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Rehabilitation and Tax Credit Project Highlights
Parcel Data Added to HPOWEB
Historic Wilmington Foundation Releases Annual Most Threatened List
Historic Wilmington Foundation Presents Awards
Hendersonville's Main Street Named a "Great Main Street"
Raleigh Historic Development Commission Releases Tax Credit Video
Down with Harrelson Hall on NC State's Campus?
Last Downtown Hotel in Brevard Being Restored
Historic Edwards-Franklin House, Surry County, Rehabilitation Underway
Stonewall Jackson Training School Awaits New Purpose
Proposed Gold Trail Could Wind Through 20 NC Counties
German Settlers Had a Big Impact on NC History
A Neighborhood Built to Fail
NPS Delivers Hill Briefings on Historic Preservation
Rightsizing Your City: An ACHP Report
Smaller Commercial Buildings Better for Cities than High Rises
YMCA Explores Modular Cube to Add to Affordable Housing Stock in United Kingdom
Future of Glass Skyscrapers is Under Debate
$35 Million Project Underway to Clean Roman Colosseum
Remains of Columbus's Santa Maria "Found"
Meet Our Newest Intern
Staff in the Field
Worth Saving
The Newsletter of the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office
 
Events, Awards, and Grants
  

For statewide event lists, visit the HPO Facebook event listPreservation North Carolina events listor a June - August 2014 calendar and workshop and conference list courtesy of the Federation of N.C. Historical Societies

 

For Bellamy Mansion Museum, Wilmington, upcoming events click here.

 

***IMPORTANT***

The October 2014 National Register Advisory Committee meeting in Raleigh has been moved forward one week to Thursday, October 2, 2014, in order to avoid a conflict with North Carolina's annual statewide preservation conference being held in Raleigh on October 8-10.  The statewide conference is sponsored by Preservation North Carolina and co-sponsored by the North Carolina Historic Preservation Office and others.

  

June 17-22 Association for Gravestone Studies 2014 Annual Conference, Franklin, IN.  More information will be on this website in March 2014. 

  

June 19-21 Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America Symposium, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI. Click here for more information or to register.

  

July 1 Deadline for nominations for the Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians' Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture Award. The award honors a project that preserves or restores a historic building, or complex of buildings, in an outstanding manner that demonstrates excellence in research, technique, and documentation. Projects completed in 2012 and 2013 in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia are eligible. For more information on SESAH and the Best of the South Award, visit www.sesah.org, or contact Ruben Acosta at by email.

  

July 16-20 National Alliance of Preservation Commissions Forum, Philadelphia, PA. This biannual gathering of local historic preservation commissions and boards of architectural review members and staff is the largest of its kind in the country. For more information and to sign up for updates about the event go to this page.

 

September 16-17 Historic Windows: Managing for Preservation, Maintenance and Energy Conservation, Madison, WI. In this National Preservation Institute seminar learn about the rich history and variety of wood, steel, and aluminum windows and construction methodology. Explore the maintenance and rehabilitation techniques that allow windows to have long and sustainable service lives. Review energy conservation and economic issues. For more information see http://www.npi.org/sem-wdw.html.

 

September 17-20 American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting and Online Conference, St. Paul, MN.  Information is available at http://about.aaslh.org/conference/

 

September 18-20 Slave Dwelling Project 2014 Conference, "Preserving Our Sacred Spaces," Savannah, GA. See this page for more information.

  

September 26-28 Preserving the Historic Road Conference, Savannah, GA.  Information will be posted on this website.

 

October 7-9 Historic Property Management Seminar, Greensboro, NC. This National Preservation Institute seminar addresses how to read your historic structure, search for solutions, and then care for the building envelope. Topics include how to meet basic maintenance requirements; how to replace HVAC, fire, and security systems; and the role of pest management. Learn the fundamentals of hiring contractors, training custodial personnel, and understanding the role of other professionals who work in, on, and around the building. Review the significance of maintenance and disaster plans. For more information see http://www.npi.org/sem-hpm.html.

 

November 11-14 National Preservation Conference, Savannah, GA. See this page for more information.

 

The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) is requesting proposals for Forum 2016 Forum is the only national conference focused around the needs and issues of historic preservation commissions and commission staff. It is an interactive conference that blends traditional educational sessions, discussion panels, mobile workshops, and tours to provide participants with essential training and networking opportunities. Forum is held every other year in interesting destination cities and brings local commission members from across the country together with representatives from local, state and national organizations, governments, and federal agencies. Forum 2014 will be held in Philadelphia, PA, July 16-20 (see above). The 2016 RFP can be found on the NAPC website at this page. Please contact Paul Trudeau, NAPC Program Director, at [email protected] with any questions.

  

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Announces 2014 Training Courses ACHP staff instructors will offer Section 106 training in six cities next year. These interactive courses feature practical guidance and opportunities to apply learning in case-based exercises.

  

The Section 106 Essentials covers the fundamentals needed to carry out or participate in a federal historic preservation review. A case study and small group exercises provide opportunities for participants to apply the ACHP's regulations to real-life scenarios.

 

The Advanced Seminar is a one-day course focused on the effective management of complex or controversial undertakings. Experienced Section 106 practitioners will improve their consultation and agreement drafting skills by sharing ideas and working through problem-solving exercises in a smaller class setting.

  

Visit this page for registration details and pricing. Please contact Cindy Bienvenue at [email protected] if you have any questions.

   
Rehabilitation and Tax Credit Project Highlights

 

Durham County, Durham, 1912 Carden Lane

The ca. 1930 house in the East Durham Historic District was rehabilitated in 2012-2014 for continued single-family rental residential use. This project was spurred by the use of the federal and state income-producing historic tax credits with a private investment rehabilitation cost of $35,000.

 

1912 Carden Lane before and after rehabilitation

 

Durham County, Durham, 904 Rome Avenue

The ca. 1905 house at 904 Rome Avenue in the Burch Avenue Historic District was rehabilitated in 2012 for continued single-family rental residential use. This project was spurred by the use of the federal and state income-producing historic tax credits with a private investment rehabilitation cost of $108,566.

 

904 Rome Avenue before and after rehabilitation

 

Durham County, Durham, 1010 Urban Avenue

The 1910s house at 1010 Urban Avenue in the Trinity Historic District was converted into four apartments in the first half of the twentieth century, and the 2012-2013 rehabilitation continues the multi-family rental residential use. This project was spurred by the use of the federal and state income-producing historic tax credits with a private investment rehabilitation cost of $282,500.

 

1010 Urban Avenue before and after rehabilitation

 

 

Lee County, Sanford, O. P. Makepeace House

The ca. 1925 O. P. Makepeace House in the Rosemount-McIver Park Historic District was rehabilitated in 2013 for office use. This project was spurred by the use of the federal and state income-producing historic tax credits with a private investment rehabilitation cost of $133,860.

 

O. P. Makepeace House before and after rehabilitation

 

Parcel Data Added to HPOWEB (Thanks to NC One Map!)

HPOWEB screen shot showing parcels in Trenton, Jones County

 

As of this week, users of HPOWEB can now display the parcel boundaries of 25 counties across North Carolina. Click here for more information.

 

Historic Wilmington Foundation Releases Annual Most Threatened List 

 

On May 28, the Historic Wilmington Foundation (HWF) released its list of the 2014 Most Threatened Historic Places in the Lower Cape Fear region, as well as their Watch List. This is the ninth year the HWF has released these lists.  The purpose of the Foundation's Most Threatened Historic Places program is to focus attention on threatened historic places and to illustrate the importance and benefits of historic preservation to the community.  The program has helped raise public awareness of historic places as well as generate creative new solutions and ideas for sites in desperate need of attention.  A threatened places program also helps the public understand the broad range of preservation concerns.

 

Rocky Point School, Pender County

This year the HWF released the list at a news conference that took place near the Murchison Building at the corner of North Front and Chestnut Streets. This historic skyscraper, which was to be placed on this year's Watch List, was actually saved just before the release and is an example of preservation in action. (Click here for more information about the Murchison Building.)

 

The 2014 list includes a wide variety of sites both in terms of type and location, ranging from cemeteries to houses, school buildings, and churches in Wilmington as well as Pender and Brunswick Counties. The lists also includes a number of more widespread historic features such as Wilmington's brick streets, the Market Street Corridor, and historic wood windows across the Lower Cape Fear Region.

 

The Foundation's traveling exhibit on the 2014 Most Threatened Historic Places will be available in June for display throughout the three counties served by the HWF. 

 

Click here for this year's Most Threatened Historic Places List and Watch List.

 

Historic Wilmington Foundation Presents Awards


On May 27 the Wilmington Municipal Golf Course was awarded the Carr Plaque by the Historic Wilmington Foundation (HWF).  Named for the late James S. and Rosalie W. Carr, faithful supporters of HWF and its work, the annual award recognizes significant historic buildings and sites and allows HWF to choose one building each year that might otherwise go unrecognized.

 

Wilmington Municipal Golf Course. Photo courtesy of www.linksmagazine.com

The Wilmington Municipal Golf Course was designed by renowned golf course architect Donald Ross and constructed from 1926 to1929. The clubhouse was built in 1930 by Wilmington Public Works Department staff reusing timber from demolished downtown historic buildings; the foundation, fireplace, and caddy house were erected of Belgian paving stones from the city streets. The course is currently being returned its original Donald Ross design.

