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Historic Buildings: Our Tangible Link to the Past

Program includes panel discussion & tours!

November 1, 2017 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

21c Museum Hotel | 111 North Corcoran Street | Durham, NC

6 HSW | Cost: $99

Historic buildings are our tangible links with the past. The Federal and State governments encourage the preservation of historic buildings through tax incentives that promote the rehabilitation of historic structures of every period, size, style, and type. They are instrumental in preserving the historic places that give cities, towns, neighborhoods, and rural areas their special character. Staff from the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (HPO) will give participants an overview of the historic tax credit program, and architects and developers for three exciting Downtown Durham projects will lead tours.

Program includes panel discussions and tours!

• HPO staff from the Survey and Planning Branch will discuss the National Register of Historic Places that is the prerequisite for the historic tax credit program.
• HPO Restoration Services Branch staff will review the basics of the historic tax credits. 
• We will tour two boutique hotels - the 21c Museum Hotel in the historic Hill Building and Unscripted in the mid-century Jack Tar Motor Lodge.
• We will also tour the Holland Brothers Furniture Building that is now the Durham location for Google.
• Architects and developers for these buildings will have a panel discussion on meeting and balancing the requirements for each new use and design building code and life safety as well as historic standards and guidelines.

Morning Panel Discussion: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

• Tim Simmons, Federal and State Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Programs
• Mitch Wilds, The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation
• Claudia Brown, The National Register of Historic Places
• Andrew Edmonds, Mapping North Carolina’s Historic Properties through GIS

Lunch: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Afternoon Panel and Tour: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Learning Objectives:

1. Upon completion of this program, participants will demonstrate knowledge of the HPOWEB, a web-based historic properties GIS mapping tool, and review information available in local architectural survey publications and nominations of properties and districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

2. Participants will distinguish appropriate rehabilitation and technical treatments as outlined in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.

3. Participants will effectively calculate the basics of the historic tax credits.

4. Participants will further demonstrate meeting and balancing the requirements for each new use and design, building code and life safety, and the historic standards and guidelines.
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