Socorro County Historical Society and the Hammel Museum

Description

The Society operates the Hammel Museum, housed in an 1800s structure which started as a beer garden and, in the intervening century, became successively a brewery, an ice plant, a soda bottling plant, and finally ended as an active industry still making ice. The museum chronicles the industrial and commercial history of Socorro's boom years, between 1880 and 1893.

Website has very sparse information about the museum. What does it offer?

Chicago Jewish Historical Society

Description

The Society has as its purpose the discovery, preservation and dissemination of information concerning the Jewish experience in the Chicago area. The Society seeks out, collects, and preserves written, spoken, and photographic records, in close cooperation with the Chicago Jewish Archives, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. The Society publishes historical information, holds public meetings at which various aspects of Chicago Jewish history are treated, mounts appropriate exhibits, and offers tours of Jewish historical sites.

Though the Society does not have a museum, it does offer lectures and tours of Jewish historic sites in Chicago.

Organization, without a historic site base of its own. May still be worth including, though?

Preservation Partnership

Description

Preservation Partnership is an architecture firm in Denver, Colorado, specializing in historic preservation. It provides owners of historic properties with design and planning services for rehabilitation, adaptive use, and maintenance, and property management.

Business/organization, not historical site.

American Historical Association

Description

The American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA provides leadership and advocacy for the profession, fights to ensure academic freedom, monitors professional standards, spearheads essential research in the field, and provides resources and services to help its members succeed. The AHA serves more than 14,000 history professionals, representing every historical period and geographical area. AHA members include K–12 teachers, academics at two- and four-year colleges and universities, graduate students, historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government, and businesses, as well as independent historians.

University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation

Description

Established in 1980, the Center for Historic Preservation is a research and public outreach organization affiliated with the Department of Historic Preservation. The Center supports the undergraduate academic major in Historic Preservation by sponsoring lectures, workshops, symposia, and conferences; by organizing fieldwork and international study opportunities for students and faculty; and by sustaining activities that expand opportunities for students to participate in preservation-related research. To this end, the Center participates actively in local, regional and international preservation organizations. The Center also supports Historic Preservation activities by offering public programs; by undertaking cooperative research; and by providing professional services and technical assistance to organizations, property owners, and local governments and agencies.