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•• Preservation roviding sup Research port for re Ground Penetrating P search in the Radar field of historic land scapes preservation stands among NCPTT's Preservation Training principal goals. Since Creating a the inception of the High School for the Preservation Technol Preservation ogy and Training Grants Arts program in 1994, how ever, NCPTT has re ceived surprisingly few Materials historic landscapes pro Research Author Francois Mignon and Ghana Garden in 1967, Melrose Air Pollution posals. In recent years Plantation, Louisiana Effects on NCPTT has grown in Materials creasingly aware of the need to establish a clear historic land a steady flow of well-conceived grant proposals. Consideration was given to a broad range of ini Information scapes research agenda. tiatives with the potential to reach members of key Management To address this problem, NCPTT, NCPTT's professional organizations such as the American AZSITE: advisory board — the Preservation Technology and Society of Landscape Architects and the Council New Life for - Training Advisory Board — and the School of of Educators in Landscape Architecture. In addi Old Records Architecture and Allied Arts at University of Or tion, participants identified promising research egon organized a one-day meeting on historic land topics. scapes research, which was held in Chicago, Illinois. As part of NCPTT's effort to increase sup on June 18. Six leading professionals, representing port for historic landscapes research in the com both the private and public sectors, joined Mark ing years, the 1999 PTTGrants Call for Proposals Gilberg, NCPTT Research Coordinator, and Rob has been modified to give special consideration to 1999 ert Z. Melniek, PTTBoard Vice Chair and Dean of proposals that address the topics identified by the Preservation the School of Architecture arid Allied Arts at the panel of landscape architects and preservation Technology University of Oregon, for a lively and productive experts assembled by NCPTT. discussion. Participants drew on their extensive See page three for topics identified at the and Training experience to address a broad range of issues. historic landscapes research meeting. See page Grants Call Discussion centered on steps NCPTT should two for an addendum to the 1999 PTTGrants Call for Proposals, take to bring"the PTTGrants program to the atten for Proposals that incorporates these topics into page 7. tion of potential researchers in an effort to stimulate three PTTgrants project types. NCPTT NOTES 1999 PTTGrants Call for Proposals
PTTPublications he National Center for Preservation tive work in research, training and informa No. 1998-19 Technology and Training has issued its tion management on technical issues in historic T 1999 call for proposals for NCPTT's architecture, archeology, historic landscapes, Editor Preservation Technology and Training Grants objects and materials conservation, and inter Mark Gilherg program. The PTTGrants program has awarded pretation. Grants are available in eight catego Publications Manager over $500,000 each year since 1994 for innova ries — Sarah B. Luster • Information management • Technology transfer Contributors • Training and education • Analytical facility support Mary Carroll Beth Grindell • Applied/fundamental research • Conference support Kate Burns Ottavino • Environmental effects of outdoor pollutants • Publications support. John Rohhins Mary F. Striegel Application deadlines are mid-December 1998, as specified in the call for proposals. The 7999 Daniel Vivian PTTGrants Call for Proposals is available via — Photograph Page 1: Original photograph E-mail Send a blank message to
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Facsimile 318/357-6421 Addendum to 1999 PTTGrants Call for Proposals Electronic mail [email protected] Project type 1 - Information Management: Under Guidelines for preparing PTTGrants proposals - Scope, add — "NCPTT encourages the submission of proposals that seek to World Wide Web develop accurate, well-documented and easily accessible databases useful to a broad range www.ncptt.nps.gov of professionals involved in historic landscapes research." Fax-on-demand 318/357-3214 Project type 3 — Applied/Fundamental Research: Under Guidelines for preparing PTTGrants proposals - Scope, add — "NCPTT encourages proposals that (a) seek a better Newsletter Design understanding of the interface between natural and cultural resources in landscape Terra Incognita architecture, (b) examine innovative methodologies for interpreting historic landscapes, www. terraincognita. com (c) examine historic construction techniques in landscape architecture, (d) seek a better
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© NCPTT NOTES — National Center For Preservation Technology and Training Vegetation Management Historic Landscapes Research Man-made elements of historic landscapes all too often receive greater attention than natu Special Topics for the 1999 PTTGrants Program ral elements and are typically given priority during the conservation process. Natural ele ments are frequently left untreated and much As part of the 1999 PTTGrants program, NCPTT encourages submissions of propos of their significant historic character slowly fades over time. . Projects on this topic will als that address the topics discussed below. These topics were identified by the panel establish effective methodologies for the man of landscape architects and preservation experts assembled by NCPTT, the Preser agement of vegetation in historic landscapes. vation Technology and Training Board and University of Oregon for the June 18 Topics particularly suited for study might in meeting in Chicago, Illinois on historic landscapes research (see cover story). These clude historic orchards, historic stands of for topics are incorporated into the 1999 PTTGrants program as described in the est and natural vegetation in designed land addendum to the call for proposals on page two. scapes.
