State Historic Preservation Office Research Articles

Foreign experience in renovating historic residential buildings

In the article, the international experience of renovating historical buildings is explored, with an emphasis on historic residential buildings.
 The history of the emergence of the idea of renovating historical buildings abroad is investigated. The concept of organized architecture preservation emerged in Italy and quickly spread to other European countries in the early 19th century. With the growing interest in preserving architectural heritage, new renovation technologies and methods, as well as innovative funding schemes, were developed.
 Financial programs and grants used in Europe and America to finance the restoration of historical buildings are highlighted. In the United States, there are numerous programs that provide financial support for the restoration and preservation of important historical buildings, including federal tax incentive programs for historic preservation, certified local government programs that offer financial assistance for building rehabilitation through state historic preservation offices, the Community Development Block Grant program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and financial assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the repair and reconstruction of historic buildings damaged by natural disasters. In Europe, each country has its own program for financing the renovation of historical buildings, for example, in Germany, there is the "Städtebaulicher Denkmalschutz" program, in France, there is "La Fondation du patrimoine," in the UK there is the "Heritage Lottery Fund," and in Sweden, there is the "Riksantikvarieämbetet" program, all of which provide funding for the renovation of historical buildings, including residential ones. Funding under these programs may come in the form of grants, interest-free loans, or tax credits.
 The main methods of renovating historical buildings that are most commonly used in European and American countries have been identified. The method of renovation is determined by the condition of the building, its inclusion in a certain list of landmarks, the legislation of the country in which the renovation is carried out, etc. In particular, the following methods of renovation can be distinguished, which are used in practically all countries: superstructure, construction of new buildings on the site of historical ones, extension, increasing the energy efficiency of the building, renovation of the building, construction of underground parking.

Historic Preservation Fund Annual State Historic Preservation Office Grants (DOI)

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The National Cultural Resources Information Management System (NCRIMS)

ABSTRACTDespite making great strides over the past 50 years, cultural resources data management and synthesis continues to be elusive and nonstandardized, with each state and agency developing disparate systems that do not easily mesh. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has embarked on a national initiative by creating a National Cultural Resources Data Standard (NCRDS) that works to address many long-standing data organization issues. The NCRDS allows for the application of more rigorous data management principles that facilitate landscape-level planning and data modeling on BLM-administered lands across the western United States. The NCRDS and associated National Cultural Resources Information Management System (NCRIMS) contains normalized data from 11 western State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) and BLM data stores. NCRIMS is a web-based application hosted by the BLM's National Operations Center (NOC) Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS). NCRIMS allows for high-level planning during local, regional, and multistate project analyses and undertakings, facilitating consideration of cultural heritage values early in the planning process versus late stages as has been traditional. This allows the BLM to more proactively, effectively, and efficiently answer data calls and inform agency decision-makers on possible impacts to cultural heritage resources by proposed or ongoing agency actions.

The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

From a Tabula Rasa to the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation

Prior to 2009, South Texas was essentially an archaeological tabula rasa, largely unknown in the academic, public, or grey literature due to its location far from research universities, the state historic preservation office, and cultural resource management firms. Here, we relate how a consortium of anthropologists and archaeologists, biologists, historians, geologists, and geoarchaeologists have embraced a locally focused, place-based STEAM research approach to tell the story of a largely unknown region of the United States and make it accessible to K–17 educators,1 the public, and scholars with bilingual maps, books, exhibits, films, traveling trunks, and scholarly publications. The efforts of the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley have been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally.

State Historic Preservation Office Grants (DOI)

Federal Grants & ContractsVolume 46, Issue 5 p. 3-3 Grants alerts State Historic Preservation Office Grants (DOI) First published: 29 January 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.32188Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume46, Issue53 February 2022Pages 3-3 RelatedInformation

State Historic Preservation Office Grants (DOI)

State Historic Preservation Office Grants (DOI)

Alternative Mitigation to Counter Resource Losses from the Lake Cumberland Drawdown, Kentucky

ABSTRACTThis article presents a case study of the process of developing and implementing mitigation as the result of adverse effects to cultural resources from the drawdown of Lake Cumberland, Kentucky. Signs of a dam failure in early 2007 triggered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to implement the emergency drawdown. While the drawdown prevented a life safety catastrophe, it created a new erosion zone and exposed archaeological sites to looters. When it became clear that conventional Section 106 procedures to identify and evaluate these endangered archaeological resources were not an option, alternative and creative mitigation became a necessary approach for the Corps to meet its obligations under the National Historic Preservation Act. This article discusses the creative brainstorming among the Corps, Kentucky state historic preservation officer, and tribes that led to three alternative mitigation measures aimed at educational outreach, raising public awareness, and staff training. Furthermore, the article identifies challenges encountered during the implementation of the mitigation measures. Through the presentation of our mitigation journey, we share some of our lessons learned to improve awareness of the challenges and successes one may encounter during the execution of such alternative measures.

