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HISTORIC PRESERVATION PRACTICE METHODS
COURSE SYLLABUS
Spring, 2022
COURSE
DESCRIPTION: The course is designed to provide students with
practical training in three vitally important areas of preservation
practice: Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credits (RITC), National Register
Nominations, and Historic Sites and Structures Surveys.
Class presentations and discussion will focus on case studies and
the specific issues that you will likely confront in these areas of
practice. Assignments will
require preparation of a sample RITC application and its supporting
materials, a sample National Register nomination, and sample surveys.
Related tasks, such as the writing of proficient statements of
significance and building descriptions, the composition of photographs,
interpretation of the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for
Rehabilitation, and the reading of building plans also will be stressed.
A single class will offer a method for reconstructing the history
of land ownership, typically described as a chain of title.
Although assignments will be abbreviated versions of the project
documents in question, the course is intended to introduce students to the
level of professional competence required to practice in these areas of
historic preservation.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Classes will convene on Wednesday’s between 12:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M.
Topics and assignments will be arranged according to the
following schedule, although modifications may occur as the semester
progresses. Field study
will be incorporated into the course and may require meetings at times
other than Wednesday afternoons, depending on University guidelines
regarding travel and quarantine.
1. Wednesday,
January 19th
RITC – NPS and
Internal
Revenue Code. Course
and project
introductions. The RITC
segment of the
course will encompass several case studies, including a carriage house in
Montpelier that has been rehabilitated for use as office space. Both
the RITC and the National Register portions
of the course will use the building at 322
South Prospect Street, Office of UVM Continuing Education. Designed
by Frank Lyman Austin and
historically associated with suffragist Jeanette Pease, and later with
Margaret
Whiting, who was involved in the American Association of University
Women, the
building will serve as a
hypothetical tax
credit project and also as a sample NR nomination.
Documents for General Review During RITC Segment
1.
Secretary
of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation (Secretary's Standards),
and
Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
1990.
2.
Secretary
of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, Revised Guidelines.
December, 2007 (Class Distribution).
3.
NPS
Form 10-168. Historic
Preservation
Certification Application, Parts 1 and 2.
4.
Making
a Good Program Better. Final
Guidance
and Implementation of National Park System Advisory Board Recommendations
for
the Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, December, 2007;
and ITS
(Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards) 1-10.
(Class Distribution)
5.
36
CFR Part 67, Historic Preservation Certifications Pursuant to Section
48(g) and
Section 170(h) of the Internal Revenue Code, and 36 CFR Part 68, The
Secretary
of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation Projects.
(Document 80, HP 205 Course Book).
6.
National
Park Service, Introduction to
Federal Tax
Credits for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings.
Barns.
7.
Vermont
Division for Historic Preservation.
The Historic Architecture of Vermont. Guide
to Vermont Architecture.
2. Wednesday, January
26th
RITC
– NPS.
Inspection of 322 South
Prospect
Street, Office of UVM Continuing Education. Grace. We
will develop a hypothetical rehabilitation
project and use that to prepare the RITC application Part 1 and Part 2.
Discussion will focus on preparation of Parts 1 and 2;
writing statements of significance and building descriptions; and
discussion
and interpretation of the Secretary's Standards for Rehabilitation.
Readings:
1. Secretary
of the Interior’s Standards for
Rehabilitation, pages 1-120;
2.
Committee on the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, “Report
to
the National
3. Committee
on the Federal Rehabilitation Tax
Credit Program, “Making a Good
Recommendations for the Federal Historic
Rehabilitation
Tax Credit
4.
Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards (ITS), Numbers 11-20.
5.
RITC Application – Fisher Carriage House, Montpelier, Parts 1 and
2.
6.
Eliot Lothrop, “Moving a Carriage House,” Journal of Light
Construction
(October 2017): 51-56.
RITC – NPS. Preparation
of
Parts 1 and 2; writing statements of significance and building
descriptions;
discussion and interpretation of the Secretary's Standards for
Rehabilitation;
review of case studies; review of project plans.
Readings:
1.
36 CFR Part 67, Historic Preservation Certifications Pursuant to
Section
48(g) and
for Historic Preservation Projects (HP205 Course
Book Document
2.
Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards (ITS), Numbers 21-30.
RITC - NPS. Preparation
of
Part 2; discussion and interpretation of the Secretary's Standards for
Rehabilitation;
review of case studies.
Readings:
1.
Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards (ITS), Numbers 31-40;
2.
National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services, “Historic
Preservation Tax
5. Wednesday, February
16th
RITC -NPS. Preparation
of
Part 3; discussion and interpretation of the Secretary's Standards for
Rehabilitation;
review of case studies; review and conclusion of class RITC project.
Readings:
1.
Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards (ITS), Numbers 41-50.
6. Wednesday, February
23rd. RITC
Application Due.
Land Title Records. Field
trip
to the Shelburne Town Clerk’s Office to study title and deed searches
related to the history of land ownership.