Impact of Modern Standards on Historic Landscapes Database Development and dynamic nature of historic landscapes is As has been the case with historic buildings an essential prerequisite for effective preser A clear need exists for researchers to have and sites, providing access for a diverse public vation efforts. Projects on this topic will exam access to accurate databases of information on has greatly affected historic landscapes. In ine innovative methodologies for interpreting topics related to historic landscapes, such as stallation of guardrails along historic high landscapes. plant materials, commercial nurseries and hor ways, for example, alters the character of the ticultural history. Projects on this topic will surrounding landscape. Similarly, measures establish accurate, well-documented and eas Landscape Construction Technology necessary to make many historic trails safe for ily accessible databases useful to a broad range and Techniques pedestrians significantly detract from their of professionals involved in historic landscapes To better understand many historic land appearance. Projects on this topic will con research. scapes, it is necessary to understand the tech sider ways that current standards for fire ac niques and processes employed in their con, cess, pedestrian safety and universal design Interface of Natural and Cultural struction. What methods were used by the can be accommodated in historic landscapes Resources in Historic Landscapes Civilian Conservation Corps, for example, in without adversely affecting the character of the landscape. Landscapes commonly include a combination constructing stone masonry walls found in of historic, cultural and natural elements. many national and state parks? Can the ap Although little research has explored the in pearance of many historic roadways be attrib Technology Transfer terface of these elements, an understanding of uted to the particular techniques used in their In many cases, strong potential exists for-tech their interaction is clearly essential for sound construction? Projects on this topic will exam nologies developed in other fields to be adapted management practices. What mitigation strat- ine historic construction techniques in an ef for historic landscapes research. Are arche- \ egies, for example, are most effective in cases fort to advance our ability to understand and ologists using remote sensing technologies, for where wetlands are protected as wildlife habi preserve historic landscapes. example, that might be used to conduct non tats but neighboring agricultural fields are invasive explorations of historic landscapes? subject to frequent flooding? Historically, Effects of Historic Advances in Have geotechnical scientists developed soil sta bilization methodologies that can be adapted how did water availability and soil types affect Technology on Landscapes the location of agricultural settlements? What for landscape conservation applications? Technological changes throughout history have has been the historic relationship between soils, Projects on this topic will develop innovative altered the character and appearance of the native vegetation, and herbal medicine in tra applications of existing technologies for use in American landscape in numerous ways. The ditional cultures? Projects on this topic will landscapes research and treatment. introduction of new farming implements, for develop a better understanding of such inter example, has consistently had significant ef faces by viewing landscapes in a truly holistic fects on agricultural landscapes. The steady manner. evolution of land use practices has affected the spatial layout of landscapes across the country Interpreting Landscape Processes in equally profound ways. Projects on this Landscape change sometimes occurs rapidly topic will seek a better understanding of these and dramatically; in other instances, change is and similar changes in an effort to improve our a slow process involving subtle developments ability to document, interpret and conserve that are almost imperceptible to the untrained historic landscapes. eye. Building public awareness of the complex
AUGUST 1998 — Number 26 © conducted a series Ground Penetrating Radar: of field trials de signed to evaluate New Developments in Data and new data and im age processing techniques, par Image Processing Techniques ticularly the am plitude slice-map' method developed n recent decades, ground- tion in the US to date. Field by Dean Goodman penetrating radar has sig archeologists generally rely on at the Geophysical A computer records and analyzes Inificantly advanced arche GPR to identify buried anoma Archaeometry GPR data as it is collected. Sophisti ologists' ability to conduct non lies that can be immediately Laboratory in cated GPR systems provide archeolo invasive site explorations .First explored or avoided during an Nakajima, Japan.' gists with detailed information about used in the mid-1970s, early excavation. None has explored The ampli buried features during fieldwork. GPR systems based on analog the tremendous site mapping tude slice-map technology provided archeolo capability offered by such sys method allows field processing curate assessments of site sig gists with a tool to identify un tems. of large.volumes of radar data nificance in a region where by computer. First, the inten derground "anomalies"—fea A recent Preservation spectacular and unusually sity of individual radar reflec tures of possible archeological Technology and Training abundant archeological re tions — a small survey area significance — prior to site Grants project undertaken by sources are at risk of destruc typically yields millions of them excavation. By the late 1980s, Lawrence B. Conyers, assis- tion by development. Devel — are analyzed at specific vastly more sophisticated digi tanl professor of anthropology opers may be required to avoid depths