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Much of the work of the NPS architects is in a "rustic" style that has become known as "National Park Service rustic" architecture. [2] One of the distinctive features of architecture of the National Park Service is the blending of traditional architecture and landscape architecture.
National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment. Since its founding in 1916, the NPS sought to design ...
It then established Morristown National Historical Park, the 1779–1780 winter encampment of the Continental Army in New Jersey, on March 2, 1933, as the first NHP: The U.S. House committee noted that the new designation was logical for the area and set a new precedent, with comparison to the national military parks, which were then in the War ...
National Park Service Rustic style which applies to U.S. National Park Service designed structures. [2] WPA Rustic architecture of the U.S. Works Project Administration. [5] Great Depression era park projects by the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps and other federal entities. [6] [7] Adirondack Architecture and the Great Camps. [8] [9] [10] Log ...
George B. Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service from January 8, 1964, until December 31, 1972. [1]In April 1966, six months before the National Register of Historic Places was created, the National Park Service's history research programs had been centralized into the office of Robert M. Utley, NPS chief historian, in Washington, D.C., [2] as part of an overall plan dubbed ...
National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment. Since its founding in 1916, the NPS sought to design ...
In 1960, the National Park Service took on the administration of the survey data gathered under this legislation, and the National Historic Landmark program began to take more formal shape. [4] When the National Register of Historic Places was established in 1966, the National Historic Landmark program was encompassed within it, and rules and ...
Sellars, Richard West, – "A Very Large Array: Early Federal Historic Preservation—The Antiquities Act, Mesa Verde, and the National Park Service Act" (evolution of early national park system; legislative history; discussion of interpretation/education in early national parks, etc.), published by the University of New Mexico School of Law, 2007.