Preservation Georgia online, Mar. 26-Apr. 1, 2007

Preservation Georgia Online March 26-April 1, 2007 In this issue: Georgia Heritage Grant Funds help preserve sites associated with women artists Guidance material for rehabilitation information available from HPD Applications available for NTHP diversity scholarships Call for 2007 SESAH Award Nominations Preservation Events Calendar Subscription Information
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Georgia Heritage Grant Funds help preserve sites associated with women artists
Resources associated with prominent women across the state have received funding through the Georgia Heritage Grant Program. Funds have been used to stabilize, repair, and plan for the continued use of structures that help connect us to the complex history of women in Georgia. Properties associated with blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Pridgett and with artist Mary Hambidge are the focus of the third installment of our Women's History Month series.
For the SFY 1998 round of grants, the Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Pridgett House in Columbus received $7,000 for electrical rewiring. Born in Columbus in 1886, Gertrude Pridgett made her first appearance on stage around 1900 in a local talent show called "Bunch of Blackberries." After marrying a fellow performer, Will "Pa" Rainey, Ma Rainey traveled throughout the South singing and dancing in black minstrel troupes. Her style of blues singing made her unique, and she enjoyed success throughout much of the 1920s. Ma Rainey, also known as "The Mother of the Blues," can be heard on 94 recordings, often alongside jazz notables such as Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey. After traveling on the road for many years, Ma Rainey returned to Columbus in 1935, where she spent the last years of her life. The Ma Rainey Pridgett House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, was fully restored in 2006, and is now open to the public.
Located in Rabun County near the city of Dillard, The Hambidge Center is a nonprofit organization that offers artists the opportunity to work in an unstressed, natural atmosphere. The Center has received two Georgia Heritage Grants over the years to stabilize and repair significant structures on the property. In SFY 1997 the Hambidge Center Weave Shed received $22,500 to stabilize the second floor of the structure, implement handicap access, and drain and regrade the site. The Mary Hambidge House received $10,000 in SFY 2001 to repair the roof of the building. Both properties are located on the Hambidge Center's 600 acres covered by forests, streams, and meadows. Born in Brunswick in 1885, Mary Crovatt studied the classics at a finishing school in Massachusetts and later

