University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program HP 302 Community Preservation Projects Robert McCullough Links: Return to Homepage Course Syllabus Past Community Preservation Projects Project Sponsor Documents Student / Sponsor Project Statement

Adirondack Architectural Heritage, Inc.
1790 Main Street – Civic Center 312
Keeseville, New York 12944
Project Contact: Steven Engelhart
Telephone: 518-834-9328
E-Mail: aarch@aol.com

National Register Nominations.  Adirondack Architectural Heritage is seeking assistance in preparing National Register nominations for the following buildings. Individual Projects.   

1.  Estes House (Ausable Chasm, Essex County).  This is an 1850s stone house that will be the future home of an interpretive center about the Underground Railroad in the North Country, near to the Ausable Chasm tourist center. 
 
2.  Keene Valley Historic District (Essex County).  This is a village district with approximately twelve buildings.  A draft statement of significance has already been prepared, and descriptions of the buildings is now required.

3.  Lake Champlain Bridge Education Project.  The Lake Champlain Bridge, constructed in 1929 and recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is threatened with replacement.  Adirondack Architectural Heritage is leading a campaign to preserve it, and one aspect of that effort involves designing and completing a web site, brochure, and signage, all of which will be linked to the Lake Champlain Basin Program.  Individual Project.


Bakersfield Historical Society
Bakersfield Treasurer
P.O. Box 70
Bakersfield, Vermont 05441
Project Contact: Nancy Hunt
Telephone 802-827-4418

1.  National Register Nomination – Methodist Church.  Built in 1854 and situated at the northern edge of Bakersfield, the Greek Revival United Methodist Church is an important visual landmark for the community.  During the early 20th century, the building’s original entrance portico with Doric columns was removed and the front vestibule expanded.  Colonial Revival entrance doors and surround were added at this time, as well.  Despite these changes, the building’s important role in the community remains evident.  Individual Project


Barre Historical Society
c/o Karen Lane, Director
Aldrich Public Library
6 Washington Street
Barre, Vermont 05641-4227
(802) 476-7550, ext. #307 / aldrich@helicon.net

Building History / National Register Nominations.  The Barre Historical Society is interested in obtaining information about the history of a number of important buildings in the city, a preliminary step to placing them on the National Register.  Additional information about these buildings can be found in Belding, From Hitching Posts to Gas Pumps: A History of North Main Street, Barre, Vermont, 1875-1915 (Potash Brook Publlishers, 2003) and in Barre in Retrospect, a library booklet that profiles these and other Barre buildings.  If you are interested, please see me about communicating with building owners.  Individual Projects

1.  Blackwell Street Stone Shed.  The horseshoe-shaped stone shed on Blackwell Street near the overpass is one of the last survivors of a unique architectural style prevalent in New England stone sheds during the 19th century. The horseshoe-shaped shed became a prototype for many of the granite-working plants in the area and was served by a boom derrick capable of delivering blocks of granite directly to each segment of the shed for finishing. The next generation of granite sheds consisted of long, high, rectangular buildings housing overhead traveling cranes to move the heavy blocks of stone.

2.  Washington County Sanatorium.  Located on Beckley Hill, the sanatorium was built in 1921 and is now the property of Washington County Mental Health

3.  Paddock House, 182 So Main St.  Built in 1813 and the home of Barre’s first physician Robert Paddock (1793-1842), this building now houses the law office of City Attorney Oliver Twombly.

4.  Dennison Smith House.  Located on Route 14 in South Barre, this house was built in 1805 as the home of one of Barre’s early lawyers, Dennison Smith (1784-1836).

5.  The Knoll Motel.  Built by Stan and Minnie Sabens in 1949/1950, the motel has remained in family ownership and is a well preserved example of Vermont’s Post-World War II tourist era.   The project contact is Kelly Sabens, president of The Knoll Motel, Inc., and her e-mail address is kellysue58@charter.net.


