Masonry Magazine September 2005 Page. 31
In the '60s, the National Trust for Historic Preservation issued the Whitehill Report, documenting the extreme need for building artisans in the United States.
Fulfilling a Need
DAVID AVRUTICK, President of the ACBA, says that the idea of the College has been on the tips of peoples' tongues since the '60s when the National Trust for Historic Preservation issued the Whitehill Report, documenting the extreme need for building artisans in the United States. However, it would take something much more pronounced than a report to make the message clear.
On the evening of Sept. 21. 1989, Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, S.C., with sustained winds of 135 mph, peak gusts averaging 160 mph, and a 20-foot storm surge at high tide. Hugo was twice the size of Florida's devastating Hurricane Andrew of 1992, and the most intense storm the Carolinas had seen in over 100 years. With $7 billion in estimated damages, it was also one of the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history. Once the storm passed, those assessing the damage discovered that over 4,000 of Charleston's 18th and 19th century homes were in need of repair and that few restoration experts were available to do the job.
"When the citizens of Charleston went to rebuild, the resources they needed weren't in Charleston, or in South Carolina, or even in the country," AvRutick explains. "They actually had to go to Europe to find many of the artisans who were able to do the work."
After Hurricane Hugo, the idea of creating a four-year college in the building arts went from talk to action.
This really brought the message home that the U.S. was in desperate need of more restoration experts, and the idea of creating a four-year college in the building arts went from talk to action. To fulfill these very needs, a small team led by structural engineer John Paul Huguley created the School of Building Arts, now called the American College of Building Arts. After six years of networking, negotiating, lots of hard work and a
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