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2008 Conference Session Descriptions
(Subject to change without notice)
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Environmental Sensibility in Building Rehabilitation
Session Coordinator: Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Lawrence Scarpa, Architect & Principal – Pugh + Scarpa
Description: The creative and innovative designs of Pugh + Scarpa Architects combine cultural with environmental objectives, achieving LEEDS certified rehabilitation projects of great architectural merit. The firm’s work is widely recognized and has received numerous awards. Lawrence Scarpa was among 13 architects selected by Brad Pitt to design a prototypical in-fill house for the devastated New Orleans Ninth Ward. The relationship between preservation and sustainability will be presented in the firm’s exemplary projects.
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Rehabilitating Neighborhoods: The Infrastructure of Place
Session Coordinator: Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Darren Petrucci, Director, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, College of Design, Arizona State University (click for bio)
Description: Architect Darren Petrucci’s community and economic revitalization projects transform architectural settings and create further incentives for future building rehabilitations and adaptive reuse projects. In this session, Petrucci will review how modest improvements within the public realm of streets and open space can become a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. This session will examine design strategies that create opportunities for pedestrian amenities and examine the means by which neglected or under-used spaces can become connections, rather than divisions, among a community of buildings.
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People and Borders: Past and Present
Session Coordinator: Sarah Herr, Center for Desert Archaeology
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Doug Craig, Principal Investigator, Northland Research; Johna Hutira, Vice President and Operations Manager, Northland Research; Jeff Hokanson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Description: As part of mitigation efforts associated with the construction of a pedestrian fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, archaeological investigations were recently conducted at a large prehistoric site located on land administered by the “Bureau of Land Management within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. The work was sponsored by the Army Corps of Engineers for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. This session reviews both the compliance and the archaeological challenges involved in carrying out this work. Lessons learned from historic preservation efforts along the border will also be discussed.
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How to Prepare a National Register Nomination
Session Coordinator: Vince Murray, Historian, Arizona Historical Research
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Vince Murray, Historian, Arizona Historical Research; Dr. William Collins, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Don Ryden, Historical Architect, Ryden Architects.
Description: Using a case study, historic preservation professionals from both the public and private sectors will provide information on: researching a historic property and drafting an appropriate context; describing architectural styles and features; selecting criteria for eligibility; identifying significance; and evaluating integrity. Panelists will also provide an overview of the National Register process as it operates on the local, state, and national levels.
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New Ideas for Older Buildings
Session Coordinator: Kimber Lanning, Director, Local First Arizona
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Kimber Lanning, Director, Local First Arizona
Description: The locally owned businesses that create the urban fabric of any vital street life need the affordability and diversity of older buildings to thrive. “Vintage” buildings that are not old enough for the historic register, but were built before current building code, need special enforcement that includes a stream-lined process, creative interpretation of code, and specially trained staff that can look at America Disabilities Act (ADA) issues apart from life safety issues. These older buildings are the incubator spaces where entrepreneurs thrive and contribute to the flavor of any city.
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Local First Arizona
Session Coordinator: Kimber Lanning, Director, Local First Arizona
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Kimber Lanning, Director, Local First Arizona
Description: Formerly known as Arizona Chain Reaction, Local First Arizona is only one of a rapidly growing number of now-established coalitions all across America that are alarmed at the negative impact chain stores are having on their local economy. Their mission is to educate consumers about the dramatic and measurable benefits that go hand-in-hand with shopping locally. Independent businesses give communities unique character, encourage diversity, and bring creativity to our cultural landscape. Director Kimber Lanning discusses Local First Arizona and the importance of independent businesses in the local economy.
