Lectures, Walking Tours, Community Events, Fundraiser Galas, and More
How to Plan for a Home Energy Retrofit in a Changing Climate Experts 1:30-2:30pm; Conservancy HQ-8708 Germantown Avenue. A free program to the community, Ask the Experts is offered quarterly, and addresses a featured topic by an expert on prevalent issues relating to historic home and landscape care, as well as  free access to the Archives. Ask questions; get […]
Our friends at the Mt. Airy CDC are presenting a series of talks focusing on Historic Mt. Airy. Historic maps of Northwest Philadelphia show 2 creeks, the Wissahickon Creek and the Wingohocking Creek. Modern maps only show the Wissahickon. The Wingohocking Creek and its tributaries were encased in large combined sewers and buried in the […]
East Mt. Airy has a fascinating and little known history, and many fabulous houses. Who designed and built these houses, and created what we know as East Mt. Airy? Attend this vivid, pictorial history about the development of Sedgwick Farms to learn more. Ashton Tourison, Sr. was a builder with strong principles with respect to […]