The Big Heavy World Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 428
Burlington, Vermont 05402-0428
Project Contact: James Lockridge, Executive Director
Telephone: 802-865-1140
E-Mail: jim@bigheavyworld.net
Web Site: VMLS.org

1.  National Register Nomination.   The L.S. Gordon Store in Starksboro, an early 20th century, 1 1/2 story frame commercial block, is being rehabilitated by the Big Heavy World Foundation, Inc., for use as an archival and library collection of Vermont music.  The owners are interested in establishing an historical record of the building and are considering nominating it to the National Register.  Starksboro Village is already an historic district listed on the State Register of Historic Places.  Individual Project.

2.  Interpretive Wayside Exhibit – Green Mountain Cold Spring Creamery.  The Big Heavy World Foundation has recently acquired adjoining land once occupied by the Green Mountain Cold Spring Creamery, founded in 1898 and an important industry in Starksboro for almost 100 years.  Although the building is no longer standing, the site offers an important opportunity to reclaim that history through interpretive exhibits.  The creamery manufactured butter from cream that local farmers would deliver after separating their milk at home, storing it in cans in the farm water box. In the summer they'd deliver their cream every other day; in the winter every three days or so. In the 1920's the use of trucks increased for transportation and the large industrial cities of southern New England became accessible to farmers in northern Vermont. The creamery began to process whole milk and deliver it to Boston in 1929. In the mid 1930's it expanded, enlarging its building, buying new equipment, and acquiring the land on the east side of the road, the site of the proposed wayside exhibit. 

The creamery changed ownership through the decades and was known at different times as the Monkton Creamery Company and Mountain View Creamery. Dairy farmers from Starksboro, Monkton, Bristol, Lincoln, New Haven, Huntington, and Williston brought their milk to the plant. In the 1950's farmers began installing bulk tanks to store milk and the creamery purchased a truck to haul milk directly from farmers to the plant. The Green Mountain Cold Spring Creamery processed Vermont milk products through every era of the dairy industry, adapting to changes in transportation and technology and contributing to the economy and history of Starksboro. Former creamery owner X.X. Robinson contributed generously to the expansion of Robinson Elementary School, which now bears his name.


Brandon Historic Preservation Commission
Town Office, Center Street
Brandon, VT 05733
Project Contact: Kevin Thornton, Chair
Telephone: 802-247-4427 / kevin.thornton@uvm.edu.

Historic Barn Survey. The village of Brandon has over 250 buildings listed on the state register, including a large number of barns.  A survey of these barns in Brandon village has been partially completed but continued work, both in the village and in outlying areas of the town, is needed.  This project will involve documenting existing barns in a continuing effort to develop a thorough town barn survey, with the hope of adding a significant number of important barns to the state register. Work will include perfecting survey criteria, making a barn/outbuilding count, and mapping, photographing, and documenting individual barns.  The collected data will then be used for grant applications to obtain funding for an expanded survey. Our eventual aim is a thorough understanding of one town’s agricultural and transportation history through the evidence collected, as well as the urgently-needed preservation of Brandon’s many fine barns, carriage houses, and outbuildings. Individual Project or Team of Two.


Burlington Planning Department
Burlington City Hall
Mary O’Neill, Associate Planner
Telephone: 802-865-7556
E-Mail: mconeil@ci.burlington.vt.us

1.  Old North End Surveys.  The Historic Sites and Structures Survey information for Burlington’s Old North End is incomplete.  Some surveys list only representative examples, and some streets are only surveyed on one side.  Vermont’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation would like us to move toward a general historic district of the Old North End. Ideally, we could break this area up into quadrants for a COMPREHENSIVE re-survey and compilation of work done by many. Maps are available for these districts, which represent the city’s highest priorities.  Teams of Two.

•    Resurvey of Old North End.  Northeast quadrant: East of Elmwood Avenue, North of North Street, West of North Willard Street.

