Giving Preservation a History

Max Page is an Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and co-author with Steven Conn of Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). Randall Mason is an Assistant Professor in the Planning School and the Director of the Graduate Program in Preservation at the University of Maryland.

I. Introduction: Rethinking the Roots of the Historic Preservation Movement, Max Page and Randy Mason II. Origin Stories: Finding the Roots of Historic Preservation in the United States 1. The Heritage Crusade and Its Contradictions, David Lowenthal 2. On Cults and Cultists: German Historic Preservation in the Twentieth Century, Rudy Koshar III. The Many Movements for Preservation in the United States in the Twentieth Century 3. Roots in Boston, Branches in Parks and Planning, Michael Holleran 4. "A Spirit That Fires the Imagination": Historic Preservation and Cultural Regeneration in Virginia and New England, 1850-1950, James Lindgren 5. Historic Preservation, Public Memory, and the Making of Modern New York City, Randall Mason 6. Marketing the Past: Historic Preservation in Providence, Rhode Island, Briann Greenfield 7. Place Over Time: Restoration and Revivalism in Santa Fe, Chris Wilson 8. Chicago's Mecca Flat Blues, Daniel Bluestone 9. Ancestral Architecture: The Early Preservation Movement in Charleston, Robert R. Weyeneth 10. Making History: Historical Preservation and Civic Identity in Denver, Judy Mattavi Morley IV. Conclusion: Moving Forward: Futures for a Preservation Movement, Ned Kaufman