Fall 2013
Message from the Department Chair I would like to introduce myself as the new Chair of the Historic Preservation program and the Clay Lancaster Endowed Professor. Since I have been at UK for almost 25 years, I am sure that my face will be familiar to many of you. I am also pleased to welcome some other familiar people to their new positions. Doug Appler, Ph. D. has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation. Julie Riesenweber has been appointed as a full-time lecturer in HP. We are also pleased to have Travis Rose as a parttime instructor in the program. Travis received his MFA in Historic Preservation from Savannah College of Art and Design. These new appointments position the deparment to move forward in positive new ways. This is always such an exciting time of year as we welcome a new class of students. This year, we have students coming not only from Kentucky, but also Texas, Nebraska, Georgia, and North Carolina. One of my goals for the coming year is to work to make our teaching and research assistantships more competitive so that we can continue to attract the best and the brightest to our program. Our second-year students are full of enthusiasm and are preparing to welcome the new class. This is a time of growth for Historic Preservation. We are shoring up the program and are looking forward to new opportunities. In addition to the new faculty in the department, we are also in the process of making program changes which will allow us to attract more students to discover the excitement of HP. We will keep you posted on these changes in future newsletters. This is the first of our biannual newsletters to keep you up to date on the latest “happenings” from the Department of Historic Preservation. This will provide an opportunity to share news from the program and to learn what preservation activities in which your classmates are presently engaged. I hope that each of you will take a minute to send us an email to tell us where you are and what you are doing. If you know of people who should be added to our mailing list, please send along their email addresses as well. News and information can be sent to Hilary Brown, the Communications Director for the College of Design, at hilary.brown@uky.edu. Your information will be shared in our next edition, and I look forward to hearing from you. I wish you the best, Allison Carll White Chair, Historic Preservation
7th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium The seventh annual Historic Preservation Symposium, organized by students in the University of Kentucky Historic Preservation Graduate Organization (HPGO), was held on February 28 and March 1 at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. The symposium has become one of the historic preservation department’s signature events, drawing speakers with national and international reputations for the purpose of exposing students and members of the public to cutting edge thought in historic preservation. Previous speakers have included Thomas F. King, Roberta Brandes-Gratz, Ned Kaufman, Donovan Rypkema, and Stanley Lowe, among others. This year, the students chose the concept “Preservation = Jobs” as the symposium theme, and the speakers were chosen for their ability to address this theme from a variety of different perspectives. Presentations were made by Colby Broadwater, president of the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, SC; Terrian C. Barnes, a Louisville-based board member of the National Trust Community Investment Center; David W. Feldman, president of Right Sized Homes, LLC; and Todd Barman, Senior Main Street Program Officer at the National Trust Main Street Center. Each speaker’s presentation was followed by a discussion session, which was guided by a panel of local preservation professionals and preservation supporters.
2013 Master’s Projects: We are extremely proud of our recent graduates and wish them well as they enter the preservation field. Their scholarship, which resulted in their Master’s projects, covered a wide range of topics. Timothy L. Condo - The State of Heritage Education in Rural Kentucky: A Focus on Marion County Katie DeBiase - Movie Palaces: Hollywood in the 1920s. Taylor Frost - Does this Place Matter? The Role of Church Preservation in Congregations and Communities Keaton Hall - Modern Architecture and Campus Image: Two Buildings at University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture Joan L. House - The Hankla-Goodnight Farm Elisa Ludwig - Crossing paths: The working relationship of architects, interior designers, and historic preservationists. Melissa B. Mortimer - Preservation on College Campuses: A Study of the Implementation of Preservation Plans Julie Whalen - Drive-In Movie Theaters of Kentucky: A Study of Design, Significance and Preservation.
Alumni News Ashley Darland ‘10 currently lives in Charleston, SC and is an Interpreter and Education Guide at Drayton Hall Historic Site and the Gibbes Museum of Art. She is also an officially licensed tour guide for the city of Charleston. Ashley and her husband Jesse give architecture walks of historic Charleston through their business, History Talks, www. charlestonhistorytalks.com.
Amelia Armstrong ‘11 currently works as the Preservation Inspector at Lexington-Fayette County Urban County Government Division of Historic Preservation in Lexington, KY. She assists property owners in rehabilitating, renovating, and altering buildings and sites as well as new construction within the local Historic Districts. Amelia previously held a position at the Kentucky State Transportation Office.
Janie-Rice Brother, a 2003 graduate of the HP program, is currently the Senior Architectural Historian for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey, a joint venture between the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology (KAS) and the Kentucky Heritage Council (KHC). Brother primarily oversees survey and NRHP projects for KAS. Brother will be spending the summer of 2013 in Oxford, England, working on the South Oxfordshire Project Vernacular Building Survey, an interdisciplinary study of inhabitants’ perceptions of their environment and landscape from circa 500-1650.
Upon graduation, Mark A. Ramler ‘10, received a grant from the National Trust to publish Preservation and Design Guidelines for the community. He has had several speaking engagements promoting Camp Springs and its significance. For the past three years Mark has worked as a project manager at a large Cincinnati based developer, the Model Group. This work has included overseeing renovations on multiple historic buildings, and obtaining LEED Certification of an adaptively re-used historic structure. Most recently, Ramler started his own business, Mansion Hill Properties in Newport, purchasing and rehabilitating historic properties in Northern Kentucky. He also serves on the Historic Preservation Commission for the City of Newport and consults on historic renovations.