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Category: Historic Preservation

  • Preserving Fairmount’s Historic Heart
    February 6, 2025 by

    Ball State’s Center for Historic Preservation recently took on an exciting project in Fairmount, a small town with an outsized cultural legacy. Best known as the hometown of Hollywood icon James Dean and Garfield creator Jim Davis, Fairmount’s historic downtown tells the story of a community shaped by ambition, adaptation, and resilience. First settled in the […]

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  • Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: A Journey in Historic Preservation
    February 5, 2025 by

    The Center for Historic Preservation recently concluded their work in Lockport, IL. With months of meticulous research and planning behind them, the team presented their findings to the City and Historic Preservation Commission. The response? Resounding praise. The commission members, impressed by the level of detail and professionalism, commended the team on their exemplary deliverables. […]

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  • Historic Preservation Wins Award
    July 10, 2024 by

    ECAP’s Historic Preservation Time Travelers program has won the Indiana Landmarks’ 2024 Sandi Servaas Memorial Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in historic preservation. The program, aimed at children ages 9-12, fosters a deeper appreciation for history and community heritage through innovative, hands-on activities. As the youth-serving category winner, Time Travelers receives $1,000 and a sculpture “No […]

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  • Franke presents research during scientific symposium in Australia
    December 12, 2023 by

    Alumna Jessica Franke, AIA presented a paper at the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) annual Scientific Symposium in Sydney Australia. The presentation entitled “Responsible Preservation Elevates Women’s History” was co-authored by Ball State architecture faculty Assistant Professor J.P Hall and Associate Professor Dr. Kristin Barry. Jessi references her childhood fascination with historic homes […]

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  • Competition to document historic Black landscapes nets an honorable mention for team of professors
    February 16, 2022 by

    By Christopher Baas, Professor of Landscape Architecture Professors from Ball State University and Hanover College teamed up recently to document the landscape and remains of Eleutherian College, the first college in Indiana to admit Black students, and a hub of activity in the abolitionist movement. The project won honorable mention in the 2021 HALS Challenge […]

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  • Riverside Historic District
    August 26, 2021 by

    Historic Preservation graduate students have created a treasure trove of material for Muncie’s Riverside Normal-City neighborhoods. Two classes – both led by assistant professor of historic preservation J.P. Hall – worked in the area fall semester 2020. Students in ARCH 441/541 crafted design guidelines to aid in preservation of the neighborhoods where the oldest structure […]

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  • BSU Historic Preservation Students Win Second Place
    August 23, 2021 by

    The annual Charles E. Peterson Prize, a student competition of measured drawings intended to heighten awareness about historic buildings in the United States announced its 2021 winners. The student team at Ball State University, under the direction of Professor Jonathan Spodek, FAIA, was awarded $3,000 for Second Place for their drawings of the Canal Pump House […]

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  • Q & A with Alumna Mary Kennedy
    June 17, 2021 by

    ALUMNI PROFILE—MARY KENNEDY What year(s) did you attend Ball State University and what program did you complete? I completed the MSHP program, attending from 1998-2000. What interested you in pursuing a higher education in Historic Preservation? My parents frequently took our family to visit historic sites and buildings, museums, etc. growing up.  I also grew […]

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  • Oldfields Paint Color Study
    May 3, 2021 by

    Led by Professor Jonathan Spodek, students in the Ball State College of Architecture and Planning historic preservation lab have been working on a paint color study on the exterior of several buildings at the historic Oldfields Estate on the campus of Newfields in Indianapolis. This study, which began during the Fall 2020 semester and continued […]

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  • Historic Preservation Students Perform Feasibility Study for Hope House Building
    April 28, 2021 by

    Students in Assistant Professor J.P. Hall’s Historic Preservation studio spent spring semester working on an adaptive reuse feasibility study for the rehabilitation of the Caldwell-Dennis house, an historic residential structure in Wabash, Ind. Indiana Landmarks, a nonprofit organization that helps save and revitalize historic places, had acquired six architecturally significant homes, including the Caldwell-Denise house, at an […]

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