Adams Birthplaces: Cultural Landscape Report, Adams National Historical Park, National Park Service
Holder K, Bertolini J, Young JR. 2014. Adams Birthplaces: Cultural Landscape Report, Adams National Historical Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NER Northeast Regional Office. NPS Northeast Regional Office
A cultural landscape report is the primary document used by the National Park Service to inform long-term management and treatment decisions for its historically significant landscapes. The report follows the approach defined in the Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Contents, Process, and Techniques (NPS, 1998). This report for the Adams birthplaces cultural landscape is organized into four chapters: site history, existing conditions, analysis and evaluation, and treatment. The first chapter includes a detailed history of the landowners and evolution of the Penn’s Hill farm and built features. The second chapter documents the existing conditions of the birthplaces landscape in 2013. The third chapter contains an analysis and evaluation of the significance and integrity of the birthplaces landscape using the criteria established by the National Register of Historic Places. The final treatment chapter provides guidance for the long-term management of the landscape. Research for this report has been undertaken at a thorough level of investigation, which includes review of all available historic resources including both primary and secondary sources. Primary source materials included letters, diary entries, maps, and photographs from the collections of the Adams National Historical Park archives, Quincy Historical Society, Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Athenaeum, Braintree Historic Society, and Historic New England. A wealth of secondary source material exists through the work of several researchers over the years relating to the character and history of the Adams birthplaces and the Penn’s Hill farm. Sources included family and regional histories by Charles Francis Adams and Henry Adams, the draft Historic Structures Report (Perrault, 1993), Historic Furnishings Report (Racine, 2001), New Area Study for the Birthplaces (NPS,1978), National Register documents (1975), and the park’s General Management Plan (NPS, 1996). These reports, and many others, provide landscape context, describe extant features, document the landscape’s significance, and provide a framework for the treatment approach and recommendations.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Holder, Kirsten; Bertolini, James; Young, Jaime
- Date of Issue
- 2014
- Publisher
- NER Northeast Regional Office
- Units
- ADAM
- Keywords
- Abigail Adams, Adams, Birthplace, Commemorative Landscape, Cultural Landscape Report, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, Quincy
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 650125: Adams Birthplaces