This document provides biographical information about Justin Clevenger and summaries of some of his past preservation and architecture projects. It includes his education background in historic preservation and architecture and lists some of the types of projects he has worked on, such as the adaptive reuse of the Andrew Freedman Home in New York City and the remodulation of the United States Embassy in Oslo, Norway. The document also mentions other projects involving the design of public parks, an environmental exhibition center, and a mixed-use building in Washington D.C.
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6. The Andrew Freedman Home presented a daunting
preservation design challenge. The Freedman
Home, under the control of the Mid-Bronx Senior
Citizens Council, itself while no longer functions as
an old age home, serves the community with a
variety of programs.
They stated that they required approximately 200
housing units to support the buildings fiscal need.
This design intervention leaft the Freedman Homes’
programs intact while simply building upon what
already worked, that being affordable housing,
artists live and work studios and a hotel. The
purpose of the hotel was to build upon and support
cultural programming, including the art exhibits
created in conjunction with the Bronx
Museum of the Arts.
The parti of the design is to create a wrapper around
the building itself. This was accomplished by
installing three new low-rise building into the site.
They were single loaded buildings with glazed
curtain walls on the interior and black brick on the
street-facing facades. This created a light well that
served to draw attention to the original building.
Andrew Freedman Home Re-Use
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10. Focused on the adaptive re-modulation of the United States Embassy in Oslo, Norway that was designed by Eero Saarinen
in 1959. Engaged in a radical renewal of the Saarinen building from a pre Cold War era U.S. government embassy into an
architectural institute designed to house and exemplify both the people and architecture of Norway.
Proposed a use for the Embassy which exposed the considered the role of the diplomatic presence, issues of security and
surveillance, and the projection and adaptive reuse of the values that an architectural artifact embodies.
The final design focused upon the wooden screen located in the central four-story atrium. The concept of the original design
of the building was to convey a sense of openness; the concept of openness was reinforced by creating a four-story addition
on the buildings east facade and extending the wooden screen to the extension’s envelope and remodulating it.
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15. Taft Memorial, n.d., commonly attributed to ca. 1932
shortly after it was completed. Source: Commission
of Fine Arts, Arlington National Cemetery, W. H.
Taft folder.
ANC’s First Presidential Memorial
An Illustrious Career
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President William Howard Taft Memorial Grave
William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
was the 27th President of the
United States (1909-13) and the first
President to be buried in Arlington
National Cemetery (ANC). He is the
only person to have served both as
President of the United States, and as
Chief Justice of the United States on
the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by
President Harding in 1921, Taft served
as the tenth Chief Justice.
Designed by noted American sculptor
James Earle Fraser the Taft Memorial
was completed in 1932 and was paid
for by the Taft family. The design and
landscape plan was approved by the
Commission of Fine Arts.
honor • remember • explore
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Virginia
William Howard Taft had an illustrious
law career as an Ohio Supreme Court
judge, solicitor general of the United
States during the presidency of
Benjamin Harrison, U.S. Circuit Court
Judge, and Dean of the Law Department
of the University of Cincinnati. In 1900,
Taft was appointed president the first
civilian governer of the Philippines.
During Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency,
he was appointed as Secretary of War
and when President Roosevelt decided
not to run for re-election, he chose Taft
to be his successor as candidate for the
Republican Party.
President Taft served one term and was
not re-elected. He quickly resumed his
law career by joining the faculty of Yale
Law School. In 1921, he was appointed
Chief Justice of the United States and
it was under Taft’s guidance that the
current Supreme Court building was
planned (with ornamental sculpture
contributed by Fraser).
Taft retired from the high court due to
declining health in February 1930, just
weeks before his death. President Taft
died on March 8, 1930.
President William Howard Taft, circa 1910 (1857 –
1930), twenty-seventh president of the United States
of America. Source: Stock Montage/Stock Montage/
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Stony Creek granite bench (one of two).
Incised gold leaf inscription on face of memorial.Detail of carved twin rosettes found on both
faces of the memorial.
Granite memorial base.
