Preservation Alumni is excited to announce the revamping of our current website! Launched over 15 years ago, preservationalumni.org has become a valuable place for us to connect with our members, organize and promote events, and support the mission of the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University. We’re working hard to create a new website to better engage with our members in the coming months, complete with refreshed graphics and updated capabilities. As part of this initiative, we are launching a…

Join Preservation Alumni for its Annual Pub Crawl on April 5th!  This year we will be exploring three spots in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood, an historic district that's centered on the second and last private square in New York. Our first stop will be at the Pete's Tavern (66 Irving Place) at 6:00, followed by Triona's on Third (192 Third Avenue) at 7:00 and concluding at Mercy Bar (129 East 15th Street) at 7:45. We hope you can join us to mingle…

The Historic Preservation Open House welcomes admitted students to campus (class entering Fall 2019) and gives them the opportunity to learn about all aspects of the HP program.  Admitted students will hear from program leadership, receive tours of the labs and the facilities, and learn about studio and thesis requirements among other things. The program also includes a luncheon in Low Library, which gives admitted students the opportunity to interact with alumni, current students, and faculty. It is often the…

Preservation Alumni is excited to kick off our second year of the mentorship program with a Mentorship Mingle for students and mentors to meet! Participating students and mentors are invited to join us on January 31st at 6:30pm at 120 Broadway, 20th Floor. Also known as the Equitable Building, 120 Broadway is a historic New York City sky scraper completed in 1915 by Ernest R. Graham that spurred the New York City zoning code and the development of the classic "wedding cake" towers of the…