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SUNY ESF
Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation

The ESF Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, based in the Department of Landscape Architecture, supports the education of landscape architects and students in related professions as best stewards of the cultural environment. The Center brings together interdisciplinary expertise from across ESF, the National Park Service, state parks, and other partners to address challenges in preserving our landscape heritage.

Gettysburg National Cemetery gates

GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: SIMULATION BY CCLP RESEARCH ASSISTANT CHRIS ANDERSON OF PROPOSED TREATMENT FOR THE MAIN ENTRANCE GATES, 2016. THE SIMULATION ILLUSTRATED ONE OF THE TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT FOR THE CEMETERY.

Natural resource assessment with Dr. James Gibbs at Harriet Tubman National Historical Park

HARRIET TUBMAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, AUBURN, NEW YORK: NATURAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT WITH DR. JAMES GIBBS OF THE SUNY ESF DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOREST BIOLOGY, 2016. THE ASSESSMENT WAS UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF EXISTING CONDITIONS DOCUMENTATION FOR A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT BEING DEVELOPED THROUGH THE CCLP.

Students, ESF faculty, and NPS staff

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, HYDE PARK, NEW YORK: STUDENTS, ESF FACULTY, AND NPS STAFF PARTICIPANTS IN FINAL REVIEW OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PRESERVATION STUDIO AT ESF, 2008. THE STUDIO PRODUCED DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR THE RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE HISTORIC LANDSCAPE AS PART OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT.

ESF students at Chancellorsville Battlefield

CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLEFIELD, SPOTSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA: ESF STUDENTS IN A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO BEING INTRODUCED TO THE SITE BY NPS PARK STAFF, 2015. THE STUDIO PRODUCED DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR THE HISTORIC BATTLE HELD AS PART OF TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT PREPARED THROUGH THE CCLP.

CCLP Research assistant Nate Ogdahl atErie Canal National Heritage Corridor

ERIE CANAL NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR, PORT BYRON, NEW YORK: CCLP RESEARCH ASSISTANT NATE OGDAHL ON A SITE VISIT WITH ESF AND CANAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK STATE STAFF, 2010. NATE PRODUCED A DIGITAL MODEL OF PROPOSED SITE IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF A RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE CANAL SOCIETY COMPLETED THROUGH THE CCLP.

CCLP Research Assistant Haichao Wang with CCLP Co-Director John Auwaerter and NPS Olmsted Center Director Bob Page

MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT, MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: CCLP RESEARCH ASSISTANT HAICHAO WANG WITH CCLP CO-DIRECTOR JOHN AUWAERTER AND NPS OLMSTED CENTER DIRECTOR BOB PAGE, 2014. THE INVENTORY DONE THAT SUMMER WAS PART OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT DEVELOPED THROUGH THE CCLP.

Poplar Grove National Cemetery

POPLAR GROVE NATIONAL CEMETERY, PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA SHOWING RECONSTRUCTION IN 2016 OF THE HISTORIC UPRIGHT CIVIL WAR HEADSTONES THAT WERE LAID FLAT BY THE NPS IN THE 1930S. THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS PART OF A COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT PLAN FOR REHABILITATION OF THE HISTORIC CIVIL WAR-ERA NATIONAL CEMETERY PRODUCED BY THE CCLP THROUGH A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT COMPLETED IN 2009.

We acknowledge, with respect, the Onondaga Nation, firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the indigenous people on whose ancestral lands SUNY ESF and Syracuse University now stand. We give thanks that they are here, stewarding this land.

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Spring 2022

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Figure displaying tree canopy heights

PHOTO CAPTION: SARA CONSTANTINEAU USES LIDAR DATA IN RHINOCEROS TO ASSESS HOW TREE CANOPY HEIGHTS ARE IMPACTING THE HISTORIC VIEW OF THE HUDSON RIVER FROM THE HOME OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT IN HYDE PARK, NEW YORK.

This academic year, five students in the Department of Landscape Architecture have been working with the Center on cultural landscape preservation research. Allison Perry (1st year, MLA) is the student lead on the Center's project with the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to develop pilot cultural landscape inventories along the National Historic Landmark New York State Barge Canal. Four students are working in Professor Aidan Ackerman's digital modeling lab. Sara Constantineau (2nd year, MLA) is modeling how forest growth has obscured the historic view of the Hudson River from the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, NY. Jessica Mink and Sarah Beaver (2nd year, MLA) are furthering work on simulations showing change over time in the Memorial Groves at the Flight 93 Memorial in Stoystown, PA and a Norway spruce-crab apple allée at Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA. Chien-Yu Lin (Landscape Architecture Ph.D. Candidate) is continuing work begun by Sarah Constantineau on modeling the reestablishment of a historic orchard at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook, NY.

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Historic Preservation and Oakwood Cemetery Lecture Recordings Now Available!

Over the past Spring semester, the ESF Friends of Oakwood and CCLP hosted a spectacular virtual lecture series on Historic Preservation and Oakwood Cemetery. You can view the recordings of these lectures here: