Today Kara Hamley O’Donnell, preservation planner for the City of Cleveland Heights, will speak to us about her work in historic preservation. Come to class prepared to ask questions.
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October 28: Historic Designation vs. Protection
The National Register is beginning to designate more and more suburban districts. Read my pending National Register nomination of Grant Deming’s Forest Hill Allotment Historic District, available on ECR. How did I make a case for the significance of the Forest Hill neighborhood in keeping with the National Register’s requirements? What kinds of evidence did [...]
October 26: Case Studies in Historic Preservation
Read in Giving Preservation a History any FOUR chapters from chapters 4-10. In a comment to this blog post, you are invited to compare and contrast the nature of preservation in the four places about which you read. You must discuss all four places in your comment. Also, for class, be prepared to do an in-class [...]
October 23: The National Park Service
For today, read “The National Park Service: A Brief History” and “NPS Museums 1904-2004.” We will consider the changing role of the National Park Service as a public history institution with a particular focus on its roles as preserver and interpreter of the nation’s history.
October 21: The History of Historic Preservation
Read Giving Preservation a History, introduction and chapter 1. How did historic preservation change over time in the U.S.? Comment on the book’s treatment of this topic.
October 19: Sense of Place: Why Preservation Matters
Read Glassberg, Sense of History, Chapter 6 (Rethinking New England Town Character), and Howard, Buying Time for Heritage, Chapter 2 (Why Historic Preservation Matters) and Chapter 19 (The People of Preservation) (available on ECR). In class we will introduce the field of historic preservation by looking at how people form attachments to place and how [...]
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