NetworkT^ ^F NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS 'W VOLUME II, No. 1 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS PROGRAM SUMMER, 1999
Federal Grants to Save America's Treasures By Rebecca A. Shiffer
irst Lady Hillary Rodham FClinton, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, and National Park Service Director Robert Stanton announced the 1999 Federal Grants to Save America's Treasures in a cere mony at the White House on May 19, 1999. Twelve Federal agencies received awards for 62 projects in 24 states, the District of Columbia, and the Midway lands. By law, each award equires a dollar-for-dollar non- Federal match. A large number of states, localities, corporations, foundations, and individuals who value America's shared heritage have already pledged to support Sloss Furnace, Birmingham, Alabama, received a Federal Save America's Treasures grant. these important projects through financial contributions, donations, Laurel Hill Becomes the and in-kind services. The National National Historic Park Service administers these Landmark Stewards First Landmark grants on behalf of the Depart Congress Cemetery ment of the Interior. By Aaron V. Wunsch and Twenty-two National Historic Cape May, New Jersey, Catherine C. Lavoie Landmarks received grants total November 6-10, 1999 ing over 13 million dollars. Each n August 1998, Laurel Hill grant is awarded through a osted by the National Cemetery in Philadelphia Federal agency, which appeal's H Park Service and the I became the first cemetery or parenthetically below— National Historic Landmark Stewards Association, the first designed funerary landscape • Alabama: Sloss Furnace, two conference days, November 6- to be named a National Birmingham (National Park 7, are specifically targeted to Historic Landmark. Laurel Hill Service—Save America's NHLs used as private residences. was recognized for its seminal role Treasures Program). Tours, technical assistance publi in the development of public and • Alaska: Fort Egbert, Eagle cations and more will be available semi-public landscapes, as well as (Bureau of Land Management). to conference attendees! For more its contributions to American information contact Lisa SEE GRANTS, PAGE 15, COLUMN 1 Kolakowsky Smith, 215.579.7946. SEE LAUREL HILL, PAGE 15, COLUMN 3
More grants to NHLs, see page 16. NHL FUNDING NEWS
Good News for NHLs
National Historic By Rebecca A. Shiffev Landmarks Network his issue of NHL Network brings good news about a wide Published by the National Park Sendee Tvariety of financial incentives available to NHLs—grants for American battlefields and for maritime resources: grant-making Robert Stanton criteria targeted to NHLs; and an NPS grant to the NHL Stewards Director Association. These incentives are tangible proof of the expanded Katherine H. Stevenson public awareness of NHLs and the growing commitment to their Associate Director, Cultural Resource preservation. Awareness, commitment, and incentives are also Stewardship and Partnerships combined in the President and First Lady's Millennium Initiative, Ronald M. Greenberg and the result has been of great benefit to NHLs. Manager, National Center for Cultural Resources Stewardship The Millennium Initiative encourages every American to cele and Partnership Programs brate and commemorate our past as we move into the new millenni um. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton leads one of the most excit de Teel Patterson Tiller Chief, Heritage Preservation Services ing components of the Initiative. Save America's Treasures, which involves public and private sector partners collaborating to preserve Frank J.J. Miele. Editor our historic, artistic, and cultural heritage for future generations. Senior Historian, Southeast Regional Office Over the past year, Mrs. Clinton toured historic and cultural sites nationwide and spoke eloquently about the breadth of our nation's Sharon C. Park, FAIA cultural patrimony and the magnitude and urgency of its preserva Chief, Technical Preservation Services tion and conservation needs. NHLs have been featured tour stops Susan Escherich for Mrs. Clinton's three Save America's Treasures tours. She visited Coordinator, National Historic the African Meeting House in Boston: Edith Wharton's home, the Ixindmarks Assistance Initiative Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts: the Harriet Tubman Home for the Paula Cook Aged in Auburn, New York; the Palace of the Governors in Santa NHL Network Coordinator Fe, New Mexico; and the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Arizona, Jerry Buckbinder among many other sites. Ih-oduction Manager Public and private partners are the keys to saving the treasures National Historic hmdmarks Network highlighted by the First Lady. In the public sector, the Federal Save is publisher! biannuallv and is tree ofeharpa'. America's Treasures grants, administered by the NPS on behalf of Letters and articles may be submitted to Frank .1.-1. Miele. Kditor. NHL Netteork. NPS Southeast the Department of the Interior, offer the much needed "bricks and Rethonal Office. Atlanta Federal Center, ltl'dl mortar" grants that have not been available through the Federal Building. 1(X) Alabama Street. SW. Atlanta. historic preservation programs for well over a decade. Twenty-two Georgia 30803. Phone 404.562.3173. F-mail: Frank Miele" nps.gov NHLs received grants totaling over $13 million—43% of the avail able $30 million. Mission of the National I'arh Sercice The National Trust for Historic Preservation leads the private The Notional Pork Si-rcicc is dedicated to conserving unimpaired the natural and cultural sector Save America's Treasures efforts. To date, it has raised over resources and rallies of the National Park System $30 million in private sector support from corporations, private for the enjoyment, edueidion and inspiration of this and future generations. The Sercice foundations, and individual donors for new preservation grants and is also res/Htnsihle for managing a great rariety special preservation projects. of national and international programs With the First Lady's support focusing a public spotlight on our designed to help extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor heritage, the timing has never been better to work together to build recreation throughout this country and the teorld more awareness, commitment, and incentives to preserve the premier examples of our built heritage, our National Historic Landmarks. HPS Heritage Preservation Services Rebecca A. Shifter is the Federal Save America's Treasures Coordinator and NHL Assistance U.S. Department of the Interior Initiative Team Leader, Heritage Preservation Services Division, National Park Service. National Park Service Cultural Resources 2 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
ALASKA
U.S. Coast Guard Committed to Stewardship on Kodiak Island, Alaska By Becky Saleeby and Patrick Carpenter