•    Resurvey of Old North End.  Northwest quadrant: West of Elmwood Avenue, North of North Street.

•    Resurvey of Old North End.  Southeast quadrant:  South of North Street, west of North Willard, North of Pearl and East of Elmwood Ave.

•    Resurvey of Old North End.  Southwest quadrant: South of North St., West of Elmwood Avenue, North of Pearl.

2.  Neighborhood Survey.  Similarly comprehensive surveys are needed for The Addition, comprising Pine Street west to the railroad tracks, South of Flynn, and North of Home Ave.  (1890-1950, residential and industrial.)  Individual Project or Team of Two.

3.  Report for Catalog Plan Houses and Kit Houses.  The influence of house catalog plans and kit houses in Burlington is very strong.  Examples on Shelburne St, upper North Street, Staniford Road, Flynn, Ferguson, and in the Five Sisters neighborhood are very visible.  Some may be attributable to Sears, Wardway, and/or Gordon Van Tine kits and publications, but others may demonstrate the influence and popularity of architecturally designed broadscale and nationally available housing.  Thus, clarification is needed.  Individual Project.


Cornwall Historical Society and
First Congregational Church of Cornwall
c/o John M. Watts
Fire Safety Institute
P.O. Box 674
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
802-462-2663 / firesafe@middlebury.net

National Register Nomination - First Congregational Church.  The town of Cornwall was chartered in 1784, and the Ecclesiastical Society of the First Congregational Church was created a year later.  Selecting a suitable site for the church proved difficult, and in1802, the town relinquished support and control of the church organization to the society, creating a distinct division of church and state.  The building's present site was selected that year and the building erected by the late fall of 1803.  Three lumber mills in town provided materials, doors and windows were made in Middlebury, and finish lumber was procured from a mill in Weybridge.  The interior had a balcony on three sides, with box pews on the main floor and pews in the balconies, with a seating capacity of about 600.  The choir loft was in the rear balcony with a pump organ powered by the boys each Sunday.   In 1846, an additional fifteen feet was added to the front of the building to properly support a cupola.  Columns were added to the front entrance, and the bell is the original purchased from Boston in 1803.  The pews on the main floor survive, but the balconies on the sides were removed.  The ceiling was lowered to allow additional roof support above the ceiling.  Apart from these changes, the building has survived in remarkably good condition.  Stuart T. Witherell, 1907-1984.  The church will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the building next year.  Individual Project


Historic Harrisville. Inc.
P.O. Box 79
Harrisville, NH 03450
Project Contact:  Linda Willett, Executive Director
Tel: 603-827-3722 / historicharrisville@msn.com

1.  Covenant Report.  Historic Harrisville, Inc. currently holds covenants protecting approximately seventeen buildings in Harrisville.  More than a decade has passed since these buildings were inspected and a current report is needed.  The project will involve revising and updating the inspection report form and developing innovative methods for tracking the status of these important buildings.  Individual Project

2.  Mill Project Report.  Restoration of the Cheshire Mill complex is nearing completion, and the archival record needs to be compiled.  Materials from the project’s four phases: structure, tower, mill two, and the interior of mill one, all need to be organized and assembled into a report, available in both written and digital form.  The report must also include an index of construction work and materials.  Computer skills essential.  Individual Project.

3.  Historic District Mapping.  Historic Harrisville has been instrumental in creating listing five of the surrounding village historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places.  Maps for these districts were complied during the 1980s and are outdated.  This project will involve drafting more complete maps in preparation for amending the nominations.  Individual Project or Team of Two.


Historic Windsor, Inc., and the
Preservation Education Institute
Post Office Box 1777
Windsor, Vermont 05089
Project Contact:  Judy Hayward, Executive Director
Telephone:  802-674-6752 / histwininc@valley.net

Report on Curriculum Strategy.  The Preservation Education Institute is exploring mechanisms for establishing new partnerships and instructional expertise for its educational programs and workshops, and to explore staffing needs in order to accommodate these partnerships.  One of the goals is to develop new strategies that take advantage of internet resources.  Proficiency in internet systems, marketing, and business will be put to good use.  Individual Project.  Mileage reimbursement may be available.


