Cultural Landscape Report for Glen Haven Village Historic District, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Dietrich-Smith, Deborah

To effectively protect and manage Glen Haven’s historic district, a greater understanding of the significance of the landscape is needed. The Glen Haven site receives heavy visitor use in the spring, summer, and fall months. The park will construct parking lots and driveways, regrade around historic buildings, upgrade utilities, install waysides, and improve an existing picnic area using funding from the Line-Item Construction Program. Rehabilitation of the Glen Haven buildings is in progress; however, further guidelines for landscape treatment are needed. A Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) is the primary document used by the National Park Service for management of its historically significant cultural landscapes. A CLR provides park managers with a comprehensive site history; documents existing conditions; evaluates the historic significance of the landscape and analyzes its characteristics and associated features; and provides treatment recommendations to guide short and long-term management. This report for Glen Haven has been developed according to the Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques (National Park Service, 1998). It consists of four parts: site history, existing conditions, analysis, and treatment guidelines. The site history and existing conditions sections document in narrative and graphic form the physical evolution of the landscape from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The analysis section provides a concise discussion of the property’s historic significance according to the National Register criteria, and an evaluation of the landscape characteristics and associated features that contribute to that significance. The analysis incorporates concepts from National Register Bulletin 30: Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Landscapes. All preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, or reconstruction treatment recommendations conform to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation, and the Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Landscapes. The purpose of this CLR for Glen Haven is threefold: This plan will provide recommendations for landscape treatment; supplement existing interpretive information to provide a more comprehensive visitor experience; and will provide design guidance to SmithGroup, an architectural, engineering, and planning fi rm hired to implement the 1993 DCP.

Cultural Landscape Report for Glen Haven Village Historic District, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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