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Cory House: Statement Of Criteria For Massachusetts Historical Commission Nomination

Documentation

The Statement of Criteria written to the Massachusetts Historical Commission in support of the Cory House Project nomination in the category of Rehabilitation and Restoration. No author or date appear on this document.

Cory House: Nomination For Mhc Award, Steve Tyson's Letter Of Support

Documentation

A letter written by the Cory House contractor, Steve Tyson, in support of its nomination for the Massachusetts Historical Commission award. Tyson describes the restoration work and the dedication to its preservation by Cory House owners, Tim and Maryann Bryant.

Cory Farm Family History

Documentation

Chronological history of the Cory Family and the deeds to the Cory Farm. Covers dates 1669 - 2004.

Cory House: Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award, 2007

Documentation

Massachusetts Historical Commission Award for the restoration of the Cory House, Westport, MA. Nominated by Steve Tyson of the Architectural Preservation Group. Awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Bryant in 2007.

The Bluff River Trail: A Community Land Ethic, Kelly F. Davis

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

The Bluff River Trail (BRT) is a future 10+ mile trail along the San Juan River corridor in the 4-Corners region of the Southwestern United States. By asking, what is the land ethic of the Bluff Community? this qualitative study identifies behaviors and beliefs, or land ethics, between seven Bluff residents and the San Juan River corridor. A land ethic contributes to the social re/production of space; therefore, third space theory contextualizes intersecting and contradicting spatialities evidenced in data. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and focus groups. I used a qualitative content analysis pulling from grounded theory to …

Mott House: Genealogy Of Mott Family, Notes Taken By Richard Long

Documentation

Mott Family history research notes made by Richard Long. Information came from the "History of Portsmouth, 1638-1936" by Edward H. West and "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island," v. III by J.H. Beers & Co., 1908.

Mott House: Mott Farm Title, Dell Upton

Documentation

Mott Farm Title Research signed by D.T. Upton, March 4, 1973.

Mott House: Notes Regarding Newport Restoration Foundation Funding

Documentation

Notes concerning the Newport Restoration Foundation seeking funding for duplicating the original materials from the Mott House in order to make them available to a wider audience.

Mott House: People Involved In Its Restoration And Research

Documentation

A listing of the key players involved in researching and restoring the Mott House and Mott Farm. Dated 1999.

Mott House: History And Restoration By A.W. Baker Restorations, Inc., Anne W. Baker

Documentation

Anne Baker describes the historical significance of the Mott House and makes the case for its re-assembly to demonstrate the ways American domestic architecture has evolved. Baker describes what was uncovered while dismantling the Mott House, including evidence that the house had originally been a typical Rhode Island two-story "stone-ender." Detailed information on how the house was constructed and updated in each of its four stages.

Mott House: Notes From Meeting With Richard Long, 1999

Documentation

Notes describing a 1999 meeting with Richard Long that indicated an interest in publishing a report on the Mott House and creating an exhibit of materials, photographs, and drawings that would be of interest to architectural historians.

Mott House: Neh Grant Application For Archaeology Field Work, 1973, James Deetz

Documentation

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Application to fund historical archaeological field work at the Mott Farm during the summer of 1973. Project Director for this project was James Deetz, Department of Anthropology, Brown University.

Mott House: For Sale

Documentation

Mott House For Sale posting for the dismantled house, available for purchase and reassembly.

Housing Designs For Sullivan, In, Laurie Wojak

2020 Fall Reports (Sullivan)

The city of Sullivan, IN has a neighborhood revitalization plan and requires new housing that will attract new homeowners to Sullivan. The IAD251 course offers Interior Architecture Design sophomores and juniors the opportunity to design their own unique home, so they were tasked with developing concepts and floor plans for Sullivan’s empty lots. The course developed ten housing designs, and six are represented in this report.

"Introduction" To Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture: Converting National Socialist Sites To Documentation Centers, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

This study deals with the question of how architectural design, when applied to his­torical places, can assist in bringing an extremely difficult – notable and troubling – past to the present in meaningful ways. In particular, it examines postwar architectural designs that converted National Socialist perpetrators’ places into documentation centers on National Socialism whose explicit purpose is, above all, to present and discuss the community’s involvement in the National Socialist ideology and actions.

Although the cases I have selected for close study vary stylistically and in many other ways, these centers have a number of common attributes that make the …

The Cottages That Almost Were Not Saved: A Preservation Perspective On Three Newport Mansions, Julia Boron

MA Theses

The Gilded Age in America was a time of swift and extreme economic expansion which caused America’s leading industrial families to become extraordinarily wealthy. Because the introduction of personal income tax had not yet been established, people pocketed every dollar they earned, and the people of the Gilded Age lived and spent lavishly. Having multiple homes was a status symbol, and the wealthy elite flocked to Newport, Rhode Island during the summers building elaborate mansions and sparing no expense. A myriad of economic factors around 1913 greatly changed the general view on wealth and spending. The majority of the summer …

Political Economy Of The Production Of Heritage Space In A Centro Histórico: Attracting Real Estate Capital, Expelling People. The Case Of Cartagena (Colombia), Camilo Rey-Sabogal

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

Cartagena is a South American city whose historical built environment has been recognized as a World Heritage Site due to the preservation of elements of the Spanish military architecture of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. This recognition promoted a tourist and real estate boom in the Centro Histórico and, as a result, its inhabitants have faced gentrification dynamics that are expelling them to other areas of the city. During the last 15 years, these dynamics have shown a strong acceleration. Therefore, the Centro Histórico is experiencing, on the one hand, huge inflows of capital for the purchase of properties …

Playing At The Crossroads Of Religion And Law: Historical Milieu, Context And Curriculum Hooks In Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This chapter presents the use of Lost & Found – a purpose-built tabletop to mobile game series – to teach medieval religious legal systems. The series aims to broaden the discourse around religious legal systems and to counter popular depiction of these systems which often promote prejudice and misnomers. A central element is the importance of contextualizing religion in period and locale. The Lost & Found series uses period accurate depictions of material culture to set the stage for play around relevant topics – specifically how the law promoted collaboration and sustainable governance practices in Fustat (Old Cairo) in twelfth-century …

A Risk Framework For The Delivery Of Long-Term Performance Through The Large-Scale Energy Focused Retrofit Of Housing, Seamus Harrington, Mark Mulville Dr

Conference papers

The 2019 Climate Action Plan (Ireland) seeks to retrofit approximately 500,000 existing homes to attain a B2 Building Energy Rating by 2030. Although not without merit, this presents a number of risks. The authors, through a review of relevant literature and a survey of leading experts in the field of domestic retrofit, set out to explore if and how the implementation, execution, and performance of retrofit strategies that utilise a uniform approach to the retrofit of the decidedly non-uniform existing dwelling stock could create un-intended consequences. It is demonstrated how issues related to indoor air quality, comfort and overheating may …