HISP 345 students have been hard at work modeling Caroline Street pre-1807 fire. The first step was collecting Mutual Assurance Policies from 1796 and overlaying them in Google Earth to get a reasonable idea of where the buildings were located (below image). Subsequent years, until 1807, will also be modeled with the objective of conveying the dramatic difference in the […]
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).