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Landscape
Preservation and Interpretation:
Issues of Use, Historical Experience, and Myth at
Gettysburg National Military Park
Nathan
Jefferson Riddle
(document posted with permission)
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park staff tendentiously approached writing the DOE with the intention
of portraying the building�s mechanical and maintenance problems
as inherent design flaws. The motive of the park service was to
portray the building as a lesser, pitiful example of Neutra�s work,
designed when he was in poor health and at the end of his partnership
with Robert Alexander. Based upon an anti-modern conceit of the
park Superintendent, the analysis is slanted and misleading. Latschar�s
intentions and the arguments used to support his proposals pose
dangers more general than to just Neutra�s building. The National
Park Service acts as a preservation mentor for the nation, and in
this regard, if the argument becomes accepted that the technical
failings of a structure render that work of negligible significance,
then the country would lose many cherished architectural icons."
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Submitted
in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree
Master of Science in Historic Preservation
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University, May 1999
Table
of Contents
I.
Introduction
II.
History, Preservation, Landscapes, and the Present
- A) Public Memory.....4
- B) Problems Associated
With Landscape Preservation.....14
- C) Purposes of
History and Landscape Preservation.....17
III.
Landscape Theory
- A) Landscape
and Narrative.....20
- B) Naturalization.....25
- C) Visualism.....29
- D) Interpretation.....32
IV.
Commemorative Landscapes
V.
Gettysburg National Military Park
- A) History of
the Park After July 1-3, 1863.....57
- B) The Management
Plan.....75
- C)
Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama Building.....78
- D) Landscape
Restoration.....103
- E) The Commemorative
Landscape.....115
VI.
Conclusion.....135
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