Graduate Projects (2006 – 2008)

This folder contains projects from the classes I took in Architectural History, Historic Preservation, and Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia.

“Final WB Gbook selections” contains pages from the result of a year-long study of the Watts Branch area of Washington, D.C., by the Historic Preservation Certificate students in ARH 592: Community History Workshop and ARH 594: Community Public History Fall 2006/Spring 2007. Community History is the idea that every community has history worth preserving. Over the course of the year, the seven students in this workshop researched the various Neighborhoods of Watts Branch and produced a guidebook. I was responsible for researching and writing the pages on Nannie Helen Burroughs School, Lincoln Heights, Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue, Fire Station 27 and Miss Charlottes’s Crabcakes (in Tours 2, 3, and 5, included in the selections). I was also responsible for laying out Tours 1 – 3 with InDesign. Out of my research for this class grew my decision for my Architectural History Master’s thesis to be an analysis of the campus for the National Training School for Women and Girls. Final WB GBook selections

“Scottish Landscapes” is a paper on the “Invented Landscape Traditions of Post-Union Scotland”, written for a course on the Invented Traditions of Medieval Norman Visual Culture. The assignment was to apply the theory of Invented Traditions to another culture and time, and for that I returned to a subject that first sparked my interest in Fall 2004 while studying at the University of Edinburgh. Scottish Landscapes

“Lowertown” is an analysis of the work the Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation (LRC) has done in St. Paul, Minnesota. LRC was begun in the 1970’s to revitalize an area of downtown St. Paul without destroying the existing building fabric or losing the existing population of artists squatting in the area’s abandoned warehouses. Lowertown

“LinkagesStrategies” was one of my contributions to an applied planning course in which we wrote a Green Infrastructure plan for the City of Lynchburg. My team focused on trails and cultural assets. I created this poster for a public meeting at which we were soliciting feedback on our plan and implementation strategies. I also researched Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles, and was able to draw upon what I had learned about Watts Branch Park in my earlier Community History course. linkagestrategiesLynchburg

“Thesis” is, of course, my master’s thesis, “Designing a Campus for African-American Females: The National Training School for Women and Girls 1907 – 1964”. Pages 1-79 are all the text and appendices, while pages 80-132 are the images. Thesis Pages 1-79 Thesis Pages 80-132

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