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Cultural Landscape Reports Cultural landscape reports (CLRs) are the primary documents for guiding the management and preservation of cultural landscapes. These reports provide landscape managers with an understanding of the history, evolution, and significance of their properties to enable informed and thoughtful stewardship. Though its contents may focus primarily on management priorities, a complete CLR typically includes a narrative site history, an inventory and assessment of existing conditions, an analysis of significance and integrity using National Register of Historic Places criteria and definitions, and recommendations for future landscape treatment. The methodology is articulated in A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports. CLRs are often produced collaboratively with Olmsted Center partners, including an interdisciplinary team of landscape architects, architects, historians, archeologists, horticulturists, and other related professionals. To date, the Olmsted Center has completed over fifty CLRs for many different types of landscapes. Documented historic sites range from the farm yard in Virginia where Booker T. Washington first heard the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the hillside groves and orchards of John Muir National Historic Site in California. Sites vary in scale from the expansive 3,000-acre American Revolutionary War battlefield in Saratoga, New York to the carefully tended, formally designed landscape and gardens surrounding the mansion at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont. The issues confronted and the treatments employed vary between historic vernacular landscapes, such as a farmstead in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts, and archeologically sensitive sites, such as those within the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. |
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(Photo) Hillside groves at John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California
