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City of Charlottesville and County of Albemarle Preservation
Organizations and Initiatives:
Albemarle-Charlottesville
Historical Society
Founded in 1940, the Albemarle County Historical Society seeks to study,
preserve, and promote the history of Charlottesville and Albemarle County,
Virginia. The Society strives to accomplish this mission through a variety
of public programs, including exhibits, publications, lectures, walking
tours, oral history interviews, and various educational programs. The
Society's research library, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Historical
Collection, contains over 2,000 books and bound periodicals, as well as
photographs, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, newspapers, and vertical files
relating to the history of our community.
City of
Charlottesville, Board of Architectural Review
City of
Charlottesville, Historic Resources Task Force
City of
Charlottesville, City Planning Commission
City of
Charlottesville, Urban Design Committee
Albemarle
County Planning Commission
Albemarle
County Architectural Review Board
Albemarle
County Historic Preservation Plan
1907 and
1920 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for the City of Charlottesville
The University of Virginia Library holds a pair of original Sanborn Fire
Insurance Map books for the City of Charlottesville, one for 1907 and the
other for 1920, that have been digitized and geo-referenced and are
available online. These are highly detailed city plans providing
researchers with a wealth of information about urban change in American
cities during the first half of the twentieth century. The highly detailed
plans were drawn at a scale of 50 feet/inch, printed in color, and record
detailed information about streets, businesses, residences building
materials, and utilities.
Virginia Preservation Organizations and Initiatives:
APVA Preservation Virginia
The APVA Preservation Virginia, formerly the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to preserving and promoting the state's irreplaceable historic
structures, landscapes, collections, communities and archaeological sites.
Founded in 1889, APVA Preservation Virginia is headquartered in Richmond,
with twenty-three branches that advocate for preservation in their cities,
counties or regions. Most branches own or manage historic house museums and
offer educational programs on history and preservation. The Thomas
Jefferson Branch, formed in 1986, serves Charlottesville and the nearby
counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna and Nelson. In 2004 the former
APVA joined with the Preservation Alliance of Virginia (PAV) to create a
combined organization to better serve Virginia’s preservation
interests.
Fluvanna
Heritage
This is your web gateway to learn about organizations working to
maintain Fluvanna's heritage. Fluvanna County, Virginia is blessed to have
many organizations committed to the preservation and protection of our
county's rural character. This site is a central clearinghouse for
information on those organizations.
Friends of Barboursville
Barboursville is one of the anchors of the Madison-Barbour Rural Historic
District (National Register of Historic Places), which Virginia's
Department of Historic Resources calls "one of Virginia's most intact
cultural landscapes". In this area lie some of Orange County's most
popular tourist attractions, Friends of Barboursville, Inc. (FOB) is a
non-profit corporation founded to educate the public about the importance
of Barboursville and to preserve this community as one of our state's
valuable historic and environmental treasures.
Land Trust
of Virginia
Includes information about the Rural Bed
& Breakfast Preservation Initiative and Conservation
Easements.
Rivanna Conservation Society
This organization, dedicated to the preservation of “Mr.
Jefferson’s River” sponsors events and activities throughout
the watershed, including river paddles, river bank clean ups, public
education forums, citizen involvement programs, teacher and student
training events, along with assuring a continuing dialogue with locally-elected
officials designed to keep the health and protection of the Rivanna River
at the forefront of our community's environmental agenda. It also produces
a river map that points out to the passing canoe or kayak tourist the ruins
of 19th century attempts to make the Rivanna both navigable and
useful as a commercial power source.
Piedmont
Environmental Council
The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) is a regional non-profit
organization established in 1972 and based in Warrenton. Its mission is to
promote and protect Piedmont Virginia’s rural economy, natural
resources, history and beauty. Major programs are promoting land
conservation easements and advocating for local and state land use planning
issues. The local field office in Charlottesville works closely with
citizen groups to protect the quality of life in the Charlottesville-
Albemarle area. Landowners are encouraged to pursue listing of historic
districts and sites on the National Register, and to protect the historic
landscape through the voluntary donation of permanent conservation
easements.
