HISTORIC VERMONT
An On-line News Journal about the Preservation of Vermont’s
Historic Architecture and Landscape
Number 39 April 2005
Published by the Preservation Trust of
Vermont, 104 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401
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NEWS
FROM THE PRESERVATION TRUST
Announcing the 11th Annual Statewide
Historic Preservation Conference
Preserving Scale: A Small State in a Big World
Friday May 6th, 2005, Bennington
The Preservation Trust of Vermont and the Vermont Division for
Historic Preservation are pleased to announce this year's
statewide historic preservation conference.
Bill McKibben, the keynote speaker, is a
former staff writer for the New Yorker and scholar in residence
at Middlebury College. McKibben’s books – on topics ranging
from global warming to human genetic engineering – have been
translated into 24 languages. His most recent book, published
last month, is Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's
Most Hopeful Region, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's
Adirondacks. He’ll share his thoughts on why scale matters
to Vermont communities in an age of superstores and the global
marketplace.
The afternoon is full of workshops and tours
on a variety of preservation-related topics located in and
around Bennington and the village of North Bennington.
To see the full agenda and registration
information, please visit our website www.ptvermont.org.
More information will also be sent directly to your inbox if you
are a subscriber to Historic Vermont. For more
information, please contact conference@ptvermont.org
or call Meg Campbell 802-442-8951.
2005 Grand Isle Lake House Retreats
We’d like to invite you to join us for a Grand Isle Lake House
retreat for groups working on an historic preservation or
community revitalization project. These retreats are a group
mentoring experience where each group presents a 10 to 15 minute
case study about a challenge they’re facing related to their
project followed by group discussion and brainstorming…cross
mentoring.
The whole idea is to learn from one another
and the collection of case studies. We try to bring people
together from around the state who are working on an interesting
collection of projects in order to take advantage of the
collective experience and thinking. In addition, we have
resource people at each retreat to help find solutions. We
try to have about 6-8 groups of 2-4 people representing each
project. The goal is to boost projects along their timeline by
strategically identifying resources, solving problems, garnering
peer support, and generating self-confidence and momentum.
2005 Retreat Dates
- May 16-17 (focus on Performing Arts
Facilities)
- June 20-21 (focus on Designated Village
Centers—starts earlier on Monday; fee is $10 higher to
cover Monday lunch)
- August 23-24 (no theme)
- September 12-13 (focus on the Arts and
Industrial Heritage)
- October 11-12 (focus on Churches)
Check-in at the Lake House is 3:00 and we'll
finish by 2:00 the following afternoon. The Gannett Foundation
and Burlington Free Press have generously agreed to help with
program costs, so prices are very reasonable! Cost for room and
three meals is $85/person for a shared room, $110 for a single.
There are a limited number of single rooms available on a
first-come basis.
Please be in touch soon if you’d like to
attend so that we can find the best dates for your
project. We try to link varying projects together in order
to get the best mix. Please call or email if you'd like more
information or would like to discuss your project.
Ann Cousins @ 802-434-5014; ann@ptvermont.org
Doug Porter @ 802-644-2815; doug@ptvermont.org
Preservation Grants Awarded
Since 1994 the Freeman Foundation and the Preservation Trust of
Vermont have had a partnership to support preservation
projects. Over $7 million in grants have been awarded to
help more than 312 projects in communities throughout the state.
These grants have played a key role in over $86 million in total
rehabilitation work. The latest round of grants includes:
West Addison United Methodist Church:
$40,000.
Built in 1852 in a Greek Revival style and remodeled in the
Italianate style in 1881 by noted Middlebury architect Clinton
Smith, this local landmark needs emergency repairs to the roof
structure. Due to a spreading east wall, rafters have
pulled away from the plate, and one rafter has punched through
the ceiling. In addition to roof repairs, this grant
will help to repair the front door, replace windows in the
church (replicating the original sash), help with exterior
restoration of the adjoining Community Hall, and help to paint
both buildings.
Main Street Arts, Saxtons River: $31,250.
