Sanson Ranch Historic Treatment Report, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Wind Cave National Park
STRATA Architecture Inc. (contractor) and Quinn Evans Architects (contractor). 2017. Sanson Ranch Historic Treatment Report, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Wind Cave National Park. Combined Historic Structure Report and Cultural Landscape Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS Midwest Region
The National Park Service has contracted this study to document, assess, and provide stabilization treatment recommendations for the Sanson Ranch. An overall developmental history of the landscape and buildings was prepared through research and the analysis of historic photographs. Interviews of past tenants, relatives, visitors, and neighbors provide the history of the buildings’ evolution during the Sanson family ownership. The period of significance for the Sanson Ranch is identified as 1882-1987, beginning with the first homesteading activities by August Sanson in 1882, through the peak years of the cattle ranch, and ending with the sale out of family ownership in 1987. The ranch encompasses an expanse of historic resources, and the landscape and structures demonstrate an overall integrity of original materials and form. At the time of the report, the area (called the Casey Addition) was closed to visitors until plans are completed for the historic ranch rehabilitation and interpretation. The ranch property has significant associations with American Indian culture, archeology, vernacular architecture, western settlement, cattle production, social history, historic agriculture, historic native short grass prairie vegetation, birds, and wildlife. The property can support comprehensive interpretation of history and the surrounding landscape and culture. The Sanson Ranch was among the earliest homesteads in Custer County and served as the center of the nearby ranching community. The historic ranch in Wind Cave National Park contains a nineteenth century pole barn, an 1899 stone chicken house, an early dugout, a 1930s stone cistern, and a 1917 wood framed bungalow with an adjacent garage. An American Indian (pre-contact) habitation site with a buffalo jump, tipi rings, rock cairns, and other features are associated with the property. The Sanson Ranch Historic Treatment Report is broken into two phases. The first phase of the report (Part 1) presents existing conditions and analysis of the ranch buildings and the cultural landscape. The second phase of the project focused on the development of long term treatment and schematic design for the buildings and landscape, and corresponds to materials contained in Part 2 of this report. These sections are provided as two separate volumes.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- STRATA Architecture Inc. (contractor); Quinn Evans Architects (contractor)
- Date of Issue
- 2017-06-29
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- MWR , WICA
- Keywords
- agriculture, August Sanson, Black Hills, cattle ranch, dugout, electricity, farming technology, homstead, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lakota, lifestock, mechanization, open range grazing, prospector, quartz mining, ranching, soil conservation, Swedish immigrant, vernacular landscape
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 975709: Sanson Ranch