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Interpretation and Rehabilitation: An Interpretive Plan Blended with the Historic Structures Report for McFarland State Historic Park
Session Coordinator: Margy Parisella, Architect, Arizona State Parks
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Margy Parisella, Architect, Arizona State Parks
Description: Rehabilitation of a historic building is very much dependent upon how the building will be interpreted to the public. The integration of interpretive schema into rehabilitation plans is particularly critical for buildings that have had multiple functions or uses. Such efforts require the decision-makers to decide whether the building should be rehabilitated to honor its entire past or whether certain additions should be removed to honor a specific period of the building’s history. In this session, Arizona State Parks Architect Margy Parisella describes the teamwork required to create a unified vision for rehabilitation. Her presentation of Arizona State Parks’ work at McFarland State Park demonstrates the means by which an agency worked to stabilize an adobe courthouse, interpret the importance of the site to the Arizona Territorial history, and to create a functional space for the surrounding community.
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Archaeology and Preservation at Spanish and Mexican Period Sites in Arizona
Session Coordinator: Homer Theil, Desert Archaeology
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Jupiter Martinez, INAH – Sonora; Barnet-Paveo-Zuckerman, University of Arizona; Daniel Brockmann, University of Arizona; Jeremy Moses, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Homer Thiel, Desert Archaeology; James Heidke, Desert Archaeology; Gayle Hartman, Tucson Presidio Trust.
Description: In historic preservation circles, Arizona is well known for both its recent past and its deeper pre-Columbian past. Often forgotten is its rich Spanish and Mexican history which encompasses a 300-year time period. This session includes presentations from borderlands scholars on recent archaeological investigations, stabilization, rehabilitation, and interpretation at Spanish and Mexican period historic properties in Arizona and Sonora.
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The Hayden Flour Mill: Part I
Session Coordinator: Victoria Vargas, ACS
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Victoria Vargas, Principal Investigator, ACS; Thomas Jones, Historical Archaeologist/Historian, ACS; Dietrich Evans, Owner, 3D Image Solutions.
Description: This two-part session will present an overview of the Hayden Flour Mill project which began two years ago and is now drawing to a close. The project included an archaeological testing and data recovery component, an oral history program, architectural history, and historical architecture investigations, in-depth archival research, an extensive public outreach and education program, and the development of a historic preservation plan for the property. The session presenters will provide an overview of their research on the project, their findings, and recommendations for preservation. Future plans for the redevelopment of the property will also be discussed.
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The Hayden Flour Mill: Part II - Historic Architecture and Historic Preservation Planning at the Hayden Flour Mill.
Session Coordinator: Victoria Vargas, ACS
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Don Ryden, Historical Architect, Ryden Architects; Teresa Pinter, ACS.
Description: This two-part session will present an overview of the Hayden Flour Mill project which began two years ago and is now drawing to a close. The project included an archaeological testing and data recovery component, an oral history program, architectural history, and historical architecture investigations, in-depth archival research, an extensive public outreach and education program, and the development of a historic preservation plan for the property. The session presenters will provide an overview of their research on the project, their findings, andrecommendations for preservation. Future plans for the redevelopment of the property will also be discussed.
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Use of Historical Documents for Recreation and Interpretation of Historic Sites
Session Coordinator: Sarah Herr, Center for Desert Archaeology
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Diane Hadley, Chair, Associate Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum; Monica Young, Research Assistant, Office of Ethnohistorical Research, Arizona State Museum
Description: Arizona State Museum’s Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) houses the research tools and finding aids to access the written historical record which began with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the southwest in the 1530s. Join DSRW Director Diane Hadley as she discusses the information contained within the collection and how it has been used in the interpretation of Pima County’s Canoa Ranch and the reconstruction of Tucson’s Mission San Augustin.
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A Conversation with the State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Description: The State Historic Preservation Officer, James Garrison, will present information from the updated State Historic Preservation Plan and information on the Legacy Projects tied to the commemoration of Arizona’s Centennial in 1012. There will also be an extended question and answer session.
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Building Codes as a Tool for Revitalization
Session Coordinator: Ruth Clark
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Melvyn Green, Owner, Melvyn Green and Associates.
