scholarly journals Fort McCoy, Wisconsin WWII buildings and landscapes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunny E. Adams ◽  
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Megan W. Tooker ◽  
Adam D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Level ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Design Construction

The U.S. Congress codified the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) mostly through the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources. Section 110 of the NHPA requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources, and Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on those potentially eligible for the NRHP. This report provides a World War II development history and analysis of 786 buildings, and determinations of eligibility for those buildings, on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Evaluation of the WWII buildings and landscape concluded that there are too few buildings with integrity to form a cohesive historic district. While the circulation patterns and roads are still intact, the buildings with integrity are scattered throughout the cantonment affecting the historic character of the landscape. Only Building 100 (post headquarters), Building 656 (dental clinic), and Building 550 (fire station) are ELIGIBLE for listing on the NRHP at the national level under Criterion A for their association with World War II temporary building construction (1942-1946) and under Criterion C for their design, construction, and technological innovation.

scholarly journals Fort McCoy, Wisconsin Building 550 maintenance plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
August S. Fuelberth ◽  
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Adam D. Smith ◽  
Sunny E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
Cultural Resources Management ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
Element Failure ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Maintenance Plan

Building 550 (former World War II fire station) is located on Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, and was recommended eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2018 (Smith and Adams 2018). The building is currently vacant. It is an intact example of an 800 Series World War II fire station with character-defining features of its period of significance from 1939 to 1946 on its exterior and interior. All buildings, especially historic ones, require regular planned maintenance and repair. The most notable cause of historic building element failure and/or decay is not the fact that the historic building is old, but rather it is caused by incorrect or inappropriate repair and/or basic neglect of the historic building fabric. This document is a maintenance manual compiled with as-is conditions of construction materials of Building 550. The Secretary of Interior Guidelines on rehabilitation and repair per material are discussed to provide the cultural resources manager at Fort McCoy a guide to maintain this historic building. This report satisfies Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 as amended and will help the Fort McCoy Cultural Resources Management office to manage this historic building.

scholarly journals Camp Perry historic district contributing buildings : character-defining features

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
August Fuelberth ◽  
Sunny Adams ◽  
Carey Baxter
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Army National Guard ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) established the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. NHPA Section 110 requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources. Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on properties deemed eligible or potentially eligible for the NRHP. Camp Perry Joint Training Center (Camp Perry) is located near Port Clinton, Ohio, and serves as an Ohio Army National Guard (OHARNG) training site. It served as an induction center during federal draft periods and as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Previous work established boundaries for a historic district and recommended the district eligible for the NRHP. This project inventoried and analyzed the character-defining features of the seven contributing buildings and one grouping of objects (brick lamp posts) at Camp Perry. The analysis is to aid future Section 106 processes and/or the development of a programmatic agreement in consultation with the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

Religion as Cultural Resource

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-170
Author(s):  
Michael D. McNally
Keyword(s):  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Tribal Governments ◽  
Preservation Law ◽  
Traditional Cultural Properties ◽  
National Historic Preservation Act ◽  
Sacred Lands

This chapter explores what results when Native peoples articulate religious claims in the language of culture and cultural resources under environmental and historic preservation law. It argues that cultural resource laws have become more fruitful in two respects. First, there is more emphatic insistence on government-to-government consultation between federal agencies and tribes. Second, in 1990, National Historic Preservation Act regulations were clarified by designating “Traditional Cultural Properties” as eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and in 1992, that law was amended to formally engage tribal governments in the review process. In light of these developments, protection under the categories of culture and cultural resource have proved more capacious for distinctive Native practices and beliefs about sacred lands, but it has come at the expense of the clearer edge of religious freedom protections, while still being haunted, and arguably bedraggled, by the category of religion from which these categories ostensibly have been formally disentangled.

Summary and Appraisal

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 4-8
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
National Level ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Reconstruction Period ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund said recently that the world is facing ‘the most difficult combination of economic policy decisions since the reconstruction period following World War II’. It is unfortunate that action, so far, in the face of mounting inflation and balance of payments difficulties, has been at a national level rather than on the international level which the situation requires. In particular, there is still an urgent need to make concrete arrangements for dealing with the capital flows resulting from the rise in oil prices, and to offset the deflationary impact of the latter, while, unless aid is increased substantially, the plight of some developing countries will become increasingly desperate as the real value of existing aid flows is rapidly eroded by inflation, and as their oil bills fall due for payment. Nevertheless the restoration of oil supplies combined with the delay between the raising of prices and actual payments at the new rates seems to have induced an unwarranted mood of euphoria in the consuming countries in the first few months of this year.

scholarly journals Camp Perry Historic District landscape inventory and viewshed analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Megan Tooker ◽  
Sunny Adams
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
Boundary Change ◽  
Viewshed Analysis

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) established the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), which requires federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. NHPA section 110 requires federal agencies to inventory and evaluate their cultural resources. Section 106 requires them to determine the effect of federal undertakings on properties deemed eligible or potentially eligible for the NRHP. Camp Perry Joint Training Center (Camp Perry) is located near Port Clinton, Ohio, and serves as an Ohio Army National Guard (OHARNG) training site. It served as an induction center during federal draft periods and as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Previous work established boundaries for an historic district and recommended the district eligible for the NRHP. This project inventoried and evaluated Camp Perry’s historic cultural landscape and outlined approaches and recommendations for treatment by Camp Perry cultural resources management. Based on the landscape evaluation, recommendations of a historic district boundary change were made based on the small number of contributing resources to aid future Section 106 processes and/or development of a programmatic agreement in consultation with the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).