he U.S. Coast Guard takes Tits role of stewardship very seriously, says Coast Guard Environmental Protection Specialist Alice Coneybeer. Coneybeer and Linda Cook of the National Park Service have devel oped a successful partnership for A soldier looks out of an observation post on the south end of Long Island, an integral part historic preservation of the of the coastal defense system adjacent to the Kodiak Naval Operating Base during World Kodiak Naval Operating Base, a War II. Photo courtesy of the Kodiak Historical Society. "ational Historic Landmark on jdiak Island, Alaska. The Base, mount plaques on key historic Womens Bay area of Kodiak originally established to maintain buildings to announce their signif Island, construction did not begin a strong American military pres icance and will also fund the pub until 1939. Following the bombing ence in the Pacific just prior to lication of illustrated design of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Naval World War II, is now under the guidelines to direct future preser- Operating Base experienced a management of the U.S. Coast vation efforts within the NHL. tremendous increase of troops and Guard. The efforts of Coneybeer The Coast Guard has almost com facilities. In order to protect the and Cook—as evidenced in the pleted HABS/HAER II documen Base, the Army provided an outly formal agreement between the tation of the buildings and tanks ing coastal defense system sur U.S. Coast Guard, the National slated for demolition. Through rounding Kodiak Island. These Park Service, the Alaska State consultation, the Alaska State defensive structures were placed Historic Preservation Office, and Historic Preservation Office and along coastal cliffs that offered the Advisory Council on Historic Coast Guard determined that the optimal distance viewing. Fort Preservation—have focused on loss of these structures would not Greely, located on Buskin Hill and improving the interpretation of substantially impair the historic overlooking the Naval Operating the NHLs and making this infor integrity of the NHL, which Base, served as the coastal defense mation more readily available to includes over 240 contributing command post. Other sub-posts the public. resources. were Fort Abercrombie at Spruce As part of their broad approach Resources contributing to the Cape and Miller Point; Fort to historic planning, the Coast NHL are warehouses, founda Tidball on Long Island; and Fort Guard is committed to funding tions, runways, oil tanks, hangars, J.H. Smith at Chiniak Point and the production of a color brochure seaplane ramps, revetments, St. Peters Head. in a standard NPS (unigrid) bunkers, and a wide variety of The Kodiak Naval Operating format. The brochure will serve to support buildings, all associated Base operated in conjunction with "isually align the NHL with the with World War II activities from other Alaska naval bases located ier nationally significant prop 1939-1945. Although President in Sitka and Dutch Harbor during erties depicted in similar Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an World War II. Together, they bi-ochures familiar to national order on November 20, 1937, to served as the country's first line of park visitors throughout the create a naval reserve in the defense against the Japanese. The country. The Coast Guard will 3 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
zenith of military activity in Kodiak occurred between 1942 and 1943. In 1943, the frantic pace in Kodiak slowed down when the Army, Army Air Corps, and Navy moved west to Adak on the Aleutian chain of islands. Kodiak remained important as a refueling hub. and as a medical, maintenance, and repair center. After the end of war. the Army abandoned the fort and turned over its facilities to the Navy. Ownership was turned over to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1972. Now known as the U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Support Command, which hosts air and sea groups, this historic base is the largest that the Coast Guard maintains.
Becky Saleeby is an Archeologist with the Alaska Support Office. National Park Service, and Patrick Carpenter is a National Council for Preservation Education summer intern with the same office.
CALIFORNIA Angel Island Immigration Station, interior view of the hospital building showing the results of neglect and serious water damage to the plaster walls. Photo Courtesy Michael Crowe.
Angel Island Named one Historic Mining District, La preservation organizations, histor Purisima Mission, the Petaluma ical societies, and other civic of II Most Endangered Adobe, San Juan Bautista Mission groups in the San Francisco Bay Plaza Historic District, and the Area. These groups in the sur by Michael Crowe Leland Stanford House. Chronic rounding counties of Marin, San underfunding with the resulting Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, ngel Island Immigration deterioration, has taken a toll on and Solano will be contacted to Station, designated an NHL A many of these historic resources. receive the presentation. in 1997, was named to the Besides thi' deterioration of the National Trust for Historic While the historic and cultural Immigration Station structures, Preservation's 1999 "11 Most significance of the Immigration some of the other NHLs, such as Endangered" list. Angel Island, Station will be the main thrust, the Leland Stanford House in the location of the Immigration the presentation will also inform Sacramento, are endangered by Station, is a state-owned park. the groups of its national and proposed development plans by The deteriorating Immigration regional importance. The presen the State. Station buildings are representa tation will help to develop an tive of the lack of funding for his The National Park Service is informed constituency in the toric resources within the 265-unit working with the National Trust immediate San Francisco Bay area California State Park system. and the Angel Island Immigration as the Foundation develops fund Other NHLs also located in the Station Foundation on a joint pro ing plans for preservation of the State Park system include Hearst ject. The project entails the devel NHL. Currently, the California San Simeon Estate, Asilomar opment of an illustrated presenta legislature is considering a bond Conference Grounds, Bodie tion that will be given to historic measure which would benefit
For a list of NHL assistance resources, see page 14. 4 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
State Parks and preservation pro setting, original buildings, extant first ecclesiastical seminary in jects, such as the Immigration collections of art and interior fur California, the College of Our Lady Station. Public support for the leg nishings, water-related industrial of Refuge, established in 1844 and islation will be important when structures, and archeological located within the Mission this issue is placed on the ballot. remains. In addition, the Chumash quadrangle. Revolt of 1824, one of the largest The National Park Service is and most successful revolts of working with the pastor in plan Mission Santa Ines Native American mission neophytes ning the ceremony that will unveil in the Spanish West, began at Santa the NHL plaque. The NPS is Is California's Most Ines, making it one of the most tan investigating the possibility of Recent NHL gible symbols of indigenous resis having the plaque cast in English tance to European colonization. and Spanish, at the pastor's ission Santa Ines, Virgen y The 95-acre site contains the orig request. Although the feast of MMartir (Saint Agnes, inal adobe church and its furnish Saint Agnes, for whom the mission Virgin and Martyr) was named ings, including an impressive high is named, is in January, the cere a National Historic Landmark altar, an art collection rare in Alta mony is scheduled for the founding on January 20, 1999. It is located California, and most of the massive date of the Mission, September 17, near the small town of Solvang, arcaded adobe convento (convent) 1999. NPS is also working with just north of Santa Barbara. The building. The intact archeological the Santa Barbara Trust for Mission, founded in 1804, is one remains of the two quadrangle wings, Historic Preservation, which owns of the best preserved Spanish mis a portion of the convento, and the the fulling mill, to ensure the full sion complexes in the country and Native American village are rare participation of the Mission's wide still serves as a functioning parish survivors. Its water-related indus community constituency. tries, with a stone fulling mill, reser "hurch for the local community. Michael Crowe Is an Architectural Historian and The NHL consists of an unri voirs, and lavcmderia (laundry), are Coordinator of the National Historic Landmarks valed combination of landscape unsurpassed. It is also the site of the Program in the Pacific Great Basin Support Office. National Park Service.
