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Recording and
Rescuing Historic Southern Architecture
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Your support is crucial for SHP to continue. Please join as a family
member or higher and receive SHP's twelve page booklet Homage to the
Undwelled as a complimentary gift.
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• Latest News and Updates •
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Six Easy Ways to Support SHP
- Purchase photographs from SHP's exhibition series or catalogue. The archival 11x14 inch photographs are hand-printed, numbered, and signed by Gaston Callum. Prints start at $275 dollars.
- Partners receive a complimentary b&w photograph for joining SHP at the $250. level. Sponsors receive a collection of six photographs for $1,000. Join Here
- Purchase and save a historic property from SHP's Reclamation Fund.
- Hire SHP for consultation services about restorable properties.
- Purchase recovered historic fabric from SHP. Early components are sold in lots (sorry, no cherry-picking). Each lot comes with a history and photos of the fabric's original installation.
- Contribute a tax-deductible contribution to SHP and keep the South's Only Preservation Organization Working For You. Donate Here
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Update: Endangered NC Architecture Book
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A lot of folks have been inquiring as to when SHP's first book is ever
coming out? Well, the good news is that the photography for the volume
is completed. It consists of medium format b&w photographs illustrating
200 of North Carolina's most endangered early farmhouses. The ancient
farmsteads are thoroughly recorded in rural settings across the state,
reminiscent of Francis Johnston's haunting photographs of vacant
plantation homes in her celebrated book, The Early Architecture of
North Carolina published in 1948.
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Bellamy House 1859-61
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SHP Stabilizes Early NC House
In August 2007 SHP completed stabilization of the ca. 1802 James
Middleton House in Eastern North Carolina. The effort demonstrates the
importance for organized preservation to enact a hands-on approach
regarding endangered historic houses before we lose them to abandonment
and neglect.
Video Clips:
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Documenting the Deep South
In August of '06 documentary photographer Gaston Callum journeyed to the heart of the Deep South to photograph some of the region's most endangered historic buildings. Over a three week period fifty-two antebellum plantation houses, quarters, and churchs were recorded by Callum from South Carolina to Louisiana. The endangered status of these buildings results from the fact that . . .
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Abandoned c. 1840 church, Alabama
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Before and After . . . SHP's stabilization efforts in 2006
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Blalock House Aug. '06 |
Blalock House Nov. '06 |
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Carter House Mar. '05 |
Carter House Jan. '06 |
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Endangered House Reclamation Fund
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It's been said that historic preservation is the ultimate form of recycling. It's true, take into consideration the scores of old-growth trees that would have been necessary to construct just one timber frame house. Every time we lose one of these buildings to decay, demolition, or fire, the magnificent wood that was derived from America's primordial forests is being lost to us forever. Plus, factor in the huge number of human man hours required by both blacks and whites to construct each one of these houses, as they felled the great trees and shaped each one by hand using time honored skill and determination that makes early Southern architecture what it is ... worth saving.
Purchase a Reclamation Fund house »
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Ruffin House 1815, NC |
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