John H. Sprinkle, Jr. The Pocantico Center Preservation Fellowship, now in its fifth year, is funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This two-week residential fellowship provides preservation professionals with the opportunity to reside in...
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The 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)—the cornerstone of preservation practice in the United States—has spurred conferences, articles, and celebrations throughout 2016. One of the most lasting and influential looks to the future to emerge from this...
During the last fifteen years the goal of revitalizing America`s cities has fallen off the scope in the minds of most Americans. The future of historic preservation in our country is inextricably linked to the interests of cities, and it is time for Americans to renew the claim that cities have...
Architectural education has always been about hands-on learning. This type of learning, however, can no longer be done solely within the confines of the design studio. This is not only due to the rate at which construction technologies and techniques are changing, but also due to the demands of...
Like many others, I came to preservation through a visit to a historic place. While researching a book on the Civil War some years ago, I visited a number of battlefields where the Army of the Potomac fought. It was a moving experience to walk those fields and fencerows, but it was also alarming...
The historic Eatonville community is a community known round the world because of the magnificent prose of twentieth-century writer/folklorist/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. It was she who introduced her readers to the rich African-American culture of the Eatonville community; she, who is...
I will share with you thoughts on the early stages of the design of the building we are proposing adjacent to the Society for Savings Bank in Cleveland, to be called Society Center. Perhaps I am fortunate that in some of my earlier buildings I confronted the issue of design within the historic...
Most historic preservationists probably envision archaeologists as scholars who dig in the dirt, not as lobbyists who walk the halls of Congress. Yet from the very beginnings of the preservation movement in the United States, archaeologists have played a significant role in the legislative...
Until relatively recently, historians have played a minor role in projects involving historic landscapes. Only within the last decade have most landscape architects, park administrators, and the general public abandoned the assumption that prevailed for much of the post-World War II period: that...
While it is probably presumptuous and historically inaccurate to equate Uncle Tom`s Cabin with With Heritage So Rich , in American history it is rare indeed to find that one book is responsible for a major reform and for major public and private actions on a national scale over a period of...