Passive Climate Management Features in Traditional Historic Buildings
Traditional historic buildings (built before 1945) were often built in ways that recognize the high degree of individual controllability that buildings that respond to their climate and region can have. Traditional and vernacular buildings, constructed before fossil fuels were in widespread use, required active participation of building occupants [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shadows on the Teche’
True Green / Making Choices About Original Design Features
Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, Sustainability, tagged Best Practices Manual, curtain wall, Farnsworth House, Glass House, Shadows on the Teche, traditional buildings on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Is Your Site a Plantation?
Posted in African American history, Education, Interpretation, Marketing, tagged Belle Grove, Berkeley Plantation, Cliveden, Decatur House, Drayton Hall, James Madison's Montpelier, Mt. Vernon, Oatlands, Shadows on the Teche, Shirley Plantation, Slavery, Woodlawn on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Someone recently asked me if the official name for one of our Sites was Belle Grove or Belle Grove Plantation. That was an easy question to answer, but it also prompted another one that was much more complex and intriguing. When I joined the staff of the National Trust for Historic Preservation [...]
Shadows’ “Charley” Program Breaks 30-year Record
Posted in African American history, Education, Fundraising, tagged Anniversary, Louisiana, New Iberia, School programs, Shadows on the Teche, student on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently in New Iberia, Louisiana visiting Shadows-on-the-Teche on an unusually cold and rainy day to participate in some planning for its 50th anniversary as a National Trust Historic Site in 2011. The meetings drew together many different perspectives from the community, including board members, business leaders, elected officials, tourism experts, and staff. [...]
Strategies for Interpreting Slavery at Historic Sites
Posted in African American history, Education, Historical research, Interpretation, Marketing, tagged African American, Bellamy Mansion Museum, Historic Stagville, Shadows on the Teche, Slavery, West Baton Rouge Museum on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History in Rochester, Laura Ketcham at the North Carolina Office of Archives and History chaired a session on “interpreting slavery at historic sites”. Dr. Julia Rose, Director of the West Baton Rouge Museum, shared her experiences of working with several [...]
Flickr for Historic Sites
Posted in Collections, Education, Internet, Interpretation, Marketing, Resources, Visitor Research, tagged Acoma Sky City, Chesterwood, Cliveden, Drayton Hall, Flickr, Image sharing, Montpelier, Robie House, Shadows on the Teche, Tenement Museum on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These images of Acoma Sky City, Montpelier, Drayton Hall, Cliveden, Shadows on the Teche, and Robie House were all found on Flickr, the on-line photo sharing Web site. Nearly every National Trust Historic Sites can be found on Flickr in a variety ways: informal snapshots of family and friends, memories of an event, [...]
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