The seventh biennial conference on historic roads September 9 – 12, 2010 in Washington, DC Table of Contents Conference Proceedings Sponsored by Parsons Brinckerhoff Schedule-at-a-Glance, see centerfold We are pleased to offer our most comprehen- sive conference proceedings ever. Papers and Welcome 2 authors are identified for each session. The conference proceedings include all papers Conference Schedule, Sessions submitted by the deadline for inclusion. and Special Events 4 Conference Bookstore Conference Biographies 22 Sponsored by Steven Schuyler, Bookseller, Boston, MA Conference Sponsors 56 Visit the conference bookstore for a large selection of titles on historic roads and related Glossary 63 historic resources. Flying? No worries. Ask about having your books shipped.

Downtown Washington, F and 12th Streets, NW, R 1939. Credit: US Library of Congress Our main Preserving the Historic Road confer- All conference events, tours, and meetings are subject to change or cancellation. Refunds for any and all ence meeting venues are fully accessible. cancelled events, tours, and meetings will be made at the discretion of Preserving the Historic Road. By Please check with the conference information registering, you acknowledge that Preserving the Historic Road, its partners, and sponsors assume no liability for the use of any meeting space or facility associated with the conference or in the transportation to, or and registration desk if you have any ques- on-site conditions or facilities associated with any conference event. tions regarding accessibility or accommodation for any of the field tours or special events.

1 WELCOME TO PRESERVING THE HISTORIC ROAD 2010!

Welcome to Washington, DC and the Seventh Biennial Preserving the Historic Road conference! We are pleased to host this event in the nation’s capital, where a variety of federal agencies, and other national transportation, safety and preservation or ganizations, are becoming increasingly engaged with issues related to historic roads.

Our downtown location is within the District of Columbia’s unique urban grid of historic roads, based on the 1791 L’Enfant Plan. Inspired by the gardens and avenues of Versailles, you can still experience diago- nal avenues—named for the 13 original states, grand circles and open public spaces that helped define a new capital city. In 1901 the McMillan Commission revitalized the original design and planned for a mod- ern capital that would enshrine democratic Crossing Boulder Bridge on Beach Drive, Rock Creek Park, 1920. Credit: US Library of Congress. ideals. Then the National Park Service developed a network of regional parkways prised of representatives of the National year, and are thrilled by our geographic that linked the region to the urban core. Park Service (Historic American Engineering breadth, with delegates hailing from thirty Interstates were introduced mid-century, Record, Park Historic Structures and Cultural different states (and five time zones) from ringing the region with the Capital Beltway, Landscapes Program, and National Capital Florida to Alaska, and five countries from

leading to suburban development in neigh- Region), District Depart ment of Trans - Europe to Australia. We are even benefiting boring Maryland and Virginia. While you portation, DC Historic Preservation Office, from sustainable forms of transportation, may hear complaints about the nation’s DC Preservation League, Loudoun County from local registrants taking Metrorail, second worst traffic, you will also see and Department of Planning (Virginia), to one participant who organized a cross- hear about different local efforts to preserve The Maryland-National Capital Park and country bicycle ride to attend! rustic roads in protected rural areas that Planning Commission, Montgomery survive and thrive in the region. County Government (Maryland), Federal While we all continue to face daily chal- Highways Adminis tration, University lenges, I encourage you to take advantage From the original design of this city, and the of Delaware, and National Road Alliance. of the talent assembled at Preserving the authorization of the first federal highway— These dedicated professionals have been Historic Road over the next four days. Here the National Road in 1806—to parkways and diligently reviewing papers, planning work- you will learn about exciting and innovative the Interstate Highway System, the federal shops and events, and working with speak- solutions being put to the test at the nation- government and its partners have played a ers, partners, and registrants to provide a al, state, and local level. I would like to significant role in visionary planning and memorable historic roads experience here thank you for making the effort highway design. Over the conference’s four in Washington. We have enjoyed support to attend and sharing your scholarship and days of field workshops, education sessions, from our longtime national partners from experiences. I hope you will take home and special events we will present you with America’s Byways Resource Center, from Washington a memorable experience, the latest information, policies, and challenges AASHTO, and US/ICOMOS. We are with new friends and ideas to help you con- for historic roads. Whether at the internation- also grateful for recurring sponsorship from tinue preserving the historic road ahead. al, federal, tribal, state, corporate or local Parsons Brinckerhoff and Mead & Hunt, level, we welcome your participation in the and first time sponsors, AECOM and the dynamic conversation on historic roads National Road Alliance.

For two years, the 2010 Preserving the This year’s conference continues the multi- Christopher H. Marston Historic Road Conference Planning disciplinary national and international 2010 Conference Chair Committee has worked hard to put together forum on historic roads, begun at our first as diverse and comprehensive a program as conference in Los Angeles in 1998. We are possible. Our dedicated committee is com- pleased to welcome many new faces this

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Registration and Information Desk 7:30am – 6:00pm London Room

Thursday Mobile Workshops

These fee events require advance registration—contact the Registration and Information desk to see if space is available.

WORKSHOP 1 LoCo | MoCo Rural Roads 8:00am – 5:00pm Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby Goose Creek Bridge ca.1802, Ashby’s Gap Turnpike (old US Route 50 alignment) in Loudoun County, Please assemble by 7:45am Virginia. Credit: Kate McConnell. Explore the similarities and differences of rural roads protection, primarily at the local WORKSHOP 2 WORKSHOP 4 level, in the neighboring jurisdictions of Pressing Issues Facing Maryland’s Downtown F Street Walking Tour Loudoun County, Virginia and Montgomery Historic National Pike 3:00pm – 5:00pm County, Maryland. In Loudoun County, 8:30am – 5:00pm Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby where the Virginia Department of Trans - Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby Please assemble by 2:45pm portation maintains all public roads in the Please assemble by 8:15am Leaving from the conference hotel, this tour state, the workshop focuses on the out- Explore a number of issues pertaining to the will offer a glimpse into major preservation comes of grassroots collaboration. The tour Historic National Pike in Frederick County, efforts in the Downtown Historic District includes the Route 50 Traffic Calming Maryland as it traverses through a number within the context of the area’s historic

Project, the County-designated Beaverdam of historic town districts. The tour begins in roads. It will focus primarily on the Creek Historic Roadways District, Snickers - New Market (established in 1788) L’Enfant Plan and the National Portrait ville Turnpike, and the Journey through which was a featured Context Sensitive Gallery on one of the major reservations of Hallowed Ground (US Route 15), a recently Solutions (CSS) case study presented at the that plan, designated National Scenic Byway. After 2008 PTHR Conference. A visit to historic F Street’s emergence as downtown’s main crossing the Potomac River on its last Downtown Frederick (settled in 1745), will street, and 7th Street as the original road remaining cable ferry, Whites Ferry, the feature: an overview of the county’s Scenic that connected Maryland’s agriculture to the tour enters the 96,000-acre Montgomery Byway, Rural (Rustic) Road and Historic wharves of Georgetown and Foggy Bottom. County Agricultural Reserve; nearly 100 Bridge Preservation programs; and discus- Led by Steve Callcott, DC Deputy SHPO. roads are protected by the County’s Rustic sions regarding a new Wayfinding Program Roads program. The tour will travel on (precipitated in part by a new major gate- OPENING RECEPTION about a dozen rustic roads, stopping to way project) and Small Area Planning as it Co-hosted by US/ICOMOS and the discuss old and new bridges, concrete and pertains to “The Golden Mile,” a major DC Preservation League gravel road surfaces, a restored aqueduct commercial/retail strip area. Tour goers will 6:00pm – 9:00pm (constructed 1829 – 1833) and a public ford. be treated to lunch at Brewer’s Alley, a Pensioner’s Suite, local favorite inside a former opera house. National Building Museum The tour continues west on traces of the Join your friends and meet new ones as we same route used by British General Edward gather in one of the Nation’s Capital’s great Braddock in 1755 and later by armies en historic interior spaces at the National route to the Civil War battlefields of South Building Museum to kick off the Seventh Mountain and Antietam. Our tour concludes Biennial Preserving the Historic Road con- with a nostalgic visit to Boonsboro, known ference. Completed in 1877 as the Pension for the first use of macadam in the US. Building, this magnificent brick structure has been the site of inaugural balls and gala WORKSHOP 3 events. Come early and enjoy the architec- Plan for improvements to Pennsylvania Avenue, Georgetown’s Transportation ture and design exhibits in the museum’s never implemented, 1853. Credit: New York Public Infrastructure galleries. Library. Cancelled

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Registration and Information Desk Morning Break James C. Zeller, P.E. 7:30am – 6:00pm 9:45 – 10:15am Virginia DOT, Leesburg, VA Ballroom Foyer Carol Shull (Note: all events at the hotel take place in the Opening Plenary Panel National Register NPS, Washington, DC lower level, except the Friday Luncheon) Discussion Bonnie Burnham 10:15 – 11:45am President, World Monuments Fund Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Michael Romero Taylor 7:30am – 9:00am The opening plenary will provide an oppor- NPS, Santa Fe NM Gallery Lower Level tunity for the leading agencies and organiza- tions involved in historic road management Roads Luncheon Conference Bookstore to present their goals and policies, showcase 12:00 noon – 1:30pm 9:45am – 6:00pm their achievements, and engage in a panel Junior Ballroom (2nd floor) Gallery Lower Level discussion about best practices, ongoing Join your fellow delegates for fine food and Sponsored by Steven Schuyler, Bookseller, challenges, and future strategies and oppor- conservation at our biennial Roads Boston, MA tunities. Luncheon. No formal program is planned Moderator: so that you may enjoy renewing old Conference Welcome Timothy Davis, PhD acquaintances or sharing road stories with 8:15am – 8:45am National Park Service, Washington, DC new friends. Grand Ballroom Panel: Christopher H. Marston Jim McDonnell Historic American Engineering Record, AASHTO, Washington, DC NPS, Conference Chair Terry Haussler Federal Lands Highway Program Opening Comments Gabe Klein 8:45am – 9:15am Director, District DOT, Washington, DC Grand Ballroom

Jon Jarvis Director, National Park Service, Washington, DC Victor Mendez Administrator, FHWA, Washington, DC Janet Oakley Director of Policy and Government Relations AASHTO, Washington, DC Katherine Slick Executive Director, US/ICOMOS, Washington, DC

Preserving the Historic Road Conference Overview 9:15 – 9:45am Grand Ballroom The identification, preservation and man- agement of historic roads have gained sig- nificant recognition in the last decade. Join Dan Marriott for his personal assessment of where we’ve been, where we are going, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia, 1946. Credit: National Archives. the successes we have cheered and the challenges we still face. Dan Marriott Founder, Preserving the Historic Road Conference, Washington, DC

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Concurrent Sessions 1:30pm – 3:00pm Arizona have been enhanced to successfully Moderator: Sarah Navid celebrate the essence of historic roadway Montgomery County Department of S E S S I O N 1 corridors through untraditional mitigation Permitting Services, Rockville, MD Better Outcomes for Historic Roads: techniques that go beyond preserving pave- Panel: Moving Past Common Barriers (NCHRP ment. Terry Maxwell Study 25-29A) Moderator: Matthew R. Virta Maryland Scenic Byways, Baltimore, MD 1:30pm – 3:00pm George Washington Memorial Parkway, Richard Hughes Salon B NPS, McLean, VA Maryland Heritage Areas, Baltimore, MD Learn about a landmark project to establish Speakers and Papers: Teresa Moore standard national guidelines that promote Kathleen Colbert-Gibson The Valleys Planning Council, Towson, MD an inclusive and balanced approach for Parsons Brinckerhoff, Pittsburgh Cathy Hardy Thompson upgrading and maintaining National Ben Hark Charles County, Waldorf, MD Register listed and eligible historic roads. As West Virginia DOT, Charleston, WV Amanda Fenstermaker a follow-up to the session that introduced WV Route 9 Thematic Design Concept: Dorchester County Tourism, Cambridge, MD this research project two years ago in Moving From Planning to Successful Albuquerque, this panel will outline the new Implementation S E S S I O N 4 recommendations to meet safety and opera- Courtney Fint Abandoned Roads, Early Highways and tional needs while preserving historic signif- West Virginia DOT, Charleston, WV Shepherds’ Tracks icance. The guidelines use existing Innovative Mitigation in an Historic 1:30pm – 3:00pm engineering manuals and established envi- Agricultural Landscape: U.S. Highway 35 in Salon D ronmental review processes to promote Putnam and Mason Counties, West Virginia Over time, roads and trails have been creat- flexible solutions for historic roads. Terry Klein, Carla Van West and David ed, abandoned, realigned and buried Moderator: Gloria Scott Cushman beneath our present system; these historic CALTRANS, Sacramento, CA SRI Foundation, Santa Fe, NM alignments and their histories fit into the Jen Wennerlund broader context of our cultural landscapes. URS Corporation, Phoenix, AZ This session will include an overview of

Panel: The Exploring Arizona’s Historic Roads cultural landscape types and identify their Lisa Hart Project: An Innovative Approach to Public character-defining features. The speakers Texas DOT, Austin, TX Outreach and Section 106 Compliance will present case studies covering techniques Linda Harvey-Opiteck for identifying these historic, sometimes-lost NYSDOT, Albany, NY S E S S I O N 3 alignments and their unique histories, and Mark Taylor Context Sensitive Solutions: discuss ways to preserve, manage and inter- FHWA, Lakewood, CO Collaborating to Preserve, Maintain and pret them. Timothy Davis Enhance Character Defining Resources Moderator: Donna Holdorf, National Road National Park Service, Washington, DC along Maryland’s Byways and Historic Alliance, Uniontown, PA Robert Hadlow Roads Speakers and Papers: Oregon DOT, Portland, OR 1:30pm – 3:00pm Carrie A. Mardorf Mary McCahon Salon C National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM TranSystems, Fort Lauderdale, FL Scenic byways can only remain scenic if Abandoned Historic Roads: Components of Jim McDonnell their character defining roadway and road- Cultural Landscapes AASHTO, Washington, DC side resources can be maintained, preserved Laurel Wallace and/or enhanced. Most of the development New Mexico DOT, Santa Fe, NM S E S S I O N 2 activity and resulting visual impact on scenic Convict Labor and New Mexico’s Earliest Taking the High Road: Innovative byways is occurring on private property. Highways Mitigation Strategies for Historic Roads Roadway design standards, on the other Alicia Leonor Cahn Behrend and Section 106 Compliance hand, are under the jurisdiction of the state, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain 1:30pm – 3:00pm county, municipality or other governmental The Cañadas Reales of the Castile Crown: Salon A agency. Terry Maxwell, Maryland’s Scenic Heritage Categories and Strategies All too frequently the value of historic roads Byway Coordinator, will host a diverse and their landscapes are underestimated panel of state and local partners who will Afternoon Break during the transportation planning process. discuss their joint efforts to preserve and 3:00pm – 3:30pm Impacts to historic sites and settings are enhance byways in Maryland. often written off as a necessary evil. Learn how highway projects in West Virginia and

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Concurrent Sessions 3:30pm – 5:00pm S E S S I O N 7 Moderator: Kate A. McConnell 3:30pm – 5:00pm Loudoun County Planning Department, S E S S I O N 5 Salon C Leesburg, VA The Merritt Parkway Revisited It’s Not Just the Road, It’s the Bridges Speakers and Papers: 3:30pm – 5:00pm and Streetcar Tracks Aaron Cross Salon A This session will cover the preservation of Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral The Connecticut Department of a 19th century covered bridge in Maryland, Resources, Charlottesville, VA Transportation’s establishment of the Merritt the rehabilitation and replacement of historic Prehistoric Origins of an Interstate Highway Parkway Working Group in 1992 was a bridges along Milwaukee County’s parkways Ann L. Miller watershed in historic road preservation, and the preservation of the last original Virginia Transportation Research Council, enlisting diverse stakeholders in an interdis- streetcar tracks in Washington, DC. Specific Charlottesville, VA ciplinary effort to safeguard the parkway’s topics include the roles of public advocacy A Methodology for Documenting Early unique character. This session provides an and federal, state and local government, Roads in Virginia update on that groundbreaking endeavor legal action and preservation techniques. David S. Clarke and underscores that historic road preser - Moderator: Bill Rice Delaware DOT, Wilmington, DE vation is an ongoing process requiring District DOT, Washington, DC Identification of 18th Century Roads: continual engagement and commitment. Speakers and Papers: A Delaware DOT Case Study Moderator: Timothy Davis Jeremy Mauro Robert W. Craig National Park Service, Washington, DC HAER, NPS, Washington, DC New Jersey Historic Preservation Office, Panel: Maintaining a 19th Century Bridge in the Trenton, NJ Emil Frankel 21st Century: Preservation of the Gilpin Falls Giving Early Roads their Due: New Jersey Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC Covered Bridge as a Case Study Amy Frietag Christine Long and Amy R. Squitieri World Monuments Fund, New York, NY Mead & Hunt, Madison, WI Dinner on your own Michael Calabrese Managing and Preserving Milwaukee’s 5:00 – 7:30pm ConnDOT, Newington, CT Historic Parkways

