University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program

HP 205 Historic Preservation Law

Robert McCullough

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HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAW
SYLLABUS - FALL, 2007

 

INTRODUCTION: PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Class and Date and Reading Assignment

1. Mondy, August 27th
Introduction and Library Tour

2. Wednesday, August 29th
Documents 1 -3b

 

PART 1 - FEDERAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAWS

Class and Date and Reading Assignment

3. Monday, September 3rd
Labor Day Recess

4. Wednesday, September 5th
Documents 4 - 8
Assignment No. 1 Due

5. Monday, September 10th
Documents 10 - 12

6. Wednesday, September 12th
Documents 13 - 18

7. Monday, September 17th
Documents 20 - 22 (Scan Doc. 20)

8. Wednesday, September 19th
Documents 23 ­ 28
Assignment No. 2 Due

9. Monday, September 24th
Documents 29 - 31 (Scan. Doc. 29)

10. Wednesday, September 26th
Documents 32 - 36 (Scan Doc. 33 but master Section 4(f); also master Doc. 35, Section 771.135.)

11. Monday, October 1st
Documents 37 - 42 (Scan Doc. 38 and Doc. 39)

12. Wednesday, October 3rd
Documents 43 - 50 (Scan Doc. 49)
Assignment No. 3 Due

 

PART 2 - STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAWS

Class and Date and Reading Assignments

13. Monday, October 8th
Documents 51 - 52 (Scan Doc. 52)

14. Wednesday, October 10th
Documents 53 - 55
7:00 P.M., Wheeler House: Voluntary Review Session

15. Monday, October 15th
Mid-Term Examination

 

PART 3 - LOCAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAWS

Class and Date and Reading Assignments

16. Wednesday, October 17th
Documents 57 - 61

17. Monday, October 22nd
Documents 62 - 64 (Scan Doc. 63 and Doc. 64)

18. Wednesday, October 24th
Preservation Commission Hearing (Assignment No. 4)

 

PART 4 - CONFLICT: TAKINGS, DUE PROCESS, RELIGIOUS PROPERTIES, AUTHORITY, AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS

Class and Date and Reading Assignments

19. Monday, October 29th
Documents 65 - 67

20. Wednesday, October 31st
Documents 68 - 72

21. Monday, November 5th
Documents 73 - 75

22. Wednesday, November 7th
Documents 76 - 79

 

PART 5 - PERIPHERY: REAL PROPERTY LAW, ECONOMIC AND TAX INCENTIVES, HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Class and Date and Reading Assignments

23. Monday, November 12th
Documents 80 - 84

24. Wednesday, November 14th
Documents 85-88b

25. Monday, November 19th
Thanksgiving Recess

26. Wednesday, November 21st
Thanksgiving Recess

27. Monday, November 26th
Document 89

28. Wednesday, November 28th
Documents 90 - 95

29. Monday, December 3rd
Documents 96 - 99 (Scan Doc. 96)

30. Wednesday, December 5th
Review

31. Friday, December 14th
Final Exam: 11:45

READINGS: (1) Edited volume of course materials;

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS: John Costonis, Icons and Aliens. Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989. A copy has been placed on reserve at Bailey Howe Library