moved to New York when she was in her twenties. She married Canadian-born artist and scholar Jay Hambidge, who pioneered the concept of "dynamic symmetry," the linking of nature's symmetry with that of human art objects. After her husband's death in 1924, Mary Hambidge went to a friend's summer home to pursue her passion of weaving. In 1934, the Jay Hambidge Art Foundation was created after Mary acquired enough money to purchase the 600 acres in Rabun County. The site eventually became the Hambidge Center, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
More money could be available to help save other historic resources related to prominent Georgia women by increasing funds available for Georgia Heritage Grants. You can help us achieve this goal by ordering a Historic Preservation license plate. Twenty-two dollars of the tag fee is designated for the Georgia Heritage Grant Program. For more information, contact 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 reserve the plate, go to HPD's website at www.gashpo.org. 1000 tags must be ordered by December 2007 before these tags will be manufactured. Current tag orders are 548.
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Guidance material for rehabilitation information available from HPD
Our office has a supply of Preservation Briefs and Tech Notes provided by the National Park Service that can provide in-depth advice on most aspects of historic building rehabilitation. NPS has recently published two new briefs, #45 "Preserving Historic Wood Porches" and #46 "The Preservation and Reuse of Historic Gas Stations." Additionally #35, "Appropriate Methods for Reducing Lead-Paint Hazards in Historic Housing," has been re-issued to reflect current regulatory standards. These informative brochures are also available on line at www.cr.nps.gov/hps/tps. Ced Dolder, the HPD historic tax incentives specialist/coordinator, can also provide you with copies upon request.
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Applications available for NTHP diversity scholarships
The National Trust for Historic Preservation makes available limited scholarship assistance to help preservationists from diverse social, economic, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds attend the National Preservation Conference. Applications are now available for the 2007 conference, which will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2-6, 2007. Applications, which must be postmarked by June 1, 2007, are available on the National Trust website at https://www.nationaltrust.org/scholarships/diversity_scholarship.html.
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Call for 2007 SESAH Award Nominations
Publication Awards - The Southeast Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is seeking nominations for the 2007 Publication Awards. The three categories are books, journal articles, and essays published in book format. The copyright should be no earlier than 2005. The awards are for publications either on the topic of architecture in the South, or by authors who reside in the South as defined by SESAH member states. These include: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. An article or essay should be copied in triplicate and sent in with complete bibliographic information. Book titles must include full bibliographical information. The deadline for submissions and nominations is May 1, 2007. Send articles and essays to Travis McDonald, Jefferson's Poplar Forest, P.O. Box 419, Forest, VA 24551. Nominations for books can be sent to Travis@poplarforest.org. Winners will be announced at the 2007 SESAH Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, this October.
Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture Award - SESAH seeks nominations for the "Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture Award." This award, in its second year, will honor a project that preserves or restores a historic building, or complex of buildings, in an outstanding manner and that demonstrates excellence in research, technique, and documentation. Projects in the twelve-state SESAH region and that were completed in 2005 or 2006 are eligible. Nominations should consist of no more than two typed pages of description, and be accompanied by hard copy illustrations and any supporting material. A cover letter should identify the owner of the project, the use of the building(s), and the names of all the major participants of the project. Send four copies to Andy Chandler, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223. Questions: 803-896-6179 or chandler@scdah.state.sc.us. The deadline for submissions and nominations is June 30, 2007. Winners will be announced at the 2007 SESAH Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, this October.
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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
April 10 - Jeannine Windham of New South Associates will present new data on an excavation of the Hardin Bridge Site in Bartow County - Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society meeting - Atlanta - vegotsky@earthlink.net
April 10 - University of Georgia Preservation Month events, including, "Preservation Politics" lecture by William Schmickle - Athens http://www.uga.edu/sed/events/april2007/social_events.htm
April 14 - Scull Shoals Heritage Festival - Greene County http://www.scullshoals.org/index.html
May 5 - Thomasville Landmarks' Annual Kentucky Derby Party - Osceola Plantation, outside Thomasville - Brent Runyon, 229-226-6016 or tli@rose.net
May 19 - "Passport to the Creek Nation" - SGA Society for Georgia Archaeology (SGA) Spring 2007 Event - Macon http://www.thesga.org/spring_meeting_2007.htm
Previously listed national and state conferences and meetings
March 28-31 - Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference "Savannah and the Lowcountry" - Savannah - http://www.scad.edu/academic/majors/arlh/vaf/ 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 12-15 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting: Many Histories, Many PublicsCommon Ground? Santa Fe, NM www.ncph.org
April 17 - Preservation Easement Workshop: Addressing Organizational Practices and New Legislative Rules - Chicago, IL http://www.nationaltrust.org/legal/documents/easement.workshop.brochure.chica go.final.pdf
April 18-20 Heart and Soul of Georgia Bus Tour - Ga. Cities Foundation/GMA http://www.georgiacitiesfoundation.org/event_detail/default.asp?eventid=41930
April 22-28 - Georgia Cities Week - Cities: Service, Style & Soul - Georgia Municipal Assn. - http://www.gmanet.com/georgia_cities_week/

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 IS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND ARCHAEOLOGY MONTH!
May 2-4 - "Building Creative Communities" Conference - Colquitt www.buildingcreativecommunities.com
May 11 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
May 1516 - Urban Georgia Network Meeting - "Sense of Place Extends Beyond Your Gates: Mixed-Use Development" - Atlanta - contact Cindy Eidson, ceidson@dca.state.ga.us, 404-679-3101.
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
June 23-30 - Preservation Leadership Training - National Trust for Historic Preservation - application deadline is March 30 - Owatonna, Minnesota http://www.nationaltrust.org/plt
July 25-28 League of Historic American Theatres - 31st annual conference and theatre tour Boston, MA www.lhat.org
September 5-8 - 2007 AASLH annual meeting - Relevance: The Bottom Line Atlanta - http://www.aaslh.org/anmeeting.htm
September 28 - Georgia National Register Review Board Meeting - Historic Preservation Division, DNR - Atlanta http://hpd.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaynavigation.asp?TopCategory=41
October 2-6 - Preservation Matters!: 2007 National Preservation Conference Saint Paul, Minnesota - www.nthpconference.org

October 25-28 - 12th National Conference on Planning History - Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) - Portland, Maine http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/sacrph/
October 27-November 17 - 48th Seminar for Historical Administration application deadline is June 1 - Indianapolis, IN - www.aaslh.org/histadmin.htm
November 5-8 - National Trail of Tears Association National Conference - Rome - www.nationaltota.org or totajerra@aol.com or tc12@bellsouth.net
January 17-19, 2008 - Third International Architectural Paint Research Conference - New York - www.aprconference.us
April 10-13, 2008 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting: Public Histories of Unity and Division Louisville, KY www.ncph.org
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