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DRAFT Page 3 of 4 district of historic places being sought for designation of the surrounding property to the Maude Faucette House . AGENDAITEM #6 : STATUS REPORTS a. St. Mary ' s Road Corridor Project Belk reported that he had met with Linda Stine, the archeologist and Geoff Henry, the architectural consultant and the project is underway . The group went out on site visits last week . Geoff Henry is underway with updating all the survey forms and about five additional parcels to be added to the inventory . Dr . Stine wants to solicit information from the local residents about the area history creating a good opportunity to introduce the project to the community . A database of 420 property owners has been developed to do a mailing for an open house meeting, in mid June . Stine and Henry would like to present a mid-project presentation to the Historic Preservation Commission during July . Their schedules are unable to accommodate our June 23rd meeting and asked if we could change that meeting date to either July 6, 7 , 8 , 13 , 14, 1 5 . The Commission discussed the choices and decided on July 14d' to replace June 23rd meeting. b . Local Landmark Designations : Phelps Farm , Ayr Mount Belk also reported that the group visited Ayr Mount and it is looking splendid with a one mile nature trail summer that will be open to the public . In addition, Mr. Jenneratt declined to to be opened later this participate in the Local Landmark designation program . It is a tax-exempt situation and there are . no advantages to the owner to participate in the program . Belk reported that the owners of the Phelps Farm have also declined to participate in the Local Landmark Designation program . c. White Oak Grove School National Register Nomination Belk reported that Iris Chapman had the open house with great turn out of alumni and her next step is to organize a non-profit entity and raise money for restoration . The consultant Richard Mattson will be doing a National Register Nomination on this site later this summer . Staff to have updates by the next meeting . Anderson asked what was the status of the manuscript. Belk said the next step was to put together an application to the Federation of Historic Societies for the loan . Allison asked who actually holds the manuscript. Belk replied that is now on disk format. Anderson noted it was time to find documentary ilable from the inventory . Belk noted the only photos were photos for the book and asked if any were ava recently taken . Allison noted that photos are important for the book ' s success . Anderson suggested a story in the News of Orange with an old photograph for example asking the public to contact us about their old photos . Gaya suggested getting a release form signed at time of submittal of photos . Anderson noted that until the publisher knows what photos will be included they are unable to go forward with the layout . Belk added that the HPC would choose which photos to use . Belk is to talk to the library staff to collect suitable photos that may be available . It was also suggested to use digital scanner to collect the photos . Belk will talk to Barbara Williams about how to proceed in this process and report back to the HPC next meeting .