The following is a survey of the current memorial plaques, waysides and identification plaques found throughout Washington Square as of January 2006. The memorial plaques in the square include everything from plaques that honor individuals and their work, those that commemorate important events, to identifying tree genus and species. Current waysides contain history about the Square and Philadelphia, while the identification plaques consist of various informational markers. The accompanying map locates the forty-two plaques and waysides currently within Washington Square. This map is divided into quadrants and further divided into zones, with each plaque and wayside appropriately located on the map. Other information found in this survey includes dimensions of the metal plaque or stone wayside, material from which the marker is made, installation or dedication date (if known), and the inscription that can be found on the plaque or wayside. In addition, two photographs of the plaque or wayside are included, one being a close shot of the marker at the time this survey was conducted, and another photograph showing the single marker within the wider surroundings of Washington Square.

Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.

Booker T. Washington National Monument (Booker T. Washington NM) has been the subject of numerous studies focusing on long-range planning, archeology, and interpretive programming. The following cultural landscape report (CLR), encouraged by National Park Service (NPS) policy and recommended by the park's 2000 General Management Plan (GMP), continues this process and provides background information and basic treatment recommendations to implement sound cultural landscape treatment.

This historic structure report for the 1979 Station (1876 Type) with boat house and another for the 1925 Chatham Type Station was contracted by the National Park Service in anticipation of its impending move due to encroachment of the ocean and threat to the buildings and the site

This historic structure report for the 1979 Station (1876 Type) with boat house and another for the 1925 Chatham Type Station was contracted by the National Park Service in anticipation of its impending move due to encroachment of the ocean and threat to the buildings and the site.

This investigation of the sites of presidios of the Big Bend area was to determine the archeological research potential of the sites and to evaluate the potential interpretive features of international interest.

The following section briefly describes the National Park Service Geologic Resources Inventory and the regional geologic setting of George Washington Birthplace National Monument and Thomas Stone National Historic Site.

Report reviews architectural details of the Life-Saving Station as one of the best preserved stations of this type remaining on the East Coast and recommendations for keeping it as it was during World War II.

Discusses goals of the treatment of the historically-private dwellings in Cape Lookout Village, including the O'Boyle-Bryant House, making structural improvements, rehabilitation and improve the buildings capacity to withstand wind and flood.

This report covers the structural rehab necessary to update the Big House, part of the Oakland Plantation at Cane River Creole National Historic Park. Includes recommendations for renovations to foundation, roof, windows, doors, etc.

The purpose of this special resource study is to evaluate the potential of adding Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, to the National Park System to commemorate the role of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. The study applies national significance, suitability, and feasibility criteria and presents feasible management and development alternatives. This study does not include a preferred alternative.