The Warner building was built around 1850 as a downtown
commercial block which housed over the years various markets,
a barbershop, candlepin bowling lane, the International Order
of Odd Fellows (which still holds bi-monthly meetings here),
the Grange, and a polling place. The upstairs auditorium
served as a venue for movies, dances, suppers, piano recitals
and theater productions. In 1996 Main Street Arts
purchased the Warner building and began to make systematic
improvements while building their community arts
program. They offer classes in art, crafts, language,
song, and dance. They produce a minimum of six theater
performances every year, offer ongoing classes for seniors in
strength training and light stretching and, in conjunction
with the Council on Aging, provide a monthly senior lunch
program.
Rupert Schoolhouses: $25,000.
Despite its small population of 709, Rupert has great civic
pride, raising nearly $60,000 from local sources since January
2003 toward the rehabilitation of two former
schoolhouses. The c. 1825 Rupert Schoolhouse and c. 1846
West Rupert Schoolhouse were vacated in 1998 when the new
Mettawee Regional Elementary School opened in Pawlet.
Citizens saw this as an opportunity and raised money, built
shelves, painted, and volunteered as librarians to open a
Public Library and Historical Society Museum at the old Rupert
Schoolhouse. At the same time, the Town converted the
West Rupert Schoolhouse into a Town Office. Since then,
a group of volunteers formed the Rupert Schoolhouse
Restoration Project committee, raising funds for
rehabilitation through bake sales, book sales, tee shirt and
apron sales, corporate and individual appeals, and grant
writing. The total budget for repairs to both buildings
is $141,000.
United Church of Irasburg $25,000.
This c. 1839 church on the green in Irasburg was extensively
remodeled when the congregation merged with the local
Methodist congregation in the 1870s. The building is a
prominent landmark and, along with the Irasburg Town Hall,
anchors the Irasburg Common. In addition to church
services, the building is used for a variety of community
activities. The congregation has done a wonderful job
maintaining this church; recent access improvements (including
an elevator) cost approximately $40,000. A roof leak
last winter brought to light several defects in the roof
frame. Upcoming repairs will include augmenting the roof
structure and replacing the current roof coverings with
standing seam metal.
Painted Theater Curtains, Statewide,
$5,000.
Over the past several years, the Painted Theater Curtain
Project has discovered and catalogued 150 curtains that were
tucked away in town halls and theaters throughout
Vermont. The Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance
coordinate the effort. Nearly half of the curtains have
been cleaned, mended, and in-painted thus far. A Save
America's Treasures Grant, plus local fundraising and
volunteers in each community have made the work possible.
Town Hall Theater, Bellows Falls,
$40,000.
Built in 1926, the Rockingham Town Hall dominates downtown
Bellows Falls. In addition to providing offices for
local government, the Town Hall has a 500-seat theater that is
currently used as a town-operated movie theater and for
limited special events. Over time, much of the charm of
the theater was hidden by a false ceiling, by closing off the
balcony and installing curtains along the side walls.
Once restored, the theater will continue to be used as a movie
house, and for expanded live performance and special
events. The community has made the commitment to
rehabilitate the space and bring it up to code.
Robert Sincerbeaux Funds Awarded
The Preservation Trust's Robert Sincerbeaux Fund provides grants
up to $500 are available to municipalities and non-profit
organizations to hire consultants to provide specialized
assistance for a preservation project. For more
information, please contact one of the Field Service
Representatives: ann@ptvermont.org,
doug@ptvermont.org or meg@ptvermont.org.
Recent Robert Sincerbeaux Fund Grants include:
- Dorset Congregational Church, Dorset
- Pittsfield Town Offices
- VT Association of Conservation Districts
- Environthon
- Park Street School, Springfield
- Preservation Burlington Lecture Series
- Corinth Town Hall
- Laurel Hall, Cuttingsville
- Middlesex Railroad Depot
- Old Methodist Church, Newbury
- St. Michael's Church, Brattleboro
- Kimball Library, Randolph
- Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester
- General Strong House, Vergennes
- Fair Haven Opera House
- St. John's Church, Stowe
VERMONT NEWS
Governor Announces Historic Preservation
Grants
Governor Jim Douglas announced $171,000 in grants
for the restoration and preservation of twelve historic
buildings owned by municipalities and non-profit organizations
across the state. The grant program, administered by the Vermont
Division for Historic Preservation, invites municipalities and
non-profit organizations to apply for funding for a variety of
capital repairs.
