The HFR recommends use of traditional exhibits featuring original Muir objects in spaces such as the East and West Parlors, the Dining Room, and selected bedrooms. This report also includes recommendations for wall, fl oor, lighting, and window treatments throughout the house. These recommendations are based on site-specifi c evidence where available and on documented period treatments in other cases. Photographic, physical, or written documentation specifi c to individual rooms is not available for most of the house. The 2003 Historic Structures Report provides additional detail and evidence about historic fi nishes.

The scope of this study is to assess the building's condition and explore options for reducing life-safety hazards and improving levels of accessibility, while retaining the building's architectural character.

This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book's chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place representations of war in public places across Britain. This social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.

This book is written specifically to provide park managers with detailed information about the park's preservation history and lessons learned while saving and restoring the landscape and structures, interpreting the site for visitors, and addressing the demands of modern-day visitors and neighbors.

This is the first historical study to place the creation of the site within the larger context of the US preservation movement and the establishment of two other important presidential homes: George Washington Birthplace in Virginia, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home in New York. The study also incorporates substantial new research on the individual items that Rose Kennedy chose to furnish the home, including items she chose not to include. This section of the study makes clear that the John F. Kennedy Birthplace is both a product of the larger preservation movement and a very personal expression of the president's mother.

This Historic Structure Report (HSR) was established with the goal of preserving and interpreting the Lincoln Home to the time period of his residency, and incorporating the neighborhood he knew and departed from to take office of President of the United States in 1861, including its relevance to a deeper understanding of Lincoln in American heritage.

The year in which the Captain William Smith House was built remains unknown. However, the archival research suggests that 1692 is the most likely date. Architecturally, the house has undergone four major changes to its exterior: circa 1742- 58; circa 1825; circa 1900- 10; and circa 1956. Despite these physical changes, the house retains much of its original fabric, and represents a fine example of late 17th- century architecture in New England.

The Historic Structure Report (HSR) will be readily accessible reference document for the National Park service, Lincoln Home NHS staff, and professionals working on or using the reconstructed structures. It will also be used as a tool in interpretation of the neighborhood based on historical and physical evidence. The HSR contains a bibliography of archival documentation relevant to the structure and be a resource for further research and investigation.

The Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) for the Battle Road unit will be completed in two volumes. This report, Volume 1, includes a comprehensive study of the Battle Road Unit landscape from the seventeenth century to present. It identifies and documents landscape characteristics and features of the 1775 battleground landscape, as well as significant landscape features from subsequent time periods. The report is divided into three sections: site history, existing conditions, and analysis & evaluation.

The purpose of the Bates Well Ranch Historic Structure Report is to evaluate the existing conditions of the district of 14 buildings, structures and features and make recommendations to guide the future maintenance, preservation, and rehabilitation efforts necessary to utilize the district for future use. The HSR establishes a baseline of information, both archival and field documentation, from which future actions can be taken. The scope of the HSR was restricted to evaluating the architectural integrity of the site, i.e., the specific historic features that characterize the site's significance as documented by the National Register of Historic Places nomination form. This report provides condition assessment, recommended preservation treatments and action priority for holistic building systems, as well as individual features of building exteriors and interiors, as they pertain to preserving the site's historic and architectural integrity.

This bulletin is designed to help preparers properly select, define, and document boundaries for National Register listings and determinations of eligibility.

A trip to Death Valley to make a field study of the charcoal kilns, and for related purposes, was made February 24 - March 1, 1970, by Architect Robert V. Simmonds and Chief, History and Historic architecture, Merrill J. Mattes, both of Western Service Center (WSC).

The purpose of this cultural landscape report is to thoroughly examine and document the physical development of the thirty-acre portion of the Charlestown Navy Yard that is owned and managed by the National Park Service. The report describes the evolution of the landscape from its establishment as a navy yard in 1800 until its closure in 1974 as well as changes during the period of National Park Service (NPS) management from 1974 to present. This site history is followed by a description of the current condition of the property and an analysis of historical significance and integrity. This includes an evaluation of the yard's historic and contemporary landscape characteristics, such as changes in spatial organization, circulation, and vegetation. With an understanding of the historical fabric, the report then presents treatment issues and recommendations related to security, accessibility, paved surfaces, trees, lawn areas, lighting, and other site features.

