Historic Preservation Terminal Projects

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/1794/6556

Browse

Now showing 1 - 20 of 79

Open Access
ACCESSIBILITY RETROFIT GUIDEBOOK: A Resource for Carnegie Library Building Owners to Meet ADA Requirements while Preserving Historic Integrity
(University of Oregon, 2013) Henderson, Stacey Renee
At the turn of the Twentieth century, public libraries were built in communities big and small around the United States as a result of donations from Andrew Carnegie. His philanthropic vision was to turn his "fortune into knowledge, thought, freedom, and power." and providing these libraries was his way of achieving that goal.2 These buildings influenced the development of the public library system, library building design, and they were built in communities that otherwise would not of been able to afford one at the time. In total, there were 2,509 libraries originally built between 1885 and 1920 throughout the world, and many are still standing today. 3 In order for these buildings to continue to support their communities and tell their stories, they need to be updated to comply with modern demands and building regulations. A common challenge Carnegie library build- ings face is that their original designs are not compliant with current accessibility laws and codes such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Although many of these buildings no longer operate as libraries, most still serve the public in one way or another; therefore, performing accessibility retrofits is essential and ensures that all building users are provided the same experience and services.
Open Access
ADAPTIVE USE: THE EVALUATION OF HISTORIC URBAN MARKETPLACES
(University of Oregon, 1983) Holtz, Paul Anderson
This is a study on adaptive use both as a concept and as a functioning form of architectural practice. The primary vehicle for the discussion of adaptive use has been the historic urban marketplace. Of the markets selected for discussion, the Faneuil Hall Markets of Boston , Massachusetts and the Pike Place Markets of Seattle, Washington have been emphasized. iii The analysis of the historic urban marketplace was directed toward three primary concerns; societal (community needs) , operational (function), and architectural (Physical elements). The investigation utilized both primary and secondary information. Data was obtained from existing literature sources as well as from visiting the actual market sites. The study determined that it is possible for adaptive use projects to be accomplished with respect for the historic fabric of the market and its facilities.
Open Access
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER: IDENTIFYING TRENDS IN HISTORJC FIRE LOOKOUT PRESERVATION THROUGH SELECTED CASE STUDIES AND A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
(University of Oregon, 2013-06) Hill, John Peregrine
Although time, weather, and the lack of public visibility present great challenges in the preservation of historic fire lookouts, other issues such as preservation policy and incoherent trends in lookout preservation contribute to the vanishing state of these purpose-built structures. Not only do fire lookouts represent a brief historical period where men and women actively occupied thousands of remote stations throughout the country, but they also convey the subsequent decline of fire lookout observation, culture, and preservation. At the beginning of the 21 " century, many of the remaining fire lookouts are disappearing into the landscape as both limited federal funding, and the lack of preservation attention, creates conditions which promote lookout deterioration and neglect. This study chronicles both past and present patterns in lookout preservation while exploring and developing historic preservation approaches in order to further promote future fire lookout preservation. A collection of statistical data has been analyzed in order to identify and quantify fire lookout typology, rarity, and vulnerability based on a set of predetermined parameters. Selected case studies will provide a narrative element to the statistical analysis, and provide support for the hypothesis that certain fire lookout building construction types fair better than others. Lookout case studies and examples include fire lookouts from two states (Oregon and Washington), though field research and site visit documentation has also been conducted in five (California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Arizona).
Open Access
ANALYSIS AND REHABILITATION OF THE COZINE HOUSE McMINNVILLE, OREGON
(University of Oregon, 1987) Lakin, Kimberly
The Cozine House is a Queen Anne style house built in 1892 by Samuel and Mahala Cozine, an Oregon pioneer family. The house is located at the western edge of the historic commercial core on Third Street in McMinnville, Oregon. The house is recognized as a rank A property on the City's Cultural Resource Inventory because of its association with Samuel and Mahala Cozine. It is also noted as a good example of the Queen Anne style within the City of McMinnville. The Cozines are significant to the history of McMinnville as they were one of the first three families to settle in the area. They are also important for their generous contribution of land to McMinnville College, now known as Linfield College, which led to the establishment of this fine school which has a nationally respected reputation.