Jill Smyth Karina Ricks and Eric Madison Seventh Annual Movie Night Merritt Parkway Conservancy, Stamford, CT District DOT, Washington, DC 7:30pm – 10:00pm Preserving DC’s Last Visible Streetcar Tracks Grand Ballroom S E S S I O N 6 A PTHR Tradition! Relax after the day’s Liability and Policy Considerations S E S S I O N 8 events with some quirky road topics and a 3:30pm – 5:00pm Early Road Documentation in the selection of archival b/w road films. Salon B Mid-Atlantic Region Cash bar. As unique resources, historic roads are often 3:30pm – 5:00pm Featured Speaker and Paper: difficult to classify and manage within state, Salon D Timothy Hubbard tribal and national transportation standards Identifying prehistoric routes and early Heritage Matters, Fort Fairy, Australia and guidance. Learn how to assess issues roads can be difficult. Centuries may have Quirky Letterboxes: Laughing Along the from liability to highway signage within the passed since abandonment and pre mid- Lonely Miles allowed flexibilities of policy and without nineteenth century maps often lacked detail. the misconceptions and mistakes that often Using case studies, researchers from negatively impact historic road manage- Delaware, New Jersey, and Virginia will ment. Let our DC policy experts show you present methodologies developed to identify how to better preserve and protect the early roads, including detecting geological integrity of your historic road. features conducive to prehistoric route Moderator: MaryAnn Nabor recognition and travel, compiling and FHWA, Washington, DC indexing colonial and post-colonial county Panel: “road orders,” recognizing the achievements Hari Kalla, PE and advances of early road makers, distin- FHWA, Washington, DC guishing and evaluating “roadsheds,” devel- Betsy Merritt oping predictive models using research and National Trust for Historic Preservation, archaeology, and locating and protecting DC taxi, ca. 1935. Credit: US Library of Congress Washington, DC highway markers. Jack Van Dop Eastern Federal Lands Highway, Washington, DC

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Registration and Information Desk as compared in the context of their respec- Jim Klein 7:30am – 5:00pm tive settings on historic roadways. The studies, Lardner/Klein, Alexandria, VA Lower Lobby presented by three national experts in the The Journey Through Hallowed Ground field, consider how to balance “absolute” Byway: A National Model in Community Conference Bookstore or nominal safety with substantive or per- Building and Heritage Tourism Development 8:30am – 4:00pm formance data, the relative cultural/historic Heidi Beierle Gallery Lower Level values of the settings, and establishment of University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Sponsored by Steven Schuyler, Bookseller, acceptable risk thresholds. Bicycle Tourism as an Economic Boston, MA Moderator: MaryAnn Naber Development Vehicle in Rural Communities FHWA, Washington, DC Concurrent Sessions 8:30am – 10:00am Speakers and Papers: S E S S I O N 1 2 Deborah Bruce, PhD Writing Down the Road: S E S S I O N 9 NTSB, Washington, DC Documentation Efforts Landscape Management Warrants for the Selection of Bridge Railings 8:30pm – 10:00am 8:30pm – 10:00am and their Implications for Historic Road Salon D Salon A Rehabilitation Projects Documenting historic roads is essential to Landscape management can be one of the A.J. Nedzesky, PE preservation and interpretation efforts. This most challenging aspects of historic road FHWA, Lakewood, CO session will address strategies for surveying preservation. Not only do landscapes evolve Inventory and Assessment of and inventorying features to advance preser- over time, but original design guidelines Guardwalls/Rails In An Historic Environment vation and interpretation along historic road- are often hard to find or limited in scope. Dwight Foster ways. Learn about the documentation of This session illustrates ways in which histor- NTSB, Washington, DC Australia’s first coast-to-coast transcontinen- ical research and site analysis can identify Followed by Panel Discussion: Nominal vs. tal highway, Detroit’s Woodward Avenue historic views, vistas and other landscape Substantive Safety Issues (one of the first concrete roads), and the characteristics and inform strategies for various strategies being used to document rehabilitation and preservation. Historic Route 66.

Moderator: Timothy Davis, PhD S E S S I O N 1 1 Moderator: Gary A. Jensen National Park Service, Washington, DC Tourism along Historic Roads: from FHWA, Washington, DC Speakers and Papers: Oregon to Hallowed Ground Speakers and Papers: Carol Ahlgren 8:30pm – 10:00am Rosemary Kerr Architectural Historian, Crystal, MN and Salon C University of Sydney, Australia Frank Martin Three unique approaches to developing and Constructing a ‘National Road’ a Trans- Historian, Minneapolis, MN analyzing tourism along historic roads will national Perspective: Australia’s Stuart Engineering Beauty and Safety: Arthur be highlighted in this session. Learn about Highway Nichols’ Five Decades of Roadway Design efforts to create scenic byways and develop Kaisa Barthuli Vince McDermott heritage tourism from Deschutes National National Park Service, Route 66 Corridor Milone & MacBroom, Cheshire, CT Forest in central Oregon to the Journey Preservation Program, Santa Fe, NM Landscape Master Plan for the Merritt through Hallowed Ground in the Mid- Strategies for Preservation: Documenting Parkway Atlantic. These talks contrast with a bicy- Route 66 David T. Humphrey clist’s perspective on the effect of bicycle Matt McDaniel Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA tourism on rural communities across the Parsons Brinckerhoff, Atlanta, GA Scenic Vista Management along Park Roads country—fresh insights from Ms. Bierle who Gregg Cornetski at Yosemite National Park organized a cross-country bike trip to the Parsons Brinckerhoff, Norfolk, VA conference. Online Collaboration and GIS Drive Survey S E S S I O N 1 0 Moderator: Christopher H. Marston of Detroit’s Woodward Avenue Safety v. Context Sensitive Design: National Park Service, Washington, DC Can you have it both ways? Speakers and Papers: Morning Break 8:30pm – 10:00am Robin Gyorgyfalvy 10:00am – 10:30am Salon B Deschutes National Forest, Bend, OR Sponsored by Mead & Hunt, Inc. This session will examine several recent Scenic Byways and Cultural Tourism reports from the Federal Highway Adminis - Partnerships tration and the National Transportation Shelley S. Mastran Safety Board assessing the risk factors of Virginia Tech University, Alexandria, VA existing historic barriers and bridge railings

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Concurrent Sessions 10:30am – 12:00pm ment plan for Minnesota’s Historic Bridges, Leslie N. Sharp, PhD and issues related to evaluating bridges as Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA S E S S I O N 1 3 National Historic Landmarks. Disappearing Identity: Resurveying the Dixie George Washington Memorial Parkway: Moderator: Andrea Tingey Highway in Middle Tennessee Navigating Safety and Character on a NJSHPO, Trenton, NJ Historic Roadway Speakers and Papers: S E S S I O N 1 6 10:30am – 12:00pm Marlin R. Ingalls Avatars on the Road? New Salon A The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Technologies in Documentation One of the nation’s best known and most Evaluating Iowa’s Historic Culverts 10:30am – 12:00pm heavily used urban parkways, the George Robie S. Lange Salon D Washington Memorial Parkway continues NPS National Historic Landmarks Program, Global positioning, web-based collaborative to evolve as a scenic drive that preserves Washington, DC tools, 360-degree laser scanners, and the natural beauties of the Potomac River Some Bridges are More Significant than videography are just some of the new tech- shoreline and serves as a major commuter Others: The George Washington Bridge nologies making survey and documentation route into the nation’s capital. These increas- Kristie Lockerman work more effective and efficient. California’s ingly contradictory uses present new chal- New South Associates, Charleston, SC Route 66, Arizona’s Apache Trail, and lenges. Learn how the National Park Service Clarence N. Crocker and Georgia’s Kentucky’s Lincoln Heritage Highway is preserving the vegetation, vistas and Twentieth-Century Historic Bridges provide case studies for the application of structural features while meeting current Christina Slattery and Amy Squitieri these technologies to road surveys. highway safety guidelines. Mead & Hunt, Madison, WI Moderator: Anne Brockett Moderator: Maureen Joseph, ASLA, Day-to-Day Management of Minnesota’s DCSHPO, Washington, DC National Park Service, Washington, DC Historic Bridges Speakers and Papers: Speakers and Papers: Andy Nicol and Douglas Lynch Maureen Joseph, ASLA S E S S I O N 1 5 TranSystems, Maitland, FL National Park Service, Washington, DC Protect What We Have and Show Me Capturing History with GPS and GIS on the The Informed Manager: How to Document the Money! Lincoln Heritage Scenic Highway

the Landscape Character of an Historic 10:30am – 12:00pm Glen Duncan Roadway Salon C California Route 66 Preservation Emily Donaldson Sprawling developments, deteriorating Foundation, Pasadena, CA National Park Service, Washington, DC structures, lack of finances. These are all Erica Avrami Steering a Path Between Scenic Roadway contributing threats to the character of our World Monuments Fund, New York, NY and Commuter Route: The History of the historic roads. New development over - Victor Shenkar George Washington Memorial Parkway shadows our downtown communities while GeoSim Systems, Petach-Tikva, Israel Paul Kelsch, PhD the slow deterioration of urban and rural Virtual Route 66 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA resources goes unnoticed. Yet, how does an (Re)Planting the Potomac: Preserving the individual, group or community find the Lunch on your own Vegetation of the George Washington funds to save these resources. This session 12:00pm – 1:30pm Memorial Parkway will focus on the threats of sprawl in Matthew R. Virta Delaware, the loss of integrity along the National Park Service, McLean, VA Dixie Highway in Tennessee and the Preserving a Parkway While Protecting financial opportunities found in Indiana the Public: A Journey Along a Road Not to advocate for the preservation of our Yet Taken? historic roads in our cities and towns. Moderator: Joseph Jarzen S E S S I O N 1 4 Indiana Landmarks, Cambridge City, IN Historic Bridges: Evaluation & Speakers and Papers: Management David L. Ames, PhD 10:30am – 12:00pm University of Delaware, Newark, DE Salon B Does Sprawl Spell the End of Scenic and Bridges are often the most recognizable Historic Byways? The Case of Delaware Baltimore-Washington Parkway, ca. 1958. feature on historic roads. The speakers in Joseph Jarzen and Wayne Goodman Credit: National Archives. the session will discuss their methodologies Indiana Landmarks, Cambridge City, IN for statewide evaluations of Iowa’s culverts, Economics and Funding of Historic spans of Georgia’s recent past, a manage- Preservation in Our Towns

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Concurrent Sessions 1:30pm – 3:00pm Moderator: Gloria Scott Tracy Hadden-Loh CALTRANS, Sacramento, CA National Transportation Enhancements S E S S I O N 1 7 Speakers and Papers: Clearinghouse, Washington, DC Rehabilitating Park Roads and Parkways Mary E. McCahon Preservation of Historic Roads: 1:30pm – 3:00pm TranSystems Corporation, Philadelphia, PA Transportation Enhancements Salon A Bridge Basics: Using Historic Context to Rehabilitating park roads and parkways can Inform Bridge Rehabilitation or Replacement S E S S I O N 2 0 pose formidable difficulties. In addition to Decision Making Global Routes, Historic Opportunities reconciling evolving demands with historic Joe Showers, PE 1:30pm – 3:00pm design standards, park road project leaders CH2M Hill, Englewood, CO Salon D deal with severe weather, challenging loca- Aesthetics of Workhorse Bridge Design While the United States has pioneered tions, stringent environmental considera- Mary E. McCahon many innovative efforts to preserve and tions, and intensive scrutiny, all while trying TranSystems Corporation, Philadelphia, PA protect historic roads, our peers across the to stay within budget and minimize visitor The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: globe have been wrestling with many of the inconvenience. These tales from the front- Making History Matter When Your Bridge same issues of inventory and conservation. lines underscore the challenges—and Has to Be Replaced Join Michael Taylor of the National Park rewards—of park road preservation in a Service as we showcase new theories and wide range of contexts. S E S S I O N 1 9 methods that can provide fresh insights Moderator: Timothy Davis, PhD Follow the Money into preserving historic roads in the United National Park Service, Washington, DC 1:30pm – 3:00pm States. See how lessons from abroad can Speakers and Papers: Salon C give you an edge in historic preservation Ronald Headrick There are both social and economic benefits planning. Stantec Planning, Boston, MA to investing in historic assets. This session will Moderator: Michael Romero Taylor Rehabilitating History: Massachusetts’ “follow the money” from: Restoring the his- National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM Mountain Parkways toric two-way traffic pattern on King Street Speakers and Papers: Douglas Nelson in Charleston, SC, which resulted in meas- Dr Sandy Blair

Royston Hanamoto, Mill Valley, CA urably increased property values and rents, Australian National University, Yarralumla, Addressing Design Problems Along Historic lower vacancy rates, and higher-quality Australia Roads in Yosemite National Park businesses; a proposed cost-benefit analysis Identifying and Conserving Australia’s Jack Gordon methodology, which would measure both Historic Roads NPS Glacier National Park, West Glacier, MT the “hard” economic and “soft” community Mathieu Flonneau The Rehabilitation of the Going-To-The-Sun benefits, when seeking and leveraging Université Paris 1, Paris, France Road, an Update: Glacier National Park funding; and analysis of the over $1 billion Building a transitive heritage in Europe: in US Transportation Enhancement funds, From the Automobile as Cultural Icon to S E S S I O N 1 8 which have gone toward preserving, the Conservation of Historic Roads The Au Courant Bridge: Why Making rehabilitating and reusing historic roads. Michael Romero Taylor Your New Bridge Look Old Isn’t Always Moderator: David Ames National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM the Best Answer University of Delaware, Newark, DE Cultural Routes: Preservation, Protection, 1:30pm – 3:00pm Speakers and Papers: and Interpretation Strategies Used in Salon B Meagan Baco Various Countries The session will discuss how to support Clinton Brown, Buffalo, NY good decision making through understand- One-Way to Two-Way Street Conversions: Afternoon Break ing of historic contexts with particular Returning Historic Main Streets to Centers 3:00pm – 3:30pm emphasis on what makes for good design of Commerce and Places of Public Gathering Sponsored by the National Road Alliance when a new bridge is built to replace an Evidence from King Street, Charleston, SC historic bridge or within an historic road David J. Gluck corridor. Bridges, as integral features of ECOTEC, Leeds, United Kingdom historic road corridors and historic districts/ Developing a Cost Benefit Analysis Approach cultural landscapes, will be emphasized. to Measuring the Social and Economic Value Information presented will be useful to those of Historic Road Conservation, Preservation who are applying AASHTO’s Guidelines and Management for Historic Bridge Rehabilitation and Andrea Livi Smith, PhD Replacement. University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

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Closing Session 3:30pm – 5:00pm stitutional history. Professor Sky will discuss Saturday Fun Night Dinner his forthcoming book The National Road & This is an optional fee event and Grand Ballroom the Difficult Path to Investment (University of requires additional registration to Focus: The National Road Delaware Press), shedding new light on the participate. Moderator: Christopher H. Marston history of the National Road, its constitution- 6:00pm – 9:30pm National Park Service, Washington, DC al significance, and its contribution to the Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby Perspective: growth of sustainable national investment in Please assemble by 5:45pm Donna Holdorf surface transportation infrastructure in the Celebrate the conference with a short bus National Road Alliance, Uniontown, PA United States. ride across the Potomac along the George Brian Howard Washington Memorial Parkway to Cedar B.R. Howard & Associates, Carlisle, PA Preserving the Historic Road 2012 Knoll Inn Restaurant on the Potomac. Here Ryan Rowles Where will we be in 2012? Don’t miss the we will enjoy sweeping views of the Potomac PennDOT, Uniontown, PA announcement! and the historic parkway, as you enjoy a Unearthing the National Road: Discovery, relaxing dinner with fellow attendees. The Recovery, and Preservation of an bus will return via Memorial Bridge and Archaeological Sample of the Nation’s the capital skyline as we enjoy a night time First Highway bus tour of Washington’s historic monuments along the National Mall. Closing Keynote: Theodore Sky Catholic University, Washington, DC The Historic Road’s Contribution to America’s Constitutional and Political History: The Case of the National Road

Theodore Sky will offer some fascinating East Capital Street ca. 1910 – 1920. perspective based on his knowledge of con- Credit: US Library of Congress.