Description: Rehabilitation efforts on older buildings are sometimes stymied by building codes that have come into existence after the building was built. Bringing these buildings into compliance with current code is often perceived as an unanticipated and overly costly expense. However, this does not have to be the case. Structural Engineer Melvyn Green reviews methods for interpreting building codes to lower the cost of rehabilitation, and alleviate potential frustrations.
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The Four Treatments of Preservation
Session Coordinator: Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office
Description: The foundation of historic preservation lies in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Though many preservationists are familiar with the treatments there are still many nuances which are not misunderstood. SHPO architect and Federal Tax Act reviewer, Bob Frankeberger will explore the philosophy behind the Secretary of the Interior's 4 Treatments of the Preservation (Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction) as well as explain the standards that govern each treatment and what reviewers in Washington DC look for when certifying tax act projects
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Prop 207 and Historic Preservation Panel Discussion
Session Coordinator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Tucson
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Tucson; Karl Eberhard, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Flagstaff; E. Hansen, Interim Historic Preservation Officer, City of Tempe; Barbara Stocklin, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Phoenix; Grady Gammage, Jr., Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University; Ellen Van Riper, Deputy City Attorney, City of Peoria.
Description: When Proposition 207 passed in Nov 2006, it contained wording that would limit the ability of the state, counties, cities and towns to implement land use regulations that might have the impact of reducing property values. Officials from five Arizona communities discuss how Prop 207 had impacted planning and zoning in their communities. This will be followed by an open discussion, about the effects of Proposition 207 on historic preservation and how communities are dealing with it.
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Rehabilitation of the Urban Landscape
Session Coordinator: Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Christine Ten Eyck, Landscape Architect / Principal, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects.
Description: The changing landscape of historic residential and commercial districts demands an infill design strategy of great sensitivity. Award winning Landscape Architect Christine Ten Eyck surveys exemplary landscapes that are both environmentally sustainable and culturally compatible in a variety of urban contexts. Projects include the Desert Botanical Garden, The Heard Museum, Phoenix Art Museum and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona.
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The Basics of Historical-Period Artifact Identification: Parts I, II, and III
Session Coordinator: Carol Griffith, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Terry Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc. and James Ayers, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Description: Understanding the basics of historical-period artifact identification is essential for archaeologists investigating sites dating from European contact to the 20th Century. This three-part session will provide brief overviews of glass (post-Civil War era to the early 20th Century) and ceramics (ca. 1900-1950) using actual examples and emphasizing technological developments that provide temporal, functional, and interpretive clues to archaeologists.
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Undertaking Historical Research: Parts I and II
Session Coordinator: Carol Griffith, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Terry Majewski, Statistical Research, Inc. and James Ayers, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Description: Information contained in historical sources is essential for preparing historic contexts, National Register eligibility recommendations and nominations, and a wide variety of other studies. This two-part session focuses on locating, evaluating, and making use of sources of information for those who are researching historical places and persons in Arizona, with an emphasis on maps; local, state, and federal records; and oral histories and interviews.
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National Heritage Areas: Celebrating Heritage and Empowering Communities
Session Coordinator: Eric Vondy, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Vanessa Bechtol, Programs Manager, Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance.
Description: Since the first National Heritage Area was designated in 1984, the National Heritage Area program has dramatically grown in popularity, due in part to its grassroots and voluntary nature. The Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, along with a broad list of stakeholders and supporters, has been working since 2003 to gather community input towards federal designation as a Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area. With 37 designated National Heritage Areas across the country, there are a vast amount of success stories. This session will discuss the proposed Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area and will highlight a variety of success stories from National Heritage Areas.
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Ranch Preservation in Southern Arizona: Part I
Session Coordinator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson; Nicole Fyffe, Executive Assistant to the County Administrator, Pima County; Lee Eseman, Park Manager, San Rafael Ranch State Park, Arizona State Parks; Linda Mayro, Cultural Resources Manager, Pima County; Tom Sheridan, Professor of Anthropology, Southwest Center, University of Arizona.
