Working with HistoriCorps Again!

Elicia Ratajczyk — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:52:47 +0000

EVstudio is very excited to be continuing work with the fantastic historic preservation collaborative HistoriCorps this year. HistoriCorps is now entering it's 3rd summer of volunteer driven historic preservation projects and is in the process of expanding to a national model. This public-private partnership is a collaborative effort of the U.S.D.A. National Forest Service, Colorado Preservation Inc. and Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and has saved 39 structures in 4 states in it's first two years of public service. In addition, they have provided skills and service experience to more than 300 volunteers who have given more than 6,500 hours of labor to these projects!

HistoriCorps has an ambitious summer planned and will work on 24 projects in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and New Mexico. EV Studio has been working with HistoriCorps throughout these first few years and is continuing to help bring these wonderful projects to fruition. This year we are working on a few projects with HistoriCorps and have just completed a prototype vault toilet design for them which is aesthetically based on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Era precedents of the 1930's while adhering to modern building code and standards (including ADA Accessibility) and volunteer-driven construct-ability design.

The final document (Prototype Vault Toilet Guideline) looks fantastic and will be highly usable this summer and into future years. Thank you for creating this and I look forward to another opportunity to work with you.

Sincerely, Jonas

EVstudio has worked with several non-profit organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, requiring the consideration of volunteer friendly materials and construction systems for volunteer-driven projects. We highly enjoy working with these organizations and being a part of the very special projects that they contribute to our community.

EV Studio to work with HistoriCorps

Elicia Ratajczyk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:30:22 +0000

EV Studio has been selected to work with HistoriCorps, a new public-private partnership organization formed earlier this year. Elicia Ratajczyk of the Evergreen office met yesterday with HistoriCorps director, Jonas Landes and performed a Site Survey of the historic Kortright Cabin near the ghost-town of Bonanza, Colorado. The cabin originally belonged to Doctor and Assayer S.E. Kortright around the turn of the century and sat at the nucleus of the town of Exchequer immediately next to the Exchequer Mill. Plans for the cabin will include rehabilitation as a rustic short-term rental unit, historic preservation strategies, ADA accessibility and may also include sustainability strategies such as water capture and/or renewable energy electricity production.

HistoriCorps was formed out of a partnership between the National Forest Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture), Colorado Preservation Inc. and the Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado aimed at "engaging a network of volunteers and professionals to preserve and rehabilitate historic places". The organization is modeled after organizations such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Peace Corps, and AmeriCorps and the work beginning this year in Colorado is considered a "Pilot Program" intended to be implemented across the nation in subsequent years. The following excerpt comes from the public announcement on the Colorado Preservation Inc. website:

HistoriCorps is a public-private partnership that will create jobs for young adults, teach preservation maintenance and traditional building skills and advance sustainable technology for historic buildings. Colorado Preservation, Inc. will provide supervision, preservation specialists, training and administrative support. The U.S. Forest Service will provide resources and the benefit of partnerships cultivated over the past decade. Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado will manage the volunteer/trainee component. Individual projects will build on existing local and community based partnerships.

EV Studio is excited about the opportunity to work with HistoriCorps and is very pleased to be able to combine our professional design, historic preservation and sustainability expertise in projects that will become assets to the State of Colorado and will help the pilot program become a great success!

Kortright Cabin near Bonanza, Colorado

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Working with HistoriCorps Again!

EV Studio to work with HistoriCorps