Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Dec 5, 2009, 10:45 pm
(of the semester, I mean). Yes, it’s the Christmas season and I am counting down days until I can watch Christmas movies and decorate and bake cookies or build a gingerbread house (perhaps from ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Dec 3, 2009, 9:47 am
Choosing and chopping down a Christmas tree with my family was always one of the best days of the year. Even on Long Island we had Christmas tree farms, so all six of us would pile into the minivan an...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Dec 2, 2009, 6:20 am
Series introduction. October 2009. November 2009. By Nicholas Bogosian When did manual competence become inferior to informational and technological competence? When did blue-collar become blue-coll...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Dec 1, 2009, 6:00 am
Near North Garden, VA, outside Charlottesville, in June 2009 – a lucky drive-by shot at 30pmh.  I don’t know anything about it – do you?
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 27, 2009, 10:16 am
It’s the day after Thanksgiving and most of the people I know are exhausted or shopping or decorating for Christmas – possibly all three. Amongst all of the hubbub today and the ensuing ch...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 25, 2009, 11:25 pm
Happy Thanksgiving! Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a wonderful with family and friends. Today is a day of tradition and togetherness, good food, laughs, cozy homes, and hopefully nothing but ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 24, 2009, 6:00 am
A bowed roof Cape house in Charlotte, VT.
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 21, 2009, 11:09 am
Since we are so far removed from the past, often it is hard to imagine why something was so significant at a certain time, e.g. just how much of an impact the Lake Champlain Bridge had on the lives of...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 20, 2009, 11:43 am
What does historic preservation mean to you? Is it a movement, a field of study, an avocation, a trade? How do you classify yourself: student, professional, amateur? Lately I’ve been wondering h...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 17, 2009, 1:57 pm
Montpelier, VT. Anyone care to make a comment about some of the architectural elements of this house?  There are some good conversation pieces.
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 16, 2009, 8:25 am
To all who are contributing and/or considering contributing to the next issue of the newsletter, Please note the change in deadline from December 15 to before Christmas. Many people are likely to be ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 15, 2009, 11:48 pm
By Ken Loyd In my blog post of October 30, I shared some quotes from my 1961 3rd grade history book, Our America. I only got halfway through the book, so today I’ll continue. Be sure to read be...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 13, 2009, 8:35 am
The Lake Champlain Bridge is a continuous steel truss bridge that opened in 1929, linking Chimney Point, VT and Crown Point, NY, serving as the gateway to New England or to the Adirondacks. The engine...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 11, 2009, 12:30 am
Thank you to all of the servicemen and women who have fought for our rights to be Americans, for our liberty, our freedom, and for justice. The sacrifices you have made and continue to make cannot be ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 10, 2009, 2:19 pm
As people we often define ourselves within communities, often multiple communities. It does not have to be a geographic community; perhaps it’s a community by profession, by lifestyle, by activity, ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 10, 2009, 10:58 am
One entertaining photographs from my Townshend, VT barn survey (including agricultural related structures. Yes, outhouses, too).
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 6, 2009, 9:52 am
Do you ever browse the New York Times real estate section slide shows? I find them endlessly entertaining, whether it’s for the purpose of gazing at beautiful houses I’ll never afford, gaw...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 4, 2009, 6:00 am
Part roadside architecture, part crazy architect, part classic American culture… whatever it is, weird buildings are always entertaining and often a welcome site (assuming they have not replaced...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 3, 2009, 6:00 am
Sometimes historic resources are just too large to scan. This one covered the length of an entire library table. Thank goodness for the digital age. This is the beautiful McClellan’s 1856 map of...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Nov 2, 2009, 5:00 am
Series introduction. October 2009. By Nicholas Bogosian Modeling, Molding & Casting Molding compounds, long ago, were made from animal by-products. The molds would, in turn, attract all sorts of ve...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 31, 2009, 4:30 pm
A beautiful historic house in the Four Corners Historic District of Charlotte, VT, all ready for Halloween. Fall in Vermont is breathtaking. This evening is a perfect Halloween evening, too, with the...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 30, 2009, 6:00 am
Introducing Ken Loyd, a retired third grade teacher from Sandhills Farm Life Elementary in Carthage, North Carolina. Ken is the father of a good friend of mine from North Carolina, which is how I met ...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 29, 2009, 3:14 pm
If you haven’t seen the National Park Service’s quarterly magazine, Common Ground, you ought to check it out. You can sign up for a free subscription or download the issues for free. (Curr...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 27, 2009, 7:47 pm
Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, VT.