Colleen Haag, Town Clerk.
Readings:
1.
National
Register Bulletin 15, "How to Apply the National Register Criteria for
Evaluation.
National Register Nominations. Developing
statements
of significance and evaluating historic contexts.
Possible field trip to the Vermont Division
for Historic Preservation.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 15, "How to Apply the National Register
Criteria for
2.
National Register Bulletin 16A, “How to Complete the National
Register
Form.
8. Wednesday, March 9th.
Spring Recess. No
Class
9. Wednesday, March 16th
National Register Nominations. Developing
statements
of significance and evaluating historic contexts.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 16A, “How to Complete the National
Register
Registration
2.
National Register Bulletin 19, "Policies and Procedures for
Processing National
10. Wednesday, March
23rd
National Register Nominations. Developing
statements
of significance and evaluating historic contexts; National Register
eligibility;
historic districts; and multiple property
documentation forms.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 16B, "How to Complete the National
Register Multiple
2.
National Register Bulletin 22, “Guidelines for Evaluating and
Nominating
Properties
3.
National Register Bulletin 32, “Guidelines for Evaluating and
Documenting Properties
11. Wednesday, March
30th
National Register Nominations.
Developing descriptions, delineating nomination boundaries, maps,
taking
photographs, nomination procedures for community involvement before and
after
nomination, and archeological resources.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 21,
"Defining
Boundaries for National Register Properties."
2.
National Register Bulletin 23, "How
to
Improve the Quality of Photographs for National Register Nominations."
12.
Wednesday, April
6th
Historic Sites
and
Structures Survey. National
Register and State Register
eligibility.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 24,
"Guidelines
for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning."
Historic Sites
and
Structures Survey.
National Register and State Register
eligibility.
1.
National Register Bulletin 24, "Guidelines for Local Surveys: A
Basis for Preservation
14. Wednesday, April
20th
Historic Sites and Structures Survey.
Group and individual field study.
Building descriptions.
Readings:
1.
National Register Bulletin 24,
"Guidelines
for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning."
15. Wednesday, April
27th
Historic Sites and Structures Survey.
Group and individual field study.
Building descriptions.
Readings:
1. National
Register Bulletin 24, "Guidelines
for Local Surveys: A Basis for
16. Wednesday, May 4th
Historic Sites and Structures Survey.
Field Trip: Surveys
in rural
communities, Keeseville, New York.
Steven Englelhart, Emeritus Executive Director of Adirondack
Architectural Heritage, Inc., a non-profit preservation organization, will
meet
with the class in Keeseville.
COURSE INFORMATION
GRADES.
Grades will be based on the assignments, each given equal
weight, and on overall participation
READINGS. Most of the
course materials have been provided, but students should purchase three
documents at Staples, available for the cost of copying:
1.
National Park Service Advisory Board, Committee on the Federal
Rehabilitation
Those who are thinking about
careers as preservation consultants should consider purchasing the
three-volume set titled Interpreting the Secretary’s Standards by
the National Park Service, for the cost of copying.
The National Register bulletins will be provided at no cost.
The following reading list may be supplemented by other
materials.
RITC Segment
1. National
Park Service. Historic
Preservation Certification Application – Significance
2.
National Park
Service. Review Sheets –
Historic Preservation Certification
3.
National Park Service
Advisory Board, Committee on the Federal Rehabilitation
4. Secretary
of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Illustrated
Guidelines for
5.
RITC Application,
Quinlen Block, Barre, VT
6. RITC
Application, Fisher Carriage House, Montpelier, VT
7. Eliot
Lothrop, “Moving a Carriage House,” Journal of Light Construction
(October
8. 36
CFR Part 67, Historic Preservation Certifications Pursuant to Section
48(g) and
National
Register Segment
1. National Park
Service. “National Register
Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National
2. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 16A: How to
Complete the
3. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 16B: How to Complete the
4. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 19: Policies and Procedures for
5. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 21: Defining Boundaries for
6. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 22: Guidelines for Evaluating and
7. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 23: How to Improve the Quality
8. National
Park Service. “National
Register Bulletin 32: Guidelines for Evaluating and
9. 36
CFR 60. National Register of
Historic Places.
10. National Register
Nomination, “Spaulding Bridge,” Cavendish, VT (2004) UVM
11. National Register
Nomination, “Mad River Glen Cooperative Ski Area Historic District,”
Fayston VT (2010) UVM
12. National Register
Nomination, “Hinesburg Town Forest,” Hinesburg, VT, by Sarah
13. National Register
Nomination, “Waitsfield Common Historic District,” Waitsfield,
VT,
by Paula Sagerman (2000)
14. National Register Multiple
Property Nomination, “Fire Stations of Vermont.” (2005)
Historic Sites and
Structures Survey Segment
1. National Park
Service. “National Register
Bulletin 24: Guidelines for Local Surveys:
2. Vermont Division
for Historic Preservation, Guide to Vermont Architecture (1992)