Preservation Georgia online, Nov. 13-26, 2006

Preservation Georgia Online November 13-26, 2006 In this issue: FFY 2007 HPF (CLG) Grant Applications Are Available HPD staff news Preservation tag news National Register news Georgia Trust announces 2007 list of 10 Places in Peril 2007 Rudy Bruner Award nominations accepted Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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FFY 2007 HPF (CLG) Grant Applications Are Available
Application packets for the next cycle of federal grants (Historic Preservation Fund) earmarked for certified local governments interested in completing survey and planning projects have been mailed to Certified Local Government (CLG) contacts throughout the state and are also available on HPD's website at http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=40. Eligible activities include surveys, National Register nominations, design guidelines, brochures, website development, etc. Predevelopment applications for sitespecific projects to conduct historic structure reports, preservation plans, or architectural drawings and specifications are available by request only or on the HPD website.
For FFY2007, we are mailing applications about four weeks earlier than in previous years and moving the postmark deadline up from March 1, 2007, to February 1, 2007. This change will allow the HPD grant cycle to be more in line with the federal fiscal year and will also allow grant recipients extra time to complete their projects. Grant awards will be announced in March 2007. Projects may begin in May 2007 and must be completed by August 15, 2008.
If you have questions about the application process or would like to receive an application, please call Carole Moore, grants coordinator, at 404-463-8434 or contact her at carole_moore@dnr.state.ga.us.
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HPD staff news
More than 200 friends and associates packed the Old DeKalb County Courthouse on October 15 to wish Ken Thomas the best in his retirement after 33 years of service as chief historian in our office. Guests came from as far

away as Washington, DC, New Mexico, and the west coast. Among those attending were Ken's mother and sister as well as several staff who worked in the office when Ken first arrived in 1973. More than $2,000 was contributed toward a new HPD local history book fund in Ken's name. We miss you Ken!
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Preservation tag news
Although HPD is not even considering the possibility, we have been asked what will happen if 1000 tags are not ordered by the deadline. Will the money from the orders be returned to individuals? The answer is yes. Work continues on promoting the preservation tag. HPD staff set up an information booth at the County Officers Association of Georgia annual meeting, held in Savannah on November 14-15. Staff and RDC preservation planners are continuing to visit county tag offices to distribute promotional material and sample plates. Our nonprofit partners are writing articles for their newsletters. Tag numbers are increasing every week, but we need your support to meet the goal of 1000 orders. For more information, contact HPD grants coordinator Carole Moore at 404-463-8434 or e-mail at carole_moore@dnr.state.ga.us. To view the plate and/or use the order form to serve the plate, go to HPD's website at www.gashpo.org.
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National Register news
Visit our Web site at http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41 for information on the National Register program. The following properties were recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places:
October 26 The High Shoals Historic District is located along State Route 186 in the communities of High Shoals and North High Shoals in Oconee, Morgan, and Walton counties. In 1846, New York native Ephraim Hopping and a group of local entrepreneurs organized the High Shoals Manufacturing Company. By 1849, the company built a water-powered textile mill on the south bank of the Apalachee River for the production of cotton yarn. In 1857, Isaac Powell reorganized the company as the New High Shoals Manufacturing Company, which produced cloth for Confederate uniforms during the Civil War. By 1900, the mill had grown to a sprawling complex of three-story brick mills and smaller buildings that housed cotton warehouses, the machine shop, dye house, and boiler house. By century's end, the mill employed up to 250 of the community's 700 residents. South of the river, Powell donated land for the construction of the Baptist and

Methodist churches and built roughly 50 houses for mill workers. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1928 and was not rebuilt. Little was built in the community until after World War II when ranch houses were constructed. High Shoals Historic District is significant under the theme of community planning and development because mill communities were integral components of mill operations and because the plan is characteristic of the irregular plans that follow the dramatic topography of their riparian settings.
November 1 The Highland School, located at 978 North Ave. NE, Atlanta, Fulton County, is significant in architecture as a good example of an intown early 20* century public elementary school reflecting the latest design trends of the era, that of a large, red-brick building, in the Classical Revival style, with long corridors and classrooms opening onto the corridor on both levels. The building retains its original form, exterior terra cotta classical detailing including a cornice, cartouche, and name signage, and parapet roof. The original 1911 building is also significant as a work of Edward E. Dougherty (1876-1943), an Atlanta-born architect. The school is significant in education as being built and serving for sixty years as an inner city elementary school for grades K-6 for the 9* Ward, first for white children only. It served as a neighborhood school until it closed in 1972. It has recently been rehabilitated into 30 condominiums known as the Highland School Lofts. The Highland School received final certification from the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the state property tax abatement program on March 8, 2004.
November 1 The Cox-Carlton Hotel, 683 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, Fulton County, is significant in architecture as a good example of a hotel that has retained much of its original features and details over an 80-year existence as an apartment/hotel building. It is significant as a work of the firm of Pringle and Smith, of which Francis P. Smith was the founder of the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. The building retains all of its exterior ornamentation in limestone and terra cotta, and some of its interior details. Originally built to house 143 apartments for bachelors as the Carlton Apartments, today it still retains the same number. The hotel is also significant in the areas of commerce and social history as a continuously operated residential building in downtown Atlanta. After December 1929, the entire building became a hotel and was renamed the CoxCarlton and, despite many changes of owners, retained that name until 1981. For a while, it was owned by Southern Railway and served as a hotel for railway employees only. The first floor restaurant and cabaret were added when it became a hotel. During its days as a hotel and because of its proximity to the Fox Theater, it housed many a famous guest. Today it operates as the Hotel Indigo. The property received final certification from the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the state property tax abatement program on May 12, 2005.

