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Happenings
June 4-5, 2025
Details: Glenn Stach presents the concept of "Beyond the Liberty Tree" to attendees of the NCASLA Annual Meeting.
March 24-26, 2025
Details: Glenn Stach contributes to 250th planning at The VA250 “A Common Cause to All” Conference commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary.
https://va250.org/a-common-cause-to-all-2025/
March 22, 2025
Details: STACH launches, with local support, the Buncombe County America250 Committee serving as administrative lead to support Buncombe County grass roots commemoration of the Nation’s 250th.
January 16, 2025
Details: Glenn Stach was invited to speak at Winghaven’s Lecture Series. Stach’s lecture, “Vibrant Futures for Historic Landscapes" focused on the design and preservation of some of America’s most cherished historic landscapes.
December 1, 2024
Details: STACH’s work is featured in the December 2024 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM), “Leading the Charge: A Revolutionary War Battlefield Expands into the 21st Century”.
November 18, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach brought greetings and keynote remarks for the ribbon cutting of new interpretive signage at Princeton Battlefield State Park, a project eight years in the making with the American Battlefield Trust, NJDEP, and the Princeton Battlefield Society.
October 9-10, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach facilitated the Revolutionary War Battlefield Preservation Workshop at Brandywine Battlefield Park. A meeting of the minds joining together units of our national parks, state parks, and state historic preservation officers.
September 27, 2024
Details: The destruction of Hurricane Helene hits western North Carolina. Historic Biltmore Village receives record breaking flood damage, impacting STACH’s 1 Village Lane Office.
September 25-27, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach leads a team of experts to assess James and Elizabeth Monroe’s presidential home at Oak Hill, in Gilbert’s Corner VA to determine its suitability for preservation and rehabilitation potential as Virginia’s next state park.
June 25, 2024
Details: STACH and the American Battlefield Trust facilitate the first ever Trust-led Cultural Landscape Report fieldwork at Brandy Station Battlefield with the talented team from MIG, Bud Hall, VADCR, VADHR, and ABPP.
June 9, 2024
Details: STACH celebrates with the American Battlefield Trust, and the Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation the founding of Culpeper Battlefield State Park. Following ceremonies, Glenn Stach leads the caravan of Governor Glenn Youngkin and officials on a tour of the Battlefield.
June 7-8, 2024
Details: The NC ASLA annual conference held in Asheville, NC. STACH led tour attendees around Historic Biltmore Village and the Biltmore Estate shedding light on the firm’s work stewarding Olmsted’s vision for the estate’s gardens and grounds, and the village.
April 22, 2024
Details: STACH begins work with John G. Waite Associates on the rehabilitation of Guastavino’s, Basilica of Saint Lawrence, in Asheville, NC.
https://saintlawrencebasilica.org/the-architect
March 18-20, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach attended the Virginia A250 Conference, the national convening of state commissions and preservation professionals commemorating the nation’s upcoming semiquincentennial (250th).
https://va250.org/a-common-cause-to-all-2024/
February 3, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach attended the meeting of the NC Board of Landscape Architects hosted by NC State’s College of Design.
January 26, 2024
Details: Glenn Stach led an installment of the L-Series Lecture entitled History Matters at Virginia Tech for the Landscape Architecture Program. This series explored the impact and legacy of alumni through their voices and work.
November 18, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach led Tours and Fundraising Brunch with the American Battlefield Trust at the Nassau Club, Princeton NJ followed by tours updating participants of the work to rehabilitate the Princeton battlefield, Princeton NJ. Find out more at:
https://www.battlefields.org/preserve/washingtons-legacy
October 25, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach, serving as Chair of the NC Board of Landscape Architects, hosted an
appreciation breakfast for past board members of the North Carolina Board of Landscape Architects, as the opening activities for the Board's quarterly meeting at the NC State University Club.
October 19, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach and members of the American Battlefield Trust team were on hand at the Yorktown Custom House, presenting the latest restoration/design of a commemorative tree planting, reforestation on land owned by the American Battlefield Trust at Yorktown, in fulfillment of the Daughters of the American Revolutions National Society's Pathway of the Patriots tree plantings for the nation's 250th.
October 10, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach presented via public meeting with the American Battlefield Trust team, the threats to the Bristol Station battlefield by a massive Data Center proposed on battlefield lands.
September 21, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach attended the Cultural Landscape Foundation's 25th Anniversary Gala at the Century Association in NYC. Stach served as board member for TCLF from 2005-2013.
September 20, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach represented the NC Board of Landscape Architects, alongs side fellow board member Clay Gloster at this year's Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board (CLARB) annual meeting.
September 12, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach attended the North Carolina A&T Landscape Architecture Program's accreditation meeting, which included key stakeholders from the professional community and alumni of the program to make recommendation for the programs future. NC A&T is the sole undergraduate program in landscape architecture, and the only HBCU landscape architecture undergraduate program in the nation.
August 8, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach was appointed to and attended the Americans for Battlefield Preservation Board Meeting. The AFBP board consists of scholars and subject matter experts working together to advocate for the preservation of our nation's irreplaceable hallowed grounds.
July 26, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach chaired the NC Board of Landscape Architects quarterly meeting at the NC State University Club. https://www.ncbola.org
July 13, 2023
Details: Glenn Stach facilitated an All Partners Update in Culpeper, Virginia regarding the future plans for the Culpeper Battlefields State Park. The American Battlefield Trust, Virginia DCR and Virginia DHR are working together to open the battlefield park to the public in June/July of 2024.
On October 26, 2017
Details: Glenn Stach will speak on the firm's ongoing partnership with the Tregaron Conservancy to establish a balanced approach to preservation and sustainability at Tregaron, the early 20th century master work of Ellen Biddle Shipman and Charles Platt. The work is made possible by a grant provided by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
http://www.tregaronconservancy.org/about-us/
July 19, 2017
Details: Glenn Stach will speak at the Friends of Cedar Mountain Battlefield Open House event to update the interested public on the firm's ongoing KOCOA analysis of Culpeper area Civil War battlefields. KOCOA is an analysis method used to assess the cultural landscape features (terrain features) of battlefields. The presentation will also touch on the work of the Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain State Park Alliance and efforts to establish these two battlefields as a unit of Virginia's State Parks. The work is made possible by a grant provided by the American Battlefield Protection Program.
April 19, 2017
Details: Glenn Stach will serve as keynote speaker at the National Building Museum’s Spotlight on Design series, in celebration of Landscape Architecture Month. The talk, “The Art and Nature of Ellen Biddle Shipman” will detail the famed designer’s approach to nature and design, and highlight current efforts to renew her work on the Platt-Shipman designed landscape at the Tregaron Estate in Cleveland Park, Washington DC.
April 7, 2016
Details: Glenn Stach will be lecturing at NC state on professional practice and niche market service
April 5, 2016
Details: Glenn Stach will serve as guest speaker to the Cleveland Park Historical Society in Washington DC’s historic Cleveland Park neighborhood. The talk will address the importance of landscape and landscape preservation policy at the local level to sustain and vibrancy and continuity in historic districts.
September 26, 2015
Details: Glenn Stach will serve as keynote speaker for “Gardening on the Green,” in Biltmore Village. The talk will discuss the Olmsted and Hunt plan for Biltmore Village and place its design with the context of other Olmsted-deigned villages and their respective preservation challenges and success.
April 9, 2015
Details: Glenn Stach will be lecturing at NC State on landscape preservation.