The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation

Chicago park historian and Alliance member Julia S. Bachrach has created an audio tour of Humboldt Park , a beautiful Jens Jensen-designed landscape. Even if you don’t have the opportunity to visit the park to follow Julia’s tour, you may want to download the tracks or listen at your computer to learn more about this fascinating place. Julia is joined by Jensen’s grandson, Bruce Johnson, who shares poetic writings and quotes by his illustrious ancestor.

Please contact Julia by email: julia.bachrach@chicagoparkdistrict.com for more information. As Julia will continue to develop other audio tours through 2008, she is also looking for other good examples of audio presentations involving historic landscapes. Feel free to let her know!

Creating a Broader HALS Network
The establishment of the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) in 2000 was like Kris Kringle receiving mountains of mail in Miracle on 34th Street. The U.S. Government finally recognized historic landscapes as legitimate siblings of historic buildings and structures in the NPS family of Heritage Documentation Programs. Suddenly, all of those buildings and structures floating in large format black and white photos with no visible means of support were poised to leap from the page in vibrant Technicolor with an entourage of plants and ponds, a network of roads and paths, and vistas stretching to the horizon. In our dreams, maybe.

Using HALS
Now that we have HALS, what is it that we do have? Another compliance tool for documenting historic properties before the road goes through? Only if we let it be. HALS has the potential to raise awareness of historic landscapes, provide baseline information for their management, and leverage significant funding for their preservation.

As part of the MOU establishing HALS, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) created a network of HALS Liaisons from each state. Their work is overseen by a HALS Liaisons Coordinator selected by the chair of the Historic Preservation-Professional Practice Network (HP-PPN). The state Liaisons are appointed by their respective ASLA chapter presidents, and charged with the following duties and responsibilities:

Lobby federal legislators for initial and ongoing Congressional funding of HALS.

Compile, prioritize, and update a list of local examples of historic landscapes that are threatened, highly significant, and/or highly valued.

Assist the Chief of HALS to compile a comprehensive national inventory of possible HALS study sites.

Identify one or more historic landscapes that merit complete documentation pursuant to the guidelines and coordinate such documentation as resources allow.

Coordinate HALS activities with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

Advise on the review and revision of state and local historic preservation laws and standards to include documentation of historic landscapes.

Educate government agencies and consultants about the use of HALS for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 4(f) of the Transportation Department Act of 1966, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Promote public awareness of the importance of historic landscapes and the use of HALS.

Encourage donations from local philanthropists to the HABS/HAER/HALS Foundation for supplemental private funding of HALS.

A Broader Network

Many members of the AHLP are actively promoting HALS, but we need to work with the Liaisons to create a broader network of advocates. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has lent credence to landscape preservation recently, emphasizing site and context. We need to enlist the Trust and other preservation partners like NCSHPO, and local preservation organizations and individuals in the campaign to implement and fund HALS.

Landslide 2008 - Marvels of Modernism
Do you know of a Modernist residential property that is in the path of progress? Perhaps a Post-War park or plaza that is scheduled for renovation? Or an abstract or geometric landscape design that is worth saving for future generations to study and take inspiration from?

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and Garden Design magazine are teaming up to call for nominations for the 2008 Landslide program – Marvels of Modernism. TCLF, established in 1998, is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness of the important legacy of our cultural landscapes and helping to save them for the future. Since its inception in 2003, the Landslide initiative has spotlighted significant public and private landscapes at risk, and this year’s theme will again do so by calling attention to our diverse and unique Post-War garden and landscape heritage.

Charles Birnbaum, TCLF President, says, “Shifting American tastes have, for the past two decades, resulted in the demise and demolition of many of our most innovative and cherished Post-War designs – but, thankfully, today Modern design is having a renaissance and this thematic list will shed light on this formerly forgotten collection.”

The deadline is in April.
For further information visit http://www.tclf.org/landslide/2008.