“This year’s funding has been awarded to
projects that range from quintessential Vermont churches in
village centers to mansions that have been adapted for use as
part of a college campus,” the Governor said. “We’ve also
awarded funds to the last farmstead in Burlington that is now a
center for community gardens and organic agriculture.”
Middlebury, Memorial Baptist Church: $12,900
Bennington, The Orchards at Southern Vermont College: $15,000
Barnet, McIndoe Falls Congregational Church: $15,000
St. Johnsbury, South Congregational Church: $15,000
Burlington, Calkins Farmstead (Intervale Foundation): $15,000
Richmond, Old Round Church: $15,000
Strafford, The Strafford Town House: $15,000
Irasburg, United Church of Irasburg: $11,000
Pittsford, Walker Memorial Building: $15,000
Rutland, St. Paul's Universalist Church: $15,000
Royalton, First Congregational Church of Royalton:
$15,000
Chester, Old Stone Church: $12,200
Vermont Housing and Conservation Board
Awards Grants
This past Friday the board approved an award totaling $42,800
for the Jamaica Town Hall project, consisting of $35,300 to the
Town of Jamaica for rehabilitation and $7,500 to the
Preservation Trust for stewardship/baseline documentation of the
historic preservation easement (significant exterior and
interior features).
The Jamaica Town Hall was built in 1851 and is
located in the heart of the village. First built as a
Universalist Church, it was used for that purpose until 1881
when the Jamaica Dramatic Club acquired the building. Between
1881 and 1920 the building, which became known as the “Opera
House”, was the site for numerous theatrical performances. The
club donated the building to the town in 1920 when that group
disbanded. In addition to town meetings, numerous plays and
celebrations continued to be held in the hall from the 1930s to
the 1970s until an oil furnace was installed backstage in
1978. The furnace, which was installed in the crawl space
under the stage, ended up occupying the center of the back stage
and meant the loss of this area to support drama productions.
Part of the restoration project involves replacing the outdated
heating system with a horizontal furnace below stage, thus
reclaiming the important back stage space.
The Town Hall is already used and cherished by
the residents for a variety of public uses, and has the
potential to become a more vital center of community
activity. Theater and music have had a long presence in
the Town Hall, and the restoration project will revitalize this
tradition.
Downs Rachlin Martin Announces Fall
Community Fund Grant Awards
The Rockingham Arts and Museum Project and Pierce's Store in
Shrewsbury are among ten non profit organizations receiving
grants of up to $1,000 each under the Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC
Community Fund program for the Fall of 2004. Each of the winners
met the criteria for proposals that will stimulate economic
development in downtown centers through historic preservation,
and they were the most compelling of the 43 applications
submitted in the fall cycle.
The ten winning organizations, or the
properties being restored, are the Rockingham Arts and Museum
Project, Lisbon (N.H.) Main Street, Inc., the Town of
Waterville, the Green Mountain Grange in St. Johnsbury Center,
the Hardwick Town House, the Ferrisburgh Grange Hall, the
Stonebridge Inn Redevelopment Project in Poultney, Pierce's
Store in Shrewsbury, the Restored 1913 Union Cooperative Store
Bakery in Barre, and the Russell Memorial Library in Monkton.
The DRM Community Fund program was begun in the
summer of 2000, part of the firm's celebration of 50 years of
service. Each year a different theme is chosen, and applicants
compete for a limited number of grants of up to $1,000 each. The
program has awarded more than $100,000 since it began.
The $20,000 in awards being presented this
year are awarded to private nonprofit, business development or
educational organizations in Vermont and western New Hampshire
whose proposals will stimulate economic development in downtown
centers, with an emphasis on historical preservation
initiatives. Preference is given to small, innovative and pilot
projects.
Not in Our Vermont: Big-boxes for the Green
Mountains?
As a follow-up to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's
designation last spring of Vermont as one of America's Eleven
Most Endanagered Places, Richard Todd explores the status of
Wal-Mart's attempts to increase its foothold in Vermont.
