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Sponsored by the Louisville Historic Society, I presented my findings publically in a paper entitled Exploring Louisville's Candy Store of Historic Architecture. From that research, I developed an interest in two house types, shotguns and bungalow, which I am now researching.
Because I had had some association with the Olmsted Conservancy before coming to Louisville, I was appointed as a steward to the conservancy and park system and had begun to learn more about the parks. Coincidentally, last spring, the Preserving Historic Roads program in the National Park Service issued a call for papers to its September conference in Colorado.
This gave me an opportunity to continue my work on historic roads that I had long pursued at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design (CHAD) for the Byways Program of the Delaware Department of Transportation. In looking at the research on Olmsted, I noticed that much more attention had been paid to his parks than his parkways, which were what made his parks into a system. I proposed a paper on the parkways of Olmsted and Vaux, which was accepted, and I presented that paper last month.