New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
Post Office Box 268
Concord, New Hampshire 03302
Project Contact: Jennifer Goodman, Executive Director
Telephone: 603-224-2281 / jg@nhpreservation.org.

The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance is the statewide non-profit historic preservation organization.  The graduate student(s) engaged in the following projects will report to the organization's executive director, Jennifer Goodman, who has extensive experience working with students and other volunteers.  Projects will be designed to meet our mutual objectives and result in useful products.  Projects are central to our mission and work plan, and they will advance the cause of preservation in New Hampshire.  With the exception of survey fieldwork, or meetings at the Alliance's office with staff or to review files, tasks can be accomplished largely from any "home base."

Historic Barn Preservation Project: Survey and Public Policy Tasks.  The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance is currently providing technical and financial assistance to barn owners trying to save, stabilize, or re-use historic agricultural structures.  This project is designed to help reduce the loss of these significant and rapidly disappearing landmarks in New Hampshire and to promote historic preservation objectives and the goals of the Preservation Alliance.  This program draws heavily from similar efforts in Vermont.  The project will involve document the existing and lost (as possible) barns in a New Hampshire town (to be selected) to create a model for a current statewide survey efforts.  Work will include preparing a much-needed fact sheet from the survey findings that can be used for advocacy and fundraising work.  In addition, it will assist the project committee in exploring how agricultural buildings are taxed and in developing a pro-preservation administrative or legislative proposal to address current problems.  The development of educational and promotional programs for historic barn owners and contractors is also necessary.  Students will work with the Historic Barn Advisory Group, staffed by leaders in agriculture, tourism, and preservation, as well as members of historical societies, heritage commissions and other local leaders.  Individual Project or Team of Two.


City of Portland Maine
Project Sponsor: Spirits Alive, a non-profit advocacy group for
Eastern Cemetery
Project Contact: Barbara Hager,
Master Plan Committee Chair
Telephone: 207-761-0338
E-mail: bohbhagr@maine.rr.com

Historic Structures and Landscape Reports with Condition Assessments.  Eastern Cemetery is a city-owned, six-acre historic burial ground dating officially from 1668, but most probably used from the time of the first settlement in 1632.  Eastern Cemetery has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973 and its burial records and approximately 4,000 plots have been recorded and mapped. The cemetery was the first burial ground in what is now Portland, Maine, and is located on the eastern end of the Portland peninsula within a densely settled neighborhood.  This project will involve creating written reports evaluating the history and significance of several different features associated with the cemetery, and proposing appropriate preservation treatments.   The results of this research will be presented at a public meeting, and will hopefully lead to community partnerships with Spirits Alive to begin preservation work on the project elements.

1. Cast Iron Fence.  Research, document, and provide analysis of the history and current condition of the cast iron fence that surrounds much of the cemetery. Propose feasible preservation strategies, including community advocacy techniques.  In Burial Records 1717-1962 of the Eastern Cemetery Portland, Maine (1987) Portland historian William B. Jordan writes: “Over the years the cemetery has been fenced in various ways but never to prevent casual access. Across the Congress Street side there now exists the battered remains of a cast iron fence that once separated Portland High School from Cumberland Avenue. When the present high school building was constructed in 1918 the fence was salvaged and re-erected at the cemetery thanks to the generosity of a public spirited citizen.”  Individual Project