From the March/April 2005 issue of Preservation Magazine.
http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/current/feature2.htm
Downtown Development Board Designates
Village Centers
The Vermont Downtown Development Board has awarded Village
Center Designation to Derby Line, Rochester, and Whitingham.
With the addition of these three village centers, there are now
37 communities that have achieved village center designation
since the legislature created this process to encourage and
support local revitalization efforts.
The Board also renewed the “Downtown
Designation” status for the City of Barre, first designated in
2000, recognizing the work of both the City and the City’s
non-profit downtown corporation, the Barre Partnership.
With this designation renewal, the community will continue to
have access to transportation grants and tax credits that are
reserved for designated downtowns, as well as granting priority
consideration for other state funding.
Finally, the Board awarded almost $190,000 in
tax credits to help rehabilitate four downtown buildings:
- $8,000 for general rehabilitation work at
107 State Street, Montpelier
- $110,615 for general rehabilitation work at
115-117 St Paul Street in Burlington
- $20,000 for code improvements at 61 Main
Street, Burlington, and
- $50,000 for ADA and fire safety work at 9
Church Street, St Albans.
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Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
Annual Report
VDHP's annual report are now available on their website: www.historicvermont.org
National Register News
The National Park Service has recently listed the following
Vermont properties on the National Register of Historic Places:
“Prehistoric and Historic Resources of
Shelburne, Vermont”, Associated Historic Context “Agricultural
Resources of Shelburne, Vermont. 1760-1954” (Multiple
Propoerty Documentation Form)
A CLG funded project to document the agricultural history of
Shelburne and facilitate the nomination of agriculture-
related resources to the National Register. The project
also hopes to raise local awareness regarding the importance
of Shelburne’s agricultural past to its sense of community
identity and to help support efforts to conserve remaining
farms and open space. Document focuses on the Farmstead
property type and details Registration Requirements which
largely follow those established in the statewide Agricultural
Resources of Vermont MPDF and list properties under criteria A
and C.
Sutton Farm, Shelburne
The property is a complex of well preserved buildings on both
sides of Dorset Street. On the east side of the road are
a 3 X 2 bay, 1 ¾ story, gable roofed c. 1815 Greek
Revival style plank farmhouse faced with brick c. 1830, and
incorporating a c. 1930 shed-roofed porch and c. 1900
wood framed shed wing with c. 1830 alterations, also a
c. 1935 garage with a c. 1953 attached garage/equipment
shed, and a c. 1935 poultry house all. Across the street stand
a large gambrel-roofed barn built c. 1935-1953 in several
sections, a contemporaneous attached milk house, three
concrete silos built c. 1950-1975, and a noncontributing
mobile home. The property also includes 104 acres of land that
exhibits original field patterns resulting from continuous
agricultural usage since settlement in 1792. The 19th
century farmhouse and 20th century agricultural buildings
reflect the evolution of farming in Shelburne and Vermont and
meet the Registration Requirements for Shelburne farmsteads
established in the Multiple Property Documentation Form listed
above.
West Hartford Village Historic
District
This linear district, strung between the east bank of the
White River and the Central Vermont Railroad tracks, is in the
extreme northwestern corner of Hartford. Route 14, known as
the White River Road, is also known as Main Street as it runs
through the Village. Located along several major
transportation routes, this village represents a typical small
scale Vermont river valley railroad village that evolved from
a mill and agricultural hamlet at the turnoff the 19th
century.
The district includes 41 contributing
resources and 22 non-contributing. Along with residential
dwellings there are commercial and institutional buildings as
well as two cemeteries. Although many buildings have
experienced some degree of alteration, the primarily wood
framed, gable roofed, 1½ story structures still
reflect vernacular interpretations of nineteenth century
building styles. While the Greek Revival style predominates,
there are also examples of the Federal, Italianate, Craftsman,
Shingle, and Colonial Revival styles.
