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>PRESCOTT SOUTH TOWNSITE SEEKS DESIGNATION AS HISTORIC AREA 01/31/99 11:44AM
>PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - Decades of dusty history have passed before their
>doors. They've seen rugged territorial Arizona life: cowboys on sweating
>horses, miners with gold dust on their fingers, tidy Chinese workers
>bustling to and fro, drunken street fights and the wild celebrations of
>statehood. Horses and buggies have rolled steadily by them until Prescott's
>streets became busy thoroughfares for modern-day automobiles. Many of these
>176 houses and business buildings have even outlived their builders and
>generations of occupants. Now, these historic properties have received the
>recognition they deserve. On August 31, United States Department of the
>Interior officially listed them on the National Register of Historic
>Places. ``The National Register is a way of honoring these buildings,''
>said Nancy Burgess, historic preservation specialist for the City of
>Prescott. The new South Prescott Townsite wraps within its boundaries
>architectural examples of late Victorian and late 19th and early 20th
>century Revival and American buildings dating back to 1870, encompassing
>the main commercial district from the early part of the century, she said.
>A mix of building dates and architectural styles is inevitable, ``because
>that's how Prescott was built,'' Burgess said. The designation does not
>place restrictions on what the owners can do with the property, she said,
>but it does give neighborhoods the opportunity to adopt an overlay district
>to protect their properties from significant change of the historic
>neighborhood's appearance or content.
>People within an official historic district may contact the city for help
>in putting together a protective overlay district. ``Designation is the
>first step in getting to protect these properties. That's why this district
>work is important,'' Burgess said. ``Preserving our heritage is up to us,
>and this is an official process for doing that.'' The district designation
>also provides tax deductions to residential owners in the district. This is
>the eighth completed district with another 14 identified and to be document
>by the city in the future. To determine possible historic districts, the
>city conducts preparatory studies then establishes boundaries based on the
>historic context of the district, Burgess said, ``what happened of
>importance historically in the lifetime of these buildings.'' The potential
>districts then must win approval from the Prescott Preservation Commission
>and its recommendation to the State Historic Preservation Office of State
>Parks for listing. Boundaries of National Register districts usually are
>tight, encompassing only concentrated areas of historic buildings. ``Not
>every building in the district area is listed in the register,'' she said,
>``only those that meet the criteria.'' To determine which ones to admit,
>sponsors survey each individual building to document its historical style,
>residential or commercial use, constructiondate, the builder and the
>integrity of its original features. ``Does it still look as it did when
>built?'' she said. ``It should basically be recognizable to someone in 1895
>walking down the street as the same house.'' Besides maintaining the
>character of Prescott, the documentation and preserving of historical
>buildings is economically important, Burgess said. ``Heritage tourism is
>the fastest growing area of tourism,'' she said, and with a history that
>reaches back to 1863, ``Prescott is benefiting from that. ``If the
>community continues to rely on tourism, as it has for 100 years - part of
>the reason people come to Prescott is the buildings - then historic
>districts help retain and keep neighborhoods preserved,'' she said. ``The
>City of Prescott has been documenting historic buildings, one way or
>another, since 1978,'' Burgess said, and is a certified local government
>under the State of Arizona Historic Preservation Plan. ``That means the
>city has the responsibility to do this documentation continuously,'' she
>said. ``And we'll never run out of houses to document - there are ones
>crossing the 50-year age requirement constantly that retain the integrity
>of their original features. ``Eventually the whole Prescott townsite area
>will be an historic district,'' Burgess said.
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/01/149l-020199-idx.h
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> Ben Lilienthal says his undergraduate degree in anthropology prepared
>him uniquely for life as a technology entrepreneur. How? "I know how to
>deal with primitive cultures," said Lilienthal.
>
>http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/013199/bus_sixth.shtml The historical
>lure of Route 66. Some travel the entire length of the "Main Street of
>America," a name given to the first all-weather highway linking Chicago to
>Los Angeles.
>
>
>http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/news/pdtoday.nsf/MetroPOST/4DECEE5B6CC5B046862
>5670A00275864?OpenDocument Company officials thought it would be nifty to
>shape the steel-riveted tower like its distinctive bottle. It was a fine
>example of the postwar roadside architecture popular with automobile
>travelers. The Catsup Bottle Preservation Group, as the saviors of the
>bottle are known, is seeking to have it listed on the National Register of
>Historic Places.
>
>
>http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/research01.htm
>Researchers Anonymous members have a form of addiction. Piwarzyk got hooked
>researching bricks. He found 14 local lime trails and has moved on to
>investigating fire bricks, which are imported from England and Scotland. He
>is now a member of the International Brick Collectors Association.
>Brick-making is probably the world's second oldest profession.
>
>
>http://www.dallasnews.com/metro-dfw-nf/dfw803.htm Experience Fort Worth!
>opened in January at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Natural History,
>1501 Montgomery St. It offers a glimpse of Fort Worth's development from
>the days when the buffalo roamed to its growth as a rough and rowdy cow town.
>
Anita Cohen-Williams
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD
Acting Listowner of MUSEUM-L
Contributing Editor, Anthropology page, http://www.suite101.com
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