We Are What We Build is a local history project, designed to give fourth graders an understanding of how local architecture reflects the history, culture, and traditions of a community.  This project was designed by teachers at Middleburgh Elementary School in upstate New York and was funded by the Capital Region Teacher Center.  The project involved approximately 50 fourth grade students at Middleburgh Elementary School, the classroom teachers, art teacher, librarian, and professional architects and historians in our area.  A more detailed outline of the project, including ideas for replication, can be found by following the "About the Project" link at the top of this page. 

This website uses the "Technical" font, which resembles the font used by architects.  To obtain this font click here, save the zip file to your desktop.  Then unzip the file and place the font file in your windows font directory, or to where your font files are kept.

Line Art Drawings courtesy of A Teacher's Guide to Historic Preservation by Judith Dailey Nechwort.