PROJECTS
Recent projects in which Preservation Piedmont has taken an active role
include (click link for a description of the project):
Ridge Street Oral History Project
Historic Jefferson School Recognitions
Jefferson School Oral History Project
Document Before Demolish Program
Recent Past Survey Grant Proposal
Preservation
Piedmont Community Preservation Grants Program
Historic Jefferson School Recognitions
In 2000 Preservation Piedmont responded to requests by the Jefferson School
Alumni to help in the preservation of Jefferson
School, which had been the first
high school for the African American citizens of Charlottesville, Virginia
when public schools were segregated by race. Preservation Piedmont Board
members conducted documentary research on the history of Jefferson School
and architecturally recorded it through photographs and drawings to provide
the initial documentation necessary for the City of Charlottesville to
begin the process of nominating the property to the Virginia Landmarks and
National Registers. Subsequently, the City hired a professional consultant
to prepare a National Register nomination that resulted in the 2006 listing
of the historic school. In addition Preservation Piedmont members were
active in the city’s Jefferson School Task Force process (2004) that
considered various re-use scenarios for Jefferson, and in efforts to secure
a Virginia Historical Highway Marker for Jefferson School
(2003). Preservation Piedmont along with the Jefferson School Alumni and
the City of Charlottesville
provided the funding for the installation of the marker at the intersection
of 4th and Commerce Streets.
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