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
Ridge Street Oral History
Project
In 1995, with the assistance of more than twenty volunteers, Preservation Piedmont
interviewed residents and former residents who lived in the Ridge Street
neighborhood of Charlottesville,
Virginia. The oral histories
were published in the Ridge Street Oral History Project, a supplement to
the Ridge Street Historic District Survey. This architecturally significant
late nineteenth and early twentieth century African American neighborhood
was listed on the National and Virginia Landmarks Registers in 1981 but was
in need of local design controls to limit the destruction and alteration of
its architectural fabric. The oral history project offered the City of Charlottesville the
opportunity to better understand the area's demographic and physical
evolution and assist it with the neighborhood's designation as a Design
Control District. The project provided Charlottesville
officials with valuable information and rare insight into the
neighborhood's social and physical development.
The Albemarle-Charlottesville
Historical Society has copies of the document.
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