Camp Perry Historic District landscape inventory and viewshed analysis

Abstract

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).

Camp Perry historic district contributing buildings : character-defining features

“…The research team included Adam D. Smith, Master of Architecture, with 22 years of experience in military architectural history, Sunny E. Adams, Master of Architecture, as architectural historian with 17 years of experience, August S. Fuelberth as architectural intern and report compiler with 1 year of experience, and Carey L. Baxter, archaeologist with 21 years of experience.2 Character-Defining Features2.1 Building 1Building 1 (Headquarters) was initially documented on an Ohio Historic Inventory (OHI) form in 1993 by McQuillin and Associates and recommended eligible in 2008 by MSG. In the Camp Perry Historic District Landscape Inventory and Viewshed Analysis, Building 1 was reassessed and found contributing to the Camp Perry Historic District, which was concurred with by the SHPO(Smith, Tooker, and Adams 2021).2.1.1 Historic informationThe Administration Building, now Building 1, at Camp Perry was designed by Fred Elliot, the State Armory Architect and was constructed in 1937-38 (Figure2).Rehabilitation was completed on Building 1 in 2013 in accordance with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties (SOI Standards) (NPS 1996; Weeks and Grimmer 1995) and in consultation with the SHPO. Rehabilitation included a new roof, replacement of the skylight and windows, masonry cleaning and repairs, and in 2014, a backup generator was installed.…”