Historic Preservation Fund Grants‐in‐Aid to State Historic Preservation Offices (DOI)

Federal Grants & ContractsVolume 44, Issue 4 p. 6-6 Grant Alerts Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid to State Historic Preservation Offices (DOI) First published: 13 January 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.30868Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume44, Issue416 January 2020Pages 6-6 RelatedInformation

Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandini

170 The Michigan Historical Review recommended reading for those with radical/alternative interests and tastes. Benjamin Thomason Central Michigan University Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, and Natasha Chandini, eds. Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit. New York: Metropolis Books, 2019 (second edition). Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Paper: $29.95. Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit provides a very different look at Lafayette Park than anything else written about it. Built between 1958 and 1962, it was a postwar urban renewal project designed by architect Mies van der Rohe, landscape designer Alfred Caldwell, and urban planner Ludwig Hilbersheimer. The complex consists of single and two-story condominium townhouses and three high-rise rental towers. Rather than an architectural history, the book focuses on the residents. Therefore, it adds to the context of Mies’s work by considering how the buildings and the complex actually function, what assumptions made by the design team were correct, and which were not. The book was originally published in 2012, when the city was still reeling from the economic depression and white flight to the suburbs. It had not yet become the hip place it is now, and Lafayette Park had not reclaimed its iconic status. Two new essays by Marsha Music and Matthew Piper, plus a new preface, were added to consider these significant positive changes, but the rest is as originally published. As this is a snapshot in time, the reader needs to keep in mind how substantially different the situation is now. As with many collections of interviews, there is some overlap, and not all are equally substantial. Nevertheless, the wide range of stories by long-term residents creates a multilayered look at those who lived/live in Lafayette Park. For some, especially the tower residents, the motivation for living there had less to do with the architecture and more about affordable rents, convenience to downtown, and the diversity of the residents and well-maintained grounds. For others, particularly those who purchased the town- and court-houses, the aesthetics of space and place were important. For all, it seems like living in a modernist structure helped develop an appreciation of International-style large windows, open views and planned urban space. In one section, short interviews are paired with views from that person’s apartment window, allowing the reader into Book Reviews 171 spaces that are normally off-limits. Likewise, photographs of residents in the interiors of their homes with their varied furniture, belongings and pets are evidence that the stark modernist architecture did not dictate the interior design. As discussed by several people, it is also striking that without the gates and fences that are ubiquitous throughout the rest of Detroit, there is a sense of safety, security, and community achieved through the architecture and the setting. Additionally, the complex has always been racially integrated, as well as economically and age-diverse. Fifty years after construction, and seven since the original book’s publication, Lafayette Park has not only become increasingly valuable real estate altering the profile of the residents, but there has been a lot of attention paid to Michigan Modern architecture in general through the State Historic Preservation Office’s project. Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum and the Grand Rapids Art Museum that followed their publication featured Lafayette Park, including a full-scale mock-up of a townhouse apartment living room. It would have been helpful to update the selected bibliography, but this does not detract from the unique contribution made by this book. Susan J. Bandes Michigan State University Sandy Barnard, ed.; Thomas E. Singelyn, comp. An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. Pp. 295. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth: $39.95. On August 20, 1863, 2nd Lt. Edward G. Granger from Detroit was appointed as a staff officer in the Michigan Cavalry Brigade by Bvt. Brig. Gen. George A. Custer, sometime resident of Monroe, Michigan. Granger was twenty, Custer twenty-three. Granger was shot off a runaway horse less than a year later while carrying orders to two regimental commanders who were charging Confederate positions at the Battle of Crooked Run. Custer, still...