Description: For over 300 years, ranching has been an important part of Southern Arizona’s history. Today, that heritage is threatened as ranch land is sold to developers. Various groups, however, are working to preserve the ranches and their heritage. This session includes presentations on strategies of acquisition for preservation, ongoing restoration and adaptive re-use efforts, preservation threats, and the significance and cultural value of historic ranches in southern Arizona.
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Ranch Preservation in Southern Arizona: Part II
Session Coordinator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Jonathan Mabry, Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson; Nicole Fyffe, Executive Assistant to the County Administrator, Pima County; Lee Eseman, Park Manager, San Rafael Ranch State Park, Arizona State Parks; Linda Mayro, Cultural Resources Manager, Pima County; Tom Sheridan, Professor of Anthropology, Southwest Center, University of Arizona.
Description: Continuation from Part I. For over 300 years, ranching has been an important part of Southern Arizona’s history. Today, that heritage is threatened as ranch land is sold to developers. Various groups, however, are working to preserve the ranches and their heritage. This session includes presentations on strategies of acquisition for preservation, ongoing restoration and adaptive re-use efforts, preservation threats, and the significance and cultural value of historic ranches in southern Arizona.
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Survival in Tough Economic Times: Providing Assistance to Small Business – Part I
Session Coordinator: Lisa Henderson, Arizona Department of Commerce
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Rick Segel; Lisa Henderson, Arizona Department of Commerce.
Description: Businesses can thrive during economic downturns and recessions if they know the right strategies to use. Economic slowdowns create opportunities when competitors cut back their marketing efforts, suppliers are more willing to negotiate, and lower interest rates prevail. Doom and gloom will become a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who believe in them.
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Survival in Tough Economic Times: Providing Assistance to Small Business – Part II
Session Coordinator: Lisa Henderson, Arizona Department of Commerce
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Rick Segel; Lisa Henderson, Arizona Department of Commerce
Description: Continuation from Part I. Businesses can thrive during economic downturns and recessions if they know the right strategies to use. Economic slowdowns create opportunities when competitors cut back their marketing efforts, suppliers are more willing to negotiate, and lower interest rates prevail. Doom and gloom will become a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who believe in them.
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The Fresh Produce Industry in Nogales
Session Coordinator: Kip Martin
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Axel Holm, Director, Pimeria Alta Historical Society.
Description: The first known record of importation of fresh produce from Mexico into the United States occurred in 1904. Today produce is a $2 billion per year industry in Nogales. 60% of all winter produce consumed in the US and Canada passes through Nogales, Sonora and is processed in Nogales, Arizona. This session explores that history and how produce had shaped the development of the border community.
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Communicating Preservation to the Masses
Session Coordinator: Lisa Henderson, Arizona Department of Commerce
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James McPherson, Advisor, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Heather MacIntosh, President, Preservation Action.
Description: When our history is torn down or allowed to deteriorate, a part of our past disappears forever. When that happens, we lose connections with history that help us know who we are, and we lose opportunities to live and work in the kinds of interesting, attractive surroundings that older buildings can provide. The major obstacle in saving most of these buildings is communicating the building’s importance to a public largely made up of people from elsewhere. This session addresses how to get the word out.
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Show Me the Money! – Financing Options for Historic Preservation Projects
Session Coordinator: William Hicks, Attorney, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Session Speaker / Facilitator: William Hicks, Attorney, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP; Vivia Strang, Historic Preservation Grant Consultant, Arizona State Parks.
Description: What funding sources are available for historic preservation projects? What types of projects qualify for funding from which sources? How can you access those sources? Can lower interest rate tax-exempt bonds be part of your financing solution? How about new markets tax credits? What are the pros and cons (and the costs) of each? This session will give you an overview of various historic preservation funding sources and the requirements for and benefits of each.