WHT Stony Creek granite footstone. HHT Stony Creek granite footstone. Inscription on face of monument. Source: riceonhistory.wordpress.
com. July 4, 2010.
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These are the visual aspects and physical features to be preserved and protected. Character-defining features comprise
the appearance of every tangible cultural resource and include the overall shape, features, materials, craftsmanship,
decorative details, related spaces and sequences of spaces, and aspects of the site and environment. The National
Register Qualities of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association are also included and
must be preserved.
Detail of decorative memorial apex figure known
as an acroterion.
Character-Defining Features Checklist:
Character-Defining Features
• Three-part design of memorial monument with a rectangular base,
tapered shaft and a decorative apex feature.
• Matching honed and polished, dark mahogany, highly veined granite for
all three parts of the memorial.
• Hand carved decorative features at shaft and incised gold leaf lettering
for memorial inscription.
• Flanking twin classically designed benches of the same material as the
central memorial off set from the memorial.
• Husband and wife matching granite footstones marking location of
internments.
• Dense and varied vegetation creates natural backdrop at contemplative
memorial site.
Arlington National Cemetery
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16. This experimental preservation
project sought to recreate the very
visceral sense of possible ruin, panic
and anger that the bankers and their
lawyers must have felt being locked
in Morgan’s library during the night
of the Panic of 1907. The project
recreated the smell of the
atmosphere in the building that
night. For the purpose of this
project, three particular odors were
been chosen to be the focus of the
recreation. The odors were the cigars
that the men smoked, the strong
musk of so many men being
confined to one space for an ex-
tended period of time and the smell
of fear which was represented by
ammonia.
This project proved that there was
an interest in the public for new and
interesting forms of preservation.
The online news publication
Hyperallergic wrote about this
project in their article entitled,
“Researchers Bury Their Noses in
Books to Sniff Out the Morgan
Library’s Original Smell.” That article
then got reproduced by The New
York Times in their article entitled,
“What’s That Smell? Rare Books and
Artifacts from a 1906 Library.”
The Morgan Library
Olfactory Recreation
20. This project installed a multi-purpose black box theatre into the downtown area of the District of Columbia
at the intersection of 14th St. and Chruch St. The area had been through a process of renovation in recent
years and had become a popular spot among 18-30 year olds. 14th St. had become a cultural hub for the
community with the Studio Theatre and Dance Hall as well as the Whoel Foods lcoated nearby.
The project further strengthened that cultural foothold within the community by adding the theatre. The
lot was being used as a parking lot and the void seemed to be in the midst of being crushed by the
adjacent masonry buildings. The design for the intervention took that concept literally and gave it form.
14th St. Black Box Theatre
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22. The following is a three part series of projects
which began a five month long design process.
The project consisted of an intense analysis of
a piece of urban property, nine acres in size,
which was controlled by the District of
Columbia Office of Planning. The site was
bounded by New York Avenue ot the north, 9th
St. to the east, 11th St. to the west, and H St. to
the south.
The parcel’s size gave the city a unique
opportunity to create an intervention that
could rejuvenate the community.
The first phase of the project was the design of
a series of public parks. The goal was to create
one romantic style garden and one classical
style garden.
The second phase was the design of a new
temporary building to huse an environmental
exhibition center which would promote and
teach sustainability.
The third phase was the design of a mid-rise
mixed-use building that would promote a
strong and vibrant realm through the
development of a coherent “face“ the the
public spaces of the streets and plazas. The
base and top were used by the proposed D.C.
Environmental Center and the middle consisted
of residential apartments.
D.C. Urban Analysis and Design
27. The following was a proposal for
a four-story multi-use building in
Washington D.C.’s Chinatown.
The design was meant to blend with
the other historic facades on the
street yet have its own distinct
character.
The owner was nostalgic for the
historic style and there were Fine Arts
Commission restraints.
40. This was a commission where the client had started a company that produced muzzles for rifles. He had designed the
muzzle and the wrench to attach it to the rifle. He sought a logo for his company. The design was inspired by the inner
radial spiral pattern in the inside of the rifle barrel.
