ONLINE: Underrepresented Communties Historic Resources Survey

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City of Madison preservation planner Heather Bailey.

For some 200 years historic preservation has focused on architecturally significant buildings belonging to rich white people or governments. As part of Madison’s city-wide historic preservation plan, adopted in May, the city conducted a survey of significant historic properties and sites associated with other communities, including African Americans, First Nations, Hmong, Latinos and Latinas, women and LGBTQ people. In part one of this two-part online series, Heather Bailey, the city’s preservation planner, will speak about the 96 historic properties that have been identified. Registration is required; once registered, you will receive a Zoom link by email. Part two of the series features Jason Tish, architecture historian, who will focus on places associated with queer history and women’s history (7 pm, July 22, RSVP here).

press release: The city of Madison recently completed the Underrepresented Communities Historic Resources Survey to serve as a foundation piece for its city-wide Historic Preservation Plan. The survey gathered histories related to historic sites associated with African Americans, First Nations, Latino/a, Hmong, Women, and LGBTQ communities. The survey identified 96 historic properties associated with these communities.

During the first two centuries of historic preservation legislation in the US, policies and efforts heavily emphasized the histories of people who could afford to build architecturally acclaimed buildings - wealthy, powerful, white men. In the late-nineteenth century, historic ruins of Native American cultures benefited from the protection of new federal legislation. Beginning in the 1980s, new social histories began to change how (and where) we saw historic places. In recent years, preservation policies at all levels have shifted attention to people and communities whose histories have been neglected. The City of Madison's first city-wide Historic Preservation Plan was adopted in May of this year. Part of the Plan is intended to remedy the deficiencies of past planning efforts by presenting the histories of six underrepresented communities in Madison.

In Part 1 of our series, Preservation Planner Heather Bailey will speak about a number of the properties they identified related to Madison’s African-American, Latino, and Hmong communities.

Link to the Underrepresented Communities Historic Resources Survey

Heather Bailey is Madison's preservation planner where she not only evaluates how well an historic building meets the city's ordinances, but she she also advocates for historic resources and telling the stories of a community. Before moving to Madison, she managed Durango, Colorado's preservation program after earning a Ph.D. focused in public history with an emphasis in historic preservation and heritage tourism. She recently worked on Madison's first-ever city-wide Historic Preservation Plan, which includes social histories of communities who have traditionally been underrepresented in past planning efforts.

Registration is required

This presentation is on the Zoom platform. Once you register for the virtual tour, you will receive the Zoom link by email.

As we have limited space online and, for security reasons, are not posting the Zoom link, registration is required.

This event is free and open to the public.