ARCH Inc. Fun & Free Lecture Series March 21 event canceled “Historic Preservation: By the Numbers” content to be available in alternative format MARCH 13, 2020: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency and the widespread cancellation of most public gatherings, ARCH Inc. has made the difficult decision to cancel its Fun & Free Lecture [...]
Explore how our past makes our present and future better The ARCH Inc. Fun & Free lecture series kicks off in January with an exploration of how Petula Clark’s classic song “Downtown” is a valuable guide to understanding our city today. Its four following monthly installments through May cover topics ranging from our [...]
ARCH Inc., the historic preservation non-profit organization serving Allen County and Northeast Indiana, invites everyone who knows of a historic building that has been successfully preserved in the past two years to nominate it for a 2020 ARCHie Award. ARCH is accepting nominations for its annual award program that recognizes the preservation efforts of [...]
ARCH takes special joy in celebrating National Preservation Month each May by honoring the property owners who do the right thing when they update their historic homes and businesses, elevating remodeling projects into proper historic preservation projects. This year, ARCH honors 12 projects in residential and commercial categories that bring renewed vitality to our neighborhoods, [...]
Twenty-first century scientific analysis is giving substance to one of Fort Wayne’s enduring legends from the early 1800s. A scientific paper just published in the Journal of Conflict Archaeology solidly establishes some key facts about that legend for Fort Wayne’s historic Merchant Huxford House, the 1853 home of the city’s third mayor that ARCH bought, [...]
