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2010 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School
The Pacific Northwest Field School will take place in Boise, Idaho at The Old Idaho State Penitentiary. All five weeks of field school will be dedicated to this site. Restoration projects will include masonry, window restoration, wood restoration, structural stabilization, metal work. Landscape and archeology will be addressed through lectures.
Week One – August 8th-13th
Each week will include: Masonry, Wood (Doors & Windows) and Metals Application: Applications received before May 15, 2009 will be given priority consideration. Please mail your completed application to: Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School Click here to download the Application for the 2010 PNWFS
 The Old Idaho Penitentiary – Boise, Idaho Field School Faculty The following is a preliminary list of the primary instructors for the Field School:
Leland Roth is an Architectural History Professor at the University of Oregon. Books authored include: A Concise History of American Architecture, American Architecture: A History, and McKim, Mead & White, Architects. Professor Roth is also the editor of America Builds and co-editor of Architecture in Colonial America.
Fred Walters is an award winning historical architect and architectural conservator in Cambridge, Idaho. He holds architecture licenses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. His work includes building condition assessment and evaluation of over 240 buildings, as well as design and construction services for a wide variety of preservation projects. Walters has been an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon, teaching courses in Preservation Technology and Condition Assessments. He has been an active member of the field school since 1999. Other past faculty at the Field School have come from the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and the professional community. Historic Preservation Program
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Shannon Bell is a co-director of the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School, an adjunct Historic Preservation professor at the University of Oregon, and a consultant in historic architecture. She maintains a consulting practice that focuses on historic architecture and her research interests include, preservation technologies and box construction in the Pacific Northwest. Shannon, a graduate from both the University of Oregon's Architecture and Historic Preservation program, currently teaches a field recordation, condition assessment, and HABS sequence for the University of Oregon’s historic preservation program.
Donald Peting, Emeritus Architecture and HP faculty, is the founder of the Preservation Field Schools and is currently serving with Professor Bell as co-director of the summer program here in the Northwest. He is occasionally teaching part time in such areas as architectural design, preservation technology, and historic structures. He is an historical architect and maintains a consulting practice that focuses on 19th and early 20th century architecture and his research interests include traditional building technologies, early powered mills, and seismic retro-fitting of historic structures. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome since 1978. In 2005, the National Council for Preservation Education honored his educational career with their James Marston Fitch lifetime achievement award.
John Platz has been actively involved with the Pacific Northwest Field School since its inception in 1995, initially as the leader of the Heritage Structures Team of the U.S. Forest Service of the Mount Hood National Forest, a preservation team he formed over 20 years ago. His skill at the use of traditional carpentry, particularly in timber framing, log construction, and 19th century building technology, was responsible for the early success of the Field School. Over ten years ago, he established Pilgrims Progress Preservation Services, a highly regarded professional practice doing significant preservation work throughout the west. In addition to teaching in the field school each summer, he has been involved in a number of HP courses during the school year, most recently the construction of a French Canadian trapper’s cabin at Kanaka Village at Fort Vancouver. He is a highly respected teacher, craftsperson and mentor of many of preservationist in the Pacific Northwest.
Amy McCauley is the owner of Oculus Fine Carpentry, Inc., a window and door specialty business. She has been working in construction for the past 13 years in the Portland-Metro area, six of them devoted to developing Oculus. Her emphasis is in working with traditional tools and techniques; some of her notable projects include the Pioneer Courthouse, A.T. Smith House, Delaney-Edwards House, Virgil Crum House and the Gardener’s House at Shore Acres State Park.
