Mindful Preservation: Lessons Learned from the 2016-2018 Preservation Workshops at San Antonio Missions NHP

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

From 2016-2018 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park along with support from the Center for Cultural Sustainability at University of Texas, San Antonio, Mission Heritage Partners and the Vanishing Treasures Program, has sponsored a preservation workshop on stone construction, lime plasters, and painted plasters. The workshop has included roundtable topics on preservation philosophy as well as hands-on demonstrations and learning. This paper will discuss the goals of the workshops and lessons learned. A best practices manual and a final symposium are planned for 2019-2020.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24616