Open Access
Beyond City Beautiful: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes at the International Rose Test Garden and Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon
(University of Oregon, 2023-06) Tran, Lindsay
Historical interpretation (alternately referred to in this research as “heritage interpretation and “public interpretation”) often limits the narratives that are highlighted for public consumption in places of historical importance. I argue via discussion of cultural landscape theory and material rhetoric (the idea that discourse is material, i.e. that beyond content, the format of a piece of communication carries a rhetorical power of its own) that such limitations are a choice, not an inevitability—especially with cultural landscapes, which thanks to their relationship with time are historic resources of a particularly dynamic character. Treating public parks as cultural landscapes that evolve over time, rather than as historic sites wedded to a discrete period of significance, allows for a more flexible interpretation of their historical meaning. When parks are treated as cultural landscapes, their significance to many people and many groups throughout history presents as a coherent narrative, rather than a haphazard and seemingly unrelated collection of events. Using the inductive process of grounded theory as a methodological approach, I critically examine the extant interpretive infrastructure in two case studies, Laurelhurst Park and the International Rose Test Garden. I explore the material form of each park’s historical interpretation as a series of rhetorical choices, and then suggest expansions based on each park’s respective history and the material rhetoric of the existing interpretive infrastructure.
Open Access
Building Bend: The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store
(University of Oregon, 2014-05-28) Blackmore, Helen
Per the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is historically significant on a local level, and listed in the National Register under Criteria A, B, and C; for its architectural style, and links to the settlement period and commerce in the Deschutes Valley, and for its association with the pioneer Smith family. Built to house the Smith family, and the N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware store, the Smith's finished construction of the wood-frame building in 1909. For twenty years it served as a hardware store, while the Smith family lived in the second floor residence above for over 90 years. The building has now stood in the same location, in largely the same form, for 105 years making it unique on Bend's Wall Street.
Open Access
A Comprehensive Study of Historical Adobe Urban Dwellings: Case Study Guadalajara, Mexico
(University of Oregon, 2014) Flores, Jacquelin
In the last decade, the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, has witnessed the inevitable loss of patrimonial buildings in the downtown area. The absence of enforced protective legislation, public education initiatives. public interest, public and private funding and urban sprawl in Mexican cities are all major contributors to the disappearance and loss of this invaluable cultural resource.
Open Access
DEVELOPING A PROPOSED HISTORICAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR HISTORIC OREGON FURNITURE
(University of Oregon, 1994-06) Sutherland, Ross E.
For nearly a century Oregon museums and private collectors have preserved and exhibited historic Oregon furniture. The documentation of Oregon's historic furniture industry, however, has not kept pace with ongoing documentation projects in other areas of the country. These projects may involve extensive document searches and photographic surveys of extant pieces. To expedite the documentation of historic Oregon furniture, by maximizing the expenditure of human and financial resources, this thesis proposes a Historical Research Management Plan. The proposed plan is subdivided into six phases which reflect ever deepening levels of historic documentation. The phase sequencing guides researchers from objective data collection to subjective evaluation and interpretation, of historic Oregon furniture, using selected documentation strategies for historic furniture in public museums. Since documenting historic Oregon furniture at a state level is currently impractical, this plan may be applied to specific geographic areas and time periods in building toward this broader documentary goal.
Open Access
A DOCUMENTATION AND RESTORATION PLAN FOR THE FIRST CHRISTIAN ADVENT CHURCH IN JOHN DAY, OREGON
(University of Oregon, 1991-12) Netch, Timothy Francis
The First Christian Advent Church is a late Carpenters Gothic building constructed in John Day, Oregon in 1900. The building was designed and possibly built by Samuel Bayliss Hope, about whom little is known. The church is most remarkable for the profusion of ornament on its exterior and interior. The moldings are a very late manifestation of hand-planed decoration. This study documents the building, and also makes extensive recommendations for its restoration. The church is in moderately good condition both physically and historically, though there_ are numerous problems which will require intervention. Recommendations are intended to return the building to its 1900 appearance. The guidelines are technical in nature, and include the re-milling of moldings, reinforcement of the roof structure, foundation wall repair, and refinishing of interior surfaces.
