Dedicated to being an engaged and responsive preservation resource for Napa County communities, our events and outreach serve to educate and enable anyone interested or involved in historic preservation: homeowners, developers, engineers, conservators, civic leaders, contractors, architects, educators, real estate professionals and tourists.
Outreach may include hands- on historic maintenance workshops, architectural symposiums, growth and development panels, materials conservation, engineering challenges, ag preserve walks, small neighborhood tours and other initiatives to help local communities gain a richer sense of our collective histories and cultural resources and how these work to build our future. Preservation Napa Valley aims to demonstrate that preservation is not simply about saving everything that is old but being a core resource when our past and development come head to head. It's about collaboration, innovation and ways to help preserve a deep set quality of life.
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On The Advocacy Front
Preservation Napa Valley seeks to be an educational resource to help inform policy makers and community stakeholders about their historic resources and landscapes. Preservation Napa Valley can speak to the importance and consideration of particular historic backgrounds or contexts, or delve into creative reuse ideas for older buildings. Preservation Napa Valley may also be found contributing to critical dialogues about the necessity of preservation on a sustainable, economic or cultural basis.
Preservation Napa Valley believes that collaboration, input and consensus from a wide spectrum of interested parties best fosters a healthy community outcome.
On The School Front
Preservation Napa Valley is committed to engaging local and regional schools so that students may enrich their academic pursuits with creative, community preservation projects. This fall we will continue our relationship with the University of San Francisco Architecture department while bringing in Napa Valley College and Paul Kelley Architects to produce and even richer and broader end result. The 2009 fall semester community preservation project is the documentation of a once pervasive Napa site: the small family farm within City limits. With an artistic, academic and oral history element, this super rich project will be the first exhibit to be displayed in NVC's new library. Stay tuned for project updates.
