Graduate students in the UVM Historic Preservation Program are offered an intensive, practical, community-oriented, professional experience. Emphasis is placed on hands-on, community-based projects through linkages with local, state, and federal groups, organizations and agencies, heritage organizations, museums, and historic sites.
Student Projects
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- Nourishing Places - supporting communities in Vermont, New Jersey, Georgia, Lousiana
- UVM Redstone Campus History
- Historic Burlington Project
- Historic Church Street Blocks
- Church Street "Top Blocks," Burlington, Vermont
- 1920s Burlington Landmarks
- Retrospective Burlington: Case Studies in Preservation
- Stereoviews of Burlington, Vermont
- Mills & Factories: Manufacturing Heritage Sites in Burlington and Winooski, Vermont
- Burlington, Vermont: Early 20th-century Postcard Views
- University Green Area Heritage Study
- Burlington Depression Era Streetscapes: South of Pearl Street
- Burlington Depression Era Streetscapes: Old North End
- Burlington 1890
- Burlington 1877
- Burlington 1869
- Burlington 1853
- Burlington 1830
- Fire & Building Safety Code Compliance for Historic Buildings: A Field Guide (PDF)
- Chittenden County Barn Census Project
- Vermont Barn Census 13-town Project
- Vermont Historic Metal Truss Bridges
- Santa Fe, The City Different, A Brief Look at Preservation by Sara Casten
- Campaign to Save the Golden Gate Park Windmills: A Preservation Planning Critique by Sarah LeVaun Graulty (PDF)
- Conflict and Collaboration: Historic Preservation and Academic, Government and Nonprofit Sustainable Rehabilitation Projects in the United States, 1989-2005 by Gregory Tisher (PDF)
- Fire Escapes in Urban America: History and Preservation by Elizabeth Mary André (PDF)
- North of Pearl, West of Willard: Tradition and Change in the Old North End (1985) Part 1 Part 2
Faculty Research Projects and Reports
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- The Status of Professional Career Openings in Historic Preservation in the United States (PER, Vol 2, 2009) (PDF)
- Burlington Wastewater Treatment Plant - Historic Site Review (ACES, 1990) (PDF)
- Historic preservation research trip to Cuba
- Smalley Davenport Shop: Birthplace of the Electric Motor in 1834
- Nails: Clues to a Building's History
- Vermont Visual Laboratory Project: Neighborhood Simulation Techniques (with animations)
Alumni Research
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- The American Theatre Organ: Some Thoughts on Historic Preservation of a National Treasure, copyright 2005 by Gene F. Barfield, UVMHPP '92, all rights reserved, winner of the 2004 Simonton Prize (1.2mb pdf download)
- Dupont at Zenith: The Forgotten Achievements of Toronto's Twentieth-century Avenue of Enterprise, by Alfred Holden, UVM HPP '92
- Shedding Light on Alienation in the Public Realm: The Case for More Humane Lighting of City Streets, by Alfred Holden, UVM HPP '92
- Farrington's and the Mobile Home on the American Landscape
by Lisa Phinney, UVM HPP '92 - Austrian Preservation, by Sabina Wiedenhoeft , UVM HPP '96