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Crafting The Carolopolis Award: Expansion Of The Physical Characteristics Of Award Winners And The Preservation Society Of Charleston's Published Announcements Of The Award Since 1953, Christopher Gene Tenny
Crafting The Carolopolis Award: Expansion Of The Physical Characteristics Of Award Winners And The Preservation Society Of Charleston's Published Announcements Of The Award Since 1953, Christopher Gene Tenny
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In Charleston, the preservation movement has broadened its scope, including a varied and wider range of construction periods, architectural categories, and geographic locations. This study shows that the local preservation movement, as witnessed through the lens of the Carolopolis Award Program, has re-focused its preservation ethic to be more inclusive of a more diverse array of properties. The nation’s oldest municipal preservation organization was founded in Charleston in 1920 as the Society for the Preservation of Old Dwellings. After three decades, the society changed its name to fit a more generalized view of preservation: the Preservation Society of Charleston.
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