Southern Environmental Law Center
For the past 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center has used
the full power of the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands,
and livable communities throughout the Southeast. As the biggest, most
powerful environmental organization headquartered in the South, the SELC is
able to work simultaneously in all three branches of government, and in
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
to comprehensively address the most urgent problems facing our region.
Virginia Historical
Society
The Virginia Historical Society was founded in 1831. It is a non-profit
organization that documents and exhibits the history and cultural life of
Virginia from earliest times to the present. Its mission is to collect,
preserve, and interpret the commonwealth's past for the education and
enjoyment of present and future generations. The Historical Society is the
state’s major repository and resource for historical documents,
photographs, architectural drawings, furniture, military collections, and
other artifacts.
Holsinger
Studio Collection
A photographic record of life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County from
before the turn of the century through World War I, now kept by the
University of Virginia. Two-thirds of the nearly 9,000 dry-plate glass
negatives and 500 celluloid negatives from the commercial studio of Rufus W. Holsinger are studio
portraits, and among these are nearly 500 portraits of African-American
citizens of Charlottesville and the surrounding area. Many of the portraits
are unidentified, but some are of visiting celebrities and dignitaries. The
collection also includes scenes and events from the community and from life
at the University of Virginia. Perhaps the best-known views are those of
the University Rotunda before
and during
its burning in 1895, but many other events are depicted, including parades,
fires, exhibitions, train wrecks and some of Thomas Jefferson’s
demolished buildings.
Prints made fresh from the original negatives are models of clarity and
detail.
Department
of Historic Resources
The Department of Historic Resources serves as the State Historic
Preservation Office. Their mission is to foster, encourage, and support the
stewardship of Virginia's significant historic, architectural,
archaeological, and cultural resources. Their website contains important
information on the National and State Historic Registers, federal and state
rehabilitation tax credits, and information about state surveys and
identifying historic resources.
Preservation Piedmont on the
Internet:
Story
by Dave McNair. February 22, 2007 in issue 0608 of The Hook
Published
February 22, 2007 in issue 0608 of The
Hook
"Last School Standing: The Jefferson School."
Story by Amanda Hurley. February 7, 2002, National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
Ridge Street Oral History Project
In 1995 Preservation Piedmont, a local group designed to encourage
participation in the preservation, restoration, and ownership of historic
and archaeological sites, agreed to conduct a study of neighborhood
families in order to gain greater insight into the area's recent
demographic and physical transformation from a single-family,
owner-occupied community to a predominantly multi-family, rental-unit
neighborhood. Preservation Piedmont designed an oral-history project in
which volunteers interviewed and recorded long-time Ridge Street residents
about neighborhood dynamics since the beginning of the twentieth century.
The complete "Ridge Street Oral History Project" included
interviews taken from white and black residents in Charlottesville. The
recordings and transcripts of interviews presented here, however, are only
those of African Americans. Website includes personal papers, newspapers,
images, maps, political materials, and oral histories.
Touring the Piedmont Area:
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary along Route 15 in
Virginia's Piedmont. The Virginia Piedmont is one of America's most
significant landscapes, encompassing centuries of historic sites located in
scenic settings. The "spine" of this region is historic, scenic
Routes 15 and 20, a corridor whose integrity is critical to the region.
Highlighting sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Journey
Through Hallowed Ground travel itinerary offers a taste of the wealth of
historic buildings, landscapes, and communities along Route 15.
LoCoHistory
Dr. Lynn Rainville created this weblog to share information about
Albemarle County History (including the City of Charlottesville, Virginia).
It focuses on the past 300 years of history in the region. More
importantly, it’s about getting out and exploring community histories
and acquiring local knowledge.
National and International
Preservation Organizations and Initiatives:
National
Trust for Historic Preservation
For more than 50 years, the National Trust has been helping people protect
the irreplaceable. A private nonprofit organization with more than a
quarter million members, the National Trust is the leader of the vigorous
preservation movement that is saving the best of our past for the future
and has taken up the cause of championing the intrinsic sustainability of
historic preservation.
Preservation Action
Since 1974, Preservation Action has been
and continues to be the preeminent Capitol Hill advocate for national
legislation favorable to historic preservation.