Social Band's Vermont Composers Project
Sunday, April 10 Burlington Unitarian
Church 3:00pm
Don't miss the world premieres of Social Band's Vermont
Composers Project: a joyfully presented program of brand new
choral works selected from those commissioned from 25 diverse
Vermont composers and performed for you by Burlington, Vermont's
lively band of singers. Tickets are $12 suggested donation, and
are available in advance from your favorite Social Band member
or from the Flynn Regional Box Office, 802-86-FLYNN
(863-5966), www.flynntix.org,
or at the door if still available. For more information,
check out our website: www.socialband.org,
or call 802-658-8488.
Social Band's Vermont Composers Project
at the Grand Isle Lake House
Monday, May 16 at 7:30
Island Arts and The Preservation Trust of Vermont would like to
invite you to a special performance of the
Social Band's Vermont Composers Project at the Grand Isle Lake
House, Monday May 16 at 7:30. The
Vermont Composers Project is a performance of brand new choral
works commissioned from Vermont
composers and performed by Burlington's lively band of singers.
Tickets are $12 suggested donation with
proceeds going to the Social Band and Island Arts, and are
available in advance from Island Arts, your favorite Social Band
member, Preservation Trust staff person,
from the Flynn Regional Box Office, 802-86-FLYNN (863- 5966), www.flynntix.org,
or at the door if still
available.
The Vermont Composers Project is supported in
part by the Vermont Arts Council and the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Community Foundation
Contemporary Music Fund, by a generous gift from the Argosy
Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, and by the many gifts from
Social Band patrons.
The Preservation Trust of Vermont is helping
to sponsor the Social Band's 2005 tour as a way to help
celebrate the Trust's 25th anniversary. Many of the
historic venues on the tour have been helped by
technical assistance and grants from the Preservation Trust of
Vermont. For more information, please
see www.ptvermont.org.
For a complete Vermont Composers Project itinerary go to www.socialband.org
for individual concerts.
First Annual Vermont Cultural Heritage
Month Planned for June 2005
The month will highlight the remarkable range of heritage and
cultural organizations and activities in Vermont, that begin
with Open Studio Weekend in late May, include Vermont Days in
mid-June, and culminate with the Vermont History Expo at
Tunbridge the last weekend in June.
Vermont organizations and individuals
interested in participating in this celebration may publicize
their 2005 Cultural Heritage events in the Vermont Travel
Planner at VermontVacation.com, the official Vermont Tourism
website. Its pages are viewed between a quarter and half
million page times per month. Visitors, residents, the
media and the travel trade use it year-round to discover or
learn more about Vermont's events, attractions, dining and
lodging establishments.
For assistance in adding events or cultural
facilities to the Vermont Travel Planner at www.VermontVacation.com,
or contact Dianne Konrady at 802-828-3683 or diane.konrady@state.vt.us.
For those getting started, the 2004 Cultural
Heritage Tourism Toolkit is a useful source of advice and models
for networking, creating events and publicizing
attractions. The CHTK is a joint publication of the
Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Department of Tourism and
Marketing and the Lake Champlain Basin Program, and available
from the Vermont Arts Council, 828-3291, www.VermontArtsCouncil.org.
LOCAL
NEWS
Cornish Colony Museum to Move to Windsor
Governor Jim Douglas recently announced that the Cornish Colony
Museum is relocating from Cornish, N.H. across the Connecticut
River to Windsor, Vermont. Known for its permanent exhibits of
the works of Maxfield
Parrish-"America's Rembrandt" - and other famous
artists from the Cornish Artist Colony, the museum was
precariously near closing its doors for good.
Governor Douglas said the efforts of Windsor
residents, support from the Windsor Downtown Development
Committee and the Town of Windsor, and a "Downtown
Designation" from the state, have all help save the museum
and bring it home to the "Artist Colony's Downtown."
"I'm very proud of the work that everyone in Windsor has
done to save this important cultural institution and bring it
home to Vermont," Governor Douglas said. "It
will contribute significantly to the vitality of the
downtown."
Windsor is one of 18 communities that has
achieved the "Downtown Designation" under the Vermont
Downtown Program, and according to the Windsor Downtown
Development Committee the designation was instrumental in the
ability to acquire the museum.