COLORADO
Mining Community Hospital Given New Life by Lysa Wegman-French
estled at the base of a Nspectacular box canyon, the little town of Telluride is an excellent example of a Rocky Mountain mining boom town. The discovery of silver in the 1870s in the surrounding rugged terrain prompted Telluride's creation, and the arrival of a railroad in 1890 guar anteed its success as a mining town. A few years later, a local doctor commissioned the construc tion of the Hadley Hospital. Mission Santa Ines, main facade with bell tower and entrance to the mission cemetery to Volunteer miners constructed the the right. The carved wood entrance doors show the "River of Life" motif, which appears on the other doors throughout the complex. Photo courtesy Michael Crowe. building that served as a hospital 5 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
for the Telluride mining communi nance, together with the question historic stone veneer would be ty. The hospital was an essential able quality of the original con replaced, virtually everything else element of life in Telluride and struction, caused considerable would be new. While this proposal played an important role in the deterioration. All four exterior would have rendered a structurally development of health care in the walls exhibited bulging and all sound building, the question town. The building continued to doors and windows, except the of historic integrity and the addi servo as a hospital until 1964: it dormers, where racked out of tional cost quickly arose. The City reopened in 1966 as a county his plumb. The first floor was pitched of Telluride requested technical torical museum. The structure and most demising walls had assistance from the National Park contributes to the significance of pulled out of square. Cracked and Service. Historical architect and the Telluride National Historic loose plaster characterized the preservation specialist Tom Keohan Landmark District. interior walls. Steel cross cables made a site visit in August, meeting Now owned by the City of installed in the late 1980s helped with city officials, structural engi Telluride, the structure serves as provide considerable rigidity to the neers, and the contractor. the Telluride Historical Museum. building and slowed movement of The City and the NPS were con The staff considers the building to the walls. In 1995. the museum cerned that the revised plans be the Museum's most important was closed due to concerns regard called for a radical intervention artifact. However, severe structural ing the structural stability of the that could alter the historic status problems recently threatened the building. of the building. NPS suggested building. Seemingly well-laid reha During the spring of 1996. the that strengthening the rubble bilitation plans collapsed even as a City hired structural engineers to walls could save the building. section of an exterior wall col help develop plans to rehabilitate The key was to tie exterior walls lapsed. The resulting re-evaluation the building. These plans called together with interior floors and and shifting of plans ultimately for upgrading the structural the roof: some rebuilding of the saved the building and its historic integrity of the building by strap veneer would also be required. integrity. ping/bolting the floors to exterior After several months of The Telluride Historical walls, securing the roof structure re-evaluation, the City hired Museum is a rectangular "veneer to exterior wall caps, anchoring another structural engineer and and rubble" load-bearing two-story stone veneer and rubble core with contractor who had been involved stone building with a stone spread metal rods, and pouring a collar with the successful Silverton Town footing, red sandstone facade, beam at the foundation. Hall (NHL) restoration. wood double-hung windows, with As anyone who has worked on a New plans were quickly devel hipped roof and small dormers. historic building knows, surprises oped, calling for saving all of the The original construction was com typically abound when work exterior walls in situ. A bracing pleted with a minimal budget and begins. The contractor in charge of system was designed to hold exist time; however, considerable atten the work on the museum began ing walls in place, while work pro tion was given to the "visible" the foundation work first by gressed around the building. Some areas of the building evident in removing about two feet of soil of the veneer stone was mapped, the quality of the exterior masonry around the exterior walls, numbered, and removed to allow work and detail. For example, the unaware that the soil was provid the loose rubble interior wall to be exterior stone walls on the sec ing support to the bulging walls. "shotcreted" for added strength ondary elevations are of lesser This resulted in a section of stone and stability. The stones were then quality and randomly placed with veneer collapse near the ground returned to their original wall flush mortar joints, while on the level on the east elevation. Work location. The exterior walls were facade, the stone is dressed and stopped immediately. stitched together using carefully placed with beaded The engineers quickly concrete/epoxy injection tubes. joints. On the interior, the main re-evaluated the rehabilitation This innovative approach saved public rooms exhibit higher quali proposal. The revised plans called both the historic and physical ty finishes, while the floor joists, for the complete removal and integrity of the structure. hidden from view, were randomly rebuilding of all exterior walls, To date, most of the exterior attached and supported, some using a wood frame system and work has been successfully com resting directly on grade. stone veneer. Significant historic pleted. Plans are being formulated The building sat vacant for fabric would be removed, both on to replace the missing historic many years, and lack of mainte the exterior and interior. While the porch and to reconstruct the origi- 6 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
nal brick chimneys. Much of the interior has also been saved and is now being restored, including orig inal stairs, floors, walls, and wainscot. The town's dedication to the preservation of the building result ed in a creative resolution to a structural dilemma. As a result, the historic structure will be able to provide many more years of service to the community.
Lysa Wegman-French is a Historian, Cultural Resources and National Register Program Services. Intermountain Support Office-Denver, National Park Service.