The following tasks are addressed in detail in the HSR: 1. Archival Research to retrieve information related to the significance and development history of the building and site. 2. Architectural investigations to retrieve and document physical evidence of the construction chronology of the building, to assess existing conditions and to formulate the scope of required preservation and conservation work. 3. Structural investigations to assess and document the existing condition of the building's structural components, and to assess the capacity of those systems to accommodate the proposed use. 4. Statement of recommended treatment philosophy consistent with the appropriate period of significance and proposed use for the buildings. 5. Statement of recommended treatment, use(s) and interpretation of the property. 6. Statement of treatment priorities.

The historiography and historical archaeology of Pecos, carried out by investigators from Adolph Bandelier to Genevieve Head, sought an understanding of the story of Pecos and the complex sequence of structural change in this nearly four-hundred-year-old group of buildings. Ultimately, a century after Bandelier first speculated on the age and plan of the church, convento, and other Spanish buildings at Pecos, we have finally begun to achieve this understanding. This report will summarize those years of work, and the conclusions to be reached from them.

Independence Square in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, has been in the middle of some of the most pivotal events in local and U.S. history. Throughout this entire 185+year history, Jackson County's Courthouse on Independence Square has stood as a monument to the past and symbol for our future. After its 2013 restoration, what a perfect 'time' to "wind the clock" as we look back on the history of Independence Square and Jackson County's Historic Truman Courthouse. The Jackson County Historical Society, located in the Historic Truman Courthouse, promotes the study, appreciation, and interpretation of county history through its museum and archives, preservation and access to shared collections of historical materials, and educational programs and exhibits. The nonprofit historical organization is supported by memberships and donations. Visit the Historical Society on the Web at jchs.org.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument Cultural Landscape Report, Vol. 1, addresses the physical development and character of the park landscape as it has evolved sin American Indian occupation. This information is presented in two chapters: a site physical history organized according to periods of landscape chronology, and a documentation of existing conditions.

The report is organized in the following manner: Presents statement of purpose, general building description, administrative background, project team members, report summary, investigation history and methodology, and executive summary.

This report recommends restoration of historic spaces and installation of historic furnishings in three separate phases. Implementation of the historic furnishings plan in stages will allow for thoughtful review of the current use of space by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (the Conservancy) within the historic structure, and provide greater fl exibility in funding signifi cant rehabilitation and restoration projects. Ongoing implementation of the furnishings plans will also provide an opportunity to review and revise visitor circulation patterns and other aspects of the operating plan. It is anticipated that this ongoing review will be critical in managing the large numbers of island visitors in a safe and effi cient manner, while providing them with site interpretation of the highest quality.

This historic structure report (HSR) was written preparatory to the rehabilitation of Building 32 by the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area (NRA) to accommodate several of the park's functions. Rehabilitation work was completed in June 1996. As a result, the current (2004) interior appearance of the structure differs greatly from that described in this report. A more detailed account of the work performed can be found in the appendix of this report. It was determined that this historic structure report would be a Level- B report, which required only secondary- source research and nondestructive investigation of Building 32. The research tasks included the review of all existing reports and documents located at the Northeast Cultural Resources Center, at the Boston Support Office, and in the park archives. All historical documents, photographs, and maps available in the park archives were also examined.

This report documents the evolution of the Gatehouse using both primary and secondary sources, including public and private records and collections, historic photographs, historic maps, personal interviews, and an investigation of the building's existing architectural fabric.

This Historic Structure Report (HSR) was requested to coordinate and condense earlier research and to assess the present condition of the historic structure. Archival material relating to the construction and later treatment of the historic building, most of which can be found in the archives of VICK NMP, was reviewed and two investigations of the historic building were conducted in June and August of 2001 by Historical Architect, Jon Buono and Architectural Historian, Tommy Jones. Special attention was given to evidence of surviving historic fabric which would corroborate historical accounts and construction logs prepared during the various restoration projects.

Historic Resource Study: The Harry S Truman Grandview Farm, The Wallace Houses, and The Noland House Sites: Grandview & Independence, Missouri