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It’s Spring! The warm weather has finally arrived, and you’ve managed to make it through another long cold winter. And with the warm weather, there’s plenty to do around the house and yard. One often neglected Spring chore is to check your slate roof.

The Aberdeen B&O Train Station in Aberdeen, Maryland, was opened in 1886. The station was designed by Victorian-era architect Frank Furness in the Queen Anne style, featuring a slate roof, brick-and-cedar-shake exterior and a distinctive bulb-shaped chimney.  The station wasn’t just for show.

To recognize and celebrate outstanding craftsmanship, innovation and design for slate roofing projects, North Country Slate (NCS) has established the ‘Slated for Excellence Project of the Year Awards.

Ladies’ Golf Club of Toronto was founded in 1924 by professional golfer Ada Mackenzie and remains the only all-female golf club in North America. The club has a rich history and recently underwent a major renovation of its 100-year-old clubhouse.

Alpha Avenue in central Toronto is in a neighborhood known as Cabbagetown. The neighborhood is unique in that it is part of the largest continuous area of preserved Victorian housing in North America, according to the Cabbagetown Preservation Association (CPA).

Located in the middle of the Hudson River, just 100 miles from New York City, the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse has warned boaters and mariners about the mud flats and sandbars in the area since it was first commissioned in 1874. The lighthouse, which was originally one of more than a dozen on the Hudson River, is one of only seven remaining.

It may be counterintuitive to worry about hail damaging a slate roof. After all, anyone who has ever thrown an ice ball at a rock wall knows that the wall remains perfectly intact, while the ice ball shatters to smithereens.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA., was built in 1890. This remarkable building features a large central ‘lantern tower’ steeple that forms the center of a Greek cross with four arms, each topped with high sloped roofs.