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 26, 2009, 8:24 am
A grad school side note: last night I was definitely dreaming of American architecture.  Actually, I’m pretty sure that I was dreaming of studying American architecture. Not exactly a dream, no...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 23, 2009, 2:04 pm
If you’re in the Fredericksburg, VA area and in the mood for some Halloween fun, head to Market Square in downtown Fredericksburg for the 25th annual Ghost Walk, run and hosted by the University...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 22, 2009, 10:05 am
Preservation in Pink contributors: writers, artists, photographers: start considering what you  would like to contribute to the December 2009 newsletter. The deadline will be mid December and it will...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 22, 2009, 10:00 am
But an emu… seen on Vermont Barn Census adventures. It looked mean. There was more than one. They were organized. We left.
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 19, 2009, 11:45 pm
Townshend, VT The interior of an agricultural building in need of tremendous repair, found along the backroads of Townshend, VT.
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 18, 2009, 11:31 pm
It’s that time of year; the temperature drops at night, your house feels drafty, and around mid-October the heat turns on (unless you’re way down south). You wonder why your house is so co...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 16, 2009, 6:00 am
The Community Restoration and Revitalization Act has been all over the preservation blogs and news lately, but it’s such an important issue that it can stand to be discussed in as many places as...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 14, 2009, 9:44 am
With preservationists I know, myself included, there is often a fair amount of snickering when new buildings and developments are concerned. Either they are insensitive to the surroundings, the massin...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 13, 2009, 5:33 am
Cemetery in Grafton, VT A quiet, peaceful setting for the final resting place of early Grafton settlers. Headstones ranged from granite to field stone, newly engraved or worn away with time and weath...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 12, 2009, 8:38 am
National Trust Conference in Nashville. Click to go to the site. How wonderful it would be to be in Nashville, TN this week. After all, historic preservation, country music and cowboy hats, some good...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 10, 2009, 11:57 am
At Mary Washington, one of the required courses in the preservation sequence was HISP305: American Building, taught by Professor W. Brown Morton, III. Professor Morton had more accolades in historic p...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 8, 2009, 6:00 am
Seriously, how has no one ever pointed this out to me before? Who’s been to Baltimore and seen this giant flamingo at Cafe Hon? Cafe Hon in Baltimore, MD click picture for original source. Al...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 6, 2009, 6:00 am
Townshend, VT I may have been out on a mission to photograph barns, but I couldn’t pass by this house without gazing. Look at its story and its architectural details: the vergeboard, the side l...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 5, 2009, 6:00 am
We all love to talk about sustainability, green building, environmentalism, recycling, hybrid cars, walkability, local businesses, and so much more. All of these are buzzwords in the media and when yo...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Oct 1, 2009, 12:29 pm
If you are involved in researching and documenting historic structures (buildings, structures) one of the best books you can invest in is Recording Historic Structures, edited by John A. Burns (see he...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 30, 2009, 6:00 am
Read series introduction. By Nicholas Bogosian El Dorado, AR (’92): Though established in Union County in 1843, it wasn’t until the 1921 oil boom that El Dorado gained the historical charact...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 30, 2009, 5:25 am
Preservation in Pink welcomes a new monthly series by Nicholas Bogosian, a student at Belmont Technical College’s Building Preservation and Restoration Program in St. Clairsville, OH. His primar...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 29, 2009, 5:32 am
The series begins with an architectural detail of my favorite building on the UVM campus: Billings Library designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson.  (Click for a larger image.) Billings Librar...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 29, 2009, 5:30 am
Preservation in Pink is introducing a new weekly series: Preservation Photos. Every Tuesday, expect a historic preservation related photograph. Perhaps a building, a landscape shot, an architectural d...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 25, 2009, 9:39 am
By Melissa Celii Ah is there anything better than a young mind, so thirsty for knowledge and easily malleable to the persuasion of their superiors? And what better to fill those naive young minds wit...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 24, 2009, 5:30 am
Grafton, VT As I mentioned, for one my graduate school classes, I (along with my 12 fellow classmates) am participating in the Vermont Barn Census. For our purposes it involves windshield surveys, wh...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 22, 2009, 12:59 am
Ah, Autumn (or Fall, what have you)… it’s a perfect time for enjoying the landscape and appreciating your community. Cooler temperatures and falling leaves bring out a happiness with pumpk...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 21, 2009, 7:47 am
Did you have wood blocks to play with when you were a kid? My sisters and I had a basketful of plain wood blocks. We’d take over the living room and build towers as high as we could. Or we’...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 18, 2009, 5:53 am
When examining and analyzing buildings, preservationists love to find ghost lines (or marks) that give us clues to where there was once a window, a door, or a change in original construction. These ar...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 4, 2009, 9:25 am
Historic preservation often serves as an umbrella term for related subjects such as restoration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. While the four are very similar, they are also very different. And,...
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Kaitlin OShea posted an article on Preservation in Pink - Sep 2, 2009, 9:03 am
Welcome to Graduate School at the University of Vermont. Now, read. Well, okay, that’s not the sentiment exactly (it was much more welcoming and exciting) but I am already buried under books and...
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