Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area - HISTORY & CULTURE: Preservation (U.S. National Park Service)

Most of the features below were first published in the park's newsletter, Spanning the Gap (STG) or in the Cultural Resource Management magazine, CRM. STG and CRM features are pdf files.
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PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC STRUCTURES

Saving a Few, Before Losing Them All CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By landscape architect Zehra Osman.

Isaac Van Campen Inn (STG: Summer 1983 Vol. 6 No. 2) The house and its restoration. By Historic Architect Tom Solon.

Foster Armstrong House (STG: Spring 1984 Vol. 7 No. 1) Brief history of the historic home.

Designed with Nature, the Zimmermann Estate (under Places: Structures & Styles)

Garris House a Preservation Investigation (STG: Summer: 1995 Vol. 17, No. 2) Preliminaries of restoration of 1859 Garris (Garis) House at Millbrook Village NJ.

Restoration at Millbrook Village: Garis House (STG: Fall 1999 Vol. 21, No. 3) An appreciation of this 1800s house by historic preservation specialist Ken Sandri.
Additional material
• Photo Gallery: Restoration at Garis House

Camp Staff Breathes New Life into Old Cabin CRM (Cultural Resource Management) Magazine: Saved from the Dam Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Issue (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By former campers Chuck Evertz and Larry Smotroff.

Preserving and Interpreting Historic Houses: VIPS Show the Way CRM (Cultural Resource Management) Magazine: Saved from the Dam Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Issue (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) By NPS-Northeast 1996 volunteer-in-parks (VIP) of the Year Leonard R. Peck.

Cliff Park Reopens (under People: Recreating)

RE-USE OF HISTORIC STRUCTURES

Barns: Survival of the Fittest (under Places: Architectural and Building Styles)

Preserving Walpack's Parsonage (STG: Spring 1993 Vol. 15, No. 1) Renovation and re-use of a historic building in Walpack Center NJ as offices.

Walpack and its Church (STG: Spring 1994 Vol. 16, No. 1) History of Walpack Center's 1872 church, used for meetings and theater events. By architecture intern Drew Eisinger.

Separation of the church from the state of decay (Phoenix Antiques/Dutch Reformed Church) (STG: Spring 1996 Vol. 18, No. 1) A successful historic leasing venture. By park architect Tom Solon.

View...tiful (STG: Summer 1997 Vol. 19, No. 2) Salamovka/Delaware View House on Old Mine Road near Flatbrookville NJ, now a country store. By park historian Susan Kopczynski.

Welcome to Grey Towers (STG: Fall 2001 Vol. 23, No. 3) The home of Gifford Pinchot, a few miles north of the recreation area, reopens after restoration. The mansion is used for conservation conferences.

The Many Faces of Eaves: Dutch Reformed Church Dingmans Ferry PA CRM Magazine: Saved from the Dam (Vol. 25 No.3 2002) Photo feature (on page 32) of the building in various guises.

More structures are described under
Places: Individual Structures
Places: Architectural Styles

Photo Galleries on all subjects