2.  Holding Tomb.  Research, document the history, and analyze the cemetery's holding tomb and the Victorian replica holding tomb building.  Propose feasible preservation methods.  According to historian William B. Jordan, Jr., “A granite retaining wall was constructed along Mountfort Street in 1847, and two years later the city's first receiving tomb was built adjacent to the Congress Street entrance.  This so called `City Tomb' is built of field stone and brick with a paved floor.  It measures twenty-one feet in depth, eleven feet in width, seven feet in height, and is entirely beneath the surface of the ground.  Entrance to the City Tomb is gained through a small single-story, Gothic revival, board-and-batten building. Currently it is, like the cemetery itself, in a wretched state of repair. Apparently this receiving tomb was in constant use until the end of the century. Its use is documented as late as 1889.”  Individual Project

3.  Vanished Hearse House.  Research and document the history, and propose restoration/building plans for the vanished hearse house that stood in Eastern Cemetery.  Jordan's book refers to the hearse house: “Although it is unrecorded when construction took place it is nevertheless evident that a hearse house stood opposite the little Gothic building on Funeral Lane. The earliest mention of a municipal hearse is 1805 when the town authorized the purchase thereof. When this public service was discontinued it is impossible to say but apparently it lingered on until late in the century.”  Individual Project

4.  History of Eastern Cemetery.  Research, document and write the history of Eastern Cemetery including the facts of the burial ground's origin and subsequent designation, usage, additions, features, and historic context. This document would become the chapter in the proposed master plan that encompasses the cemetery's history.  Team of Two.


Preservation Burlington
P.O. Box 481
Burlington, Vermont 05402
Project Contact: Gweneth Langdon, Executive Director
gwenethaline@gmail.com
802-985-8435

Burlilngton Growth.  There are many efforts by the Burlington to make the city a vibrant urban center.  While Chittenden County is growing at an exponential pace, sprawl is taking its toll on the city.  There is an affordable housing crisis, the city's population is declining, and the housing stock is in a state of rapid deterioration.  There are municipal efforts to combat sprawl by encouraging revitalization of the Town Center, efforts to increase density through zoning changes, and, in general, efforts to make Burlington a sustainable city.  These actions are all effective tools, but at what cost?  This project will emphasize the need for affordable housing, infill development, density increases, and other initiatives to interact with historic preservation.  Individual Project or Team of Two.

Survey of Neglected Properties.  Demolition by neglect has become a difficult problem in communities that try to project historic properties through local design review and historic district ordinances.  Tracking these buildings is difficult, and this survey will provide an important starting point for reversing this unfortunate practice.


Rokeby Museum
Route 7
Ferrisburg, Vermont 05456
Project Contact: Jane Williamson, Director
802-877-3406

Sheep Farming in Addison County.  As part of continuing efforts to interpret its agricultural history, Rokeby Museum seeks information about the large sheep farms in Addison County during the 1830s. The names of these farms can be gleaned from Abby Hemenway’s gazeteer and from other county and town histories.  The sizes of these farms and their flocks of sheep can probably be obtained from town grand lists.  Historical and extant buildings relating to sheep farming are also important, and information about some of these buildings should be available at the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.  The information should be assembled into a written report that will hopefully provide insight about the sheep barn that once existed at Rokeby.  Individual Project.


Town of Shelburne
c/o Dean L. Pierce, AICP
Director of Planning and Zoning
P.O. Box 88
5420 Shelburne Road
Shelburne, VT 05482
802-985-5118

National Register Nomination.  The Shelburne Historic Preservation and Design Review Commission (HP&DRC) hopes that a nomination for National Register designation can be prepared for the "Shelburne Falls" area of Shelburne. (The current National Register district is focused on what might be called the Village core, near the intersection of Shelburne-Harbor-Falls Roads.  Individual Project or Team of Two.


