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Akin House: Standard-Times Article, October 26, 2006

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New Bedford Standard-Times article from October 26, 2006 entitled WHALE to present session on Akin House.

Akin House: Standard-Times Article, March 1, 2015

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New Bedford Standard-Times article from March 1, 2015, entitled Policymakers: Questions for the Dartmouth Historic Preservation Trust about the Akin house.

Akin House: Akin Deed

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Akin Deed research done by Peggi Medeiros. Research dated July 15, 2004.

Akin House: Letter Concerning Rear 20th Century Dormer

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Letter written by WHALE to MHC concerning the decision not to replace the 20th century dormer on the rear of the house. The decision was based on recommendations made by the Architectural Preservation Group and Anne Baker. Draft Letter dated January 20, 2006

Akin House: Letter Concerning Akin House Historical Structure

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Letter written by Anne Baker to Diana detailing the historical structure of the Akin House. Dated September 28, 2008.

Akin House: Estimate For Immediate Structural Repairs

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Estimate submitted by Anne Baker for immediate structural repairs to plates, rafters and sills. Dated June 20, 2005.

Akin House: Baker Invoice To Whale

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Anne Baker's invoice to WHALE for surveying, site documentation, and cleaning. Dated July 30, 2004.

Akin House: Request To Mhc To Amend Criteria Statement

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Draft letter to Michael Steinitz, Massachusetts Historical Commission. Request to amend original Criteria Statement to include additional information based on Baker's Historical Structures Report. no date is given on the Draft.

Akin House: Conservation Completed To Date

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A list of conservation work completed to date. Though no date appears on the list, it appears to have been compiled in June 2006.

Akin House: The Elihu Akin House Narrative

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The Elihu Akin House Narrative written by Peggi Medieros for the Massachusetts Historical Commission describes the architectural importance of Akin House as well as the Akin Family influence in the development of South Dartmouth, MA.

Akin House: Standard-Times Article, February 17, 2004

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New Bedford Standard-Times article from February 17, 2004. Written by Curt Brown, entitled WHALE takes steps to preserve Akin House.

Understanding The Importance Of Statues: Symbols Of Racism In Modern Society, Theresa Vanwormer

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

Whether it is a monument, statue, plaque, or mural, the values and ideologies that are memorialized on public land reflect what reality the people of a country are choosing to remember. The United States’ political and racial history has led to the creation of controversial memorials, including memorials that honor the Confederacy and its leaders, influencing moral concepts based in racism, violence, and oppression. The continued veneration of these symbols on public land sends the message to the Black community that their oppressors are honored as heroes and that the society they live in still allows for their abuse. Annette-Gordon …

Akin House: Letter To Buddy Baker-Smith, Community Preservation Committee, Anne W. Baker

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Letter from Anne Baker to Buddy Baker-Smith to the Community Preservation Committee in Dartmouth, MA expressing her concerns for the future of the Akin House. Letter dated September 22, 2008.

Akin House: Baker Letter Concerning The Historical Structure Of The Akin House, Anne W. Baker

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Lengthy email from Anne Baker to Diana illustrating the historically significant structure of the Akin House and her desire to have it preserved as Culture Resource Center. Email is dated September 28, 2008.

Akin House: Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund Emergency Fund Request

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Letter written by Lisa Sughrue, Executive Director of the Waterfront Historic Area League requesting $40,000 in Emergency Preservation Funds for the Akin House from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund. Letter describes the restoration work done by Architectural Preservation Group in Fall 2005.

Overview Of Hybrid Financial Instruments And Investment Leverage Enablers For Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse, Tracy Pickerill

Articles

Cultural heritage adaptive reuse investment strategies involve long-term, sometimes perpetual, investment horizons, which necessitate the integration of sustainable funding mechanisms. In order to achieve participatory circular human prosperity, the sustainable finance movement must re-evaluate investment leverage approaches including value creation models, the design of hybrid financial instruments, analytical decision-making frameworks,collaborative social enterprise structures, impact performance metrics and evolving mindsets.

In the context of this overview of financial and non-financial instruments, cultural heritage adaptive reuse activities include:

• Adaptive reuse of cultural built heritage structures

• Energy retrofit of cultural built heritage structures

• Protection and management of natural eco-systems;

• …

Digital Exhibition: Romaniote Memories, A Jewish Journey From Ioannina, Greece To Manhattan, Annie E. Tummino, Nicholas Alexiou

Publications and Research

This article discusses creation of the digital exhibition, Romaniote Memories, a Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano at Queens College, City University of New York.

Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Fabricated in unlimited series and sold at cost, the sculptures produced by Charlotte Posenenske between 1966 and 1967—modular wall reliefs, interactive cubic structures, and tubular geometric units whose installation requires collective decision making—were meant to confront both the artwork’s commodity status and the limitation of its consumption to a privileged elite. Nevertheless, Posenenske’s work has been effectively recuperated by the art system: first, in the 1980s, through a series of exhibitions and publications organized by her estate; and second, with her inclusion in Documenta 12 in 2007, which reintroduced her work to the market. Since the artist’s death in 1985, …

Akin House: Preliminary Existing Condition Drawings

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Preliminary Existing Condition Drawings of Akin House first and second floors with elevations. Drawn by Wise-Surma-Jones Architects in New Bedford, MA. Dated June 30, 2004.

“Don’T Make Fun Of The Residents!” Revisiting The Sunbelt’S Vanishing Communities: Mobility And Suburban Development, 1900-1990, Jerry D. Wallace

History ETDs

“Don’t Make Fun of the Residents” examines home ownership and suburban development over the last one hundred years in the borderlands, American West, and Sunbelt regions. In this dissertation I argue that mobility shaped urban planning, neighborhood design, and architectural identity in the Sunbelt over the course of the twentieth century. “Don’t Make Fun of the Residents” places architectural identity at the center of this dissertation discussion to understand the origins of the Sunbelt as a geographic and intellectual space. I focus in particular on smaller cities in the intermountain West---New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and California---an area that has …