Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Cultural Landscape Report
Land and Community Associates and NPS Staff. 1995. Herbert Hoover National Historic Site Cultural Landscape Report. Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Omaha, Nebraska
NPS initiated the Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) process for the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (NHS) in response to the need for clear guidance on how to manage different landscape units of the site. Throughout its history as a commemorative and interpretive site, the site has changed in size, appearance, and complexity. The site also has changed from a representation of Hoover’s boyhood home to a historic village re-creation and memorial park that incorporates his presidential library and gravesite. The CLR has been undertaken primarily in response to management needs and concerns. NHS managers, working to re-create the historic scene in the village core, have recognized the need for more detailed information than that available in the 1968 Historical Base Map and Ground Study. Moreover, NPS has identified a need for recommendations concerning management of other landscape areas of the NHS, especially the gravesite, farms, and loop road. The master plan provides only the general recommendation to maintain the “memorial character.” There is also a lack of guidance concerning appropriate treatment of the different areas of the NHS landscape. The scope of work for the CLR includes: -Investigations of Herbert Hoover’s childhood neighborhood and other later landscape units, such as the gravesite; -Representations of the development of that landscape over time as the site has evolved from Hoover’s boyhood neighborhood to a NHS; -Preservation treatment recommendations consistent with NPS policies and planning documents; -Evaluation of alternative design proposals presented in the 1992 Development Concept Plan. Treatment recommendations have been made for the entire NHS as well as for the distinct landscape character areas identified, documented, analyzed, and evaluated in the CLR. These six areas include the historic core, the gravesite, the library-museum area, the loop drive area, the rural/agricultural setting, and the visitor contact and park support area. Treatment recommendations have been developed to retain and rehabilitate the essential character-defining features from the period of significance and to avoid attempts to re-create any one historic period.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Land and Community Associates; NPS Staff
- Date of Issue
- 1995-09
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- HEHO , HIST , MWR
- Keywords
- blacksmith shop, boyhood home, childhood home, commemoration, Cottage, Cultural Resources, development concept plan, Downey Street, ehistory, farm machinery, Hulda Hoover, Iowa, Jesse Hoover, library, memorial landscape, Osage Indian territory, porch, president, Presidential Library, Quaker, vegetable garden, West Branch, Wood, woodshed
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 500401: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site