These studies explore significance and integrity of the cultural landscape and will guide the park in future rehabilitation efforts. This report is a combination of original research and synthesis of previous research and management documents. Long-term park staff members have guided the project, and the park's extensive archival collection has been tapped. The narrative landscape summary, synthesized from the archive's collection of documents, photographs, and plans, is the heart of this report. The following report, Part 1 of the CLR, presents a chronological site history of the property and its existing conditions in 2002 with both narrative text and illustrations. The Landscape Analysis chapter evaluates the significance and integrity using the terms and definitions of the National Register of Historic Places program.

The purpose of treatment in a cultural landscape report is to direct management of a landscape based on the goal of preserving and enhancing its historic character within the context of other park management goals such as public access, natural resources conservation, recreation, and interpretation. Treatment is described through narrative and graphics at a conceptual level.

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.

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 historic structure report (HSR) was produced by the Historic Architecture Program (HAP) of the National Park Service's Northeast Regional Office, in order to document the development and use of the Elisha Jones House and Shed at Minute Man National Historical Park (NHP). The role of the HSR was to document the original construction, as well as known changes to the structures, and therefore record the evolution of the building. The HSR provides a written description and photographic documentation of the current physical appearance of the Elisha Jones House and Shed. Finally the HSR documents the "character- defining features" of the structure, and provides treatment recommendations for the preservation and maintenance of the Elisha Jones House and Shed.

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.

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.

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.

A Poet, On Park Hill? Outside the Box. A colour edition of the popular auto biographical book about the life and experiences of a real resident on the infamous flats including a brand new section starting from after the original publication until leaving the estate to better things. What's it like to be one of the people who live on those grim looking concrete creations from the mid 20th century? Ever wondered what sort of person may be up there, looking from their window wondering what sort of person you are? Well, this is a unique insight into the mind of a long term resident of the Sheffield Park Hill estate in the last stages of its original life before the grand regeneration. Stories, facts and photographs alongside varied poetry inspired by Park Hill, this tells a story of one of the many who called these flats home, and proud to do so

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.

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.

This Management Plan identifies a series of collections management issues facing the park and presents actions to address them.

An overview of historic furnishings at Mount Washington Tavern.

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.

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.

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.

The Todd House is one of six historic house museums under the care of Independence National Historical Park. This report is meant to supplement the original 1960s Todd House furnishing plan, not replace it. The reader is encouraged to read both documents together to gain a better understanding of the entire site.

The Historic Resource Study (HRS) for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site addresses the architecture of the mansion, its furnished interiors, the mechanical systems of the mansion and transportation systems of the estate, the cultural landscape, and occupancy of the estate from the Vanderbilt period to the present.

A Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) serves the National Park Service (NPS) in both documenting the history and significance of cultural landscapes and providing guidance for both dat-to-day and long-term management and interpretation. To this end, the CLR for the John Muir National Historic Site consists of a narration of landscape history, an inventory and analysis of existing conditions and landscape significance, and treatment recommendations and actions consistent with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.