Spring 2023 Class and Workshop Offerings*
*Class and workshop details subject to change.
Historic Window Restoration, Identification, and Maintenance – IN-PERSON.
Half-day workshop | credit/no credit
About: Senior staff from the building conservation team at the Fairmount Park Conservancy will share best practices for restoring and maintaining traditional wood windows. Anatomy of old window components, weatherization, product recommendations, lead paint capture, and how-to demonstrations will be shared from the viewpoint of preservation trades professionals. This workshop is meant to add clarity to common wood window issues, as well as the process and materials needed for each type of repair. Audience: preservation students, design professionals, HARB members, contractors and old house owners. This workshop will also prove helpful to anyone evaluating window restoration contractors for an upcoming project.
Our Partners: This workshop is offered in partnership with Fairmount Park Conservancy. Thank you!
Presenters: Tom McPoyle, Andrew Staples; Fairmount Park Conservancy.
Date and Time: Workshop runs from 9:00AM-1:00PM, Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Attendance Policy: You do not need to be pursuing the Certificate in Historic Preservation to take this this workshop. But participants must pass the class or workshop if they want it to count toward the Certificate. Participants must attend the entirety of workshops to pass and receive CEUs.
Location: Ohio House, West Fairmount Park, 4700 States Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19131
Cost: $55 (includes refreshments)
Rutgers Continuing Education Credits: 0.4 CEUs
Course Number: HP-7-Sp23
REGISTER (LIMIT 25): You can register here. https://ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedisplay.cfm?schID=89167
Note: Individuals and/or municipalities who would like to pay by purchase order (PO), please contact the Preservation Program at preservation@camden.rutgers.edu as soon as possible to reserve your spot and to receive instructions on how to register.
Accessibility: If you need ASL interpretation, live captioning, or other accommodations, please let us know about three weeks before the start of workshop. You can make this request by emailing preservation@camden.rutgers.edu.
Address and Parking:
Ohio House is part of West Fairmount Park and is located at 4700 States Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19131. You can park at Fairmount Park’s on-site parking garage, or at one of the many off-site parking garages or lots in the area. You can also find street parking.
Presenter Information
Tom McPoyle joined the Fairmount Park Conservancy in 2006, excited to join a team where his love of preservation intertwined with his passion for art and the outdoors. As director of the Conservancy’s building conservation program since 2018, Tom values the holistic approach taken by the Fairmount Park Conservancy in historic preservation. Building conservation, capital project management, event programming and adaptive reuse programs administered by FPC work together to preserve and give new relevance to the historic sites in the park. Tom brings over 20 years of conservation experience to his role at the Conservancy. He has also been teaching preservation workshops to the community for over a decade and hopes to make preservation ideas and techniques more accessible to all Philadelphians. Tom was raised in central PA where he started his career in preservation working with a firm that specialized in historic decorative surfaces. He has a sculpture background and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Delaware. He enjoys working on his mid-19th century farmhouse, going on camping excursions and walking the nature trails in the Wissahickon Valley.
Andrew Staples started working with the Conservancy in 2016 through the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s preservation apprenticeship program. Prior to joining the Conservancy, he spent five years working as a contractor in his father’s plumbing and heating business. Having been brought up around the trades, he developed a life-long interest in the history of building techniques and construction. Andrew is thrilled for the opportunity to work with Fairmount Park Conservancy’s talented conservation team on some of the city’s oldest buildings. He especially enjoys having the opportunity to directly engage with the work of earlier craftspeople. Andrew holds an MA in Archaeology of Buildings from the University of York in the UK.
Preservation Context: The Suburbs – ONLINE ONLY – THIS CLASS IS CLOSED!
5-week class | credit/no credit
About: Learn how to recognize the historical development and building types of American suburbs in this online course focused on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania/Delaware region. With a combination of live, online lecture/discussions and guest speakers, we will explore the suburban landscape from early ferry suburbs (for example, Camden across the river from Philadelphia) through the growth of suburbs along railroads, streetcar lines, and highways. A short research/observation assignment will involve all members of the class in investigating their nearby environments and developing strategies for preservation.
Who should register?: This course will be useful for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of the material history of the built environment.
Credits: 1 CEU. This is a continuing education class taught on a pass/fail basis.
Course Number: HP-125-Sp23-Online
Accessibility: If you need ASL interpretation, live captioning, or other accommodations, please let us know about two weeks before the start of the reading group. You can make this request by emailing preservation@camden.rutgers.edu.
Cost: $150
Date and Time: Wednesdays, April 12-May 10, 2023, 7:00PM-9:00PM EST via Zoom, and independent work on your own time.
