Pecos National Historical Park Ranch House Restoration Program

Project ID: J8W07090005

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: University of Vermont and State Agriculture College

Fiscal Year: 2009

Initial Funding: $86,126

Total Funding: $86,126

Project Type: Education

Project Disciplines: Cultural

National Park: Pecos National Historical Park

Principal Investigator: Porter, Doug

Agreement Technical Representative: Brown, Jeff

Abstract: Six-week field school at which NPS, UVM and partner personnel are trained in historic preservation , specifically restoring the windows of the Forked Lightning ranch house. Historic wooden six-light casement windows (ca. 1925) survive on the primary façade of the ranch house building. Much of the rest of the building’s historic windows were replaced with aluminum sliding windows that will now be restored with wooden windows that replicate the unique historic millwork. This project has research, training, and implementation goals, and NPS participates in all project phases as a collaborator with UVM, who provides the necessary expertise in period styles and production technology. The project also has a significant educational component that engages student interns and park staff to collaboratively design in-kind replacement windows and educational training materials to help meet the NPS mission of interpretation and preservation of this important historic site.