PUBLIC "-//Roanoke Public Libraries//TEXT (US::viro::viro00016::A Guide to the Papers of Bonnie S. Ball//EN" "viro00016.xml" A Guide to the Records of the Elmwood Park Century Project 1979-1981 Elmwood Park Century Project, A Guide to the Records of the 2014.4.22 Roanoke Public Libraries © 2014 By the Roanoke Public Libraries. All rights reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word, created by Dyron Knick, 28 August 2014 Description is in English 20140828 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Records of the Elmwood Park Century Project 1979-1981 A Collection in Roanoke Public Libraries 2014.4.22

Roanoke Public Libraries 2014 Special Collections Staff Roanoke Public Libraries Descriptive Summary Roanoke Public Libraries A Guide to the Records of the Elmwood Park Century Project 2014.4.22 1 legal-size storage box English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Records of the Elmwood Park Century Project, Accession #2014.4.22, Roanoke Public Libraries, Roanoke, VA

Acquisition Information

Donor unknown

 Historical Note

In 1978, the City of Roanoke and downtown business community commissioned a $100,000 study to evaluate the development potential of Roanoke’s downtown core area and to prepare a plan for revitalizing it. The Elmwood Park Century Project is one of the recommendations from the study that was approved by City Council as submitted to the public as a bond issue in 1979. The bond was issued and a committee was established to ensure that all development occurring in the project would be of certain design standards. The committee was chaired by Betty B. Wood, with the following members of the committee: Dorothy L. Gibboney, Byron A. Hicks, Mary Watkins, William Watts, Louis Goodwin, Vernon Jamison, Roma Pevler and George Vogel.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 1 legal-size record storage box containing 14 folders. Materials include: meeting minutes, plans (drawings and schematics), correspondence, lists of donors and news clippings. The date range of the collection is 1979 through 1981. One of the highlights of the collection is a list of donors, either of monetary contributions or who purchased trees dedicated to the memory of loved ones. Plans and schematics of the proposed park also provide an interesting glimpse at some of the ideas generated from the committee, some of which are visible in the park today. The collection is lacking in that some of the meeting minutes were not available.

Arrangement

Documents are arranged alphabetically by document type.

Contents List Records of the Elmwood Park Century Project 1 Brochures undated 1 Correspondence, Donation Acknowledgements, Last Names A-K 1979 2 Correspondence, Donation Acknowledgements, Last Name L-Z 1979 3 Correspondence, General 1979 4 Donations - Holly Trees undated 5 Donations - Magnolias undated 6 Donations - Sentry Maples undated 7 Donations - Special Gifts undated 8 Meeting Minutes 1979-1981 9 News Clippings undated 10 Plans - Design Development Submittal undated 11 Plans - Drawings undated 12 Plans - Schematic Submittal undated 13 Project Schedule undated 14