Guide to Developing a Preservation Maintenance Plan for a Historic Landscape
Coffin M and Bellavia RM. 1998. Guide to Developing a Preservation Maintenance Plan for a Historic Landscape. Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents. Cultural Landscape Publication No. 7. NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
Cultural Landscape Publication No. 7: A Guide to Developing a Preservation Maintenance Plan for a Historic Landscape. This guide is a revised version of the first edition of the Guide to Developing a Preservation Maintenance Plan for a Historic Landscape, published in 1995. It reflects the continuing development of the principles and practices of maintaining historic landscapes. The guide is intended to give managers of historic landscapes an effective tool for integrating preservation objectives into landscape maintenance operations, and for planning and documenting work. The step-by-step procedure systematically describes preservation maintenance for an audience of maintenance managers, gardeners, landscape architects, and preservation specialists. This document offers a framework for a maintenance operations plan that focuses on preserving the character of a historic landscape. The term preservation maintenance refers to the practice of monitoring change, controlling growth, replacing in-kind, and minimizing disturbance in the landscape to ensure that features are not lost and the character of a place is not compromised. The plan is divided into six sections: Defining Objectives, Areas and Categories of Features, Inventory of Landscape Features, Field Inspection and Summary of Work Needed, Feature Data and Record Keeping, and Seasonal Calendar. A complete Preservation Maintenance Plan serves many functions. It can help organize and clarify maintenance operation, serve as a scope for project funding, and monitor conditions to indicate the priority response. The plan is particularly beneficial when there is a change in personnel, and it provides a source of information on how the landscape has changed over time. However, in order for it to be most effective, it must be updated and amended regularly. Documenting the continually-changing landscape will continue to have valuable outcomes in coming years.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Coffin, Margaret; Bellavia, Regina
- Date of Issue
- 1998
- Publisher
- NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
- Keywords
- Historic Landscape, Inspection Criteria, landscape inventory, objectives, Planning, Preservation Guidance, Seasonal Calendar