Past Perspectives is a unique historic and cultural resources
company that has helped thousands of homeowners, institutions
and non-profits interpret, preserve and appreciate their historic
properties. From rural stone farmhouses and rustic barns to
urban townhouses and Victorian mansions, Past Perspectives
has almost 35 years of experience analyzing and studying historic
architecture. |
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18th Century Stone House at
Bartram Gardens, Philadelphia, PA |
We are dedicated to the preservation and documentation of homesteads
and other historic properties. We create a wide range of written documents
of each site that include building condition reports, building style
analyses, deed searches, historical narratives, physical descriptions,
architectural documentation, historic site plans, establishment of
construction dates and State and National Register nominations.
Greg Huber, the owner of Past Perspectives, has been documenting historic buildings
from Tennessee to Maine since 1974. A specialist in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and New York houses and barns, Greg draws from
an encyclopedic knowledge of architectural styles, traits,
and trends throughout more than three centuries of various
cultural building traditions.
Over the past 35 years, Huber has inspected and researched
over 5,000 structures, including farmhouses, townhouses and
rural plantations, barns, hay barracks and diverse types of
outbuildings as well as mills, iron foundries and other historic
buildings, amassing a huge 20,000 page library of field notes
and documentation. |
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Front Door of Late Federal Style Stone House,
Circa 1820 Near Reading, Berks County, PA
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Greg Huber is a well-respected and recognized scholar, and in 1997
he was awarded the New Netherland Project’s Alice P. Kenney
Award for his outstanding contributions for furthering the public
appreciation of the Dutch-American culture. In 2003, his New World
Dutch Barn book received the Allen G. Noble book award for the best
edited book on material culture in North America. He is an accomplished
author of over 60 articles and several books, including:
Early Stone Houses of Bucks County and The Greater
Brandywine Valley – coauthor – Rizzoli Publications,
New York (to be published in spring 2005)
The New World Dutch Barn – The Evolution, Forms
and Structure of a Disappearing Icon – Syracuse
University Press – Editor of Second Edition - 2001
“Behind the Threshing Doors – An Inside Look
at Some of the Earliest Barns in Pennsylvania” –
Material Culture, Pioneer America Society –
Fall 2004
“Making Progress Every Day – The 1720s Pieter
Winne House” – de Halve Maen, Holland
Society, New York – Spring 2004 |
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