Friends of Crater Lake National Park

 

Greg Hartell Internship for Historic Preservation Preview

 

Acknowledgements

 

My sincere thanks are extended to the Friends of Crater Lake National Park for their support of Historic Preservation through the Greg Hartell Internship.  This internship allows graduate students from the University of Oregon’s Historic Preservation Program to gain professional experience through preservation related projects at Crater Lake National Park.  

 

Thank you also to Crater Lake National Park Superintendent Craig Ackerman, former interim Superintendent Stephanie Toothman, and former superintendent Chuck Lundy, as well as Marsha McCabe, Chief of Interpretation and Cultural Resources, for their support of the Greg Hartell Internship for Historic Preservation; Mac Brock, Brian Coulter, Linda Hilligoss, Leslie Jehnings, Cheri Killam Bomhard, Dave Rivard, Bob Schaefer, Lia Vella, and Jerry Watson for their expertise, advice, and feedback; Mary Benterou, for preparing digital images of drawings; Kingston Heath, Director of the University of Oregon’s Historic Preservation Program, and Tara Ikenouye for their assistance in obtaining this internship; and to my supervisors Karl Bachman, Chief of Maintenance, whose resourcefulness and dedication to preserving cultural resources within the park made this wonderful internship project possible, and Steve Mark, Crater Lake National Park Historian, whose expertise in the park’s history and architecture greatly enriched both the internship experience and the content of this manual.

 

 

Introduction

 

 

Crater Lake National Park is home to a rich collection of rustic stone masonry architecture.  These resources range from buildings and guard walls to hidden drains, spillways, and culvert headwalls that line park roads.  The natural materials used and  handcrafted appearance of these structures reflects the intent of Crater Lake’s first architects and landscape architects to design in ways that would enhance the park’s natural beauty rather than detract from it.  Preserving these historic resources and using them as prototypes for repair and new construction will ultimately protect the historic integrity of the park and the legacies of the  innovative individuals who designed the structures within it. 

 

The goal of this manual is to provide park employees a reference to gain understanding of the vast amount of stone masonry architecture in the park and the aesthetic characteristics that define each type.  By providing an overview of some excellent examples of original work, and discussing the principles of rustic architecture that were utilized in their designs, it is hoped that this manual will assist in the effort to promote historically compatible repair to these structures when the need arises.