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• 2025 Symposium: Preservation of Windows and Storefronts

  • When
    Friday, April 04, 2025
  •  
    8:15 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 1936 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
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    83 registrants

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  The Association of Preservation Technology, Western Great Lakes Chapter invites you to join us for our 2025 Symposium - Preservation of Windows and Storefronts. 

  The event will be held at Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago on Friday, April 4, 2025. 

  Registration begins at 8:15 am, opening remarks begin at 8:30 am. The program will include a tour of the National Historic Landmark interior of Second Presbyterian Church, and will conclude at 4:00 pm.

  This program will provide 5.5 CEUs. Lunch and light breakfast will be provided during the program. 

  Presentations will include:

  • Brianne Van Vorst, The Resurrection Revealed
  • Donna Weiss and Jill Willett, The Multifaceted and Crucial Role of the Window Conditions Assessment
  • Nick Casaletto and Ron Spellich, Same but Different: Rehabilitation of Existing Glazing Systems
  • Rachel Will, A “Window” into the Rehabilitation of 30th Street Station
  • Neal Vogel, The Storefront Restoration of the Century!
  • Stacey Z. Keller and Bruce Petersen, The Bowman Hall Historic Window Replacement
  • Susan E. Reinhold and Eileen Burke, Levy Mayer Hall – Steel Casement Window Restoration
  • Bruce Kaskel and Kimberly Lis, Edith Farnsworth House – Glass Replacement and Enclosure Coating Restoration

  Registration will be open until Tuesday, April 1.

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• A “City-Within-A-City” – Rehabilitation of the Northstar Center Tour and Social

  • When
    Tuesday, April 08, 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    625 S Marquette Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55402
  • Spaces left
    15
  • Registered
    10 registrants

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  Please join APT WGLC on Tuesday April 8, to tour the historic Northstar Center in Minneapolis, MN!

  In 1963, Northstar Center pioneered the concept of a “City-Within-A-City”. As the birthplace of the Minneapolis Skyway system, and with its innovative mixed-use design and convenience, the property laid the groundwork for what a future workplace could be in a downtown business district. Northstar Center is now reborn as an experiential, hospitality-infused, mixed-use ecosystem that provides a workplace experience worth commuting to, and worth dressing up for. The rehabilitated Northstar Center features restaurants, a grocery store, a 7-story parking facility, offices and meeting spaces, an outdoor terrace, an indoor golf club, a hotel, and apartments. This tour will present the construction history of the complex, key design features, discoveries revealed during construction, and the main rehabilitation treatments that were sensitively introduced to the site. Following the tour we welcome people to join us for an optional visit and social time at the nearby Gardner Builders Office (general contractor for Northstar West).

  Logistics:

  • Meeting point: main lobby at 625 S Marquette Ave entrance
  • Parking: Northstar Ramp entrances on S 7th St, S Marquette Ave, and S 6th St. Street parking and other parking ramps available in the area.
  • Program:
  • • 4:30pm-5:30pm: Tour of Northstar Center
    • 5:30pm-6:30pm: Optional visit and social time at nearby Gardner’s Office
  • Walking distance: approx. 1,500 ft.
  • ADA accessibility: elevators on site

  
  

  
  

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