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Show ire-w-- e" v"w w 1 J I Lifestyle Sun Advocate ,-- Section B Tuesday, October 0, 1090 A Garlic drying at the home of John and Yolanda Bruno, Helper. v .v.vf -. 1 A heritage bom in Italy A stone masonry culvert near the old Columbia Steel Co. mine in T Columbia is the work of Joseph Sepi, an Italian immigrant. I h-r' Architects study stone buildings -- 'v, p - " j)L - 1 - . 3 vides our first opportunity to do so, says Carter. The University of Utah graduate school of architecture is participating in a project that will honor the contributions have made to the nations cultural heritage. Dr. Thomas R. Carter, Italian-America- Carter made similar surveys at a mine in Eureka, Nev., and at ranches settled by Italian immigrants in Lincoln and Elko counties in Nevada. ns An authority on the architectural history of the western United States, Carter says some of the drawings, assistant professor of nationarchitecture, led the wide project sponsored by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. It is part of the librarys 1992 program for observing the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovery of America. Susan Anderson and Margaret Bergold, students in the school of architecture, studied five historic sites in Carbon County where many Italian immigrants settled in the ear- supplemented by photographs, will be included in a book, in the West, that the Library of Congress will publish in 1992 in conjunction black-and-whi- te Italian-America- with the Columbus quincentenniaL Historical research in Utah and in other western states is focusing on the contributions of and industrial buildings. In Helper, the students recorded the John Bruno garoutden and food-processi- building; the Joe Milano Court, a subdivision of stone cottages; and the Toni Verdi highly skilled Italian more than a ago. The drawings and recordings were made according to standards of the Historical American Building Survey. n The project represents the kind of work the architecture school hopes to do regularly through stonemasons house and outdoor bake oven. The Columbia mine bunk-hous- e in Columbia and the old Carmelo Menina house, built about 1910 in Spring Glen, were also recorded. Carter says the Menina structure is highly reminiscent of the traditional constructed half-centu- ry Italian-America- hill-hom- es throughout northern Italy, where Menina was bom, and probably represents a carryover of old world traditions to the new. its planned Center for Architectural Studies. One of our objectives at the center is to get students into the field during the summer months to make drawings of The Milano cottages were built by Frank Gigliotti, a The prominent Carbon County project pro n stonema- n domestic The students surveyed and made drawings of several homes, an outdoor bake oven, a garden, a wine cellar, a dormitory for single coal miners and other facilities built by Italian-America- Italian-America- sons in constructing both ly 1900s. historic buildings. ns stonemason at the time. Milano lived in one of the cottages and rented the remainder to other immigrants. Another prominent A J A -- l '& Colum-bi- a bunkhouse-dormitor- y. Alan Jabhour, director of the American Folklife Center, says the national project is important to further define the historical contributions of Italians to the settlement of America. Most Americans associate Italian-America- n history, life and culture with the urban East, Jabhour says. But an important and less understood aspect of this history is to be found in the American West. In the mid-19t- h century, large numbers of Italian immigrants settled in California and other western states. They helped shape the cultural landscape of the modem West. They were skilled in agricultural techniques, stone masonry and the arts. Created in 1976, the American Folklife Center is a national advocate for the preservation and presentation of American folklife, the traditional expressive shared culture of various groups in the United States. The center engages in the preservation, presentation and dissemination of American folk cultural traditions. ,The center says one of the projects objectives will be to identify those traditions that united people as Italian-Americaacross the many cultural divides that initially separated them. A. Susan Anderson and Margaret Bergold, students at the University of Utah graduate school C of architecture, examine a root cellar at the old Carmelo Menina house in Spring Glen. Photos courtesy University of Utah ns Wine casks stacked in the rear of a outbuilding at the Helper home of John and Yolanda Bruno. food-processi- ; I v 4 C 'S-l- . v ' The Columbia Steel Co. single mens dormit- -' ory Is an example of the skill of Italian i 4 J t Yi," j, -I .- i f ,. - ' 'H j.4 vV'- stonemason, Joseph Sepi, built the mine I. z i " i Ik, A S n A v V k J stonemasons who settled In Carbon County In the early 1900s. It Is the work of Joseph Sepl. Bergold takes measurements of an old bake oven at the Helper home of Anthony Verdi as part of the U of U study of stone masonry. |