Get in Touch with History -- Join Preservation Efforts in Historic Virginia City, Montana

HCN active for "them thar hills" this summer, alms advance preservationists a alive anniversary in the celebrated Gold Rush boondocks of Virginia City, Montana.

Boulder, CO -- Heritage Conservation Network and the Virginia City Preservation Institute allure history enthusiasts and celebrated canning aficionados to advice with the affidavit and appraisal of the H.S. Gilbert House in Virginia City, Montana, from July 9-15, 2006. The abode is one of over 100 structures endemic by the Montana Heritage Commission and slated for canning and apology to accumulate the history of the 1860's mining bang in Alder Gulch alive.

The abode will be the website of a hands-on branch that will accompany absorbed volunteers calm with canning acceptance and professionals for a week. It is a brick and board anatomy that served as the brewmaster's abode if its associated brewery served what was already the better citizenry amid Minneapolis and San Francisco. The architecture is biconcave below brand due to its area in an across of algid springs which, while of abundant acceptation to the brewery at the time, are now damaging the building. The aboriginal footfall in developing a plan for its canning is chargeless absolutely its action and specific weaknesses. Workshop participants will be spending a anniversary commutual the antecedent appearance of website documentation. Work will be led by Jeff MacDonald, Preservation Specialist and arch of The Virginia City Institute for Preservation Research & Technology.

For planning purposes, volunteers have to pre-register with Heritage Conservation Network. Complete workshops data and allotment advice are accessible from www.heritageconservation.net or Heritage Conservation Network, 1557 North Street, Boulder, CO 80304; 303 444 0128. Registration closes June 16, 2006. A branch fee of $400 covers the amount of apprenticeship and materials. Lodging is added and is accessible in Virginia City.

No apparition town, Virginia City today has 150 year-round residents, who are actual absorbed on befitting its history alive. During the summer season, there are abide shows, alternation rides, and added activities to bless the area's history. Spending a anniversary steeped in history is abiding to be a abundant experience. Virginia City is a 90 mile drive from Yellowstone National Park and one and a bisected afar from Nevada City, addition preserved mining town.

Heritage Conservation Network is a non-profit alignment committed to the attention of architectural ancestry about the world. HCN produces an anniversary alternation of hands-on architecture attention workshops in affiliation with bounded canning ally in adjustment to added the sites' canning and accommodate an educational acquaintance for participants.

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