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2008 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School
***The 2008 Pacific Northwest Field School was a great success! Please check back soon for information on the 2009 Pacific Northwest Field School.*** The 2008 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School will take place at Cape Disappointment State Park and Fort Columbia State Park located on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State. The location offers students a chance to work with the North Head Lighthouse (built in 1897-8) as well as the historic homes, bunkhouses and military battlements of Fort Columbia State Park. From the five foot long sandstone blocks that make up the base of North Head Lighthouse to the historic interior wood finish and slate roof of Officer’s Row to the iron hardware on the battlements, this year’s field school offers a wide variety of materials and architectural diversity for students to study. The diversity of materials will afford students the opportunity to learn a wide range of preservation and restoration techniques from master preservation craftspeople, professionals working in the field and university professors.
History of Cape Disappointment and Fort Columbia Formerly known as Fort Canby State Park, Cape Disappointment is home to the oldest working lighthouse on the west coast. Constructed in 1856, the lighthouse at Cape Disappointment originally served to deter ships from the dangerous Columbia river bar, commonly referred to as “the graveyard of the Pacific.” Yet, Cape Disappointment first earned its name in 1788 when English Captain John Meares failed to find the Columbia River in the area. As a result, he designated the nearby headland “Cape Disappointment.”
Visitors to Cape Disappointment State Park will enjoy its history. Not only did American Captain Robert Gray cross the river bar with success in 1792, but he also named the river “Columbia” in honor of his ship, the Columbia Redivivia. In 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition came to Cape Disappointment. From 1875 to shortly after World War II, the area functioned as a military fort. Only ten miles away, Fort Columbia is a historical park. With 593-acres and 6,400 feet of freshwater shoreline on the Columbia River, the park invites visitors to explore the land’s past. The area served as the home for the Chinook Indians and the legendary Chief Comcomly. From 1896-1947, the site functioned militarily as the initial harbor defense of the Columbia River. Through three wars, the fort remained operational.
Field School Faculty Sessions will be led by one or more professionals specializing in the techniques and materials involved. Faculty come from across the Northwest and participate, as well as teach, in the Field School. Past faculty at The Pacific Northwest Field School have come from the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Department of Parks & Recreation, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, Washington State Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation, and the professional community. The following is a preliminary list of the primary instructors for the Field School:
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. Contact Information Historic Preservation Program 2008 Application For more information: |
   
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Donald Peting is the founding Director of the PNW Preservation Field School summer programs and an Emeritus Architecture Professor at the University of Oregon. Still teaching part time, his responsibilities include architectural design, preservation technology, and structures. He maintains a consulting practice that focuses on historic architecture and his research interests include historic building technologies, watermills, windmills, and seismic retro-fitting of historic structures.
John Platz is a restoration carpenter specializing in teaching traditional tool usage, preservation venues, wood conservation, furniture construction and restoration, timber-frame, log and dimensional material construction. He has combined his engineering background with forty plus years of building construction, furniture construction and structure preservation as co-owner of Pilgrim’s Progress Preservation Services. Before retiring from the U.S. Forest Service, Platz was awarded master performer designation in architecture, civil engineering and historic preservation. While in the Forest Service, he organized and managed the first USFS national preservation team, which in turn won the Oregon Governor's Award for excellence in preservation training and craft. John has served as the hands-on craft instructor for the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School in all but two years since the program has existed and was a co-organizer of the first PNWFS.
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.
Michael Hayden has worked as a mason for more than 27 years and has experience with brick, cinder block and various kinds of stone, both natural (his favorite) and synthetic. He worked on the restoration of the charcoal kilns in Gilmore, Idaho and on the historic Stanrod House here in Pocatello. Hayden spent 5 weeks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon helping with the construction of the stone waste treatment facility at Bright Angel Campground and more than a year during the 1990's working on a 21,000 square foot stone structure in the Jackson Hole area as well as many more projects both large and small. He is looking forward to helping at the Pacific Northwest Field School.
Leland Roth is an Architectural History Proffessor 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.