Landscape Preservation Maintenance Plan: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
AECOM, Inc.. 2010. Landscape Preservation Maintenance Plan: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Cultural Landscape Management Plans. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office. Omaha, Nebraska
This landscape preservation maintenance plan concerns the Gateway Arch National Monument, formerly known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. This plan provides information to help retain the historic character of the landscape, with guidance for the ongoing maintenance of character‐defining features, and recommendations for solutions to various problems that, if left unresolved, could result in loss of historic integrity. The scope of this plan is focused on vegetation at the Memorial, primarily the trees that compose the Memorial’s character‐defining vegetation features; these are the most maintenance‐intensive and significant features on the grounds. In addition, the plan addresses the maintenance of paving surfaces of the Memorial’s character‐defining circulation features, specifically the system of curving walks, the ramps at the Gateway Arch entrances, and the Grand Staircase. The plan also addresses the surface/exterior maintenance of the overlooks, railroad cuts, and tunnel entrances. This plan does not include guidance for buildings and structures (such as the Gateway Arch, Old Cathedral, or Museum of Westward Expansion), or for structural problems of the railroad tunnels and Overlooks. These may be addressed through other appropriate guidance such as a Historic Structures Report (HSR). The emphasis of this plan is on maintenance required to meet landscape preservation goals, rather than on the current capabilities and resources of the Memorial maintenance program. The plan is based on providing information about best practices; it will support needed changes to baseline maintenance in the future, as identified in the 2009 General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/EIS). Based on planning‐level estimates, the Preferred Alternative of the GMP identifies a need for an increase in facilities and grounds maintenance staff of approximately 21 full‐time employees (plus likely additional partner staffing to support operations).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- AECOM, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2010-11
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office
- Units
- JEFF , MWR
- Keywords
- Amur Corktree, and Profusion Cabapple, Baldcypress, Blackgum, Bradford Pear, Bur Oak and Red Oak, concrete, designed landscape, Ginkgo, Greenspire Linden, Honeylocust, Japanese Black Pine, Japanese Pagodatree or Scholartree, Kentucky Coffeetree, Pagoda Dogwood: Flowering Dogwood, Radiant Crabapple, Red Maple, Red Pine, River Birch and River Birch 'Heritage', 'Rosehill' White Ash, Saucer Magnolia: Sweet Bay Magnolia, Snowdrift Crabapple, Sugar Hackberry, Swamp White Oak, Sweetgum, Washington Hawthorn and 'Winter King' Hawthorn, Zelkova
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 450006: National Expansion Memorial