Work Weekend is the main event for PSSO, the Preservation Studies Student Organization. Each
year, current students, alumni, and other members of the Cornell
community gather to help restore a regional historic resource.
2010April 16-18  Wyco
Community Church was constructed in 1917 for the coal mining community
that once surrounded it. Since 2003, the church has been under the
ownership of the Rural Appalachian Improvement League (RAIL), who
stabilized the building and is now working on its restoration.
| 2009
April 3rd through 5th
Liberia
Plantation is an 1825 plantation house on 18 acres of property in the
Liberia Historic District in Manassas, Virginia.
The property is
being
restored with the assistance of historical architect C. Richard Bierce,
AIA of Alexandria, Virginia and Oak Grove Restoration Company under the
Rehabilitation Tax Credit program. The current project is about to
complete Phase I (stabilization) of the property, which belongs to the
City of Manassas.
| 2008
April 11 through
April 13th
The Cascadilla Boat House, right here
in Uncle Ezra's backyard. Alumni and student pictures can be found here.
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2007
April 13 through April 15
Students traveled to the
Eastern State Penitentiary
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) where they worked with the
site's
conservation staff to stabilize one of the nation's most
historic
prisons.
ChronicleOnline article
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