2007 'Landslide' List - Heroes Of Horticulture
They are the sole witnesses to some of the nation’s greatest people and most significant moments, some are hundreds of years old — the Horse Chestnut Tree that shaded suffragette Susan B. Anthony in the late 19^th century; Oregon’s 230-year old Pow-Wow Bigleaf Maple, a traditional meeting place for the Clackamas Indians; and Charleston’s Angel Southern Live Oak, a majestic living legacy from the antebellum South. They are among the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) 2007 Landslide selections, Heroes of Horticulture. The complete list of twenty-one Heroes of Horticulture sites, located throughout the nation, is currently featured on TCLF’s website (www.tclf.org), and will be showcased in an exhibition at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, opening December 1, 2007 and in the January 2008 edition of Garden Design magazine.

Landslide is a yearly designation of significant landscapes at risk of being lost. The designees are chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted from throughout the nation that highlight current issues in landscape preservation and interpretation. This year, TCLF and Garden Design have partnered with George Eastman House to produce an exhibition of original photography of the Heroes of Horticulture by internationally recognized artists on view in Rochester from December 1, 2007 through March 2, 2008, and traveling thereafter. The exhibition includes images by such celebrated photographers as Mark Klett, John Pfahl, Eli Reed, Louviere+Vanessa, and John Divola, which will also be featured in the January 2008 issue of Garden Design magazine.

Along with the Eastman House exhibit of original photography, sites across the country will host the Heroes of Horticulture signboard exhibit at or near locations associated with the different Heroes. The signboard exhibit will provide the history of each horticultural specimen, the threat, information on how to support the feature, and associated historic and current photographs of each resource.

To see the twenty-one sites and to find more information about the Heroes of Horticulture, including exhibit venues, visit www.tclf.org/landslide/2007.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation Appoints Charles A. Birnbaum As First President
The Board of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) announced the selection of Charles A. Birnbaum as the foundation’s first, full-time President, effective May 28, 2007. TCLF, founded in 1998,is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of cultural landscapes. Through education, technical assistance, and outreach, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide in hopes of saving this priceless heritage for future generations.

Charles Birnbaum (FASLA, FAAR) joins the Cultural Landscape Foundation following a successful 15 years as coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, and a decade in private practice with a focus on landscape preservation. Birnbaum’s most recent projects include the publications Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage (University Press of Virginia); Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture I and II (Spacemaker Press) and Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill). In 1995, the ASLA awarded the Historic Landscape Initiative the President's Award of Excellence and in 1996 inducted Birnbaum as a Fellow of the Society. Birnbaum served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1998, and was the recipient of the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation in 2004. He is also an instructor for the National Preservation Institute.

Garden Conservancy Awards Preservation Project Status to Pearl Fryar’s
Topiary Garden, Bishopville, SC
The Garden Conservancy, a national nonprofit garden preservation organization, has
added Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden in Bishopville, SC to its roster of Preservation Projects.

Pearl Fryar began work on the three-acre garden in 1984 in an effort to win “Yard of
he Month” for his home on the outskirts of town. The well-manicured, sculptural plant forms that comprise Fryar's living vision of peace, love and goodwill often began as salvaged seedlings from a local nursery. Recognized by art and botanical enthusiasts, the visually whimsical garden is maintained year-round by Fryar for visitors from around the world.

“Pearl has created a garden of originality and personal expression,” says Garden Conservancy Preservation Projects Director Bill Noble, “and he uses it to inspire and educate people, especially kids, to achieve their creative potential. His work has brought new civic pride to a town that is the county seat of the poorest county in the state of South Carolina. He has brought his community together and helped to erase boundaries of race, economic background, and gender. Few gardens stake so bold a claim as to be about effecting social change. But that’s what Pearl Fryar aims to do. By helping to preserve his garden, the Garden Conservancy also aims to help Pearl continue his mission of using the garden to teach and inspire.”