Open Access
Early Densification in an Urban Center: Portland, Oregon and the War Code Housing Program
(University of Oregon, 2019) Franey, Kerrie
In order to house the thousands of workers migrating to Portland, Oregon to fill jobs in war-related industries during World War II, Portland’s government relaxed building code standards to allow temporary housing through internal conversions and accessory dwelling units such as garages, outbuildings, and trailers. This terminal project examines Portland’s War Code Housing Program as a historical example of rapid densification in an urban center. Using a database of property information and GIS shapefiles, this terminal project assesses the relaxation of the City’s building code to determine whether a similar relaxation of certain aspects of today’s building code could safely and effectively further encourage dense and affordable housing in Portland. The model of internal conversions and accessory dwelling units to create housing is not radical and is already in discussion among Portland’s urban planners. This is the first published record of the sites associated with the War Code Housing Program and the accompanying data will be valuable to future researchers, city officials, and Portland’s residents.
Open Access
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve : a model for success in preservation
(University of Oregon, 2012-06) Davis, Ashley N.
There is a shift that has been taking place in the west for a while now, and it is moving the focus of many National Park Service sites away from federal land ownership. This change revolves around the many controversies that come into effect when too much land is owned by the government. One of the categories affected by this shift includes that of historic preservation. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve is one of the places that are addressing this change. Through a unique management setup, with the regular involvement of the residents, and various programs created to prevent such controversy, Ebey's Landing NHR is resolving many of the issues that other NPS sectors face today. It is a breathtaking cultural landscape that integrates historic preservation practices into the daily lives its community members and is a model for other sites to follow as this change reaches those areas.
Open Access
An Energy Reduction Strategy & Retrofit Guidebook for Owners of Historic Brick Buildings: Weighing the Values & Implications of Energy Efficiency & Historic Integrity
(University of Oregon, 2013) St. Charles, Evanne
Owners of historic buildings are often faced with making decisions regarding the retrofit of their building without having all of the information necessary to make informed choices concerning what is appropriate for their particular project. Thus, the purpose of this guidebook is to provide a framework for building owners to follow when weighing the potential benefits and tradeoffs between increasing energy efficiency and maintaining the historic integrity of their building. Additionally, the guidebook will aid the building owner in understanding the wide range of methods that are possible in order to significantly reduce the building 's energy use while working within the values of historic integrity set by the project.
Open Access
Environmental Living in Postwar Honolulu: Harry W. Seckel's Woodlawn Terrace Subdivision
(2019-03) Englund, Lauren
"The modern Hawaiian house," Harry W. Seckel, FAIA (1906-1978) asserted in Hawaiian Residential Architecture, "should be one that is as one with its immediate environment as possible." Published in 1954, the Honolulu architect's book tapped into an important zeitgeist in modernism. individual architects from Japan to California, reacting against what they perceived as a growing conformity in residential architecture, sought to create more climatically, culturally responsive homes and communities. Charismatic and eloquent, Seckel easily assumed his role from 1950 until 1965 as Hawai'i's unofficial public spokesman for advancing a similar type of regional distinction. Significantly, the release of Hawaiian Residential Architecture coincided with the opening of his new Honolulu subdivision, Woodlawn Terrace. From 1954 to 1965, Seckel completed fifty-seven single-family homes along the slopes of the Wa'Ahila Ridge. More than half a century later, fifty-three remain standing with their historic character-defining features largely intact, from tongue-and-groove vertical redwood siding and wide eaves to integrated lānaʻis and plate-glass windows with views of the natural environment. Despite his accomplishments, Seckel is a largely obscure figure in Hawai'i; most of his like-minded Honolulu colleagues and their surviving homes are similarly under acknowledged in literature and the media. Vulnerable to redevelopment due to a lack of regulatory oversight, Hawai'i's mid-century modern houses deserve greater public recognition for their historic significance and continued livability. The following narrative of Harry Seckel's own ideation of the modern Hawai'ian home provides a more comprehensive understanding of this building type in a historic context, connecting the trajectory of Seckel's cosmopolitan career to key trends in pre- and postwar modern architecture and analyzing the historic functional and aesthetic design components of his Woodlawn Terrace subdivision and 1960 Wallace and Maizie Sanford residence.
