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, [...]
Preservation Champion honor new this year 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 2021 ARCHie Award. ARCH also intends to honor the people [...]
Central to our mission at ARCH is to advocate for our historic resources threatened by vacancy, neglect, demolition, or any other number of threats. The annual Endangered List helps ARCH raise awareness of these vulnerable properties, so that we can better identify ways to mitigate those threats. We believe these places have significant value and [...]