Pearl Fryar sees his achievement and the world’s interest in his garden as an opportunity to make a statement about the power of “average” individuals to do great things. “I was an average student academically,” he says. “I worked 36 years in industry and made a fairly good living. But then I created this garden that’s internationally known. It demonstrates that a kid who is average academically can still make important contributions to our society. I talk about that when I give lectures. I want people to be aware of that.” A documentary about Pearl Fryar and his garden, A Man Named Pearl, had its theatrical release on August 31st in Charlotte, NC, Knoxville, TN, and Indianapolis, IN, and won an Audience Choice Award when it premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis in October of 2006.

The newly formed Friends of Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden, headed by president Polly Laffitte, is engaged in a long-range planning process and fund-raising to hire a gardener to help Mr. Fryar. To learn more about Pearl Fryar and his garden, visit www.fryarstopiaries.com. Tax deductible contributions can be made to: The Garden Conservancy/Friends of Pearl Fryar’s Topiary Garden, P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, New York 10516.

Georgia’s Living Places Project
The Georgia’s Living Places: Historic Houses in their Landscaped Settings program began in 1989 as a special project of Georgia’s State Historic Preservation Office. The original project had evolved from the program’s previous work on National Register historic district nominations and frequent negotiations with NPS to have the landscape components of these districts recognized and included in the Register. It has continued to evolve from a statewide conference presentation in 1991 to an ongoing program of the office.

A sound conceptual base has been developed to use in evaluating and preserving all of the components of residential places: their history, architecture, and landscape, both above and below ground. Original research reports on historical patterns of settlement, geography and population distribution, architectural styles and types, landscape traditions, and archaeological components were prepared by scholars and professional consultants; these were then augmented by new field surveys in all geographic regions of the state and analysis of the computerized field survey database. The findings and results were synthesized by SHPO staff into the Georgia’s Living Places notebook to assist homeowners in understanding more about their historic houses and landscapes. The basic concepts were incorporated into a program that has continued to be refined and enhanced to the present time.

Case examples chosen by period, location, form, and design illustrate the various landscape traditions associated with historic houses in Georgia. Some examples include the "landscape of work" (an early and enduring agricultural landscape), the “ornamental yard” (with its "Gone with the Wind" formality), the “New South” landscape (a picturesque form which literally transformed the landscape of the state in the late 19^th century), and the "early 20^th century suburban" (tract houses in vast park-like landscapes). While the landscape traditions do not necessarily follow the house styles and types, there is discernible pattern over time and place.

For further information, please contact Elizabeth Lyon at 770-967-3634 or ealyon@earthlink.net.

HALS Needs Your Help Now!
Since 1999, when the initial efforts to develop the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) began, there have been numerous articles in this newsletter to inform our members of various milestones. Over this time period, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has taken the lead in pursuing permanent federal funding for HALS.

With this newsletter, the Alliance Board of Directors has chosen to become more active in supporting HALS efforts. As such, as an organization, the Alliance will do two specific things requested by ASLA: we will write to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in support of funding; and join ASLA by submitting written testimony to the Appropriations Committees in support of funding. We will do this annually until HALS funding is obtained.

Alliance members can further individually support HALS efforts in one critical way this summer:

Help identify threatened historic landscapes across the country.
We encourage all Alliance members with knowledge of threatened historic landscapes to contact ASLA with basic information about their historic significance and current threats. This is critical to ASLA’s effort of having real places in the backyards of Congressmen and women to relate to. The goal is to have a growing inventory of threatened landscapes by Fall 2006. Please send suggestions to Scott Kovarovics (skovarovics@asla.org).

New Faces at LALH
Library of American Landscape History (LALH) recently welcomed three new trustees, a new adviser, and a new staff coordinator of the Warren H. Manning Research Project.

