Historic Landscape Bibliography
The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is
pleased to provide this Historic Landscape Bibliography, intended
primarily for use by those seeking practical information and technical
assistance. Some sources of general historical and academic interest
are also included.
Many of the following sources are books produced by mainstream
publishing houses that may be available in libraries or bookstores.
Information on how to obtain some of the less easily acquired
references, such as government publications, is provided. As noted,
some references are available in their entirety for download on
the Internet. Web sites that provide general information and technical
assistance about landscape preservation are included in our links
(see navigation at left).
The bibliography is organized by subject. Scroll through the
bibliography or click below to go directly to a section that interests
you.
Cultural Landscape Studies
Alanen,
Arnold R. and Robert Z. Melnick, eds. Preserving Cultural Landscapes
in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape.
New Haven: Yale University Press. 1984.
Carr, Ethan. Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture &
the National Park Service. Lincoln,
NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Conzen, Michael, editor. The Making of the American Landscape.
Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Groth, Paul and Todd W. Bressi, eds. Understanding Ordinary
Landscapes. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1997.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public
History. Cambridge, MA: The
MIT Press, 1995.
Meinig, D.W. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical
Essays. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1979.
Noble, Allen G. To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in
North America. Baltimore, MD:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Upton, Dell and John Michael Vlatch, eds. Common Places: Readings
in American Vernacular Architecture.
Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Wessles, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History
of New England. Woodstock, VT:
The Countryman Press, 1997.
General Landscape Preservation
References
Birnbaum, Charles A. and Cheryl Wagner, eds. Making Educated
Decisions: A Landscape Preservation Bibliography. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, 1994. Updated October
2000.
Coffin, Margaet and Regina M. Bellavia. Guide to Developing
a Preservation Maintenance Plan for a Historic Landscape. Boston, MA: Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation,
National Park Service, 1988.
- Available for order at (617) 566-1689
Cultural Resource Management. Washington, DC: National Park Service, United States Department of the
Interior, 1978-2002.
Mitchell, Nora J.
and Robert R. Page. "Managing the Past for the Future: The Stewardship
of America's Landscape Legacy," Historic Preservation Forum. Vol. 7, No. 3 (May / June 1993):49.
Documenting Historic
Landscapes
Massachusetts
Department of Conservation and Recreation. Reading the Land
Massachusetts Heritage Landscapes: A Guide to Identification and
Protection. Boston: Executive
Office of Environmental Affairs, Department of Conservation and
Recreation, 2003.
Massachusetts Historical Commission. Historic Properties Survey
Manual: Guidelines for the Identification of Historic and Archaeological
Properties in Massachusetts.
Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1992.
- Available at (617) 727-8470
Preservation Planning
for Historic Landscapes
Birnbaum, Charles A. "Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning,
Treatment, and Management of Historic Landscapes." Preservation
Briefs 36. Washington, DC: U.S.
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Preservation
Assistance Division, 1994.
Birnbaum, Charles A., ed. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards
for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for the
Treatment of Cultural Landscapes.
Historic Landscape Initiative, Heritage Preservation Services, Cultural
Resource Stewardship and Partnerships. Washington, DC: National
Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, 1996.
Massachusetts Historical Commission. Preservation through Bylaws
and Ordinances. Boston, MA:
Massachusetts Historical Commission, 2001 et seq.
Page, Robert R., Cathy A. Gilbert and Susan A. Dolan. A Guide
to Cultural Landscape Reports: Content, Process and Techniques. Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, 1998.
Ward, Wesley T., ed. Land Conservation Options: A Guide for
Massachusetts Landowners (fourth
edition). Essex and Beverly, MA: Essex County Greenbelt Association,
Inc. and The Trustees of Reservations, 1999.
Burial Grounds and Cemeteries
Forbes,
Harriette Merrifield. Gravestones of Early New England and the
Men Who Made Them: 1653-1800.
Princeton, NJ: Pyne Press, 1973. (Originally published in 1927.)
Jackson, Kenneth T. and Camilo Jose Vergara. Silent Cities:
The Evolution of the American Cemetery.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989.
Ludwig, Allan I. Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and
its Symbols, 1650-1815. Middletown,
CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management (now the Department
of Conservation and Recreation). Preservation Guidelines for
Municipally Owned Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries (second edition). Boston, MA: Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs, Department of Environmental Management, 2000.
Potter, Elisabeth Walton and Beth M. Boland. "Guidelines for Evaluating
and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places." National Register
Bulletin 41. U.S. Department
of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency Resources Division,
1992.
Sloane, David Charles. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries
in American History. Baltimore,
MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Strangstad, Lynette. A Graveyard Preservation Primer. Nashville, TN: The American Association for State
and Local History, 1988.
Strangstad, Lynette. Preservation of Historic Burial Grounds.
National Trust for Historic Preservation Information Series No.
76. Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1993.
