BSA Historic Resources
Committee Archive
Date and featured topic at
the meeting
2008
May Deane Rykerson, Rehabilitation of the 1737-38
Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, MA
April Arthur MacLeod, Brick growth due to freezing in the
Fuller Memorial Bell Tower
March Members works in
progress
February John Wathne, ASTM
ASTM C 12.03.03 & Mortars for the Preservation of
Masonry
January Shaun Provencher, Mass.
DCR, Stone Features in Landscapes
2007
December Members' recent
projects
November Emerson College:
Campus Heritage Survey. Getty Grant Film
October Sara Wermiel,
Lighthouse Construction Types
September Ric Detwiller,
Understanding and Dating Construction of 17th-19th Century
Wood Dwellings in New England
July Richard L'Heureux, Mass.
CCP, Historic Courthouses and Today's Courts
June John Fidler,
Preservation accreditation, training and crafts skills
development in England - lessons for the USA?
May Jean Caroon, Sustainable
Design and Historic Buildings
April Bill Barry, New
Orleans Recovery
March Susan Keats and Matthew
Bronski, Wright-Locke-Hamilton Farm, Winchester, including a
brief tie-in with a CPA/Schools debate
February Henry Moss Sustainable
Preservation-Masonry Insulation Case Study
January Philip Westover, Enemies of Timber: a primer on
wood deterioration issues
2006
December 2006 Lisa Howe, Sever
Hall Exterior Restoration
November 2006 Member
discussion, Advocacy in the Dark: Timing problems with
demolition or major alterations by institutional owners
October 2006 David Fixler,
Restoration and Reconstruction Approaches for Modern
Buildings
September 2006 Jeanne Van
Orman, Brooklyn Museum's new entrance and plaza
July 2006 Wayne Towle, Fine
Wood Finishes
June 2006 HRC members'
projects of interest -- digital potluck
May 2006 Providence
Preservation Society: Vance Freymann, Trustee, and Jack
Gold, Executive Director
April 2006 Archdiocese of
Boston, Property Disposition -- Marilyn Fenollosa
March 2006 Heritage at Risk on
the Gulf Coast - updates from the field: Bill Barlow, Bill
Barry, Ed Moll, Beth Nathan, and John Wathne
February 2006 Preserving
Historic Roads and Parkways in Massachusetts - Wendy Pearl
and Jessica Rowcroft of DCR
January 2006 Joint Session
with BSA Access Committee
2005
December 2005 Storefront
renovations - Chuck Parrott and Jillian Adams
November 2005 H. H.
Richardson's Brookline House preservation - Allan Galper
October 2005 Lowell mill
development - Stephen Stowell
September 2005 Massachusetts
Historical Commission: the next five years - Christopher
Skelly
July 2005 Issues raised by
HRC members' recent work
June 2005 Challenges of
Rehabilitating the Twentieth Century Building Envelope -
Matthew Bronski
May 2005 Perspectives on
international preservation - Philip Marshall
April 2005 Expansion
underground - Jack Glassman
March 2005 Window hardware -
Michael Lynch: overview of hardward used to hold up and
fasten double-hung windows
February 2005 Preservation
Planning for the United Nations Headquarters - David
Fixler
January 2005 Roof/top of
buildings additions in historic context
2004
December 2004 Vapor Drive 101:
Sean O'Brien, a mechanical engineer at Simpson Gumpertz
& Heger who specializes in building envelope issues,
presented a primer on the fundamentals of moisture migration
through building envelopes.
November 2004 Building
additions, the sequel. More presentation and analysis of
additions to historic buildings.
October 2004 The architecture
of additions: Henry Moss introduced the new year's committee
focus on design issues tied to historic preservation
September 2004 Ernest
Hemingway estate museum, San Francisco de Paula: Henry Moss
showed pictures of the site, buildings, and interior
settings for the extensive Hemingway collection at Finca
Vigia
July 2004 Department of
Conservation & Recreation, Historic Landscape Programs:
At its July meeting, the committee discussed the broad,
grass-roots nature of DCR's historic landscape survey and
grant programs.
June 2004 Orchard House,
Concord - The Movie: David Hart presented "The Restoration
of Orchard House, 1999-2003," a video he wrote and directed
that documents the renovations to Orchard House in
Concord.
May 2004 The Modern House in
New England: David Fixler presented an illustrated
chronology of the development of modern houses in New
England.
April 2004 Phillips Exeter
Academy, Exeter, NH, Library, Envelope Repairs and
Restoration: Carl Jay of Shawmut Design and Construction,
Mark Jarvinen of Boston Building Consultants, and Catherine
Truman of Ann Beha & Partners presented the restorations
they have made to Louis Kahn's library.
March 2004 Stained Glass
Basics for Architects and Other Novices – Lyn Hovey
presented a crash course in the basics of stained glass
repairs and restoration.
February 2004 Pantages Theater
Rehabilitation/Reconstruction, Minneapolis: John Hecker,
returned to Boston after long years in Minnesota, showed us
how he transformed a ruined and forgotten box along a
dubious city street into a glorious recreation of an
historic vaudeville theater.
January 2004 Committee
members' current projects
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