The White House & President's Park: Cultural Landscape Report, National Park Service
Boyle DC, Krause D, Edaw, Inc., Land and Community Associates, Cynthia Zaitzevsky & Associates, John Milner Associates. 2001. The White House & President's Park: Cultural Landscape Report, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. Denver Service Center. Denver Service Center
Cultural Landscape Report for The White House & President's Park: Site History and Evaluation 1791-1994. President’s Park is an approximately 82.22-acre site that contains all of the land originally reserved for the development of the White House, as stipulated in Pierre L-Enfant’s 1791 plan. Set within a densely developed cityscape, President’s Park contains public and private open spaces, limited-access governmental office buildings and roads, public streets and sidewalks, and the White House grounds- a private enclave which includes the official residence and offices of the President of the United States. President’s Park generally slopes from north to south, and is bounded by city streets, sidewalks and urban streetscapes to the west, north and east, and by the Mall to the south. In addition to the White House and its grounds, President’s Park also contains other highly imageable buildings and landscaped open spaces, including the Treasury, the Old Executive Office , Lafayette Park, the Ellipse, Sherman Plaza, and a number of monuments and memorials. The approach used in doing the research for this report has been to find out, within the time constraints of the project, as much as possible about all aspects of the history of the site. Since most of the primary source material is in Washington and since our time there has been limited, it was necessary at the outset of the project to establish priorities for pursuing the research. Four research trips, totaling 20 days, have been made to Washington in connection with this project. The major part of the historical material is presented in the eight historical chapters. The Chronology (Appendix A) is intended to be a quick reference, listing the most important events in the history of President’s Park. It does not constitute the primary discussion of these events. In presenting the material in Chapters 1 through 8, the approach throughout has been to coordinate the visual materials and the written materials in order to arrive at a balanced assessment of all of the relevant sources. For these reasons, out of the numerous plans, maps, prints, drawings and photographs of the site that are available, especially for the later periods of its history, a carefully considered selection has been made and used to illustrate this report.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Boyle, Dr. Susan; Krause, David; Edaw, Inc.; Land and Community Associates; Cynthia Zaitzevsky & Associates; John Milner Associates
- Date of Issue
- 2001-12
- Publisher
- Denver Service Center
- Units
- HIST , NCR , PRPA , WHHO
- Keywords
- Andrew Jackson Downing, Bulfinch Gatehouse, Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, Commemorative Property, Conservation, Education, ehistory, Ellipse Meridian Stone, Entertainment, First Divison Monument, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Historic Designed Landscape, History, Landscape architecture, L'Enfant Plan, McMillan Commission, Memorial, monument, National Christmas Tree, Original Patentees of the District of Columbia Memorial, Parade Ground, Recreation, Second Division Memorial, Sherman Park, Sherman Statue, Smithsonian Park, The Ellipse, The White House , Vista, Zero Milestone