remarkable journey, from researching prehistoric villages in the Rocky Mountains to traversing the globe to cover archaeology stories for prestigious magazines and newspapers.  (May 15 at noon.) REGISTER HERE.

  • Introducing the Great Sage Plain - the most important Ancestral Puebloan environment you've never heard of. Archaeologist Jason Chuipka will introduce us to the archaeology and culture history of this important landscape. (May 15 at 6pm.) REGISTER HERE.

  • The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has lived in what is now northern Utah, eastern Idaho, and western Wyoming since time immemorial. Brad Parry, Vice-Chairman of the Band, knows these histories well and will recount some of them for us in this presentation.  (May 22 at noon.) REGISTER HERE.

  • Join architect Jansen Bennett on a virtual tour of one of the oldest hydroelectric power plants in western North America.  From the earliest days of convincing the populace that electricity was safe in their homes to now powering the water supply for over 1 million Utahns, the Olmstead Hydroelectric Plant has served the community.  (May 29 at noon.) REGISTER HERE.

K.E.E.P. Yalecrest

Holladay Historical Commission and Holladay Arts Council

 

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