Stowe Land Trust
P.O. Box 284
Stowe, Vermont 05672
Project Contact: Heather M.  Furman
Executive Director
802-253-7221
802-253-2642 Fax
www.stowelandtrust.org

Mill Trail Property National Register Nomination.  This project involves surveying Stowe Land Trust’s Mill Trail Property and preparing a nomination forms for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The Mill Trail Property is approximately 31 acres and includes two historic cabins as well as numerous archeological remains of a former mill site. The cabins and some of the remains were added to the Vermont Historic Sites Survey for Stowe in 2005. Tasks include the survey work, performing research on the history of the property, preparing the National Register forms and taking photographs. The student(s) will work with the Stowe Land Trust Executive Director to determine whether to nominate one or both of the cabins individually or as part of a Mill Trail District to include the archeological remains.  Individual Project or Team of Two


Swanton Village
c/o Ron Kilburn, Zoning Administrator and
    President, Swanton Historical Society
P.O. Box 711
Swanton, Vermont 05488
802-868-3325
swanza@adelphia.net

1.  Historic Structures Report and DVD - Missisquoi Bay Bridge Tollkeeper’s House.  The Missisquoi Bay Bridge, a bascule lift bridge built in 1938 between Swanton and Alburg, was recently replaced.  As part of the agreement that allowed demolition of that historic structure, the tollkeeper’s house was salvaged and moved to Swanton Village at the site of the town’s transportation museum, a restored railroad depot.  That building, too, was moved from its original location a number of years ago and is now located at the site where a covered railroad bridge once crossed the Missisquoi River.  The town recently acquired an historic metal truss bridge from Milton, and that structure has also been moved to Swanton where it will cross the river at the former site of the covered bridge.  In addition, an historic timber-crib dam located nearby has been documented by a comprehensive report prepared by a UVM graduate student in historic preservation, Jackson Evans.  In its continuing efforts to preserve Swanton’s transportation and industrial history, a campaign led by zoning administrator Ron Kilburn, the town is seeking a comprehensive historic structures report and DVD for the tollkeeper’s house.  Archival material about the bridge and the tollkeeper’s house is available at the Vermont State Archives in Montpelier and from the Swanton Historical Society.  Individual Project.

2.  National Register Nomination – Swanton Railroad Depot.  This building has been relocated and rehabilitated with funding obtained through the Enhancements Program at the Vermont Agency of Transportation, and is now part of the town’s historic sites interpretive center.

3.  Building Conditions Assessment and Historic Structures Report – Central Vermont Railroad Caboose, c. 1910.  The town of Swanton owns this caboose and plans to include it as part of the interpretive site created when the old Swanton Depot was moved to its present location.  The project will involve an assessment of the caboose’s structural condition, as well as research involving the history of the caboose.

4.  Report and DVD: Historic Bridges of Swanton.  Swanton’s history is closely tied to the Missisquoi River, and a large number of important bridges are vital parts of that history.  The historical society has proposed a project to document these many bridges, telling the story of the role these bridges have played in the town’s industrial and transportation history.  The written report will be accompanied by a DVD.  Individual Project.


Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
103 South Main Street
Waterbury, Vermont 05676-9989
c/o Frank Spaulding
Telephone: 802-241-3660
frank.spaulding@state.vt.us

1.  Inventory of Historic Park Buildings by Type – Open Picnic Shelters.  The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation faces an aging park system.  Many of the structures still in use today were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s.  Unfortunately a continuing rise in construction costs coupled with shrinking budgets means that not every structure can be saved.  How does FPR set priorities for saving historic properties?  Is the Shelter at Stillwater Campground more important that the Shelter at Allis State Park?   FPR would like to begin the process of cataloging these historic structures by category rather than by park, beginning with open pavilion picnic shelters.  Though we know where they are, we have not conducted a comprehensive inventory of these shelters.  We would like to at a minimum determine the following:  Which of the typical shelter plans was used for each?  What distinguishing changes did local CCC crews make to individual shelters?  What modifications have occurred since that time?  Do current park plans call for changes in the use of these shelters?  What is the current condition of the shelters?