Martinsburg Road, one of the 10-foot wide concrete “Politician’s Roads” paved in 1931, Montgomery County, Maryland. Credit: Leslie Saville, M-NCPPC.

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Sunday Public Session Part 1 Sunday Mobile Workshops plary demonstrations of highway engineer- ing and landscape design. This tour will 9:00am – 9:45am All mobile workshops are optional highlight alterations made to accommodate Salon A fee events and require additional modern traffic demands and showcase sev- S E S S I O N 2 1 registration or Sunday Only Local Rate eral areas in which these concerns continue Parkways of the National Capital Region to participate. Be sure to register early to foster debate over the appropriate bal- NPS Historian Tim Davis will give an as space is limited on all tours. ance between safety, efficiency, and historic illustrated overview of the development preservation. The tour will be led by NPS of parkways in the Nation’s Capital. W O R K S H O P 5 historian Tim Davis, with the assistance Followed by tour led by Tim Davis. Historic US Route 1 of additional NPS personnel involved in 9:00am – 5:00pm on going management challenges. Morning Break Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby 9:45am – 10:00am Please assemble by 8:45am W O R K S H O P 7 Initially a cart road connecting the port Washington Bridges: Bus Tour & Sunday Public Session Part 2 towns of Baltimore and Georgetown, US Rolling Lecture Route 1 was in existence by the early 12:00pm – 4:00pm 10:00am – 11:45am 18th century and was used in both the Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby Salon B Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Please assemble by 11:45am S E S S I O N 2 2 As Washington became more suburbanized Two great rivers, a deep and once navigable Capital Roads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creek, canals, and a unique water system Road visions for the Nation’s Capital roads Route 1 was widened, paved, and realigned give Washington a series of fascinating have been crucial to the development of to accommodate the growing automobile structures—some present, some past, and the District of Columbia and outlying areas. culture. Learn about the history of the road many un-built. This story combines romance, This session will discuss the largely unreal- and its roadside features (car dealerships, ghosts, politics, war, foresight, rivalry, and ized proposal for a scenic drive of the city’s motels, and diners) as a major north-south historic preservation. Our time travel will Civil War defenses, the influential master thoroughfare connecting the Nation’s include viewing several bridges with a vision

Highway Plan of 1893 and the successful Capital to its suburbs and beyond. We’ll of the past and what could have been, while effort of Mrs. Henderson and her Senator return via the scenic 1954 Baltimore- rolling through Washington’s magnificent husband to transform 16th Street, NW, into Washington Parkway. Stops include 17th planned landscape. Join Donald Beekman The Avenue of the Presidents. Plus an and 18th century Bostwick and Riversdale, Myer, FAIA, author of Bridges and the City of overview of the impact of new roads in the the National Historic Landmark town of Washington, for a look at some of the Capital Commonwealth of Virginia. Greenbelt, the world’s only Bollman truss City’s key historic, transportation, engineer- Moderator: TBA bridge in Savage, and more! ing, and civic design landmarks. Speakers and Papers: Sponsored by the DC Preservation League Simone Monteleone W O R K S H O P 6 National Park Service, Washington, DC Parkways of the National Capital W O R K S H O P 8 Fort Drive—The Proposed Scenic Drive of Region Pennsylvania Avenue: America’s Main the Civil War Defenses of Washington 10:00am – 3:00pm Street Paul Singh Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby 12:00pm – 2:00pm Architectural Historian. Please assemble by 9:45am Meet at Hotel Starbucks lobby The Extension of the City: The Highway The National Capital Region contains one Please assemble by 8:45am Plan of 1893 and the Permanent System of of the most comprehensive and historically The 1.2 mile section of Pennsylvania Highways in the District of Columbia significant parkway networks in America. Avenue between the White House and the Kimberly Prothro Williams Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway was con- Capitol is arguably one the most famous DC Office of Planning ceived as a classic City Beautiful era carriage and recognized roads in America. This tour Avenue of the Presidents: drive, but the design was not completed will start just a few steps south of the confer- Mrs. Henderson and the Making of until the early 1920s. When the southern ence hotel and cover its role in Presidential 16th Street in Washington, DC portion of George Washington Memorial inaugural parades and funeral processions, Brian Katen Parkway was completed in 1932 it was the direct Presidential interest in its Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA considered the most modern motorway future and its rebuilding by the federal Good Roads, the Automobile, and the in the world. During the 1950s – 1960s, the Pennsylvania Avenue Redevelopment Virginia Landscape northern sections of George Washington Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s. Memorial Parkway and the Baltimore- Washington Parkway were hailed as exem-

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Carol Ahlgren Erica Avrami Preservation Program. In this role she works Architectural Historian Director of Research and Education with individuals, nonprofit organizations, Crystal, Minnesota World Monuments Fund and government agencies to help set stan- S E S S I O N 9 New York, New York dards and administer technical assistance Carol Ahlgren, a speaker at the 2000, 2002, S E S S I O N 1 6 and cost-share grants for the preservation and 2006 Preserving the Historic Road in Erica is the Director of Research and of the most significant and representative America conferences, holds an MA in Education for the World Monuments Fund. historic US Highway 66 resources from Cultural Landscape Preservation and She is also a doctoral candidate in Planning Chicago to Santa Monica. Historic Preservation from the University of and Public Policy at Rutgers University, [email protected] Wisconsin Madison Department of Landscape where her research focuses on sustainability Architecture. A charter member of the planning and the politics of preservation. Heidi Beierle national Lincoln Highway Association, she Ms. Avrami formerly served as a Project University of Oregon served as Nebraska State Director for Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute Eugene, Oregon two terms. She has been an Architectural and was Secretary of US/ICOMOS from S E S S I O N 1 1 Historian for the Nebraska State Historic 2004 to 2010. She has taught in the historic Heidi Beierle holds a BA and MA in Preservation Office, the National Park preservation programs at UPenn, Pratt, and English and is currently completing a Service Midwest Regional Office, and pri- Columbia, and currently serves on the Master’s degree in Community and vate consulting firms. Ms. Ahlgren served editorial advisory board of the new journal, Regional Planning from the University of three terms on the Society for Commercial Change Over Time. Oregon. She serves as Chair of the City of Archeology board of directors and was a [email protected] Eugene Planning Commission and has been co-founder of 2020 Omaha. She has pub- developing roadway tourism projects lished articles and presented on an array of Meagan Baco in Lane County, Oregon. A bicycle enthusi- 20th-century cultural resources such as the Clinton Brown Company Architecture ast and advocate for sustainable transporta- Cold War, mid-twentieth-century resources, Buffalo, New York tion networks, her fieldwork examines and historic highways. S E S S I O N 1 9 bicycle tourism, rural community economic [email protected] As Historic Preservation Project Assistant development, and historic transportation at Clinton Brown Company Architecture, routes as interconnected and living systems. Meagan is responsible for property [email protected]

David L. Ames, Ph.D research, architectural analysis, resource sur- Dr. Sandy Blair Director veying and material preservation recom- Australian National University Center for Historic Architecture and Design mendations. CBCA is NY’s preeminent Canberra, Australia University of Delaware historic preservation architecture firm in S E S S I O N 2 0 Newark, Delaware collaboratively designing the revitalization Dr. Sandy Blair is a historian and heritage S E S S I O N 1 5 of heritage buildings and communities, and consultant who runs her own business. She Conference Planning Committee specializing in rehabilitation tax credits. works in cultural heritage conservation, A geographer, planner and historic preser- Meagan is a graduate of the joint Clemson management and interpretation in Australia vationist, Ames teaches courses in planning, University and College of Charleston and internationally. Sandy especially enjoys historic preservation, and urban affairs. Master of Science program in Historic working with local and indigenous commu- Recently, Ames has been involved in the Preservation based in Charleston, SC. She nities researching and recording the histo- Delaware Byways program, completing a has been honored as a Student Scholar by ries and traditions associated with local nomination for the Harriet Tubman the Association for Preservation Technology heritage places, landscapes and cultural Underground Railroad Historic Byway. His International. Meagan invites you to visit routes. She is a member of the ICOMOS current work involves the impact of visual http://histpres.com/ the employment resource ISC on cultural routes, a member of the intrusions on byways and the evaluation for young preservation professionals. Burra Charter working group and was of corridor management plans. He also [email protected] formerly President of Australia ICOMOS. conducts research with the University Sandy is currently Program Coordinator Transportation Center on the effect of Kaisa Barthuli at the newly-established Institute for climate change on I-95 in Delaware and Program Manager Professional Practice in Heritage and the Maryland. Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, Arts at the Australian National University. [email protected] National Park Service [email protected] Santa Fe, New Mexico S E S S I O N 1 2 Kaisa Barthuli has worked with the National Park Service since 1990 in cultural resource management. She currently manages the National Park Service Route 66 Corridor

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Anne Brockett Bonnie Burnham is responsible for the design of Connecticut Architectural Historian President roadway projects. He has also been involved DC Historic Preservation Office World Monuments Fund in the design of four safety improvement Washington, DC New York, New York projects on the Merritt Parkway totaling 18 Conference Planning Committee Opening Plenary Panel miles. Mr. Calabrese is also the secretary of Anne Brockett is an architectural historian Bonnie Burnham joined the World the Merritt Parkway Advisory Committee in the Washington, DC Historic Preservation Monuments Fund as Executive Director in since 2007 and the Secretary of the Scenic Office, which functions as both the local 1985 and was named President in 1996. Roads Committee since 2006. historic preservation review body as well as She holds degrees in art history from the [email protected] the District of Columbia’s State Historic University of Florida and the Sorbonne. Preservation Office. Anne reviews projects Burnham has been honored as a Chevalier David Clarke in the Capitol Hill, Cleveland Park, Foxhall of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Archaeologist Village, Kalorama Triangle, Washington French government. She is a Distinguished Delaware Department of Transportation Heights, and Takoma Park historic districts Alumna of the College of Fine Arts of the Dover, Delaware as well as federal projects for the General University of Florida and the first recipient S E S S I O N 8 Services Administration, HUD, and the of its Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished David Clarke received his Bachelor of Arts Navy. Prior to joining the HPO in 2004, she Achievement Award in Historic Preservation. degree (Anthropology/Archaeology) from served for three years as an architectural She is currently a Trustee of the Butler Fund Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, historian for URS Corporation, and one for the Environment and a member of the Mercyhurst College, and his Masters of Arts year as a preservation planner for the City United States Commission for UNESCO. degree (Anthropology/Archaeology) from of Rockville, MD. Ms. Brockett has a BA [email protected] the University of Montana. He has conduct- in Art History and Archaeology from the ed archaeology for academic institutions, University of Maryland and an MS in Alicia Leonor Cahn Behrend cultural resource management firms, and Historic Preservation from the University University of Madrid state and federal agencies. Currently he of Oregon. Madrid, Spain works for the Delaware Department of [email protected] S E S S I O N 4 Transportation as an Archaeologist. Alicia Cahn is a doctoral student at the [email protected] Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.

Deborah Bruce She previously received degrees in architec- Kathleen Colbert-Gibson Program Manager and Human Performance ture and conservation from the University Supervising Planner Investigator of Buenos Aires in Argentina, where she Parsons Brinkerhoff National Transportation Safety Board lived until 2001. An active member of sev- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Washington, DC eral international committees for ICOMOS, S E S S I O N 2 S E S S I O N 1 0 her current research is on the identification Ms Colbert-Gibson is a Supervising Planner Deborah Bruce is Program Manager and and evaluation of major European Cultural for Parsons Brinkerhoff’s Pittsburgh, Human Performance Investigator in the Routes that historically passed through Pennsylvania office. She has over 20 years Office of Highway Safety in charge of acci- Spain. These include Roman Empire of experience in the transportation industry dent reports. Employed at the Safety Board Routes, the Camino Real (Royal Road) largely focused on planning, environmental since 1996, she has also served as Chief of from Seville and Cadiz to Madrid, and the impact assessment, and public/agency coor- the Safety Studies and Data Analysis Mesta Royal livestock trails in Castile. She dination and outreach. She has worked on Division, which conducted studies of safety ultimately hopes to nominate these cultural transportation studies for numerous states issues in all transportation modes. She has routes for World Heritage status. and the District of Columbia. She has exten- also worked in the private sector as a [email protected] sive experience on projects involving human factors specialist in charge of air traf- Section 106 properties and Section 4(f) fic control projects, in technical documenta- Michael Calabrese, P.E. resources. Current and recent projects tion and configuration management for Connecticut Department of Transportation include South Capitol Street EIS; Ohio 3C NASA Goddard Space Flight Center sup- Newington, Connecticut Quick Start Passenger Rail EA; Gravel Run porting several satellite projects, and as part- S E S S I O N 5 Road Improvement Project EA; and time faculty member at George Mason Michael Calabrese is a graduate from the Rehabilitation and Extension of the Hot University teaching memory and cognitive University of Connecticut with a Bachelor’s Metal Bridge Rehabilitation CE. She has psychology. Ms. Bruce earned a B.S. in degree in Civil Engineering. He is also a published and presented on sustainable and Chemistry and M.A. in Communications licensed professional engineer in the State historic transportation projects and was a from the University of Kentucky and M.A. of Connecticut. Mr. Calabrese has been in guest lecturer for Chatham College’s Road and Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering the Highway Design Unit of the Design and Sustainable Transportation from George Mason University. Connecticut Department of Transportation course in 2008. [email protected] for 15 years. He is a project engineer who [email protected]

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Gregg Cornetski landscape architecture firm engaged in his- Landscape Lines 16: Historic Roads and curat- Senior Systems Analyst toric preservation. Mr. Cross has consider- ed the National Building Museum exhibi- Parsons Brinckerhoff able experience with roads and highways, tion Lying Lightly on the Land: Building Norfolk, Virginia having spent time as an interstate trucker America’s National Park Roads and Parkways. S E S S I O N 1 2 and a taxi cab driver. [email protected] Additional writings on roads and other Gregg Cornetski is a Senior Systems Analyst aspects of the American landscape have with Parsons Brinckerhoff in Norfolk, VA. David W. Cushman appeared in various books and periodicals He has ten years experience in the GIS and Program Manager including Perspectives in Vernacular software development fields. He specializes SRI Foundation Architecture, Transportation Research Record, in database and web application develop- Rio Rancho, New Mexico Engineering History and Heritage, and Studies ment, and offers GIS services to support a S E S S I O N 2 in the History of Gardens & Designed variety of disciplines practiced at this con- David Cushman is a Program Manager at Landscapes. He is a panel member for the sulting, planning, engineering, and program the SRI Foundation in Rio Rancho, New NCHRP 25-29A: Guidelines for Design and and construction management services firm. Mexico. He has been involved in historic Management of Historic Roads. [email protected] preservation and cultural resources manage- [email protected] ment (CRM) for more than 25 years. Mr. Robert W. Craig Cushman joined the Foundation in 2004 Emily Donaldson Principal Historic Preservation Specialist where he provides government and private Landscape Historian New Jersey Historic Preservation Office sector clients with technical training, consul- National Park Service Trenton, New Jersey tative services, and research products. Washington, DC S E S S I O N 8 Previously, David worked for Pima County S E S S I O N 1 3 Robert W. Craig is a historian and architec- Cultural Resources Office in Tucson, Emily Donaldson is a Landscape Historian tural historian who specializes in the history Arizona where he conducted historic preser- for the NPS National Capital Region. She of the American built environment. He is a vation in the context of the county’s admin- has authored a number of Cultural Principal Historic Preservation Specialist on istrative, planning, zoning, and capital Landscape inventories and reports for a the staff of the New Jersey Historic improvement program. David was also a variety of NPS properties. Her studies have Preservation Office, where he serves as member of Pima County’s planning team included Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, statewide coordinator of the New Jersey and that developed the Sonoran Desert the DC War Memorial, Brawner Farm

