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GRADUATES
Congratulations to our first graduate from the Building Preservation and Restoration program. Graduate Nick Tenaglio graduated on May 19, 2007 as our first program completer. We will miss you Nick! This upcoming 07/08 year looks forward to more graduating as many are now down to the last few courses.
PROSPECT HILL FARM RESEARCH
The Building Preservation and Restoration program at Harford Community College is conducting extensive research on the Hays-Heighe House (located on the HCC campus) and its history. Built in 1808, according to the date stone by Archer Hays, the structure served as a farmhouse throughout the nineteenth century for the prominent Harford Hays family and was known as Prospect Hill Farm. In the mid-twentieth century, Mrs. Anne McElderry Heighe operated a horse farm there. Six different families occupied the house between 1909 and 1962. Any additional information or photographs on this house would be greatly appreciated.
AWARDED GRANTS
July 2005
Harford Community College Prof. Rhonda L. Deeg, program coordinator for the College's Building Preservation and Restoration program, was awarded a grant for $5,000 from the Building Congress and Exchange Foundation. The funds will be used for restoration efforts on the Prospect Hill Farm spring house on the HCC campus and to help with the Harford County Barn and Outbuilding Survey. Thank you BCEF!
June 2004
Thanks to the Building Congress and Exchange!
Harford Community College Prof. Rhonda L. Deeg, program coordinator for the College's Building Preservation and Restoration program, was awarded a grant for $7,000 from the Building Congress and Exchange Foundation. The funds will be used for research and restoration efforts on the Hays-Heighe House and spring house on the HCC campus.
BPR PRESERVATION FAIR- Annual Free Fair last Saturday in April
(Watch for times in local Advertising) Located in Joppa Hall on the HCC
campus
2005- Our first Fair was a success! Exhibitors and Demonstrators included:
2006- Exhibitors and Demonstrators included
2007- Exhibitors and Demonstrators included:
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS/EVENTS
April 2004
Christine Wertsch, 1st year BPR student was able to attend a Timber Framing Workshop
sponsored by Preservation Trades Network and Howard County Parks and Recreation. The
April days were chilly and rainy, but Chris had a good time making new friends while
helping to repair a seed barn at Blandair Farm in Columbia, MD.
October 2003
This year's International Preservation Trades Network Workshop was a success held at
Blandair Farm in Columbia, MD. About 350 people attended these historic trades hands-on
demonstrations of faux finishes, stone and brick masonry, metal working, timber framing,
and window repair. Two of our very own BPR students
also attended; Philip McCall of Edgewood, MD (scholarship recipient) and Adrienne Endres
of Churchville, MD. We were very fortunate to have this wonderful educational opportunity
held so close in location to Harford Community College. Please see the Preservation Trades Network
website for more
information about the historic trades field.
April 2005
On Saturday, April 2, 2005- the HCC Social Sciences Division in collaboration with the BPR department sponsored a lecture on "The Archaeology of Maryland" presented by Dr. James Gibb, MD Archaeologist. The lecture began with a short presentation about the BPR program and then later followed by the history of Prospect Hill Farm and a tour of the National Registered Hays-Heighe house. This lecture kicks off a long-term archeological project that involves the history of the house and its property being conducted by both programs.
Our first annual Preservation Open House and Fair called "Your House Needs Lovin Too" was a success on Saturday April 23, 2005! The BPR program sponsored the fair along with Sarah Filkins of Welch-Filkins to showcase the newly constructed addition of Joppa Hall designed for the BPR department. The 1:00- 4:00 p.m. open house featured educational sessions on tax credits and preservation easement information available to residential and commercial property owners. All the BPR labs were opened so that participants could tour through the wing. Students and faculty provided on-going demonstrations in the labs on stained glass restoration, lime mortar, window repair, slate roof repair, hand planing, and timber framing. Another section of the fair was devoted to those exhibiting historic information. Thanks to Virginia Limeworks, Friends of Jerusalem Mill, Harford County Planning and Zoning, Catherine Masek, Eden Mill Nature Center, HCC's Social Sciences/Archeology Department, Historical Society of Harford County, Preservation Maryland, Archeological Society of Northern Chesapeake, Old Line Museum as well as BPR students and faculty for exhibiting and demonstrating.
October 2004
The International Preservation Trades Workshop 2004 was located in Mobile, Alabama. Two students from our BPR program, Adrienne Endres of Churchville, MD and Brian Durnan of Bel Air, MD, were scholarship recipients. Thank you to the Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the City of Mobile for sponsoring this event. Both David Gibney and Rhonda L. Deeg, BPR faculty, also attended. See the Preservation Trades Network website for more information about the historic trades field.
May 2005
On May 9, 2005 faculty and students of the BPR program attended and presented a Trades Demonstration in the exhibit hall during the 2005 Preservation Maryland Revitalization and National Trust's Main Street Conference held at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD. Students from both the stained glass restoration and carpentry courses set up tools/equipment and demonstrated what they have learned in the program to interested passersby attending the conference. Students were thrilled and excited to answer many questions asked about historic window repair and stained glass construction. Over 400 people from Maryland out of a total of 1800 participants attended the conference this year.
October 2005
The International Preservation Trades Workshop 2005 was located in St. Clairsville, OH at Belmont Technical College. Four students from our BPR program, Adrienne Endres, Jennifer Gerdom, Nick Tenaglio, Pegg Poff and John Lindtner were all able to attend. This event was special as the students were able to experience and help out with the construction of a timber frame structure of which was roofed later in slate with the help of Joe Jenkins. The Drystone Conservancy of Kentucky was in attendance and built a beautiful drystone bridge. Virginia Limeworks of VA constructed a great monument out of brick that was later parged with lime plaster. It was a rainy, cold weekend- but all were happy to meet and make more friends.
May 2006
The BPR faculty and students attended and presented a Trades Demonstration in the exhibit hall during the 2006 Preservation Maryland Revitalization conference in Annapolis, MD. Students Jennifer Gerdom, Charlene Cheatham and Kelly Lubinski had fun demonstrating how to make clay relief tiles, stained glass panels, and wooden tree nails on the shaving horse. A huge tabletop display highlighted the program's features and some of the projects students completed during the semester. BPR program coordinator Rhonda Deeg and BPR staff assistant Jennifer Gerdom spoke at a seminar on the Barn/Outbuilding Survey process and what has already been completed in Harford County during the past 2 years the project. Congrats to Jennifer for her first great speaking engagement!
July 2006
Once again, Preservation Trades Network co-sponsored a two-day workshop in New Castle, DE during the early month of July. Many BPR students attended as well as volunteered for the event. BPR student Art Novonty put on a two day blacksmithing demonstration. He had many on-lookers throughout the two day event. Way to go Art!
September 2006
BPR faculty and students were invited to demonstrate at the September Traditional Building Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was held in the Hilton Hotel located in Dupont Circle. Students Kelly Lubinski, Jennifer Gerdom, John Lindnter and BPR faculty David Gibney had a table top display featuring window repair and stained glass.
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