Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report Volume 1, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, National Park Service
Pressley M and Zaitzevsky C. 1993. Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site: Cultural Landscape Report Volume 1, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Northeast Regional Office. Northeast Regional Office
The Cultural Landscape Report for the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site is the third publication of this series. In this document, Volume 1: Site History and Existing Conditions, rigorous historical research and field analysis reconstructed a detailed evolution of the landscape. Volume 2: Site Analysis will establish the historic context and evaluate the landscape’s significance and integrity. Finally, development of a Treatment Plan will identify site-specific management goals. These four major sections of a Cultural Landscape Report- site history, existing conditions, analysis, and treatment plan-are precursors to initiating treatment. Although this four-phase methodology is transferable to all types of landscapes, each landscape’s unique history requires examination to develop site-specific preservation goals. The scope of the first part of the Cultural Landscape Report: Site History and Existing Conditions has included reconstructing the past history of the site, inventory and analysis of its present conditions, and the preparation of period plans. In the Site Analysis, the significance and integrity of the landscape will be examined more fully according to National Register criteria. The first two sections will provide the basis for the development of a Cultural Landscape Treatment Plan. Historical research and the inventory of existing conditions were both started at the outset of the project and proceeded simultaneously. The aim of the research has been to document as completely as possible, from primary sources and reliable secondary sources, all eras of the site’s history. Cynthia Zaitzevsky and Lynn Schad, Research Assistant, have thoroughly explored photographic archives but have located very few views not already owned by or copied by the site. The Saint-Gaudens Family Collection and the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Collection at Baker Library, Dartmouth College have also been extensively searched. The resources used are fully described in the Bibliography, Notes, List of Repositories, and Appendix A and will not be further detailed here.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Pressley, Marion; Zaitzevsky, Cynthia
- Date of Issue
- 1993
- Publisher
- NPS Northeast Regional Office
- Units
- NER , SAGA
- Keywords
- art, Aspet, Augustus Saint Gaudens, Birch Allee, Charles C. Beaman, Cornish, Cornish Colony, Flower Garden, George Fletcher Babb, Hay Barn, horticulture, New Hampshire, Piazza, Picture Gallery, sculpture, Studio, Studio of the Caryatids
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 650051: Saint-Gaudens NHS Landscape