National Registers of Historic Places pro- Conservation Plan (SDCP)—a visionary (Manassas Battlefield), School House Ridge gram. He also specializes in the develop- long-term regional planning effort designed (Harpers Ferry NHP), and the Dune Shacks ment of research methods for architectural to balance natural and cultural resources and Atwood-Higgins Historic District (Cape historians, which he has taught at Rutgers conservation with growth and development. Cod National Seashore). More recently, her University and Burlington County College. The SDCP was awarded the 2002 Out - work on George Washington Memorial His paper is part of a larger study examin- standing Planning Award by the American Parkway inspired her to further explore the ing building construction and road making Planning Association. Mr. Cushman will development and maintenance of this his- in the early mid-Atlantic region. lead the effort to prepare a Programmatic toric roadway. Before joining the NPS, she [email protected] Agreement for the “Exploring Arizona’s conducted archaeological and ethnographic Historic Roads” Project. research in Honduras, the Marquesas Aaron Cross [email protected] Islands of French Polynesia, Hawaii, and Geologist Chicago. She received her BA in anthropol- Virginia Division of Geology and Mineral Timothy Davis, Ph.D. ogy from Harvard, and an MA from the Resources Senior Historian University of Chicago. Charlottesville, Virginia National Park Service [email protected] S E S S I O N 8 Washington, DC Aaron Cross is a geologist with the Virginia SESSION 1 & 21 Glen Duncan Division of Geology and Mineral Tim Davis is the senior historian for the President Resources. He received a Bachelor of National Park Service’s Park Historic California Route 66 Preservation Science in Geology from James Madison Structures and Cultural Landscapes Foundation University and a Master of Science in Program. His extensive experience in South Pasadena, California Geology from New Mexico Institute of historic road research, documentation and S E S S I O N 1 6 Mining and Technology. He formerly preservation transcends the borders After receiving a BA in Communications worked as a cartographer for the New between academia and professional prac- and Psychology from Wayne State Mexico Bureau of Mining and Mineral tice. He edited America’s National Park Roads University in Detroit, Glen segued from Resources, as a resource management spe- and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic careers in advertising and television pro- cialist for the National Park Service, and as American Engineering Record, produced the gram development. After experience shifted cultural landscape analyst for a prominent NPS guide to park road stewardship to preservation, Glen went back to school,

27 BIOGRAPHIES (D – F) earning a Certificate in Historic Preservation. Statewide Historic Bridge Survey and Emil H. Frankel He has played a key role in facilitating Management Plan and eating lunch at every Director of Transportation Policy restoration of several Route 66 properties in spot on the “101 Unique Places to Dine in Bipartisan Policy Center California: The Oaklawn Bridge, El Centro West Virginia” list. Courtney’s other profes- Washington, DC Drive-in Market, and the Smith &Williams sional interests include historic turnpikes S E S S I O N 5 Bldg. He is currently Project Manager on and summer camp architecture. Emil H. Frankel is the Director of rehab of the Aztec Hotel in Monrovia and [email protected] Transportation Policy for the Bipartisan authored an Images of America book entitled Policy Center (BPC) in Washington, DC, Route 66 in California for Arcadia Mathieu Flonneau and an independent consultant on trans- Publishing. University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne portation policy and public management [email protected] Paris, France issues. Under Mr. Frankel’s leadership, BPC S E S S I O N 2 0 issued Performance Driven: A New Vision Amanda Fenstermaker Mathieu Flonneau is Assistant Professor of for US Transportation Policy in June 2009. Director contemporary history at University Paris I Mr. Frankel was Assistant Secretary for Dorchester County Tourism Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2003 and Transportation Policy of the US Depart Cambridge, Maryland researcher at IRICE-CRHI. He heads a ment of Transportation from 2002 to 2005, S E S S I O N 3 university research group called “Passé- playing a key role in the reauthorization Amanda Fenstermaker is the director of Présent-Mobilité,” P2M. He is continuing of Federal highway, transit, and highway Dorchester County Tourism and the Heart with a research program on automobilism safety programs. As Commissioner of the of Chesapeake Country Heritage Area, on laid out in an essay published in 2008: Les Connecticut Department of Trans portation Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Amanda works cultures du volant. Essai sur les mondes de l’au- from 1991 to 1995, he strongly supported to further establish Dorchester County as a tomobilisme (Autrement, 2008). He recently efforts to balance safety, preservation and premier heritage tourism destination, offer- directed the following works: Automobile: performance on the historic Merritt ing exceptional cultural and recreational les cartes du désamour (2009), and L’utilité Parkway. experiences. The Heart of Chesapeake de l’utilitaire: aperçu réaliste des services [email protected] Country Heritage Area, a state certified automobiles (Descartes et Cie, 2010). He is heritage area and the Harriet Tubman also involved in RESENDEM, a research Underground Railroad All-American Road, project on major technical networks and

a state and federally designated byway, democracy, sponsored by the French Amy Freitag both offer exceptional fiscal and technical National Research Agency. Director for US Programs resources and focus on historic preservation, [email protected] World Monuments Fund cultural sustainability and land conservation New York, New York as the framework for building a strong Dwight Foster S E S S I O N 5 destination. Amanda and her team are Deputy Director of Operations Amy Freitag joined the World Monuments responsible for marketing and public rela- National Transportation Safety Board, Fund in 2008 as Director for US Programs. tions for Dorchester County, as well as Office of Highway Safety She holds an A.B. from Smith College, and working with the community to understand Washington, DC master’s degrees in Historic Preservation the importance of heritage tourism and S E S S I O N 1 0 and Landscape Architecture from the how it can affect citizen’s lives of this largely Dwight Foster is the Deputy Director of University of Pennsylvania, where she rural county. Operations at NTSB’s Office of Highway received the Elizabeth Wiley Green Award [email protected] Safety. He has been with the National Board for Outstanding Promise. Before joining for 31 years where he has held a number WMF, Amy served as Deputy Commissioner Courtney Fint of positions. As Chief of the Highway for Capital Projects in New York City’s Architectural Historian Investigations Division, he supervised the Department of Parks and Recreation, and, West Virginia Division of Highways office’s teams that investigate highway acci- prior to that, Executive Director of Historic Charleston, West Virginia dents nationwide. He has also served as House Trust of New York City. She held S E S S I O N 2 Assistant Managing Director where he cre- several positions in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Courtney Fint is a graduate of the masters ated the agency’s 24-hour communication Park System. Currently Amy serves on the program in historic preservation at center and developed the agency’s strategic boards of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Columbia University and the Department of plan. He earned a B.S. in Economics Foundation and the New York Preservation Civil Engineering at West Virginia and Finance from the University of Archive Project. University and has been lucky to find a way Massachusetts and is a Senior Executive [email protected] to combine these fields in her position as an Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy architectural historian with the West Virginia School of Government. Division of Highways. Future professional [email protected] goals include completing the ongoing

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David Gluck Jack Gordon Tracy Hadden-Loh Associate Director Park Landscape Architect Program Coordinator ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited Glacier National Park National Transportation Enhancements Leeds, United Kingdom West Glacier, Montana Clearinghouse S E S S I O N 1 9 S E S S I O N 1 7 Washington, DC David Gluck is the Associate Director of Jack Gordon is the Park Landscape S E S S I O N 1 9 ECOTEC Research and Consulting Architect and the project manager of design Tracy Hadden Loh is the program coordina- Limited. Before joining ECOTEC in 2006 and construction for the rehabilitation of the tor of the National Transportation from the Commission for Rural Com- National Historic Landmark Going-to-the- Enhancements Clearinghouse in Washington, munities, where he was the Regional Affairs Sun Road in Glacier National Park. He has DC. The Clearinghouse is an information Manager for the North of England, he worked with the rehabilitation of the Going- service about federal funding through the worked in rural development and regenera- to-the-Sun Road since arriving at Glacier Surface Transportation Program for local tion for 23 years. During his career, he led in 1989. Prior to working at Glacier, he transportation enhancement (TE) projects the Countryside Agency Market Town worked at the National Park Service’s cen- that go beyond traditional highway projects Regeneration team in Yorkshire and Humber, tral design center in Denver, Colorado on to make American transportation infrastruc- lectured in Rural and Countryside Planning various park developments. He has a ture more multimodal, meaningful, beauti- at the University of Bradford, and worked Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree ful, and green. With the Clearinghouse, in the USA as part of the UK-US Country - from the University of Arizona and is a Tracy tracks state-level TE spending, pro- side Exchange programme and the Rural registered landscape architect. He has files outstanding case studies, and provides Development Commission in London, spoken at the 2005 National Preservation technical assistance to TE program adminis- Yorkshire, and East Anglia. David is a Conference and 2004 Historic Roads trators and project sponsors. Tracy is also a former Board Member of the Malton and Conference. Ph.D. Candidate at the University of North Norton Town Centre Initiative and the [email protected] Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department North of England Civic Trust. He currently of City and Regional Planning. serves as a Parish Councillor in his commu- [email protected] nity and is a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Rural Affairs Forum. He holds a Master’s degree in Rural Affairs.

[email protected] Robin Lee Gyorgyfalvy Robert W. Hadlow, PhD Scenic Byways Program Leader Senior Historian Wayne Goodman Deschutes National Forest Oregon Department of Transportation Director Bend, Oregon Portland, Oregon Indiana Landmarks, Eastern Regional S E S S I O N 1 1 S E S S I O N 1 Office Robin Lee Gyorgyfalvy is Scenic Byways Robert W. Hadlow is a senior historian Cambridge City, Indiana Program Leader for Deschutes National with the Oregon DOT, where he completes S E S S I O N 1 5 Forest in Bend, Oregon. She leads environ- highway project permitting documents for Wayne Goodman is the director of the mental design, scenic byway planning, compliance with state and federal historic Eastern Regional Office for Indiana conservation education, and community preservation laws, and helps coordinate the Landmarks. Wayne graduated with a B.S. visioning programs. Originally from agency's Columbia River Highway rehabili- degree from Ball State University and a Honolulu, her focus on cultural tourism and tation efforts. His doctorate dissertation M.A. degree from the University of byway partnerships began with land plan- at Washington State University was a biog- Wyoming. As regional director, Wayne ning for rural agricultural communities raphy of Oregon's premier 20th-century works with communities, elected officials while working for a large sugar corporation bridge designer, Conde B. McCullough, and property owners to save and preserve in Hawaii. This led to international work later published by Oregon State University historic resources of all varieties. He also including national park master planning in Press as Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. administers a historic site, the Huddleston China for the Nature Conservancy, visitor McCullough, Oregon's Master Bridge Builder. He Farmhouse Museum. In addition to his management planning in Indonesia for completed a National Historic Landmark work with Indiana Landmarks, Wayne also International Forestry, and recreation plan- nomination on the Columbia River serves as graduate faculty with Ball State ning for the Navy in the Philippines. She is Highway and listed eleven of McCullough’s University’s College of Architecture and a registered landscape architect and national Oregon Coast Highway bridges in the Planning. committee member for ASLA, the Trans - National Register. He is a panel member for [email protected] portation Research Board, and America’s NCHRP 25-29A: Guidelines for Design and Byways Resource Center. Management of Historic Roads. [email protected] [email protected]

Ben L. Hark

(Bios continue on p. 34 after the Schedule-at-a-glance) 31 SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE Thursday, September 9, 2010 7:30am – 6:00pm Registration and Information Desk London Room 8:00am – 5:00pm Workshop 1: LoCo | MoCo Rural Roads (assemble by 7:45am) Starbucks 8:30am – 5:00pm Wo r k s h o p 2 : Maryland’s Historic National Pike (assemble by 8:15am) Starbucks 3:00am – 5:00pm Workshop 4: Downtown F Street Walking Tour (assemble by 2:45pm) Starbucks 6:00pm – 9:00pm Opening Reception National Building Museum Friday, September 10, 2010 7:30am – 6:00pm Registration and Information Desk Lower Lobby 7:30am – 9:00am Continental Breakfast Gallery Lower Level 8:15am – 8:45am Conference Welcome Grand Ballroom 8:45am – 9:15am Opening Comments Grand Ballroom 9:15am – 9:45am Conference Overview Grand Ballroom 9:45am – 10:15am Morning Break Gallery Lower Level 9:45am – 6:00pm Conference Bookstore Grand Ballroom Lobby 10:15am – 11:45am Opening Plenary Panel Discussion Grand Ballroom 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roads Luncheon Junior Ballroom (2nd Floor) 1:30pm – 3:00pm Concurrent Sessions All Concurrent Sessions take place on the lower level S E S S I O N 1 Better Outcomes for Historic Roads: Moving Past Common Barriers (NCHRP Study 25-29A) Salon B S E S S I O N 2 Taking the High Road: Innovative Mitigation Strategies Salon A S E S S I O N 3 Context Sensitive Solutions: Maryland’s Byways and Historic Roads Salon C S E S S I O N 4 Abandoned Roads, Early Highways and Shepherds’ Tracks Salon D 3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Break Gallery Lower Level 3:30pm – 5:00pm Concurrent Sessions All Concurrent Sessions take place on the lower level S E S S I O N 5 The Merritt Parkway Revisited Salon A S E S S I O N 6 Liability and Policy Considerations Salon B S E S S I O N 7 It’s Not Just the Road, It’s the Bridges & Streetcar Tracks Salon C S E S S I O N 8 Early Road Documentation in the Mid-Atlantic Region Salon D 5:00pm – 7:30pm Dinner on your own 7:30pm – 10:00pm Friday Movie Night Grand Ballroom

Saturday, September 11, 2010 7:30am – 6:00pm Registration and Information Desk Lower Lobby 8:30am – 4:00pm Conference Bookstore Lower Lobby 8:30am – 10:00am Concurrent Sessions All Concurrent Sessions take place on the lower level S E S S I O N 9 Landscape Management Salon A S E S S I O N 1 0 Safety v. Context Sensitive Design: Can you have it both ways? Salon B S E S S I O N 1 1 Tourism along Historic Roads: from Oregon to Hallowed Ground Salon C S E S S I O N 1 2 Writing Down the Road: Documentation Efforts Salon D 10:00am– 10:30am Morning Break Gallery Lower Level 10:30am – 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions All Concurrent Sessions take place on the lower level S E S S I O N 1 3 George Washington Memorial Parkway Salon A S E S S I O N 1 4 Historic Bridges: Evaluation & Management Salon B S E S S I O N 1 5 Protect What We Have and Show Me the Money! Salon C S E S S I O N 1 6 Avatars on the Road? New Technologies in Documentation Salon D 12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch on your own 1:30pm – 3:00pm Concurrent Sessions All Concurrent Sessions take place on the lower level S E S S I O N 1 7 Rehabilitating Park Roads and Parkways Salon A S E S S I O N 1 8 The Au Courant Bridge Salon B S E S S I O N 1 9 Follow the Money Salon C S E S S I O N 2 0 Global Routes, Historic Opportunities Salon D 3:00pm – 3:30pm Afternoon Break Gallery Lower Level 3:30pm – 5:00pm Closing Session:The National Road Grand Ballroom 6:00pm – 9:30pm Saturday Fun Night Dinner Starbucks Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:00am – 12:00pm Registration and Information Desk Lower Lobby 9:00am – 5:00pm W o r k s h o p 5 : Historic US Route 1 (assemble by 8:45am) Starbucks 9:00am – 9:45am S E S S I O N 2 1 : Parkways of the National Capital Region Salon A 9:45am– 10:00am Morning Break Gallery Lower Level 10:00am– 11:45am S E S S I O N 2 2 : Capital Roads Salon A 10:00am – 3:00pm W o r k s h o p 6 : Parkways of the National Capital Region (assemble by 9:50am) Starbucks 12:00pm – 4:00pm W o r k s h o p 7 : Washington Bridges (assemble by 11:50am) Starbucks 12:00pm – 2:00pm W o r k s h o p 8 : Pennsylvania Avenue (assemble by 11:50am) Starbucks BIOGRAPHIES (H)

