SHPA Series: Space for Place

������ In class yesterday, I spoke of some opportunities out there�for furthering one's education, and even developing and furthering craft skills.� There are a few to choose from, more than I can mention here -- and probably many more cropping up -- but a good place to start would be with the Preservation Trades Network.� Their yearly gathering is the International Preservation Trades Workshop.� I have been fortunate to attend several over the past few years, and I�can share some images in the photo section.

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Preservation Trades Network: http://www.iptw.org/

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Association For Preservation Technology International: http://www.apti.org/

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Campbell Center For Historic Preservation Studies: http://www.campbellcenter.org

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Preservation Education Institute: http://www.preservationworks.org/

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Looking for work in the preservation field?� A good job board:

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Preservenet: http://www.preservenet.cornell.edu/employ/index.cfm

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Here are a few things happening locally:

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������ Saturday, June 12, Progress Through Preservation and The Cleveland Restoration Society will be offering a window restoration workshop at Preservation House in Akron (where we held several classes).� Contact PTP at (330) 374-3787, or email [email protected] for info and reservations.

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Saving Ellis Island's South Side

By Margaret Foster | Online Only | Apr. 6, 2010

In addition to early Save America's Treasures grants, Save Ellis Island recently received a $100,000 grant through the National Trust's partnership with Lowe's for the Ferry Building's restoration, completed in 2007.

Credit: Kevin Daley, National Park Service Every year about two million people visit Ellis Island, where they can glimpse the abandoned buildings of the south side of the 27-acre island—but not set foot in them. The National Park Service opened the restored Great Hall in 1990, but it can't afford to do more than stabilize the 30 buildings of the island's former hospital complex, part of the National Historic Site.

This month, the nonprofit group that has focused on restoring the rest of Ellis Island is struggling to survive. Since its formation in 1999, Save Ellis Island, the park service's official partner, has raised more than $32 million for the South Side's buildings. Yet it must come up with $500,000 by the end of the month to stay in business, prompting fears about the fate of the empty buildings on Ellis Island.

"If Save Ellis Island disappears, it would be enormously difficult to start this project again," says Peg Breen, executive director of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. "If America can't save Ellis Island, what good are we? It's the closest thing we have to a national shrine."

The National Park Service says the situation isn't dire. "The buildings are in no direct, immediate danger of falling down because we've stabilized them. But we don't have any money to restore them," says Darren Boch, spokesman for the National Parks of New York Harbor. "In the meantime, the South Side is there. It's not going anywhere; it's just that the public can't go there."

Ellis Island's Other Side

Save Ellis Island is "the boots on the ground," says Wendy Nicholas, director of the Northeast Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which placed the South Side of Ellis Island on its 1992 and 1997 lists of America's Most Endangered Historic Places and has won funding for the complex through Lowe's and Save America's Treasures. "They're focused on the South Side of Ellis Island every day."

Unlike years past, the National Park Service's 2011 budget did not include money for the South Side of Ellis Island.

Last month Save Ellis Island cut its staff of 12 down to "four and a half," says Judy McAlpin, president of Save Ellis Island. The nonprofit has raised only about $65,000 of the amount it needs. "It took a long time to get [the restoration projects] moving. It would be even harder to get it back moving again if we had to suspend our operations. … We've raised a little, and we're still at it."

Think Ellis Island is saved? It may not be.

Read more about the plight of Save America's Treasures, whose grant spurred the restoration of the Ferry Building

http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/todays-news/saving-ellis-islands-south.html

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"The Timber Framers Guild is dedicated to promoting the centuries-old craft of timber framing. The reason for its increasing popularity is clear: Timber framing is a building style that unites sound construction techniques with handsome materials to produce a natural, yet beautiful, result. Timber frames offer a feeling of strength, durability, and spaciousness." (tfguild.com)

Why?

Well, it is clear from the above quotation that timber frame construction is a historic and modern artistic fascination, because of not only the aesthetic qualities of wood, but also, the physical characteristics of the material itself.