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Adobe Workshop: Session I – Adobe: The Material and Its Conservation
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session I: Adobe: the material and its conservation
- Composition
- Characteristics
- Deterioration
- Coatings
Description: James Garrison, an architect and the Arizona SHPO, will lead off the workshop by describing the composition of adobe from soil classifications of sand, silt and clay. He will also describe practical and technical approaches to soil analysis to determine both the components of existing adobes and how to match an existing adobe’s composition in making replacement adobes. He will then describe the characteristics of brittle materials including why they are hydrophilic and how to measure porosity. The seven primary types of adobe deterioration will then be discussed including the basics of why buildings crack and how to analyze cracks. Finally there will be a discussion of adobe coatings including mud, gypsum, lime plasters and Portland cement stuccoes.
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The Adobe Workshop: Session II – The Craftsman’s Perspective
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session II: The craftsman’s perspective
- Eric Means, Tuscon
- Reggie Mackay, Mesa
- David Yubeta, Tumacacori
Description: Three prominent adobe craftsmen will discuss their experience working with adobe and adobe coatings. The discussion will focus on two areas, first, what are the key issues surrounding the selection of an adobe contractor; and second, what are the primary misconceptions about adobe and its preservation.
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The Adobe Workshop: Session III – Adobe Construction Systems in Arizona
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session III: Adobe construction systems in Arizona
- Pre 1875 adobes
- 1875-1915 Victorian adobes
- 1916-1945 Revival adobes
- Contemporary adobes
Description: James Garrison will return with a discussion of how adobe has been used through time as part of systems of construction in the Southwest. Beginning with pre1875 adobes in the Sonoran tradition where the adobes extend directly into the ground and most building features are adobe or mud related, through the Victorian era (1875-1915) (sometimes referred to as “Territorial Adobes”) that feature the use of stone foundations, lime plaster and dimensioned lumber for floors, roofs and ceilings. The discussion will then move to adobe revival buildings (1916-1945) and the use concrete and Portland cement stuccoes and the contemporary use of adobe and rammed earth. Finally there will be a discussion of how each of these construction systems preserves the adobe and how misuse of one system to preserve the other can cause accelerated deterioration.
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Adobe Workshop: Session IV – The Architect’s Perspective
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session IV: The architect’s perspective
- Don Ryden, The First Pinal County Courthouse
- Bob Vint, Current use of adobe
Description: Phoenix architect Don Ryden will present information on the analysis of adobe deterioration and corrective repairs by focusing on recent work at the McFarland State Historic Park (First Pinal County Courthouse, 1878) in Florence. Then, Tucson architect Bob Vint will discuss his experiences with historic adobes and related building code issues.
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Adobe Workshop: Session V – Current Issues and Challenges
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session V: Current issues and challenges
Description: This session will cover current adobe preservation issues including why adobe stabilization treatments have not been successful, approaches to ruins stabilization, and the future of adobe. There will also be plenty of time to answer specific questions from the participants.
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The Adobe Workshop: Session VI – Hands-on Field Exercise – Tumacacori National Monument
Session Coordinator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer
Session Speaker / Facilitator: James Garrison, State Historic Preservation Officer, State Historic Preservation Office; Eric Means, President, Means Design and Building Corp.; Reggie Mackay, Owner, Adobe Technology; David Yubeta, Exhibit Specialist, Tumacacori National Historic Park; Don Ryden, Architect, Ryden Architects; Bob Vint, Architect, Vint & Associates.
Session VI: Hands-on Field Exercise - Tumacacori National Monument
Description: Participants will learn how to make adobes and repair adobe walls.
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Community Based Preservation Opportunities and Challenges: Exploring the Breadth and Depth of Historic Preservation
Session Coordinator: Bill Doelle, President, Center for Desert Archaeology.
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Bill Doelle, President, Center for Desert Archaeology; Brooks Jeffery, Professor, University of Arizona; Linda Marie Golier, Archaeologist, Center for Desert Archaeology; Doug Gann, Archaeologist, Center for Desert Archaeology.
