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• Wiss, Janney, Elstner, Associates Laboratory Tour

  • When
    Thursday, February 28, 2019
  •  
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    330 Pfingsten Road, Northbook, IL 60062

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  On Thursday, February 28th Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates will host APT WGLC for a tour of the recently completed new Janney Technical Center. The tour will be from 3pm to 4:30pm. Attendees will see laboratory units including petrography, chemistry, structural testing, and more. Laboratory staff will be on hand to answer questions regarding analytical capabilities. 

  Parking is available on site. Registration is free and open to all. Registration is open through February 26th. 

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• Traditional Building: Vernacular Means and Methods

  • When
    Saturday, March 23, 2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Durant House Museum, LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve, 37W700 Dean Street, Saint Charles, IL 60175
  • Spaces left
    19

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  Imagine this: It's the early 1840s and you and your family have just settled a few miles of west of the Fox River, 40 miles west of Chicago.  You've got acres of land with unlimited resources for building materials, and there are nearby mills, quarries and brickyards.  But you have to build your home, barn and outbuildings by yourself.  Where do you start??

  Well, fortunately it's not the 1840s--and we have help!  Come join us at the Durant House Museum to step (figuratively) back in time to learn about how Illinois' settlers would have gone about building their homes.  Watch and learn as historians talk about what tools would have been needed and get your hands dirty while trying some of them out.  Afterwards, satiate your well-earned hunger with a snack, cooked on the hearth.  A short tour of the house will follow the presentation and snack.

  Space is limited to 20 participants, so register soon! The event is free for APT WGLC members and $5.00 for non-members. 

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• 2019 APT WGLC / CHSA Symposium: Preservation of Industrial Archaeology and Its Construction History

  • When
    Friday, May 17, 2019
  •  
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
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  The Association of Preservation Technology, Western Great Lakes Chapter (APT WGLC) and the Construction History Society of America (CHSA) are co-hosting a Symposium on the theme: Preservation of Industrial Archaeology and its Construction History.  The program will offer a single track, combining the two disciplines of preservation technology and construction history.

  The event will be held Friday May 17, 2019, at the Ballroom of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (112 S. Michigan Ave), and will run from 8 am - 4 pm, with a one hour reception to follow.

  In addition, the joint hosts will be organizing a tour of the Pullman Historic District on Saturday, 18 May. More information to follow.

  Registration is open at https://chsamembership.wildapricot.org/event-3245982/

  
  

  
  

  
  

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