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Event & Conference Details
LA-Historic Register Designation and Documentation Workshop
February 7, 2012 |
Historic resources in California are constantly surveyed, nominated and listed to preserve and protect our heritage or facilitate cultural tourism and threatened historic sites are carefully documented with measured drawings and large format photography as Historic American Buildings Surveys, Historic American Engineering Records and Historic American Landscapes Surveys (HABS/HAER/HALS) to collect comprehensive historical information or fulfill mitigation requirements under CEQA. Some of these programs have been around for eighty years, yet their registration and documentation requirements have constantly evolved and can no longer be accomplished with a typewriter, a roll of film and a page of history as was the case in the 1970s; today's historic documents more closely resemble a Master's thesis.
This makes Village Green in Los Angeles (near Culver City) a perfect case study to examine the diverse and changing historic designation and documentation programs and their use for preservation and advocacy. Constructed in 1941 and '42, Baldwin Hills Village (now known as the Village Green) is a modernist 67-acre residential "Superblock" of historic garden apartments (now condos) with a unique combination of site plan, landscape and architecture designed collaboratively to be an organic, cohesive unit. Not surprisingly, Village Green was designated a LA Historic Cultural Monument in 1977, then added to the National Register in 1993, and made a prestigious National Historic Landmark in 2001, before preparation of recent Historic Structures and Cultural Landscape Reports.
Workshop topics include choosing the most suitable designation program for historic resource protection, tourism or as an advocacy strategy for preservation. Participants will examine the California Register of Historic Resources (CR), California Historical Landmarks (CHL), National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and National Historic Landmark (NHL) programs as well as local Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument (HCM) requirements including a rare opportunity to speak to the actual reviewers from OHP and NPS. The focus of this workshop will be unraveling the varied historic designation and documentation programs and understanding their submittal formats, some digital and some still analog. Technical topics include measured drawings, building, landscape and engineering photography, and mitigation requirements for CEQA. We will discuss the recently changed specifications for using digital technology when completing documentation for the California Register, NRHP, NHL and the HABS/HAER/HALS programs. Speakers will illustrate local, regional and statewide examples and case studies and participate in panel discussions with a tour of Village Green as a on-site case study of the comprehensive registration and documentation projects undertaken there.
- Understand the differences and similarities in Local, CR, CHL, NRHP and NHL listings and designations
- Determine the advocacy potential and protections bestowed with listing or landmark designation
- Study examples of accepted and denied nominations and learn how to improve submissions
- Review the HABS/HAER/HALS film and drawing requirements and the new 2011 digital print standards
- Understand the new digital report and photo requirements for CR, CHL, NRHP, NHL nominations
- Discuss best practices in archival storage of documents and digital files for easy accessibility and stability
- Ask the OHP and NPS reviewers of CR, NRHP and NHL nominations questions about effective submittals
- Tour Village Green as an on-site case study of the evolution of the HCM, NRHP, and NHL requirements
Speakers: (More TBA)
Ken Bernstein, AICP, Manager, Office of Historic Resources & Principal City Planner, City of Los Angeles
Jay Correia, Registration Supervisor, Office of Historic Preservation
Katie Horak, Architectural Historian, Architectural Resources Group, Inc.
Stephen Schafer, HABS HAER HALS photographer, Schaf Photo
Adrian Scott Fine, Advocacy Director, Los Angeles Conservancy
In Partnership with Village Green Owners’ Association and the Los Angeles Conservancy Workshop registration includes lunch.
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Los Angeles, CA |
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