Description: Potentially very exciting developments are being pursued in very different projects by very different parties. However, as this conference is being planned, the success or failure of each of these projects is entirely uncertain. Nevertheless, lessons are being learned on a daily basis that have relevance for bringing historic preservation to communities throughout the state. This session features the following presentations: "Naco: Bootstrapping in the Borderlands," "National Heritage Areas: Grassroots Realities," and "Hopi and Zuni meet Winslow and Springerville: Is there common ground?"
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Fences on the Border, Fences in Error: Historic Preservation and Homeland Security
Session Coordinator: Peter Steere, Manager, Cultural Affairs, Tohono O’odhan Nation
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Peter Steere, Manager, Cultural Afairs, Tohono O’odham Nation; Joe Joaquin, Cultural Resource Specialist, Tohono O’odham Nation; Anna Antone, Tohono O'odham Tribal Member and Resident of Pozo Verde, Sonora
Description: Historic preservation efforts on the Arizona border have become increasingly complicated by issues pertaining to Homeland Security. In this session, Anna Antone of the Tohono O’odham Nation will discuss growing up in a traditional Tohono O’odham village in northern Sonora and the challenges she perceives with the preservation of cultural sites. Peter Steere, cultural affairs manager, will examine the relationship between the Tohono O’odham Nation and United States’ Homeland Security, as well as the difficulty of protecting cultural sites on traditional Tohono O’odham lands. Joseph Joaquin, cultural resource specialist, will examine issues pertaining to protection of cultural resources across the border in Mexico.
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Tour of Cocospera Mission in Sonora, Mexico
8:30am to 6:00pm June 14, 2008 – Special Event
*Participation in the Cocospera Mission Tour requires full conference registration
Session Coordinator: Kip Martin
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Kip Martin; Dr. Jupiter Martinez, INAH Sonora
Description: Visit one of Father Kino’s missions. No church in northern Sonora has held the same degree of fascination as the lonely ruin of Cocospera. While the original Jesuit church dates from the 1680’s, much of the remaining ruins are Franciscan and date from the 1780’s. Depart the Esplendor Resort at 8:30am for a trip to the Cocospera Mission in Sonora, Mexico. The bus trip will take approximately 2 hours followed by a tour of the ruin, cemetery, and Elias family chapel. Dr. Jupiter Martinez will speak on its history and preservation. Access to the mission ruin is approximately a one-quarter mile walk uphill on a gently sloping dirt road. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing. Lunch will be provided. The projected return time to the Esplendor Resort in 6:00pm.
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Spanish and Mexican Frontier: A self-guided tour of the Missions and Presidios of the Santa Cruz Valley.
Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Independent – Special Event
Click here for itinerary.
Description: Beginning in the 1680s, the Santa Cruz Valley of southern Arizona was part of the northern frontier of New Spain, where Spanish colonists, soldiers, and missionaries interacted with local Native Americans. The region became part of Mexico when it won independence from Spain in 1821, and then became part of the United States when the Gadsden Purchase was signed in 1854. A number of the missions and presidios occupied during that period have been preserved and are open to the public.
This self-guided tour, organized by the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, will lead you to the missions of Guevavi, Tumacácori, and San Xavier del Bac, and the presidios at Tubac and Tucson. The missions of Tumacácori and Guevavi were established by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1691 and are part of Tumacácori National Historical Park. The TubacPresidio State Historic Park commemorates the presidio established there in 1752, and includes an innovative underground archaeology display. San Xavier del Bac was a Native American village where Father Kino established a mission in 1700, and still serves parishioners of the Tohono O’Odham Nation today. The Tucson Presidio was established in August 1775 by Spanish Army Captain Hugo O’Conor.
