DANVILLE DEPOT
My work on the Depot began during my 2018 fall semester at Vermont Technical College when I chose to write about the process of writing a determination of eligibility for an analytical report as a final project in a course called technical communication. I updated the Historic Sites and Structures Survey and completed a Determination of Eligibility Form for Danville Depot as part of this assignment.
In December of 2020, I joined the Town of Danville Train Station Committee and, shortly thereafter, submitted the forms to the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation, who promptly determined the building eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Since then, I have drawn as-built elevations and floorplans of the building and spent countless hours analyzing the frame. While measuring the frame, I discovered and shortly thereafter preserved more than a hundred documents dating from 1889 to 1905 hidden above a window frame, and provided the committee with both drawings and written material for meeting and events.
Anyone may use the documents on this page, wholly as they are, as educational resources. Alteration or publication without my consent is prohibited.
THE DETAILS OF THE DEPOT,
Special Edition.
Anyone may use the documents on this page, wholly as they are, as educational resources. Alteration or publication without my consent is prohibited.
ARCHIVE RODENTIA.
On the Fourth of July 2021, I was in the attic of the depot, recording measurements when right before me, hidden in a wall cavity above a window frame, was a no longer active rodent nest constructed of more than a hundred delivery checks and miscellaneous documents from between 1889 and 1905. I thereafter gathered all the intact and mostly intact documents, cleaned, pressed, documented them as scanned PDFs, and organized them in a Google Drive folder (Link Below). I announced the discovery of Archive Rodentia at the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Danville depot on the third of October that same year. This announcement can be seen in the video above, beginning at 11:10.
Archive Rodentia - Google Drive
A document containing a more comprehensive analysis of the archive is available below. Archive Rodentia has since relocated to the Danville Historical Society. Feel free to inquire about Archive Rodentia by sending me an email. Anyone may use the documents within the Archive Rodentia folder as educational resources.
THE NATIONAL BULLETIN'S STANDARDS OF INTEGRITY APPLIED TO DANVILLE DEPOT.
Below is a document I wrote to explain to our committee's grantors how each of the National Bulletins Standards of Integrity (I.E. Location, Design, Setting, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association) are applied to Danville Depot.
DANVILLE DEPOT'S ELIGIBILITY FOR THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
Around the time I joined the Danville Train Station Committee, I submitted an updated Historic Sites and Structures Survey and Determination of Eligibility form for the Danville Depot. Thereafter, Danville Depot was deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
HISTORIC SITES AND STRUCTURES SURVEY.
As Submitted.
DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY.
As Submitted.
DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY.
As Approved.
THE BEGINING
OR
MY ANALYTICAL REPORT.
During my final semester at Vermont Technical College, I attended a course called Technical Communication. The purpose of this course was to learn the various nuances of technical writing and demonstrate what we had learned by composing an analytical report, which was heavily weighed in our final overall grades. Recognizing this as an opportunity to learn more about the administration of historic preservation, I decided to write my analytical report on filing a Determination of Eligibility and used the Danville depot as a historic building to annylsis and deem my own unofficial determination for the purpose of writing my report.