Planning for Exterior Work on the First Parish Church: Using Photographs as Project Documentation
Hecker JC and Doughty SW. 1979. Planning for Exterior Work on the First Parish Church: Using Photographs as Project Documentation. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services. Washington, DC
The preliminary survey of the First Parish Church, Portland, Maine, represents a carefully organized, well-presented plan for proposed project work, and the publication of this case study aims to emphasize this planning process. In the following two-part planning component, John C. Hecker, AIA, formerly an architect for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and then employed by David M. Hart & Associates, Boston, Massachusetts, has selected "annotated photographs" as the most appropriate method of documenting several problem areas requiring restoration and stabilization work for use in his report, "A Preliminary Survey of the Building." His photographic documentation has provided a basis for Sylvanus W Doughty, Architect, Maineform Architecture—together with his own independent investigation of the instructure—to write specifications that serve to corroborate the determination of work item priorities in Mr. Hecker’s photographic survey. It will be seen in the report that for each area of project work recommended by Mr. Hecker (Part 1), Mr. Doughty has responded by providing clearly-written, technically-sound architectural specifications (Part 2). The report demonstrates that documentation of both project planning and actual project work accomplished with grant funds are essential so that others may be able to adequately assess the future construction and/or maintenance needs of the historic property.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hecker, John; Doughty, Sylvanes
- Date of Issue
- 1979
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services
- Units
- CRPS
- Keywords
- case study, documentation, First Parish Church, historic preservation project documentation, project planning, TPS