GEORGIA
Stallings Island Site reservation Project Update
by Mark K. Barnes
n the first issue of NHL INetwork, it was reported that The Archeological Cataldo Mission is being stabilized. For story, see overleaf. Photo courtesy National Park Service. Conservancy (TAC) had recent ly acquired Stallings Island through a donation by its owner. archeological investigations with Stallings Island was once called Wyck Knox, and that it was devel the objective of finding the excava Goat Island because a herd was oping a long-range management tion trench dug by William Claflin, kept on the island in the late nine plan for this nationally significant in 1929. Decades of erosion and teenth century. Historically, these archeological site located in the pot hunting activity have obscured animals kept the vegetation on the middle of the Savannah River, these early investigations. island down and TAC has reintro about five miles north of Augusta, Mapping the location of Claflin's duced a small herd to clear out the Georgia. In the summer of 1999, work and the extent of any intact dense foliage for the archeologists Alan Gruber, the TAC's archeological remains is key to this summer. This is a more envi Southeastern Coordinator, provid future research-oriented work at ronmentally friendly action than ed an update on the management the site. using herbicides. Future plans call plan for Stallings Island, which for fencing the main area of the includes state of the art research Gruber reports this summer's site and using a small goat herd to and protection of the resources by work will also focus on obtaining keep the vegetation down. With fencing and goats—that's right. radiocarbon samples to more accu rately date the site. It is hoped less vegetation covering the island, >ats! researchers will be able to learn it will be difficult for looters to Dr. Ken Sassaman of the how this famous Late Archaic type work on the site unobserved. TAC University of South Carolina, site relates to information archeol- will also be putting up signs that using a grant from the National ogists have accumulated since warn looters of prosecution. Geographic Society, will undertake Claflin's work. 7 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
Watch for updates on the Stallings Gretchen Luxenberg is a Historian, Columbia- has an astounding collection of Island preservation project and Cascades Support Office- Seattle, National rolling stock, including a 1926 other NHLs being preserved in the Park Service. replica of the 1830 Tom Thumb Southeast by TAC in future issues steam locomotive. of NHL Network. One might wonder how a non profit organization that operates a Mark R. Barnes is an Archeologist in the INDIANA National Register Programs Division, Southeast museum, maintains a variety of Region, National Park Service. railroad buildings, and functions as a working car shop for today's Heroic Efforts to Save railroad industry can find the Historic Resort Hotel resources to maintain its vast col IDAHO lection of cars and locomotives. This is where Hollywood enters est Baden Springs Hotel the picture. For the second time in is coming back to life W only a few years, a Hollywood pro Cataldo Mission with a $29-million restoration ducer in need of an authentic loco Undergoes Stabilization of the major public spaces, gar motive came to the B&O Railroad Effort dens, and outbuildings. Museum hoping to find what he For more information on tours was looking for. What he found by Gretchen Luxenberg or preservation activities at the was the perfect locomotive, the West Baden Springs Hotel, contact Wanderer, however it was in a far he Cataldo Mission, an NHL Andrea Hill, West Baden Springs from perfect condition. In Tbuilt in Idaho between Project Assistant, Historic exchange for using the Wanderer 1848-1853, is the oldest build Landmarks Foundation of in a movie, the producer offered to ing in the state. It is a historic site Indiana, 800.450.4534 or e-mail, pay for the cost of restoring the that is managed by the State of
West Baden Springs Hotel, centerpiece of the popular early twentieth century mineral springs resort community in Orange County, Indiana. When constructed in 1902, the immense steel and glass cov ered dome was the largest in the world. The hotel deteriorated rapidly after being stripped and abandoned in 1987. In 1991, it was featured on the cover of the Damaged and Threatened National Historic Landmarks report to Congress after a 50 x 70-foot section of the exterior wall col lapsed. The Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana received an emergency appro priation from the Indiana Legislature to repair the wall in 1992. Photo courtesy Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.
t 1996, the Historic Landmarks Foundation purchased the property for $250,000, and raised restoration funds from private corporations and individual contributions. Cook Group Incorporated managed the restoration work and funded all but $1.5 million of the $29.5 million project. Hundreds of volunteers joined expert craftsmen in the effort, which has created an outpouring of community support. Exteriors of all the buildings were restored, including the Apollo and Hygeia spring buildings and the Bowling-Billiard pavilion, as well as the sunken gardens and the fountain. Photo courtesy Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana. 9 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
The Wanderer, at Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum, starred in the movie W/7d Wild West. Photo courtesy Usa Kolokowsy Smith.
Please write and tell us about your The history of the station com Hollywood experiences and how MICHIGAN plex begins in 1848 when the they benefited your NHL. Maybe Federal Government began provid your NHL can be the star of an ing lifesaving stations and equip article in the next issue of NHL National Historic ment to volunteers on the East Network. Coast. In 1854, 26 metal rescue Please visit the B&O Railroad Landmark on North boats were assigned to Lake Museum website at Manitou Island Michigan, mostly to lighthouse
The importance of this station the national level of significance. 616.256.7475 to make reservations over others in the country is due This landscape will include all the for the boat. to the selection of structures exist maritime resources currently iden Kimberly Mann is a Historic Architect in the ing in the complex. The structures tified in the Manitou Passage Maintenance Division of the Sleeping Bear represent every era of the U.S. Underwater Preserve. This Dunes National Lakeshore in Empire, Life-Saving Service history from includes Glen Haven, the Michigan. the volunteer period to the early Lighthouse Complex, and South U.S. Coast Guard. The bracketed Manitou Island village, Cottage 1877 Life Boat Station was built Row, the historic dock sites, ship NEBRASKA when the Keeper was paid and the wrecks, and the three U. S. Life- crew was still all volunteer. The Saving Stations within the park. 1877 Life-Saving Station was built This area is being designated by when a crew was formalized and the NPS Maritime Initiative Office Joint Marketing Program paid. The remaining structures because no modern intrusions are for National Historic include secondary structures usu visible on the maritime landscape Landmarks: Heritage ally missing from other stations. and the shoreline appearance and These structures include married shoreline activities have remained Home and Garden Tour crew housing, a shed, root cellar, the same since its historic period. by Thomas Lynch crew ready room, flag tower with The park will be hosting a locker, and generator building. No plaque placing ceremony on other place in America exhibits so hough divided by the September 11, 1999, on North Missouri River, Omaha, completely the buildings and Manitou Island. This ceremony T structures associated with the cre- Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, will be in conjunction with the Iowa, share a rich and colorful tion and development of the Leelanau Historical Museum's ederal life-saving system. history. Each city's lively past is annual trip to the island. Those reflected in the many historic interested in attending this pre The next phase of nominating homes and gardens that have been sentation and making the annual the maritime resources in the park restored to their original grandeur. trip should contact the Leelanau includes developing a Maritime To ensure the preservation of Historical Museum at Landscape that will be listed at these treasures, and to develop a
