A History of the National Park Service Mission 66 Program
Appleman RE. 1958. A History of the National Park Service Mission 66 Program. Mission 66 Committee, National Park Service. Washington, DC
Written by Roy E. Appleman, Staff Historian for the Mission 66 Study, this history sought to preserve a narrative record of the origin and development of the MISSION 66 program. The history covers the time period from 1955 and Mission 66's conception by Conrad L. Wirth, NPS Director to 1956 and the first appropriations for the Program in the FY 1957 appropriation bill. In Appleman's words, "The MISSION 66 Plan proved to be an unusually successful way of getting Park problems before the country and of formulating a method of receiving Administration and Congressional action to support and implement a proposed solution. Because this plan promises to be the basis for National Park Service work during the next ten years, and will undoubtedly influence policy and development far into the future beyond even that time, it has been considered desirable to leave in the records of the Service an account of how it developed." NOTE: The digital copy of the original document is from a scan of a photocopy. The quality is not high. An accompanying digital file with a transcript of the original document has been provided for ease of reading.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Appleman, Roy
- Date of Issue
- 1958-01
- Publisher
- Mission 66 Committee, National Park Service
- Keywords
- architecture, history, mission 66, mission 66 program, mission 66 study, national park service, park facilities, visitor center, wirth
- Subjects
- NPS.gov Subject Site: Architecture & Buildings