The new trustees—Ethan Carr, FASLA; John K. Notz Jr.; and Natalie W. Shivers, AIA—expand the board’s range in both geography and disciplines. Carr, an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, is a nationally recognized landscape historian, preservationist, and author. John K. Notz Jr., of Chicago, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, is a lawyer who retired from Gardner, Carton & Douglas of Chicago in 1996. He has served as a trustee of Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery, as treasurer of the Society of Architectural Historians, and as president of Black Point Historic Preserve, Inc. Natalie W. Shivers is an architect, architectural historian, and author who works as Associate University Architect for Planning at Princeton University, where she helps to oversee the preparation of a long-range campus plan.

New LALH adviser James van Sweden, FASLA, a founding principal of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington, D.C., is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect and the author of several distinguished books about landscape design.

Mackenzie Greer (mgreer@lalh.org) has joined the LALH staff as Warren H. Manning Research Project coordinator. Greer, a native of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, is working on a dual-Master's degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Library of American Landscape History Celebrates Fifteen Years
In 2007 Library of American Landscape History (LALH) will mark its fifteenth anniversary. A journey that began in 1989 with a single book, Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect, led to the founding of the nonprofit publishing organization in 1992 by Steele author and scholar Robin Karson. By the end of next year, LALH will have twenty books in print by leading historians in the field, and three touring exhibitions related to these titles.

Karson notes that LALH books and exhibitions are meant to educate general readers as well as scholars and professionals with the overarching mission of encouraging thoughtful stewardship of the land. "It’s been gratifying to see our books spark and guide landscape preservation projects all over the country," she says. "This is an important role in the field and we’re proud to be filling it." Recent examples of such projects include the restoration of several gardens by Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869–1950), the rehabilitation of a streetscape designed by Warren H. Manning (1860–1938) in Gwinn, Mich., the rehabilitation of Fletcher Steele’s library amphitheatre in Camden, Me., and the nomination of John Nolen’s plan for Venice, Fla., to the National Register of Historic Places. "We’re grateful to all the LALH authors and supporters who have contributed to our work over the years," Karson says.

Visit www.lalh.org for news of special events throughout the coming year.

Manning Project Makes Strides
Staffing, funding, research assistance, and new web pages for a nationwide survey head the list of milestones passed by the LALH Warren H. Manning Research Project since it was announced in these pages last year. The survey will eventually include the approximately 1,700 projects listed by landscape architect and planner Warren H. Manning (1860-1938), in preparation for a two-volume book.

Visit www.lalh.org to learn more about Manning and the research project, to download Manning’s client list and LALH survey forms, or to support the project through a contribution.

LALH is grateful to all the AHLP members who responded to the first call for assistance. We still need volunteer researchers in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Northern Michigan, and several other regions. For more information, please visit www.lalh.org/manning.html, e-mail rbertone-johnson@lalh.org, or call LALH at (413) 549-4860.

New Landscape Preservation Program
A new master's degree course in the Conservation of Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes will commence in October 2007 at the University of Bath, England. The program is intended to take students from a range of backgrounds and provide them with analytical and practical skills and a thorough grounding in the history, theory and practice of garden and cultural landscape conservation and management, covering both designed and evolving organic landscapes, complex cultural landscapes and large landscape zones.

The training will be sufficient for graduates to act as managers, conservation officers and consultants in the field. The course may be taken over two years part-time or one year full-time. This requires attendance at the university either one day or two days per week over two semesters.

Honourary Doctorate Granted To Susan Burke
In June 2007, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario granted an honourary doctorate to Susan Burke, Board Member of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. Susan is manager and curator of two historic sites which interpret the cultural heritage of the two founding groups who settled in the area in the early 1800’s – the Pennsylvania German Mennonites from the United States and the Scots from Great Britain. This great honour recognizes her personal contribution to material culture preservation and it raises public awareness of our field of heritage conservation in general. The following is an excerpt from Susan’s Convocation Address for the general and honours Arts students in which she focuses on a key attribute of heritage – Sense of Place.

Excerpt of Convocation Address ...

