HISTORICORPS WORKFORCE FOR SAVING PLACES
An Introduction to the HistoriCorps™ program HistoriCorps Partners What is HistoriCorps™?
Mission: HistoriCorps saves and sustains historic places for public benefit through partnerships that foster public involvement, engage volunteers and provide training and education HistoriCorps Is . . . Saving Places
• Rehabilitation of the Alpine Guard Station • Summer 2010 • Uncompahgre National Forest • Re-roofed with cedar shingles, doors & windows repaired, sill logs replaced, interior repair, and plumbing and electricity installed.
AFTER Rehabilitation Historic
Before Rehabilitation . . . Greening Historic Buildings
Alpine Guard Station - construction of solar energy shed replicating original shed. . . . Preservation for Public Benefit
• Off Cow Camp Cabin After Rehabilitation • 2010 field season • Rio Grande National Forest • Partnered with Rio Grande NF, Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, Southwest Conservation Corps, University of Colorado Denver • Available as a public rental
Before Rehabilitation . . . Site Protection
• Matterhorn Mill Emergency Stabilization, Telluride, CO • Completed Fall 2009 & Summer 2010 • Partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, San Miguel County, Rocky Mountain Office of the USFS • HistoriCorps stabilized the historic walls and columns, constructed a temporary structure over the Wilfley Table addition, and coordinated a site clean-up. . . . Youth Involvement
• River Springs Work Center Rehabilitation • Completed June 2010 • Rio Grande National Forest • Partnered with the Conejos County Community Corps . . . Job Creation . . . Trades Training
Cedar Shingling, Alpine Guard Station, July 2010
Log Peeling, Saguache Ranger Station, October 2009
Foundation repair, Chambers Residence, Grand Teton National Park, October 2010 Applying daubing, Off Cow Camp, August 2010 . . . Capacity Building
“HistoriCorps is more than a clearinghouse for volunteers or a resource for funding. HistoriCorps builds the capacity to achieve preservation projects, advances sustainability and green technologies and enables innovators in historic preservation and stewardship to connect with young people with a shared vision so that preservation can take on real value for communities and economies” . . . Partnerships and Community Building
Office of the USFS Saguache Weekend Workshop, October 2009 HistoriCorps Partners: Alaska Bureau of Land San Juan National Forest Management San Luis Valley Public Alliance for Historic Lands Center Wyoming San Miguel County Arapaho-Roosevelt Shoshone National Forest National Forest Southwest Conservation Black Hills Historic Corps Preservation Trust Tongass National Forest Black Hills National Forest Town of Lake City Colorado Preservation Town of Saguache Inc.’s Endangered Places University of Colorado Program Denver Conejos County Volunteers for Outdoor Community Corps Colorado GMUG National Forest Grand Teton National Park HistoriCorps Medicine Bow-Routt partnered with National Forest & Thunder Lake City Outbuildings, June 2010 Basin National Grassland over 20 Mountain Heritage organizations & Associates National Trust for Historic agencies in Preservation 2010 Pike-San Isabel National Forest Rio Grande National Forest Meeker Ranch, Black Hills NF, Aug 2010 Rocky Mountain Regional . . . FUN!
Off Cow Camp, Rio Grande NF, August 2010
Alpine Guard Station, GMUG NF, July 2010
HistoriCorps … includes a range of volunteers, from students to retirees.
… trains future stewards and advocates for historic preservation
… engages willing & enthusiastic volunteers Cobble Lookout Shelter, Tongass NF, June 2010 2010 Accomplishments Summer 2011 Projects
• Volunteers and students will work with trades specialists to preserve historic resources on and near public lands.
• HistoriCorps work crews are designed to optimize teaching and learning opportunities.
Clay Mine, Rio Grande NF Cascade Cabin, Grand Teton NP Harris Ranch, San Juan NF HISTORICORPS: Workforce for Saving Places
Awarded as the 2010 Recreation Partner of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Region of the USFS
Clay Mine Rio Grande National Forest near Creede, Colorado June 2011
Scope of Work In an effort to stabilize the mine, the HistoriCorps team will: • Repair the main support posts and braces • Tighten structural framing connections & replace missing wall planks on ore bin • Construct the framed enclosure on the open bin top, sheath and roof the framed structure • Construct framed enclosure (roof), which is the trestle, log cross ties, and railing that accessed the bin.
Partners & Volunteer Groups • Rio Grande National Forest • University of Colorado Denver Architecture & Planning Department • Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado • Passport in Time Cascade Cabin Grand Teton National Park July 2011
Seventy-five years of exposure has deteriorated the decorative log-end treatments to the point of necessitating crown replacement. Additional work will include reroofing the building in cedar shingles, replacing deteriorated sill logs, and repairing historic windows. Harris Ranch San Juan National Forest July & August 2011
Scope of Work The three structures (cabin, tack-room, and corral) of the Harris Ranch all require immediate preservation treatments to maintain the site’s historical significance and integrity and to prevent the irreplaceable and unavoidable loss of historic fabric.
HistoriCorps will: • Reestablish foundation on cabin & tack house • Repair deteriorated floor joists • Repair or replace deteriorated sill logs and log crib • Replace log chinking • Repair windows and doors on cabin & tack house • Repair damaged wood decking • Install metal sheathing on tack house • Remove soil build-up • Replace of damaged posts in corral area Partners & Volunteer Groups San Juan National Forest Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado Southwest Conservation Corps University of Colorado Denver