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Education
Project of the Year
Preservation Summer at SIU
Carbondale

“Preservation Summer” is an interdisciplinary, community-oriented class for graduate and undergraduate students in architecture and history. Each summer a different hands-on history and/or preservation project is completed by the students and local residents who are designated as “community listeners.” The projects have ranged from extensive research tracing Lewis and Clark in southern Illinois to the hands-on rehabilitation of a shotgun-style house in Cairo. The professors have funded the projects through a Colorado-based organization, Adventures in Preservation (formerly Heritage Conservation Network), as well as two grants from Landmarks Illinois for projects in Jonesboro and Cairo. The classes have resulted in extensive research of southern Illinois that would not have been completed otherwise. Their ongoing work in Cairo has been one of the few successes in this economically depressed city for many years. Southern Illinois University has only provided limited funding for this course and the instructors have been working without pay for the past few years.

Photo credits: Robert Swanson

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