WMAN champions the economic, environmental, and community benefits of saving our historic places. This workshop series provides those who reside in old homes with the knowledge of common materials and methods for their maintenance and restoration.

Online registration recommended as space is limited. 

Suggested donation:
$10 per workshop or $25 for all three
*Use the "Make a Donation" field below the registration options

Workshop dates:

Window Workshop
Wednesday October 4th, 2023
6:30pm-8:00pm

Interior Plaster Workshop
Wednesday October 11th, 2023
6:30pm-8:00pm

Masonry: Mortar and Brick Workshop
Wednesday October 18th, 2023
6:30pm-8:00pm

Location:

All workshops take place at

Cliveden of the National Trust
98 East Cliveden Street
Philadelphia PA, 19119

Head to the Carriage House at Morton and Cliveden Streets.

Instructors:

Ray Tschoepe

Ray earned his master’s in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania and has worked in the field for more than 30 years – first as an independent restoration contractor and then as Director of Conservation at the Fairmount Park Conservancy. There, Ray and his staff worked to conserve about 20 eighteenth and nineteenth-century buildings. Since 2000, Ray has also taught a core course in Building Conservation in the historic preservation program at Bucks County Community College. He is also a regular contributor to Old House Journal.

Andrew Staples

Andrew is the Conservation Supervisor at the Fairmount Park Conservancy. Prior to joining the Conservancy, he spent five years working as a contractor in his father's plumbing and heating business. Having been brought up around the trades, he developed an interest in the history and development of construction techniques and technologies.  Andrew holds an MA in Archaeology of Buildings from the University of York in the UK.