Historic Preservation Student Projects

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This archive contains a collection of projects generated by students in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation within the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. These research papers represent a wide variety of topics within the field of historic preservation incorporating subjects as diverse as heritage trails, sustainability practices and industrial and archaeological sites preservation.

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    Saving Santanoni: balancing historic preservation and environmental conservation in Adirondack Park
    (2009-05) Bowling, Matt; Linebaugh, Donald W.
    Great Camp Santanoni is an approximately thirty two acre historic site located in New York State’s Adirondack Park. A National Historic Landmark, it is one of only three publicly‐owned historic sites within Adirondack Park, the other two being John Brown’s Farm and Crown Point. Despite Santanoni’s unique local, regional, and national significance as an architectural masterpiece and a cultural symbol of late nineteenth‐century attitudes, its future remains startlingly uncertain. When New York State purchased the 12,900‐acre Santanoni Preserve in 1972, the fate of the great camp was in jeopardy due to the “forever wild” provision in Article XIV of the New York State Constitution. This provision requires that state‐owned lands within Adirondack Park are to be kept “forever wild”. It is a mandate that has been interpreted by some to mean the eradication of all human‐made structures situated on public lands. Ultimately, Great Camp Santanoni was saved from demolition and starting in the early 1990s, after nearly twenty years of abandonment and neglect, efforts to preserve and restore the great camp were launched and continue today. The full story surrounding the preservation and restoration of Santanoni is told in this paper. It is a story that demonstrates a significantly larger problem, the need for finding equilibrium between historic preservation and environmental conservation in Adirondack Park. Culture and nature need not be mutually exclusive and any attempt to make them totally separate from one another is artificial. If Adirondack Park is truly to be a model for how humans can live and interact with nature, then a better balance between historic preservation and environmental conservation must be achieved in regard to publicly-owned historic resources located there.
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    Looking Back, Looking Forward: A New Look at the Historic Resources of the Maryland Port Towns
    (2008) Bowling, Matt; Carpenter, Jennifer; Dorman, Alice; Guzman-Torres, Zasha; Harada, Rei; Kockritz, Justin; Merrifield, Kelly; Stuebner, Alisyn; Vaughan, Jason; Konsoulis, Mary
    During the fall of 2008, the historic preservation studio of the University of Maryland’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation developed a heritage resource study for the Maryland Port Towns, a group of four individual municipalities located on the Anacostia River in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The client, the Port Towns Community Development Corporation, made it clear from the beginning that the study was to dovetail with their already extensive efforts for social and economic development in the Port Towns. The study that follows is the culmination of the efforts of the nine-member studio team. Titled Looking Back, Looking Forward: A New Look at the Heritage Resources of the Maryland Port Towns, the study initially developed from two principal questions: • What existing historic resources are located in the Port Towns? • What can be done to preserve, enhance, and highlight the existing historic resources located in the Port Towns to meet the socioeconomic goals set by the Port Towns Community Development Corporation?