HISTORIC SEATTLE ANNOUNCES 2012 PRESERVATION AWARD WINNERS AND CEREMONY INFO

On May 15, 2012, Historic Seattle hosts its fourth Annual Historic Preservation Awards ceremony at Good Shepherd Center, a community asset saved, preserved and renovated by Historic Seattle. These yearly awards acknowledge recent successes in the local preservation field. Enjoy wine, beer, and appetizers, accompanied by the melodious sounds of harpist Stephanie Taylor, in a room off the newly restored veranda—open if the weather cooperates. Join with old and new friends and colleagues who share a passion for preservation. Then move upstairs to the Chapel Space for desserts, coffee, and tea, a performance by pianist Dawn Clement to experience the superior acoustics, followed by a presentation by former Executive Director John Chaney on the stewardship challenges and successes over 35 years of ownership. University of Washington Architecture Professor Jeffrey Ochsner introduces the 2012 Preservation Award recipients.

KeyBank is Lead Sponsor of the Fourth Annual Preservation Awards, with additional support from 4Culture.

What: Reception and Awards Ceremony
Where: Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N., Seattle WA 98103
When: Tuesday, May 15, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm; formal program at 7:00 pm Register: $50 Historic Seattle members; $60 General Public; $25 students;
Includes appetizers, one glass wine or beer, desserts, coffee and tea
Register at https://www.historicseattle.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?id=533 or call (206) 622-6952.

2012 Award Winners:

Best Restoration Project – Mary Olson Farm, Auburn
Best Rehabilitation Project – Christ Our Hope Church
Exemplary Stewardship – Pacific Science Center
Community Advocacy – Volunteer Park Seattle Landmark Designation
Community Investment – Michael Malone
Preserving Neighborhood Character – Red Mill Totem House
Heritage Education Publication – The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy
Living Landmark – Paul Dorpat

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PLAN TO ATTEND SEATTLE’S FIRST HILL NEIGHBORHOOD TOUR

What: First Hill Neighborhood Tour
When: Thursdays, May 17*, July 19, and August 16, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Meet at Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Avenue

*Frye Art Museum is closed for renovation; group meets at the entrance ramp to the Museum.

Tickets: $25 Historic Seattle, Washington Trust, and Frye members; $35 general public; $20 students

Historic Seattle, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, the Frye Art Museum, and the Sorrento Hotel are pleased to offer a guided tour of historic First Hill. The neighborhood was the location of private clubs, important religious institutions, and swank hotels. It was also the city’s premier residential enclave from the 1890s through the first decades of the 1900s; home to mayors, judges, industrialists, timber barons, and art collectors. The tour includes the Frye Art Museum, St. James Cathedral, Dearborn House, Stimson-Green Mansion, Piedmont Hotel (now Tuscany Apartments), and the Sorrento Hotel, providing insights into a century of architecture and interior design, as well as a lively look at the life and times of First Hill at the turn of the 20th century.

Guided tours conclude in the Fireside Lounge of the Sorrento Hotel where participants enjoy happy hour prices on appetizers and drinks. Limited free parking is available at the Frye Art Museum lot on Terry Avenue.

Pre-Registration required and tour may be canceled if a minimum number of participants (ten) are not enrolled by the Friday prior to the tour.

Visit www.historicseattle.org and click on “Events” for descriptions of this and all events for the year. You can request a copy of the 2012 program brochure for yourself and for colleagues and friends at (206) 622-6952. Register online. Historic Seattle looks forward to your participation and support in 2012. Thank you for your assistance in helping spread the word about these opportunities to better understand our regional built heritage and the value of preserving it.

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LAST DAY TO REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS ON MID-20TH CENTURY RESOURCES AND HISTORIC ROADS

Deadline to register: April 18, 2012

In cooperation with the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office

The Recent Past: A Review of Mid-20th-Century Resources
Portland, OR — May 1-2, 2012

Review nationwide trends in post-World War II houses and commercial structures up to 1970, with an emphasis on the evolution of suburban development patterns, construction methods, and building types. Examine era-specific factors that help to identify and evaluate these buildings in terms of their significance for eligibility for listing in the National Register and consideration of Section 106, Section 110, and Section 4(f) regulatory issues. An agenda is available online at www.npi.org.

Instructors. James C. Massey, architectural historian and planner, former HABS chief, contributing editor to Old-House Journal, and historic preservation consultant with a particular interest in the mid-20th century and Shirley Maxwell, historian, historic preservation consultant, contributing editor to Old-House Journal, and co-author of House Styles in America and other publications.

AIA/CES. This seminar meets the criteria for programs in the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System and AIA members will receive 6 learning units each day.

