Learn and Earn over 20 Continuing Education Credits

In three days you can explore every aspect of the region’s rich design legacy from skyscrapers to theaters, public and commercial buildings, to the wide array of Arts & Crafts, Colonial, Craftsman, Greek Revival, Prairie School and Modernist styles amongst its vast supply of historic homes. Learn how well coordinated project teams of architects, developers, planners, building owners, and artisans utilize both high technology and centuries-old craftsmanship to maintain, restore and rehabilitate historic structures.

Find out how new construction, too, is reinterpreting older forms and styles. Experience how skillful designers are creating the new old house and adding artful, sympathetic additions to landmark structures. Or how new affordable housing can be created to mesh with the vernacular styles of earlier eras.

Choose what's best for you from over 65 seminars, workshops and tours within five unique tracks, most of which qualify for Health Safety Welfare credits:

R – Residential Series

N – New Construction

S – Sustainability

T – Traditional Trades

P – Preservation in Practice

W – Workshops/Tours (3 hours to all-day in length) 

Hundreds of Exhibitors – Looking for the right products to restore your building or build new in a traditional style?  Meet face-to-face with exhibitors of historically-accurate products for the restoration, renovation, and traditionally-inspired new construction markets.  This event a must attend for those who love old homes and buildings. 

Both an architectural feast and a field guide for creating new old houses, Roots of Home traces the development of today’s traditional homes from the earliest colonial styles to the present in a visually stunning journey.  Russell Versaci takes us back to the beginning, when our ancestors built homes that reflected their Old World roots tempered with New World realities. They sowed farms and towns with houses similar to the ones they left behind but suited to the new climates and materials surrounding them.  See how yesterday’s houses evolved into the classic homes we love today and learn how to create a new old house that evokes timeless character.

View the Russell Versaci Classic Collection here.