Documentation Team Has Started!

Documenting Slave Cabins and Tenant Farming Houses

Hiring: Laser Scanning Research Associate

Join NCPTT as a Research Associate

Summer Intern Starts Corten Graffiti Removal Research

Summer Internship

UHawaii Hilo students caring for ‘ohana at Kalaupapa

Podcast 100

Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i Hilo

Podcast 98

Abigail Poe Joins NCPTT for Research

Research Associates: People and Projects at NCPTT

HOPE comes to Kalaupapa

NCPTT Partners with HOPE Crew for Cemetery Care at KALA.

Looking at a Career with Master Mason Dom DuRubis

Podcast 95

Documenting Slave Structures and Tenant Cabins

Podcast 94

New Hire: Isabella Jones, Videographer

Oral History along the Cane River

The Caddos and Their Ancestors

Podcast 93

A Visit to Clementine Hunter’s House With Tommy Whitehead

Life on Cane River

NCPTT first stop in the 2019 Touching History: Preservation in Practice Program

Preservation in Practice Program

Documentation Of Tenant Farming Houses

Photography and 3D Laser Scanning

US ICOMOS Preservation Interns Document Natchitoches Plantations

Researchers from Nepal and India Preserve Cultural Heritage

Constructing Historic Masonry Test Walls

Research into Efflorescence

Wet Recovery of Taxidermy

Webinar with Fran Ritchie, Julia Sybalsky, and AIC

Wet Recovery of Paper and Books

Webinar with Karen Pavelka and AIC

Cultural Protocol While Working in Hawaiian Cemeteries

Podcast 85

Pig Skin and Wieners, the Early Influences on Preservation Architect Jack Pyburn

Podcast 84

Modern In Motion at NCPTT

LSMSA Theatre and Dance

3D Documentation in Ladakh, India

Podcast 83

Materials Research Internship Opening

Prevention & removal of oil from historic properties

Talking Red Masonry and the Rebirth of Lime with Jimmy Price

Podcast 82

Preserving African American Properties 2017-20

Webinar with Jack Pyburn

Rapid Digital Documentation of Cultural Sites

Podcast 80

On the Couch with Historic New England

Podcast 78

Issues with Hot Air: Venting Historic Stained Glass Windows

Podcast 77

Porches of North America; A New Look At An Old Friend (Podcast 76)

Podcast 76

Resetting Ground Supported Headstones 2017-04

Resetting Volume 3

Student Conservation Internships; Who, How, Why? (Podcast 75)

Podcast 75

2017 3D Digital Documentation Summit

Schedule

Museum Studies at Midland State University in Zimbabwe (Podcast 73)

Student Rebuild Baboon Damaged Walls

Scientific Method and Experimental Design for Conservation Research

Videos hosted by Chandra Reedy

Disaster Planning with Susan Duhl (Podcast 71)

Disaster Planning, Response, and Preparedness

Producer/Process/Production The Sacred Chaos of Preserving the Artist and/or the Art

The Wonderfully Strange Case of Howard Finster and his Paradise Garden

Going Exploring with Museum Hack (Podcast 70)

Podcast 70

How is the Conservation of Outsider/Folk Art Unique? Or is it?

Barbara Appelbaum

Dance Halls, Juke Joints, and Honky Tonks: Place Making and Cultural Sustainability Symposium

Speakers and Abstracts

A Context for Historic Texas Dance Halls: The development of the immigrant social halls in Texas and their place in the history of settlement, music, and culture

Patrick Sparks

Club Desire: The Downtown Club with the Uptown Ideas

Gail Lazaras

When “Business” Spells the Blues for a Popular Juke Joint: A Case of Cultural and Community Perseverance

Mary Allison Haynie

From the Ground Up, Key Points and Lessons Learned from Opening, Operating and Closing a Dancehall

Bernard Pearce

Money When You Need It: Proven Strategies for Creating a Building Reserves Fund

Hot Topics: What Dance Hall Owners Need to Know Right Now and Helpful Tools

Interpreting Juke Joints and African American Nightspots on the Mississippi Blues Trail

