Stanton Park: Cultural Landscape Inventory, National Capital Parks-East-Capitol Hill Parks
Quinn R and Wheelock P. 2013. Stanton Park: Cultural Landscape Inventory, National Capital Parks-East-Capitol Hill Parks. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 600075. NPS National Capital Regional Office. National Capital Regional Office/CLI Database
Stanton Park consists of all of Reservation 15 in Washington, D.C., and is bounded on the north and south by C Street, NE; on the east by 6th Street, NE; and on the west by 4th Street, NE. The reservation was created as part of the implementation of the L'Enfant Plan for the City of Washington and has been a public park since the first improvements in the 1870s. Although modifications were made to the site furnishings, vegetation and central walkways in the 1960s, most of the significant landscape characterisics were retained (circulation, views and vistas and spatial organization). The park still retains its appearance from the latest period of significance (1877-1933) when the present alignment of most of the walkways where constructed. There is partial integrity to the two earlier period of significances (1791) when the land was set aside as a public reservation, and (1867-1877) when the Greene statue was placed in the center of the park and linden trees were planted around the perimeter of the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Quinn, Richard; Wheelock, Perry
- Date of Issue
- 2013-09-23
- Publisher
- NPS National Capital Regional Office
- Units
- NACE , NCR
- Keywords
- Capitol Hill Historic District, Historic Designed Landscape, Landscape architecture, L'Enfant Plan, Nathanael Greene Statue, Playground, Plaza, Public Space, Regional planning, Reservation 15, Stanton Square, The Late Victorian Eclectic Landscape, Urban Park, Urban Planning in the Twentieth Century