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed City of Conroe Stewarts Creek Wastewater System Improvements Project, Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed City of Conroe Stewarts Creek Wastewater System Improvements Project, Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Dripping Springs Wastewater System Improvements Project (EID 1), Dripping Springs, Hays County, Texas

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Dripping Springs Wastewater System Improvements Project (EID 1), Dripping Springs, Hays County, Texas

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed West Fork of the San Jacinto River South Drainage Channel Phase 3 Project, Montgomery County, Texas

Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed West Fork of the San Jacinto River South Drainage Channel Phase 3 Project, Montgomery County, Texas

Community NY: Historic Sites Relating to Women's Suffrage in Central New York

Community NYHistoric Sites Relating to Women's Suffrage in Central New York Judith Wellman (bio) The movement for women's right to vote—totally nonviolent—formed one of the largest campaigns for human rights in U.S. history. Central New York was nationally important in this movement. We all know something about famous woman suffragists from this region—from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Hester Jeffrey, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Frederick Douglass. But what do we know about the hundreds of thousands of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people who joined these national leaders? These women and men from farms, villages, and cities reflected a wide variety of ethnic, racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Their numbers were astounding. Here are just three examples, from 1894, 1915, and 1917. In 1894, suffragists organized a statewide petition campaign "to strike the word 'male' from Article II, Section 1, of the constitution, and thus secure to the women of the State the right to vote on equal terms with men." The Grange, labor unions, and Women's Christian Temperance Union joined the New York State Woman Suffrage Association to collect almost 600,000 signatures from men and women, upstate and downstate (almost one-quarter of New York State's adult population in 1890), on these petitions. In 1915, about 40,000 marchers walked down Fifth Avenue in the largest suffrage parade ever organized. Suffragists printed 7,230,000 leaflets, 657,200 booklets, 149,533 posters, and a million suffrage buttons, urging New Yorkers to vote yes on women's suffrage in 1915. They lost. Two years later, in 1917, suffragists repeated their campaign with even more energy. More than a million New Yorkers (about 25 percent of the total adult population in 1920) signed a petition for woman suffrage in 1917. Suffragists held 9,000 meetings upstate and more than 11,000 in New York City. This time they were successful. Although upstate New [End Page 372] Click for larger view View full resolution Workshop participants, Wood Library, Canandaigua, October 2018. photo by author. York defeated the measure by 1,510 votes, New York City—buoyed by labor unions and immigrant districts—carried the amendment by 103,863 votes.1 Homes, churches, and meeting spaces that help tell the story of this immense movement still stand in neighborhoods all across New York State. In 2019, to help locate these historic sites, Preserve New York (a program of the New York State Council on the Arts and the Preservation League of New York State) funded a cultural resource survey focused on women's suffrage sites in central New York. The Ontario County Historical Society (with Ed Varno, director, and Wilma Townsend, curator) sponsored this survey and hired Judith Wellman, principal investigator, Historical New York Research Associates, to carry it out. Dana Teets, a student in the public history program at Nazareth College, was database manager. By limiting this first attempt to central New York, we hoped to (a) identify historic suffrage sites that could be nominated to the National Register of Historic Places; (b) create a model project that might be expanded to the rest of New York State; and (c) identify sites that could be added to the National Votes for Women Trail (www.nvwt.org) with markers supplied by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation (https://www.wgpfoundation.org/). We began with a workshop of local historians and other interested stakeholders from central New York. We ended with three main documents: (1). an historic context statement, outlining the development of the suffrage movement in central New York; (2). a database with names of 475 central New York suffragists, adding to Tom Dublin's suffrage biographies for Women and Social Movements (https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN); and (3). a database listing 209 women's suffrage sites in central New York. [End Page 373] These results are online at https://www.ochs.org/womens-suffrage/. Three major possibilities emerged from this project. First, New York State's Historic Preservation Office determined that many of these suffrage sites are eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Our work might also form the basis of a Multiple Property Document Form, so that suffrage...

New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management, by Francis P. McManamon, ed.

<i>New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management</i>, by Francis P. McManamon, ed.