Environmental Section Head Cultural Resources Specialist Stantec Planning and Landscape West Virginia Division of Highways New York State DOT Architecture, P.C. Charleston, West Virginia Albany, New York Boston, Massachusetts S E S S I O N 2 S E S S I O N 1 S E S S I O N 1 7 Ben L. Hark is head of Engineering Linda Harvey-Opiteck came to the New Ron Headrick works for Stantec Planning Division’s Environmental Section at the York State Department of Transportation and Landscape Architecture, P.C., in West Virginia Division of Highways in (NYSDOT) in 1992 after seven years with Boston, Massachusetts. He is a licensed Charleston, West Virginia. In this capacity, the New York State Historic Preservation landscape architect who has been practicing he is responsible for overseeing NEPA Office working with Section 106 procedures in New England for 25 years. Mr. Headrick clearance for roadway and bridge projects for both agencies. As a Cultural Resources has participated in the design of a range statewide. Mr. Hark has been with the Specialist with NYSDOT, she develops of private and public projects, including Environmental Section since 1972, manag- guidance and procedures for the eleven roadways, office campuses, public parks, ing the section since 1987. He has worked regional offices in cultural resource issues playgrounds, highway interchanges, and on many major expansion projects in West with her area of interest in historic architec- rail-to-trail projects. He has worked on Virginia, such as: Interstate 64 and 79, as ture and historic roads. She has a Masters in several historic parkways including the well as Appalachian Corridor D, H, and E. Historic Preservation Administration from rehabilitation of the 13.5 mile historic park- Other major projects include: WV9, US Eastern Michigan University and Bachelors way at Mt. Greylock; the rehabilitation of 522, King Coal Highway and Coal Fields in Art/Art History from Western Michigan the Nahant Beach Reservation, including a Expressway. Mr. Hark graduated from University. She is an active member of the 1.5 mile coastal parkway; and the rehabilita- Morris Harvey College in 1972 with a major Transportation Research Board Committee tion of the 5-mile roadway system and in Sociology and an MA in Guidance and on Historic and Archaeological Preservation summit improvements at Mt. Wachusett. Counseling from the West Virginia College in Transportation. She is a panel member [email protected] of Graduate Studies in 1976. He is a mem- for the NCHRP 25-29A: Guidelines for ber of AASHTO’s Standing Committee on Design and Management of Historic Roads. Donna Holdorf the Environment representing West When she is not being the “Road Goddess” Executive Director Virginia. she spends her time as a fiber artist design- National Road Heritage Corridor [email protected] ing road related apparel and accessories. Uniontown, Pennsylvania L i s a H a r t [email protected] CLOSING SESSION

Director, Programs Management Section Donna Holdorf has been the executive Texas Department of Transportation Terry K. Haussler director of the National Road Heritage Austin, Texas Director of Program Development Corridor (NRHC) since 2001. The organiza- S E S S I O N 1 Office of Federal Lands Highway tion works to preserve, protect and promote Lisa Hart has been involved in identifying Washington, DC the history and heritage of the Historic and evaluating historic roads since the Opening Plenary Panel National Road as well as the surviving origi- early 1990s, first struggling to describe and Terry Haussler is the Director of Program nal road and its view shed. Donna was his- establish the significance of a narrow park- Development for the Office of Federal tory major at the University of Connecticut affiliated road with long-established natural Lands Highway in Washington, DC. He is and obtained a BA in Business/Marketing vegetation to current efforts assisting the responsible for developing and implement- from Seton Hill University. Prior to working Texas State Historic Preservation Office ing regulations, policies, and procedures for the NRHC, she was the Director of develop a statewide historic roads designa- related to the Federal Lands Highway pro- Public Relations for Westmoreland County tion program. Her management experience gram, Defense Access Road program, and Industrial Development and an aide to has come from multiple DOT projects Emergency Relief program on Federally- a Westmoreland County Commissioner, involving portions of historic roads and owned roads. He started his career as a working specifically with land use planning, entire historic road corridors. Lisa has a co-op student and spent 28 years in CFLHD zoning and workforce development. Master of Architecture degree and a before coming to DC in 2008. He has [email protected] certificate in historic preservation from enjoyed the challenges of working on the University of Texas at Austin. She has Federal and Tribal projects and programs, Brian Howard worked for the Texas Department of including the Hoover Dam Bypass project B. R. Howard & Associates, Inc Transportation for the last twelve years and and the Beartooth Highway. Terry earned Pennsylvania is currently director of newly created a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering CLOSING SESSION Programs Management Section. She is a from North Dakota State University and Brian Howard completed his undergraduate panel member for the NCHRP 25-29A: is a registered professional engineer in studies at the University of Connecticut Guidelines for Design and Management of Colorado. obtaining a degree in chemistry, art, and Historic Roads. [email protected] art history followed by the completion of [email protected] his Master’s Degree in art conservation at Linda L. Harvey-Opiteck Ron Headrick the State University College in Buffalo,

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NY. In 1989, Brian became the head of resource conservation, recreation, and edu- Director the Commonwealth Conservation Center cation. Heritage areas also focus community National Park Service objects laboratory operated by the attention on under-appreciated aspects of Washington, DC Pennsylvania Historic and Museum history, living culture, and unique environ- Opening Comments Commission and was employed there mental areas, fostering a stronger sense of Jon Jarvis is the 18th Director of the part-time for 17 years. In 1998, Brian estab- pride. National Park Service. A career ranger of lished B. R. Howard & Associates, Inc. a [email protected] the National Park Service, he began his general conservation practice treating career in 1976 as a seasonal interpreter diverse collections and materials, but spe- David T. Humphrey in Washington, DC. Jarvis most recently cializing in the treatment of transportation Branch Chief for History, Architecture and served as the Regional Director of the collections, and large industrial artifacts. Landscapes Pacific West Region. Jon Jarvis moved up [email protected] Yosemite National Park through the National Park Service as a El Portal, California protection ranger, a resource management Timothy Hubbard, PhD S E S S I O N 9 specialist, park biologist, and Chief of Heritage Matters Pty Ltd David Humphrey is the Branch Chief for Natural and Cultural Resources at different Port Fairy, Australia History, Architecture and Landscapes at parks. He served as the superintendent at Movie Night Yosemite National Park. He received a B.S. Craters of the Moon National Monument, Timothy Hubbard PhD is a retired architect in Landscape Architecture from Ohio State at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and and heritage planner based at Port Fairy in University in 1979 and has worked for the Preserve in Alaska, and Mount Rainier the far west of Victoria, Australia. He has National Park Service since 1986, starting National Park. Jarvis’s thirty-plus years of over thirty years experience in the conser- as a landscape architect at Cuyahoga Valley NPS experience have given him a profound vation of historic buildings, gardens, sites National Recreation Area, becoming appreciation for the challenges of historic and landscapes. He is a member of the chief of Cuyahoga’s Division of Technical road management. ICOMOS International Scientific Committee Assistance and Professional Services in [email protected] on Cultural Routes. In 2005, he was con- 1988, and assuming his current position venor of the Australia ICOMOS national in 2006. He represents Yosemite and the Joseph Jarzen conference Corrugations: the Romance Sierra Network of National Parks on the and Reality of Historic Roads. In 2006 he NPS Cultural Resources Advisory

was awarded the inaugural ISSI Leslie M. Committee and has held many positions Executive Director Perrott Travelling Fellowship to study in the Western Reserve Section of the Indiana National Road Association historic roads in the US, UK and Europe. American Society of Landscape Architects, Cambridge City, Indiana This will be his fourth Historic Roads including a term as president in 1986. S E S S I O N 1 5 Conference. [email protected] Joseph Jarzen is the Community [email protected] Preservation Specialist for the Eastern Marlin R. Ingalls Regional Office of Indiana Landmarks and Richard Hughes Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist the Executive Director for the Indiana Administrator, Maryland Heritage Areas Program Iowa City, Iowa National Road Association. His work spans Maryland Historical Trust S E S S I O N 1 6 preservation advocacy on local, statewide Crownsville, Maryland Marlin Ingalls has been an archaeologist and national projects. He earned his S E S S I O N 3 and architectural historian within the Masters of Science degree in Historic Richard Hughes has served as the Highway Archaeology Program (HAP) Preservation from Columbia University in Administrator of the Maryland Heritage within the Iowa Office of the State the City of New York and a Bachelors of Areas Program with the Maryland Archaeologist (OSA) since 1989. The HAP Arts degree in History from The Ohio State Historical Trust since 2004. He has also program is focused on statewide Iowa University. While at Columbia, Jarzen’s served as Chief of the Trust’s Office of Department of Transportation (IDOT) high- research focused on finding a balance Archaeology, and has worked for the way related archaeology and architectural between preserving authentic remnants of SHPO and the Maryland Department of history for 106 review and compliance the past and interpreting those historic sites Planning since 1981. The Maryland issues. The recognition and preservation for the public in an engaging manner. Heritage Areas Authority administers the of Iowa’s historic roads is an important and [email protected] Heritage Areas Program, with a $3 million ongoing part of the alliance between the budget. This partnership between state Highway Archaeology Program, the Office Gary Jensen agencies and communities strategically of the State Archaeologist, The University revitalizes and strengthens a community’s of Iowa and the Iowa Department of economic activity by combining heritage Transportation. tourism and small business development [email protected] with preservation, natural and cultural Jon Jarvis

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Team Leader, National Scenic Byways Program MUTCD Team Leader of nature and its expression in designed Federal Highway Administration Federal Highway Administration landscapes, specifically looking at the inter- Washington, DC Washington, DC relationships between ecological under- Conference Planning Committee S E S S I O N 6 standings of nature and discourses of nature Gary Jensen is the Team Leader for the Hari Kalla is the Federal Highway grounded in landscape history, art, experi- National Scenic Byways Program; the Administration’s (FHWA) Team Leader for ence, and social theory. Transportation, Community, and System the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control [email protected] Preservation Program; and the Delta Region Devices (MUTCD) since January 2005. In Transportation Development Program for this position, he is responsible for establish- Rosemary Kerr the Federal Highway Administration ing national standards for all traffic control PhD Candidate, Department of History (FHWA) in Washington, DC. Under the devices including traffic signs, pavement University of Sydney, National Scenic Byways Program, his team markings and traffic signals. Prior to this Sydney, Australia also leads the designation and promotion current position, Mr. Kalla worked for the S E S S I O N 1 2 of America’s Byways®. He has been with FHWA’s Office of Safety as a Transportation Rosemary Kerr is currently completing her FHWA for sixteen years, and has been Specialist and as a Team Leader. Mr. Kalla doctoral dissertation in History at the involved in various planning and environ- started his transportation career with the University of Sydney, Australia. Her thesis, mental programs including transportation New York State Department of Transpor - entitled, ‘On “The Road”: A Cultural conformity, transportation enhancements, tation, where he worked in transportation History’, explores the way in which ‘The recreational trails, and environmental planning and highway design units. Road’ as a physical and cultural concept review. He holds a Bachelor of Science [email protected] has been imagined, experienced and repre- degree in Civil Engineering from the sented in Australia from the late nineteenth University of Idaho. Brian Katen century to the present. She is also interested [email protected] Chair, Landscape Architecture Program in exploring trans-national comparisons Virginia Tech of the road’s cultural significance in the Maureen D. Joseph, ASLA Blacksburg, Virginia US and Australia. Rosemary has over ten Regional Historical Landscape Architect S E S S I O N 2 2 years’ experience as a freelance Historian National Park Service, National Capital Brian Katen is an Associate Professor and and Heritage Consultant and has worked Region the Chair of the Landscape Architecture on several studies of historic bridges and

Washington, DC Program in the School of Architecture + other road related heritage projects commis- SESSION 13 Design, College of Architecture and Urban sioned by the Roads and Traffic Authority Conference Planning Committee Studies at Virginia Tech. Professor Katen’s of New South Wales. Maureen Joseph currently is the Regional research explores the archival aspects of [email protected] Historical Landscape Architect for the landscape, the power of the trace, and the National Park Service, National Capital persistence and materiality of memory in Gabe Klein Region. She earned her B.S. degree in land- everyday, vernacular, and ephemeral land- Director scape architecture from Colorado State scapes. In addition to research on the auto- District Department of Transportation University. Since 1990, she has served as mobile and the Virginia landscape, his Washington, DC park landscape architect at Harpers Ferry current work is focused on Virginia’s Opening Plenary Panel National Historical Park and project histori- African American landscapes and their Gabe Klein was appointed DDOT Director cal landscape architect for the Denver archival record. by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Service Center. She has authored or co- [email protected] Fenty in December, 2008. Previously, he authored numerous Cultural Landscape was executive vice president of Zipcar studies for several NPS parks including Paul Kelsch, Ph.D., ASLA (2002-2006), an executive with Bikes USA Acadia, Antietam, Arches, Harpers Ferry, Professor, Landscape Architecture Program and co-founder of “On the Fly,” an innova- Lincoln Memorial, Manassas, and Rock Washington Alexandria Architecture Center tive food service delivery company. As Creek Park. Her interested in historic roads of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State DDOT director, Klein has focused on stems from her father’s work most notably University expanding public transit via a planned 37 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Natchez Trace S E S S I O N 1 3 mile streetcar system linking neighborhoods Parkway, Glacier’s Go-to-the-Sun Road, Paul Kelsch is an Associate Professor in the to employment and commercial areas and and GWMP between 1950-1980 when he Landscape Architecture Program at the making DC a model for bicycle and served as NPS project landscape architect. Washington Alexandria Architecture Center pedestrian safety. A 15-year DC resident, [email protected] of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Klein holds a B.S. degree in marketing man- Hari Kalla, P.E. University. He has professional degrees in agement from Virginia Tech. Architecture and Landscape Architecture [email protected] and a Ph.D. in Cultural Geography. His Jim Klein, ASLA research focuses on the cultural construction

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Principal Historian, National Historic Landmarks Madison. Through involvement with Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C. Program compliance-driven projects, Christine has Alexandria, Virginia National Park Service become interested in historic roads and S E S S I O N 1 1 Washington, DC transportation networks as part of larger Jim Klein is a Principal at Lardner/Klein S E S S I O N 1 4 cultural landscapes. Her work with the Landscape Architects, P.C. in Alexandria, Robie S. Lange has been a National Park Milwaukee County Parkway system includes Virginia. He has thirty years of experience Service historian for nearly 30 years, work- research, field review, and pre paration of in Landscape Architecture and Planning ing for the National Historic Landmarks compliance-related documents. for public landscapes including dozens of program for the past 22 years. He has an [email protected] byways, parks, trails, greenways, streetscapes, undergraduate degree in Political Science and community entrance corridors. He from American University, and a master’s Douglas Lynch, GISP received his Master’s and Bachelor’s in degree in American history from the Senior GIS Planner Landscape Architecture from the University University of Maryland. Robie’s research TranSystems of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in has focused on the history of technology Maitland, Florida Agriculture from the University of Vermont. and engineering. Most of his time is spent S E S S I O N 1 6 Mr. Klein served as the lead planner for the evaluating the research of others, determin- Douglas Lynch is a Senior GIS Planner in Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor ing whether the proponents have successful- TranSystems’ Maitland, Florida office and Management Plan—a 175-mile corridor ly demonstrated that their property rises has over eight years of GIS project manage- connecting Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with above the other historic properties with sim- ment in the planning, transportation, real Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, ilar historic associations. estate and environmental fields. He is certi- along with over twenty other corridor [email protected] fied with the GIS Certification Institute plans for scenic byways and heritage tour- (GISCI) as a GIS Professional and provides ing routes in the eastern United States. Kristie Lockerman client and teaming partners with a range of [email protected] Architectural Historian programming, mapping and geospatial New South Associates, Inc. analysis expertise. Mr. Lynch has provided Terry H. Klein Atlanta, Georgia custom GIS and GPS solutions for Corridor S E S S I O N 1 4 Management Plans throughout the United Kristie Lockerman works as an Architec- States. Mr. Lynch also serves as the national

Executive Director tural Historian and Historian for New South TranSystems GIS practice community SRI Foundation Associates, Inc. Her background in historical leader. Rio Rancho, New Mexico research and cultural resource survey and [email protected] S E S S I O N 2 assessment has included projects in Georgia, Terry Klein has over 30 years of experience South Carolina, Minnesota, Louisiana, Eric Madison managing and supervising a wide range of North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Transportation Planner, historic preservation programs for Federal New York, and California. Prior to working District DOT and state agencies. Terry co-developed and for New South Associates, Ms. Lockerman Washington, DC teaches, through the Foundation, a continu- conducted countywide surveys for the state Mr. Madison began his career with the ing professional education course on of Georgia’s FindIT! Historic Resources Survey District DOT in 2003 with the Public Space effective integration of Section 106 of the Program. Most recently, Ms. Lockerman Management Administration. Since 2006, National Historic Preservation Act and the has completed studies for departments he has served as an operations manager National Environmental Policy Act. Terry of transportation, the National Cemetery DDOT’s Office of the Director and as a also is one of the instructors for the National Administration, the National Aeronautics transportation planner for the Mass Transit Highway Institute’s three-day historic and Space Administration, and the US Administration. He was also appointed as preservation course, taught nationwide. He Army Corps of Engineers. the DC representative to the Tri-State has served as Principal Investigator for [email protected] Oversight Committee, responsible for safety a number of TRB and NCHRP national oversight of Metrorail. In 2009, Mr. Madison studies on historic preservation practices in Christine Long became a member of American Public the context of transportation planning and Architectural Historian Transportation Association Streetcar Sub - project development. Mr. Klein also serves Mead & Hunt, Inc. committee. Mr. Madison is also involved as a cultural resource technical expert for Novi, Michigan with the National Capital Trolley Museum AASHTO’s Center for Environmental S E S S I O N 7 in Colesville, MD. Mr. Madison holds Excellence. Christine Long is an architectural historian a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the [email protected] at Mead & Hunt, Inc., a national consulting University of Kentucky. engineering/architecture firm. She has a [email protected] Robie S. Lange master’s degree in art and architectural his- Carrie A. Mardorf tory from the University of Wisconsin-

