Select Partners in Training Grant Recipients
Since 2014 HPEF’s Partners in Training initiative has awarded funding to more than forty projects that further historic preservation training and education. Below are examples of past Partners in Training recipient projects.
2023 completed projects
PRESERVATION TRADES TRAINING WORKSHOP
Historic Hawaii Foundation (HHF) organized a 2-day preservation workshop in Fall 2023 on the maintenance and repair of historic structures. Participants learned how to assess a historic property, determine elements in need of repair and select appropriate repair methods, as well as how to create a plan for preservation actions to maintain the site. Over the two days, participants were able to learn new skills, build their knowledge of historic preservation, understand the components of double hung wooden windows and other building elements and the steps needed to restore them. Kokee CCC Camp benefitted with 10 repaired wooden windows and mended batten siding on the Administration Building. HPEF Partners in Training supported the travel and portions of the paid stipend for the instruction of the course, as well as a portion of the materials use and the creation of the Brochure on Maintaining Hawai’i’s Vintage Homes.
PRESERVATION TRADES TRAINING WORKSHOP
Hart Square Foundation developed an series of educational training programs in Fall 2023 based on the open-air museum’s 2023 priority restoration projects. This program included four instructional workshops and six preservation work days where program participants had the opportunity to utilize their newfound skills to work directly on historic structures at Hart Square Village. Program participants were a combination of high school-aged students and adults. HPEF’s financial support helped support the cost of instruction and materials for the program series.
2022 COMPLETED PROJECTS
UPSKILL TRAINING PROGRAM
In 2021, the Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) launched its Historic Trades Training Initiative to provide exposure, experience, training, and employment in the historic preservation trades. The training program was designed to serve as a conduit for underemployed, and those seeking to enhance their upward mobility to careers in the preservation trades. NRF’s Trades Initiative, and in particular the Upskill Training Program, was one of NRF’s first steps toward training the next generation of preservation craftspeople. Funds provided by HPEF were to be used to purchase equipment and materials for use throughout the 12-week program. NRF also applied funds to cover rental of classroom space at the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS), in order to provide dedicated space for student learning.
2021 COMPLETED PROJECTS
HANDS-ON REHAB WORKSHOP SERIES
Rethos provided six classes in a series dedicated to giving homeowners the tools, resources, and experiences they need to care for their older homes. The workshops engaged attendees around issues of building sustainability, reuse, community space, and preservation trades and highlighted local properties, contractors/experts and regional partners. HPEF’s financial support was used to recruit, hire, and compensate local subject matter experts assisting each class, and support all facets in the execution of this project including curriculum development, marketing, and program administration.
MAY IS PRESERVATION MONTH IN BRISTOL
The Bristol Historical & Preservation Society (BH&PS) presented a month of special events, including workshops for would-be or current historic house homeowners, demonstrations, walking tours, show-and-tells from our collections, pop-up exhibits, lectures, and more. As part of their Preservation Month activities, HPEF’s support contributed to speaker honoraria for BH&PS‘s suite of workshops designed to teach homeowners how to look at their historic houses, identify potential problems, solve designs problems when adding or remodeling kitchens and bathrooms, and make changes that honor the unique character of their homes.
2020 Completed Projects
Window and Workforce Training Program
Over a five week period in the fall of 2020, the Providence Preservation Society and its partner Heritage Restoration, Inc., undertook a pilot cycle of their Window and Workforce Training Program. The initiative provides window rehabilitation training as well as entrepreneurship instruction, and job placement services. Ten students took part in the program which was reconfigured so that most instruction was provided outside and all social distancing and other pandemic-related health concerns could be safely addressed. HPEF Partners in Training support underwrote the costs of program tools, PPE, supplies, and materials.
Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) - Avery Library Scanning, Phase 2
In the fall of 2020 818 documents were added to the BTHL from the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collection at Columbia University in New York City. The digitization work was performed by the Internet Archive scanning center in Princeton, NJ. Avery staff prepared and shipped the documents to the regional scanning center. The documents are accessible on the Internet Archive through both the Columbia Library and Building Technology Heritage Library collection web portals. The BTHL has received ongoing support from HPEF’s Partners in Training throughout the library’s ten year history.
Window Warrior Program
Columbus Landmarks, supported partly by a HPEF Partners in Training grant, conducted the first session of its Window Warriors Program in November 2020. Ten individuals participated in the three day workshop learning the fundamentals of historic wood window restoration under the instruction of historic window expert and advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Jim Turner of Turner Restoration. Working on a residence in the historic Driving Park neighborhood in Columbus students developed skills in sash removal, safe paint & glass removal, sash preparation for glazing and paint, window frame repair and preparation, removal of old and installation of new sash ropes, glazing putty application, weather stripping & sash installation.
2019 Completed Projects
Workshop on Nondestructive Testing of Timber
In April 2019, the Timber Framers Guild, with Partners in Training support, hosted a workshop on the use of diagnostic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) for assessing timber structures. Held at the historic Pennypacker Farm and Sunrise Mill in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the event featured demonstrations of various NDE methods and equipment, including visual inspection and probing, moisture measurements, resistance drilling, digital radioscopy, infrared thermography, ground penetrating radar, and visual grading for strength assessment. Hands-on exercises with NDE tools, in combination with data interpretation, analysis and application to codes, were designed to help participants understand how to use NDE to make better decisions about timber in existing structures.
2018 Completed Projects
“Greening Measures for Hawaii’s Heritage Homes” Series
Historic Hawaii Foundation organized and presented a five-session series of classes focused on integrating historic preservation with environmental sustainability for historic homes. The spring 2018 series was designed to assist homeowners and a non-professional audience gain practical and in-depth knowledge on how to repair, maintain and preserve older homes, with an emphasis on integrating environmentally-sustainable measures and techniques. Partners in Training support focused on three sessions, on 1) preservation and sustainability, 2) historic windows, and 3) sustainable and culturally-sensitive landscape treatments.
ISC-T Concrete Technology Seminar Publication
In 2018, Docomomo US published Concrete and Modernism: Technology and Conservation. The publication is the outcome of a two-day international technology seminar focused on the theme of concrete research and methodologies. The seminar took place at Rapson Hall at the University of Minnesota and at the Marcel Breuer-designed Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN. The Docomomo US ISC-T Concrete Technology Seminar was in conjunction with the third annual Docomomo US National Symposium. The Historic Preservation Education Foundation Partners in Training grant enabled the documentation of the seminar proceedings through the production of a print-on-demand publication. The publication includes the reproduction of four technical papers in addition to an introduction, schedule and images from the event.
Copies of the Concrete and Modernism: Technology and Conservation are available on the Docomomo US website.
Preservation Training for Museums and Cultural Institutions
In April 2018 the Florida Association of Museums Foundation (FAMF) hosted three full-day workshops and three half-day seminars throughout the State of Florida. With almost 200 attendees, the workshops included hands-on sessions on wood repair and wood window glazing, working with masonry, including cleaning and water absorption rates, as well as other related information. The workshops also included educational topics on disaster mitigation, preservation project planning, funding opportunities, and certified local government training. Lastly, each program also offered a tour of a historic facility with discussion about preservation efforts at that site. These events provided vital training on historic preservation topics for museum professionals, enabling them to make the best decisions on how to maintain and restore their historic property holdings. Through this program, supported in part by HPEF’s Partners in Training initiative, FAMF was able to offer training that no other institutions in the State is providing – basic preservation principles and hands-on technical training that will help museums preserve the important historic structures they administer.
Rehab Lab Series: Hands-on Home Preservation
With Partners in Training support the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota expanded its Rehab Lab offerings and created a five-part series involving rehabilitation work each in a separate Minnesota home. The workshops took place between March and September 2018. Topics included plaster repair, window repair, wood refinishing, and chimney maintenance. Workshops began with instructor demonstrations, then students undertook a variety of hands-on tasks—from replacing sash cords, and re-glazing windows to plaster crack repair to developing weatherization strategies—with the instructor providing feedback and answering questions.