Open Access
Eugene Masonic Cemetery: Condition Assessment and Treatment of the Historic Grave Markers and Mausoleum
(University of Oregon, 2014-05) Espinosa, David
Grave markers as a historic resource occupy a very unique context since the setting of these artifacts is typically open to the elements and highly accessible to the public. Due to deferred maintenance, vandalism, inappropriate repairs, and the relentless weather, the historic grave markers of the Eugene Masonic Cemetery (EMC) are under threat of deterioration and eventual loss. The grave markers not only impart the historic significance that defines the Eugene Masonic Cemetery, but also serve as the tangible legacy of those whom they represent, including many of the original settlers of Eugene. Historic cemeteries often struggle to acquire the resources necessary to create and execute a consistent and comprehensive maintenance plan. This was temporarily abated when it became a study within the Historic Preservation program of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon with the support of the Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association (EMCA). The tested treatments cited in this report can be applied to future maintenance and restoration programs in the Eugene Masonic Cemetery as well as other historic cemeteries of similar context. Future treatments, however, should be undertaken solely by a professional, who fully understands the treatment plans and products in this report.
Open Access
Exploring the Utility Of BIM in Buildings Archaeology: A Case Study at the Historic Briggs House, Springfield, Oregon
(University of Oregon, 2013-05) Arnold, John D. M.
The objective of this project was to investigate the utility of Buildings Information Modeling (BIM) in a Buildings Archaeology approach to the study of the box-constructed first build (c. 1872) and stud-wall framed second build (c. 1892) of the Briggs House in Springfield, Oregon. The use of BIM software ArchiCAD was tested as an aid to the exploration and recordation of structural elements discovered through direct study of the house. The software was found to be highly useful in the coordination and consolidation of building information as it is collected from the field, and for the digital extrapolation from this collected information in the creation of a completed model. The product of this work is a concise, complete, and accurate digital model which may be used for the subsequent production of 2D, 3D, and 4D interpretive materials.
Open Access
The F.E. Company industrial site : historic resources and preservation potential
(1993-08) Reckard, M. K.
Large scale corporate mining operations had a broad impact on the sparsely settled areas of western North America in the early twentieth century. The Fairbanks Exploration Company's gold dredging operations were probably the most remote of these, and their Townsite on Illinois Street is one of the best preserved and most coherent examples of this development, with national historical significance. It has regional importance as the headquarters of the dominant force in the economy of Interior Alaska in the 1920s and 30s. It is significant architecturally, as it contains much of the finest local residential, commercial, and industrial architecture of the period. It contains important examples of period technology and engineering, including a complete collection of machine tools and the region's first concrete and steel framed buildings. There is little doubt that the Townsite is the most important historic site in Fairbanks, perhaps all of Interior Alaska, and the F.E.'s Industrial Complex is its most important part. Most of the historic resources of the Townsite, long an almost forgotten part of Fairbanks, will soon be gone. Much of the Industrial Complex in the Townsite's western half is being destroyed as this is being written (a few buildings will probably be relocated to one side of the site). Highway construction threatens the landscape, if not the buildings, of the remainder of the Townsite. A number of opportunities will be lost along with the Industrial Complex. Of foremost importance to this report are the lost opportunities for historic preservation.