North Manitou Island U.S. Life-Saving Service Complex, looking east across the back of the complex toward Lake Michigan. Photo courtesy Kimberly Mann. 11 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
tourism base, representatives from and local tourism board serves as as fully aware of as we need to five prominent homes and gardens a distribution point. be," she said, "and that is part of in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area The group's next step is to apply the mission of the White House joined together to produce a for a grant from either a state or Millennium Council's Save brochure that highlights the region's local tourism board for the mass America's Treasures efforts." She historically significant homes and printing of the brochure and its encouraged the audience to look at gardens. The brochure includes the distribution. The plan is to place their surroundings to understand Father Flanagan House, General the brochures at attractions and the importance of preserving these Dodge House, Joslyn Castle, tourist information centers along landmarks, saying, "none of us General Crook House, and the his the interstate and major highways owns our history, but each of us toric Shea House. in the Omaha-Council Bluffs can be a caretaker of it." The homes of Father Flanagan region. The appropriate local and The Palace of the Governors, and General Dodge are National national media will also be con which is located on the north side Historic Landmarks. The tacted announcing the creation of of the Santa Fe Plaza, another Flanagan House stands in the the Heritage Home Tour brochure. National Historic Landmark, was world famous village of Boys Future plans for the group built in 1610. Before Mrs. Town. Founded in 1917 by the leg include joining forces to solicit grant Clinton's speech, Richard Moe, endary Irish priest, Father money to fund other joint promotion President of the National Trust for Edward J. Flanagan, Boys Town and marketing efforts. By working Historic Preservation, announced was a haven for abandoned and together, these historic places have that the Palace is also an official homeless boys of all races and reli widened their appeal and increased Save America's Treasures project. gions. Today, the 900-acro campus their visibility. Being named an official Save is home to more than 500 troubled America's Treasures project by the Thomas Lynch is Manager of the Boys Town boys and girls and is the head Hail of History and the Father Flanagan House. National Trust enables the Palace quarters for Boys Town's national to apply for a National Trust youth and family programs. The Preservation Planning Fund campus includes Catholic and grant. The Palace is in need of Protestant chapels, schools, a NEW MEXICO building preservation and conser working farm, and the Hall of vation of the buffalo-hide paint History museum. ings displayed within. The Dodge House was built in First Lady Boosts Becky Post is the National Historic Landmark 1869 in Council Bluffs by Civil Coordinator. Cultural and National Register War General Grenville M. Dodge. Landmark Preservation Program Services. NPS Intermountain Support After the war. General Dodge Office-Santa Fe. National Park Service. by Becky Post became the chief construction engineer of the Union Pacific- iiT I ihe past is all around us, Railroad. His 14-room. three-story J. and each of us has a PENNSYLVANIA Italianate style mansion sits atop responsibility to preserve it," a high terrace overlooking the said First Lady Hillary Missouri River valley. Rodham Clinton when she visit When representatives from each ed Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May Happy Birthday Mr. home met for the first time, a sam 21, 1999, and spoke to a group of Bartram—Stamp Issued ple brochure was developed and a guests at the Palace of the to Honor Trail-Blazing consensus was formed for the over Governors, a National Historic all design. The layout includes a Landmark. Mrs. Clinton was in Botanist photograph and description of each Santa Fe to kick off this year's by Lisa Kolakowsky Smith home, including location, hours of Save America's Treasures tour. operation, special amenities, and She encouraged the audience to events. The eight-panel brochure look at their surroundings to ohn Bartram received an also includes a map detailing the understand the importance of pre Jincredible gift for his 300th location and directions to each serving these landmarks. birthday—a commemorative home. By sharing their resources, stamp from the United States the group was able to afford print "Everywhere in America there Postal Service. This commemora ing of 2,500 brochures. Each home are treasures that we mav not be tive stamp, a rare honor reserved 12 STEWARDSHIP NEWS
WASHINGTON
Maritime Roundtable for NHL Vessel Owners by Gretchen Luxenberg
n conjunction with National I Preservation Week in May 1999, the Seattle Support Office sponsored a maritime roundtable for National Historic Landmark vessel owners and other organizations responsible for the preservation of historic vessels. Held at Odyssey, the new Maritime Discovery Center along Seattle's waterfront, the NPS brought in guest speakers from The Bart ram stamp. Image courtesy Lisa Kolakowsky Smith. the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, and cor very important people, events, flowering tree to plant in his from the Puget Sound Naval or subjects, was issued to celebrate Philadelphia garden. Shipyard, an NHL property locat the work and spirit of two The John Bartram House NHL ed in Bremerton, Washington, to American botanists, John Bartram is operated with the adjoining gar share plans and ideas with the and his son, William. The Bartram dens as Historic Bartram's participants. The vessel owners stamp was unveiled on May 18, Garden, a public museum, garden, were able to discuss issues with a 1999 at the John Bartram House, and park. This NHL was designat representative from the Depart an NHL in Philadelphia, Pennsyl ed in October 1960 to recognize ment of Natural Resources, the vania. The stamp presentation the contributions of John Bartram state office which oversees the ceremony was held in Bartram's to the field of botany. The house leasing of marinas and docks garden and was followed by a was built by John Bartram in throughout the state. There "1736" luncheon, featuring fiddle- 1731. During his lifetime (1699- remains a concern for how to get head ferns, trout salad, and 1777), John and his son William these vessels traveling around the hominy cakes. The commemora cultivated the gardens with rare Puget Sound area so the public tive stamp presentation was part and exotic plants. William contin can enjoy them, and a concern of a week-long celebration honor ued this work and enlarged the about the lack of facilities which ing John Barti-am, frequently gardens after his father's death. can accommodate them. It is the referred to as the Father of Historic Bartram's Garden now intent of the Seattle office to host American botany. contains America's oldest living this meeting annually and provide The illustration on the stamp is botanical garden. technical assistance by bringing in a detail of a painting done by To learn more about John and speakers who will address issues William of a branch of the William Bartram, visit the Historic such as maintenance, interpreta Franklinia alatamaha tree, the Bartram's Garden web site at tion, and fundraising. duo's most famous discovery. John
