Project Description: This project will allow SUNY ESF students with opportunities to become involved in National Park Service natural and cultural resource management. These opportunities will focus on landscape preservation technical assistance related to the adaptation of the South Street Properties (Home for the Aged and Tubman Residence) and Old Thompson AME Zion Church into units of the National Park System. This technical assistance also will address transportation issues related to access to and connection between the park properties, park wayfinding and interpretation, and protection of the park’s historic setting. Given the park’s proximity to Syracuse, this agreement will provide SUNY ESF students with opportunities to work with the NPS, Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. and the City of Auburn on a variety of resource management issues.
This is phase 2 of P16AC01231 that involves historical research, documentation of existing conditions, analysis & evaluation, and treatment recommendations for the cultural landscape of Harriet Tubman National Historical Park (partner-owned South Street properties and NPS-owned Thompson AME Zion Church property)
Lead Principal Investigator: John Auwaerter, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Co-Principal Investigator: Prof. George Curry, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Partner Institution: SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Federal Agency Technical Contact: Robert Page
Federal Involvement: NPS Olmsted Center Bob Page assisted with project planning, project management, and review of draft reports, and participated in the studio. NPS staff Brian Strack and Frank Barrows also participated in the studio steering committee.
Project Type: Research
Project Discipline: Cultural Resources
Project Sub-Discipline(s): Cultural and Historic, Engineering, Design, & Sustainability
Start Year: 2017
End Year: 2020
Initial Funding Amount: $87,000.00
Federal Grant Number: P17AC01100
Amendments
- Amendment Number: 01, Year: 2020, Amount: $0.00
Location: Two properties in the City of Auburn and Town of Fleming, NY
National Park or Protected Area: Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
State(s): New York
New York Counties: Cayuga
Student and Other Involvement:
- Masters Students: 2
- Undergraduate Students: 7
Summary of Student Involvement: Together with P16AC01231, this project supported Graduate Research Assistant Claire Fischer for a full-time summer internship and AY 50% research project assistant to undertake existing conditions mapping and landscape feature inventory for this project. Graduate Research Assistant Connor Neville assisted with developing treatment recommendations for the landscape.
Seven landscape architecture students participated in an ESF Landscape Architecture studio that explored treatment concepts for the cultural landscape.
Summary of Other Involvement: Nine community members including Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. staff and executive director, local residents, a Tubman descendant, subject area experts, and others served on a steering committee for the studio project.
PI John Auwaerter took the lead on research and writing for the site history, existing conditions, and analysis and evaluation, and assisted with review and comment on the city/state DOT NY 34 improvement project and its potential effects on the cultural landscape of the Harriet Tubman Home, Inc., property.
Products Associated with this Project:
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Photographs from this Project:
Harriet Tubman Studio Final Presentation
Photo credit: John Auwaerter, SUNY ESF
Research Project Assistant Claire Fisher (Master of Landscape Architecture) working on an inventory of cultural landscape characteristics and features at the Harriet Tubman Home property, June 2016.
Photo credit: John Auwaerter, SUNY ESF