Comment in Opposition to Proposed Revisions to National Historic Preservation Act, No. 1024-AE49 (U.S. Department of the Interior)

This public comment was submitted to the Department of the Interior in opposition to certain proposals to change aspects of the regulations for the National Register of Historic Places. The proposed regulatory revisions appear to aim to conform federal regulations with amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act, which were adopted in 2016. However, these revisions would undermine the federal statutory framework for preservation and would make it harder to preserve America’s great places for future generations in that they: (1) Unlawfully contradict federal statutes setting forth agency responsibilities, (2) Unlawfully misinterpret the federal statutory provision regarding owner objection, (3) Jeopardize full use of the federal rehabilitation tax credit, (4) Place undue and unfunded mandates on State Historic Preservation Offices, and (5) Are being proposed, unlawfully, without required tribal consultation.

Announcements

Other| April 01 2019 Announcements Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (2019) 86 (2): 310–313. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.86.2.0310 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Announcements. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 1 April 2019; 86 (2): 310–313. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.86.2.0310 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressPennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Search Advanced Search At its 2018 annual meeting, the Pennsylvania Historical Association awarded the Philip S. Klein Book Prize to Dr. Sally McMurry for Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). The prize committee felt the book was an exhaustive and significant resource on agriculture in the commonwealth and will remain a definitive work in the years to come. The prize is awarded for the best book on a topic that illuminates the history of Pennsylvania every even-numbered year. The prize was established in honor of Philip S. Klein, president of the association from 1954 to 1957. A review of the book appeared in the Winter 2019 (86.1) issue of Pennsylvania History. Congratulations to Dr. McMurry!The Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Park Service (NPS) to study African American history and historic places in Pennsylvania. The two-year... You do not currently have access to this content.

Review: Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America, by Amy L. Arnold and Brian D. Conway and Mid-Michigan Modern: Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie, by Susan J. Bandes

Amy L. Arnold and Brian D. Conway, eds. Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2016, 352 pp., 200 illus. $50 (cloth), ISBN 9781423644972 Susan J. Bandes Mid-Michigan Modern: Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016, 320 pp., 150 illus. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781611862164 The term midcentury modernism , coined by Cara Greenberg in 1984, applies to design at all scales created from 1940 to 1970 in the United States.1 With designs featured prominently on television shows like Mad Men and in the spreads of periodicals such as Dwell and Metropolis , the names Bertoia, Saarinen, and Eames have increased in cachet through the decades, and midcentury modern works, especially home furnishings, have become highly prized collector's items. Office employees today might sit in Herman Miller or Steelcase cubicles, and their conference rooms may be outfitted with Knoll office chairs. In practical use and in the popular imagination, the midcentury legacy is alive and strong. What is not widely known, however, is that all these designers and manufacturers have something in common: Michigan. Two recent publications seek to set the record straight on Michigan's contributions to the midcentury modern story by drawing attention to the state as an incubator of design ideals and technologies that not only informed work within the Midwest but also transformed design across the United States and even internationally. Both volumes, Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America and Mid-Michigan Modern: Frank Lloyd Wright to Googie , emerged from a 2009 initiative in the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to research, record, preserve, and promote Michigan's modern legacy. This effort led to a variety of protective measures, including National Register and National Historic Landmark designations. In addition, the SHPO launched a website (http://www.michiganmodern.org) to serve as a central repository for research and documentation on Michigan modern architecture and to provide an opportunity for the broader public to learn more about this heritage. In 2013, in association with the Cranbrook Art Museum, the SHPO organized an exhibition at the museum titled Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America , which was …

The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures: Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP

The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures: Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP

STATEWIDE INVENTORIES OF HERITAGE RESOURCES: MACRIS AND THE EXPERIENCE IN MASSACHUSETTS

Abstract. The Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) is the State Historic Preservation Office for Massachusetts. Established in 1963, MHC has been inventorying historic properties for over half a century. Since 1987, it has maintained a heritage database, the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, or MACRIS. Today MACRIS holds over 206,000 records from the 351 towns and cities across the Commonwealth. Since 2004, a selection of the more than 150 MACRIS fields has been available online at mhcmacris. net. MACRIS is widely used by independent consultants preparing project review files, by MHC staff in its regulatory responsibilities, by local historical commissions monitoring threats to their communities, as well as by scholars, historical organizations, genealogists, property owners, reporters, and the general public interested in the history of the built environment. In 2016 MACRIS began migration off of its three-decade old Pick multivalue database to SQL Server, and in 2017, the first redesign of its thirteen-year old web interface should start to improve usability. Longer-term improvements have the goal of standardizing terminology and ultimately bringing interoperability with other heritage databases closer to reality.