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2008 Review Board Meetings
January 23
April 23
July 23
October 22, 2008
2009 Review Board Meetings
January 28 - April 22 - July 22 - October 28, 2009
Members of the Indiana
Historic Preservation Review Board
The DHPA staff provides administrative and logistical support for the activities of the Historic Preservation Review Board. This board has responsibility for issues concerning the state’s historic and cultural resources.
Historic Preservation Review Board
The Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board is the committee that makes decisions on a number of preservation-related issues and provides public oversight to the programmatic and regulatory activities of the DHPA. For example, the Board officially nominates Indiana properties to the National Register of Historic Places. Once the Board approves an application and it is signed by the State Historic Preservation Officer, it is a “nomination” that can be sent to Washington to be considered by the Keeper of the Register. The Board also approves funding recommendations for the federal matching grant program, and considers applications for certificates of approval for state-funded projects that will alter, demolish, or remove historic properties.
The Board members are appointed by the governor for three-year terms. Five members are appointed for their expertise in either archaeology, architecture, architectural history, or history. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources, Indiana’s SHPO, serves as the Board’s Chair. The Board also includes and benefits from the DHPA division director and three citizen members whose interest and activities in historic preservation have gained recognition.
Since its organizational meeting in 1970, the Board has included some of Indiana’s most noted scholars and professionals, among them Professor Donald Carmony of Indiana University, co-author of Indiana from Frontier to Industrial Commonwealth; Dr. James Kellar, former director of the Glenn A. Black Archaeology Laboratory; distinguished Indianapolis architect, H. Roll McLaughlin; and David R. Hermansen, first director of the Ball State program in historic preservation.
The Board meets quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Their meetings are typically in the Indiana Government Center and are open to the public. Past Board agendas and staff comments are available here.
Members Include:
Robert E. Carter, Jr., Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Indiana’s State Historic Preservation Officer, serves as the chairman of the Review Board. He was appointed as the director of the DNR by Governor Daniels in 2006.
James A. Glass, Director of the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, is a non-voting ex-officio member of the Review Board. He has been with the Division since 2007. He graduated with a B.A. in History and Spanish from Indiana Central College (now the University of Indianapolis), an M.A. in Latin American History from Indiana University, and M.A. in History of Urban Development from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Historic Preservation Planning, Cornell University. Before coming to the State, he served as Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at Ball State University and as the Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Ball State University. He served as Director of the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer in the early 1990s. He has a long career in preservation and history.
John J. Newman was appointed in 1981 to fill the historian position and has served as the vice-chair for the past five years. The Milwaukee, WI native has degrees from Marquette University and Indiana University. Before becoming the Director of Information Management for the Division of State Court Administration in 1986, Newman served as the Indiana State Archivist.
Donald Cochran serves in one of the professional archaeology positions on the Review Board. He is an anthropology faculty member and Curator of Collections at Ball State University. He also directs the Archaeological Resource Management Service (ARMS). Cochran, who is skilled in artifact analysis, particularly prehistoric lithics, has also done considerable research on Early and Middle Woodland ceremonial sites and buried site archaeology.
Julie Donnell was appointed by Governor Kernan as a citizen member of the Review Board. Her background in vocal performance and German literature provided the training for her current faculty position in voice at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. Donnell came to the Division’s attention, however, through her work as founder and current president of Friends of the Parks of Allen County. In that capacity, she oversaw the production of cultural landscape reports for two of Fort Wayne’s parks.
Harry Murphy serves as one of the two archaeology positions on the Board. Murphy is an instructor of anthropology at Martin University in Indianapolis and Director of the university’s Next Step Education through Archaeology Project. He received his bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in sociology from Ohio University and also holds a master’s degree in anthropology from Ohio State University. Murphy, who has published articles in several respected professional journals, received the Division’s Archaeology Award in 2002 for his work with the Next Step project.
Kent Schuette is a registered architect from Lafayette and adjunct faculty for architecture and historic preservation in Purdue University’s Landscape Architecture program. Schuette, who received his B. A. in architecture from the University of Cincinnati, is one of three Indiana Emeritus Advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and serves on the National Board of Directors for Preservation Action. He serves as the Board’s architect.
Andrew Seager has served the Board as its architectural historian since he was appointed in 1991. Seager received his architectural degrees from Cornell University and Iowa State University. He currently is a Professor of Architecture and Director of the Drawings and Documents Archive at Ball State University. Seager has spoken and published widely regarding his ongoing activity with the Cornell-Harvard Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Turkey for which he has served as staff architect.
William L. Selm was named to one of the citizen member positions. Selm, who grew up in Franklin and Rush counties, received his MA in historic preservation studies from Boston University after graduating from Indiana State University with a degree in history. He has authored a number of National Register nominations and served as historian for the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission from 1983 -1992. He currently is part-time faculty at IUPUI where he teaches a course in architectural history.