As noted, the strength, durability, and spaciousness of the material has been the key incentive for its construction purpose, but wood, by nature, is prone to decay. Proper maintenance and construction methods have been lost since the market turned to heavily industrialized methods that meant cheap quick builds with cheap unskilled labor... this combination created the detriorated housing stock that we see today! Not to mention the construction mentality of bulldoze now, and ask ethical questions later.

Now interested, primarily self taught, tradespeople have developed organizations, such as the Timber Framers Guild, to promote lasting construction methods and style. In hope for revitalization of centuries old crafts, and the development of interest in sustaining buildings for future generations rather than simply leveling old housing stock in favor of new construction.

Voila, what do you get when you combine dedicated people with a social art form... timber frame construction.

Visit the Guild's website for a calendar of events and further information: www.tfguild.org

Their website has great online sources: glossaries, workbooks, projects, etc.

Not to mention, inspirational forums, and much more.

Below is a video clip of the fire at the First Congregational Church on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

This fire is said to have been caused by a lightening strike, which ignited the oak roof and interior wood work... leaving nothing but an unsteady masonary exterior shell.

Sadly, this buidling was not able to be salvaged.

Here is the Link:

http://www.fox8.com/videobeta/ca2e32bd-1836-47d8-972e-4485d8f1cdc3/News/Fire-Destroys-Historic-Church

Mar 22, 2010

Representative Marcia Fudge

Longworth House Office Building, Room 1513

Independence and New Jersey Avenues, SE

Washington, DC 20515-3511

Dear Representative Fudge,

I am writing to ask you to join your colleagues in signing a letter to

Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Chair James Moran and Ranking

Member Mike Simpson in supporting restored funding to historic

preservation programs for FY 2011.

The proposed budget terminates funding for Save America's Treasures and

Preserve America. These programs are proven drivers of economic

development and have a successful track record of generating jobs.

Save America's Treasures (SAT) is the only bricks-and-mortar federal

preservation grant program. It is estimated that between 1999 and 2009

SAT grants have created over 16,000 jobs in cities, small towns and

rural communities across the country. Preserve America compliments the

SAT program by helping local communities develop sustainable resource

management strategies and sound business practices for the continued

preservation and use of heritage assets. The loss of these programs

would have a devastating impact on the protection and promotion of

cultural resources across the country.

The letter also supports funding for core programs of the Historic

Preservation Fund -- $55 million for the State Historic Preservation

Officers and $12 million for the Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.

Please contact Ken Reidy in Representative Carnahan's office at

[email protected] or Brett DeWitt in Representative Turner's

office at [email protected] to sign on to the letter.

Thank you for your consideration and commitment to preserve our

treasured heritage.

Sincerely,

Miss Jessica Wobig

http://www.designshare.com/index.php/projects/john-hay-high-school-owpp/narratives

This is an article that explains the sustainable mission to retain historic integrity in the Cleveland Public Schools System...

Space for Place is currently seeking Landscape Architects or Designers, who would like tobecome involved in a student project to develop the green space of the campus.

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Hello there...

There will be a SHPA meeting MARCH 17th... before the Issues class...

We will be discussing the Event One...etc.

Space for Place: Event One

Preservation Awareness Month: May 2010

Cleveland Heights, Superior Schoolhouse

14391 Superior Road (at Euclid Heights BLVD)

Tentative Opening Night Event Scheduled May 7, 2010

Historic Preservation is active critical thinking about human action. It is thoughtful consideration about the social needs of the past, present, and future. It is about people, for people, and it is inclusive of all people.

Ursuline College Students for Historic Preservation Association (SHPA) present the first Space for Place: Event One at the Superior Road Schoolhouse of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.

Selected Local and Regional Artists, working with the topic of Historic Preservation, will participate in an opening night event on May 7, 2010.

Activities will include video documentary screenings, still photography montage, live music, outdoor art stations, and more.

May’s participants include: John Quinn of Sun Photography (photographer), Tom Kondilasof Less Productions (videographer), and Matt Lenz of Moving Box Studios (videographer). Their work captures the presence of the built environment, and the industrialization of our culture. Social action binds these three artists work. Be it in the forward motions of social action or the absence of it entirely… the impact is clear. Come see what it’s all about at the Space for Place: Event One.