Recent Past Preservation Network
The Recent Past Preservation Network promotes preservation education,
assistance, and activism through the medium of new technologies, to
encourage a contextual understanding of our modern built environment. The
Network assists preservationists by providing an open community platform
for the development and revision of practical strategies to document,
preserve, and re-use historic places of the recent past.
Historic Landscape Initiative
The HLI is a federal program that promotes responsible preservation practices
that protect our nation’s irreplaceable legacy: designed and
vernacular historic landscapes. The HLI develops and disseminates
guidelines for significant historic landscape preservation, produces
innovative tools to raise the awareness of the general public, organizes
and conducts training symposia and workshops, and provides technical
assistance for significant properties and districts.
Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
The AHLP is dedicated to the preservation and conservation of historic
landscapes in all their variety. The primary goal of the group is to
educate the public about the historic landscape, its value, threats to it,
and ways to preserve it.
US/ICOMOS
The U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments
and Sites is part of a worldwide alliance for the study and conservation of
historic buildings, districts, and sites. It fosters international cultural
resources exchange with the United States and as such shares preservation
information and expertise worldwide. It highlights and interprets the
unique American preservation partnership among private organizations and
federal, state, and local governments, and the cooperation between the
academic community, design and conservation professionals and civic
volunteers.
UNESCO World Heritage List
Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what
we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage is an
irreplaceable source of life and inspiration. World Heritage sites belong
to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which
they are located.
Technical Preservation Services
TPS helps home owners, preservation professionals, organizations, and
government agencies preserve and protect our nation’s architectural
heritage by providing readily available materials – guidance,
pamphlets and books, videos, and a comprehensive web site – on
preserving, restoring, and rehabilitating historic buildings.
Heritage Conservation Network
HCN is actively working to preserve the world’s architectural heritage.
It also offers building conservation workshops that provide technical
assistance to preservation organizations and individuals.
National Center for Preservation Technology and
Training
NCPTT advances the use of technology in the field of historic
preservation through training, education, research and partnerships.
Association for Preservation Technology
A specialist organization dedicated to information exchange within the
preservation design and construction community, aiming to promote best
practices in conservation and restoration.
Department of the Interior Heritage Documentation
Program
The National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Program
administers the Historic American Buildings Survey, the Federal
Government's oldest conservation program, and the companion Historic
American Engineering Record, Historic American Landscapes Survey, and
Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems. Documentation produced
through these programs constitutes the nation's largest archive of historic
architectural, engineering and landscape documentation. Linked from this
website is the Library of Congress’s digital HDP archive.
“Historic Tax Credits: The
Power to Renew” from Charlottesville’s Real Estate Weekly
(PDF)
An article by Judd Bankert, CPA, of Norris and Associates, in Staunton,
Virginia.
“Preservation
Pays” from Charlottesville’s Real Estate Weekly
(PDF)
An article by Judd Bankert, CPA, of Norris and Associates in Staunton,
Virginia, and Jennifer Hallock of Arcadia Preservation, LLC, of Albemarle
County.
“Green Building”
Practices and Historic Preservation
Richard
Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Lectures at
the National Building Museum on Receiving the Vincent Scully Prize,
December 13th, 2007.
A
lecture by Donovan Rypkema of PlaceEconomics, delivered at the National
Trust’s 2005 Annual Conference.
A
reprint from the Association for Preservation Technology’s APT Bulletin: Journal Of Preservation
Technology / 36:4, 2005 does in the myth that replacement windows, and double-pane,
thick-muntin thermal glazing, are “green building” techniques.
One strategy not mentioned is one of the most efficient: using laminated-glass
exterior wood storm windows over historic wood double-hung windows.
Omnibus Preservation
Information Websites:
Preserve Net
Preserve Net is designed to provide preservationists with a
comprehensive database of regularly-updated Internet resources and
professional opportunities.
Preservation Web
A valuable resource to locate and get in touch with regional architects
and planners, contractors and engineers, product and material suppliers,
consultants and conservators, subcontractors and artisans, and
preservation-related organizations and government agencies.
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