Historic Landscapes

Susan Turner talks about how and why landscapes are and should be preserved.

NPS designers produced significant works of Landscape Architecture that were simultaneously influenced by the scheme’s evolving form and the emerging native features of the landscape.

This manual teaches communities and neighborhoods how to complete their own historic resource surveys and share that information quickly.

This report documents a historic landscape workshop developed to introduce preservation professionals to the identification, documentation, evaluation and treatment of designed, vernacular and rural historic landscapes.

NCPTT will hold its first Cemetery Landscape Preservation Workshop on Sept. 16-17, 2008, in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Join us for a two-day hands-on workshop in historic American Cemetery to learn the basics of proper cemetery landscape maintenance.

NCPTT is now advertising its 2008 summer internship opportunities in architecture and engineering, archeology and collections, heritage education, historic landscapes and materials conservation.

Montana Preservation Alliance proposes to create a digital archive of the rich cultural landscape that is the Tongue River Valley.

On June 26, NCPTT broke ground for its new landscape project during a ceremony at the National Center’s headquarters, Lee H. Nelson Hall, in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Debbie Smith has joined NCPTT as chief of its Historic Landscapes program.

Educators may find the following resources useful in teaching heritage education in the classroom.

“Contemporary Myths: Deconstructing the Late Colonial/Early American Creole Landscape at the Coincoin Plantation”