during tal GPR systems with the ca or properly excavate sites that computer pro pacity to process massive will be destroyed or disturbed cessing. Then, amounts of data had found during construction. Archeolo horizontal widespread use in Europe and gists contracted to determine "slices" are South America, where arche whether archeological re constructed ologists readily took advantage sources are present on land by the com of the advanced technology to slated for development typi puter for the create detailed, three-dimen cally make their assessment entire survey based on surface remains and, sional maps of unexcavated area, resulting sites. in some instances, scattered in a series of subsurface excavations. As a Archeologists working in images that the United States have proven result, many buried features show buried go undetected and, ultimately, somewhat reluctant to embrace features in Researchers dragging a radar antenna are destroyed by construction. GPR, largely because archeo three dimen over an archeological site during field Thus, Conyers and Cameron's logical remains commonly sions with ex testing in 1995. A computer situated work in part seeks to meet the found throughout North ceptional clar immediately outside the survey area needs of contract archeologists America are comparatively ity. For arche records radar data. working in the region. more difficult to detect. ologists, the Whereas sites in Europe, Asia method provides a valuable Second, Conyers and and South America oftemcon- at the University of Denver, means of producing detailed, Cameron elected to carry out tain large structural ruins, and Catherine M. Cameron, highly accurate subterranean their testing at sites in the North American sites gener assistant professor of anthro maps of unexcavated archeo southwestern US because soil ally are comprised of more dis pology at the University of logical sites. conditions in the region are crete remains such as pottery Colorado, took significant well-suited for GPR. Factors shards, trash pits, post holes steps towards increasing Conyers and Cameron lim such as soil and sediment min and scattered charcoal rem GPR's utility for archeologists ited the geographic scope of eralogy, clay content, ground nants. Many GPR systems lack working in the southwestern their field trials to the south moisture, and surface topog the ability to distinguish small US. Recognizing that advances western US for two principal raphy and vegetation can dras artifacts from soil features and, in computer technology have reasons. tically affect data quality. The consequently, the technology greatly increased GPR capa First, a pressing need ex has received limited applica bilities, Conyers and Cameron ists for making quick and ac- Continued on Page 11 *^— © NCPTT NOTES — National Center For Preservation Technology and Training three days of inten Creating a High School for the sive teacher develop ment session's led by Preservation Arts NJIT during March and April. To assist teach ers with curriculum development, NJIT used a local preser New York's High Schoolfor the Preservation Arts is attracting vation case study - great interest — and support — as an innovative approach to Stanford White's preservation training, and as an innovative approach to part .1904 Peristyle in nerships in heritage education. The High Schoolfor the Preser Brooklyn's Prospect vation Arts is a work-in-progress, and the following report Park. Materials pro ^discusses initial successes. vided to the teachers included literature on the history of the period and on the life Preservation Week: Bryan Serra, Art n May, the High School for for Arts and Business under of Stanford White, Teacher at the High School of Arts Arts and Business in Co the direction of Dr. Peg texts on classical ar and Business, Corona, New York Irona, New York, com Harrington, Board of Educa chitecture, and con pleted Preservation Week — tion Chief Executive for School servation science texts focus can be. used to develop a sense their first week of academic Programs arid Support Ser ing on the materials of the Peri of personal history. Science instruction using a preserva vices. In partnership with city style. HSAB teachers used the teacher Kieran McGuire used tion-based high school curricu government, industry, and the Peristyle as a vehicle for link the materials of the Peristyle ing English, art, history and lum. NCPTT provided support Nocal and national preservation to discuss the chemistry of re science. Early 20th century for Preservation Week and community, NJIT is designing moving paint from terra cotta. New York provided a frame participated in Preservation . HSAB's curriculum for pres Preservation Week was a work for integrating the four Week activities. ervation training. prelude to NJIT's second Pres disciplines. The period focus Preservation Week is a To initiate the program, ervation Portfolio Internship allowed the study of a wide component of an innovative NJIT presented the concept of Project, which introduces stu range of literature, history, training program for high a preservation-based high dents to preservation and buildings, materials and tech school students launched by school curriculum to the HSAB through a "hands-on" intern nologies and enabled teachers the Center for Architecture teaching staff. The presenta ship. Reflecting HSAB's edu to satisfy broad educational re and Building Science Research tion included videos of the res cational mission and method quirements while maintaining at New Jersey Institute of toration projects such as ology, the High School for the a preservation emphasis. Technology. The program's Brooklyn Borough Hall and an Preservation Arts would bal coalition of partners includes overview of how an academic Within the Peristyle case ance classroom and hand-on political leaders, city govern and hands-on preservation study, English teacher Lynda instruction. Based