Interviews conducted by Charles B. Hosmer with 54 persons involved in American historic preservation (used in preparation for his book Preservation Comes of Age) and restoration in the United States. Among the topics discussed are the development of the National Park Service, Williamsburg, National Trust, and projects in California, Charleston, S.C., Illinois, Missouri, New Orleans, La., Newport, R. I., New York State, San Antonio, Tex., and Wisconsin. A 98 p. index to the transcripts is included.
Interviewees are: Horace M. Albright, Edward P. Alexander, Roy Appleman, Joseph Booton, Paul V. Brown, John Albury Bryan, Helen D. Bullock, Orin M. Bullock, E. Milby Burton, Janet R. Cooley, William King Covell, Elbert Cox, Antoinette Downing, Newton B. Drury, Emily Edwards, Herbert Evison, J. Everette Fauber, Finlay Ferguson, Mrs. Jules Fontaine, O'Neill Ford, Milton Grigg, Mary Harral, Ethel Wilson Harris, Louis C. Jones, Herbert E. Kahler, Harnett Kane, Richard Koch, Richard Lawwill, Ronald F. Lee, Ralph Lewis, Clifford Lord, Walter M. Macomber, Mrs. George Maurice Morris, James J. Morrison, Vernon Aubrey Neasham, George A. Palmer, Erling Pederson, Thomas Pitkin, Charles Porter, Philip T. Primm, Frederick L. Rath, Jerome V. Ray, Martha Robinson, Albert Simons, Clyde F. Trudell, Charles Van Ravenswaay, Mrs. George Henry Warren (Katherine Urquhart Warren), Malcolm Watkins, Elsa Watson, Mrs. Walter P. Webb, Melvin J. Weig, Mrs. George Wells, Robert N. S. Whitelaw, Samuel Wilson, and Arthur Woodward.
Biographical / Historical:
Charles B. Hosmer (1932- 1993) was an historian and writer in Principia College, Illinois.
Related Materials:
Charles Hosmer papers also located at the University of Maryland, Special Collections. The collection may include original recordings for some of the interviewees, as well as many additional oral history interviews conducted by Hosmer for his book Preservation Comes of Age as well as interviews conducted for a separate historic preservation project funded by the Eastern National Park and Monument Association.
Provenance:
Donated 1975-1978 by Charles B. Hosmer.
Restrictions:
Brown, Cooley, Ferguson, Lawwill, Lewis, Morrison and Palmer are: ACCESS RESTRICTED: written permission required.
Topic:
Historic buildings -- United States -- Conservation and restoration Search this
Architecture -- United States -- United States -- Conservation and restoration Search this
Documentary research for the rehabilitation of the Thurmond Depot and Southside site development, New River Gorge National River, West Virginia / by Margarita Jerabek Wuellner, Dana B. Heck, and Charles D. Cheek ; prepared for the National Park Service by John Milner Associates, Inc
Title:
New River Gorge National River, West Virginia: documentary research for the rehabilitation of the Thurmond Depot and Southside site development
Recording historic structures / Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record ; edited by John A. Burns and the staff of HABS/HAER, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
The old house catalogue 2,500 products, services, and suppliers for restoring, decorating, and furnishing the period house--from early American to 1930s modern compiled by Lawrence Grow
The national historic preservation program today / prepared by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, at the request of Henry M. Jackson, chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate
Author:
United States Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Search this
United States Congress Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Search this
Physical description:
vii, 111 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1976
Topic:
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration Search this
Weir Farm historic structures report : Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, Connecticut : caretaker's house and caretaker's garage / by Lance Kasparian and Maureen K. Phillips
Title:
Caretaker's house and garage : Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, Connecticut
A.B. Mullett : his relevance in American architecture and historic preservation / by D. Mullett Smith ; with contributions by Lawrence Wodehouse ... [et al.]
Historic districts, identification, social aspects and preservation : Papers [by William J. Murtagh and G. C. Argan] presented at the Seventh General Assembly of the International Centre for Conservation, Rome, Italy, 1973 = Les districts historiques, leur identification, aspects sociaux et protection : Mémoire présenté à la Septième Assemblée Générale du Centre International pour la Conse...
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States Search this
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property General Assembly (7th : 1973 : Rome, Italy) Search this
Physical description:
38 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Congresses
Date:
1975
Topic:
Architecture--Conservation and restoration Search this
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration Search this