Betwixt and Between: Threatened Creole Dancehalls in the Agricultural Landscape of Louisiana

Deborah Rehn

National Register Documentation of South Louisiana Dance Halls

Emily Ardoin

Historic Texas Dance Halls: Their Music and Their Futures

Steve Dean

Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall

Lynn Mitchell

Juke Joints, Dance Halls, and House Parties: A Legacy of Music on Cane River

A Legacy of Music on Cane River

HOPE Crew at Chalmette National Cemetery

Volunteer Month

Why Historic Preservation? (Podcast 66)

Talking with Historic Preservation Students about their career choice.

HOPE comes to African House (Podcast 65)

Talking with Monica Rhodes and Molly Dickerson about the HOPE Crew Program (Part 2)

Where Preservation is Needed, there is HOPE (Podcast 64)

Talking with Monica Rhodes about the HOPE Crew Program (Part 1)

James Hampton’s Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly

The Winds of Change: When a Place Changes… and Changes a Place

E.T. Wickham: The Intersection of Family and Preservation

How to Move a Mountain: the Documentation and Display of Displaced Art Environments

There is an App for that…

Resources for Flood Victims

Expression of Faith and Fear: The Chauvin Sculpture Garden by Kenny Hill

Kohler Foundation, the Journey to Preserve Vernacular Art

Revisiting Clementine Hunter’s Murals at African House

Treatment Considerations for a Newly-discovered Madonna by Martin Ramirez

Extraordinary Legacy; the Folk Art Collection of the High Museum of Art

Saving Art Environments and Unpermitted Dinosaurs (Podcast 63)

Talking with Jo Farb Hernandez about SPACES

Art Environments: Curatorial Roles and Responsibilities

Digital Documentation and Reconstruction of Old Sheldon Church with Chad Keller (Podcast 62)

Historic Preservation at the Savannah College of Art and Design

Fiber Identification and Analysis for Conservation Workshop a Success

Participants learned methods of sampling and identification

Pasaquan, the Journey Continues

The Future of Ethnographic Museums

Conference at the University of Oxford

Documenting Preservation History Through Education: The New Orleans Preservation Timeline Project

An Unlikely Paper Trail: Identifying the Sites and Inhabitants of the Tenant Quarters Community at Magnolia Plantation

Preservation Education Challenge: Establishing Heritage Curricula and Professional Practice in Emerging South Asia Democracies, Pakistan–A Case Study

All Preservation is Local, Except…: Reflections on Conducting Preservation Coursework Abroad

3D Digital Documentation; From a Field of Specialization to an Interdisciplinary Point of Interaction

Keynote

The Use of Infographics in Preservation Planning

3D Digital Documentation; From a Field of Specialization to an Interdisciplinary Point of Interaction

Technology, Preservation Education, and Managing Change in the Alamo

The Molecular Weight of Silk and Interpreting “Biscuits” (Podcast 61)

Conversation with NCPTT's First Summer Intern, Kathryn Hallett

The Documentation Course: Beyond Drawing

From Theses to Capstone Experiences: Engaging Students in Community-Based Preservation

The University Campus as Learning Laboratory

Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

LIDAR and Photogrammetry: Comprehensive Data Collection for Historical Preservation

From the Field to the Classroom: Developing Pedagogy in Digital Humanities

Utilization of Bathymetric Surveys for the Location and Monitoring of Archaeological Shipwrecks

Photogrammetric gigapixel imaging of monumental wall paintings using visible, infrared and ultraviolet radiation

Spherical Imaging and Virtual Environments for Conservation of Cultural Heritage Sites

Reality Capture, 3D Modeling, and Historic Preservation: A Structural Engineer’s Perspective

Shifting the Paradigm of Heritage Conservation Education through 3D Imaging Technologies

From the Field to the Classroom: Developing Pedagogy in Digital Humanities

Digital, Digitization, Digitalization A Prescription for Being Found In the “Cloud”