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FROM GRANTS, PAGE 1 • Ohio: Paul Laurence Dunbar FROM LAUREL HILL, PAGE 1 House and Barn, Dayton • Alaska: Recreation Hall, Aviation Heritage National sculpture, in the form of funerary Kennecott Mines, Wrangell—St. Historical Park, Dayton art. Designed by Scottish architect Elias National Park and (National Park Service). John Notman in 1836, the pic Preserve, Cooper Center • Pennsylvania: Fallingwater, turesque rural cemetery is the (National Park Service). Bear Run (National Park second major example of its type in America; the first site was • California: Manzanar National Service—Save America's Treasures Program). Mount Auburn in Cambridge. Historic Site, Independence Massachusetts. Laurel Hill's (National Park Service). J Pennsylvania: The Letter Box. rolling terrain, winding roads and • Florida: Pelican Island National Grey Towers, Milford (U.S. paths, and scenic views of the Wildlife Refuge, Sebastian (U.S. Forest Service). Schuylkill River provide the back Fish and Wildlife Service). • Texas: Peter Wolf drop for over one thousand funer • Georgia: Ebenezer Baptist Administration Building, Fair ary monuments and mausoleums. Church. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. Dallas (National Park The sculptural forms vary in size National Historic Site, Atlanta Service—Save America's and style, displaying the new (National Park Service). Treasures Program). republic's interest in Roman and Egyptian iconography, the • Idaho: Experimental Breeder • Virginia: Jackson Ward Historic District, Richmond (National Victorian passion for opulence and Reactor 1, Idaho National eclecticism, and early twentieth Engineering and Environmental Park Service—Save America's Treasures Program). century taste for L'Art Nouveau Laboratory, Scoville and a more restrained revivalism. (Department of Energy). • Wisconsin: Taliesin, Spring When it opened in 1836, Laurel • Massachusetts: Chesterwood. Green (National Park Service— Hill presented Philadelphians with Stockbridge (National Park Save America's Treasures a novel amenity. Unlike traditional Service—Save America's Program). graveyards. Laurel Hill bore no Treasures Program). • The District of Columbia: religious affiliation, was situated • Massachusetts: The Mount, Sewall-Belmont House well outside the city, and was laid Lenox (National Park Service— (National Park Service—Save out on a site chosen for pic Save America's Treasures America's Treasures Program). turesque effect. Concern over the Program). • The Midway Islands: rapid spread of epidemics within Commercial Pacific Cable concentrated populations was one • Minnesota: Washburn A Mill, motive for founding the new insti Minneapolis (National Park Buildings and Former Naval Facilities, Midway National tution. Since the late eighteenth Service—Save America's century, urban burial grounds had Treasures Program). Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). been the target of reformers who • Nevada: Fourth Ward School, suggested the foul-smelling "mias Virginia City (National Park Rebecca A. Shifter is the Federal Save ma" that emanated from decaying Service—Save America's America's Treasures Coordinator and NHL human matter was unhealthy. In Assistance Initiative Team Leader, Heritage Treasures Program). Preservation Services Division, National Park addition, common practices, such • New Mexico: Buildings of the Service. as collective burial and reinter Manhattan Project, Los Alamos ment, ran counter to the nine National Laboratory, Los teenth century's increasingly sen Alamos (Department of Energy). timental views of death. Rural cemeteries granted the dead a per • New York: Louis Armstrong manent, peaceful, and bucolic rest House and Archives, Queens ing place. At Laurel Hill, founder College, New York (National John J. Smith joined a reformed- Endowment for the Humanities). minded institution with estate • Ohio: The 1905 Wright Flyer III, gardening principles already Dayton (Institute of Museum established in Philadelphia at and Library Services). such sites as William Hamilton's "Woodlands" and Henry Pratt's
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tion of nationally significant sites and structures. For more information about the programs of HABS/HAER, visit
Maritime Heritage NHLs Receive Grant Support by Hallie Brooker
ome of the most important Saspects of America's mar itime history are illustrated Laurel Hill Cemetery's design was based on estate gardening principles. though National Historic Landmarks. Of the 2.200 plus NHLs, some 200 properties pro such sites as William Hamilton*s cemeteries across the country. vide tangible examples of "Woodlands" and Henry Pratt's On the other hand. Laurel Hill's America's relationship to the sea "Lemon Hill." Mount Auburn, the startling visitation statistics and inland waters. Included other nationally influential rural- became crucial evidence in the among these maritime NHLs are cemetery model, reflected a more crusade for urban parks. New numerous vessels and shipwrecks, naturalistic approach to landscape York's Central Park and aids to navigation, naval bases, design. Philadelphia's own Fairmount battle sites, shipyards, and miscel Beyond Laurel Hill's contribu Park were, in a sense, both an out laneous maritime districts and tion to landscape gardening and growth of the rural cemetery buildings. Through these national burial reform, its monuments, movement. ly significant properties, the peo plantings, and the overall pic The Laurel Hill Cemetery NHL ple, places, technology, and culture turesque plan were to serve as nomination was the culmination of that shaped America's maritime lessons in art, history, botany, and a HABS recording project that uti past are recognized and preserved. "good" taste. Philadelphia's elite lized congressionally appropriated Recently, several maritime society, in death as in life, set funds for HABS documentation of NHLs received awards through themselves apart through the cre historic sites in Southeastern the National Maritime Heritage ation of elaborate mausoleums and Pennsylvania. In lieu of the tradi Grants Program, a new Federal monuments. Often commissioned tional theme study, the nomina assistance program authorized by from the city's leading architects, tion required a thorough study of the National Maritime Heritage including John Notman. T.U. the historical context for rural Act of 1994 (PL. 103-451). The Walter, and William Strickland. cemetery development: a by-prod grants program supports state and many of these monuments are uct was a substantial bibliography local governments and private intended to remind visitors of the and recommendations for future nonprofit organizations in their contributions made to society by designations. For this reason. efforts to preserve historic mar the individuals whose graves they Laurel Hill's designation has both itime resources and educate the mark. opened the door for. and prompted public about American maritime further interest in, the inclusion of Laurel Hill proved tremend history. The program provides cemeteries as National Historic ously popular, both within and funding for two broad project cate Landmarks. Finally, the Laurel beyond Philadelphia. In time, it gories: maritime heritage educa Hill nomination demonstrates how influenced the history of American tion and maritime heritage preser HABS/HAER recording can be uti landscape in two ways. On one vation. Education projects focus on lized, in cooperation with the NHL hand, it inspired the establish conveying information about ment of similarly designed rural program, to further the preserva 16 NATIONAL NEWS
America's maritime past through important criteria in deciding Helping NHL Battlefields curatorial, information manage whether to recommend a project ment, instructional, and interpre for funding. The Committee By Tanya Gossett tative activities. Preservation pro worked to ensure an equitable dis jects encompass all facets of tribution of awards among small he American Battlefield preservation planning and treat and large organizations, resource TProtection Program (ABPP) ment for historic maritime proper types, and education and preserva of the National Park Service ties and archeological sites. tion project categories. promotes the preservation of The grants program is national In all, 39 proposals received significant historic battlefields in scope, features a competitive awards totaling $652,616. Of that associated with wars on American selection process, and requires a amount, nine grants were awarded soil. The goals of the program are 1-to-l match of Federal to nonfed to organizations involved in pre to protect battlefields and sites eral resources. It is administered serving and interpreting maritime associated with armed conflicts by the National Park Service and NHLs. The NHLs receiving that influenced the course of State Historic Preservation