The National Park Service defines a cultural landscape as “a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person, or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values.” Cultural landscapes range from abandoned coal mines to remote coastal fishing villages, historic farmsteads, urban neighborhoods, battlefields, national cemeteries, and Cold War-era missile sites, among others. Each historic site presents unique challenges in terms of assessment and stewardship. Cultural landscape studies provide a basis for the preservation and rehabilitation of the landscape and its features.
In this webinar, WJE conservator and historian Deborah Slaton, with historical landscape architects Liz Sargent and Jane Jacobs, provide an overview of cultural landscapes and the approaches used to evaluate, document, and develop treatment recommendations for these significant historic places
Chapters:
0:00 Webinar Introduction
0:43 Introduction of Presenters
3:47 Learning Objectives
4:35 Presentation Outline
4:43 What is a Cultural Landscape?
5:46 Types of Cultural Landscapes
6:57 Types of Cultural Landscape Studies
9:52 Disciplines in Cultural Landscape Studies
10:25 Useful Characteristics of Cultural Landscape Participants
10:54 Scope and Methodology for Cultural Landscape Participants
18:03 Organization and Contents of Cultural Landscape Reports
24:59 Criteria for Evaluation of Significance
28:20 Assessing a Property's Integrity
30:09 Secretary of the Interior's Standards
32:25 Introduction to a Review of Representative Projects/Case Studies
33:19 Bottle Garden, Oakland Plantation, Cane River Creole National Historical Park
36:20 Chadwell Gap Coal Mining Site, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
38:16 Stones River National Battlefield, Stone River National Cemetery
40:26 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
43:49 Mammoth Cave National Park
46:43 Blue Ridge Parkway
49:25 Historic City Wall and El Morro Esplanade, San Juan National Park
51:30 Everglades National Park
53:06 Gulf Islands National Seashore
55:09 Conclusion: Cultural Landscape Challenges
56:09 Reference Documents
56:18 Thank You to the National Park Service and Colleagues
56:51 Q & A
1:03:37 Webinar Conclusion