Beyond Hype and Promise:

Digital Heritage Strategies in Our Nation’s Parks for Preservation, 3D Learning, Outreach, and Education

Cloud Based 3‐D Digital Photogrammetry Pertev Paşa Mosque

Activating Data

3D Digital Documentation and Analysis of the Reef Bay Valley Petroglyphs,

St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands National Park

A Re-composition Methodology of Frescoes Fragments Using a Photogrammetric Approach

Incorporating 3D Digital Data in HABS/HAER/HALS Projects

Digital Documentation using Aerial Photogrammetry

A Bird’s Eye View: Photogrammetric Documentation using Drones

Combining Hands-on Inspection, Nondestructive Evaluation, and Drone-based Data Acquisition

The investigation of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Monument

Laser Cleaning and Laser Scanning with Martin Cooper (Podcast 60)

Technology for the People: Developing a Low Cost Heritage Documentation Kit to spur Innovation in Digital Preservation

Using UAVs to Rapidly Preserve Historic Structures in New Orleans, Louisiana

Integrating 3D Digital Documentation Methods for Cultural Resource

Identification and Documentation in a Heavily Forested Mountainous Landscape

Scientific Photogrammetric Imaging of a Large-scale Diego Rivera Fresco Mural

NCPE Conference

National Council for Preservation Education Conference

The Challenges of Treating Delaminating Slate Headstones: New Treatments with New Materials

Alexandria Historic Preservation Commission (Podcast 59)

Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship

Nationwide Monument Conservation at National Cemeteries: Planning, Management, and Treatment Implementation

Conserving the Nation’s Gravesite: Treatment of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery

Reimagining August Bloedner’s 32nd Indiana Infantry Monument (1862)

Photogrammetric Documentation of Weathered and Damaged Headstones at the Cataraqui Cemetery,Kingston Ontario

Fragile Grounds: Mapping South Louisiana’s Cemeteries

Handcrafted Gravemarkers of Julius “Jesse” Thomas

Made from My Own Hand: An Introduction to Concrete Grave Markers

In Small Things Remembered: The William Peters Reeves Grave Memorial at Kenyon College

Maintaining Leadworks for Cemetery Monuments and Mausolea

Red Jacket: Sculpture Conservation Treatment in Forest Lawn Cemetery

Portland Cement Vs Historic Gravestones

Returning From Oblivion: The Reemergence of a World War II Memorial Sundial

Conservation of a World Wrestling Entertainment Costume (Podcast 58)

Alison Castaneda, Conservator at the Textile Conservation Workshop of South Salem, New York

Modern Problems in Historic Cemeteries

Preservation Planning for Historic Cemetery Landscapes

Finding Avondale: Remote Sensing for an Unmarked Cemetery in Difficult Subsurface Conditions

Down to Earth: Conservation Decision-Making for Historic Cemeteries

The Cycle of Use, Neglect, and Renewal in Historic Family Cemeteries of Niagara, Ontario

Not Seeing the Cemetery for the Monuments: Understanding the Importance of Preservation Assessments

Plinth Magazine (Podcast 57)

Lessons Learned from the Small Museum

They Died in Rome: Preservation of an Active, Historic Cemetery for Foreigners

Restoration of Rockefeller’s Italian Fountain by Ricardo Viera and Michele Boyd

Rehabilitation of Shippensburg University’s Old Main Fountain by Gabriel W. Harrison and T. Scott Kreilick

Maintenance Maladies-Who is Minding the Fountain?