Lime and Earthen Architectural Conservation Workshop
In October 2018, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, supported by HPEF Partners in Training program, conducted an international hands-on workshop focused on training in traditional adobe repairs, lime plaster and lime wash of historic structures in Dona Ana village: the Montoya House and the Dona Ana church, Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria. Work at the Montoya House focused on repairing and stabilizing the foundation and making adobe wall repairs. Thirty-eight participants learned the art of structural stitching adobe walls. At the church, attendees received training on interior and exterior wall repairs, repairing the adobe contrapared (basal collar), lime plastering deteriorated parts of the exterior, including one side of the second story of the apse, and lime washing the interior walls. Attendees also received training in developing tinted lime washes and the use of soap and alum for water-proofing. Workshop trainers were specialists from the local community, from Cornerstones, from the University of New Mexico and the lnstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (INAH) in Mexico.
Forward Together: A Culture-Nature Journey Towards More Effective Conservation in a Changing World
In November 2018, US/ICOMOS, with partial funding from HPEF Partners in Training initiative, conducted a two-day multiple panel symposium at the Presidio in San Francisco. Forward Together was convened in conjunction with the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s PastForward conference and was designed to advance understanding of the interconnectedness of cultural and natural heritage conservation. The Forward Together symposium built on the recognition among US and international professionals that integration of cultural and natural heritage conservation and stewardship across professional boundaries and disciplines is essential to improving conservation outcomes.
2017 Completed Projects
New Technologies for Historic Preservation of Earthen Structures in the State of New Mexico
In October 2017, the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning hosted a workshop entitled, New Technologies for Historic Preservation of Earthen Structures in the State of New Mexico. The three-day event, held in conjunction with the conference, Historic+Cultural Heritage in Iberia America, focus attention on new, non-invasive techniques and technologies for documenting earthen architecture.
APT Building Technology Heritage Library – Avery Library Scanning Project
HPEF continued its longstanding support for the Association for Preservation Technology International’s Building Technology Heritage Library. A Partners in Training grant enabled the digitization of Avery Library's collection of over 500 building technology trade catalogs. The scans were then uploaded to APT's Building Technology Heritage Library on Archive.org, the largest online collection of historic building material literature.
Heritage Documentation Course at Hoyt House
The Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance, Boston Architectural College, and New York State Parks established a new partnership, the Calvert Vaux Institute (CVI), to offer historic preservation training at the college, secondary education, and continuing education levels, including documentation, design, conservation and architectural history as well as hands-on technical trades such as woodworking, masonry and plastering. With support from Partners in Training, CVI inaugurated an eight-week historic preservation training course in the summer of 2017, focusing on HABS-level documentation practices. The course included both an online learning component and a ten-day fieldwork residency at Hoyt House (a Calvert Vaux-designed house in Staatsburg, New York, owned by New York State Parks).
2016 COMPLETED PROJECTS
US/ICOMOS #SERIOUSABOUTSENDAI: A SERIES OF PROGRAMS ABOUT CULTURAL HERITAGE AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION ON THE OCCASION OF THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE SENDAI FRAMEWORK
HPEF provided Partners in Training support for a series of programs organized by the U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) that raised awareness of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. This United Nations initiative calls for greater preparedness and support for the protection of cultural heritage sites from disaster. At events between March 9 and 11, US cultural heritage agencies and disaster management experts discussed building disaster risk management capacity and institutional mechanisms for monitoring and collecting information on the impacts of disaster on cultural and religious heritage sites.