For more information, contact the Cornish
Colony Museum at P.O. Box 63, Windsor, VT or call Windsor
Downtown Manager Rose Wilson at (802) 785-4521.
Stonebridge Inn, Poultney
Contractors are putting finnishing touches on Poultney Vermont’s
Stonebridge Inn following a phenominal effort by the community
to save this local landmark after it was ravaged by fire in
1996. The temple-front Greek Revival house was built in
1808 and extensively remodeled in 1840 for Merritt Clark,
president of the Rutland and Washington Railroad.
At the time of the fire, the mansion served as
a bed-and-breakfast. The fire-damaged building went through
several subsequent owners and in 1999 was donated to the
Town. Under the leadership of Town manager, Jonas
Rosenthal, the community participated in a lengthy planning and
fundraising process which resulted in a remarkable commitment of
voters (490-208) to approve a $735,000 proposal to rehabilitate
the building as a visitor information center, the food shelf,
adult learning center, the Poultney-Mettowee Conservation
District offices, Head Start, and the Rutland County
Parent-Child Center.
The Preservation Trust of Vermont worked with
this project from the beginning, providing encouragement and a
$250 Robert Sincerbeaux Fund grant to do a condition assessment,
which proved to be instrumental in successful applications for
Transportation Enhancement and Community Development
grants. In partnership with the Burlington Free Press, the
Preservation Trust of Vermont awarded a Better Communities grant
for emergency stabilization, and in 2002, in partnership with
the Freeman Foundation, helped with a $40,000 grant toward
rehabilitation.
NATIONAL
NEWS
Historic Hotels of America on the Web
Historic Hotels of America (HHA) have recently posted an on-line
web portal for reservations:
http://www.historichotels.org.
HHA is a program of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. HHA has
identified 213 quality hotels, including five in Vermont, that
have faithfully maintained their historic
architecture and ambience. All are great places to
explore!
If Walls Could Talk
If Walls Could Talk, a popular weekly series on Home
& Garden Television (HGTV), explores the many homes across
the country with intriguing pasts. This series profiles
passionate homeowners who make surprising historical discoveries
about their homes as they research and restore them. The
program is coming to Vermont in October! If you have an
old home that can tell a tale of great discovery, please
contact: Alada Ramsey, ARamsey@highnoonproductions.com.
PUBLICATIONS
& RESOURCES
PreservationOnline.org E-Newsletter
Preservation magazine recently launched a free weekly
e-newsletter that provides links to daily preservation related
news stories through its Web site, PreservationOnline.org.
Sign up to receive the latest headlines and links to stories
about the world of historic preservation at www.PreservationOnline.org/newsletter.
To send items for inclusion in Trust Worthy, please e-mail: pr@nthp.org.
Get Counted in the Creative Economy!
Get a Dun & Bradstreet number. The Vermont Arts
Council strongly urges all arts organizations, and arts &
culture related businesses, including individual professional
artists who are operating as sole proprietors, to register with
Dun & Bradstreet. This is a FREE service. Doing so gets you
a "DUNS #" and enters you into the D&B global
database which is now required by the NEA for grant applicants
(and all sources of Federal funding) and more importantly
enables you to be included in the Creative Industries Map of VT
compiled and updated by Americans for the Arts. To get your DUNS
# visit http://smallbusiness.dnb.com.
EDUCATION
and TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Preservation Burlington’s Spring
Lecture Series
Preservation Burlington is sponsoring a lecture series this
spring with the generous support of the Preservation Trust of
Vermont and supported in part by the Vermont Humanities Council
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Preservation Burlington is a non-profit organization dedicated
to preserving and improving the traditional neighborhoods,
architectural and cultural history, and economic vitality of
Burlington.
The series run through April 26th.
The lectures will take place on Tuesday nights.
Please see below for location and times. Admission is free. For
more information, call Nancy Williams at 368-0126.
April 12: “Horatio Jackson: The
Man, His Wager, His Trip, His Car, Maybe His Dog and His Home”
Lower Level at Union Station (Main and Battery Street)
3:30: South Willard Street: dedication of a historic
market in front of the Jackson home (FIJI house)
5:30: showing of Horatio’s Drive documentary at Union
Station
6:30: Reenactment with Jackson, mechanic, dog, Winton
and interviewer
7:00: chance for people to view car and talk to reenactment
participants and pet dog J
April 19, 7:00 PM: “The History of
Freeman, French and Freeman, Inc.”
