• I used to... 

  Spivey, Meg (University of Oregon, 2023-08)

  Composed in three sections, “I used to...” explores the tension between my past and present self. It is a reflection on growth, stagnation, and how we can perceive ourselves through past identities and grieve for them. ...
• Meeting the Tower 

  Evans, Mary (University of Oregon, 2023)

  The wheel of change spins, creating cylindrical space like a slow-moving tornado in which we reside in the center. It collapses in on itself. Memory creates the shape of a spiral thrust forward into the future, mimicking ...
• ONWARD HISTORIC PRESERVATION! EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NEW CONSTRUCTION THROUGH LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA): A POLICY PERSPECTIVE 

  Wheeler, Terra Ettrick (University of Oregon, 2016)

  The initial motivation for this project was the desire to root academic research and knowledge in practical application. After living in Portland, Oregon for ten years I began to witness the destruction of historic ...
• DEVELOPING A PROPOSED HISTORICAL RESEARCH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR HISTORIC OREGON FURNITURE 

  Sutherland, Ross E. (University of Oregon, 1994-06)

  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 ...
• HOUSING FOR AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: A NEW COMMUNITY FOR OLD TOWN PORTLAND 

  Roth, Teresa Foley (University of Oregon, 1972-08-10)

  Cities have traditionally been dynamic places of diversity and opportunity. This century, however, has seen a steady urban to suburban migration by the middle economic class. They have left the cities to the few rich and ...
• THE PRESERVATION OF PRE-WORLD WAR TWO COAST GUARD ARCHITECTURE IN OREGON 

  Pinyerd, David A. (University of Oregon, 2000-06)

  The core mission of the United States Life-Saving Service, later to become the United States Coast Guard, has always been to rescue the victims of shipwreck. To serve this mission, coastal rescue stations were built by ...
• A DOCUMENTATION AND RESTORATION PLAN FOR THE FIRST CHRISTIAN ADVENT CHURCH IN JOHN DAY, OREGON 

  Netch, Timothy Francis (University of Oregon, 1991-12)

  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 ...
• SUSTAINING CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN THE CASCADIA BIOREGION: APPLYING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR'S STANDARDS FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION TO PROCESSES 

  Meacham, Matthew Andy (University of Oregon, 1998-03)

  Cultural resources such as buildings or landscapes degrade, disintegrate, or disappear when the processes which created and sustained them are interrupted or discontinued. These processes may respond to interventions usually ...
• A PROPOSAL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EARLY WESTERN ARCHITECTURE IN SEOUL, KOREA 

  Lee, Sohyun Park (University of Oregon, 1990-06)

  Early Western architecture generally refers to buildings shaped by Western influences built during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Korea opened its doors to the West and confronted Western culture ...
• ANALYSIS AND REHABILITATION OF THE COZINE HOUSE McMINNVILLE, OREGON 

  Lakin, Kimberly (University of Oregon, 1987)

  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, ...
• IN THE SHADOW OF NEAHKAHNIE: NORTHWEST REGIONAL STYLE BEGINNINGS 

  Kadas, Marianne Hakanson (University of Oregon, 199-06)

  This thesis is the study of the North Oregon coastal community of Neahkahnie, its history and the events leading up to its development, the subsequent summer artist colony, and the early architecture as designed by ...
• HISTORY AND PRESERVATION OF STAINED GLASS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: THE POVEY BROS. GLASSCO. OFPORTLAND, OREGON 

  Heald, Leslie S. (University of Oregon, 1999-12)

  This thesis examines the operations of the Povey Bros. stained glass studio, active in Portland, Oregon from 1888 to 1929, within the context of historic American stained glass. The design and manufacturing processes ...
• HISTORIC LOOKOUT STATIONS ON THE WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST: MANAGEMENT PLANS FOR PRESERVATION 

  Hartmans, Donna Marie (University of Oregon, 2022)

  The United States Forest Service constructed over 5,000 lookout stations to guard forests, beginning in the early 1900s. The Forest Service deemed these structures obsolete and began destroying them when other methods ...
• REREADING THE LIBRARY: A CULTURAL CONSERVATION APPROACH TO DETERMINING THE ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 

  Flathman, Jennifer L. (University of Oregon, 2007-12)

  The 1932 Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, marked a turning point in library design by employing architectural features that supported a service goal of inspiring public use, prompting changes in libraries ...
• GAMBLING AS A TOOL FOR FUNDING SMALL TOWN PRESERVATION: A CASE STUDY OF DEADWOOD, SOUTH DAKOTA 

  Dennis, Michelle L. (University of Oregon, 1995-03)

  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 ...
• A HISTORIC CONTEXT FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF HYDROELECTRICITY BY THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION, 1939-1945 

  Curran, Christine Ann (University of Oregon, 1998-06)

  The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) was created in 1937 to market power from Bonneville Dam and later, Grand Coulee Dam, two New Deal relief projects on the Columbia River. Between 1939 and 1945 the BPA built a ...
• HISTORIC CALIFORNIA RAILROAD STATIONS: EVALUATION AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 

  Catlin, Janice A. (University of Oregon, 1996-06)

  Historic Railroad Stations of California today exist in many diverse situations: from those which have become revitalized and integral parts of the community to those which have been ignored and left to ruin. These ...
• RICE, a queer yellow fantasy 

  Zeng, William (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  This text is an accompaniment towards a terminal creative project, RICE, a queer yellow fantasy, and describes the sociopolitical and cultural histories that my artistic practice is engaged in. This paper traces the three ...
• Memory of Returns 

  Gutnik, Anastasiya (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  I always wanted to carry my mother’s family name Vodonos, which translates to water bearer in Russian. Harkening back to generations that came before me, the name traces the labor of walking which provided this essential ...
• Permeable Boundaries 

  Peña, David (University of Oregon, 2023-06)

  Permeable boundaries is an intimate reflection of the past to understand the present — a contemplation of embedded histories, family, memory, grief, and borders. Coming from a geographical borderland between the westernmost ...

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