PROJECT ABSTRACT
Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
(Cooperative Agreement # H1200-004-0002)
Park: Grand Canyon National Park
Project Title: Preparation of a Historic Structure Report for Hermit’s Rest, Grand
Canyon National Park
Funding Amount: $61,400
CPCESU Partner Institution: University of Arizona, College of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture (CALA)
Principal Investigator (name, title, address, telephone, FAX, email):
R. Brooks Jeffery phone: 520-621-2991 e-mail: rbjeffer@u.arizona.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)
P.O. Box 210075
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0075
Co-Investigator (name, title, address, telephone, FAX, email):
Kim Barker
Project Coordinator phone: 520-626-2393 e-mail: kbarker@email.arizona.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)
P.O. Box 210075
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0075
Mike Lovato
Researcher e-mail: lovatomi@email.arizona.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)
P.O. Box 210075
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0075
Susan Bartlett
Researcher
Phone: 520-626-2393 e-mail: sbartlet@email.Arizona.edu
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA)
P.O. Box 210075
The University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona 85721-0075
NPS Key Official (name, title, address, telephone, FAX, email):
NPS KEY OFFICIAL:
Amanda Zeman
Historic Preservation Specialist
P.O. Box 129
1575 Shuttle Bus Road
Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023
Tel: 928-638-7906 amanda_zeman@nps.gov
Technical Reviewer:
Robert Powell
Historical Architect
P.O. Box 129
1575 Shuttle Bus Road
Grand Canyon, Arizona 86023
Tel: 928-638-7649 robert_powell@nps.gov
Start Date: March 15, 2007
End Date: October 31, 2007
Abstract:
The purpose of this project is to prepare a Historic Structures Report (HSR) for Hermit’s
Rest (Building #863) and associated structures, located within Grand Canyon National
Park.
The HSR shall be prepared and formatted in accordance with Cultural Resource
Management Guidelines (DO-28) and shall include sections such as, but not limited to, the property’s design development; chronology and evolution of each structure; ultimate treatment and alternatives for treatment with associated cost estimates; and character defining features, materials, and spaces of each building(s). In addition to archival research and report preparation, the investigators will reproduce/prepare photographs showing historic and current conditions, as well as architectural drawings showing historic and existing conditions. The final document will be used by Grand Canyon
National Park and the park concessioner to manage the property.
Under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit cooperative agreement, a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and University of Arizona (UA) is proposed. This project benefits both cooperators as graduate student(s) in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UA to gain valuable experience in architectural documentation and preservation treatment analysis and GRCA to obtain the preservation treatment recommendations necessary to meet their strategic mission objectives. GRCA will be responsible for ensuring that the UA team fully understands the level of documentation needed as well as the process for having this information reviewed by appropriate technical staff. The UA team will be responsible for the preparation of the HSRs in accordance with DO-28 and organization for the project. historic structures, historic structures report, historic preservation, architecture
Keywords (see list at http://home.nau.edu/cpcesu/projectplanning.asp
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