Attendance Policy: Participants risk failing the class and losing the opportunity to earn CEUs if they miss more than two sessions of a ten-week class or one session of a five-week class. Instructors reserve the right to assign make-up assignments. Participants must attend the entirety of half-, one-, one and a half-, and two-day workshops to pass and receive CEUs. Participants must pass the class or workshop for it to count toward the Certificate.
Instructor: Dr. Charlene Mires
Format: Online lecture and discussion.
Location: Online only
Required technology: Computer with webcam and microphone and a reliable internet connection
Required books: n/a
Register: You can register here. Note: This link will not be live until registration opens. https://ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedisplay.cfm?schID=88491
Note: Individuals and/or municipalities who would like to pay by purchase order (PO), please contact the Preservation Program at preservation@camden.rutgers.edu as soon as possible to reserve your spot and to receive instructions on how to register.
About the instructor: Dr. Charlene Mires is Professor of History at Rutgers-Camden.
American Architectural History- ONLINE ONLY – THIS CLASS IS CLOSED!
10-week class | credit/no credit
About: Architecture is the product of social, cultural, religious, and political forces. Great cultures and civilizations throughout the world have produced not only great monuments but robust vernacular architectural traditions, closely tied to the environment and their local contexts. This course will present an introduction to buildings, landscapes, and other built artifacts in the United States constructed from the colonial period to the present, looking at both urban and rural, domestic and public building types. Its approach will be pluralistic, drawing historical references from art history, social history, and cultural studies and introducing the range of material culture produced by Americans of all ethnic and socioeconomic groups.In addition to addressing domestic and public buildings, the course will also discuss the most significant works of engineering that relate to the creation of architecture such as train sheds, exposition halls, stadium, bridges, industrial buildings, and dams. The course will examine relevant examples of architectural history from other parts of the world, especially Europe, to place the development of American architecture within an international context. Students who take this course will develop critical tools for the analysis, appreciation, and preservation of architecture and its role in the world in which we live. This course is one of the required courses for the certificate in historic preservation.
Class Objectives:
- Identify domestic architectural styles in the United States from European settlement to the present for the purposes of advocacy, research, and interpretation in the field of historic preservation with a primary focus on Mid-Atlantic style and form.
- Identify a variety of reputable resources you can use to credibly articulate a building’s style and form.
- Identify non-domestic architecture landscape features such as burying grounds and industrial architecture, including those associated with marginalized groups, to contextualize preservation efforts of domestic architecture.
- Relate United States architecture to European style and form and broader themes in United States and world history to place architecture within the broader context of the global built environment.
Who should register?: This course is a required course for the certificate in historic preservation. This course will be useful for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of current issues in historic preservation as the material history of the built environment.
Credits: 2 CEUs. This is a continuing education class taught on a pass/fail basis.
Course Number: HP-102-23-Online
Accessibility: If you need ASL interpretation, live captioning, or other accommodations, please let us know about two weeks before the start of the reading group. You can make this request by emailing preservation@camden.rutgers.edu.
Cost: $275
Date and Time: Thursdays, March 2-May 4, 2023, 7:00PM-9:00PM EST via Zoom, and independent work on your own time.
Attendance Policy: Participants risk failing the class and losing the opportunity to earn CEUs if they miss more than two sessions of a ten-week class or one session of a five-week class. Instructors reserve the right to assign make-up assignments. Participants must attend the entirety of half-, one-, one and a half-, and two-day workshops to pass and receive CEUs. Participants must pass the class or workshop for it to count toward the Certificate.
Instructor: Andrea Tingey
Format: Online lecture and discussion.
Location: Online only
Required technology: Computer with webcam and microphone and a reliable internet connection
Required books: TBD.
Register: This class is full! You can register for the waiting list here. https://ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedisplay.cfm?schID=88463
Note: Individuals and/or municipalities who would like to pay by purchase order (PO), please contact the Preservation Program at preservation@camden.rutgers.edu as soon as possible to reserve your spot and to receive instructions on how to register.
Andrea Tingey is a Historic Preservation Specialist 3 who has been with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office for 29 years. She currently coordinates both the Registration and Survey programs for the office. As such she works with citizens, communities, and professionals to identify and describe historic properties and to list them in the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places. For six years, she coordinated the Certified Local Government program, including grants and surveys. She previously spent 11 years working in the Transportation and Planning Section where the bulk of her workload involved the regulatory review of bridge projects. She also coordinated the establishment and publishing of New Jersey’s first statewide guidelines for architectural survey activities. She taught the Introduction to Historic Preservation course at Drew University for six years and co-taught the same course at Philadelphia University for one year. She has also taught American Architectural History at Rutgers-Camden for three sessions. Ms. Tingey received a BA in history from Dickinson College and did her graduate work in historic preservation planning at Cornell University.
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