November 8 The Strong-Davis-Rice-George House, located at 107 Hudson Road, Eatonton, Putnam County, is significant in social history as one of the earliest remaining houses in a community founded in 1808 with which a series of prominent local landowners were associated. It is significant in architecture as a good example of a house built within the first two decades of the community's existence that reflects the architectural trends of the times. The larger portion of the house, the I-house portion, retains its hand-hewn post-and-beam construction, two-room, central hall plan, and other original features. The attached original kitchen/early owner's residence reflects the dynamics of early settlement and the re-use of buildings.
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Georgia Trust announces 2007 list of 10 Places in Peril
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation released its 2007 list of 10 Places in Peril in the state on November 9. Places in Peril is designed to raise awareness about Georgia's significant historic, archaeological and cultural resources, including buildings, structures, districts, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes that are threatened by demolition, neglect, lack of maintenance, inappropriate development or insensitive public policy.
Sites on the list include: Cherokee structures in North Georgia; the City Auditorium in Waycross; the Gilmer County Courthouse; the Wren's Nest and Herndon Home, both in Atlanta; the Eleanor Roosevelt School in Warm Springs; raised Tybee Island cottages; the Aluminum Mill Hill workers' houses in Eatonton; the Virginia-Highland neighborhood in Atlanta; and, the Hand Trading Company Building in Pelham.
For additional background material and more information on each site including a downloadable high-resolution photo, go to http://www.georgiatrust.org/preservation_resources/pip2007.htm
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2007 Rudy Bruner Award nominations accepted
The Rudy Bruner Award is given to urban places that demonstrate the successful integration of effective process, meaningful values and good design. RBA winners are distinguished by their social, economic and contextual contributions to the urban environment, and often provide innovative solutions to our cities' most challenging problems. The RBA awards one Gold Medal of $50,000 and four Silver Medals of $10,000 each. Case studies of winners are published on

line at www.brunerfoundation.org and in a book distributed by the Bruner Foundation. Deadline: 12/18/2006
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Preservation events calendar
Check the Events Calendar at www.gashpo.org for complete listings by date. Tell us what your organization or community has planned by sending your listings for our online Events Calendar via e-mail to: helen_talleymcrae@dnr.state.ga.us.
Please note that items on the "Preservation Events Calendar" are events and meetings of interest to preservationists. It is not to be used for the detailed scheduling of meetings with HPD staff without contacting those individuals
New additions
November 18 - Johnny Mercer historical marker dedication - Georgia Historical Society - Savannah - www.georgiahistory.com
December 2 Artifact ID Day - Vienna Historic Preservation Society - contact Stephen Hammack at stephen.hammack@robins.af.mil
December 8-9 - Cherokee Christmas by Candlelight - Chief Vann House - Spring Place - 706-695-2598 - http://gastateparks.org/info/chiefvann/
December 9 Artifact ID Day - Upson County Historical Society - Thomaston contact Stephen Hammack at stephen.hammack@robins.af.mil
January 21-26 - Transportation Research Board (TRB) 86th Annual Meeting Washington, DC - www.itre.ncsu.edu/ADC50/index.htm
Previously listed national and state conferences and meetings
October 29 November 11 - Emergency Stabilization Workshop at the James Brown House, Ooltewah, Tennessee - http://www.heritageconservation.net/wsjames-brown-house.htm
November 8-11 - Culture is the Spark: 8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference Atlanta - http://www.chtalliance.com

January 4-7, 2007 - American Historical Association annual meeting: Unstable Subjects: Practicing History in Unsettled Times - Atlanta http://www.historians.org/annual/2007/index.cfm
February 8-10 GAAHPN annual meeting: What's New in the Old Neighborhood? - Augusta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=328
February 13 - Historic Preservation Day at the Capitol & Legislative Reception Georgians for Preservation Action - Atlanta www.georgiatrust.org/get_involved/advocate.htm
March 8-10, 2007 - Spring 2007 Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference Boston - www.traditionalbuildingshow.com
March 28-31 - Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference "Savannah and the Lowcountry" - Savannah - www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org for more information, or contact Daves Rossell, erossell@scad.edu
April 11-14 Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation annual meeting Athens www.ahlp.org/docs/meetings.html
April 27-28 - Spring HPC Training - Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions - St Marys - www.uga.edu/gapc - 706-583-8047 or jmlewis@uga.edu
May 18-20 - Georgia Trust Annual Meeting - Brunswick & the Golden Isles www.georgiatrust.org/historic_sites/annual_meeting.htm
May 20-27 - VI World Archaeological Congress - Kingston, Jamaica http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/
June 18-21 - Your Passport to Crossing Boundaries in Heritage Development: International Heritage Development Conference - Alliance of National Heritage Areas - Detroit, MI - http://www.nationalheritageareas.org/2007_conference.htm
October 25-28, 2007 - 12th National Conference on Planning History - Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) - Portland, Maine http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/sacrph/
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