Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Cultural Landscape Report Update, Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. and John Milner Associates, Inc.. 2013. Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: Cultural Landscape Report Update, Blue Ridge Parkway, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. Foreword Project Team Introduction Update to the 1993 CLR Chapter One: The Present Landscape Update. Southeast Regional office, National Park Service. Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park is a 3,516 acre historic designed landscape within the Blue Ridge Parkway boundaries. It is located in Watauga County, North Carolina, just north of Blowing Rock. The site was originally purchased and developed by Moses H. Cone and his wife Bertha Cone between 1893 and 1899. They built the main house, Flat Top Manor and designed a Country Place Era landscape throughout the grounds. This Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) Update provides up-to-date revisions for the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park Cultural Landscape Report written in 1993. The revisions were necessary due to changes in site conditions, availability of additional research, and changes in park development and use plans for the site that may affect landscape preservation. This CLR Update also revises the significance section of the original CLR to ensure that the CLR, cultural landscape inventory (CLI), and National Register nomination are all in concurrence. Finally, the CLR Update for Moses H. Cone Memorial Park provides updated landscape treatment recommendations, as well as new treatment recommendations as necessary. Though the CLR Update provides changes and revisions, the 1993 CLR remains a relevant, insightful, and highly useful document that will continue to support protection and management of the estate’s cultural landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.; John Milner Associates, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2013-11
- Publisher
- Southeast Regional office, National Park Service
- Units
- BLRI
- Keywords
- Agricultural, Bertha Cone, Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Country Place Era, Cultural Landscape, Flat Top Estate, Flat Top Manor, Late Victorian Eclectic Landscape, Memorial Park, Moses H. Cone, North Carolina, Period Revivals, Recreation Area, Report, Watauga County
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 550143: Moses H. Cone Estate