2.  Biographical Research – Vermont Architects.  A number of important architects designed buildings for the Vermont Department of Forests and Parks, beginning in the CCC era and continuing into the most active period of growth of the state’s park system between 1950 and 1970.  More information is needed about these individuals because many of their buildings will be considered historic in the very near future.  The project will involve researching their backgrounds and influences, and the extent to which they may have influenced other architects who began working for the department during the 1970s.  Interviews of Rod Barber, one of the department’s architects who died recently, are available as a beginning point for research.  Vermont’s governor will soon appoint a commission to address the future of the park system, and information about these architects will be valuable for any reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement projects. Establishing links between designers and specific structures, picnic structures for example, will be especially valuable because variations occur even among similar designs, suggesting that different architects brought different abilities, interpretations, materials, and standards of care to each project.  Individual Projects

1. Merrick Smith.  Smith worked for the department, left, but then returned before eventually moving to Colorado.  He designed the Brighton Beach-house, which was under construction when Rod Barber began working for the department. Understanding Smith’s background and the factors that influenced his designs will help the department interpret his work as it becomes eligible.  His role in influencing Barber’s work will also help us understand design changes and will hopefully provide a foundation for a programmatic agreement with the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation resulting in a method of interpreting this continuum of design.
 
2. David Fried.  Fried became the department’s architect during the waning years of the CCC era, and he had a unique influence on the designs at the time, placing his mark on several ski lodges, as well as lodges at Crystal Lake and Maidstone.  A few of these designs depart from the standard Adirondack style of the earlier CCC days.  Some research has been conducted, but more is needed to uncover various influences.  Matching his name to specific structures in the parks will help us understand the differences in design and construction techniques that he employed and would influence and streamline our plans for restoration
 
3. Robert Simon.  Simon played a very prolific role during the CCC era and continued to work for the department into the Rod Barber era.


Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
National Life Building
Drawer 20
Montpelier, Vermont 05602-6501
Project Contact: Sue Jamele
Telephone: 802-828-3046; e-mail: Suzanne.Jamele@state.vt.us

Multiple Property Nominations - National Register of Historic Places.  The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation has identified topics for which historic contexts must be developed before multiple property nominations can be prepared.  These topics include post offices, hospitals, theaters and opera houses, airport facilities, gas stations, motor courts and motels, commercial ski areas, general stores, and the World War 2 Homefront in Vermont.  Individual Project or Team of Two.


Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
National Life Building, Floor 2
Montpelier, Vermont 05620-1201
Project Contact: Devin Colman
Telephone: 802-828-3043;
e-mail: devin.colman@state.vt.us

Dan Kiley Buildings and Landscapes.  For more than fifty years, world-renowned landscape architect Daniel Urban Kiley (1912-2004) lived and worked in Charlotte, Vermont. Kiley’s modernist landscape designs garnered him international acclaim, but little is known about his architectural work. Between 1945 and 1961, Kiley designed approximately twenty-five buildings throughout Vermont, including several houses, a shopping center and a marina.

The goal of this project is to research, identify and document Kiley’s architectural and landscape work in Vermont. Research should include a trip to the Dan Kiley Archive, which is housed at Harvard’s Frances Loeb Library. The final product will be an illustrated report describing Kiley’s Vermont commissions, which projects were actually built, and what condition they are in today. Individual Project


Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
National Life Building
Drawer 20
Montpelier, Vermont 05602-6501
Project Contact: Chris Cochran
Telephone: 802-828-3047; e-mail: Chris.Cochran@state.vt.us

Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit Applications.  Most of the buildings listed privately owned and are included in designated downtown districts or village centers.  However, owners have not taken the initiative to prepare Part 2 of the RITC applications and are unlikely to retain a preservation consultant to accomplish that task.  Thus, these owners and the towns in which the buildings are located would benefit from student assistance.  A few of the applications may require completion of Part 1, as well.  Although the names of the owners are provided, initial communication should be with Chris Cochran or Bob McCullough. Individual Projects

1.  Fox Stand Inn, Royalton.   Owner Matthew Matule (m.matule@comcast.net) is in the process of rehabilitating this well-preserved, Federal style, brick building erected in 1818 by Amasa Dutton for Jacob Fox, a local entrepreneur and mill owner.  The building stands on Vermont Route 14 a few miles north of Royalton village and has served as an inn throughout much of its history.