Water Chemistry Guidelines for Art Fountains by Martin Burke

Goatscaping at Congressional Cemetery (Podcast 56)

Maintenance Programs for Historic Fountains

Comparative Study of Commercially Available Rust Converters

NCPTT In-house Research

Lavender Landmarks of Charleston, South Carolina (Podcast 55)

LGBT History Month

Bringing the “Fountain of Life” Back to Life – Marble and Bronze Conservation and Sculptural Figure Replication by Ricardo Viera and Michele Boyd

Fifth Graders Learn about the Effects of Acid Rain on Cultural Materials

And How Polymers Can Help

Divine Disorder: Folk and Outsider Art Conference 2015

Conference on the Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art

ENGINEERING 281: Renovation of Fountains – Hydraulic Considerations by David Peterson

Historic Preservation Program at Mississippi College (Podcast 51)

Art and Infrastructure: Restoring the Futuristic Fountain and Reflecting Pool

A Brief Appreciation of Fountains Through History: Changing Functions, Appearances, and Meaning by John Scott

FBI and Art Crime (Podcast 50)

William Toye and Clementine Hunter

Challenges of Maintaining the Fountains of “The City of Fountains” – Kansas City by Jocelyn Ball-Edson

Divine Disorder: Folk and Outsider Art Conference 2012

Aquatic Plants for Water Quality Maintenance in Water Features and Fountains by Mary Willeford-Bair, Catherine Dewey, and Walter Zachritz

A Manageable Approach for the Maintenance of Fountain Water

Use of Hydroxyapatite for enhancing durability in marble

The Science of Sand

Crowdsourced database with GPS & Images

Call for Papers; Poles, Posts and Canoes Conference

Poles, Posts and Canoes: The Preservation, Conservation and Continuation of Native American Monumental Wood Carving

What about Soapstone?

How to safely clean soapstone grave markers

What do you do with a broken Orangutan? (Podcast 49)

Fountain Conservation California Style

Conservation & H‐RTI

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pigment Identification Workshop

Four Light Total Appearance Imaging of Paintings

The Patternmakers Art: Innovation within a Timeless Tradition

Recording Civil War Earthwork Fortifications with LiDAR (Podcast 47)

Restoration of the Camden House Orchard

Podcast 46 with arborist Rico Montenegro

Preservation of Covered Bridges

USDA Forest Service Publication

Disaster Preparedness and Response Workshop in Tunica, MS

Disaster Preparedness and Response

Workshop for Small Museums

Texas Wildfires and Bastrop State Park

Fran Gale and Miriam Tworek-Hofstetter

Petrographic Analysis for Conservation

March 11-12, 2014

International Cemetery Preservation Summit

Niagara Falls, New York April 8-10, 2014

Assessing the Value of Laser Scan Data

High-Definition Surveying

Archive of Digital Data for HABS, HAER, and HALS

5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

3D Modeling of a Gravestone

Exploiting Low Cost Range and Image Based Techniques

A Comparative Study Using LiDAR Digital Scanning and Photogrammetry

High Resolution Digital Photogrammetry with Object Surface Texture

NCPTT helps Girl Scouts earn Save Outdoor Sculpture patch

Application of Current 3D and Pseudo-3D Imaging for Conservation by Melvin Wachowiak, Senior Conservator E. Keats Webb, Digital Imaging Specialist, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, Washington D.C.

NCPTT Staff Receives Leica Training

Restoring the Lion’s Roar: Documenting and Replicating Limestone Structures Through Laser Scanning, 3D Computer Modeling, and CNC Machining

Cemetery Conservation Workshop in Pineville, Louisiana

Applications of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) in a Fine Arts Museum: Examination, Documentation, and Beyond

Conservation Scientist for a Day

Automated Classification of Surface Texture for Photographic Paper

Cemetery Conservation Workshop in Natchez, Mississippi

KeckCAVES, Immersive 3D Visualization System for Cultural Sites (Podcast 41)

Call for presentations, International Cemetery Preservation Summit

3D Digital Documentation Summit 2012

Documenting National and World Heritage Sites: the Need to Integrate Digital Documentation and 3D Scanning with Traditional Hand Measuring Techniques

3D Scanning of Matisse, the Back I-IV: One Thing After Another

Cooperation Creates A Custom Crate: Conservation, Laser Scanning, 3D Milling and Crate Building Work Together

