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Cultural Landscape Report for Park Headquarters: Denali National Park and Preserve
Heralded as the first national park designated after the formal establishment of the National Park Service in 1916, Denali National Park and Preserve contains some of the countrys most remarkable scenery and unique cultural resources. Located in McKinley Park, southcentral Alaska, Denali is part of the 600-mile long Alaska Range, which is comprised of peaks from 2,000 to 20,000 feet in altitude. The range is also punctuated by the 20,320-foot Mount McKinley, North Americas highest mountain. The park was established as Mount McKinley National Park in 1917. In 1980, the park and the separate Denali National Monument were incorporated to become the Denali National Park and Preserve. The National Park covers over 4,700,000 acres while the Preserve spans over 1,300,000 acres, resulting in a total of 9,492 square miles of subarctic wilderness enclosed within their combined boundary. Located 3.4 miles off of the George Parks Highway (Alaska Highway 3) along the parks main road, the Park Headquarters Historic District comprises 11.91 acres and was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, with SHPO concurrence in 2004. The nomination emphasizes the significance of the early park structures, reminiscent of an early Alaskan frontier settlement laid out in a grid on a natural bench high above the floodplain of Rock Creek and Hines Creek. Initially designed by Harry Karstens, the parks first superintendent, the headquarters area was later expanded with guidance from early National Park Service designers. The resulting cluster of buildings exemplifies the concept of a community master plan, featuring buildings constructed in the NPS rustic architectural style from between 1926 and 1941. These structures serve as the parks administrative, staff housing and visitor facilities, and are linked by a network of roads, parking areas and paths. A Cultural Landscape Inventory for the headquarters area, completed in 2004, notes that the Park Headquarters Historic District has evolved since the 1940s, in the addition of several buildings and alterations to both structures and landscape.
Cultural Landscape Report for Park Headquarters: Denali National Park and Preserve
Heralded as the first national park designated after the formal establishment of the National Park Service in 1916, Denali National Park and Preserve contains some of the countrys most remarkable scenery and unique cultural resources. Located in McKinley Park, southcentral Alaska, Denali is part of the 600-mile long Alaska Range, which is comprised of peaks from 2,000 to 20,000 feet in altitude. The range is also punctuated by the 20,320-foot Mount McKinley, North Americas highest mountain. The park was established as Mount McKinley National Park in 1917. In 1980, the park and the separate Denali National Monument were incorporated to become the Denali National Park and Preserve. The National Park covers over 4,700,000 acres while the Preserve spans over 1,300,000 acres, resulting in a total of 9,492 square miles of subarctic wilderness enclosed within their combined boundary. Located 3.4 miles off of the George Parks Highway (Alaska Highway 3) along the parks main road, the Park Headquarters Historic District comprises 11.91 acres and was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, with SHPO concurrence in 2004. The nomination emphasizes the significance of the early park structures, reminiscent of an early Alaskan frontier settlement laid out in a grid on a natural bench high above the floodplain of Rock Creek and Hines Creek. Initially designed by Harry Karstens, the parks first superintendent, the headquarters area was later expanded with guidance from early National Park Service designers. The resulting cluster of buildings exemplifies the concept of a community master plan, featuring buildings constructed in the NPS rustic architectural style from between 1926 and 1941. These structures serve as the parks administrative, staff housing and visitor facilities, and are linked by a network of roads, parking areas and paths. A Cultural Landscape Inventory for the headquarters area, completed in 2004, notes that the Park Headquarters Historic District has evolved since the 1940s, in the addition of several buildings and alterations to both structures and landscape.
Cultural Landscape Report for Park Headquarters: Denali National Park and Preserve
2008
313 pages
Report
No indication
English
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