on class ment agencies, industry, and curriculum might be inte Aron selected the poem, "Pat room participation, assign non-profit preservation orga grated. Overall teacher re terns" by Amy Lowell to stimu ment performance and inter nizations — all critical ele sponse was enthusiastic — and late discussion of form and est in preservation, three stu ments in developing compre with commitments from the structure as methods of social dent interps are selected for a hensive and sustainable pres HSAB Principal Stephen control and the resulting im Summer internship of working ervation arts training. Drakes and four teacher vol pacts on private lives. Art on the actual restoration of the New York City Council unteers, a team for developing teacher Bryan Serra used the Peristyle. member Kenneth Fisher, long Preservation Week was in Peristyle to show students how During the internship, time supporter of historic pres place. classical forms have evolved. Preservation Week teachers ervation, first introduced the Preservation Week con History teacher Kevin Lawlor will be on site with interns to idea of a High School for the sisted of a two-day intensive created group exercises to show learn how to design an Preservation Arts to New York preservation program for how buildings can be dated academic curriculum that City's Board of Education. thirty-one ninth and tenth using photographic clues, how integrates the students' on-site The program was inaugurated graders. Curriculum and class structures and history can be at a newly-opened High School lectures were prepared after preserved, and how memory Continued on Page 8
AUGUST 1998 — Number 26 © Sculpturalfigure on Sanssouci database for later analysis. Palace, Potsdam, Germany, ICP Materials scientists shows effects of air pollution used data derived from these damage to outdoor stone experiments to define accurate sculture mathematical relationships between environmental factors sessment Program in the and receptor materials. These United States. Both programs relationships, known as dam were established" in the 1980s age functions, serve numerous to provide a scientific founda uses. For preservationists, they tion for public policy decisions contribute to an understand regarding air pollution regula ing of the cause-and-effect re tion. Today, as part of their lationship between pollutants on-going research, both pro and observed damage. Dam grams are working to establish age functions also can be used economic indices for damage to predict the remaining caused by air pollution, espe lifespan of culturally signifi Air Pollution cially sulfur dioxide and acid cant objects. Policy makers can rain. Like NAPAP, recent ICP rely on damage functions to Materials work has focused on determine how air pollution Effects on Materials regulations will affect materi developing materials damage als within a specific region. functions, monitoring changes Highlights from the UN/ECE Workshop or trends in pollution concen To date, the ICP Materi May 25-28 trations and damage to mate als exposure program has tested a variety of materials — Berlin, Germany rials, producing inventories of materials at risk, and estab including common structural Materials Research Program Manager Mary Striegel repre lishing costs for materials dam metals, copper, bronze, glass, sented NCPTT as one of 45 experts from 19 countries who age caused by air pollution. polymers, calcareous stone and attended the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe Recent results of ICP Materi concrete — at 39 sites in 12 workshop on the quantification of air pollution effects on mate als work on each of these topics European countries and in the United States and Canada. rials. Dr. Striegel filed the following report of the workshop. were presented at the Berlin workshop. With varying degrees of suc cess, damage functions were determined for all materials Damage functions N/ECE's workshop on Monuments (ICP Materials), studied, as reported at the Scientific experiments con air pollution effects the first phase of which was workshop. These functions ducted by ICP Materials were was organized by the recently completed after an were shown to be useful for U designed to quantify damage mapping areas with elevated Federal Environmental . eight-year field exposure pe to various materials by expo Agency (UBA), Berlin, and the riod. Twenty-eight papers were damage rates and for calculat sure to sulfur dioxide and Swedish Corrosion, Institute, presented at the meeting. Sev ing the costs of damage caused acidic precipitation under by air pollution. Stockholm, with support from eral group discussion sessions varying environmental condi the German Federal Ministry provided workshop partici tions. Some experiments were for Environment, Nature Con pants with a forum for sharing performed in the laboratory, Trends in pollutants servation and Nuclear Safety. ideas about the current direc where conditions such as pol and damage Dr. Stephan Fitz of Germany tion of ICP Materials and pos lutant concentration, tempera Studies within the ICP Materi and Dr. Vladimir Kucera of sible objectives for future re ture, relative humidity, wind als program demonstrate a re Sweden co-chaired the work search. speed and air turbulence can lationship between reductions shop. ICP Materials is a compo be controlled. Other experi in pollutant concentrations The workshop's principal nent of the UN/ECE Conven ments were performed at ex and stringent air pollution goal was to review results of tion to study the effects of long- posure sites in urban and ru regulations. But changes in the International Cooperative range trans-boundary air pol ral environments. Data on pollutant concentrations may Programme on the Effects of lution in Europe — and shares materials damage and environ create changes in overall pol Air Pollution on Materials, in much in common with the Na mental conditions