Preserve Montana is holding a two-day Historic Preservation Principles Workshop on Tuesday, June 2, at the Baxendale Schoolhouse Preservation Center. The workshop is designed to introduce participants to the core principles that guide responsible historic preservation work, and enrollment is capped at 10 people — making it one of the more intimate training opportunities available in the region this year.

Tickets run from $425 to $500, reflecting the small-group, hands-on format. Preserve Montana describes the curriculum as covering the foundational standards used to evaluate, protect, and rehabilitate historic structures — the kind of knowledge that matters whether you're working on a Victorian-era home on Stuart Street, a rural schoolhouse, or a commercial building on Last Chance Gulch.

The Baxendale Schoolhouse Preservation Center has become a working classroom for this kind of instruction, offering a real historic building as the backdrop for applied learning. For architects, contractors, preservation volunteers, and property owners who work with older buildings in Lewis and Clark County and beyond, this workshop is one of the few places in Montana to get this level of focused training.

This workshop follows a Traditional Joinery and Wood Repair session Preserve Montana held at the same location in May — part of what appears to be a growing calendar of hands-on preservation education at Baxendale. Interested participants should register early given the 10-person cap.