The Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions is pleased to announce that our spring HPC Training will be held in St. Mary's Georgia. Mark your calendars for April 27-28, 2007, as we will have much to learn from this coastal town! (Known in preservation circles for its victorious vinyl siding court case!)
Please visit our Training page at http://www.uga.edu/gapc/training.htm for details about the Spring HPC Training, and to view our Agendas and Speaker Presentations from past training events.
This workshop is targeted towards those citizens who serve on a historic preservation commission as well as city attorneys, planners and staff, elected officials and anyone interested in learning how to protect their historic community!
This workshop is targeted towards those citizens who serve on a historic preservation commission as well as city attorneys, planners and staff, elected officials and anyone interested in learning how to protect their historic community!
Our training sessions will begin at the Fellowship Hall of the 1808 First Presbyterian Church. T his historic church has the distinction of being the oldest building in Georgia that has been in continuous use as a church since its erection.
Sitting gracefully on Osborne Street across from the church is the architectural pearl of historic St. Marys – Orange Hall. This is a showcase of antebellum life in the Greek Revival style, with massive fluted columns below classic, yet simple, Doric capitals and triangular pediment. The Orange Hall Foundation has just completed a Lord Acke & Sargent Historic Structure Report which now has provided the blueprint for her restoration and an interpretative history component.
St Marys is the ferry port for another national treasure—the Cumberland Island National Seashore. Settled by the renowned Carnegie family in 1881, Cumberland Island became a national park in 1972. Along with the wild horses and the ruins of Dungeness, Cumberland Island is the home of Plum Orchard – a 1898 Georgian Revival mansion built by Lucy Carnegie for her son, George and his wife, Margaret Thaw. This mansion was donated to the National Park Foundation by the Carnegie family in 1971.
St Marys is the ferry port for another national treasure—the Cumberland Island National Seashore. Settled by the renowned Carnegie family in 1881, Cumberland Island became a national park in 1972. Along with the wild horses and the ruins of Dungeness, Cumberland Island is the home of Plum Orchard – a 1898 Georgian Revival mansion built by Lucy Carnegie for her son, George and his wife, Margaret Thaw. This mansion was donated to the National Park Foundation by the Carnegie family in 1971.
The Registration Fee is $125 and covers all sessions, training materials, food, tours & events. The workshop will begin Friday, April 27th at 1 pm and will conclude Saturday April 28th at 4pm.