recorded at lutant ratios. What are the ef- cluding Historic and Cultural tional Acid Precipitation As- these sites were entered into a © NCPTT NOTES — National Center For Preservation Technobgy and Training fects of these changes on mate at risk from air pollution expo-- Damage functions ob timated because some impor rials exposed to air pollution? sure that can be used to esti tained by ICP Materials were tant materials are not included To answer these questions, mate total damage costs. The used to calculate the costs of in the studies due to lack of ICP Materials began analyz scope of such inventories gen damage to materials recorded data. ing trend exposures in the late erally is limited to a geographic during air pollution in studies 1980s. Atthe Berlin workshop, region. In many cases, great in Norway and Germany. In For further information on the several researchers, including potential exists for preserva these studies, estimated dam Berlin workshop, contact Dagmar Knotkova of the Czech tionists to assist in preparing age costs are believed to be NCPTT Materials Research Republic and Johan Tidblad materials inventories, as the very close to actual damage Program Manager Mary F. of Sweden, presented results Save Outdoor Sculpture! pro costs. Indeed, total materials Striegel. from trend studies that exam gram has demonstrated in the damage costs may be underes ined changes in the corrosivity US. of zinc and carbon steel due to Materials inventories can changing environmental con be used in producing ditions. In their tests, only sul corrosivity maps that show re fur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and lationships between corrosion rain pH exhibited decreasing rates and economic damage trends in concentration. graphically for a given region. UN/ECE Workshop Ozone, however, did not show Svein Haagenrud of Norway, Findings and recommendations a discernible trend. Their stud for example, presented re ies correlated decreasing con search on mapping corrosivity Researchers and preservation professionals will centrations of acidifying air in Norway. Haagenrud was benefit from the following workshop findings and pollutants with decreasing able to create a corrosivity map recommendations — rates of carbon steel and zinc for the entire country because corrosion. a national building inventory • Future field work and laboratory studies . For calcareous stone, how exists that specifies building should address multi-pollutant effects, such ever, the understanding of cor materials. First, Haagenrud as the interaction of pollutants in the atmo rosion rates is less clear. Tim and colleagues mapped the sphere and on receptor materials. The com Yates of the Building Research density of materials sensitive bined effects of sulfur and nitrogen pollut Establishment in England re to the effects of pollutants. ants, ozone and .acid precipitation should be ported that on both aged and Next, they mapped pollutant considered in damage functions. porous surfaces, response to concentrations from environ mental monitoring data. Fi pollutant concentrations is • Different types of particulates and their role nally, they used their damage slow and leads to a greater in influencing other pollutants and materials functions and cost valuation to uncertainty in the data ob damage should be emphasized. tained. For example, surface map regions of equal corro recession rates of stone at St. sion and economic*damage. • Damage functions should include components Paul's Cathedral have de representing both dry and wet deposition — creased only about two-fold Materials damage valuation . and time of exposure — in order to increase while there has been a twenty- their applicability for predicting materials fold decrease in sulfur dioxide For economists, geographers lifespans. concentrations. Thus, the and ecologists to use damage weathering rate has not slowed functions to estimate the costs as rapidly as have pollution of damage to materials by pol • Acceptable levels of pollution and rates of concentrations. The response lutants, they must first deter deterioration should take into account a rate of calcareous stone that has mine the intrinsic value of ma of deterioration that is within a tolerance limit already been weathered and terials at risk before estimat above the background deterioration rate. The exposed to air pollutants ap ing the economic costs of dam tolerance limit may vary»for a given material pears to be complex and re age. To date, damage to cul based on its use. For example, the bronze of a quires further research. tural heritage has not been suc significant sculpture would have a different cessfully integrated into impact tolerance limit than the bronze of common assessments of damage caused architectural hardware. Materials at risk by pollutants and more re Researchers continue to de search is urgently needed in velop inventories of materials this area. AUGUST 1998 — Number 26 © cured from three, sources — will focus on incorporating in AZSITE: New Life for Arizona State Parks' Arizona formation into the database Heritage Fund, the Federal" that will help the Arizona De Old Records Geographic Data,Committee, partment of Transportation to and Intermodal Surface Trans comply with cultural resource portation Enhancement Act legislation. rizona counts many database also were discussed funds administered by the Ari Overall, PTTGrants fund "firsts" in its long his with a handful of other organi zona Department of Transpor ing allowed the AZSITE Con A tory, such as earliest zations, such as contract ar tation — will support several sortium to establish a firm evidences of human occupa cheology firms and planning projects essential for imple foundation for developing a tion in North American, agri agencies. menting the database. Fund statewide database of informa cultural production in the The design phase of the ing from the Arizona Heritage