Mary Paolano Hoerner, BA, MA, JD, has developed workshops for teachers on teaching with cultural landscapes. She has given programs for the Western Ohio OEA, Central Ohio OEA, and most recently at Wittenberg University. The programs were developed with the support of Ohio Chapter, ASLA. The programs have been well-received, and additional workshops for teachers are planned for 2008.

Hugh C. Miller, FAIA, Hon. ASLA, is the 2007 recipient of the James Marston Fitch Preservation Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Preservation Education. Hugh began teaching historic preservation in 1970 at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. While employed full time by the National Park Service (NPS) as an architect/planner, he organized and presented NPS training programs for managers, professionals and trades mechanics in architectural conservation, landscape preservation and cultural resource management subjects. At the same time he was presenting courses, seminars and workshops at universities and preservation organizations in the U.S. and internationally. Since 1996, Hugh has been teaching preservation technology and supervising thesis at the Masters of Arts in Historic Preservation Program at Goucher College.

On June 27, 2007, Achim Jankowski retired from Public Works and Government Services Canada. His public service spanned close to 25 years starting in 1982 as a Park Landscape Architect in Gros Morne National Park on the west coast of Newfoundland, with a short term hiatus in private practice in Ottawa. He has been privileged to work with many fine people over the years, and in many interesting and wonderful places of national historic significance and natural beauty. Achim will continue his membership in the Alliance because it is a diverse and wonderful group, and he wants to remain involved in the conservation of historic landscapes. As well, he has been accepted to join the Education Committee, and work with Anne Hoover and Hugh Miller, in furthering our outreach to students in the preservation field of studies. Achim and Margo are planning on making the Annapolis Royal area in Nova Scotia their new home in the coming year, and look forward to their involvement in this historic community.Please note that Education Committee members Anne Hoover and Hugh Miller have new email addresses. Anne can now be reached at: anne_hoover@att.net. Hugh can now be reached at: hcmfaia@comcast.net.

New Office for Camille Fife:
The Westerly Group, Inc.
225 East Main Street
Madison, IN 47250
Tel: (812) 273-8826 Fax: (812) 265-9606
E-mail: wgimadison@aol.com

La Gasse Medal: Hugh Miller
Alliance Member Hugh C. Miller, FAIA, Hon. ASLA, received the La Gasse Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects on October 9, 2006. The La Gasse Medal is awarded to individuals who have made notable contributions to the management and conservancy of natural resources and/or public lands. Following the link to his acceptance speech which is being provided at the request of fellow Alliance members. Congratulations Hugh!
La Gasse Medal acceptance speech

Laura Knott, ASLA, of the Charlottesville office of John Milner Associates, Inc., has contributed a chapter entitled “Historic Landscape,” to the first publication of Landscape Architectural Graphics Standards. The book is described by the publisher as " an entirely new, definitive reference work for everyone involved with landscape architecture, design, and construction. Based on the 70-year success of Architectural Graphic Standards, this new book is destined to become the ‘bible’ for the landscape architecture field. Edited by an educator and former president of the ASLA, it provides immediate access to rules-of-thumb and standards used in the planning, design, construction and management of landscapes."

Designing The Parks
A conference in two parts examining the design of buildings and landscapes in regional, state, and national parks. Sponsored by the University of Virginia, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service.

This conference will meet for three days in Charlottesville, Virginia (May 20-22, 2008). A three day work session in San Francisco will follow in the fall of 2008. In Charlottesville the meeting will be hosted by the University of Virginia and the papers presented will address the history of the planning and design of regional, state, and national parks. The San Francisco meeting, which will be held at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will explore current issues and future trends in park planning and design, building on the research presented at the Charlottesville meeting.

Interested scholars, scientists, park professionals, and design practitioners are invited to submit paper abstracts of no more than 300 words for the Charlottesville meeting of Designing the Parks by January 7, 2008.