 

2014 Historic Wilmington Foundation Preservation Award recipients. Photo courtesy of Historic Wilmington Foundation

The HWF also presented their 2014 Annual Awards to honor preservationists on May 22. The Historic Wilmington Foundation Preservation Awards recognized restoration, rehabilitation, compatible new development, as well as preservation leadership and individual contributions to the field.  In a rare convergence, the HWF recognized three winners with their highest awards.  One of the Foundation's penultimate awards, the Thomas H. Wright, Jr. award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation, was presented to Beverly Tetterton. The Katherine Howell Award for contributions to the furtherance of the Foundation's mission to protect and preserve our irreplaceable historic resources was presented to Dr. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr. Finally, the David Brinkley Preservationist of the Year award went to the Bellamy Mansion Museum and Preservation North Carolina. The Thomas H. Wright Award has only been awarded four times in the foundation's history and these three awards have been given simultaneously only twice in the last ten years.

 

Click here for more information about the award recipients.

   

Hendersonville's Main Street Named a "Great Main Street"

 

Hendersonville streetscape. Photo courtesy of www.welcomehomewnc.com

 

Nominated for its community events, historic quality, and vibrancy, Hendersonville's Main Street has been named a "Great Main Street" in the professionals' category of the 2014 Great Places in North Carolina awards program. The program is sponsored by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association. Click here for more information.

 

Raleigh Historic Development Commission Releases Tax Credit Video

 

 

 

 

The Raleigh Historic Development Commission has released a new animation video highlighting the success of North Carolina's Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit program. Click here to watch the video and please share the link.

 

Down with Harrelson Hall on NC State's Campus?
 
Harrelson Hall. Photo courtesy of www.newsobserver.com

 

N.C. State University is pulling together a detailed plan for tearing down Harrelson Hall likely in the summer of 2016. When it was built, Harrelson was proclaimed the first cylindrical classroom building on a university campus. The main architect was Edward Walter Waugh, who was once the university planner and taught at NCSU's design school. The building has been ridiculed by many who have used it, but it is certainly eye-catching. Click here to learn more about Harrelson Hall. 

 

Aethelwold Hotel. Photo courtesy of Halifax Media Group

 

Tim and Nancy Hall, the owners of the ca. 1900 Aethelwold Hotel, the last hotel in downtown Brevard, have been working on the rehabilitation of the building for 20 years. Click here to read their story. 

 

Historic Edwards-Franklin House, Surry County, Rehabilitation Underway

 

Edwards-Franklin House

 

The Edwards-Franklin House was built circa 1799 near the Lowgap community in Surry County. Now owned by the Surry County Historical Society, the house is undergoing rehabilitation in consultation with Paul Fomberg, senior restoration specialist with the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, beginning with porch repairs.  The separate kitchen will also be rehabilitated as part of this ongoing project. Following completion of the project, the Edwards-Franklin House will be open free to the public on the second weekend of each month through October from 1 - 5 p.m. The annual Sonker Festival will be held there on October 4.  Click here for more information. 

 

Stonewall Jackson Training School Awaits New Purpose

 

Stonewall Jackson Training School

Peter Kaplan, the author of The Historic Architecture of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, has been advocating for the sale and repurposing of the Stonewall Jackson Training School, listed in the National Register in 1984 as the Stonewall Jackson Training School Historic District.  The campus was designed by Louis H. Asbury, a prominent Charlotte.  Click here to learn more about Mr. Kaplan's efforts to promote the preservation of the campus. 

 

Proposed Gold Trail Could Wind Through 20 NC Counties

 

Prospectors were rushing to North Carolina in search of gold long before the California Gold Rush of 1848. A 17-pound gold nugget was found by a boy playing in a Cabarrus County creek in 1799 and by 1803 the hopeful were rushing to strike it rich in North Carolina. By 1828, 30,000 miners were working the state's gold deposits.  Now tourism groups want to capitalize on this history by designating a Gold Trail in the state that could wind through perhaps 20 counties. Click here for more information. 

 

German Settlers Had a Big Impact on NC History

 

Decorative German tombstone in 
Davidson County. Photo courtesy of Etta Reid/www.news-record.com

By 1785, more than 15,000 Germans had left Pennsylvania and settled in North Carolina, mostly in what at now Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth, Stokes, Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly, Lincoln, Gaston, Catawba, and Burke counties. These settlers went on to have a lasting impact on North Carolina history and culture. Click here for more information. 

 

A Neighborhood Built to Fail

 

A Charlotte neighborhood built between 2002 and 2004 has sixty percent of its houses in foreclosure due to the housing crash. It is a tale of planning gone wrong. Click here for more information. 

