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Historic Preservation Training Center
National Park
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U.S. Department of Interior
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Mailing Address:
Historic Preservation Training Center National Park Service 4801A Urbana Pike Frederick, MD 21704 Telephone #: 301-663-8206 Fax #: 301-663-8032 Regular Business Hours: 8:00 - 5:00 M-F
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HPTC Mission Statement
The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is dedicated to the safe preservation and maintenance of national parks or partner facilities by demonstrating outstanding leadership, delivering quality preservation services, and developing educational courses that fulfill the competency requirements of Service employees in the career fields of Historic Preservation Skills, Risk Management, Maintenance, and Planning, Design, and Construction.
HPTC History The HPTC was founded in 1977 to meet the growing demand for craft skills development for NPS employees tasked with preserving the thousands of historic structures within the National Park System. In 1995, the Center joined the NPS Training and Development Division to become one of four NPS Training Centers. The HPTC is currently located in Frederick, Maryland. The headquarters/administrative office is located within the Monocacy National Battlefield at the historic Gambrill House.
The Shop is located in the historic Jenkins Cannery building in downtown Frederick. The HPTC staff and trainees currently total approximately 70.
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Contacts:
Thomas Vitanza, Senior Historical Architect Recent News The Monocacy National Battlefield Best Farm Stone Barn preservation project was highlighted at the IV Biennial "Spotlight on National Park Resources in the National Capital Region" Conference and was prepared by HPTC Senior Historical Architect Tom Vitanza. Best Farm Stone Barn 2008 NCR Poster Stone Barn HSAR and preservation projects
2008 Peterson Prize Announced at HABS Website Historic Architecture Project Awarded First Place for Documentation: Bucks County Community College (BCCC) created the prize winning HABS level 1 drawings of the Best Farm Stone Barn at Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, MD as part of the HPTC project to produce a Historic Structure Assessment Report. The drawings are part of the documentation package that capture the barn for posterity. Not just for documentation, the drawings were used to instruct the masonry repairs and roof frame structural bracing project as part of the long term preservation of the structure. Three HPTC architecture interns participated in the project between 2005 and 2007 and was managed by HPTC Senior Historical Architect, Tom Vitanza. Preservation work was carried out in 2008 by the HPTC masonry and carpentry preservation teams.
Historic Architecture - HPTC
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