George Washington Carver Museum Historic Structure Report
Panamerican Consultants, Inc. 2390 Clinton Street Buffalo, New York 14227, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. 330 Pfingsten Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062, WFT Architects, PA 770 North State Street Jackson, Mississippi 39202. 2019. George Washington Carver Museum Historic Structure Report. National Park Service. Southeast Regional Office 100 Alabama Street SW Atlanta, Georgia 30303
At the request of the National Park Service (NPS), Panamerican Consultants, Inc., and its subconsultants, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) and WFT Architects (WFTA), have developed this Historic Structure Report (HSR) for the George Washington Carver Museum. The museum is located on the campus of Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Tuskegee, Alabama. It is also located in the Historic Campus District. Figure 1 is a map of the state of Alabama showing the location of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. Figure 2 is a map of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site showing the location of the George Washington Carver Museum. The George Washington Carver Museum is listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a contributing resource to the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. The property is important within the site because it represents an immediate link to Tuskegee’s most significant scientist, George Washington Carver, a philanthropist, humanitarian, and researcher who used the building for his last laboratories and office and as the site of the creation of his foundation, the George Washington Carver Research Foundation. Carver endowed the foundation upon his death for the perpetuity of the museum and education of young African American men in the sciences. The building, originally constructed in 1915 as a laundry, also represents a tangible link to Booker T. Washington, the Institute’s first principal, during a period when the school stressed industrial education for men and women. The laundry was a site for the education of women in an important household and economic activity. Finally, the laundry was designed by Robert Robinson Taylor, 1. Horace J. Sheely Jr., National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings: Tuskegee Institute (N.P.: National Park Service, 1965). a significant African American architect, who taught at Tuskegee Institute and shaped its campus for almost forty years. The landscape of the campus was created by the significant black American landscape architect, David A. Williston. Landscape work at the museum was completed by Merle Cooper and his students, who did the planting and laid out the new concrete walks.
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- Published Report
- Authors
- Panamerican Consultants, Inc. 2390 Clinton Street Buffalo, New York 14227; Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. 330 Pfingsten Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062; WFT Architects, PA 770 North State Street Jackson, Mississippi 39202
- Date of Issue
- 2019-10-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service
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- Keywords
- Booker T. Washington, Carver Museum, David A. Williston, George Washington Carver, Historic Structure Report, Robert Robinson Taylor, Tuskegee Institute
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 091221: George Washington Carver Museum (091221)