Approaching Water: A Symposium on Strategies for Adapting Historic Buildings to Coastal Flooding
In June 2016 the Galveston Historical Foundation hosted a two-day symposium in Galveston, Texas called Approaching Water. Co-sponsored by HPEF, the event featured four speakers discussing different flood adaptation methods for historic structures including structural reinforcement, flood-proofing, structural elevation and amphibious architecture. Presentations were followed by site visits and exercises that demonstrated how these techniques were applied. Participants represented diverse fields such as home restoration, disaster risk consulting, meteorology/ hydrology, architecture, and the energy industry.
Training Enjarradores
Cornerstones Community Partnerships undertook an adobe mud plaster training project in the summer and fall of 2016 at the historic 1898 La Sala de San Jose Dance Hall, in Galisteo, NM. Thirty-seven community members, youth interns, community college preservation students, and other volunteers received hands-on training in traditional techniques such as identifying and sourcing plaster components, preparing and mixing mud plaster, and applying final coat plaster. This work, co-sponsored by HPEF, built on earlier adobe repair, stabilization, and base coat plaster application phases at La Sala.
ABCs and 123s of Schoolhouse Preservation Workshops
In June and September 2016, the Montana Preservation Alliance hosted two workshops focused on the preservation of historic schoolhouses. Partly funded by HPEF, these events were held onsite at one- and two-room schoolhouses built between the mid-1800s and the early 1900s. The structures provided case studies of common treatment challenges for historic wood and stone schoolhouses, many of which survive throughout the region. Workshop instructors guided participants in assessing existing conditions, discussing lath and plaster repair, wood window repair and replacement, lead paint abatement, and flooring and heating issues.
2015 COMPLETED PROJECTS
OSCAR, the Online Sustainable Conservation Assistance Resource an online energy-efficiency and sustainability decision-making tool
The Association for Preservation Technology's Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation has developed the web-based decision-making tool, OSCAR, for people who are seeking to make the best choices about energy-efficient and other sustainability improvements for historic buildings. It integrate new and existing research, technologies and processes for sustainable design and heritage conservation into an accessible and comprehensive online resource. APT used Partners in Training support for initial development of OSCAR and for forthcoming improvements to the site design and user experience.
Historic Ithaca Traditional Millwork Conference
HPEF awarded a Partners in Training grant to the local preservation organization, Historic Ithaca, to support a conference on traditional millwork that promoted better understanding of millwork design and improved craftspersons’ skills and knowledge. The event included presentations, workbench demonstrations, question and answer sessions, vendor displays, and tool exhibits. It was held in February 2015 in Ithaca, New York, and was attended by millwork shop owners and craftspersons, building contractors, architects, furniture makers, and dedicated amateurs.
Preservation Education & Research Special Issue (Volume 8): Learning from the Reservation
The National Council for Preservation Education organized a conference titled “Learning from the Reservation: Using the Traditional Cultural Place Perspective for Better Decision Making in a Diverse Cultural Landscape” in April 2015. Papers from the event held at Delaware State University provided the substance of the journal Preservation Education & Research (PER) Vol. 8, including an introduction by local convener Prof. Robin Krawitz, “Historic Preservation, Self-Determination, and the Resiliency of Traditional Pueblo Villages: Traditional Cultural Place as an Enabler of Change,” by Shawn Evans, AIA; “Commercial Beach Seiners of Cape Hatteras: Heritage, Identity, and Politics in a Contested Landscape,” by Barbara Garrity-Black; and “Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Consultation, and the Hualapai Cultural Atlas,” by Dean B. Suagee and Peter Bungart.
2014 COMPLETED PROJECTS
Lamar Community College Adobe Preservation Workshop
From mid-July to mid-August and from October to December 2014, Lamar Community College (LCC), the National Park Service, and HistoriCorps conducted an Adobe Preservation Workshop. With support from HPEF’s Partners in Training program, seven LCC students and one local volunteer participated in the program at Bent’s Old Fort NHL that included training in adobe repair, log replacement, carpentry, masonry, and the development of interpretive displays. The workshops resulted in the repair of 8,000 square feet of deteriorated adobe plaster and the production of 300 adobe bricks.
