Nathan's Work notes
Nice idea for Community Heritage Site
http://www.historicflorence.org/home.htm
http://www.volunteermatch.org/results/org_detail.jsp?orgid=77353
Need someone to do scanning
-- DPI
-- Reductions
-- Owner
-- Size
-- Description
-- Catalog Number
Fremont Antique Car Club's
http://www.fremontantiquecarclub.com/
Demolition Delay Ordinance
http://cttrust.org/index.cgi/1049
http://www.wakefieldma.org/demolition.html
Kansas preservation Alliance, Inc
http://www.kpalliance.org/index.htm
Historic Restoration Contractors
Schtiller & Plevy
Sale Barn -- David Petersen Fall of 1962
Landmarks Brochure (Seven Wonders of Blair)
BHAP Advisory Board. (Round Table Commission) -- Made up of interested,
prominent city leaders. Meeting only ONE TIME per year with Board. Maybe a
dinner meeting. Main purpose is to ask for advise on our direction, projects,
etc. They would be GREAT community advocates and a way to get some heavy hitters
involved in our group. They would review our annual report before the meeting.
They will not want to invest much time -- they just want the "Honor"
position and the opportunity to throw around ideas (and hopefully money.)
Blair History - This is where our story is told!
Blair History - Gives Quality to our Lives!
Blair Action was held March 10, 1869 (2009 it will be on a Tuesday - 140
years)
Announce New Members to Core Group as the come in.
Photo Database (catalog photos)
Rename DWT on Shared Drive
Depot Fund - check with Louie & Ed
Historic Homes - Sectors
Resource list
Image Library Policy
-- Properly Identified
-- Properly attributed to creator and/or collection
Richard Hunt as a video tape he made while driving around town with Ralph Steyer.
Sell old Coke jugs from Depot on Ebay
Send Request for Volunteers to Members
Send note to board about core@blairhistory
Requested to be listed on http://www.huntel.net/Community/BACF/wish_list.htm
Create Train Model of the 1880 Depot
Find Membership Coordinator for 2010
Blair Tour Guides
Send Board Minutes to general membership
Wooden Nickels & Door Hangers
KellyRyan Archive
April Fools Quiz, IOOF Members tour, annual report newsletter, Election of
Officers, landmarks, brochures, Lincoln Highway Brochure. Blair Family Papers,
Rhoades Collection; Dana College Brochure
Photo use policy
Tom Sick - Harman Family (City Plat of Fontenelle)
Need to find a safe and permanent Archive for Collection
Digitalize book resources - online
Research Subjects (need research program outline)
Keeley Institute (find Keeley Institute Ads)
Blair Horse Collar Company
Kline Painting (If we did this well. . . . ) timeline, documentation
(photograph)
Mindy:
Harvest Potential Sponsors (follow up in May)
Ask board members to approach two new sponsors this summer (give each a
calendar)
Job Description for Calendar Coordinator
Prepare end of project report of Calendar Sales/Disbursement & Sponsorship
Sales
Maintain Sponsor Database: Harvest potential clients from fliers, newspapers,
etc.; update contract information, monitor contacts who wish not to be
contacted.
Prepare and send solicitation letters
Posters for Retail Sales
Ad for Retail Sales
Retail Sales Locations -- Coordinate supply and payments
method to receive and record sponsorship income
Job Description for Membership Coordinator
Must: Annual Membership Champaign (according to pattern - develop, send, etc.)
Send Members Letters, send reminder letters, send thank you notes
maintain accurate and up-to-date membership roaster
Deliver membership monies to Treasure (with depot report)
Provide membership Report in Annual Report in May
Add names to email lists
Helpful to have skills in:
MS Word: (sending thank you letters)
sending, mail merge letters
Maintain Membership Database via Online web Interface
Daily access to Post Office Box during Membership drive time.
Nebraska State Historical Society
Forgotten Cobblestone
Streets
New York City still retains many of its bricked and
cobblestoned streets, many of which date back to early in the twentieth Century,
when horses and carriages ruled the streets instead of automobiles
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/COBBLESTONES/Cobblestones%20home%20page/cobble.html
Local History Resource Area Example:
Loveland, Colorado
From Denver International Airport
Fence line
Artifact
by Sherry Wiggins / Buster Simpson
“Fence line Artifact” intersects the DIA landscape with the memory of its
recent history. The materials used to establish this 1,000-foot linear gesture
include installed fence, fossil rocks from the excavation of the site, native
cottonwood trees and historic artifacts. These artifacts are primarily
agricultural implements collected and purchased from farmers who were relocated
by the building of the airport. Porcelain enamel signs contain maps of the
farmsteads, and birdhouses architecturally replicate some of the farmhouses that
once existed at the site.
Plattsmouth High School
Published Thursday December 30, 2004 WORLD-HERALD
An investment group headed by Beryle Johnston, a retired La Vista resident,
bought the building in 2002 but did not secure a multimillion-dollar bank
loan to renovate the building into a 30-unit apartment complex, as
envisioned.