tion on Arizona's archeologi- New World and European project involved three princi Fund, for example, will allow cal and historic sites. On that settlement north of Mexico. pal tasks. First, the consor the consortium to provide foundation, the consortium will Yet, while it holds rich prehis tium established technical re online access for data'from the be able to continue its work — toric and historic resources, quirements for the database to fast-growing Phoenix metro an important step towards se Arizona also is home to some of effectively serve the agencies politan area, thus making it curing the future of cultural the fastest growing areas of the and institutions expected to use immediately available for pres resources in Arizona. nation. Not surprisingly, rapid the* database routinely. Sec ervation planning. FGDC — Beth Grindell development has placed a great ond, specifications were devel funds will he used to integrate site file data from the six na 'strain on irreplaceable cul oped for a geographical infor Ms Grindell is an archeologist tional forests in Arizona and tural resources. mation system, one of the at the Arizona State Museum lands managed by the Bureau To meej this challenge, database's key components. and coordinator for the of Land Management. Work several agencies and institu Third, the consortium devel AZSITE Consortium. conducted with ISTEA funds tions are working together to oped plans to make the data develop and implement stron base electronically accessible ger and more effective man to qualified users via dial-in or agement practices for Internet. Arizona's cultural resources. During the design phase, Creating a High School for the Preservation Arts In 1995, four Arizona agencies the AZSITE team uncovered Continued from page 5 and institutions collectively several potential problems. known as the AZSITE Consor Site files at many institutions tium — the Arizona State Mu include non-computerized experiences with their classroom learning. On-site seum, the Archaeological Re records that must be converted internship work will he enriched with visits to city agencies, search Institute at Arizona to electronic format. In addi preservation commissions, archives, libraries and State University, the Museum tion, once the database has historical societies for primary and secondary research of Northern Arizona, and the been established, many agen on the structures and to meet with officials and State Historic Preservation cies may not have adequate professionals responsible for the city's cultural resources. Office - agreed to develop a computer technology to make Students — and teachers — will learn how to access and computerized database of the full use of it. Finally, many incorporate the city's resources into a preservation-based state's cultural resources. The members of Arizona's arche curriculum. following year, the consortium ology and preservation com — Kate Burns Ottavino received support through munity voiced concerns re Ms Ottavino is director of Preservation Technology he- NCPTT's Preservation Tech garding ownership and access search at the Center for Architecture and Building Sci nology and Training Grants rights to database information. ence Research of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, program to conduct a needs AZSITE Consortium is work and Director of Preservation for A. Ottavino Corjtora- assessment and design the da ing to resolve these and related tion of New York. tabase. issues. NJIT's report of Preservation Week activities soon The needs assessment On the basis of work com will be available from NCPTT. The report contains phase of the project included pleted with PTTGrants sup lesson plans, student projects, evaluations and informa consulting with various agen port, the consortium's efforts tion on how to plan a Preservation Week program for cies responsible for managing to secure additional funding high school students. For a copy of the report, contact the state's historic and archeo- for database implementation NCPTT Publications Coordinator Sarah Luster. logical site files. Plans for the proved successful. Funds se
© NCPTT NOTES — National Center For Preservation Technology and Training discussion on choosing appropriate pres Technical Historic Lighthouse ervation treatments, and a wide-ranging Preservation Handbook bibliography on preservation and light houses. Information Illustrated, 328pp. Washington: National The handbook particularly excels in Park Service (1997) discussing construction, components, Made-to-Measure maintenance and conservation issues unique to lighthouses in the US. Some of f • ^ he lighthouse handbook was pre- the lessons learned in lighthouse .preser CSqaared by the National Park vation should be useful to materials con J_ Service's National Maritime Ini servation on all building types. From tiative in partnership with the US Coast NCPTT's experience with applications to Guard, the Department of Defense Legacy the Preservation Technology and Train Resource Management Program, and the ing Grants program, lighthouse preserva US Lighthouse Society. The handbook is tion is an important topic at all edges of custom-made for lighthouse property the US and the need for good information - managers, and focuses on preserving var is immediate. Historic Lighthouse Pres ied material and construction types com ervation Handbook advocates a high stan mon among lighthouses throughout the dard of lighthouse conservation and the United States. handbook's information should greatly 77ii.s occasional series reviews recent ad The front-end of the handbook sum benefit preservationists at national, state ditions to NCPTT's library. This review marizes lighthouse history, preservation and local levels. is by John Robbins. principles and the preservation process, At V \ 1 J/ ^kv and includes the core of the handbook's Nk evelopment of preservation litera- information: sections on lighthouse mate I ture in the United States seems to rials and components — masonry, iron, m J parallel the development of the wood, concrete, windows, doors and lan Well-Preserved field itself. •••• terns. Interiors and grounds are also con by Mark Fram The first phase of development is pres sidered, hut the handbook's emphasis is Illustrated, 239 pp. Erin (Ontario): ervation philosophy, presented in works on the lighthouse tower'. The site and The Boston Mills Press (1992) such as With Heritage So Rich (1966).1 other buildings associated with lighthouses The second phase is fundamental preser are treated in less depth. Each material vation principles, as presented in The. and component section addresses design, ntario Heritage Foun American Mosaic: Preserving a Nation's construction, and conditions inspection dation is an agency of the pro Heritage (1988), and William Murtagh's and assessment. Summaries of preserva vincial government of Ontario, Keeping Time (1988). The third phase is tion treatments are limited chiefly to main O established in 1968 and charged in 1990 broad technical guidance, as exemplified tenance and repair. Illustrations of con ditions, work in progress and successful with "conserving the provincial inherit by the National Park Service's Secretary preservation projects are included. ance" — a responsibility that includes of the Interior's Standards for the Treat natural, archeological, historical and ar ment of Historic Properties and the Pres The back-end of the book includes chitectural resources. Weil-Preserved is ervation Briefs series. A fourth phase is case studies of rehabilitation and restora the foundation's "manual of principals characterized by the current trend in pres tion — from replacing missing windows or and practice" for conserving Ontario's ervation literature — specialized techni doors, to full-height restoration of light architectural inheritance. cal guidance that focuses on historic prop houses at Cape May and Cape Hatteras — The manual is arranged into four main erties by types or by cultural or geographic , case studies of adaptive use, and discus chapters — "The Inheritance," "Careful environments. Such specialized technical sions of interpretation, safety, advocacy, Conservation," "Good Practice," and community support and the persistent guidance often appears as manuals or "Ways and Means." Each chapter's top question of lighthouse relocation. handbooks. In this category, Historic. ics are treated with intelligence and in Lighthouse Preservation Handbook and "Resources," the handbook's final sight. Well-Preserved are excellent contribu section, includes a glossary of preserva "The Inheritance" begins by graphi tions to a growing literature tailored for tion and lighthouse terms, directories of cally summarizing the variety of Ontario's particular resource types or specific col preservation organizations and agencies, built-environment heritage. Public works, lections of resources. guidance on preparing nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, a Continued on Page 10 m~-•
AUGUST 1998 — Number 26 © NCPTT Library the principles behind each ac checklists. Frequent marginal regard preservation as a young tivity. Though the language is reference is made to principles field and mistrust that a Continued from page 9 Canadian, US preservationists elaborated in "Careful Con handbook's or manual's audi will recognize shared prin servation" and to publications ence is truly up-to-speed on industry, transportation, ag ciples. Well-Preserved'' s that support the information preservation. Often there's a riculture and even"abandoned "Where additions and modifi lands" are considered as cul cations have altered original tural artifacts. ("Very little of appearance, these should be ... the best [technical publications] will be what we regard as wilderness retained as much as possible" those that concisely treat their special re is really untamed ... wild-look or "New work should be (dearly ing places may be evidence of distinguishable from old in a sources in context of accepted principles and settlement gone sour, of the manner that gives both dignity techniques, and ... guide their readers to while not impairing the land exhausted. They often original sources. hold traces of their past almost building's historic fabric" are undisturbed, but newly vul consistent with the Secretary's nerable to destruction if made Standards — "Most proper presented. The good graphical strong sense of editorial ontog- accessible again.") The sec ties change over time; those layout deserves the attention eny-recapitulates-phylogeny, changes that have ac of authors considering manual with the specialized informa quired historic signifi or handbook projects. tion of current handbooks or cance in their own "Ways and Means" dis manuals weighted by right shall be retained cusses the role of professional compilations of information and preserved" or services in preservation and from previous phases of "The new work shall conservation, Ontario's pres preservation's development. be differentiated from ervation laws and regulations, Who is the audience that, as in the old and shall be and project financing. the case of a current compatible... ." In The eight appendixes in PTTGrants project, needs the deed, from citations clude two pages on the Ontario definition of a dormer and can and references, the au Heritage Foundation, full texts handle refined preservation thor clearly drew on of the Venice and Appleton. research at Archives II? Or, in the whole world of Charters and OHF's standards the case of the lighthouse hand preservation docu for building conservation book, needs a definition of the ments and texts in de projects, Ontario codes and National Register program and veloping these well- could appropriately use a chart considered conserva regulations pertaining to pres ervation work, a directory