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Section I
Overview of 1.0 Landscape Preservation Guidelines and Description of Historic Resources
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This document contains landscape preservation policies, patterns and guidelines and a description of historic resources.
Section II - Overall Campus Landscape Preservation Policies, Patterns, and Treatment Approaches
This section addresses issues of campus heritage at the broadest possible scale. These guidelines include campus policy approaches and new patterns are incorporated into the university's Campus Plan. Treatment approaches and suggested applications are provided to help direct preservation work in a manner consistent with established guidelines.
Section III - Description of Historic Resources
This section begins with a short discussion of American campus planning through which one can place the University of Oregon's activities in a larger context. It also contains a history of the university's development, which informed the division of its historic period of significance for this study (1876 - 1974) into three distinct eras. Each era is described through a listing of its defining characteristic.
This section also summarizes the results of a comprehensive survey of campus's historic resources, encompassing twenty-one landscape areas and forty-nine buildings. Issues of significance, integrity and general condition were assessed and recorded. Evaluation of the resources followed, with rankings assigned on the basis of discerned historic significance and associated material and design integrity. This system of ranking will aid the university to provide the required amount of care and attention to its highest ranked resources.
Appendices
This section describes future work items and provides additional background materials.
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1914 view looking northwest to Deady and Villard Halls
Interactive Map of Historic Buildings and Landscapes
1.0 Landscape Preservation Guidelines and Description of Historic Resources
- Section I
- Section II
- Section III
- Appendices (pdf)
- Complete Document (pdf)
2.0 Site Specific Preservation Plans and Guidelines
3.0 Historic Landscapes
4.0 Historic Buildings
An abundance of trees, attractively grouped, pathways and lanes between various buildings, shrubbery of different kinds, and always flowers in their appropriate seasons, enable the Oregon campus to have a distinction peculiar to itself.
-"The Campus Beautiful" in the
1920 Oregana yearbook |
