Sunrise Developed Area: Cultural Landscape Report, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service

Davison, Mark; Dolan, Susan

The CLR is intended to inform the management and interpretation of the Sunrise Developed Area landscape. The CLR documents the significance of the site, noting change over time, and provides a preservation strategy for the treatment and long-term management of the landscape. In total, this CLR consists of three parts, which describes the site’s history, provides an overview of existing conditions and landscape analysis, and recommends treatment actions consistent with historic preservation principles. The NPS has identified the CLR as the primary guide for treatment and use of a cultural landscape. With reference to appropriate historical contexts, a CLR documents and evaluates landscape features and qualities that make a property eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. A CLR typically analyzes a landscape’s geographical setting, development and evolution, materials, construction techniques, and use in all periods, including those deemed not significant. Drawing upon many disciplines, a CLR documents, analyzes, and evaluates historical, architectural, archeological, ethnographic, horticultural, landscape architectural, engineering, and ecological data as appropriate. It makes recommendations for treatment work consistent with the landscape’s condition and use, following the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. Part 1: Historical Narrative provides a chronological description of the physical development of the Sunrise Developed Area landscape. It is based on historical research and field observations necessary to support a description of the events, trends and activities that shaped the landscape over time. For the Sunrise Developed Area, Part 1 is comprised of three sections corresponding to distinct periods in the development of the property. In addition to a narrative history, each chapter contains historic photographs and illustrations showing the appearance of the landscape at a particular point in time, based on documentary sources and physical evidence. Existing Conditions and Analysis provides a description of the existing landscape, and presents an overview analysis of landscape characteristics. Part 3: Treatment provides an overview of treatment philosophy and approach and recommends a series of tasks necessary to improve the condition for the Sunrise Developed Area landscape consistent with the Secretary’s Standards.

Sunrise Developed Area: Cultural Landscape Report, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service

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