 

NPS Delivers Hill Briefings on Historic Preservation

 

On May 15, Stephanie Toothman, NPS Associate Director for Cultural Resources, Partnerships and Science, delivered House and Senate staff briefings on "Historic Preservation and the National Park Service." The briefing included a short history of the development of the preservation movement and a discussion of previous legislation that led to the creation of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. She also reviewed how preservation is a local/state verses top-down driven program and highlighted the roles and responsibilities of State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices. A significant amount of time was also spent discussing the SHPO and T(ribal)HPO activities funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HFP), including survey, National Register, Section 106, tax credits, state preservation plans, and working with communities and local governments. She concluded by reiterating the need for Congress to reauthorize the deposits from the sale of oil and gas leases into the HPF in 2015 as well the need for full and guaranteed funding for the HPF. 

 

Rightsizing Your City: An ACHP Report

 

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) has written a report addressing "rightsizing" and its effect on historic preservation.  The report was written in response to the rising trend for "rightsizing" cities by demolishing large swathes of cities as a means of dealing with the economic downturn and a growing number of abandoned buildings.  Click here for more information. 

 

Smaller Commercial Buildings Better for Cities than High Rises

 

Neighborhoods and commercial areas with a mix of older, smaller buildings make for more vibrant, walkable communities with more businesses, nightlife, and cultural outlets than massive newer buildings, according a recently released National Trust for Historic Preservation Green Lab study. The analysis found that corridors with smaller, older buildings generally perform better for the local economy than areas with newer buildings that might stretch an entire block and, on a per-square-foot basis, small building corridors have a larger concentration of business and jobs, including creative sector jobs, than downtown skyscrapers. Click here and here for summaries of the information and here for the full report. 

 

YMCA Explores Modular Cube to Add to Affordable Housing Stock in United Kingdom

 
A single y:cube in place and a stacked block of units. 
Photos courtesy of www.gizmag.com

 

The y:cube is a 280-sq-ft (26-sq-m) studio-like apartment made for single occupancy. It can stand alone, or be stacked into bigger housing blocks and is designed to help alleviate the growing lack of affordable housing in cities. Click here to learn more and watch a video showing how the space functions. 

 

Future of Glass Skyscrapers is Under Debate

 

Glass buildings are popular -- not just because of their striking appearance, but also for the views they boast and and the increased light they let in -- but are they sustainable? Governments are now so concerned by the long-term impact of "solar gain" -- the extent to which a building absorbs sunlight and heats up -- that they have introduced strict regulations around shape and structure.  Click here for more information.

 

$35 Million Project Underway to Clean Roman Colosseum

 

The cleaning of the Colosseum is well underway. 
Photo courtesy of online.wsj.com

 

The Roman Colosseum, completed in 81 A. D., is getting a $35 million cleaning-the first full cleaning in the Colosseum's history-that aims to return it to its former splendor, while also strengthening the overall structure.  The project is being funded by Diego Della Valle, the billionaire owner of leather-goods maker Tod's. Mr. Della Valle's donation will also cover some restoration inside the Colosseum and the building of a visitors' center. Click here for more information about the project and to see before and after photos. 

 

Remains of Columbus's Santa Maria "Found"

A replica of the Santa Maria. Photo courtesy of www.bbc.com
 
U. S. underwater investigator Barry Clifford said evidence "strongly suggests" a ruin off Haiti's north coast is the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus's flagship lost during the famous 1492 expedition. Click here for more information.

 

Meet Our Newest Intern

 

After Kyle Obenauer contacted Claudia Brown a few months ago to express his interest in Rosenwald schools, the HPO was able to offer him a nine-week internship that began on May 12. Kyle is drafting a Multiple Property Documentation Form on North Carolina's Rosenwald schools and associated structures, which will simplify their listing in the National Register. He also is assisting the HPO's ongoing efforts to document the state's extant Rosenwald schools and helping to update the Rosenwald schools page of the HPO's web site with additional content to aid local preservation efforts.

 

Intern Kyle Obenauer

Although Kyle spent most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has also lived in northeast Florida, southeastern Washington, and Portland, Oregon, and in 2008 he moved to Vermont. His undergraduate academic background is in American history and sociology, and while employed as a social worker for a Burlington, Vermont-based agency located within the historic Fort Ethan Allen, he discovered the discipline and philosophy of historic preservation. His preservation interests are broad, ranging from preservation law to architectural materials conservation and notably include preservation issues throughout America's rural landscapes; historic African American resources and their architects, builders, and occupants; and America's manufacturing past. Some of his recent work includes the restoration of exterior bas-relief woodcarvings by Albert H. Whittekind on Burlington, Vermont's Wells Mansion; preservation advocacy and planning with the South Carolina-based Slave Dwelling Project; and industrial archaeology within Burlington's Lakeside Avenue area, which yielded a report which can be read here: Lakeside Avenue Manufacturing. Kyle will be graduating with a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont in December 2014.

 

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