Preservation Field Studies

Preservation Field Studies is a second year Spring 2017 elective course taught by Dr. Brent Fortenberry that includes a sixteen day field school based in St. George’s, Bermuda. While in Bermuda the students will attend lectures on Bermuda’s vernacular architecture, preservation policy, and cultural heritage laws, engaging with local practitioners and stakeholders. Students will also undertake the investigation and documentation of two 18th-century structures in St. George’s preservation area. For the second half of the course, based in Charleston, students will complete the documentation of the project sites and create architectural history interpretive panels to be displayed in each of the project sites. This elective course will also consist of comparative discussions of preservation and cultural heritage issues and the wider UNESCO World Heritage Status between St. George’s and Charleston.

Follow along here for updates from the students while in Bermuda December 2 – 17 . . .

December 2, 2016

After getting up early and flying out of Charleston, we flew to Atlanta where Ed Chappell, director of archaeological and architectural research at Colonial Williamsburg, joined us on our flight to Bermuda. Once we landed we were met by friends from the Bermuda National Trust who drove us to St. George’s where we will be staying. St George is the oldest continually inhabited English town in the New World and was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2000. Once we were settled in, some walked around the town observing the local architecture. In the evening, we all went to the Christmas Walkabout which is organized by the Bermuda National Trust. As part of the event, we were able to go into 17th and 18th century houses to partake of their history and Bermudian refreshments. Afterwards it was back to the house to rest for the next day.
– Alena Franco, MSHP Class of 2017

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