HIST CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PRESERVATION

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1 HIST CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PRESERVATION Course Instructor: James L. Sipes (No prerequisites or restrictions.) Cultural Landscape Preservation is a graduate level course in the Heritage Preservation Program (other graduate students may also register) designed to develop an understanding and vocabulary about cultural landscapes; articulate landscape preservation concepts through verbal and written mediums; understand techniques, processes, and policies related to the documentation and preservation of cultural landscapes; and work collaboratively to develop a Cultural Landscape Report Credit hours Cultural landscape research has become a central component of what professionals like to call cultural resource management (historic preservation). This seminar will examine recent literature and case studies to answer basic questions about this emerging field. What are cultural landscapes? How and why are they defined, and by whom? Cultural geography, ethnography, public history, ecology, historic preservation and other disciplines have all contributed to new ways of understanding the formation of humaninfluenced landform and natural systems (cultural landscapes). Landscape architects and planners are often asked to participate in design and management processes affecting cultural landscapes, but much new theory remains unassimilated in practice. Design professionals have tended to emphasize how to manage cultural landscapes (treatment plans, inventories, cultural landscape reports, historic vegetation management plans, etc.) but not why we are concerned with historic sites and places or what we can hope to accomplish in working with them. Course Format The course will be an interactive lecture-style format where students will be required to engage with the professor during the course of the class. Active participation and engagement in class/attendance will account for 15% of their grade. Students will complete a short essay (6-8 pages) as an introductory project to learn about historic landscapes. Students will be asked to identify key cultural landscape resource issues involving a specific cultural resource focus area. This will account for 25% of the final grade. Students will be broken into groups of 2-3 to develop a Cultural Landscape Report, historic analysis, or comparative study of a significant historic landscape. With the understanding that these reports traditionally require several months to a year or more to complete, the students will select a project that will allow them to complete the project within the existing time constraints of the class. As parts of the final project, they will document the site through photographs, measured drawings (if appropriate) and historic research. The students will also be asked to identify appropriate preservation treatments Page 1 of 8, Syllabus

2 and associated guidelines. The students will present their findings during the final two class periods. This will account for 60% of the final grade. Class Schedule Class 1 - Introduction, Overview of Course, and Cultural Landscapes PowerPoint. Sharing Our Stories: Telling the Stories That Visitors Want to Hear Birnbaum, Chalres A. and Peters, Christine Capella, eds. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Washington, D.C., Birnbaum, Charles A. Preservation Brief 36. Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes. Chapter 5 Cultural Resource Management. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Director's Order #28: Cultural Resource Management. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Robert R. Page, Cathy A. Gilbert, Susan A. Dolan. Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Class Assignment: Class Assignment 1 Begin Assignment 1 - Identify Key Cultural Landscape Issues Class 2 - The National Park Service and the National Historic Preservation Advancing the National Park Idea - National Parks Second Century Commission Cultural Resource and Historic Preservation Committee Report. A Different Past in a Different Future. Hardesty, Donald L. and Barbara J. Little, eds. Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians. Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press, Linda Flint McClelland, Patricia L. Parker, Thomas F. King. Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Traditional Cultural Properties. Page 2 of 8, Syllabus

3 NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETIN. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1990; REVISED 1992; Page, Robert R., Cathy A. Gilbert, and Susan A. Dolan. A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, The Library of Congress s Cultural Landscape Resources The Secretary of the Interior s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties + Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes Class 3 - Rural Landscape Preservation, the Countryside, and the Cultural Landscape PowerPoint. An Introduction to Cultural Landscapes PowerPoint. Old Florida Heritage Highway PowerPoint. Ebey's Landing Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve Design Review and Community Design Standards J. Timothy Keller, Genevieve P. Keller, Robert Z. Melnick. Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes. NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETIN. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1989; Revised 1999 Judith Helm Robinson, Noel D. Vernon, Catherine C. Lavoie. Historic American Landscapes Survey Guidelines for Historical Reports. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. January 2005 Stilgoe, John R. The Common Landscape of America, 1580 to New Haven: Yale University Press, Stokes, Samuel N. and others. Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, review the methodology presented here, especially pp Yamin, Rebecca and Karen Bescherer Metheny, eds. Landscape Archeology: Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, Class 4 - HALS: Historic American Landscape Survey and Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic and Cultural Landscapes PowerPoint. Historic American Landscapes Survey - Documenting cultural and historic landscapes in Florida using the HALS-I form. PowerPoint. Documenting Cultural Landscapes with HALS Page 3 of 8, Syllabus

4 HALS 101: The Historic American Landscapes Survey. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. HISTORIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPES SURVEY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER. Historic Structure Report Overview. J. Timothy Keller, ASLA, and Genevieve P. Keller.How to Evaluate and Nominate Designed Historic Landscapes. Class 5 - Preserving Historic Cemeteries Elisabeth Walton Potter and Beth M. Boland. Guidelines for Evaluating and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places. National Register Bulletin. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1992, Revised Class Assignment: Turn in Assignment 1 Class 6 - Cultural Landscape Reports Includes a discussion on Resources, Research, and Process for Preparing a Cultural Landscape Report PowerPoint. Cultural Landscape Documentation - Gretchen Hilyard Listed on CD Class Assignment: Begin Class Assignment 2 - CLR, Historic Analysis, or Comparative Study Class 7 - Preserving Parks and Gardens PowerPoint. Old Town San Diego State Historic Park CLR Page 4 of 8, Syllabus