of of the "galvanic series in wa tion principles. ter, 20 C" to conserve signifi preservation organizations and cant cultural property? "Good Practice" is agencies in Ontario and a small encyclopedia Canada, and a bibliography Preservationist-authors tion continues on the narrower of preservation activities and useful to serious preservation need to address the needs and topic of buildings, with a cata treatments ranging from re ists. capabilities of their preserva log of styles spanning 1780s search, inspection, design and tion audiences, and to avoid through 1980s, and a discus specifications to building sys Handbooks and Manuals: the impulse that each special sion of regional variations. The tems and components, materi ized publication must also serve What's Appropriate? section concludes with a frame- als, visual harmony and main as a comprehensive preserva NCPTT's Preservation Tech ' work for considering the sig tenance. Book design plays a tion encyclopedia. Well-Pre nology and Training Grants nificance of resources and the large role in delivering the served is an example of how program has supported sev importance of resource con manual's messages and graph this might be accomplished. eral handbook and manual servation. ics are particularly prominent Though the manual does not projects in the last few years, "Careful Conservation" in this section. The author un assume too much of its read and reviewing the lighthouse provides a menu of conserva derstands that people learn dif ers, the basics are evident but handbook and Well-Preserved tion activities ranging from ferently, and similar informa not obvious, and much mate- has brought this type of publi planning, organizing, assess tion is provided in several for cation into better focus. ing to repairing, enhancing and mats - including text, photo graphs, drawings, charts and Perhaps many authors still keeping, and briefly explains Continued on Page 11 ^—-
® NCPTT NOTES — National Center For Preservation Technology and Training October 1997, Conyers and Cameron re- Historic Lighthouse Preservation NCPTT Library surveyed the site soon after the area had Handbook is available from the US received several inches of precipitation. Continued from page 10 Government Printing Office (tele A storm the preceding night had dropped phone 202/512-1800, stock number an additional half-inch of rain, and rial is covered by reference to materials 024-05-01181-1), and the handbook Conyers and Cameron found puddles on beyond the manual. is online at the National Park the ground when they arrived to conduct For technical publications custom Service's National Maritime Initia their tests. Data from the second survey ized to a set of resources, the best of the tive Web site —
Auci'ST 1998 — Number 26 © NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING BOARD Director Our Mission Robert G. Stanton Chair Dr. Elizabeth A. Lyon United States Department of Associate Director, Cultural Resource the Interior Stewardship and Partnerships Vice Chair The mission of the Department of the Katherine H. Stevenson Robert Z. Melnick, FASLA Interior is to protect and provide ac School of Architecture and Allied Arts University of Oregon cess to our Nation's natural and cul NCPTT tural heritage and to honor our trust Secretary of the Interior's representative responsibilities to tribes. Executive Director E. Blaine Ctiver John Robbins Historic American Building Survey/ National Park Service [email protected]. 140 v Historic American Engineering Record The National Park Service preserves National Park Service Information Manageinent Coordinator unimpaired the natural and cultural * Mary S. Carroll resources and values of the National ' [email protected]:gov Dr. [Seville Agnew Park System for the enjoyment, edu-~ Getty Conservation Institute cation and inspiration of this and fu Information Management Associate Patricia H. Gay ture generations. The Service cooper Lance Ellis Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans ates with partners to extend the ben Information Manageinent Assistant Nicholas Gianopulos efits of natural and cultural resource Jeff Fabian conservation and outdoor recreation Keast and Hood Company throughout this country and the world. Research Coordinator Dr. Alferdteen B. Harrison Dr. Mark Gilberg Margaret Walker Alexander National Research [email protected] National Center for Preservation Center, Jackson State University Technology and Training Research Associate Dn James K. Huhta The National Center for Preservation Daniel Vivian The Center for Historic Preservation Technology and Training promotes and Middle Tennessee State University Materials Research Program Manager enhances the preservation of prehis Dr. Mary F. Striegel Dr. W. James Judge toric and historic resources in the' mary_striegel@ncptt. nps. gov Department of Anthropology ' United States for present and future A Fort Lewis College generations through the advancement MRP Associates Christy McAvoy Dr. Gillian Rudd and dissemination ofpreservation tech Historic Resources Group Kevin Amnions nology and training. F. Blair Reeves, FAIA NCPTT, created by Congress, is MRP Assistant School of Architecture an interdisciplinary effort by the Na Wendy Lott University of Florida tional Park Service to advance the art, Training Coordinator craft and science of historic preserva Carolyn L. Rose Frances Gale Department of Anthropology tion in the fields of archeology, historic [email protected] National Museum of Natural History architecture, historic landscapes, ob Smithsonian Institution jects and materials conservation, and Training Assistant Frank Emile Sanchis, HI interpretation. NCPTT serves public Sheila Richmond National Trust for Historic Preservation and private practitioners through re Publications Manager search, education and information Sarah B. Luster management.
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