Alpine Visitor Center Preservation Plan, Fall River Pass Historic District
Otak, Inc. and National Park Service. 2023. Alpine Visitor Center Preservation Plan, Fall River Pass Historic District. Historic Structure Management Plan. National Park Service. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
The Alpine Visitor Center Preservation Plan focuses on the previously developed condition assessment for the Alpine Visitor Center Building (2018) as well as evaluation of contributing features and character-defining features of the building. It includes physical description, treatment recommendations, and brief summaries of information located in the other companion reports, appendices, and other documents. The 1965 Alpine Visitor Center is one of several culturally and historically significant structures and features in the Fall River Pass Historic District, which is recognized under Criteria A (representing broad patterns of a comprehensive development program to meet visitor experience requirements through the Mission 66 Program) and C (for architectural design). The unique features of this site and discussed in more detail in the Fall River Pass Preservation Plan. Auxiliary buildings are discussed in detail in the Fall River Pass Historic Structures Reports. The recommended treatment for the Alpine Visitor Center is Rehabilitation with Preservation and Restoration for some aspects of the building.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Otak, Inc.; National Park Service
- Date of Issue
- 2023-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- IMR , ROMO
- Keywords
- architecture, cedar shake roof, cruciform plan, glass curtain-wall, Mission 66, Modern style, peeled log lattice, Trail Ridge Road, visitor center, William Muchow
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 890221: Fall River Area
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International