At the Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 16th, the membership will be asked to approve amended bylaws for the VPA. The most important changes were outlined by VPA President Keith Shukait in his column in the January newsletter. You … Continue reading
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The Victorian Preservation Association presents “The Darker Side of Dickens”. You are all familiar with Dickens’s homey Christmas stories, but did you know that Charles Dickens wrote some darker and more gothic tales? The VPA invites you to attend a … Continue reading
The VPA web site was first designed in 1996 by Matt Knowles of Aesthetic Design & Photography, who was at that time a VPA member restoring a 1914 Bungalow in San Jose. In the almost 2 decades since, the site … Continue reading
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By: Kris Motyka I was in the back of the line when patience was handed out. So, I’m not sure if this is an ‘acquired skill’ or if it was always there, waiting to be coaxed out of me. What … Continue reading
The best way of getting rid of mold is to put the book into a heavy plastic bag and seal it securely so no air or moisture can get in. Then put it in the freezer for a couple of … Continue reading
The historic house museum pages for Kansas and Kentucky have now been moved into the database. Lots of new links were found. … Continue reading
The historic home museum pages for Utah and Oklahoma have been updated. Looking at some of the other pages I was noticing that most of the rating were averaging out to 3. I was surprised that houses like Hearst Castle … Continue reading
Just finished updating the house museum pages for Delaware and Georgia. I’ll be adding photos to these pages later, but I figured at this point I’d concentrate on getting the rest of the state pages updated to the new database … Continue reading
After last year’s fire that I started while heat gunning the exterior of our 1888 Victorian, I started researching alternative methods of paint removal. I had previously stripped the entire exterior of our 1914 bungalow in San Jose without incident. … Continue reading
I’ve recently added the new pages for Alabama, Alaska and California to the house museum database. I’m still working on loading photos for the California page. It took a full day to load the data for California. So if anyone … Continue reading
In addition to installing the blog software, I’ve also been busy working on a long overdue update to the Historic House Museum section. For a long time I’ve wanted to get the museum information into a database to make it … Continue reading
Our webmaster Matt Knowles has installed a WordPress blog for the VPA web site. Members are invited to write articles, post photos or other content that would be of interest to our group. In order to post content in the … Continue reading
9 years ago when we moved to Ferndale we thought that since our house sits on Rose Ave, that we should plant the 15o foot long front exposure with rose bushes. We bought 13 rose bushes, some Cecil Brunner and … Continue reading