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January 21, 2007
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MISSION STATEMENT
“Iowa City and its citizens seek to identify, protect, and preserve the community's historic resources in order to enhance the quality of life and economic well-being of current and future generations.”
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Nationwide historic preservation:
• Saves local history and architecture for the future• Stabilizes and Maintains Neighborhood Quality of Life
• Creates jobs• Supports skilled trades
• Supports positive real estate values
• Provides economic development and tourism opportunity
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The 1992 Work Plan Goals in Review
Goal 1: Identify historic resources significant to Iowa City's past.
Goal 2:Enhance the municipal policy of protection of historic resources, and implement this policy through effective and efficient legislation and regulatory measures.
Goal 3:Establish economic incentives to encourage the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods.
Goal 4:Provide the technical assistance necessary to preserve and improve historic properties.
Goal 5:Strengthen historic preservation education programs and develop private support and commitment for preservation undertakings.
Goal 6:Maintain and strengthen preservation partnerships between municipal government, state government, and federal agencies.
Goal 7:Establish and implement historic preservation objectives for the University of Iowa campus and surrounding neighborhoods.
Goal 8:Establish and support heritage tourism efforts appropriate to Iowa City's historic resources and community needs.
Goal 9:Conduct regular review and evaluation of historic preservation initiatives by the historic preservation community. Complete annual review and set work plan objectives; HPC, City staff, Friends, neighborhood associations, etc.
Goal 10:Adopt strategies to conserve historic neighborhoods which reflect their organic development, historical roles and traditions, modern needs, and economic health and stability.
Goal 1: Identify historic resources significant to Iowa City's past.
Goal 2:Enhance the municipal policy of protection of historic resources, and implement this policy through effective and efficient legislation and regulatory measures.
Goal 3:Establish economic incentives to encourage the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods.
Goal 4:Provide the technical assistance necessary to preserve and improve historic properties.
Goal 5:Strengthen historic preservation education programs and develop private support and commitment for preservation undertakings.
Goal 6:Maintain and strengthen preservation partnerships between municipal government, state government, and federal agencies.
Goal 7:Establish and implement historic preservation objectives for the University of Iowa campus and surrounding neighborhoods.
Goal 8:Establish and support heritage tourism efforts appropriate to Iowa City's historic resources and community needs.
Goal 9:Conduct regular review and evaluation of historic preservation initiatives by the historic preservation community. Complete annual review and set work plan objectives; HPC, City staff, Friends, neighborhood associations, etc.
Goal 10:Adopt strategies to conserve historic neighborhoods which reflect their organic development, historical roles and traditions, modern needs, and economic health and stability.
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Goal 3: Establish economic incentives to encourage the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods
Goal 7: Establish and implement historic preservation objectives for the University of Iowa campus and surrounding neighborhoods
Goal 8: Establish and support heritage tourism efforts appropriate to Iowa City's historic resources and community needs
Local tax abatements, SSMIDs, Private/Public Loan Pool
Secure funding and begin/enhance promotional activities
Seek ways to implement the objectives of this goal
Goal 2: Enhance the municipal policy of protection of historic resources, and implement this policy through effective and efficient legislation and regulatory measures.
Streamline Historic Review; Implement commission training
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Eleven Districts Total; Eight Following adoption of the Historic Preservation Plan
HistoricSummitBrownRonaldsWoodlawnCollege GreenEast CollegeLongfellow
ConservationClark DearbornGovernor-LucasCollege Hill
NRHP DistrictsMelroseJefferson
Preservation Districts
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Areas Indicated to be investigated in 1992GoosetownNorthsideManville HeightsDowntownSouth SideKirkwood
Morningside
Tate Arms
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Prehistory and Early History of Iowa City Exceptionally Brief Historical Background
Archaic Tradition (7,500-500 B.C.)
Paleo-Indian Tradition (11,000–7,500 BC)
Woodland Tradition (500 B.C.–1000 A.D.)
Oneota Culture (A.D. 900; 1000–1650)
1830s
Euro American Contact (A.D. 1650–1670)
Historic Period (A.D. 1670–present)
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Ioway Indians
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1830s
Euro American Settlement
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1830s
Meskwaki Indians
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1824–1851
Removal and Survey
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1850s
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Stone Quarries
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Greek Revival-Georgian/Federal
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Italianate
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Queen Anne Eclectic
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Period Revival Eclectic
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Period Revival Colonial/Georgian
Continental
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Period Revival EclecticTudor Cottage
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Prairie SchoolFormalPrairie Foursquare
Craftsman
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Post World War IIMinimalist TraditionalRanch/ModerneLustron
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Old Capital
Plum Grove and Johnson County Historical Society
Iowa Hall
Local Historical Museums
North Lobby University of Iowa Main Library
Iowa City Public Library
State Historical Society of Iowa
University of Iowa Libraries
Local Historical Research