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Cultural Landscape Inventory Coordinator Historic American Engineering Record, Natural Resources Program at Virginia Tech National Park Service National Park Service in Alexandria. She has worked on numer- Santa Fe, New Mexico Washington, DC ous community planning projects involving S E S S I O N 4 Conference Chair visioning, heritage areas, and scenic byways. Carrie A. Mardorf, ASLA, is the Cultural Christopher H. Marston has been an archi- Dr. Mastran has a B.A. in English from Landscape Inventory Coordinator for the tect with the NPS’ Historic American Vassar College and a Ph.D. in Geography Intermountain Region, National Park Engineering Record since 1989, after receiv- from the University of Maryland. She Service. She is responsible for managing the ing architecture degrees from the University is co-author with Samuel N. Stokes and cultural landscape inventories for the 400+ of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon University. A. Elizabeth Watson of the second edition landscapes of national parks within the He has led HAER documentation projects of Saving America’s Countryside and with eight-state region, which spans from on a variety of transportation and industrial Ed McMahon has coauthored the series Montana to Arizona to Texas. Ms. Mardorf sites nationwide. He was co-editor of the Better Models for Development. holds a graduate degree in historic preserva- award-winning America’s National Park Roads [email protected] tion from the University of Vermont and an and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic undergraduate degree in landscape architec- American Engineering Record, associate curator Jeremy Mauro ture from Iowa State University. She is a of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, Historic American Engineering Record member of the American Society of Covered Bridges: Spanning the American National Park Service Landscape Architects, Association for Landscape, and a visiting instructor at the Washington, DC Preservation Technology, US/ICOMOS, University of New Mexico. Christopher has S E S S I O N 7 and the National Trust for Historic been actively involved with Preserving the Jeremy Mauro has worked for the NPS’ Preservation. She has been working within Historic Road since its inception in 1995. Historic American Engineering Record the realm of cultural landscape preservation [email protected] (HAER) as an historical architect since June for over five years. 2009. As a HAER team member, he has [email protected] Frank Edgerton Martin contributed to the documentation and study Cultural Landscape Historian & Planner of several covered bridges located in New Dan Marriott Minneapolis, Minnesota England and Maryland. Using data cap- S E S S I O N 9 tured from 3D laser scanning to produce Frank Martin holds an MSLA in Cultural 3D CAD models, Jeremy has contributed to

Principal Landscape Preservation and History from new methods of documentation that have Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates the University of Wisconsin and a degree in enhanced traditional HAER documentation Washington, DC Philosophy from Vassar College. He works techniques. His current projects include Conference Planning Committee in large-scale planning and preservation recording large scale bridges over the Dan Marriott is Principal and founder of projects while reporting new design and Potomac River in Western Maryland and Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates, a historic preservation practices in such publications original Erie Canal lock walls in Cohoes, and scenic road preservation planning office as Landscape Architecture magazine and NY. Jeremy holds a Master of Science in in Washington, DC. He is author of Saving Fabric Architecture. Mr. Martin served as Historic Preservation from the University Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines landscape preservation consultant for a of Oregon and a Bachelor of Fine Art in and From Milestones to Mile-Markers: Campus Heritage Preservation plan funded Industrial Design from Rochester Institute Understanding Historic Roads. Dan holds a by the Getty Foundation at the University of Technology. B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the of Minnesota, Morris. He has published [email protected] Pennsylvania State University and a Master articles and reviews on Arthur Nichols’ of Regional Planning from Cornell other projects including Seven Bridges in Terry Maxwell University, and teaches landscape history at Duluth and the company town of Morgan Manager, Scenic Byways Program George Washington University. He recently Park. He is currently working to interpret Maryland State Highway Administration began a PhD program at the University of and restore Victory Memorial Drive, a Baltimore, Maryland Edinburgh. He has worked with communi- WWI veterans monument and parkway in S E S S I O N 3 ties across the United States and overseas, Minneapolis. Terry Maxwell is a landscape architect and and is a member of the ICOMOS [email protected] planner who manages the Scenic Byways Committee on Cultural Routes. Dan and Recreational Trails Programs for the founded and served as conference chair Shelley S. Mastran, Ph.D. Maryland State Highway Administration. for PTHR from 1998 – 2008. Professor in Practice For the last decade, Terry has been promot- [email protected] Virginia Tech ing innovative planning, design, and man- Alexandria, Virginia agement tools to assist the SHA and local Christopher H. Marston S E S S I O N 1 1 governments in efforts to sustain byways Shelley S. Mastran is a Professor in Practice and communities. He coordinates and in Urban Affairs & Planning and the administers approximately $2 million in

43 BIOGRAPHIES (M) annual funding for the promotion, enhance- from Shippensburg University. A few Research; oversees engineering technical ment, and preservation of Maryland’s des- months ago, Kate purchased her first home service programs; and coordinates technical ignated byways and recreational trails. The in the Frederick Historic District. activities between AASHTO’s engineering Byways Program goal is to enhance local [email protected] committees and related outside organiza- community quality of life and pride, as well tions. Previously, Jim worked for the North as visitor appeal, by identifying, promoting, Matt McDaniel Carolina DOT and as an engineering con- and encouraging the responsible manage- Senior Architectural Historian sultant doing planning and traffic engineer- ment and preservation of the state’s most Parsons Brinckerhoff ing design work. He holds a Bachelor of scenic, cultural, and historic roads and sur- S E S S I O N 1 2 Science Degree in Civil Engineering from rounding resources. Working with Maryland Matt McDaniel is a Senior Architectural Duke. communities, the Program has designated Historian with Parsons Brinckerhoff and [email protected] 19 byways encompassing 2,487 miles of is based in Atlanta. He has fourteen years beautiful roads that offer a taste of the experience in the cultural resources man- Victor M. Mendez state’s scenic beauty, history and culture. agement field, including eleven years Administrator [email protected] specializing in Section 106 compliance. Federal Highway Administration [email protected] Washington, DC Mary McCahon Opening Comments Senior Historian Vincent C. McDermott, On July 17, 2009, Victor Mendez was TranSystems FASLA, AICP sworn in as the Federal Highway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Senior Vice President Administrator. He oversees the Federal SESSIONS 1 & 18 Milone & MacBroom, Inc. Highway Administration’s 2,900 employees Mary McCahon is an architectural historian Cheshire, Connecticut across the country and provides executive and for the past 20 years has worked for S E S S I O N 9 guidance on strategic initiatives and policy. Lichtenstein Consulting Engineers (now Vince McDermott is a senior vice president Prior to joining FHWA, Mr. Mendez served called TranSystems) researching and evalu- at Milone & MacBroom, Inc., an award- on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition ating roads and bridges. She has Master of winning multidisciplinary consulting firm. Team. Previously, Mr. Mendez served as Arts degree in Architectural History from He joined the firm in 1985 and currently Director of the Arizona Department of the University of Virginia. Mary is a mem- provides technical oversight and quality Transportation. In 2006, Mr. Mendez was

ber of the Transportation Research Board’s control for all landscape architecture proj- elected president of both the Western General Structures Committee (that’s ects. Over his more than 40-year career, Association of State Highway and Trans - bridges) and its bridge aesthetics subcom- Mr. McDermott has served various roles in portation Officials and the American mittee. She has had the good fortune to the Connecticut Chapter of the American Association of State Highway and Trans - work with some terrific engineers, and she Society of Landscape Architects, chaired portation Officials, its national counterpart. enjoys collaborating with them to develop the Connecticut Board of Landscape Mr. Mendez earned a civil engineering projects that balance sound engineering and Architects, and is a past president and cur- degree from the University of Texas at design with preservation. rent member of the Council of Landscape El Paso and later earned an MBA from [email protected] Architectural Registration Boards. He Arizona State University. played a leading role in the development of [email protected] Kate McConnell, AICP the Merritt Parkway Landscape Master Plan Planner and has continued to be involved in efforts Elizabeth Merritt Loudon County Department of Planning to guide the parkway’s management. Deputy General Counsel Leesburg, Virginia [email protected] National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference Planning Committee Washington, DC Kate McConnell is a land use planner and Jim McDonnell, P.E. Elizabeth Merritt is deputy general counsel historic preservationist. Currently, she is a Program Director, Engineering at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, project manager in the Land Use Review AASHTO where she has been responsible for the division of the Loudoun County Depart - Washington, DC Trust’s legal advocacy program for 26 years. ment of Planning in Leesburg, Virginia. Jim McDonnell is AASHTO’s Program Although she is known for her litigation Until recently, she was a preservation plan- Director for Engineering. In this capacity, work, having represented the Trust in about ner and reviewed applications for exterior he directs a staff of eight engineers in to 200 cases in state and federal courts, includ- changes to buildings and structures in coordinate programs and develop technical ing two dozen transportation cases, she has Loudoun County’s seven historic districts standards and guidance in the areas of high- a stronger interest in using negotiation and and served as a community liaisons with way design, construction, maintenance, and administrative advocacy to persuade agen- local preservation organizations. She holds operations. Jim also serves as the staff liai- cies to make more preservation-sensitive a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell son to AASHTO’s Standing Committee on decisions. She has also been directly influ- University and a Master of Arts in History Highways and Standing Committee on ential in shaping legislation and regulations

45 BIOGRAPHIES (M – N) implementing key federal preservation laws. Executive Director Traffic Planner She graduated from Harvard Law School in The Valleys Planning Council Montgomery County Department of 1980, and from Mills College in 1976. Towson, Maryland Permitting Services [email protected] S E S S I O N 3 Rockville, Maryland Teresa Moore is Executive Director of The Conference Planning Committee Ann Miller Valleys Planning Council (VPC), a local, Sarah Navid has served as the coordinator Historian non-profit land-use and land planning for the Rustic Roads Program since 2000. Virginia Transportation Research Council organization in Baltimore County, The program designates and preserves his- Charlottesville, Virginia Maryland. Established in 1962, the VPC toric and scenic roads which reflect the S E S S I O N 8 was instrumental in laying the foundation agricultural character and rural origins of Ann Miller is the historian for the Virginia for the County’s successful growth manage- Montgomery County. Prior to that, she Transportation Research Council (VTRC), ment and land preservation initiatives. worked as a traffic engineer in the County’s and oversees the Research Council’s history In 2005, the VPC published a study on the neighborhood traffic control program. program, including research into early roads need for road design standards tailored Ms. Navid holds a BS in Geography and and bridges, cultural resource management, for local, rural roads and recommended a MS in Transportation Engineering from historical technology, and other aspects of specific design standards that would main- the University of Maryland. transportation history. She has over thirty tain dimensions and alignments. Prior to [email protected] years’ involvement in transportation history joining VPC in 2004, Teresa was a program research, and is the author or co-author of director with the Maryland Department of A.J. Nedzesky over twenty reports and publications for the Natural Resources. She has also worked in Central Federal Lands Division VTRC. In addition to her work with the economic development and held positions Federal Highway Administration VTRC, she also serves as consultant histori- in the Maryland Governor’s Office and on Lakewood, Colorado an for the Orange County (Va.) Historical Capitol Hill. S E S S I O N 1 0 Society, and served as consultant historian [email protected] A.J. Nedzesky works as a traffic engineer and architectural historian for the restora- MaryAnn Naber at Federal Highway’s Central Federal Lands tion of Montpelier in Orange County. Ms. Division, located in Denver. Central Miller received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Federal Lands deals with the land manage- degrees in Architectural History from the ment agencies that have public roadways in

University of Virginia. Historic Preservation Officer the US, such as the National Park Service, [email protected] Federal Highway Administration Forest Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington, DC A.J. has his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees Simone Monteleone Conference Planning Committee from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to Cultural Resource Program Manager for Rock MaryAnn Naber has been the Federal his position at Central Federal Lands, he Creek Park Historic Preservation Officer at the Federal worked at FWHA’s research facility, where National Park Service Highway Administration for the past 10 he primarily focused on human factors Washington, DC years. Prior to that she spent ten years with studies and speed management projects. S E S S I O N 2 2 the Advisory Council on Historic [email protected] Ms. Monteleone is the Cultural Resource Preservation where she had primary respon- Program Manager for Rock Creek Park. She sibility for US DOT projects and programs. Douglas Nelson has a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation Ms. Naber received her Master’s Degree in Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey from the University of Pennsylvania and Historic Preservation from the University of Mill Valley, California worked in the private sector for 9 years as Vermont and is co-author of Linking the Past S E S S I O N 1 7 an Architectural Historian before joining to the Future: A Landscape Conservation Douglas Nelson is a landscape architect and the National Park Service in 2007. While in Strategy for Waterford, Virginia, published by principal with Royston Hanamoto Alley & the private sector, she was responsible for the National Park Service. A long-time Abey based in Mill Valley, California. His the authoring of a number of National member of the TRB Committee on work focuses on parks and historic land- Register of Historic Places’ nominations for Archeology and Historic Preservation, she scapes. Much of that work has included a civilian and military properties. Her inter- has made numerous presentations national- number of projects in San Francisco’s ests include World War II and Cold War ly on preservation and transportation topics. Golden Gate Park and in Yosemite National military architecture, as well as the impact [email protected] Park. Work in Golden Gate Park includes of the Civil War on the built environment in the park’s first comprehensive master plan, Washington, DC. Sarah Navid a National Register of Historic Places nomi- [email protected] nation, and several rehabilitation projects. Projects in Yosemite National Park have Teresa Moore included four major overlook rehabilitation projects, rehabilitation of the Ahwahnee

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Hotel, and master plans for the Happy Jacobs Engineering tal and economic development objectives Isles area and the Yosemite Valley Indian Phoenix, Arizona for a very urban system. Karina joined Cultural Center. S E S S I O N 1 6 DDOT initially to lead the Mayor’s ground- [email protected] Richard Powers is currently employed by breaking Great Streets program. She Jacobs Engineering in Phoenix, Arizona previously worked at the District’s Office Andy Nicol, AICP where he is creating a GIS inventory of the of Planning where she was the city’s Transit- Project Manager historic Apache Trail. He formerly worked Oriented Development Coordinator. Karina TranSystems Corporation for the Arizona Department of Transportation. has served on several task forces including Maitland, Florida A longtime resident of Arizona and avid the regional Transportation Planning Board, S E S S I O N 1 6 history buff, Powers has written historical Public Space Committee, Metropolitan Mr. Nicol is a Project Manager in articles for local newspapers and published Policy Development Com mittee, Rail- TranSystems’ Maitland, Florida office and technical publications in the Transportation Volution National Steering Committee, has more than nine years of experience in Research Board Record on the topics of Brownfields Inter-Agency Task Force, Soil corridor analysis and scenic byway planning Arizona’s Pre-stressed Pavements and and Water Conservation Board, and DC and management. He has assisted Innovative Approaches for Low Volume Bicycle Master Plan Advisory Committee. scenic byway clients with Corridor Roads. He recently published the history [email protected] Management Plan (CMP) development, of the Apache Trail. A graduate of the National Scenic Byway grant application University of Kansas Civil Engineering Nelson Rimensnyder and National Scenic Byway/All-American School, he holds a Master of Science from Consulting Historian Road designation nominations, wayfinding Arizona State University’s Civil Engineering District Department of Transportation and interpretation, marketing and promo- School. Powers is a member of several local Washington, DC tion, and public outreach. Mr. Nicol has history and community organizations. He Conference Planning Committee a deep understanding of the scenic byway hopes that this presentation will inspire Since 2006, Nelson Rimensnyder has been industry and provides innovative and attendees to implement GIS inventory organizing and cataloguing thousand of progressive consulting services to his systems for historic roads throughout the reports, studies, records, documents, maps, clients throughout the United States. country and worldwide. drawings and photographs in the DDOT [email protected] [email protected] Library. This archival inventory traces the Janet P. Oakley B i l l R i c e development and financing of the trans-

