Restore Historic Landscape, Crater Lake National Park (Planning, Design & Material Estimates)

Project ID: J8W07070011

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: University of Washington

Fiscal Year: 2007

Initial Funding: $24,502

Total Funding: $24,502

Project Type: Technical Assistance

Project Disciplines: Cultural

National Park: Crater Lake National Park

Principal Investigator: Robertson, Iain

Agreement Technical Representative: Mark, Steve

Abstract: This project is aimed at restoring a designed landscape that corresponds with the boundaries of the Munson Valley Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 1988. The nomination highlighted how the National Park Service strove to blend development associated with Crater Lake National Park headquarters with its setting, hiring landscape architects to produce plans and working drawings for this purpose. Virtually all of the landscape projects were implemented by crews from the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1934 and 1941 under the direction of the National Park Service. These usually followed building and road projects so as to mitigate impacts on the site, and are now part of pedestrian and vehicular circulation patterns in the district. This effort to restore the landscape’s character to match its historic appearance comes after two line-item construction projects have bracketed a period of twenty plus years, beginning in 1985.