4/520 Historic Preservation
Instructor: H. Roger Smith Aytch_Smith@MS1.Mankato.MSUS.edu

The class meets one afternoon per week for ten weeks within a historic neighborhood of Mankato.

Each class meeting begins with a field walk and student discussion on:

• Indigenous house types of the Upper Midwest
• Analysis of architectural quality
• Interpretation of architectural character
• Discussion of potential for preservation or modification for rehabilitation
• Development of a lexicon of architectural terms

Class Content is lecture-demonstration and seminar discussion. Topics are:

• Architecture history and architectural lexicon
• Contemporary American house types and design
• Techniques of restoration and rehabilitation
• Public-Private responsibilities and partnerships
• Neighborhood organization and grass roots planning
• Legal techniques of preservation
• Funding resources and legal designations such as the National Register and National Trust
• Preservation of commercial and industrial neighborhoods
• Adaptive reuse as a preservation tool
• Preservation as an urban design device
• Economics of preservation and urban conservation
• Industrial Archeology
• Whatever else I find that might be interesting at the moment

Course Requirements:

• Attendance - class and field trips
• Participation - class and field trips
• Topical anthology of no less than 25 articles
• Set of three residential, two commercial designs - annotated and graphically explicit
• Major term paper written in conformity to Standards for Written Work in URSI
• Test (Instructor's option)
• Readings and reading outlines (Instructor's option)
  

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