Cultural Landscape Report for Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston

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CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT FOR CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD maintenance and repair of the site as it currently exists, and would allow existing features to be replaced in kind, yet would not permit the addition of new features. A preservation strategy would no longer reflect the historic landscape since there have been many changes since the park was established. The park’s GMP specifies preservation to the 1973-74 appearance. However, as pointed out in the park’s draft HRS, the park is “no longer preserving the industrial character present in 1973, but a cleaned up version of what the yard once was.” Entire buildings and structures have been removed and roadways altered. Due to the urban nature of the site, multiple users, security needs, and other issues, a preservation approach is too restrictive and does not allow for the alterations and additions necessary for compatible uses. In addition, it is impossible to restore the yard’s landscape to a specific subperiod without destroying earlier or subsequent layers. Rehabilitation acknowledges the need to meet continuing or changing uses through alterations or new additions while retaining the property’s historic character. It allows for repairs or alterations of the cultural landscape, and for improving the utility and/or function of landscape features. It is used to make an efficient, compatible use while preserving those portions or features of the site that contribute to defining its historical significance. These changes would best serve management goals for continued visitor use. Therefore, the most sound treatment approach for the Charlestown Navy Yard site is rehabilitation. This CLR provides treatment guidelines and recommendations described that seek to embrace the yard’s 174-year period of significance as well as multiple historical themes and to best serve management goals for continued visitor use. Currently, several issues challenge the park’s management and interpretation of the cultural landscape. The Charlestown Navy Yard must solve complex problems with respect to security, visitor experience, facilities maintenance, and accessibility. Design treatments and cultural landscape management should focus on the preservation, integration, and interpretation of features remaining from all significant historic periods as a way to enhance visitor understanding of the complexity and continuity of the yard. When rehabilitation treatment actions are completed, treatment actions should be documented as an update to the Park’s Landscape Preservation Maintenance Plan. Thereafter, maintenance activities affecting landscape treatment should continue to be documented as work is performed to maintain an ongoing record of physical changes made to the site. Completion of a CLR for Charlestown Navy Yard's lower yard (PMIS 16796) would contribute to the preservation of this area and to holistic treatment for the entire yard. This area largely held by the BRA also includes buildings within the park’s legislative boundary (Buildings 58, 60, and 105 and 107). page 10
SITE HISTORY 1. 1630-1800 1850s View of the Charlestown Navy Yard from the exterior looking east along First Avenue, Boston National Historical Park (Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, November 29, 1857, BOSTS 8635). SITE HISTORY 1. SETTLEMENT OF CHARLESTOWN AND WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1630-1800 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NAVY YARD, 1800-1828 3. DEVELOPMENT OF THE YARD, 1828-1869 EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GROWTH, 1828-1853 DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGE OF STEAM, 1853-1869 4. POST CIVIL WAR, 1869-1898 5. REVIVAL OF THE YARD AND WORLD WAR I, 1898-1934 YARD RESURRECTED, 1898-1920 THE STAGNANT 1920S, 1920-1934 6. WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION AND WORLD WAR II, 1934-1945 7. COLD WAR ERA, 1945-1974 8. YARD CLOSURE AND NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, 1974-PRESENT page 11
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SITE HISTORY 5. 1898-1934 The railr
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WATERFRONT SITE HISTORY 5. 1898-193
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SITE HISTORY 5. 1898-1934 In 1929,
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Figure 5.37: The former Chapel (Bui
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Figure 6.1: WPA repairs and improve
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