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Spring 2008
HAF and Partners Seek Solutions for Vacant Buildings * Save the Dates * Preservation Services Update: Lustron Project Update, Savng Your Historic Original Wood Windows, Ongoing prservation advocacy * HAF helps homeowners take advantage of State Historic Preservation Tax Credit * Executive Director's Letter * Saving St. Joe's * Historic Building Plaques * Endangered Historc Resource Lost; Albany Knitting Company 1886-2008 * Staff Spotlight: Christiana Limniatis * Wellington Row Plans Finalized * Architectural Parts Warehouse * Savor the Date! *  Warehouse Update *  In Memoriam *  Virginia Bowers *  Endangered Resources; Howe Library Windows * Albany Convention Center Authority Update * HAF Events Recap: BUILT Show Another Great Success, Holiday House Tour Recap

Spring 2007
Wellington Row; A Storied Past, An Uncertain Future * Save the Dates * Preservation Services Update: 2007 Preservation Work Shop Series, Neighborhood Planning, Albany County Designated Sensitive Parcels' RFP, The Lustron Project  * Executive Director's Letter * St Joseph's Church and Committee 150 Update * HAF Wish List * Wellington Row Timeline & Scrapbook * Warehouse Update * Staff Update: Goodbye Erin... Hello Sam  * In Memoriam * Hidden Treasures; Albany High School Class Windows * Albany Convention Center Authority Update * HAF Events Recap

Summer 2006
HAF Holds Annual Meeting and Preservation Merit Awards * Save the Dates * Preservation Services Update:  Neighborhood Planning, Capital Fundraising for Religious Institutions, Endangered Buildings Community Forum, 48 Hudson Avenue * HAF mourns loss of longtime member and community leader Virginia Poyer * Truck Needed - Architectural Parts Warehouse * St. Joseph's Church Update: Parties with a Purpose * Advocacy Update: Arbor Hill Library Branch Site to be Decided by Library Board * HAF Event Recap: 2006 Hidden House and Garden Tour is Largest Ever, A Moveable Feast

Winter 2006
Historic Albany Foundation Announces its 2005 Endangered Historic Resource List * Save the Dates * Preservation Services Update: South End Neighborhood Planning, Seven to Save Wood Windows Initiative, St. Joseph's Stained Glass Window Research * Parts Warehouse Update * Call for Nominations: Preservation Merit Awards * St. Joseph's Church Update * HAF Event Recap: Vacancy 2005 The Biggest Show Yet, Holiday House Tour * Lustron Home Giveaway!

Fall 2005
Tragedy on Madison Place: History Lost * Save the Dates * St. Joseph's Capital Campaign: The Next Phase * Technical Services Update * Staff Profile: Meet Kerri Evans, Program Assistant * Salvaged and Unsalvageable: Schools 16 & 18 and North Swan Street * Executive Director's Letter * St. Joseph's Church: Building, Parish, Neighborhood - An Exhibit Presented by HAF * Vacancy 2005 Call for Entries * New Office Location, 472 Madison Ave

Spring 2005
St. Joseph's Church Update * Madison Theatre Community Discussion * A Moveable Feast * Preservation Merit Awards: Call for Nominations * Gravestone Preservation Volunteers Wanted * Living Preservation Workshop: Historic Encaustic Tiles * Staff Profile: Meet Erin Tobin Bearden * Washington Park Birdhouse Receives a Helping Hand

Spring 2003 
Albany Preserves: Historic Albany Foundation's Vacant Buildings Initiative * Hidden City House & Garden Tour: June 19 * HAF Annual Meeting Held May 8 * HAF Supports City Schools Plan * Staff Profile: Meet Susie Olsen * Hail to the Chefs - A Moveable Feast, A Great Success * VACANCY: Albany's Abandoned Buildings Through Artists Eyes - Call for Entries * Albany Underground: Mary Ball - Queen of the Boardinghouse Widows * Preservation Merit Awards: Call for Nominations * Forty Under 40 * Preservation Connection: Saving St. Josephs

Winter 2003
Albany Preserves: The Palace Theatre * A Moveable Feast * City of Albany Poised to Transfer St. Joseph's Church to      HAF * Assemblymen McEneny, Canestrari Secure $50k for HAF Preservation Resource Center * Upcoming Preservation  Events & Programming * Albany Underground - The Quackenbush Square Rum Distillery * Spring Preservation Workshops * Preservation Connection

Fall 2002
A message from the Executive Director -- and an invitation * Preservation Merit Awards 2002 * Holiday Gift Ideas * Bel Tesoro opens in restored 1870s building * Preservation Connection: Stabilization Completed at 41 Ten Broeck 

Summer 2002
Albany Preserves: 41 Ten Broeck * VACANCY: Albany's Abandoned Buildings Through Artists' Eyes / HAF Vacant Buildings Initiative * Fiscal Notes * HAF Annual Meeting & Preservation Merit Awards: Who Saved School 10? * Fall Into Preservation: Programs, Exhibits, Tours * Albany Underground - Albany's 18th Century Waterfront * Albany Heritage: State Street Stories * Members Only Events * Preservation Workshops * Preservation Connection

Spring 2002
Albany Preserves: St. Joseph's Church * Hidden City Garden Tour * Spring "Friendraiser" at Governor's Mansion * A Feast for the Record Books * Treasure Hunt * Historic Home Tax Credit * Albany Underground - Albany's Stockade * Advocacy Update * HAF and Society of Architectural Historians - Spring Programs * Preservation Connection

Winter 2002 
Albany Preserves: The New York State Capitol * A Moveable Feast * Albany Underground - Archeology Update * Our Members Love a Challenge * Living Preservation Workshops * Albany Heritage * Advocacy Update * Preservation Connection

Fall 2001
Albany Preserves: The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception * Living Preservation Workshops * Preservation Merit Award Winners * HAF Members Review School Facilities Plan * Preservation Connection

Summer 2001
Albany Preserves: The Cathedral of All Saints * Applause for WAMC  * Preservation Merit Awards: Call for Nominations * In the News * Legislative Update * Advocacy Update * Help Wanted * Local Building Makes National Register