At both meetings, participants will include architects and landscape architects, historians, scientists, national and state park managers, partnership organizations, and others involved in park research, design, and management. Many types of landscape reservations will be the subjects of papers and presentations at both meetings of Designing the Parks, including but not limited to scenic and wilderness reservations, historical and archeological parks, ethnographic and memorial sites, national heritage areas, and protected landscapes of all types. The Charlottesville and San Francisco meetings of Designing the Parks will be linked in terms of content, themes, participants, and mutual relevance.

The purpose of the Charlottesville session is to assess lessons learned through an examination of park planning and design history. The research presented will provide a foundation for presentations and workshops addressing the unique challenges facing current park design and management, which will be the subjects of the San Francisco meeting of the conference. Both meetings of Designing the Parks will also stand independently for those attending one or the other of the meetings.

May 20-22, 2008
Designing The Parks, Part I: The History of Park Planning and Design
The University of Virginia, Charlottesville
The papers presented at the Charlottesville meeting of Designing the Parks will feature new research into the history of regional, state, and national parks as works of public art. Many aspects of park design will be considered, including buildings, designed landscapes, park roads, interpretive design, or any other aspect of how parks have preserved and presented nature and history to the public. The emphasis of the papers will be on the inherent meaning, ideology, and intent of large public parks as works of design, with a particular focus on design expression in state and national parks. Papers will also address the social, economic, and political contexts within which each park was designed and constructed, and will attempt to assess the relevance of historic park management strategies to the issues facing park managers today.

Abstracts should be submitted by January 7, 2008. Please include short résumés, titles, affiliations, and full contact information for all presenters. Participants are invited to submit abstracts for any of the thematic sessions suggested below, or to propose their own thematic session. The titles and descriptions of these sessions will be altered or developed as needed, and open sessions will also be organized for papers not easily grouped thematically.

DESIGNING THE PARKS
University of Virginia, Campbell Hall
P.O. Box 400122
Charlottesville VA 22904-4122

For more information contact Ethan Carr (ec2h@virginia.edu) or Shaun Eyring, NPSNortheast Regional Office (shaun_eyring@nps.gov), or Stephanie Toothman, NPS-Pacific West Regional Office (stephanie_toothman@nps.gov).

March 2009
A Critical Examination Of Preservation & Sustainability
The Sixth National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice
Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland

Historic preservation practice in the United States has become complex, professional, and inclusive, while reflecting an increasingly mainstreamed and popular public ethos. This has, in turn, focused the attention of some preservationists far beyond traditional concerns for preserving individual historic buildings, landscapes and neighborhoods, to grappling with ways to integrate preservation with land use and transportation planning, smart growth, and management of resources; in short, seeking ways to make historic preservation a central part of the growing discussion of developing sustainable practices.

This series of National Forums, co-sponsored by a consortium of 11 graduate historic preservation programs, has focused on the changing perspectives of historic preservation practice in the United States. The Sixth National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice, to be held at Goucher College, March 2009, will explore the challenges that preservation faces in becoming a critical component of the national debate about sustainability.

Historic preservation of existing neighborhoods and commercial districts embodies the concept of a sustainable society. Preserving and continuing to use existing neighborhoods with their closely integrated network of houses, schools, parks, open spaces, streets, alleys, and religious institutions provides residents with an environment that encourages human interaction. Preserving and continuing to use traditional commercial districts provides residents with a variety of locally oriented goods and services.

In particular, the Sixth National Forum is interested in receiving abstracts on the following topics:

Papers must be analytical rather than descriptive. They should address new approaches to historic preservation and sustainability, and not be simply case studies. Papers should focus on new material that brings fresh information and insight to the nexus between preservation and sustainability.

While the focus of the conference is on preservation practice and sustainability in the United States, papers may incorporate international perspectives for comparative purposes or in ways that bring domestic practices and issues to the fore.