Open Access
FEASIBILITY AND APPLICATION OF DENDROCHRONOLOGY IN OREGON UTILIZING DOUGLAS FIR: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
(University of Oregon, 2014) Chilvers, Stuart Emerson
The focus of this study is the Martin Powers Barn, located near Cave Junction, Oregon. The goal of this paper was to determine and verify dates of construction and modification of the barn, to construct a new long-term reference chronology for the Cave Junction area, to evaluate the validity of using Douglas fir for dendrochronology and to identify the criteria for the tree-ring dating of historic structures within the Pacific Northwest.
Open Access
Foundational Growth: The Role of California Women's Clubs in Community Building, Historic Preservation and Environmental Conservation
(University of Oregon, 2023-06) Possert, Nicole Y.
Starting in the late 1980s, I lived in the Highland Park community of Los Angeles for nearly thirty years. Over half of that time, I helped infuse new energy into the landmark Highland Park Ebell Club (HPEC), one of the oldest surviving women’s clubs in Los Angeles. (Figure 1.) That two-decade journey of service, continuing the legacy of many previous generations of local women who envisioned, built, and sustained their community, led me to this research. The gendered space of the HPEC’s “Clubhouse” and its distinct and lasting presence in Highland Park piqued my interest in the unexplored role of women in society and how they shaped community both physically and socially. The work and contribution of these women, through their club and in collaboration with other women, can be experienced in the built environment well beyond the clubhouse they built. They shaped their community’s landscape by preserving nature as parkland, creating playgrounds, libraries, museums, building theirown residences and landscaping, and actively working to preserve and conserve places in and beyond their locale in the name of community service. Today these advocacy actions are considered historic preservation and environmental conservation activities and fall within the broader umbrella of place making/ keeping. These women and their accomplishments within the women’s club ecosystem are relatively unknown and certainly undervalued in today’s academic and professional discourse about the important role of women in community building, historic preservation, and environmental conservation. In this terminal project, I expand the knowledge and importance of these untold histories by uncovering and shedding new light on the contributions of women’s clubs in California.
Open Access
From Wagons to Houses: House Moving in Oregon, and New Treatments for Old Ideas
(University of Oregon, 2012-06-18) Borth, Holly Renee
"Structural movement is recognized as an important aspect of historic preservation." This is the very first sentence journal article author Bill Lee used to begin his article about the move of the Czech and Slovak Museum and Library (CSML). Lee goes on to say, "The elevation or re-location of historic structures in order to preserve them is now an accepted alternative to destruction and loss." And yet the move to which these comments refer was for a structure built in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1979. This structure, the CSML, would have great difficulty fitting into any landscape, no matter how much consideration the architect may have put forth. A flood in 2008 necessitated it be moved, and Bill Lee's belief that he acted in accordance with preservation ethos is fair. In those two statements, Lee stated his bold beliefs about how moving historical structures is an aspect of historic preservation; unfortunately, acceptance of structural moving within the preservation are not as in tune as Lee makes it sound. Professional preservationists still have a negative attitude toward moving historic structures, when, in truth, it is not nearly as severe as what is often the structure's only other option--demolition.
Open Access
GAMBLING AS A TOOL FOR FUNDING SMALL TOWN PRESERVATION: A CASE STUDY OF DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA
(University of Oregon, 1995-03) Dennis, Michelle L.
Traditionally, small towns have been at a disadvantage in funding historic preservation efforts as most federal and state funding programs tend to focus on projects in urban areas. Because small towns are an important form of American community, funding the preservation of historic resources and character defining features which make small towns desirable is essential. This study examines the use and results of legalized gambling as a tool to fund small town preservation, using Deadwood, South Dakota as a case study. A literature review defines what small towns are and why they should be preserved, as well as preservation issues, including planning, resource identification, and funding. The implementation of gambling in Deadwood, preservation management issues, gambling-funded projects and impacts on the community are discussed, as are successes and failures associated with this method of funding. Using Deadwood's experience, implications and guidelines for other communities are discussed.