This month, the investors obtained a demolition permit. The permit called
for razing to commence once the first snowfall arrived.
How was a demolition permit
obtained?
The mild weather gave city historic preservationists several weeks to find a
last-minute buyer.
What did the preservationists do to find a buyer?
Wolkins, a Tabor, Iowa, native, said he entered negotiations with city
leaders about two weeks ago. He is developing the Raven's Nest subdivision
at 96th and Bay Road, about 1.5 miles east of Cedar Creek, Neb. About a
dozen homes are occupied. Plans call for 57 lots on 254 acres.
"Oh, what a shame it would have been to lose it," said Beverly Hirz, a 1956
graduate and a City Planning Commission member. "This is wonderful. I was
hoping somebody would come forward. Why not make it into a travel lodge or
bed and breakfast?"
Wolkins, 67, said he will probably conduct a feasibility study to determine
the best use for the old school. Some city leaders agree with Hirz that a
hotel would be welcome.
Everyday, irreplaceable historic resources in Idaho are permanently lost
as a result of neglect, demolition, drastic renovation or encroaching
development.
In an effort to unify preservation efforts across the state, and to
ensure the
protected longevity of these cultural elements that we hold so dear,
Preservation Idaho, the Idaho Historic Preservation Council has
developed
the Idaho’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Sites list. Properties
successfully
admitted to the list will include both buildings and sites that are
currently
being threatened in any of the above ways.
These properties will be the focus of an aggressive campaign to solicit
public support and funding for saving the building. In addition to promotional
materials, they will be included on a web page on the Preservation
Idaho web site, which will also be linked from the National Trust for Historic
Preservation
web site -- drawing both local and national attention to the effort to
preserve the sites.
http://www.preservationidaho.org/programs/oo.html
A Negro ran for the office of Mayor of Blair, Nebraska, in 1881. Although he was
defeated he received seventy-five votes.
http://www.memoriallibrary.com/NE/Ethnic/Negro/politics.htm
Photo of car NSHS, RG1073 S6
F2 B1.
Richardson [County?] car ready for [a suffrage] parade. Blair, Nebraska, July,
1914. Source -
Einar Vig. Information compiled by Einar Vig from local Blair newspapers about
the men of Blair. Originals are on file in the archives of Dana College.
Notes from a visit to Washington County Historical Association
Feb. 1, 2003
The 1908 Plat book was reproduced in a large format photocopy bound
book by the Washington County Historical Association Women's Guild in
2002. A copy of it is available at the WCHA library. The library
also has 5-8 original 1908 Plat books -- none are which are in good
condition.
There are at least two or three 1920 Plat books in the library
There are at least two 1894 plat books in the library.
In a 1960's (black place bound) plat book there was a photo a reference
to a cheese factory.
"Old Blair cheese factory built in 1886. Was operated in the
1880's by Henry Kaiser, Wm. Frost, Chas. Delo, Diram Conover, Niels
Christiansen, & J.H. Hungate. Purchased in 1877 by John Hansen who
made it into a barn. Located on the Clarence W. Hansen farm.
There are a number of scrape books with photos and news clipping about
civic improvements and quality of live in Blair.
1/15/03 -- Ann George located cassette audio tapes
by Niel Johnson in the Dana College archive. Some are interviews related to Dana
(Bansen, the Nyholms, etc.), but others are labeled "local history." This
latter group includes interviews with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lundt, Pierce Allen (Niel
identifies him as a resident of Ft. Calhoun), Al Sick, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Guyer,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lippincott, Edith Neale (also Ft. Calhoun), Seymour Smith,
Marcus Beck, Clem Vig, and Roy Brown.
The House on the south west corner of 20th & Front
streets is a Sears Kit House. Source: Richard Hunt interview
with Nathan Kramer. January 2003
Richard Hunt as a video tape he made
while driving around town with Ralph Steyer.
Notes from Ann George 11/3/02
Dorothy Wright asked this morning in the Archive whether the "Dexterville
houses" were on the list. Those must be along Nebraska? She talked about their
colorful paint jobs.
I also had lunch with Sharon Jensen and others and had a
chance to ask Sharon on our way back to the library about their house and
whether she'd like to have it on the list. She said yes. Their house was built
in the 1890s, she said, and still has many of its original interior features
(although the exterior was originally wood, it was soon stuccoed). Sharon said
that at one time a chiropractor lived in it and had his practice there as well.
Apparently he also delivered babies, because someone once told Tim and Sharon
that he had been delivered in that house.
Sharon Jensen, by the way, says that they have an
old photo of their house as well. Ann
Research
Russell Musick Home 1556 Grant
426-3842
Krogh Houses -- south east part of town -- one house might be were
Berneta Beck lives
Marshall Nelson -- June 2005 sent and email with
several identifications of downtown business.
Marshall is the son of _________ Nelson, of Nelson Brother's Clothing (Microsmart
printing building)
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