Abstracts and any inquiries should be sent to:
David L. Ames, Conference Coordinator, and Director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
PHONE 302.831.1050 FAX 302.831.4548
davames@udel.edu

Abstracts may be submitted electronically or in hard copy. Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words and must be submitted no later than January 31, 2008.Abstracts should contain the author’s name(s), postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers at the top of the page. Papers will be selected based on thoughtfulness, organization, and how well they address the focus of the conference. The selection committee reserves the right to request modifications to proposals.

Inquiries and abstracts should be sent to David L. Ames, Conference Coordinator, and Director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; 302-831-1050, FAX 302-831-4548, davames@udel.edu. Abstracts may be submitted electronically or in hard copy.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Section 106 Courses
The only Section 106 course taught by the federal agency responsible for administering the National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 review process, this two‑day course is designed for those who are new to Section 106 review or those who want a refresher on its basic operation. The course explains the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which applies any time a federal, federally assisted, or federally approved activity might affect a property listed in or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Click here for ACHP2008 courses.

April 11-13, 2008

Southern Garden History Society Annual Conference:
High Cotton and Tall Columns
Athens, Georgia

High Cotton & Tall Columns will explore the influence of cotton on the architecture, gardens and landscapes of middle Georgia. A local tour will include several antebellum Greek Revival homes and The State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Also included in the meeting will be a tour to nearby Madison which largely escaped the ravages of the Civil War. Sunday’s optional tour will be to Milledgeville, the original capital of Georgia, and will include the old Governor’s Mansion which has undergone extensive renovation.
For more information visit www.southerngardenhistory.org.

June 15-27, 2008
Historic Landscape Institute:
Preserving Jefferson's Gardens and Landscapes
Virginia

The Historic Landscape Institute will offer students an introduction to the fields of landscape history, garden restoration, and historical horticulture by using the landscapes designed by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia as case studies and outdoor classrooms. Participants will engage in instruction 40 hours per week, with the bulk of that time spent on site. Occasional strenuous activity will be required in the gardens. Weekends are free for individual travel or participation in optional activities in and around the Charlottesville area. Tuition cost is $800 for the two-week course; housing is available in dormitory rooms designed by Thomas Jefferson on the Lawn at the University of Virginia. For additional information, please contact Mary Hughes at 434-924-6020 or mvh2t@virginia.edu.

Employment Opportunities

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
The Charlottesville office of John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) is seeking a Landscape Architectural Designer with 0-3 years of experience working in a professional firm on planning, design, and construction projects.

Candidates for the Landscape Architectural Designer position must have an undergraduate or graduate degree in landscape architecture, and may be a licensed professional but licensure or certification is not required. The candidate should be able to demonstrate project experience in a combination of the following: historic preservation, sustainable landscape architecture, landscape master planning, site design, and construction document preparation. Preference will be given to those individuals with historic landscape experience, strong writing skills, computer skills including CAD and electronic imaging, and strong drawing skills.

The Landscape Architectural Designer will work under the direction of project managers/landscape architects in Charlottesville but will also be involved in multidisciplinary projects with JMA’s architects, planners, historians, archeologists, and materials conservators. Project work often entails travel throughout the United States and the ability to undertake fieldwork in remote terrain.

Established in 1968, JMA is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm specializing in historic preservation through the disciplines of landscape architecture, architecture, archeology, planning, preservation technology, and historical research. JMA’s Charlottesville office specializes in historic landscape architecture and supports the firm’s other offices in this specialty. JMA also maintains offices in West Chester and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Alexandria, Virginia; Croton-on-Hudson, New York; Louisville, Kentucky; and Littleton, Massachusetts. Please visit our website: www.JohnMilnerAssociates.com for more information about the firm.

JMA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Interested individuals should mail, fax, or email a letter of interest and resume to:

Ms. Laura Knott
John Milner Associates, Inc.
103 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Fax: (434) 979-3645
Email: lknott@johnmilnerassociates.com

No phone calls please.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.