Cultural Landscape Report for Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Patterson Air Force Base "From Pasture to Runway: Cultural Landscape Report, Landscape Implementation Plan, Interpretation Plan"
Fratterigo E, McEnaney M, Foulds H, Richter T. 2002. Cultural Landscape Report for Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Patterson Air Force Base "From Pasture to Runway: Cultural Landscape Report, Landscape Implementation Plan, Interpretation Plan". Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS Midwest Regional Office
Huffman Prairie Flying Field, located within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and was established as a partnership unit of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in 1992. In 1998, following completion of a General Management Plan and Interpretive Plan for Dayton Aviation Heritage, Wright-Patterson and the National Park Service (NPS) initiated planning for developing Huffman Prairie Flying Field. Cultural landscape and interpretation planning were linked to ensure a comprehensive planning approach. This document, which contains a Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) and Interpretation Plan (IP) for the flying field, is the culmination of this comprehensive planning initiative. The CLR is the primary research document used by the NPS and other agencies to identify and document features and qualities representing a landscape’s historic significance. CLRs provide immediate and long-term guidance for protecting unique features and qualities to ensure their availability for future generations. The CLR consists of four sections: the Site History, completed by NPS history technician Elizabeth Fraterrigo, is an exhaustive study of the physical development of the flying field evolved into Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The second section, Historic Landscape Evaluation, contains an analysis of the flying field’s landscape character using criteria established by the National Register of Historic Places. The analysis section sets a framework for defining appropriate treatment activities and management strategies that are described in the third section Treatment Alternatives. This section identifies and provides a supporting rationale for the preferred alternative. Marla McEnaney, historical landscape architect for the National Park Service’s Midwest Regional Office, prepared the second and third sections for Wright-Patterson. Detailed guidance for implementing the preferred treatment alternative, prepared by H. Eliot Foulds of the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, is provided in the fourth section. The Interpretation Plan, which recommends appropriate themes, defines desired visitor experiences and proposes personal and non-personal services, was completed by Tom Richter, interpretation planner for the NPS’s Midwest Regional Office. David Guiney of the NPS Harpers Ferry Center provided preliminary conceptual planning for the flying field interpretation program.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Fratterigo, Elizabeth; McEnaney, Marla; Foulds, H Eliot; Richter, Tom
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- DAAV , MWR
- Keywords
- Adena culture, Air Force base, Aircraft, airfoil, Aviation, botany, carriage, cow pasture, Field, gliders, hangar, interpretation, Military, National Historic Landmark, OCLP, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Orville Wright, railway, Simms Station, tallgrass prairie, Tower, training, transportation, Wilbur Wright, wooden shed, Wright Brothers
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 501182: Huffman Prairie Flying Field