Preservation Planning and Policy Development for Historic Roads

Portland, OR — May 3, 2012

Explore the current tools and techniques used for the identification, preservation, and management of historic roads. As an emerging area of historic preservation, planning and policy for historic roads presents new challenges for the historic preservation professional. Learn how to apply transportation policies to historic roads, balance safety and function with historic preservation objectives, and build awareness and new constituencies for the legacy of highway design in the United States. An agenda is available online at www.npi.org.

Instructor. Dan Marriott, principal and founder of Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates, a historic and scenic road preservation planning firm specializing in linear corridor studies, regional planning strategies and analysis; author of Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines

LA/CES. This seminar meets the criteria for programs in the American Society of Landscape Architects Continuing Education System and ASLA members will receive 6 learning units each day.

Registration. A registration form is available online at www.npi.org/register.html. The registration rate is $500 (2 days – Mid-20th) / $325 (1 day – Historic Roads) / $650 (3 days – both seminars).

Questions? Please contact:

Jere Gibber
Executive Director
National Preservation Institute
P.O. Box 1702, Alexandria, VA 22313
703/765-0100; 703/768-9350 fax
info@npi.org; www.npi.org

The National Preservation Institute, a nonprofit organization founded in 1980, educates those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of cultural heritage. The 2012 National Preservation Institute seminar schedule is now available online at www.npi.org. The 2012 NPI News Release includes the calendar and seminar descriptions - www.npi.org/NewsRelease2012.pdf.

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REGISTRATION FOR RevitalizeWA IS OPEN!

Registration is now available through Eventbrite.

Join us for our Statewide Preservation and Main Street Conference to be held at Campbell’s, Lake Chelan’s Waterfront Resort in historic downtown Chelan. The conference will feature a variety of sessions and tours relating to the revitalization of our historic communities and resources on May 23 and 24. We will also be offering pre-conference workshops on May 22.

Check out the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation’s website for more information, including the Preliminary Agenda, keynote address by Michael Shuman and details about Book-It Repertory Theater’s performance of The Future Remembered.

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THE NEW ECONOMY AND URBANISM UNTIL NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE: A COMMUNITY PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION

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NAOP RECEIVES GRANT FROM FRIENDS OF SEATTLE’S OLMSTED PARKS FOR LANDSCAPE MAPPING PROJECT

 
Woodland Park (Courtesy Friends of Olmsted Parks)

The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces a $5,000 grant award from Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks (FSOP) to support ongoing work on Olmsted Online, a Washington based pilot project to document Olmsted landscapes. The grant award augments the current program’s funding by creating and enhancing public user content for Olmsted Online.

In 2011, NAOP secured a $235,000 grant from the State of Washington, under the 2010 Statewide Transportation Enhancements Program, for Olmsted Online—an integrated mapping project, database and web portal for Olmsted designed landscapes. In partnership with the Olmsted National Historic Site, National Park Service, and the Friends of Seattle Olmsted Parks, NAOP has begun work to map and inventory Olmsted Brothers-designed parks and parkways to create a statewide database linked with archival and comparative data. It is NAOP’s objective to use this pilot in Washington as a model for nationwide mapping and inventorying of Olmsted landscapes.

Currently, FSOP and NAOP are working on documenting the Olmsted parks and boulevard system in the greater Seattle area to be featured on the website that will integrate interactive maps, drawings, photographs, archival data and descriptive text related to landscapes designed by the Olmsted firm. The Olmsted Online website will make available information that until now has only been available in specialized libraries, providing new research tools to historians, park and transportation professionals as well as inspiring residents and visitors to learn more about the history and future of some of the most affecting and effective landscapes ever designed.

The pilot phase of the Olmsted Online project is focused on the Olmsted landscapes in the Puget Sound and other regions of Washington State. The pilot project will act as the foundation and model with the capacity to grow into a web portal and database for Olmsted landscapes throughout North America.

The National Association for Olmsted Parks is a coalition of design and preservation professionals, historic property and park managers, scholars, municipal officials, citizen activists and representatives of numerous Olmsted organizations. Its concern is the legacy of landscape work left by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and the firm continued by his sons. Established in 1980, NAOP is the only national organization solely dedicated to preserving the Olmsted legacy by providing the advocacy, research, education and outreach needed to protect, restore and maintain these exemplary parks and landscapes, particularly in urban areas.

The Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to raising the awareness and protection of Seattle’s Olmsted park and boulevard system.

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2012 CULTURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION SUMMIT EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE APRIL 22

What’s Our Story?

