BUILDING DOCTOR’ SEMINAR FOR OLD-BUILDING OWNERS IS AUGUST 25 IN MARIETTA

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The City of Marietta Development Department; Washington-Morgan County Community Action; Marietta Floodplain Management Historic Review Board; Marietta Development Advisory Board; and the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society will sponsor a seminar for old-building owners in the Marietta, Ohio, area on Thursday, August 25, 2005, from 7-9 p.m. at Lookout Park, 801 Lancaster St., Marietta.

The seminar features Building Doctors Judith L. Kitchen and Mark Epstein of the Ohio Historical Society’s Ohio Historic Preservation Office.
Open to all old-building owners in the area, the seminar will feature guidelines for renovation projects and ways to solve some of the most common problems of buildings dating from 1788 to 1955.

The seminar is free, but advance registration is required. To register, call toll free 1-800-499-2470 or visit www.building-doctor.org. For more information call Tom Kunz of Marietta at (740) 373-9354 or e-mail tomkunz@mariettaoh.net.

Kitchen holds degrees in architecture, architectural history, and business administration from the University of Virginia and The Ohio State University. As technical preservation services manager for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, she reviews applications for a federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit and provides design assistance to Ohio’s Main Street communities. An adjunct professor of architecture at Ohio State, she teaches American architectural history and historic preservation and has written extensively on rehabilitating old and historic buildings, including the Old-Building Owner’s Manual (Ohio Historical Society, 1983) and Caring for Your Old House (The Preservation Press, 1991).

Epstein heads the Resource Protection and Review Department of the Ohio Historic Preservation Office. He has served as assistant to the German Village Commission in Columbus, and as assistant editor for the Journal of Planning Literature.

The Building Doctor program is made possible in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society. Each seminar is made possible by support from local cosponsors, as well.

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office is Ohio’s official historic preservation agency. A part of the Ohio Historical Society, it identifies historic places in Ohio, nominates properties to the National Register of Historic Places, reviews federally-assisted projects for effects on historic, architectural, and archaeological resources in Ohio, consults on the conservation of older buildings and sites, and offers educational programs and publications.

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	Contact
	Tom Wolf, Public Education Manager, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, (614) 298-2000, or via e-mail: twolf@ohiohistory.org