RARE \"Godfather of Preservation\" Charles E. Peterson Hand Signed FDC Dated 1957 For Sale

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RARE \"Godfather of Preservation\" Charles E. Peterson Hand Signed FDC Dated 1957:
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Up for sale "Historic Preservation" Charles E. Peterson Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1957. 

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Charles Emil Peterson (1906–2004)

is widely considered to be a seminal figure in professionalizing the practice

of historic preservation in

the United States. He is referred to as the "founding father" of the

professional advocation of historic preservation, the "godfather of

preservation," and an "extraordinary preservationist" who

made important contributions to the knowledge of early American building

practices, helped create the profession of the preservation architect, and

passionately advocated for the retention and restoration of the American built

heritage. According to Jacques Dalibard, a professor at McGill University School of Architecture, "with

James Marston Fitch, I cannot think of two people who had more influence

on historic preservation in North America." During

his long career, Peterson received numerous awards for his service for Historic Preservation’s Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award

(1966) and the American Institute of

Architects (AIA) medal for "vision and determination"

(1979) and the Presidential Citation (1990). The AIA inducted him into the

College of Fellows in 1962. Peterson was raised in Madison, Minnesota, and

received his bachelor's degree in architecture in the early 1920s from the University

of Minnesota. In 1929, he began a thirty-three year tenure with the

National Park Service. In 1931, his efforts were instrumental in saving the

Moore House, the site of the British surrender, in Yorktown, Virginia. While

documenting this building, Peterson created the prototype for the historic

structure report, the basic format of which is still in use. Peterson

is perhaps best remembered for establishing the Historic American

Buildings Survey (HABS), a federal documentation program that

is still active and which has spawned the Historic American Engineering Record

and the Historic American Landscape Survey. On November 13, 1933, while he was

the Chief of the Eastern Division for the National Park Service,

Peterson wrote a memo to the director which became the charter for the program

and successfully garnered funds from the Civil Works Administration the

following month. HABS targeted unemployed architects, draftsmen, and

photographers to make as complete a record as possible of "the rapidly

disappearing examples of early architecture and historic structures throughout

the country." This program was credited as "the first major step upon

the part of the Federal Government toward the cataloging and preservation of

historic structures." The first HABS survey work began in January 1934 and

later that year was formalized as a joint agreement with the American Institute

of Architects and the Library of Congress. The HABS program has continued

nearly unabated to the present.

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