Recording Structure and Process: HAER 3D Digital Documentation Methods

Advances in Computational Photograph Techniques for Cultural, Historic, and Natural History Materials

Laser Scanning America’s Cultural Landscapes

Post-Processing Workflows: Identifying Hidden Costs in Converting Scan Data to Useable Information

Utilizing Digital Methods to Document and Reconstruct Old Sheldon Church

3D Data Recordation and Immersive Visualization: Considerations for Creative Mitigation Practices

Integrating Aerial and Ground-based LiDAR in Appalachian Heritage Planning and Visualization

Mind the Gap: the Need to Supplement Laser Scan Data in HABS Documentation Projects

FAIC Cultural Recovery Center

The Patternmaker’s Art: Innovation within a Timeless Tradition

Foamhenge: 3D Modeling and Conservation of a Monumental Sculpture

Best Practices for Digital Documentation

Capturing, Document, and Mapping the Digital Cultural Object Using Spectral Imaging

3D Digital Documentation as a Basis for the Finite Element Method in the Restoration of Tullio Lombardo’s Marble Sculpture of Adam

2013 Summer Internships

Cemetery Conservation Workshop in Natchez, Mississippi

Safe Hoist Operation for Lifting Stone

Calculating the Weight of Stone

Designing the Lidar Mission for Industrial Heritage: Cooperation Across the Fields

Fountain Fundamentals, an Ever Evolving Conservation Collaboration

Petrographic Analysis for Conservation

Why Digital? Its only 1’s and 0’s

Close Range Photogrammetry vs. 3D Scanning for Archaeological Documentation

Our History Rests Here: Preservation and Restoration of Historic Cemeteries

Cemetery Conservation Workshop in Natchez, Mississippi

Rocket Science and 3D Analyses in the Preservation of Artistic and Historic Works

Monitoring Using Laser Scanning – Case Study of Watts Towers

Evolution in Project Workflow – Is High Definition Survey the Missing Link? – Brandon C. Friske

3D Technology and the H.I. Hunley: Beyond Documentation – Christopher Watters

Color and Spectral Archiving Using Dual-RGB Imaging

Saving the Lines: Documenting Ships and Small Craft Using Laser Scanning Technology

3D Digital Documentation of Cultural Resources in Southern Arizona National Parks

Summer Conservation Scientist for a Day Program

2012 Robotics Camp

Paradise Gardens; its Past and its Future

Iron Fencing Care Workshop in Bloomington, Indiana

The Strange Procession That Never Moves

Planning to Stabilize, Document, Conserve and Interpret Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

Unicultural Ethnography: Preserving Outsider Art Through the Ethnography of Individual Outsider Artists

God’s Architects; Documenting the Materials, Methods, and Self-Taught Builders of the South

Taking the Art to the Streets: How the Citizens of Los Angeles Saved Watts Towers

Creating a Conservation Plan for Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs

Re-evaluation of 1984 Preservation Decisions for the African House Murals by Clementine Hunter

The Greatest Show on Earth: the history and conservation of Jefferson Davis McKissack’s Orange Show

Simon Rodia’s Towers in Watts (The Watts Towers) Four Decades of Interventions and Still Searching for a Solution

What’s In and What’s Out

Virtual Conservation of Folk and Outsider Art Environments

A Creative Obsession: Materials and Techniques of the Self-Taught Artist James Castle

Realms of the Unreal and the Henry Darger Archives

Magical Mosaics: Preserving Isaiah Zagar’s Philadelphia Art Environment

Discriminating Palettes: The Painting Materials of Clementine Hunter and Her Imitator

FBI Investigation of Clementine Hunter Forgeries by William Toye

Clementine Hunter; History of Forgery

Petrographic Analysis for Conservation

3D Digital Documentation Summit

Cemetery Documentation

Limpieza Básica para Monumentos (2007-01)

Saving and Preserving Burial Grounds of Enslaved African Americans

Returning the Forest to Forest Lawn: Tree Planting Strategies for Historic Landscapes

