As a result, the plan centers on creating community connections to historic places. The first goal is to reduce both “real and perceived” barriers to historic preservation.

But that falls right around the 50-year threshold for what experts will generally consider historic, explains Andrea MacDonald, director of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

Andrea McDonald, Laney Correa and Arianna Westgate get their costumes, hair and makeup ready for dress rehearsal in a Crocker Theater dressing room as they prepare to play the roles of the Mayor ...

“Benjamin Franklin’s words, ‘well done is better than well said,’ can serve as inspiration to us all to act upon the goals of Pennsylvania’s new plan,” wrote Andrea McDonald, director ...