Rural Landscapes
Copps, David H. Views From the Road: A Community Guide for Assessing
Rural Historic Landscapes. Washington,
DC: Island Press, 1995.
Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
McClelland, Linda F., J. Timothy Kelley, Genevieve P. Kelley, and
Robert Z. Melnick. "Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural
Historic Landscapes." National Register Bulletin 30. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency
Resources Division, 1989 (revised 1999).
Melnick, Robert Z., with Daniel Sponn and Emma Jane Saxe. Cultural
Landscapes: Rural Historic Districts in the National Park System. Washington, DC: United States Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, 1984.
Melnick, Robert Z. "Landscape Thinking." Cultural Resource Management
Bulletin Vol. 8, No. 1. Washington,
DC: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior,
1985.
Miller, Hugh C. "Rural Landscapes." Cultural Resource Management
Bulletin Vol. 10, No. 6. Washington,
DC: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior,
1987.
Stokes, Samuel N., A. Elizabeth Watson, and Shelley S. Mastran
with contributions by Genevieve P. Keller and J. Timothy Keller.
Saving America's Countryside: A Guide to Rural Conservation (2nd edition). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
McEnaney, Marla. "Working the Land." Cultural Resource Management
Bulletin Vol. 24, No. 7. Washington,
DC: National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior,
2001.
Designed Landscapes
Birnbaum, Charles
A. and Robin Karson. Pioneers of American Landscape Design. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Historic American Landscape Survey, National Park Service, United
States Department of the Interior.
Kelley, J. Timothy and Genevieve P. Kelley. "How to Evaluate and
Nominate Designed Historic
Landscapes." National Register Bulletin 18. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park
Service, Interagency Resources Division, 1994.
Rybczynski, Witold. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law
Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park
System. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
Gardens / Plant
Materials
Emmet, Alan. So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England
Gardens. Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 1996.
Favretti, Rudy J. and Joy Putnam Favretti. Landscapes and Gardens
for Historic Buildings (second
edition). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997.
Leighton, Ann. American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For
Use or For Delight." Amherst,
MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
Leighton, Ann. American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century: "For
Comfort and Affluence." Amherst,
MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Leighton, Ann. Early American Gardens: "For Meate or Medicine."
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1986.
Historic Roads
Cultural Resource
Management Bulletin Vol. 16, No. 11. Special issue on historic transportation
corridors. Washington, DC: National Park Service, United States
Department of the Interior, 1993.
Marriott, Paul Daniel. "Historic Parkway Design: A Look at the
AASHTO Green Book," Cultural Resource Management Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 1. Washington, DC: National Park Service,
United States Department of the Interior, 1994.
Marriott, Paul Daniel. Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy
Guidelines. New York: John Wiley,
1998.
Savage, Beth L. "Road-related Resources Listed in the National
Register." Cultural Resource Management Bulletin Vol. 19, No. 9. Washington, DC: National Park Service,
United States Department of the Interior, 1996.
Residential Developments
and Suburbs
Ames, David
L. and Linda Flint McClelland. "Historic Residential Suburbs: Guidelines
for Evaluation and Documentation for the National Register of Historic
Places." National Register Bulletin.
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency
Resources Division, 2001.
Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth,
1820-2000. New York: Pantheon
Books, 2003.
Stilgoe, John R. Borderland: Origins of the America Suburb,
1820-1939. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1988.
Military Sites
Cultural Resource
Management Bulletin Vol. 20, No. 5. Special issue on saving Americ's battlefields.
Washington, DC: National Park Service, United States Department
of the Interior, 1997.
Andrus, Patrick
W. "Guidelines for Identifying, Evaluating, and Registering America's
Historic Battlefields." National Register Bulletin 40. U.S. Department
of the Interior, National Park Service, Interagency Resources Division,
1992 (rev. 1999).
Ethnographic Landscapes
Evans, Michael, Alexa Roberts and Peggy Nelson. "Ethnographic Landscapes."
Cultural Resource Management Bulletin Vol. 24, No. 5. Washington, DC: National Park Service,
United States Department of the Interior, 2001.
Interpretation
/ Public Programming
Cultural
Resource Management Bulletin Vol. 17, No. 7. Special issue on landscape interpretation.
Washington, DC: National Park Service, United States Department
of the Interior, 1994.
Regional Historic Landscape
Studies
Brockway,
Lucinda A. "Understanding Historic Landscapes The Rhode Island
Survey," Cultural Resource Management Bulletin Vol. 14, No. 2. Washington, DC: National Park Service,
United States Department of the Interior, 1991
Land Conservation Center of the Trustees of Reservations. Conserving
Our Common Wealth: A Vision for the Massachusetts Landscape. Beverly MA: The Trustees of Reservations, 1999.
Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission.
Historic Landscapes of Rhode Island. Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage
Commission, 2001.
The Trustees of Reservations. Land of the Commonwealth: A Portrait
of the Conserved Landscapes of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
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