The Town of Bluffton is soliciting sealed proposals from qualified firms or teams of firms in the fields of historic architecture and historic site interpretation to draft preservation and interpretive exhibit plans for the historic Garvin House, located in Bluffton, SC.  The project is funded, in part, by a grant from the National Park service that is administered by the SC Department of Archives and History. In order to meet the grant guidelines, certain minimum professional and educational qualifications are required. These qualifications as well as a scope of work for the project are detailed in the proposal package that can be obtained from the Town’s website: www.townofbluffton.com.

Request for Proposal packages will be posted on the Town’s website beginning February 6th. Sealed proposals will be received by the Town of Bluffton in the office of the Town Clerk located at 20 Bridge Street, Bluffton, South Carolina 29910 until 11am on March 6th, 2009. Proposals will be opened and recorded at 11:01am, immediately following the deadline.

The Town of Bluffton is located in the southeast corner of South Carolina, about 40 minutes from Savannah, GA and two hours from Charleston, SC.

 S.C. State dorm built in 1917, once the pride of the school, gets new life

The State
Nov. 30, 2008
By WAYNE WASHINGTON

ORANGEBURG — This is the story of a building, S.C. State University’s Lowman Hall, brought to life by black hands, killed, in part, by white indifference, and now being painstakingly, lovingly restored by a multiracial coalition of craftsmen, engineers and architects.
This is the story of a university trying to bring back the striving pride and promise of another era.

“Everybody’s just as excited as can be,” said S.C. State president George Cooper, whose office is within earshot of the work being done at Lowman Hall, the 24,000-square-foot building scheduled to reopen in September 2009.

A portion of North Anderson around Linley Park is close to becoming a neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places.

The South Carolina Department of Archives and History reviewed an application submitted by Anderson Heritage recently and recommended that the U.S. National Park Service give a final stamp of approval to the application.

Such a move would mean residents in the area could qualify for grant money as well as state and federal tax credits if they renovate their homes, Anderson City Planner Jeff Guilbault said.

This story begins in the 1880s, when a two-story, wood-frame single house, like many others in the city, was built at 162 Spring St.

But about 50 years ago, this house underwent a rather drastic conversion, at least on the first floor.

The section closest to the street essentially was rebuilt entirely with a cruder but not completely inelegant concrete block and brick addition.

A community in Greenville celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by having an important landmark given historic status.

The Greenville Historic Preservation Commission is recognizing the Sterling High School for its historic significance.

Sterling High School was South Carolina's first black public high school, and it produced a long line of civic leaders, many of whom started off as civil rights activists.

The old West Union School received a new lease life Tuesday when Town Council voted 3-2 to give the West Union School Preservation Association a 50-year lease on the vacant building with certain stipulations.

New West Union Town Council member Wanda Harden made the motion that was second by Ralph Smith, who in the past had voted with council members David Foulke and David Bryant to demolish the building owned by the town.

Mayor Sharon Nunnery also voted for granting the lease, while Mr. Foulke and Mr. Bryant voted such an action.