NAZARETH, Pa.- The Moravian Historical Society announced they will launch a preservation project to preserve the 1740 Gray Cottage in Nazareth, the oldest existing Moravian log house in North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The preservation project is expected to begin Aug. 11 and will consist of repairs to meet current preservation standards, the society said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials said visitors are welcome to watch the house\u2019s restoration between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. from Tuesdays to Fridays.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Frank Stroik, a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission contractor who specializes in eighteenth-century log home restoration, will lead the project, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The cottage was first built in November 1740 and played a role in the creation of the first school in Nazareth, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Moravian Historical Society said Gray Cottage was involved in the American Revolution and other historic conflicts and now currently stands as an educational resource for visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This preservation project is an investment in Nazareth’s earliest surviving building and in the stories it continues to tell,” Susan Ellis, executive director of The Moravian Historical Society, said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“By preserving the Gray Cottage today, we are ensuring that future generations can experience an authentic connection to the earliest days of Nazareth, the Moravian settlement, and colonial America.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH, Pa.- The Moravian Historical Society announced they will launch a preservation project to preserve the 1740 Gray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1084,1889,8479,654,7725,5858,680,21744],"class_list":["post-262672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-house","tag-moravian","tag-moravian-historical-society","tag-nazareth","tag-north-america","tag-public","tag-restoration","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}