Mission Concepcion: Cultural Landscape Report Volume 3, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, National Park Service
James and Juarez Architects, Contractor. 1998. Mission Concepcion: Cultural Landscape Report Volume 3, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Intermountain Regional Office. Intermountain Regional Office
This Cultural Landscape Report (CLR), which commenced in December 1992, was part of a comprehensive effort designed to “document and evaluate the cultural landscape resources and existing conditions and to develop appropriate treatment guidelines and/or plans for the preservation and enhancement of cultural landscape resources throughout San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.” Under direction of NPS, a multidisciplinary consultant team of landscape architects, historians, and preservation specialists initiated documentation and evaluation of cultural landscape resources within the park’s boundaries. Appropriate treatment guidelines and recommendations for the maintenance and enhancement of historic resources were also developed. For Volume 3, Mission Concepcion Cultural Landscape Report, project historians Jake Ivey of NPS and Maria Pfeiffer of San Antonio conducted primary and secondary research, reviewing sources such as historic maps and photographs, written records, natural and cultural resource documents, and other materials relating to all cultural landscape elements of Mission Concepcion and its evolution. Deed research was also undertaken for the project. A list of the sources used is provided in the CLR bibliography. Information presented in the site physical history was organized and based upon the periods of landscape development identified by the interdisciplinary team of historians, architectural historians, archeologists, architects, and landscape architects. A series of landscape chronology maps delineates the key characteristics and components of the landscape during each of the periods. Information presented in the existing conditions inventory and the site analysis and evaluation has been organized according to the twelve landscape characteristics discussed in National Register Bulletin 30: patterns of spatial organization, response to natural features, land uses and activities, buildings and structures, cluster arrangements, circulation systems, vegetation, small-scale features, views and viewsheds, archeological resources, boundary demarcations, and cultural traditions. The CLR provides documentation of the resources’ development over time and a context within which to analyze extant features.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- James and Juarez Architects, Contractor
- Date of Issue
- 1998-05
- Publisher
- NPS Intermountain Regional Office
- Units
- IMR , SAAN
- Keywords
- Adobe, Agriculture, Assimilation, Christianity, church, Civil Workds Administration, Coahuiltecans, convento, cruciform-plan, defensive wall, farmlands, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Gardens, irrigation ditches, Pueblo, Queretaran, Religion, San Antonio River Valley, secularization, Spanish, Spanish colonial period, Urban Encroachment, Wells, Works Progress Administration
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 850148: Mission Concepción