Jack Pyburn, FAIA will present a lecture entitled Stewardship of a University’s Built Heritage. This lecture sponsored by the UMW Center for Historic Preservation will delve into how University campuses can best address preservation issues with limited fiscal resources. The lecture will be held on November 11th from 5-6:30 in Combs Hall, room #237.
Congratulations to Historic Preservation students Jessica Bittner and Robin Ramey who presented at the Archeological Society of Virginia Conference on October 12th. Despite a Sunday morning session attendance was high. The abstract for their presentation is posted below. Funding was in part made possible by the UMW Center for Historic Preservation. A Progress Report on the Oval Site (44WM80), […]
The history of the UMW Amphitheatre has been posted under Research Resources-University of Mary Washington (link below). This history was created as part of the UMW Preservation Plan. http://cas.umw.edu/chp/research-resources/university-of-mary-washington/
The history of Chander Hall has been posted under Resources-University of Mary Washington (http://cas.umw.edu/chp/research-resources/university-of-mary-washington/ )as well as drawings created by Charles Robinson in 1928 for construction of Chandler Hall (the Training School) and the drawings created by J. Binford Walford in 1938 for the portico addition to Chandler Hall (cabinet 2).
The Center for Historic Preservation at The University of Mary Washington seeks nominations for its 2015 Historic Preservation Book Prize. Established by the Center in 1988, the Historic Preservation Book Prize is awarded annually by a jury of preservation academics and professionals to the book with the most potential for positively impacting the discipline of […]