Allenbrook: Cultural Landscape Report, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, National Park Service

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This Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) is for Allenbrook, a fifteen-acre component landscape of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CHAT) in Fulton County, Georgia. The park unit was established in 1978, and includes sixteen discontinuous units along the Chattahoochee River corridor. The property is significant under Criterion A (Association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history), Criterion B (Association with significant people of the American past), Criterion C (Embodiment of the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction), and Criterion D (Yielding or potential to yield information in history or prehistory). The primary contributing resource to the period of significance within the site is the circa 1856 Allenbrook house, which served as a residence for various families until 1979. Additional contributing cultural landscape characteristics at the site include spatial organization, historic views, and remnant circulation features. The site history included in this report gives an overview of the Allenbrook cultural landscape. Research for the site history included consultation of both primary and secondary sources of information including documents gathered from CHAT archives, the Roswell Historical Society, and the Fulton and Cobb County, Georgia Courthouses. The existing conditions section provides a comprehensive description of cultural landscape features at the Allenbrook site, including natural and cultural resources. The inventory includes information gathered during site visits by project team members between December 2018 and August 2019. The analysis of integrity section uses criteria developed by the National Register of Historic Places to evaluate the historic integrity of existing landscape resources. The section on treatment recommendations provides guidance for future management decisions related to the site’s historic landscape resources in accordance with the Secretary of Interior Standards for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes. This CLR assessed the Allenbrook historic landscape in terms of its past and present use. This assessment informed treatment recommendations that aim to guide future management decisions related to the stewardship of the site’s historic landscape resources. Focusing on the site’s most significant period—circa 1850s-1932—this report recommends rehabilitation as the most appropriate choice for the site’s overall treatment. A rehabilitation treatment approach preserves historic features, improves features that are in decline, and permits compatible changes at the Allenbrook site. As such, a rehabilitation treatment option allows the park to continue safeguarding the historic character of the site, while allowing changes that increase public use and appreciation of the landscape.

Allenbrook: Cultural Landscape Report, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, National Park Service

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