awards include the ship Balclutha, American history; to encourage Offices. Project review and funding steamer Virginia V. tug Luna. and assist all Americans in plan recommendations are made by the floating life-saving station Mayor ning for the preservation, manage National Maritime Heritage Andrew Broaddus, frigate ment, and interpretation of these Grants Advisory Committee, a Constitution, sloop-of-war sites; and to raise awareness of the 21-member board consisting of Constellation, protected cruiser importance of preserving battle individuals from the private and Olympia. battleship Massa fields and related sites for future public sectors. Revenues for the chusetts, and aircraft carrier generations. The ABPP focuses program come from 25% of the Hornet. These properties illustrate primarily on land use, cultural nroceeds from scrapped vessels of just a few of the many themes in resource and site management che National Defense Reserve America's maritime heritage and planning, and public education. Fleet, administered by the Mari- address some of the important The ABPP sponsors a yearly time Administration. facets of international trade, local grant competition for projects that lead to the preservation of previ Under the 1998 inaugural transportation, humanitarian ously unprotected battlefield land round of maritime grants, 342 pro efforts related to maritime com or critically endangered resources. posals requesting approximately merce, and naval history. The average grant award is $10.3 million were received. Additional information about approximately $23,000. The ABPP A little over $650,000 was avail the grants program and a com grant criteria do give greater able for awards. Applications were plete list of award recipients is weight to nationally significant evaluated by State Historic available on the National sites. A preservation project that Preservation Offices and forward Maritime Initiative's web site at addresses a critical threat to a NHL ed with comments to the National
sites and resources both in and out We Want To Talk To You! purpose of the NHLSA. The side of the National Parks. To that strength and ability of the NHLSA end, the ABPP has encouraged the NHLSA Reaches Out to preserve, protect, promote, and parks to work with other preserva by Florence Leon and pay for NHLs is based upon the tion groups in their areas that focus Peter Primavera contacts members make and their on battle sites associated with the ability to work toward a common park sites. Many of these non-NPS he Outreach Committee of purpose. The results have shown sites are National Historic Tthe NHL Stewards an increased attendance at Landmarks, such as Hubbardton. Association (NHLSA) has been NHLSA meetings and we antici Bennington, and Camden. busy formulating plans and pate a great turn out at the Another ABPP initiative under strategies to reach out to other Congress in Cape May. way is a national survey of stewards. Outreach activities The outreach effort is a work in Revolutionary War and War of eventually will be broad-based, but progress, so the Outreach commit 1812 battle sites. NHL battle sites for now, the Committee is trying to tee appreciates your comments will almost certainly be included contact and involve stewards in and suggestions. in the survey. The survey will take the NHLSA. The Committee is in For more information contact into consideration the historic direct contact with NPS outreach Florence Leon, 201.391.5747, or boundaries of each site: both pro activities to avoid duplicative Peter Primavera, 732.985.4380. tected and unprotected battlefield efforts. Florence Leon and Peter Primavera are mem land will be documented. After One of the Committee's first pri bers of the NHLSA Outreach Committee. compiling the individual site sur orities has been to contact all veys, the ABPP will report to stewards and make sure they Congress, the Secretary of the know about the NHLSA. It has $15,000 Challenge Cost Interior, and state governments on developed three strategies and has the preservation status, impending been testing them in New York. Share Grant Awarded threats, and alternatives for Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. It to NHL Stewards preservation at these historic chose those states because it Association sites. At this time, the ABPP is col already has active members of the lecting historical and cultural NHLSA there, and they represent information about battlefields of states where it could monitor and he National Historic both wars. The ABPP welcomes measure results. TLandmarks Program of the the assistance of NHL friends Northeast Regional Office The three strategies are: groups and managing organiza received a 1999 Challenge Cost tions in collecting and sharing • direct telephone calls/New Share award of $15,000 to assist data about your sites. Jersey the National Historic Landmark The ABPP encourages all battle • publicity through existing publi Stewards Association (NHLSA) in field NHLs to subscribe, for free, cations such as preservation establishing itself as a national to its quarterly newsletter. group newsletters/Pennsylvania organization that fosters commu nication among the owners and Battlefield Update. Also, the ABPP • networking through existing managers of National Historic and The Civil War Trust have just groups, alliances, and agen launched a new listserve for bat cies/New York Landmarks. tlefield preservation professionals Award monies will assist in: called BATTLEFIELDPRES. The Direct telephone calls have J developing a five-year strategic ABPP invites battlefield NHL shown the best results so far. The plan and business plan for the friends groups and managing orga strategies in Pennsylvania and NHLSA; nizations to join, again for free. New York are still being tested, as these methods take longer and are • establishing the organization as a They can do so by contacting nonprofit 501 (c) (3) corporation: Tanya Gossett at 202.343.3449, or more difficult to measure, but by e-mail at
which is being co-sponsored by support office. If you have better may already be working within the NPS and the NHLSA. pictures to share, the NPS would these guidelines. love to put them up on the web • If stewards are unfamiliar with For more information about the site. the Secretary's Standards, this NHLSA, please contact NHLSA Surf on over and check it out at course will help familiarize co-chairs Mary Leach by phone,
Partnership statement defining commitment National Park Service developed a Demonstration Projects to preserving NHLs. vision plan, described in the 1998 • Development of an action plan Fall-Winter issue of NHL Network, Underway for the coordination of technical including a policy statement defin assistance and advocacy. ing commitment to preserving By Susan Escherich and NHLs, and identifying which of Barbara Pahl LI Identification of ways to the partners will take the lead in improve communication and col various areas of action in support n 1998, the National Park laboration among preservation of NHLs. Other preservation orga IService awarded a Challenge partners in order to more effec nizations will be invited to endorse Cost Share grant to the NPS tively deliver services needed by the vision statement and consider National Historic Landmarks National Historic Landmarks. how they can join in the effort to Assistance Initiative and the • Identification of key elements of preserve NHLs. Intermountain Office of the each participating organiza To address the remaining goals. National Trust for Historic tion's programs relevant to the NTHP and NPS regions selected Preservation (NTHP). The grant preservation of NHLs. six National Historic Landmarks was sought in response to a need with diverse preservation needs. expressed by NHL stewards for • Initiation of projects in which NTHP and NPS are working with preservation organizations to bet participants can develop and stewards. State Historic ter cooperate and collaborate in demonstrate coordinated efforts Preservation Officers (SHPOs). providing assistance. The goals of to assist NHLs. Tribal Preservation Officers the project were— The National Trust, the (THPOs). state and local preserva J Development of a shared policy Advisory Council, and the tion organizations, and others to
Traveler's Rest, Lolo, Montana. Photo courtesy Tim Hall.