CMC Basics in Lake Geneva, WI

2013 International Cemetery Preservation Summit

Preservation of Ornamental Iron

Application of Digital Photography and flickr in a Graduate Preservation Program

Alexander Calder’s “Hello Girls”; a Wind and Water Driven Non-Interactive Feature by John Hirx

Kansas City Water Quality by David Greene

Gilded Water Fountains Fabrication/Conservation/ Maintenance

Toward Better Treatment of Cast-Iron Fountains with Zinc Statues

South Florida Fountain Conservation: Case Studies of the treatment of several fountains in a tropical environment

All ‘dem Bones: Cleaning Oil from Archeological Bone.

Where there is Doubt, Faith: A Case Study in the Community-Based Preservation Efforts of Margaret’s Grocery and the L.V. Hull Home

A Vision for a Visionary Site: Developing a Site Management Plan for Paradise Garden

Revival: Bringing back to life the Art Environment of Howard Finster

Prophecy in Exterior Latex: Documenting the Message of Isaiah Robertson

New National Science Foundation Grant Enables NCPTT to Advance Stone Treatments

Bousillage (2010-08)

The Historic Building Material Bousillage

Folk Art Conservation and the Rock Garden in Chandigarh, India (Podcast 22)

Cemetery Monument Restoration Workshop at Crown Hill Cemetery

NCPTT Hosts School Groups for Heritage Education Lessons

Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers Video (2010-07)

Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit

Ornamental Iron Workshop

Shaving Cream: Genealogist’s Friend or Cemetery Conservator’s Foe?

NCPTT visits Hybrid Plastics

Deadline: Call for Presentations for the Nationwide Cemetery Preservation Summit

Essentials for Cemetery Monument Care TelNPS

Basics for Iron Fencing Care TelNPS

Conservation of Cemetery Monuments, Memorials, and Statuary Made of Zinc

Geospatial Mapping and Thematic Documentation of Historic Cemeteries

A Survey of Stone Consolidation Methods: The case study of a sculptural monument at Forest Lawn Cemetery

‘Make it Better than it Was’: Poor Design and New Problems in Cemetery Restoration

Reverend Nathaniel Chauncey, Jr. Crypt, Old Burying Ground, Durham, Connecticut

(Re) removal and (Re) relocation of gravestones: First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, Charleston, South Carolina

The Evolution of Government Headstones and Markers

Comparative Study of Commercially Available Cleaners for Use on Federally-issued Headstones

Piece by Piece: The Restoration of Battleground National Cemetery

What is historic? Issues at Poplar Grove National Cemetery

National Cemeteries: Post-Civil War Landscapes in Transition

GIS Tools for the Cultural Resource Management of Cemeteries

African American Material Culture in Cemetery Trees

Mount Auburn

Case study of the restoration of the Monument at Massacre Bay, A’asu, Tutuila, American Samoa

Balancing Cultural Considerations and Preservation Priorities at a Historic African American Cemetery

Preservation Issues of Wooden Grave Markers and Other Wooden Artifacts

New Approaches to Detect and Remediate Microbial Deterioration

Performance-based Evaluation of Materials & Methods for Monument Conservation

Historic Plants for Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Cemeteries

Maintenance: The Forgotten Variable

Planning for Municipally‐Owned Cemetery Preservation

Wright-Whitesell-Gentry Cemetery Excavation and Relocation

2009 Summer Internships at NCPTT

Geophysical Investigations of Historic Cemeteries: Results and Implications

Geophysical Testing and Grave Detection at the Nashville City Cemetery, Tennessee, USA

Thinking Outside the Fence: A Comprehensive Model for Historic Cemetery Management

Algal Populations on Military Gravestones and Possible Control by Biological Methods

Partnership studies environmentally friendly cleaner on historic monument

Resetting a Stone Grave Marker (2007-02)

New England Cemetery Monument Conservation Workshop

Interim Report on Commercially Available Cleaners for use on Federally issued Headstones