The Coalition to Save Harlem (CSH) is a collection of individuals and organizations brought together for the purpose of reclaiming, preserving and protecting the community of the Village of Harlem.
It is chaired by Dr Brian Marker OBE and governed by representatives of British and English organisations active in the study and production of building stone, the training of stonemasons, architects and conservation professionals and the conservation of historic buildings and structures.
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His particular interests include public space, transportation and art; street furniture, landscaping, parks, civic buildings, sustainability, housing, historic preservation, China, modern architecture and Japanese architecture.
By creating an archive of historic architecture, HABS provided a database of primary source material for the then-fledgling historic preservation movement.
habitability — highway — Hispanic Americans — historic preservation — Home Mortgage Disclosure Act — homelessness — homeowners' association — Housing Act of 1937 — Housing Act of 1949 — Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 — HOPE VI — human ecology — Department of Housing and Urban Development(H.U.D.) — hyperghettoization
It consists of 17-member panel of appointed representatives from state and private agencies and is concerned with overview of Massachusetts historic and architectural preservation efforts.
However, the museum's plans to radically alter the building's original design by Edward Durell Stone touched off a preservation battle joined by Tom Wolfe, Chuck Close, Frank Stella, Robert A. M. Stern, Columbia art history department chairman Barry Bergdoll, New York Times' architecture critics Herbert Muschamp and Nicolai Ouroussoff, urbanist scholar Witold Rybczynski, among others.
The National Heritage Area recognizes the area's cultural and historic qualities and serves to promote tourism, historic preservation and economic development in the region.
The Preservation Resource Center is a non-profit organization which promotes the historic preservation of buildings and architecture in New Orleans.
He was highly active in the cultural field - he is widely regarded as the father of historic preservation in the Netherlands, played a notable part in keeping Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Netherlands and chose the architect Pierre Cuypers (a fellow Catholic and fellow Limburger) to design the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
A cousin, Ross Cordy, is an anthropologist specializing in Polynesian civilizations, who is chief archaeologist for the state of Hawaii’s Historic Preservation Division and teaches at the University of Hawaii.
Helped to save the Town and Country Building, Liberty, NY; prepared sales booklet for building; initiated facade restoration by volunteers from Cornell University's Historic Preservation Planning Program, April 15–18, 2004.
In the wake of its destruction, Allied Arts—led in this period by Mia McEldowny, Karen Kane, Walt Crowley, and Clint Pehrson, among others— pushed for stronger historic preservation laws and creation of transferable development rights (TDRs).
She was also interested in historic preservation which she combined with Scouting when she successfully worked to preserve Juliette Low's birthplace in Savannah, Georgia.
She runs the Coral Gables Museum and has served as president of HistoryMiami, chaired Coral Gable’s Historic Preservation Board, and the Florida Humanities Council.
In 1996, Judd was named by President Clinton as an Expert Member to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the federal agency that oversees and advises on national preservation matters.
CCRA heavily invests efforts in neighborhood zoning issues and additionally works on historic preservation, legislative advocacy, tree planting, manages the Schuylkill River Park Community Garden, holds membership events, runs a yearly tour of Center City Homes, and engages in many other activities designed to improve the neighborhood.
His resume includes a stint as a civil service architect at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where he also served as the base's first full-time historic preservation officer.
The web site of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society says "William and Rebecca Cochran came from Adams County, Pennsylvania in 1814. They settled in Hamilton County where they lived until 1825. They then moved to Butler County near Millville. William Cochran owned much property in the area and in 1821 purchased the Millville Mill which had been built by Joel Williams in 1805".
In 1991, GVSHP launched its first educational program, “Greenwich Village: History and Historic Preservation,” as a joint effort with the Merchant's House Museum, and, in 1995, designed and published a 12-page children’s workbook, “Discovering Greenwich Village,” for distribution to children in the school program.
He helped preserve the Vieux Carre or French Quarter, which has been designated as a National Historic District, and published a pioneer textbook on historic preservation law.
1974, two months before his death, Morrison and his wife received the Louise DuPont Crownshield Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for their outstanding work.
Nutter’s renovation of the 1847 Nathan Scarritt House and his creation of Nutterville earned him a 2004 Annual Recognition Award, in the historic preservation category, from the Jackson County (Mo.) Historical Society.
He joined forces with Elizabeth Colt to make the Wadsworth Atheneum a free public institution; on 16 October 1880, he was honored at the Atheneum by ex-President Ulysses S. Grant for his contributions to historic preservation.
The Office of Historic Preservation of the California Department of Parks and Recreation awarded Blind and Wood the California Governor's Historic Preservation Award for their work preserving the mural.
The historic preservation of these sites is as important to the district as the preservation of its agriculture, and the combination gives the district an old-world aesthetic often captured in the paintings of local artist Andrew Wyeth.
Dr. Cordy is a volunteer archeology instructor for the Waianae High School - Hawaiian Studies Program where he teaches hands on archeology, history and historic preservation issues.
One of the most important buildings of the great Sicilian architect Ernesto Basile was razed to the ground in the middle of the night, hours before it would have come under protection of the historic preservation laws.
It was rescued from demolition and converted to office space in the 1990s by the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust and is currently occupied by Outward Bound.
Texas Brazos Trail, a non-profit organization which promotes heritage tourism, economic development, and historic preservation
World Monuments Fund, an international historic preservation organization