This past week, we here at Preservation Ohio had the opportunity to look back into our own past.
When Ohio’s original and official statewide historic preservation organization was officially established in May, 1982, it was the culmination of several months of work by leaders of Ohio’s preservation community, as well as input from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. By early 1983, the organization was up and running from an office in The Arcade in downtown Cleveland.
We have the records from that first meeting, as well as paper archives from that time to the present.
Today, we thought that we would share with you the original newsletter from the Ohio Preservation Alliance (our first and still our corporate name) that was published that spring. In it, you will see a “who’s who” of people involved in the initial years of organized preservation activity in Ohio. This started it all as Ohio’s very first statewide preservation publication.
We’re still at it, of course, some 41 years later!
