… The University of Oregon's Historic Preservation Program is an interdisciplinary curriculum within the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
The program is located in the historic White Stag Block in central Portland, allowing students to work on the many interesting planning and preservation issues taking place in this vital city. Additional faculty in historic preservation at UO’s Eugene campus provide instruction and support an undergraduate minor in this subject. Students enter the master's program with a range of backgrounds, incl
07/30/2022
Join us in Portland in September!
Conference Announcement!
2022 Preserving the Historic Road International
Advocacy to Action: Meeting the Challenges of the Next Generation
Portland, Oregon
September 22-24, 2022
LEARN MORE
http://historicroads.org/conference/
07/29/2022
Try hands-on history at our preservation field school in Idaho this September!
07/29/2022
Join us in September for this year’s preservation field school in Idaho!!
2022 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School | School of Architecture & Environment Sessions | Tuition & Credits | Financial Assistance | Accommodations | Travel | Sponsors | How to Apply
07/25/2022
Recent grads: check out this excellent opportunity as a Certified Local Government coordinator with the Idaho SHPO!
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/idaho/jobs/3396237/historic-preservation-planner?fbclid=IwAR2OlCSpx1xPLpo6od1IdUOfgIIeybEP96O0sDUhF7o505rKubC-HToXP1Y&fs=e&s=cl
Certified Local Government - Idaho State Historical Society The Certified Local Government (CLG) program provides techincal and financial support to local communities to carry out historic preservation efforts.
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/urban-roots-podcast-returns-for-second-season/
https://urbanistmedia.org/about-urban-roots
UO preservation alum Deqah Hussein-Wetzel has new episodes of her Urban Roots podcast! Check it out below:
We’re writing to let you know that the Urban Roots podcast is live! S02E01 ”Unearthing Black History in Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery’s Freedom Lots story of Green-Wood’s Freedom Lots” came out this Juneteenth!
Records show that, during the 1800s, this area, originally called the “Colored Lots,” the Freedom Lots were designated for “Colored Children” or “Colored Adults”. In 2017, these seven lots were restored by conservation staff and student interns! Our first episode of this season tells the story of these lots — and of the people of color who took action to not only preserve the physical graves but the memories of those buried there…Neela Wickremesinghe (The Director of Restoration and Preservation) and Darryl Jones (student intern turned Green-wood employee) and staff Historian, Jeff Richman!
About Us: Urban Roots is an offshoot of Urbanist Media, a not-for-profit anti-racist community preservation collaborative. We are produced by Cincinnati-based historic preservationist Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and New York-based cities journalist Vanessa Quirk. (Check out this feature on us in Cincinnati Magazine for more info).
This season, they are telling stories of African American history in Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles, California, and Indianapolis, Indiana. Their first season dove into the histories of three of Cincinnati’s Black neighborhoods.
You can listen to Urban Roots wherever you find podcasts (Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, Pocket Casts) and on YouTube. And, please follow/subscribe so you’re notified when new episodes are live!
Want to know more? Want to interview Deqah or Vanessa about this project? They’d love to hear from you — email them at [email protected].
06/23/2022
We ran into friend-of-UO-Preservation Harley Cowan at PDX airport yesterday, as he was hanging his new exhibition of architectural photographs! If you're flying in or out of Portland stop by and see his work on Concourse C!
04/17/2022
UO preservation students Victoria Banda, Oliver Murigan, and Adeline Wisernig taking a moment to “chill” while helping to prepare for next summer’s field school at Railroad Ranch, Idaho, near Yellowstone National Park!!
04/01/2022
Read how UO preservation students created Story Maps about African American history in Portland's Albina District in the Just Futures Institute newsletter! This work is sponsored by the program's Mellon Foundation grant for Inclusive Cities.
https://mailchi.mp/4d7b2afa2c40/winter-2022-recap?e=da085e7176
03/27/2022
Where do UO preservation students go on spring break? Why, to Alaska to document a Klondike Gold Rush boomtown with the National Park Service, where else?
03/27/2022
What do UO preservation students do on their spring break? Why, head to Alaska to document a Klondike Gold Rush boom town with the National Park Service, what else?
03/09/2022
UO preservation students visited Africatown, historic site of a community of freed enslaved people in Alabama, with Spatial Justice fellow Craig Wilkins in 2019. Now it is listed as one the the most endangered heritage sites in the world.
Here is the World Monuments Fund 2022 Watch list of endangered heritage sites Threatened by challenges ranging from climate change to overtourism, the World Monuments Fund released its bi-annual watch list of sites under threat.
03/04/2022
Three new additions to the National Register related to Oregon’s African American history!
RO Salutes Oregon's latest additions to the National Register! The new listings include 3 sites associated specifically with African American history in Oregon.
The Burford-Stanley House - Located in the city of Monument, Polk County, Oregon. It is the oldest known remaining building with direct association to the founding and early growth of Monument, the community and Monmouth University, known today as Western Oregon University.
Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Shop - Located in Portland’s Eliot neighborhood on NE Hancock Street, Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Shop is the oldest confirmed, continuously-operating Black-owned barber shop or salon in Portland.
Golden West Hotel – This was the only hotel in Portland with an African American proprietor and the only major hotel to welcome African American guests from 1906 to its closure in 1930, becoming one of the most important community gathering places for African Americans living in or visiting Portland.
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church – The church was heavily involved in Portland's African American community as a venue for prominent speakers, choir performances, social events, and meetings of civil rights and community groups from 1923 through 1973 near the end of the Emanuel Hospital Urban Renewal Project.