Destinations:
- Guevavi Mission, Tumacácori National Historical Park (Pending availability; only open during a specified time)
- Tumacácori Mission, Tumacácori National Historical Park
- Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
- San Xavier del Bac
- El Presidio San Agustin de Tucson
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AZSITE and the Public Sensitivity Map Layer
Session Coordinator: Rick Karl, AZSITE Database Manager, Arizona State Museum
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Rick Karl, AZSITE Database Manager, Arizona State Museum
Description: AZSITE, a geographical information system managed by a consortium of state agencies and a private institution, is Arizona’s official cultural resources inventory. This session will demonstrate the new features developed by the AZSITE Technical Staff designed around AZSITE user needs and will present the newly developed "public" avenue of AZSITE. Public AZSITE was designed to provide a quick overview of the cultural sensitivity of any given area without disclosing any sensitive information or locations. The highlight of the soon to be released new addition to the AZSITE System is the 'Sensitivity Layer' which displays percentage of a section recorded as a cultural resource and the percentage of that section which has actually been surveyed. When fully functional, these data will be updated every 24 hours. Other publicly viewable data layers will come on line as they are developed.
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Cultural Preservation and Revival Using Modern Technology: Revival of the Salt Songs
Session Coordinator: Matthew Leivas, Sr., Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Matthew Leivas, Sr., Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
Description: Mr. Leivas will show and discuss the new film "Cultural Preservation and Revival Using Modern Technology: Revival of the Salt Songs" and will also show the American Film Festival and Indian Summer Film Festival Award winning video, "Salt Song Trail: Bringing Creation Back Together"
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CLG Preservation Commissioner Training
Session Coordinator: Bob Frankeberger, State Historic Preservation Office
Session Speaker / Facilitator: John Charley, Community Development Director, City of Bisbee; Bob Frankeberger, Architect, State Historic Preservation Office; Joy Hernbrode, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Arizona Attorney General; Barbara Stocklin, Historic Preservation Officer, City of Phoenix.
Description: The State Historic Preservation Office hosts a four hour training session on what it means to be a commissioner for an historic preservation commission. Topics to be covered include: the role of the Historic Preservation Commission in the community, how to find historic preservation consultants, appropriate infill for historic neighborhoods, open meeting law, and the impact of Prop 207 on preservation activities in the state.
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Making Plans for Downtown
Session Coordinator: Lisa Henderson, State Main Street Coordinator, Arizona Department of Commerce
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Lisa Henderson, State Main Street Coordinator, Arizona Department of Commerce
Description: Vibrant downtowns don’t just happen…it takes strong public/private partnerships. Learn the basics of the Main Street Approach, and how it works to change attitudes about downtown. Hear from communities what they are doing in their community to successfully implement the Main Street Approach.
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Preserving the Recent Past
Session Coordinator: Lisa Henderson, State Main Street Coordinator, Arizona Department of Commerce
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Anthea Hartig, Director, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Western Region Office
Description: The National Trust for Historic Preservation recognizes the importance and significance of cultural resources of the post-war and modern era, and aims to enhance the public’s appreciation for and understanding of mid-20th Century architecture. The National Trust hopes to unite emerging popular interest in preserving the recent past with proper preservation practices through the promotion of continued use and sensitive rehabilitation of these structures.
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Historic Preservation in the San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona
Session Coordinator: Patrick Lyons
Session Speaker / Facilitator: Jeffery Clark, Preservation Archaeologist, Center for Desert Archaeology; Patrick Lyons, Head of Collections, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona; Jacquie Dale, Preservation Archaeologist, Center for Desert Archaeology; Bill Doelle, President and CEO, Center for Desert Archaeology
Description: The San Pedro Valley boasts an incredibly rich and well-preserved archaeological record due to the types of land-use traditionally employed there. More than ten years of research and community outreach has significantly increased knowledge of and local appreciation for the valley’s resources. Significant challenges remain, however.
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A Tribal Preservation Officer's Perspective: Managing a THPO and Tribal Consultation Demands
Session Coordinator: Alida Montiel
Session Speaker: Vernelda Grant, Tribal Preservation Officer, San Carlos Apache Tribe
Description: Coming Soon
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