2.  Smith’s Block (Aubuchon Hardware), in Brandon.  The building was erected as a Mason’s lodge, and it is structurally sound.  However, interior finishes have suffered from water damage. The back of the building has been stabilized and the roof repaired, but the project would benefit from proactive preservation.  Part 1 has been approved.  Owners are Kevin and Stephanie Elnicki (selnicki@earthwastesystems.com.

3.  Water Street Mill Complex, Bennington.  This project involves conversion of an historic factory complex associated with the manufacture of stereoscopic viewers developed by inventory Hawley C. White.  The oldest of the existing buildings was erected in 1877, replacing an earlier building destroyed by fire.  In 1915, White and his brother, Clarence, also began manufacturing a child’s toy similar to a tricycle called the “Kiddie Kar”, and later expanded into bentwood furniture.  During the 1950s, a color lithography firm, the Polygraphic Company of America, utilized the buildings.  Parts of the mill complex will be developed into housing units, commercial and retail space, and possibly accommodations for nearby Bennington College.


Co-Sponsors: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation &
Vermont Historic Bridge Program, Vermont Agency of Transportation
National Life Building
Montpelier, Vermont 05602-6501
Project Contact: Nancy Boone or Bob McCullough
Telephone: 802-828-3046; e-mail: Nancy.Boone@state.vt.us

Digital Map of Vermont Covered Bridges.  Create web-based map of Vermont’s covered bridges for state tourism website.  There already exists a GIS data-layer of the locations of the approximately 110 covered bridges.   This project would involve adding information on date, construction, features, history, and a photograph of each bridge.  All of the information could be gleaned from existing National Register nominations, publications, and other websites.  Travel to each bridge would not be required.  The Division for Historic Preservation’s digital survey software would be provided for creation of the covered bridge database.  This would be an excellent opportunity for any student with a particular interest in bridges, heritage tourism, and/or digital GIS survey technology, and would result in a highly visible and useful product that would be identified as the student’s work.  Individual Project


Vermont Urban and Community Forest Council
Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
103 South Main Street, Building 10 South
Waterbury, Vermont 05671-0601
Project Contact:  Danielle Fitzko
802-241-3678
danielle.fitzko@anr.state.vt.us

Self-Guided Architectural / Urban Forest Tours.  This project will combine walking tours emphasizing architectural history with similar tours designed to identify urban tree species.  The Urban and Community Forestry Council will serve as the project sponsor and coordinate with Vermont towns interested in obtaining tour maps and brochures.  The council may also identify participating parties to develop the information about tree species.  Alternatively, students may be able to collaborate with students from the University of Vermont's field botany program.  Projects will involve the survey of a selected town's architectural resources, identification of a tour route, short written paragraphs about buildings included on the tour, and preparation of a map.  Sample pamphlet is available for inspection.  The towns of Rutland, Chelsea, and Hinesburg have expressed interest.  Students may also work with city foresters in certain communities.  Individual Project or Team of Two (with student from the School of Natural Resources)


Village of Essex Junction
20 Lincoln Street
Essex Junction, Vermont 05452
Project Contact: Jeff Arango, Development Director
Telephone: 802-878-6950
E-mail: jeffja@essexjunction.org

National Register Nominations.  The village of Essex Junction is interested in having a number of buildings in the five-corners area individually listed on the National Register.  Unfortunately, there are too few contiguous buildings to form another historic district, but a number of individual buildings are worthy of listing.  The town is seeking grants for an internship, but, if successful, funding will not be available until July, 2007.  Individual Project or Team of Two.