BSA Historic Resources
Committee Archive
Date and featured topic at
the meeting
2010
March Marie Sorensen, "Beyond the Conservators'
Yardstick: Care, Exigency, and Opportunity in the Re-use of
Industrial Buildings and Sites"
February John Wathne, ASTM C1713-10, Standard
Specification of Mortars for the Repair of Historic
Masonry
January Ivan Myjer and
John Walsh: Assessment and Analysis of the Carved Stonework
at the Mission San Jose, San Antonio, TX
2009
December Gregory Colling and
Sara Wermiel, The architecture of Robert Mills's early 1830s
custom houses and the solid masonry system of fireproof
construction used to build these structures
November HRC members' recent
work: Deane Rykerson, Susan Brauner, Gregory Colling, Henry
Moss, and others...
October Jean Carroon and her
teammates from Goody Clancy, Sustainable Design at the
McCormack Federal Courthouse and Post Office
September Kelly Streeter
(Vertical Access) and Natalie Wampler (Mount Auburn
Cemetery), Recording Mount Auburn
July Sally Zimmerman
and Kate Preissler: Modern Houses Database Project,
Preliminary Findings
June Susan Ceccacci:
Discoveries Made: Researching a Book on the Massachusetts
Avenue Historic District in Worcester
May Rob Olson on Alterations
to the Somerset Club
April Ned Goodell's
compelling account of his eponymous grandfather's early
Modernist architectural practice, his experience during the
Great Depression, and his collision with McCarthyism
March Historic Industrial
Landscapes
February Member projects --
digital potluck; sustainable design meets historic
preservation
January Jeffrey Gonyeau, Historic Boston, Historic
Neighborhood Centers Program
2008
December Glazing Replacement
in Historic Facades
November Bill Remsen, Save
Program, Cyprus, USAID
October Bill Steelman, Essex
National Heritage Area, Heritage Development
September Ben Haavik, Historic
New England's Team Leader for Property Care, and Erin Knerr,
Kress Fellow, Environmental Systems at Historic New England
(HNE) Properties
July Matt Formicola, Graham Gund Architects, with Andrea
Gilmore, Building Conservation Associates, "The Chestnut
Hill Waterworks Project"
June Ellen Lipsey, Executive
Director, Boston Landmarks Commission & Stephen Stowell,
Administrator, Lowell Historic Board; Design guidelines for
mixed commercial/residential historic districts
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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