Preservation Volunteers

A French volunteer restores a mausoleum at the Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn

VOLUNTEER THIS SUMMER!

We need volunteers for this summer to work and learn about historic preservation.

History, architecture, and the technologies of the past come alive this summer for volunteers ready to spend two weeks working on historic structures, reviving them for new community uses.

Locations this summer, beginning July first, include: woodworking at the Byrdcliffe arts colony in Woodstock, NY, restoration work at the Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn, NY, masonry and carpentry at the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz, NY, as well as an intensive three week conservation experience at the Historic House Trust of New York City (internship credit). In France, sites include a former quarantine off the coast of Marseille in the Mediterranean, a redoubt in Normandy, and a Medieval Chateau with a Romanesque chapel. Travel Grants are available!!

Fairview residents gather to present a plaque to the newly scrubbed Center.

PV is a non-profit 501-c-3 organization dedicated to linking volunteers to historic sites in need of repair. PV volunteers may be any age over 18 and offer a variety of skills.

The Fairview, Colorado Schoolhouse before restoration