Fitzgerald, Desmond (1911–1987)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorcha O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
World War ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
International Style ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
University College

Desmond Fitzgerald was an architect descended from a well-known Irish political family. He worked for Patrick Abercrombie on Mendesohn and Chermayeff’s 1936 De La Warr Pavilion. After his return to Ireland he led a team of young Irish architects to design the "International Style" Dublin Airport for the Office of Public Works from 1937 to 1940. Influenced by Dutch models, the airport was designed to follow the circulation patterns of passengers, with a curved plan funnelling them out onto the airfield (see Figure 1). A good example of the glamorous associations of inter-war air travel, the concrete and steel terminal referenced ocean liners with curved ends and stepped balconies, and the airport was awarded the RIAI Gold Medal for 1938–40. After World War II, Fitzgerald taught architecture at University College Dublin and designed several other public buildings, as well as large office buildings in a monumental style.

The Recording of World War II

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Experience ◽  
Indispensable Tool

The nation at war, in mobilizing its total resources, has called increasingly upon political scientists to contribute their efforts in the public service. In most instances, the political scientist serving the federal government has not come in directly under the banner of his own profession, even though his training may be highly pertinent to his immediate responsibilities. Those who are associated with the historical records program, however, have been especially able to relate their previous preparation to their present work in the federal agencies.This expanding program reflects the growing appreciation of the need for a full understanding of the way in which the war is being conducted by both military and civilian agencies. Not only is there a widespread desire for more adequate records than we possess of previous wars, but there is also the conviction on the part of many officials that the immediate funding of our administrative experience is essential to successful formulation and execution of policy. While adequate records as an indispensable tool of good management serve current utility, at the same time they contribute to the longer-run task of creating a full and objective account of American participation in World War II. From the standpoint of future study of government and public administration, the work on war records which has been initiated in the federal government shows distinct promise.

Small-Scale Mapping on a National Level

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27
Author(s):  
Robert E. Altenhofen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
World War ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Ground Survey ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Fully Automatic

Canada stands pre-eminent among nations who are applying new techniques to the solution of national mapping problems. The mapping programs of Canada, Australia, and the United States can be similarly described: they are planned and executed by scientifically oriented government agencies; funding is never commensurate with mapping needs; a fine balance is maintained between the completion of new mapping and the revision of out-dated maps. Photogrammetry came of age just before World War II and enabled these countries to accelerate their output of small- and medium-scale maps. The computer-based combination of aerotriangulation with electronic methods of ground survey enabled Canada and Australia to sweep over large unchartered areas with control network expansion followed quickly by map production. Developing nations could well use the resulting techniques. The orthophoto map is a new form which introduced semiautomation to mapping and presages fully automatic map compilation.

scholarly journals Habitar una bóveda metálica. Quonset Huts en la Base Aeronaval de Rota

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
María del Pilar Salazar Lozano ◽  
Antonio José Cidoncha Pérez
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
American Military ◽  
Cylindrical Metal ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Unknown Case ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Design Construction

During World War II, and even in the years that followed, thousands of American soldiers lived in prefabricated semi-cylindrical metal huts that could be dismantled and reused: Quonset Huts. Their singular design and their multiple uses made Quonset Huts an American military design icon. The daring construction system made it possible to manufacture them in the United States and take them across the Atlantic, armed with a comprehensive instruction manual. The Seabees, American soldiers posted to Spain to build the Naval Station Rota, set up a provisional camp in 1959 comprising fifty-three Quonset Huts. Assembling them in Spain provided housing for 500 soldiers and they were fitted with all types of facilities for their functions.  This text aims to shed light on this unknown case of prefabricated dwellings in our country, contextualising the history of their design, construction and installation, and analysing the repercussion of this constructive experiment in the early days of prefabricated construction in Spain.

scholarly journals Coastal Tourism Destinations in West Bengal: Historical Background and Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Anirban Baitalik ◽  
Sankar Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
World War ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The 1960S

Coastal tourism has become a major facet of modern life. Further, tourism development in the coastal zone has become a constant since the end of World War II. Coastal tourism is a process involving tourists and the people and places they visit, particularly the coastal environment and its natural and cultural resources. Most coastal tourism takes place along the shore and in the water immediately adjacent to the shoreline. In India Goa, Kerala, Karnataka were emerged spontaneously as a coastal tourism destination in the 1960s, its unique selling points being its natural coastal beauty. But the history of coastal tourism is not very old in West Bengal. The coastal stretch of West Bengal with a length of about 350 kilometer comprises the two districts- Purba Medinipur and Dakshin Chabbisparagana. In West Bengal there are many popular coastal tourism destinations, but coastal tourism in West Bengal started in 1980s. Present study focuses on historical background and development of the coastal tourism destinations in West Bengal.Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-3: 267-272 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i3.12910 

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