[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2015-12-03

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Thu Dec 3 10:57:38 PST 2015


In this issue:
1.  Applications due Dec. 18 for preservation training scholarships
2.  School, barn added to National Register
3.  NEH grants aid collections preservation projects
4.  Did you remember this teenager's birth?


APPLICATIONS DUE DEC. 18 FOR PRESERVATION TRAINING SCHOLARSHIPS

The application deadline for financial assistance to attend a preservation-related conference, workshop or training is Dec. 18. These Oregon Heritage Preservation Scholarships enable Oregon residents  to attend a conference, workshop, or training in the United States before June 30.  Eligible travel expenses include registration fees, transportation (e.g.
air fare, personal vehicle mileage, etc.), lodging, and meals.  Awards usually range from  $500-$1,500, depending on applicant eligibility, priorities, criteria and the number of applicants.

Scholarships are competitive. Scholarships will be offered to those actively involved in local preservation efforts and who demonstrate how attendance at a preservation-related conference, workshop, or training will help meet the preservation needs of their local community. Scholarship recipients will be expected  to share what they  learn from the conference, workshop, or training with others through a post on the Oregon Heritage Exchange blog, a public presentation, or some other way approved by Oregon Heritage.

The scholarship is offered by Oregon Heritage, part of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, in honor of Elisabeth Walton Potter.  Potter was a long-time historian with the State Historic Preservation Office and coordinator for the National Register of Historic Places program in Oregon.

For more information, visit the Oregon Heritage Preservation Scholarship website<http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/FINASST/Pages/Scholarships.aspx#EWPOH_Preservation_Scholarship>.


SCHOOL, BARN ADDED TO NATIONAL REGISTER

Washington High School in southeast Portland and the Cyrus Barn near Lebanon are among Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.

Washington High School is a four-story Classical Revival school designed by the Portland architecture firm of Houghtaling & Dougan. Constructed in 1923-24, the school is significant for the role it played in the development of the city's eastside communities. It was designed to respond to Portland's need for expanded school facilities; growing concerns around health and safety (with a particular focus on fire prevention); and school designs that offered optimal learning environments as espoused by education experts at the time.

The concrete school, which is faced with red brick and finished with terracotta moldings and details, was designed specifically for increased fire protection, as the previous school on the site burned in 1922. Decorative details can be found across the building's exterior, including bas relief panels, engaged brick pilasters, lions heads, caryatid heads, and inspirational quotes. The progressive school provided technical training and included science laboratories and a 830-seat auditorium, in addition to classrooms.

The building ceased functioning as a high school in 1981, and was used for social services by Portland Public Schools until the school district sold the building in 2013. The building has now been rehabilitated and re-opened as a commercial and retail space and performance venue.

The Henry and Mary Cyrus Barn near Lebanon is an increasingly rare example of a late-19th century timber-frame barn. The Cyrus family benefited the arrival and expansion of railroads in the 1870s and 1880s, which created a local economic boom as farmers exported ever more wheat to national markets and imported needed equipment and building materials. For its time, the Cyrus Barn incorporated all the most modern features, including a mechanical hayfork, expansive hayloft, and steel-track roller doors.

The barn was constructed using traditional mortise-and-tenon joinery (wood pegs) for the wood frame, while still incorporating newly available materials, including circular-sawn boards from local mills, machine-cut nails and metal hardware. Notably, the interior, including the original grain bins and wood milking stanchions, remains largely intact. In the 1930s Swiss immigrant Franz (Frank) Schuler and his wife Eliza added two wood stave silos to the barn to store winter silage for dairy cattle. The silos are thought to be one of the last remaining examples of this type remaining in Linn County.

Oregon's State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation recommended the barn's nomination in their June 2015 meeting. It is one 72 properties in Linn County that are individually listed in the National Register. The National Register is maintained by the National Park Service under the authority of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

More information<http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/NATREG/pages/nrhp_recent_nominations.aspx> about the National Register and recent Oregon listings is online.


NEH GRANTS AID COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION PROJECTS

Preservation Assistance Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities help small and mid-sized institutions-such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities-improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.

Applications for the next round of grants will be available soon. The Washington County Museum and the University of Oregon each received grants in a recent round Preservation Assistance Grants. For more information, visit
http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions


DID YOU REMEMBER THIS TEENAGER'S BIRTH?

The cultural tax credit, allowing donors to match a gift to participating cultural non-profits with a gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust, and then get the match back at tax time, went into effect during this week in 2002. During the Trust's first month, $1.5 million was donated to it.

Now a robust teenager, the Cultural Trust has awarded more than 1,000 grants totaling more than $16 million to cultural organizations across the state. Like teenagers everywhere, the Cultural Trust needs sustenance to continue its work. Check out the Trust's website<http://www.culturaltrust.org/> for more information and how donations can be made to it.


Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at heritage.info at oregon.gov<mailto:heritage.info at oregon.gov>

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