Jessie Beck, President
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Lorraine B. Good Room
(second floor)
Established in 1937, Freeman French Freeman has maintained a
practice of architecture, planning and interiors longer than
any other firm in the state of Vermont. They have built
educational, commercial, advanced technology, health care and
residential projects for over 65 years and many of those
building in Burlington could now be considered antiques.
Jessie will show us slides of their historical work and show
the design diversity of the firm up to more modern times.
April 26, 7:00 PM: “Burlington and
the War of 1812”; Stories Under Our Feet
Kate Kinney, UVM Consulting Archaeology Program
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Lorraine B. Good Room
(second floor)
Many of us watched with fascination as skeletons of 1812
soldiers were found along North Street. Now UVM
archeologist Kate will give us a broader look at the village
of Burlington during the war. She will explain how the
military used Burlington strategically and will discuss
military events in the Champlain Valley. The talk will
also cover how the war affected the civilian population and
will feature places (structures and sites) in Burlington that
played a part in the war.
Advanced Preservation Leadership Training:
Real Estate Feasibility Studies
July 17-21 at the Grand Isle Lake House
Application deadline is May 13. Information and an application
may be downloaded at www.nationaltrust.org/plt.
For more information please contact Ann Cousins at ann@ptvermont.org
or Doug Porter at doug@ptvermont.org
or the Allison Hinchman at the National Trust: 202-588-6067
Cool Cities: Old Buildings, New
Attitudes -- National Main Street Conference
The National Main Streets Conference is May 8-11 in Baltimore,
MD.
http://conference.mainstreet.org/
Community Works Summer Institute on
Service-Learning 2005
Shelburne Farms, Vermont-August 1-5
The Institute incorporates principles of education for
sustainability, emphasizing service-learning best practice.
Interactive training includes opportunities for dialogue with
experienced practitioners and each other. Structured planning
and reflection time is provided for individual and group work.
More extensive information on the Institute, faculty members, an
exciting array of workshop offerings, along with discounted
local accommodations can be found at Community Works On-Line: http://www.vermontcommunityworks.org
Shelburne Farms is an environmental education
center and national historic landmark on the shores of Lake
Champlain. Enjoy the walking trails, working farm, and inn and
restaurant. The farm is convenient to city of Burlington and
many accommodations.
For General Information on the Institute,
curriculum, content and events call 802-655-5918.
Call For Presentations for the
Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference
New Orleans, October 20-22, 2005
Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference is the nation’s
largest event dedicated to the rehabilitation of building
interiors, exteriors, landscapes, streetscapes and historically
inspired, traditional new construction. Drawing several
thousand professionals from a variety of disciplines,
Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference is the only arena
where architects, engineers, contractors, designers, planners,
facilities managers, building owners, and preservationists
gather to learn about the resources, skills and knowledge
necessary to preserve and maintain our cultural heritage.
For more information, contact Judy
Hayward at 802-674-6752 or email jhayward@restoremedia.com
Proposals must be received by April 11, 2005,
for the New Orleans Traditional Building Exhibition and
Conference 2005.
GRANTS
and FUNDING
Help for Using Online Technology
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become effective users of online technology. In its November
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OPPORTUNITIES
for EMPLOYMENT and VOLUNTEER WORK
Historic Preservation Coordinator, Town
of Rockingham
Municipal position, 12 hours/week. Administers historic
preservation grant program. Staff to Rockingham Historical (CLG)
Commission, reports to Office of Community Development.
Collaborates with many partners, interacts with public.
Challenging work in exciting community. Preference given to
education/experience in historic preservation, history,
architectural history, or related field. Equal Opportunity
Employer. For job description and application form, call
802-463-3456, or email rewald@rockbf.org.
To apply, write CLG Search, Town of Rockingham, Office of
Community Development, PO Box 370, Bellows Falls, VT 05101.
Application deadline March 18, 2005
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