5 PowerPoint. Kids in Parks. Carolyn Ward, Jason Urroz Cultural Resource Inventory of the Wilderness Gardens Preserve Project for the County of San Diego Parks Department San Diego County, California East Bay Regional Park Master Plan. Elizabeth Engle. Cultural Resources in a Natural Park: Early Preservation Efforts at Menor s Ferry in Grand Teton National Park. Fairfax County Park Authority Cultural Resource Management Plan. April San Francisco Bay Trail: Pinole Shores to Bayfront Park Project. Environmental Impact Report. LSA. December Class 8 - Preserving Battlefields and Military Sites PowerPoint. Healthy Parks, Healthy People US. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. PowerPoint. Minidoka Internment National Monument PowerPoint. Presidio of San Francisco Main Post Cultural Landscape Report PowerPoint. Presidio Main Post Treatment Case Study: Montgomery Street Tree Planting - Douglas Nelson PowerPoint. Presidio Main Post Treatment Case Study: El Presidio - a layered landscape PowerPoint. Minidoka and Vancouver National Historic Reserve Amy Lowe Meger. Historic Resource Study - Minidoka Internment National Monument. National Park Service Interpretation in the Fort Vancouver Village - Addendum to the 2004 Long Range Interpretive Plan. June Jones + Jones. Minidoka Internment National Monument - Development Concept Plan. Jones + Jones. Vancouver National Historic Reserve Cultural Landscape Report, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. October Minidoka Internment National Monument Cultural Landscape Report. Minidoka National Historic Site Expands To Protect Original Location Of Japanese-American Internment Camp. The Conservation Fund. Minidoka National Historic Site Long-Range Interpretive Plan. January Harpers Ferry Center, Interpretive Planning and the Staff of Minidoka National Historic Site in conjunction with the site s partners Page 5 of 8, Syllabus

6 Minidoka National Historic Site News Release. Public Meeting and Forum: Guard Tower Reconstruction Project. June1, Patrick W. Andrus, Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating, and Registering America's Historic Battlefields. National Register Bulletin. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1992; Revised Class 9 - Ecology, Western Lands, and Natural Resources Changes in the disciplines of ecology and history imply changes in how we define the nature and history, and therefore in how we preserve natural and cultural features as cultural landscapes. But what happens to nature and history when we try to preserve them (in other words, what are really trying to preserve)? Some scholars are describing new paradigms, or theoretical constructs, in ecological science that recognizes the importance of history in understanding and managing ecosystems. What are new paradigms (in both ecology and public history), and are they related? How does the (relatively new) idea of the cultural landscape fit into these intellectual developments? Which landscapes get preserved, by whom and for what? What specific ideas and practices contribute to what makes a place sacred? What physical changes does the preservation of sacredness imply in different cases? What kinds of management and use conflicts arise as different groups define how a the same place is sacred to each of them? PowerPoint. Engaging Federal Agency Programs in Service-Learning: Finding the forest by involving all the trees - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation PowerPoint. The Trust for Public Land BRUCE J. NOBLE, JR. AND ROBERT SPUDE. Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating, and Registering Historic Mining Properties. NATIONAL REGISTER BULLETIN. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1992, Revised Chalana, Manish. With Heritage So Wild: Cultural Landscape Inventory in United States National Parks. Offprint from Preservation Education & Research, Volume Three, Christensen, Norman L. "Landscape History and Ecological Change." Journal of Forest History 33, no. 3 (July 1989): Keller, Robert H. and Michael F. Turek. American Indians and National Parks. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, Paul A. Shackel, ed., Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). Class 10 - Ethnographic and Vernacular Landscapes Page 6 of 8, Syllabus

7 PowerPoint. Great Bend of the Gila National Monument PowerPoint. Developing Heritage Tourism PowerPoint. BLM's Historic Trails Inventory Project PowerPoint. Landscape Conservation along National Trails in the Chesapeake PowerPoint. Trail Classifications: Met Methodology PowerPoint. Basics of Historic Trail Preservation PowerPoint. US Highway 93 on the Flathead Indian Reservation Longstreth, Richard (ed). Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, Class 11 - Neighborhoods, Urban Spaces, and Infrastructure The concept of heritage has taken on great significance since World War II, and especially since the 1980s. It has clearly meant different things to different groups of scholars and the public interested in reclaiming traditions and landscapes presented as part of shared, remembered pasts. Charles A. Birnbaum. The Village Green - The Green Village. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. January Historical Concepts. Design Guidelines & Pattern Books - Excerpts from Design Guidelines. The Historic Residential Suburbs. National Register Bulletin. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The Village Green Cultural Landscape Report FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Class 12 - When the Past Becomes the Present: Preservation of Modernist Landscapes PowerPoint. Fundraising: How PCTA Developed and Implemented a Fundraising Program PowerPoint. Interpreting Trails in the Digital Universe PowerPoint. Social Media Page 7 of 8, Syllabus

8 Birnbaum, Charles A., ed. Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture. Cothran, James. Historic Preservation Newsletter, Winter Georgia's Historic Landscape Initiative. Cultural Resource Challenge - NPS Cultural Resources Action Plan for 2016 and Beyond. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Cultural Resource Challenge - Preserving America's Shared Heritage in the 21st Century. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. October Longstreth, Richard, When the Present Becomes the Past, in Antoinette J. Lee, ed. Past Meets Future: Saving America's Historical Environments. Washington, DC: The Preservation Press, Class 13 - Presentation of Class Assignment 2 - CLR, Historic Analysis, or Comparative Study Page 8 of 8, Syllabus