The Boston Experience: A Manual for Historic Burying Grounds Preservation

Name/Title

The Boston Experience: A Manual for Historic Burying Grounds Preservation

Entry/Object ID

2015.002.013

Description

Manual adapted from materials produced by the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative of the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department, Contents: The Boston experience -- History -- Summary notes on this manual -- A "shopping list" approach to planning -- Developing a preservation philosophy -- Developing a preservation action strategy -- Grave marker inventory and analysis (Boston inventory project, methodology, preservation priorities) -- Master plan (gravestone conservation, site rehabilitation issues, management and maintenance) -- Implementation (contracting, phasing, fundraising, stewardship) -- Appendices (general glossary, bibliography, photographic inventory methodology, fragment collection methodology, "Friends" statements of purpose) v, 76, [12] p. ; 28 cm. (unbound)

Collection

Pamphlets, Guidebooks, Reports, Theses/Dissertations

Acquisition

Accession

2015.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2015)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Cultural property--Protection--Massachusetts--Boston, Cemeteries--Massachusetts--Boston--Conservation and restoration, Sepulchral monuments--Massachusetts--Boston--Conservation and restoration, Boston (Mass.)--Antiquities--Conservation and restoration

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Other Number

Other Number

P415

Book Details

Edition

2nd ed.

Publisher

Boston Parks and Recreation Dept.

Place Published

City

Boston

Location

Massachusetts

Country

United States of America

Date Published

1989

Call No.

F73.61 .B68 1989

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Shelf

Books-Pamphlets

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: Written/edited by Rosanne Atwood, Center for Preservation Research of Columbia University, Jeffrey Kelly, Ellen Lipsey, William Pressley and Associates, Structural Technology Inc. "August, 1989"--T.p. "Historic Burying Grounds Initiative"--T.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [78]).

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

January 13, 2015

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

October 25, 2023