Director of Policy and Government Relations District Department of Transportation portation infrastructure of the Nation’s AASHTO Washington, DC Capital. Previously, he worked on Capitol Washington, DC Conference Planning Committee Hill for 25 years, first with the Congressional Opening Comments Bill Rice is currently an advisor to the Research service specializing in the history Janet Oakley is the Director of Policy and District Department of Transportation of District-federal government relations Government Relations for AASHTO with (DDOT) for archives and document man- and then for 20 years for the Committee on responsibility for managing transportation agement. He has held a variety of positions, the District of Columbia, US House of policy development and federal and con- including spokesperson for the former Rep resen tatives as the Director of Research. gressional advocacy on behalf of the state District Office of Property Management and Rimensnyder has a BA in history and transportation departments in the fifty DDOT. He also served as a reporter/com- graduate degree in government states, the District of Columbia and Puerto mentator for the Washington City Paper, The [email protected] Rico. Ms. Oakley’s transportation career Current Newspapers, Regardie’s, and The has focused on multimodal transportation Washington Post. He has worked for the fed- Ryan Rowles policy, planning, program development and eral government, New York City govern- Regional Archaeologist finance at all levels of government. Ms. ment, and Harvard University. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Oakley began her career as a transportation [email protected] Uniontown, Pennsylvania planner for Kentucky DOT, and held subse- CLOSING SESSION quent positions as a transportation planner Karina Ricks Ryan Rowles has been a regional archaeolo- for FHWA; staff for the US House’s Associate Director, Policy, Planning and gist for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Appropriations Subcom - Sustainability Administration Transportation since April of 2007. He has mittee; and Director of Government Affairs District Department of Transportation held academic, museum, private industry, for the National Association of Regional Washington, DC and government positions throughout his Councils, where she was responsible for the S E S S I O N 7 career. He received his BA at Indiana formation of the Association of Metro - Karina Ricks is the Associate Director for University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and his politan Planning Organizations (AMPO), the Policy, Planning and Sustainability MA at the University of Oklahoma (OU). serving for five years as its first director. Administration in the District DOT where [email protected] [email protected] she manages a wide range of initiatives that Leslie Saville Richard L. Powers, P.E. unite transportation, land use, environmen-

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Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning where she also teaches historic preservation. experience in the planning, design and con- Commission Sharp holds a doctor of philosophy in struction of bridge projects. He is chairman Silver Spring, Maryland History of Technology from Georgia Tech. of the Transportation Research Board’s Conference Planning Committee Her research explores the impact of tech- Bridge Aesthetic Subcommittee AFF10(2). Leslie Saville, ASLA, is a landscape archi- nology on people and places within the [email protected] tect and community planner with the framework of historic preservation and gen- Montgomery County Planning Department. der. At Middle Tennessee State University, Carol Shull One of her favorite duties is the implemen- she held a joint appointment as an associate Interim Keeper of the National Register of tation of the Rustic Roads Functional research professor for the Center for Historic Historic Places Master Plan, which currently protects nearly Preservation and History Department. National Park Service 100 roads with a Rustic or Exceptional Sharp received her Bachelor of Arts in Washington, DC Rustic Road designation. She represents history from the University of Georgia and Opening Plenary Panel M-NCPPC on the Rustic Roads Advisory her Master of Arts in history with an empha- Carol Shull is the Interim Keeper of the Committee, providing background and sis in historic preservation from Middle National Register of Historic Places and assistance to the seven citizen members who Tennessee. Her forthcoming book is The Chief of Heritage Education Services for the make up the committee, and working with Dixie Highway in Tennessee: Springfield to National Park Service. She served from staff at the Departments of Transportation Chattanooga. 1994 until 2005 as Keeper of the National and Permitting Services on the implementa- [email protected] Register and Chief of the National Historic tion of the Master Plan. Landmarks Survey. She is in charge of [email protected] Victor Shenkar expanding and maintaining the National Chief Executive Officer Register and directing the survey to identify Gloria Scott GeoSim Systems historic sites for designation as National Built Environment Preservation Services Branch Tivka, Israel Historic Landmarks. She also manages Chief S E S S I O N 1 6 initiatives to make the National Register CALTRANS Dr. Shenkar is the Founder and Chief accessible to the public and administers Sacramento, California Executive Officer of GeoSim Systems. He the National Park Service Discovery Our Conference Planning Committee leads the company in creating precise three- Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series and Gloria Scott leads the branch responsible dimensional models of cities around the Teaching with Historic Places programs.

for cultural resources guidance, protecting world and in developing city-model based [email protected] state-owned historical resources (including applications for professional users, business roads), assists in staff training, and is on customers, and entertainment. Dr. Shenkar Theodore Sky the State Historical Building Safety Board. is also Co-Founder and former CEO of Distinguished Lecturer Prior to joining Caltrans, Gloria worked in Tiltan Systems Engineering, one of the Catholic University of America city-regional planning and several SHPO industry leaders in digital terrain modeling School of Law offices, evaluated hundreds of structures, and visualization. Dr. Shenkar holds Washington, DC developed preservation policy, and con- Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Closing Keynote ducted numerous preservation workshops. Engineering from Technion in Haifa, Theodore Sky retired from federal service She is on the NCHRP 25-29A: Guidelines Israel, as well as a PhD in Aeronautical as a senior legal aide in 2001 and has since for Design and Management of Historic Engineering from Stanford University. taught at the Catholic University of Roads panel. Gloria has an M.S. in Historic [email protected] America School of Law. A graduate of the Preservation from the University of Harvard Law School and Dickinson Vermont where she indulged her passion for Joseph Showers College, he serves as a consultant to the roadside architecture by joining the Society Chief Bridge Engineer National Road Heritage Corridor. His first for Commercial Archeology in its founding CH2M HILL book, To Provide for the General Welfare year. Denver, Colorado (2003), dealt with the constitutional history [email protected] S E S S I O N 1 8 of federal spending power. His forthcoming Joseph Showers is the Chief Bridge book, The National Road & the Difficult Path Leslie Sharp Engineer of CH2M HILL’s Transportation to Investment (University of Delaware Press), Assistant Dean of Academic Administration and Business Group, and is based at the Denver, concerns the history of the National Road, Outreach Colorado corporate headquarters. He is its constitutional significance, and its contri- Georgia Tech College of Architecture currently a licensed Professional Engineer in bution to the growth of federal investment Atlanta, Georgia six states. He holds a Masters degree in in transportation infrastructure. S E S S I O N 1 5 Civil Engineering and a Masters degree in [email protected] Leslie Sharp is the Assistant Dean of Architecture from Virginia Tech, and a BS Christina Slattery Academic Administration and Outreach at in Civil Engineering from the University of the Georgia Tech College of Architecture, Delaware. Mr. Showers has over 30 years of

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Mead & Hunt, Inc design, transportation, and preservation. As management. His expertise is in the design Madison, Wisconsin a former coordinator at the National of highways in delicate environments, using S E S S I O N 1 4 Transportation Enhancements contest sensitive solutions to balance needs Christina Slattery manages Mead & Hunt, Clearinghouse and former researcher at the for safety and mobility with environmental Inc.’s historic preservation business unit. National Center for Smart Growth and impacts and local concerns. He is a panel Mead & Hunt is a national consulting engi- Education at the University of Maryland, member for the NCHRP 25-29A: Guidelines neering/architecture firm specializing in the Smith developed her expertise as both a for Design and Management of Historic identification and management of historic practitioner and a researcher. Smith is an Roads. roads and bridges. Christina holds a mas- Assistant Professor at the University of [email protected] ter’s degree in historic preservation and has Mary Washington; she teaches courses in over 14 years of cultural resource manage- preservation planning, urban design, urban Michael Romero Taylor ment experience. Her expertise in historic planning history and practice, and architec- National Park Service roads has been developed through comple- tural history and serves as the Director for Santa Fe, New Mexico tion of Section 106 and Section 4(f) compli- the Center for Historic Preservation. S E S S I O N 2 0 ance for the historic Elkhart Lake Road [email protected] Michael Romero Taylor extensive experi- Race Circuits in Wisconsin, the survey of ence in historic preservation includes his- five trans-continental highways in Nebraska Jill Smyth toric site management, architectural and the nomination of two highways to the Executive Director conservation, management of cultural National Register. Christina serves on the Merritt Parkway Conservancy routes, museum/visitor center management board of the Society for Commercial Stamford, Connecticut and archaeological site preservation. He Archeology, an organization focused on S E S S I O N 5 served as the New Mexico State Historic roadside resources. Jill Smyth has served the Merritt Parkway Preservation Officer in 1994 – 95, and as [email protected] Conservancy since 2003 and was appointed Deputy Director of New Mexico State Executive Director in 2007. After moving Monuments from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Taylor Katherine Slick from Colorado in 1986, she managed earned a certificate in Architectural Executive Director commercial and residential properties in Conservation through ICCROM in 1987 US/ICOMOS Fairfield County, Connecticut. In 1993, Jill and has been active with ICOMOS for Washington, DC started her own consulting business which twenty years. He has lectured international-

Opening Comments provided financial services for small busi- ly on historic preservation with emphasis on Katherine Slick is the Executive Director of nesses. She has held leadership positions in earthen architecture, site management, and the US National Committee of the Inter - various volunteer organizations. These dual cultural routes. He currently works as the national Council on Monuments and Sites vocations led to her involvement in the National Park Service cultural resource spe- (US/ICOMOS), a non-profit membership Merritt Parkway Conservancy, which seeks cialist for five congressionally designated organization and the primary conduit for to ensure a balance between the functionali- historic trails. US participation in international conserva- ty of the Parkway as a major thoroughfare [email protected] tion. US/ICOMOS membership includes and the preservation of the original design professionals, practitioners, supporters and of the Parkway’s distinctive bridges and Cathy Hardy Thompson organizations committed to the protection, landscape. Community Planning Program Manager conservation and management of the [email protected] Charles County Department of Planning world’s cultural heritage. For over thirty-five La Plata, Maryland years, Ms Slick has been involved in heritage Mark B. Taylor S E S S I O N 3 stewardship at the local, state and national Safety/Geometric Design Engineer Cathy Thompson has served as the levels as a volunteer, property owner, devel- Federal Highway Administration Community Planning Program Manager for oper, consultant and state historic preserva- Lakewood, Colorado the Charles County Department of Planning tion officer. S E S S I O N 1 and Growth Management since 2005. Prior [email protected] Mark Taylor is a Safety/Geometric Design to that, she held the position of historic sites Engineer with the FHWA Resource Center surveyor and preservation planner for Andréa Livi Smith, Ph.D. Safety & Design Technical Service Team in Charles County since 2000. Ms. Thompson Director Lakewood, CO. He provides technical assis- holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Center for Historic Preservation University tance, technology deployment and training Studies from the University of Maryland of Mary Washington on highway design, safety analysis and Baltimore County and a Master of Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia context sensitive solutions, and serves as Folk Studies/Historic Preservation from S E S S I O N 1 9 co-champion of FHWA’s Design discipline. Western Kentucky University. Trained as an urban planner, preservation- Educated at Virginia Tech, Mark has [email protected] ist, and architectural historian, Smith focus- focused his career on project development, Andrea Tingey es her research on the intersection of urban roadway design, highway safety, and project

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Principal Historic Preservation Specialist Director, Preservation Research Cultural Resources Analyst New Jersey Historic Preservation Office SRI Foundation New Mexico Department of Transportation Trenton, New Jersey Rio Rancho, New Mexico Santa Fe, New Mexico Conference Planning Committee S E S S I O N 2 S E S S I O N 4 Andrea Tingey is a Principal Historic Carla Van West is Director of Preservation As a Cultural Resource Analyst for the New Preservation Specialist with the New Jersey Research at the SRI Foundation in Rio Mexico Department of Transportation in State Historic Preservation Office. Her cur- Rancho, New Mexico. Although she is Santa Fe, New Mexico, Laurel Wallace is a rent responsibilities include coordinating the nationally known for her studies of paleocli- historian and archaeologist. Her authorship Survey, Outreach, and Certified Local mate, pre-contact agriculture, and sustain- of Historic Highways in the NMDOT System set Government Programs. Previously she spent able settlement in the American Southwest, the standard for how historic engineered 11 years working in the Transportation and her recent projects include archival research roads are studied and interpreted in New Planning Section where the she developed on the history of Chaco Culture National Mexico, leading to a “Vital Few Goals” an expertise in the regulatory review of Historical Park and the histories of historic leadership award from the Federal Highway bridge projects. Ms. Tingey also coordinat- highways in Arizona. Carla regularly shares Administration. Currently, Laurel is work- ed the establishment and publishing of New her knowledge of and enthusiasm for ing on a new publication entitled “Roadside Jersey’s first statewide guidelines for archi- America’s past with the public through field Architecture in New Mexico”, which identi- tectural survey activities and taught the seminars, lectures, and interpretive materi- fies historic building styles and unique road- Introduction to Historic Preservation course at als. Besides collaborating on research side features in the New Mexico landscape. Drew University for the six years. Over the projects with her colleagues, she also is a [email protected] years she has developed a particular interest member of the Western National Parks in recent past properties. Ms. Tingey Association Board of Directors and serves Jen Wennerlund received a BA in history from Dickinson as the Chair of its Research Committee. Dr. Manager, Geospatial and Visual Technologies College and did her graduate work in his- Van West conducted the archival research, Group toric preservation planning at Cornell wrote website content, and developed con- URS Corporation University. tent for sample products used in the Phoenix, Arizona [email protected] “Exploring Arizona’s Historic Roads” Project. S E S S I O N 2 Jack Van Dop [email protected] Jen Wennerlund, Manager of the Geospatial Matthew R. Virta and Visual Technologies Group at URS

Senior Technical Specialist Cultural Resources Program Manager Corporation’s Phoenix office, has 21 years Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division George Washington Memorial Parkway of experience in the geosciences field. She Sterling, Virginia National Park Service has managed varied levels of responsibility S E S S I O N 6 Langley, Virginia throughout her career, ranging from group, Jack Van Dop is a Senior Technical S E S S I O N 1 3 team, and project manager, database devel- Specialist with the Eastern Federal Lands Matthew R. Virta has worked as a cultural opment, quality control, impact assessment, Highway Division of the Federal Highway resources professional for the National Park programming, and geospatial modeling. Her Administration located in Sterling, Virginia. Service (NPS) for nearly 25 years. Currently project experience has involved natural The Federal Lands Highway Office admin- he is the Cultural Resources Program resources, human, and cultural environmen- isters the Federal Lands Highway Program. Manager for the (GWMP). Prior to GWMP, tal studies for a variety of clients including It provides program stewardship as well as he was a Staff Archeologist and Archeology government agencies, utility, oil and gas, planning, programming, design and con- Laboratory & Collections Manager for the mining, and transportation industries. Ms. struction services to federal agencies for NPS, Denver Service Center, Eastern Wennerlund leads the development of eligible transportation facilities located on Applied Archeology Center and for the multi-media products for public outreach federal lands. A large number of the NPS, National Capital Region, Archeology for the Arizona Department of Trans - Eastern Division’s projects are on lands Program, conducting archeological investi- portation’s “Exploring Arizona’s Historic managed by the National Park Service. gations and curating archeological collec- Roads” Project. Jack is responsible for coordinating National tions for national parks. He holds a B.A. in [email protected] Environmental Policy Act and National Anthropology (Archeology) and a M.A.A Historic Preservation Act compliance for in Anthropology (Archeology & CRM) from Kim Prothro Williams the Division’s special projects. He graduat- the University of Maryland, College Park. National Register Coordinator ed from Penn State University with a bache- His interest in historic roads preservation DC Historic Preservation Office lor’s degree in landscape architecture and a stems, in part, from the issues facing the Washington, DC master’s degree in urban affairs from GWMP as an urban parkway and a National S E S S I O N 2 2 Virginia Tech. Register of Historic Places property. Kim Prothro Williams has two decades of [email protected] [email protected] experience as an architectural historian spe- Carla R. Van West cializing in historic preservation. She is cur- Laurel Wallace rently the National Register Coordinator for

