Grand Canyon South Rim Historic Maintenance and Warehouse Complex: Historic Structure Report for 11 Buildings

摘要

The task order for this project called for a Historic Structure Report for eleven buildings in the Historic Maintenance and Warehouse Complex of the South Rim Village at Grand Canyon National Park. The Grand Canyon Village National Historic Landmark District Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) and the General Management Plan were consulted to assess past evaluations and recommendations. The scope of work called for limited research, described as research in available published sources, usually of a secondary character; research in documentary sources if easily accessible and known to be of high yield; brief interviews of readily available persons to answer specific questions; and a report in no greater detail than directly required by the scope in the project agreement. Most of the research for this report drew upon source materials available at the Grand Canyon Museum Collection, the Grand Canyon National Park Office of Cultural Resources, the Grand Canyon National Park Library and the National Park Service files at the Denver Service Center. Primary sources included microfiche of original plans and historic photographs of some of the buildings. These sources are located at the Grand Canyon Museum Collection and the National Park Service Denver Service Center. A few brief interviews were conducted consisting of one or two questions of some of the Park Service employees working at or near the buildings. Other studies and published works were also consulted and are listed in the Bibliography. Of those resources, the major references regarding the history of the Park were the 1996 National Historic Landmark nomination for the Grand Canyon Village Historic District, and an administrative history and a popular history of the Grand Canyon National Park that were each written by Michael F. Anderson (Polishing the Jewel, An Administrative History of Grand Canyon National Park and Under the Rim). Information about New Deal programs and the National Parks is widely available, but the NPS publication written by John C. Paige (The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942, An Administrative History) was particularly useful. Two helpful studies of rustic style architecture and of landscape architecture in the National Parks were Linda Flint McClellands Building in the National Parks; Historic Landscape Design and Construction, and National Park Service Rustic Architecture: 1916-1942. by William Tweed, Laura Soulliere and Henry Law.