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help address the needs of these Congress has not yet appropri NHLs. Projects selected include: ated authorized funds for assis ADVISORY COUNCIL • U.S. Immigration Station, Angel tance to NHLs. Island, California. • State Historic Preservation Advisory Council • Cape May Historic District. Offices should be involved in Finalizes Revised Cape May, New Jersey. the entire NHL program, from designation to assistance. Regulations • Frawley Ranch. Spearfish. South Dakota. • There should be regular state- by Ron Anzalone, Ralston Cox, by-state meetings of the SHPOs, and Tom McCulloch • Traveler's Rest, near Lolo, statewides, NTHP and NPS Montana. working in the state to coordi he Advisory Council on • Union Tavern, Milton, North nate activities including desig THistoric Preservation Carolina. nation and assistance to NHLs (Council) has adopted and LI Wheelock Academy, Millerton, in that state. finalized revised regulations Oklahoma. Li Regional meetings held on a for Sections 106 and 110(f) of regular basis would help stew the National Historic On April 12. 1999. preservation ards network and share skills Preservation Act (NHPA) of partners working with the stew and information. 1966. as amended, which took ards met for a one-day workshop effect on June 17. 1999. Section in Atlanta. Additional resource • There needs to be a central 1 10(f) deals with direct and people included representatives of place, such as a web site, for adverse effects of Federal and fed the National Conference of information to be posted about erally assisted undertakings to Preservation Commissions, the preservation training and meet National Historic Landmarks. \dvisory Council on Historic ings that occur throughout the year. Many of the provisions for Preservation, and the Georgia addressing impacts to NHLs under SHPO. A facilitator led discussion Partners will continue to work the new regulations (still found in and brainstorming to address the with the six selected projects this 36 CFR Section 800.10) remain main issues identified by the rep year. Representatives from the the same as the old regulations, resentatives of the demonstration projects will be invited to partici which took effect in 1986. projects, as well as improving pate in a follow-up meeting in However, there are three key dif cooperation and collaboration and Washington, DC. in October. They ferences. the beginning of an action plan. will also be encouraged to make First, the nature of the consul Participants identified the fol presentations at the National tation process itself in general has lowing points regarding improving Historic Landmark Stewards been modified to permit resolution cooperation and collaboration Association at their Congress in of most cases between the Federal among preservation partners— November. agency, the State Historic • The goal should be to make the The National Park Service and Preservation Officer, and, as partners' processes more trans the National Trust will prepare an appropriate, a Tribal Historic parent to the users, not more annotated directory of national Preservation Officer or tribal rep complicated. preservation partners. Look for resentative (depending on whether a project affects historic properties LI Individual stewards should be this information in the fall 1999 on tribal land, or of religious or encouraged to reach out to the issue of NHL Network. Case stud cultural importance to the tribe preservation partners and to ies and specific suggestions on but off tribal lands). each other. dealing with the major issues dis cussed HI the Atlanta partnership Second, the Council has estab LI The public needs a better demonstration projects workshop lished criteria under which it may understanding that being desig will be included. decide to become involved in con nated does not automatically sultation and dispute resolution. ensure preservation and protec Susan Escherich is Coordinator of the National Historic Landmarks Assistance Initiative. These criteria include circum tion. Federal historic preserva National Park Service. Barbara Pahl is Director. stances when an undertaking has tion laws do not mandate what Mountain Plains Regional Office. National Trust substantial impacts on important a private property owner may or for Historic Preservation. historic properties, presents may not do with his property. important questions of policy or 21 PARTNERSHIP NEWS
interpretation: has the potential nance of historic structures by icant. In the case of Fort Monroe, for presenting procedural prob demonstrating outstanding leader in 1990 the center embarked on a lems, or presents issues of concern ship in preservation education, multi-phase effort to preserve the to Indian tribes or Native trade skills, and crafts develop immense scarp wall of the Hawaiian organizations. ment. The center typically works Portress. This strategic partner Third, and perhaps of most on more than a half dozen NHL ship underscores a long-term effort interest to NHL Network readers, projects annually and utilizes his to preserve this structure, allows "the Agency Official (responsible toric structure preservation pro the center to maximize skill and for a Federal undertaking] shall jects as the main vehicle for teach developmental training opportuni notify the Secretary [of the ing preservation building trades, ties, and maintains preservation Interior] of any consultation philosophy, technology, and con quality over the decade it will take involving a National Historic struction management skills. to complete this project. The exte Landmark and invite the The client site funds all HPTC rior preservation of American Secretary to participate in the con work on NHL properties. The Conservationist pioneer, Gifford sultation where there may be an majority of HPTC NHL work is at Pinchot's home Grey Towers, adverse effect." Thus, there is the NPS locations. Examples of recent offered similar advantages to both option for the National Park ly completed park projects include: agencies and resulted in preserva Service to get directly involved in window preservation at tion work of the highest caliber. negotiations involving resolution Independence Hall, Old City Hall, HPTC project experience at of adverse effects on NHLs. and Congress Hall at the NHL properties has shown that For additional details about the Independence Square project; and preservation of America's places of new regulations and the NHL pro Patowmac Canal lock chamber national significance require high- visions, visit the Council's web site restoration at the Potomac Canal level craft skills that recognize at
tive non-profit boards: and inter the United States, two of NHL CONTACT NAMED pretation. This program is for con which are National Historic ference registrants only. Landmarks, Bodie State Historic NHL Survey Contact The new National Historic Site (an NHL district) in Landmark Stewards Association California and South Pass Announced will host a roundtable for stewards Cultural Landscape in Wyoming. of National Historic Landmarks on South Pass is also listed in he National Historic Land October 19, from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 America's Historic Landmarks at Tmarks Survey announces P.M. in the beautiful Cash Room Risk published by the National that Robert Sandoval, who can at the U.S. Treasury Building, a Historic Landmarks program of be reached at 202.343.9591 or by National Historic Landmark for the National Park Service. For e-mail.
Visit the One-Stop NHL Web Page at
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U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services, 1849 C Street, NW, Room NC330, Washington, DC 20240
IN THIS ISSUE: NATIONAL: Grants to Save America's Treasures...page 1 NHL Stewards Congress November 6-10...page 1 Laurel Hill named first NHL cemetery...page 1 Maritime NHLs receive grants...page 16 Helping NHL battlefields...page 17 NHL Stewards Association reaches out, gets grant...page 18 New online NHL database, e-rehab course ...page 19 STEWARDSHIP: AK—Kodiak Island gets Coast Guard help...page 3 CA—Angel Island "endangered": Mission Santa Ines named...page 4 CO—Teluride's 19th c. hospital preserved as museum...page 5 GA—Stallings Island archeology protected by goats!...page 7 ID—Cataldo Mission stabilized...page 8 IN—West Baden Springs Hotel saved...page 8 MD—B&O Museum's train stars in Wild Wild West film...page 8 MI—Life-saving station named NHL...page 10 NE—Home and garden brochure issued...page 11 NM—First Lady kicks off Save America's Treasures tour...page 12 PA—Stamp issue honors botanist...page 12 WA—Maritime roundtable for NHL vessel owners...page 13 PARTNERSHIPS: Grants, new regs affect NHLs. training center help...page 20-22 BITS AND BYTES: NHL survey contact. NHL conference focus, threats noted. NHL funding preferences...page 23