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View the recording: Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Webinar

Hawai‘i Preservation in Practice Training Webinar: Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, in partnership with the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service, will offer a free webinar on utilizing heritage documentation tools to preserve historic places. Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. HST Cost: Free Virtual Webinar via ZOOM VIEW THE RECORDING Additional Resources Click on the image at left to view the Webinar slide deck. Heritage documentation is "indispensable, for the purposes of identification, protection, interpretation, and physical preservation of movable objects, historic buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural landscapes..." ~Documenting the cultural heritage, 1998, Getty Information Institute, Council of Europe, edited by Robin Thornes and John Bold The seminar provides training to members of the public, private or government sectors who own, manage, steward or are interested in preserving historic buildings, structures, objects, sites and districts.   Heritage Documentation as a Preservation Tool Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. This seminar has been approved for certificate maintenance credits through the American Planning Association (AICP) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). ABOUT THE COURSE The webinar will present an overview of heritage documentation and its role in protecting, preserving and sharing historic and cultural resources. Subject matter experts will present a variety of documentation tools and methods from simple to complex, and their potential uses, including Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS); research, mapping, laser scanning and more. Illustrative case studies of local projects will provide real life [...]

2024-02-29T10:17:51-10:00February 2nd, 2024|Categories: Events, Events - Home sidebar, Featured Homepage Top|

View the Recordings: 37th Annual Experts Historic Preservation Lecture Series

2024 Experts Lecture Series Explores Pioneers in Historic Preservation Wednesdays, January 31 to March 6, 2024     12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Virtual on Zoom Free, registration required (scroll down to register for individual lectures) The series, curated by Dr. Ralph T. Kam, executive director of Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, is sponsored by the Historic Preservation Graduate Certificate Program, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Architecture and Historic Hawai‘i Foundation. Expert presenters will lead us on a journey of exploration of six historic preservation pioneers in Hawai‘i describing their passions, visions, work and impact. Wednesday, January 31, 2024 12:00 to 1:00 PM Nancy Bannick Presenter:  Robin Lung, Documentary Filmmaker  Lecture one will highlight Nancy Bannick, a committed and tireless advocate for preserving architecturally significant and historically important buildings, as well as exceptional trees, landscapes and natural resources. Bannick is especially well known for her decades long fight to save Honolulu Chinatown, which was declared a historic district in 1973. VIEW THE  PRESENTATION RECORDING & NANCY BANNICK: SAVING HONOLULU'S CHINATOWN film below Wednesday, February 7, 2024 12:00 to 1:00 PM William J. Murtagh Presenter: William Chapman, Interim Dean, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, School of Architecture and Professor, American Studies William J. Murtagh was a founding member of the United States Committee of the International Council of Monuments and Sites, a historic preservation nongovernmental organization. He was first keeper of the National Register of Historic Places. He served as a faculty member at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. VIEW THE  PRESENTATION RECORDING Wednesday, February 14, 2024 [...]

2024-03-06T14:25:42-10:00January 9th, 2024|Categories: Events, Events - Home sidebar, Featured Homepage Top|Tags: |

View the recording: Historic Tax Credits Seminar

Tax Credits for Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings Seminar Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, in partnership with the Hawai‘i State Historic Preservation Division and Department of the Interior’s National Park Service, provided a seminar on the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program on December 5, 2023. VIEW THE RECORDING AND PRESENTATION BELOW. Additional Resources Click on the image at left to view the Seminar PowerPoint. The seminar provides training to historic property owners, developers, financiers, tax and accounting, real estate, architects, land use and planning professionals on the Historic Tax Credit programs available in the State of Hawai‘i and the use of federal historic tax credits to rehabilitate historic buildings.  Historic Tax Credits Seminar Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This seminar has been approved for 3 AIA/CES LU (AIA Honolulu is the registered provider) and submitted for certificate maintenance credits through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). BACKGROUND The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives (aka Historic Tax Credit) program encourages private sector investment in the rehabilitation and re-use of historic buildings. It creates jobs and is one of the nation’s most successful and cost-effective community revitalization programs. A 20% income tax credit is available for the rehabilitation of historic buildings that are determined to be “certified historic structures.” The buildings must be considered depreciable under the Internal Revenue Code, such as in a business, commercial, or other income-producing use. The State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) and the National Park Service (NPS) review the rehabilitation work to ensure that it complies with the Secretary of the Interior’s [...]

2024-01-04T09:45:40-10:00October 27th, 2023|Categories: Events, Events - Past|
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