Reflecting on Resources, Relationships,
and Responsibility

The 2012 Cultural Resource Protection Summit marks the fifth anniversary of our gathering. Since its inception, the primary goal in organizing the annual Summit has been to facilitate amongst all affected parties an open, frank discussion about the intersection between cultural resources and land use. The Summit is designed to promote collaborative cultural resource planning as an effective means of finding resolution to issues before they escalate into emotionally-charged, divisive, and expensive stalemates or law suits.

What’s our story five years later? Have we learned anything? Have we improved that way cultural resource protection is carried out in Washington State? The Pacific Northwest? The United States?

This year, we will highlight three topics that have permeated Summits past: cultural resources, relationships, and responsibility. What are cultural resources, what do they tell us about our shared history, and why should anyone care? Who are our fellow cultural resource advocates, and how do we establish functional, productive relationships with them? Whose responsibility is it to protect cultural resources, and how do we ensure that we all do our part?

Join an experienced slate of practitioners, storytellers, and your fellow attendees as we examine together the state of cultural resource protection in our region and identify strategies to achieve our goals. Leave with more tools for doing your part to protect our cultural resources and the important stories they tell!

OPENING KEYNOTE BY LYNDA V. MAPES:
Join us for a very special keynote address by Lynda V. Mapes, author of Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village and staff reporter for The Seattle Times.  Ms. Mapes represents one of our region’s best storytellers and has covered cultural resource protection issues for many years.  Her address promises to be both educational and inspirational.  We hope to see you there!

* CM credits for Planners will be applied for in cooperation with the Planning
Association of Washington (PAW).

For more information, please see the Leadership Series website.

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HISTORIC FORT STEILACOOM HOSTS MILITARY SWAP MEET APRIL 14

The April programming for Historic Fort Steilacoom in Lakewood is a Military Swap Meet and Display on the 14th from 10 am to 4 pm. Original and reproduction military goods from multiple time periods will be on display. The event is free to the public and will take place in Quarters 2 on the Historic fort parade ground. For more information, go to www.historicfortsteilacoom.org.

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DAHP ANNOUNCES $500,000 IN TRANSPORTATION ENHANCEMENT GRANTS

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PROPOSALS DUE MAY 31, 2012.

The State of Washington is disbursing approximately $500,000 in transportation enhancement grants focused on archaeological planning and historic preservation. The goal of these grants is to improve the state’s cultural resources related to surface transportation.

The successful applicant must be either a 501©3, a government agency or Public Development Authority in the State of Washington.

Projects must be involved historic preservation or archaeological planning using cultural resources in two or more regional transportation districts. A variety of projects can accomplish this task. Proposals should include a proposed scope of work and link this scope to the goals of the grant. Example projects include, but are not limited to:

  • Inventory of archaeological resources covering two or more regional transportation planning areas.
  • Interpretive displays or exhibits covering archaeological resources in two or more regional transportation planning areas.
  • Digitization of archaeological resource documents covering two or more regional transportation planning areas.
  • Archaeological context documents covering two or more regional transportation planning areas.
  • Inventory of linear transportation features covering two or more regional transportation planning areas.
  • Context document for historic bridges covering two or more regional transportation areas.
  • WEB related public education/tourism projects related to historic transportation resources in two or more regional planning areas.
  • Digitization of historic resource documents covering two or more regional transportation areas.
  • Statewide context documents for historic transportation resources (e.g. railroad hotels, etc.)
  • Interpretive displays or exhibits covering transportation related historic resources in two or more regional transportation planning areas.

The full RFP can be downloaded here:  Transport Enhancement RFP 2012.

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DO YOU KNOW A HISTORIC DOWNTOWN OR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT NEEDS BETTER STREETS AND SIDEWALKS?

Grant funding available for community projects that improve conditions for bicycling and walking

OLYMPIA – Funding is available to make local roads, streets, and highways safer and more accessible for everyone, regardless of age or ability. The Washington State Department of Transportation is calling for projects with the goals of increased safety; more desirable, livable, family-friendly communities; and a healthier lifestyle.

“Projects that make our roadways complete have been proven to reduce fatalities and injuries, and improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers – of all ages and abilities,” said WSDOT’s Highways and Local Programs Director Kathleen Davis. “The projects funded through these grants will also help local communities stimulate economic growth, increase opportunities to walk and bike, and improve transportation connections.”

Cities, counties, tribal nations, transit agencies and others are encouraged to apply for grant funding. Successful projects will improve roadways for all users, including pedestrians and bicyclists, and may include crossing improvements, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, bus pull outs, curb cuts, ramps, and shared-use paths.

A webinar outlining the application process and review criteria will be held on Tuesday, April 10, from 1to3 p.m. Register online here.

The deadline for submitting grant applications to WSDOT is close of business, June 30, 2012. Applications can be submitted online here.

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