Cultural Landscape Report for National Park Service Golf Courses in the District of Columbia: Treatment Guidelines

Joseph MD, Commisso M, Foulds HE, Stachowicz MW, Weldon DT. 2019. Cultural Landscape Report for National Park Service Golf Courses in the District of Columbia: Treatment Guidelines. Cultural Landscape Report. NCRO 800 151975. U.S. Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C.

This Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) for the National Park Service (NPS) golf courses in the District of Columbia provides treatment guidelines for the long-term stewardship of the three golf course under NPS management control: East Potomac Park, Langston, and Rock Creek golf courses. This report builds upon other documents that address these historic golf courses including the 2017 Historic Resource Study (HRS) and three Cultural Landscape Inventories (CLI) for East Potomac Park Golf Course, Langston Golf Course, and Rock Creek Golf Course, also completed in 2017. Until recently, these golf courses were not considered or managed as historic resources. All three are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are contributing to a larger National Register Historic District. This CLR will not only assist National Park Service managers, but subsequent golf course operators in their eforts to manage and preserve the historic golf course landscapes of East Potomac Park, Langston, and Rock Creek. With the popularity of golf at its peak in the 1920s and 1930s during the Golden Age of Golf, the federally-managed parks within the District of Columbia supported opening public courses for this new sport. Reclaimed tidal fats on the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and a former farm within Rock Creek Park served as the locations for the public golf courses.

Type
Published Report
Authors
Joseph, Maureen; Commisso, Michael; Foulds, H.; Stachowicz, Michael; Weldon, Daniel
Date of Issue
2019-06
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior
Units
ANAC , NACE , NAMA , NCR , ROCR
Keywords
African American history, Anacostia River, Black history, civil rights, CLR, cultural landscape, D.C., Golf, Hains Point, Horace W. Peaslee, Kingman Lake, landscape preservation, OCLP, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, recreation, segregation, Walter J. Travis, Washington, William F. Gordon, William S. Flynn
Subjects
CRIS-CL: 975994: East Potomac Golf Course , CRIS-CL: 976002: Langston Golf Course , CRIS-CL: 975992: Rock Creek Golf Course

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