Archived Presentations

Preserving Historic Places 2024

For session titles and descriptions to correspond with the resources below, view the 2024 Conference Agenda.

Slide Presentations & Resources

Building Grassroots Capacity to Uncover and Document Black Heritage
Eunice Trotter, Black Heritage Preservation Program Director, Indiana Landmarks; Connie Haas-Zuber, Retired Executive Director, ARCH, Inc.; and Roberta Ridley, Chair, Fort Wayne Black Heritage Preservation Program

Experiential Preservation: Leveraging Student Learning for Historic Preservation
J. P. Hall, Associate Professor of Historic Preservation, Ball State University; and Abigail Chapman, Outreach and Organization Manager, Indiana Main Street, Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs

Historic Dam Documentation and Removal: Lessons Learned from the Field
James L. Ingermann Heimlich, Historian/Archaeologist, Ecosystems Connections Institute; and Cathy Draeger-Williams, Archaeologist, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology

National Historic Landmarks: A Guide for Property Owners
David Calease, Architectural Historian, National Park Service Midwest Regional Office

PACE Yourself: Madison’s Rehabilitation Grant Program
Honorable Bob Courtney, Mayor, City of Madison; and Tony Steinhardt, III, Director of Economic Development, City of Madison

The Process of Preservation: Navigating Repair Projects and Limiting Risk
Logan Cook, PE, Unit Manager and Associate Principal, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc; and Seth Lindley, PE, Associate III, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Strategies for Successful Streetscape Projects
Kate Schwenk, Director, Heart of Jasper; and Darla Blazey, Director of Administration and Strategic Initiatives at the Eskenazi Museum of Art and Heart of Jasper board member

The Design Legacy of Hanover College
Megan Phillippe, AIA, Assistant Teaching Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Ball State University; Ken Prince, Retired Registrar and Associate Professor of English/Theatre, Hanover College; and Jennifer Duplaga, Archives and Public Services Librarian, Hanover College

Using Augmented and Virtual Reality for Community Engagement
Rachel Sharkey, Director of Public Archaeology, Archaeological Research Institute; Sammy Norris, Director of Programming, Archaeological Research Institute; Hilary Fleck, Curator, Monroe County History Center; and Jenny Johnson, Director of Operations, ZNYTH Technologies

In memory of John E. Galvin, 1937-2024
John Staicer, President and Executive Director, Historic Madison, Inc.

Preserving Historic Places 2023

For session titles and descriptions to correspond with the resources below, view the 2023 Conference Agenda.

Slide Presentations & Resources

Section 106 Training
Cathy Draeger-Williams, Toni Giffin, and Holly Tate, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology
Intro and Basics
Documentation and Submission Guidelines
SHAARD and IHBBC Maps
National Register

Anatomy of a Main Street Building
Abby Huff, Indiana Main Street Senior Program Manager, Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affair
Building Inventory Form

Cracking Open the Problems in Modernist Masonry at First Christian Church
Anne Schneider, Preservation Specialist, RATIO; Louis Joyner, Principal, Louis Joyner Architect; and Scott Drake, Historic Preservation Specialist, ARSEE Engineer

He Built This City: The Muncie Architecture of Cuno Kibele
Cody Sprunger, Archivist for Architectural and Design Records, Andrew Seager Archives of the Built Environment, Ball State University; Melissa Gentry, Supervisor, GIS Research and Map Collection, Ball State University; and Sara McKinley, Local History and Genealogy Supervisor, Muncie Public Library

Hit the Trail: Offering Art and History Along Gary’s Fitness Trail
David W. Wright, Planning and Marketing Manager, Gary Public Transportation Corporation; and Erin Sherrow-Hayse, Nutrition Education Program Community Wellness Coordinator, Purdue University Extension

Investing in Historic Neighborhoods through Housing Collaborations
Jena Ashby, Director, 8twelve Coalition; and Jonathan Spodek, Professor of Architecture, Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Ball State University

Exploring Indiana’s Industrial Archaeology
A.J. Ariens, Forest Archaeologist, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry; Matthew Pike, Archaeologist, Stantec; and Brandy Hayes-Manning, former Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology intern and Indiana University-Kokomo student
Archaeological Investigations at the Starbuck Farmstead and Redware Kilns
Behind the Kiln

The Future of Historic Preservation Education
Jonathan Spodek, Professor of Architecture, Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Ball State University; Anne Sullivan, John H. Bryan endowed Chair of Historic Preservation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Douglas Appler, Chair of Historic Preservation, University of Kentucky

Preservation and the Public Process: Getting Creative with Section 106 Mitigation
Haley Brinker, Historian, Cultural Resources Office, Indiana Department of Transportation; Greg Sekula, Southern Regional Office Director, Indiana Landmarks; and Patrick Carpenter, Environmental Protection Specialist, Federal Highway Administration, Indiana Division
Case Studies
Consulting Parties and Mitigation

Uncovering Hidden Histories: A Toolbox for Telling a More Complete, Inclusive Story
Eunice Trotter, Black Heritage Preservation Program Director, Indiana Landmarks; Hillary Delaney, Lead Researcher, African American History Initiatives, Boone County (Kentucky) Borderlands Archive & History Center; and Jarrad Holbrook, Board Member, Cincinnati Pride

Re-envisioning Downtown through Façade Grants
Gretchen Cheesman, Director of Community Development, City of Muncie; Bill Morgan, President, Morgan Roemmel Design; and Krista Linke, Community Development Director, City of Franklin and Director, Franklin Development Corporation
Downtown Facade Programs
Muncie Downtown Facade Grants

Sharing the Gospel: Historic Preservation as an Economic Development Tool
Kelly Humrichouser, Director of Government Relations, Main Street America

A Century of Signs
Tod Swormstedt, Founder American Sign Museum

Preserving Historic Places 2022

For session titles and descriptions to correspond with the resources below, view the 2022 Conference Agenda.

Historic Preservation and Sustainability: The New Partnership
Full recording of September 30, 2022 Plenary Session
Moderator: Eric Sandweiss, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History, Department of History, Indiana University
Speaker: Steven Semes, Director of the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability, University of Notre Dame