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
Jefferson School Oral History Project
In 2002, Preservation Piedmont applied for and received grants to conduct
oral histories with those persons associated with the Jefferson
School, Charlottesville's first African-American
high school. The oral histories were initiated in support National Register
of Historic Places documentation of the school building and were designed
to expand upon the historical information available about the school - to
make known the human and personal element of its role in the Charlottesville
community. The Oral History project culminated in the generation of 30
interviews, transcripts of which were turned over to the Albemarle
Charlottesville Historical Society and the University of Virginia, and the
2004 publication of a booklet entitled 'Jefferson School Oral History
Project,' a series of essays and historical studies as well as excerpts
from the interviews conducted on behalf of the project. Funding for this
project was provided by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the
American Architecture Foundation's Accent on Architecture Grant Program.
Project publication available at Albemarle-Charlottesville
Historical Society.
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