[MassHistPres] Local Preservation Update E-Newsletter-January 9, 2012

[Skelly, Christopher (SEC)]

LOCAL PRESERVATION UPDATE E-NEWSLETTER
Published by the Massachusetts Historical Commission
January 9, 2012

HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM AT UMASS-AMHERST

The new Historic Preservation Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been voted into the National Council for Preservation Education. Students take courses in the program for two years to receive a Master of Science in Design and Historic Preservation, but are not bound to complete the program and may simply take one or two courses related to specific goals and interests.  Courses take place on alternate weekends to accommodate working professionals as well as interested students.  Half of the courses offer a traditional classroom setting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus while the other half give students hands-on experience at Hancock Shaker Village, a historic site in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  Specific topics covered by the program include traditional building materials, preservation theory, building systems, 18th-20th century architecture, building technology, and conservation methods.  Instructors as well as museum staff work with students in building their design, preservation, and restoration skills.  Historic preservation activists, historical commission members, architects, builders, carpenters, historians, museum educators, architectural professionals, Shaker enthusiasts, building professionals and students can take courses in the program. More information about the program is available online at http://umasshsv.wordpress.com/ and specific information about Hancock Shaker Village can be found at http://www.hancockshakervillage.org/.   If you have any questions, contact Drs. Max Page (mpage at art.umass.edu<mailto:mpage at art.umass.edu>) or Marla Miller (mmiller at history.umass.edu<mailto:mmiller at history.umass.edu>).


DCR PUBLICATION TERRA FIRM: MOURNING GLORY
The Department of Conservation and Recreation's Historic Landscape Preservation initiative has completed a new publication on preservation of historic cemeteries.  Terra Firma #10-Mourning Glory: Preserving Historic Cemeteries includes information on current issues, best management practices and resources related to the protection of historic cemetery landscapes.  It can be downloaded at http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship/histland/publications.htm

GUIDEBOOK FOR HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSIONS
The Massachusetts Historical Commission will begin updating the guidebook for historic district commissions in 2012.  Originally prepared in 1998, the guidebook has served as a useful document for local historic district commissions.  Now ready for an update, we'd like to hear from historic district commissions.  What would you like to see added to the revised guidebook?   Send your ideas to Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us>.

NEW LISTINGS IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Acton, Acton High School
Lawrence, Sacred Heart Parish complex

CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER
January 9, 2012-TONIGHT
Demolition Delay Bylaws.  Historical Society, Union Street, Holbrook.  7pm.  For more information, contact Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us>
February 11, 2012
Greening the Old Home.  Boston.  For more information, visit http://www.historicnewengland.org/events-programs/events-calendar

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