Cultural Landscape Report for Colonial Parkway, Colonial National Historical Park, Part I: Site History, Existing Conditions & Analysis
McCartney M, Andropogen Associates, Ltd., Urban Engineers, Inc., LANDSCAPES - Landscape Architecture, Planning, Historic Preservation. 1997. Cultural Landscape Report for Colonial Parkway, Colonial National Historical Park, Part I: Site History, Existing Conditions & Analysis. Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Chesapeake & Allegheny Systems Support Office. Yorktown, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cultural Landscape Report Part I: Site History, Existing Conditions & Analysis for Colonial Parkway at Colonial National Historical Park. This project represents Part I of the Colonial Parkway Cultural Landscape Report. It includes the site history, documentation of existing conditions, and analysis of character-defining features, as well as a statement of significance. This CLR, Part I reveals that the Colonial Parkway today remains a relatively intact cultural resource, one which expresses the intent and character of its original design. However, the report reveals that several influences are presently or will potentially impact or degrade Colonial Parkway. These influences include expanded urban growth, increased commuter traffic, new recreational uses, changed vegetation, increased drainage flows, eroded shorelines, and highway safety requirements. This report is a preservation and management tool that will aid in addressing these pressures from a sound basis of research and analysis. Partly because of their considerable size, documenting the history, evolution, and existing conditions of parkway landscapes can be a considerable assignment. Since parkways rely heavily on borrowed scenery to provide much of their character, documenting the relationship of parkways to their surrounding environments is also important, and adds another layer of complexity to the task. This was particularly true for Colonial Parkway, which is a narrow corridor traversing lands which witnessed the colonial settlement of the United States, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. Because the history of these surrounding lands has been largely undocumented, and because this history was of primary importance in establishment of both Colonial National Historical Park and Colonial Parkway, documentation of the historic land uses surrounding the parkway was deemed an essential component of the task. Therefore, the site history project was divided into two tasks, which required different methodologies and expertise. A CLR is generally completed in three parts: Part I includes a site history, a documentation of existing conditions, and an analysis of character-defining features, based on National Register Criteria. Part II documents a proposed landscape preservation treatment and Part III is a record of that treatment. The completion of Parts II and III were beyond the scope of this project.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- McCartney, Martha; Andropogen Associates, Ltd.; Urban Engineers, Inc.; LANDSCAPES - Landscape Architecture, Planning, Historic Preservation
- Date of Issue
- 1997-11
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Chesapeake & Allegheny Systems Support Office
- Units
- COLO , COLP , NER
- Keywords
- American Revolution, automobile, Battle of Yorktown, Bureau of Public Roads, Charles Peterson, Colonial Era, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Edward Zimmer, Engineering, H.J Spelman, Jamestown, parkway, Revolutionary War, roadway, Stanley Abbott, Tourism, Transportation, Visitor Services, William H. Smith, Williamsburg, Yorktown
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 300086: Colonial Parkway