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One Architectural Conservation Issue — Bristol Field Trip 22 September 2010 Historic District Commission
Also: Read these added comments about the assignment/project. Refer to Suggestions for Architectural Conservation Research Bibliography to provide suggestions for the bibliography assignment. The issues or needs you identify during your Bristol Field Trip might also be the basis for your Research Bibliography assignment. Not surprisingly, that's part of the reason for the field trip. Resources (select, look for others)
Preliminary Conservation Assessment Let us supppose that the Town of Bristol, as a designated Certified Local Government (CLG) in Rhode Island (part of the national CLG program), has been awarded a Rhode Island CLG grant (see recent CLG grant awards) to develop conservation-specific materials for the town's property owners in the local Bristol Historic District. In advance of your site work, research the resources available for:
...focusing on the states you have been assigned, below. Look at the technical components of existing 'design-review guidelines', some of which are available through the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) listing of Online Design Guidelines [select]. Add resources to a Google Doc page, whose link will be provided by email and here (for 2009; to be added to). While there is an outline for issues, below, your research on other resources will inform our work in progress.
Your task at hand is to scout Bristol to examine various buildings (residential, commercial, civic, religious, industrial, etc., as possible) and research the architectural conservation resource that you have been assigned below. For Fall 2010, we have the following resources:
Draft outline for each resource. Cite specific reading and indicate why it is important, reather that reiterating material or quoting long passages. Short quotes, follwed by a reference and explaination why it is useful is best. Note! Before addressing your 'resource', explain why the project is being conducted. Rememebr to look at comments
Refer to Specifications reading. . . the Construction Specifications Institute 16-Division Format (old format, pre 2004, but still employed by many architects, specifiers) to consider a way to organize your Bristol conservation issues, with the idea that this information could later be easier to access for the development of guide oultine specifications. Consider referencing pertinent specifications sections, which are found under the 16 divisions (as a preface to the subject) on the General Service Administration (GSA) Historic Preservation Technical Procedures listing.
The new, 2004 MasterFormat, which has 49 Divisions, can be previewed in MasterFormat in 10 Easy Steps (PDF file). This will be considered during discussion of specifications. Restrict your sitework to visual inspection from the sidewalk. That is: please do not tresspass. However, take a copy of your architectural conservation assessment assignment/project with you, should you run in to a property owner that might be interested in having you do their house for a possible (no promises) future assessment, which is due at the end of the semester. Also, in the past, it has been helpful to show owners this 'Bristol' assignment, if only to validate your purpose. I suggest you start from Hope Street and State Street and head eastward. Do not only address the "high-style" structures but consider vernacular structures, perhaps around Wood Street (to the east) or Franklin Street (northeast).
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