55 BIOGRAPHIES (W – Z) PROGRAM SPONSORS the DC Government Historic Preservation AASHTO DC Preservation League Office where she prepares and reviews AASHTO is a nonprofit, nonpartisan associ- The mission of the DC Preservation League nominations for the National Register. She ation representing highway and transporta- is to preserve, protect, and enhance the his- has lead walking and driving tours of tion agencies in the 50 states, the District toric and built environment of Washington, Maryland, DC and Virginia and produced of Columbia and Puerto Rico. It represents DC, through advocacy and education. The the companion brochures. Publications all transportation modes, including air, high- League conducts many educational pro- include Chevy Chase: A Home Suburb for the ways, public transportation, rail and water. grams, including publishing DC's Most Nation’s Capital (1998) and Pride of Place: Its primary goal is to foster the design, Endangered list, conducting tours of historic Rural Residences of Fauquier County, Virginia construction, maintenance, operation and sites, and putting on public lectures. (2004). Kim holds a Master of Architectural management of an integrated national trans- http://www.dcpreservation.org History from the University of Virginia, portation system. AASHTO’s mission is with a Certificate in Historic Preservation. to advocate sound transportation policies; to DC Historic Preservation Office [email protected] provide technical services; to demonstrate The DC Historic Preservation Office the contributions of transportation to the (HPO) promotes stewardship of the District James C. Zeller, PE nation’s economic, social and environmental of Columbia’s historic and cultural Preliminary Engineering Manager well-being; and to facilitate institutional resources through planning, protection, and Virginia Department of Transportation change in the pursuit of excellence. public education. The HPO serves as the Leesburg, Virginia State Historic Preservation Office for the Opening Plenary Panel America’s Byways Resource Center District of Columbia and is staff to the local Jim Zeller is the preliminary engineering The America’s Byways Resource Center preservation review board, which desig- manager for Virginia Department of is a joint venture of the Federal Highway nates historic landmarks and districts, Transportation’s Leesburg Residency Office. Administration and the Arrowhead makes determinations on projects affecting He has a B.S. in Geology from Marietta Regional Development Commission. The those properties, and serves as a forum for College and a M.S. in Civil Engineering Resource Center works to build successful community involvement in historic preser- from the University of Maryland. Jim has America’s Byways® through positive, pro - vation. The HPO is an integral part of the 24 years experience in the construction and active, hands-on assistance in planning, Office of Planning, ensuring that preserva- transportation fields, working in both the preserving, promoting and managing scenic tion is fully integrated with the city’s overall public and private sectors. He has been with byways. Resource Center staff can direct

the Virginia Department of Trans portation you to resources; facilitate networking with- planning programs. It also coordinates with since 1998 and has worked on a number of in the byway community; help you identify other government agencies, community highway improvement projects on Loudoun problems and find solutions; and provide groups, and individuals to achieve the goals County’s historic roadways, including assistance and training in the areas of corri- and benefits of historic preservation. Snickersville Turnpike, Route 15 James dor management, finances, byway organiza- Monroe Highway, Route 50 John Mosby tion, visitor experience, tribal byways and Federal Highway Administration Highway, and Mount Gilead Road as well federal lands. For byway education The Federal Highway Administration as Georgetown Pike in Fairfax County and and resources, visit the America’s Byways (FHWA) is an agency of the US Department Ingram Road in Prince William County. Resource Center website at of Transportation. FHWA is headquartered [email protected] http://www.bywaysresourcecenter.org. in Washington, DC, with field offices in every state, the District of Columbia, and District Department of Transportation Puerto Rico. FHWA is charged with ensur- (DDOT) ing that America’s roads are the safest and DDOT is the District’s cabinet-level agency most technologically up-to-date, and for pro- in charge of planning, designing, building viding financial and technical support for and maintaining 1,100 miles of streets, 241 constructing, improving, and preserving bridges, 1,600 miles of sidewalks, 453 miles America’s highway system. The agency’s of alleys and 144,000 street trees. DDOT is budget, funded by fuel and motor vehicle committed to achieving an exceptional qual- excise taxes, is primarily divided into two ity of life in the nation’s capital through sus- sets of programs: approximately $30 billion tainable travel practices. Central to this Federal-aid annual funding to state and local vision is improving energy efficiency and governments; and approximately $1 billion modern mobility by providing the next gen- Federal Lands Highways annual funding for “Jug” Bridge over the Monocacy River near eration alternatives to single occupancy roads in national parks, national forests, Frederick, Maryland. driving to move people and goods safely, wildlife refuges, Indian lands, and other land affordably and conveniently—while protect- under federal stewardship. The Federal-Aid ing and enhancing the natural, environmen- Highway Program supports the National tal and cultural resources of the District. Highway System (NHS), a 160,000-mile net-

57 PROGRAM SPONSORS work (including the 46,726-mile Interstate created by the State of Maryland in 1927 (Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, system) that carries 40 percent of the Nation’s to ensure responsible growth for the capital Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) whose individual highway traffic. The program also provides region. For rustic roads, M-NCPPC pro- structure varies, works in concert to improve resources for about one million additional grams, policies and oversight complement the entire Historic National Road by: miles of urban and rural roads that are not the functions and authority of the Mont - • Providing communication channels among on the NHS, but that are eligible for federal gomery County Department of Trans - the six-state Historic National Road organi- aid. The program is administered through portation, and other county agencies. This zations, their respective states, and key 52 Federal-aid division offices. The Federal unique local government structure shapes stakeholders; Lands Highway (FLH) Program supports the Rustic Roads Program. • Coordinating six-state or multi-state events; public roads within the Nation’s federally www.montgomeryplanning.org • Advocating at the local, state, or national owned lands and tribal lands. The FLH pro- www.montgomerycountymd.gov level for the National Road and its member gram provides funding; and performs plan- organizations. ning, design, construction, asset management Montgomery County Rustic Roads and technical support to maintain and im - Advisory Committee Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates prove the transportation access and infra- The Rustic Roads Advisory Committee Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates, Historic structure. The program is administered by oversees the Rustic Roads Program in and Scenic Road Preservation Planners, three FLH Division Offices. The priorities of Montgomery County, Maryland, which cur- specialize in analysis, preservation and man- safety, congestion mitigation and environmen- rently covers 97 historic roads that exempli- agement strategies for historic roads and tal stewardship and streamlining are focus fy the rural and agricultural character of the scenic byways in the United States and areas in which FHWA is committed to clos- County’s Agricultural Reserve. The commit- abroad. Dan Marriott has written the two ing gaps and making the greatest difference. tee is comprised of seven citizen members most referenced books on the topic of his- The FHWA Resource Center provides expert who are appointed by the County Executive; toric roads, Saving Historic Roads, Design technical support to field offices and to state they review and advise the County Executive, and Policy Guidelines and From Milestones to and local agencies from five nationwide County Council, Planning Board, Department Mile-Markers, Understanding Historic Roads, office locations. The FHWA also operates a of Transportation, Department of Permitting manages and coordinates the biennial con- world-class highway research, develop ment Services and other county agencies on ference Preserving the Historic Road. The and technology facility in McLean, VA. matters concerning rustic roads. Members firm has prepared numerous corridor man- http://www.fhwa.dot.gov review and comment upon roadway agement plans for scenic byways and his-

Loudoun County (Virginia) Department classifications, policies, regulations, and toric corridors. Paul Daniel Marriott + of Planning promote public awareness of the Rustic Associates is committed to balancing his- The Planning Department assists the Roads Program. http://www.montgomeryplan- toric design features and scenic qualities with Planning Commission, Board of Supervisors, ning.org/community/plan_areas/rural_area/rus- twenty-first century needs for safety and and citizens in the development of policies tic_roads.shtm management. that guide the use of land, the provision of www.PaulDanielMarriott.com facilities and infrastructure and protect envi- National Park Service ronmental, historical, and transportation Historic American Engineering Record US/ICOMOS—US International Council resources. The department reviews applica- Heritage Documentation Programs adminis- on Monuments and Sites tions such as rezonings, special exceptions ters HABS (Historic American Buildings The International Council on Monuments and certificates of appropriateness to deter- Survey), the federal government’s oldest and Sites (ICOMOS) is an association of mine their consistency with plans and ordi- preservation program, and companion professionals throughout the world. ICO- nances, and works with applicants to seek programs HAER (Historic American MOS works for the conservation and pro- solutions that are compatible with County Engineering Record), HALS (Historic tection of cultural heritage places. It is the policies. The department also prepares American Landscapes Survey), and only global non-government organization of planning reports and studies for citizen CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic this kind, which is dedicated to promoting boards and commissions. Information Systems). Documentation the application of theory, methodology, and www.loudoun.gov produced through the programs constitutes scientific techniques to the conservation of the nation’s largest archive of historic archi- the architectural and archaeological her- The Maryland-National Capital Park tectural, engineering and landscape docu- itage. Its work is based on the principles and Planning Commission, Montgomery mentation. The collection may be accessed enshrined in the 1964 International Charter County Planning Department and online at the Library of Congress’ Prints on the Conservation and Restoration of Montgomery County (Maryland) and Photographs Division online catalog: Monuments and Sites (the Venice Charter). Government http://loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/ The US National Committee of the ICO- Planning in Montgomery County, Maryland MOS is one of the largest national commit- is performed by The Maryland-National National Road Alliance tees of ICOMOS. US/ICOMOS guides Capital Park & Planning Commission The National Road Alliance, a consortium and promotes activities through an exten- (M-NCPPC) a bi-county planning agency of the six National Road state organizations sive membership network of preservations

59 PROGRAM SPONSORS CORPORATE SPONSORS professionals, institutions, and organizations, AECOM and management. We provide clients with including selected scientific committees. AECOM is a global provider of profession- comprehensive solutions and provide long- US/ICOMOS also organizes an annual al technical and management support serv- term guidance in compliance with Section international scientific symposium, an inter- ices to a broad range of markets, including 106 of the National Historic Preservation national intern exchange program, and transportation, facilities, environmental, Act. Mead & Hunt, named by CE News as occasional special training courses and con- energy, water and government. With one of the top 10 engineering companies to ferences. In addition, US/ICOMOS pub- approximately 45,000 employees around work for in the nation, is employee-owned lishes a quarterly newsletter and an annual the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the with 330 people in offices nationwide. scientific journal. key markets that it serves. AECOM pro- http://www.meadhunt.com http://www.icomos.org/usicomos vides a blend of global reach, local knowl- edge, innovation, and technical excellence Parsons Brinckerhoff in delivering solutions that enhance and sus- Founded in 1885, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) tain the world’s built, natural, and social provides comprehensive services for trans- environments. A Fortune 500 company, portation and other infrastructure projects. AECOM serves clients in more than 100 PB’s services include program management, countries and had revenue of $6.1 billion planning, design, construction management, during its fiscal year 2009. More informa- operations and maintenance, and asset man- tion on AECOM and its services can be agement. An employee-owned firm, PB found at http://www.aecom.com. offers the resources of 12,000 highly skilled and motivated professionals from more than Mead & Hunt, Inc. 60 offices throughout the US. Long recog- Mead & Hunt provides professional services nized as a leading highway engineering A rustic road in the Beaverdam Creek Historic in historic preservation, transportation, firm, PB has made significant contributions Roadways District, Loudon County, Virginia. architecture, infrastructure and water to some of the most well-known road, Credit: Kate McConnell. resources engineering to clients throughout bridge and tunnel projects of the 20th cen- the US. Mead & Hunt’s historic preserva- tury, often working for the same client for tion business unit specializes in historic decades. Significant assignments in the bridge and road identification, evaluation firm’s history include the Detroit-Windsor

Tunnel, New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway, A Note of Thanks Saylor Moss, Volunteer Coordinator Baltimore’s I-95/Fort McHenry Tunnel, the Colette Carmouche, Christopher Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, PTHR 2010 gratefully acknowledges our Dearcangelis, Patsy Fletcher, Ryan Hawaii’s H-3 highway and Cincinnati’s Fort many volunteers who have been hard Kimberley, Anthony Le, Eric Leland, Washington Way. Recent and current proj- at work to ensure a quality conference Weifeng Mao, Deana Poss, Margaret ects include the Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge experience for all our delegates Prest, Kim Prothro Williams, Anne in Charleston, South Carolina, the I-10 Katy Raines, Bridget Serchak, Robin Ziek Freeway Reconstruction in Houston, Texas Conference Planning Committee and the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge out- Workshop Partners: side Washington, DC. PB is also part of the Christopher Marston, Chair Adele Air, Michael Ault, Steve Callcott, teams managing statewide, multi-billion- Dan Marriott, Founder Larry Cole, Christopher Chop, Tim dollar road programs in South Carolina, Tim Davis Cupples, Tim P. Davis, Edward Day, Anna Louisiana and Washington state. David Ames Dees, Tim Dennee, Steve Findley, Chris http://www.pbworld.com Anne Brockett Haugh, Homestead Farm, Bob and Perry Donna Holdorf Kapsch, Claire Kelly, Bruce Johnston, Gary Jensen Don Linebaugh, Terry Maxwell, Donald Maureen Joseph Beekman Myer, Randy Paugh, Kenvi Kate McConnell Phillips, Henry Plaster, Margaret Prest, MaryAnn Naber John Sower John B. Thomas, Susan Van Sarah Navid Wagoner, Marvin Watts, Cate McGinnis Bill Rice Wyatt, Megan Searing Young, James Zeller Nelson Rimensnyder Leslie Saville PTHR extends special thanks to Rebecca Gloria Scott Miller and Amanda McDonald of DC Andrea Tingey Preservation League for their assistance Matt Virta with our offsite events. We also wish to Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, 1915. thank longtime vendors Eileen Schramm Credit: US Library of Congress. visual communication and Petree Press,

61 for producing this program; Gimga Group with Section 106 of the National Historic ernments and preservation professionals to for maintaining our website, http://www. Preservation Act, integration of Section 106 design projects and programs that engage historicroads.org; and Copy General for and the National Environmental Policy Act the public through a variety of events and producing the Proceedings CDs. (NEPA) and Native American consultation. media, including displays, workshops, edu- The SRI Foundation also provides guidance cational materials, publications and public PTHR 2010 also extends its sincere ap - in integrating an agency’s historic preserva- forums. The SRI Foundation is located in preciation to Brenda Taylor of WorldView tion responsibilities with agency missions Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Our web site is: Travel, who has helped coordinate the and programs. The Foundation’s public out- http://www.srifoundation.org conference and care for or attendees since reach programs assist agencies, local gov- our first conference in Los Angeles. Lastly, PTHR 2010 extends a special note of gratitude to the SRI Foundation of New Mexico for helping to facilitate the meeting in Washington, DC.

SRI Foundation SRI Foundation’s mission is to enrich socie- ty by fostering historic preservation through education, public involvement and develop- ment of best practices in preservation compliance. This mission is accomplished by providing historic preservation expertise nationwide, training professionals and engaging the public. The Foundation offers specialized technical expertise and continu- ing professional education in the areas of historic preservation planning, compliance Baltimore Washington Parkway, ca. 1950. Credit: National Park Service

Glossary PTHR: Preserving the Historic Road TRB: Transportation Research Board conference US/ICOMOS: US/International Council AASHTO: American Association of State SHPO: State Historic Preservation on Monuments and Sites Highway and Transportation Officials Office/Officer AICP: American Institute of Certified Planners ASLA: American Society of Landscape Architects CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps—a Depression-era pubic works program CSS: Context Sensitive Solutions DOT: Department of Transportation FHWA: Federal Highway Administration Green Book: The standard engineering reference for highway design published by AASHTO HAER: Historic American Engineering Record MOA: Memorandum of Agreement MOU: Memorandum of Understanding MPO: Metropolitan Planning Organization NCHRP: National Cooperative Highway Research Program NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act NPS: National Park Service NTSB: National Transportation Safety Board PE: Professional Engineer Thomas Circle, Washington DC, looking north to 14th Street, NW (left) and Vermont Avenue (right), 1906. Credit: Library of Congress

63 Tollhouse and tollgate, east of Frederick on the old National Pike, Maryland, ca. 1890. Sponsored by: Omaha Declaration

American Association of State Highway Historic Roads are vitally important cultural and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) resources that embody significant developments in engineering, design and social history. America’s Byways Resource Center Recognizing the important role that roads AECOM have played in our nation’s history we believe District DOT that it is essential to develop strategies for managing historic road resources that combine DC Historic Preservation Office a firm commitment to historic preservation DC Preservation League with due respect for public safety and utility. Federal Highway Administration Preserving historic roads enhances our understanding of the American Experience, Loudoun County Department of Planning enriches our transportation system, and promotes The Maryland-National Capital Park and beneficial social, economic and practical goals. Planning Commission Montgomery County Government —Omaha Declaration, 2002 Mead & Hunt, Inc. Visit us: www.historicroads.org National Park Service r National Road Alliance Parsons Brinkerhoff Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates SRI Foundation

US International Council of Monuments Library. DC Public Credit: 1937. Parkway, and Potomac Rock Creek and Sites (US/ICOMOS)

Preserving the Historic Road gratefully acknowledges the Federal Highway Administration for their

generous underwriting of the design and printing of this conference program. cover: front Photo Design: Eileen Schramm visual communication.