Index
Page numbers in italic indicate photographs.
Acadia National Park, 18, 60–61
Ackerson, Anne, 30, 36–37, 123, 183
Adams, Abigail, 163
Adams, Ansel, 21
Adams, John, 163
advisory commission, 52, 54, 119, 135–37, 144, 153, 188
Albright, Horace M., 7
Alda, Alan, 43, 91–98, 97, 108, 182
Anderson, Elayne, 129, 148, 182
Anthony, Susan B.
Barton, Cheryl, 152
Baskin, Lisa, 116
Beck, Bonnie, 100
Belle, John, 152
Berg, Shary, 182
Bero, Marilyn, 36, 137, 153, 183
Bertran, Herald, 137
Bingham, Jonathan Brewster, 50–51, 57–58, 181
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 68
Blatch, Nora Stanton, 107
Boston National Historical Park, 6, 22
Boston Redevelopment Authority, Hart’s position with, xiv
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Hart’s position with, xiii–xiv
Bradshaw, E. Barry, 66–68, 183
Breeches, Blouses, and Skirts (Workman), 8, 9, 10
Bundock, Holly, 77, 89, 95, 98, 182
Bureau of Relocation (Massachusetts), Hart’s position with, 19–20
Burris, Jeffery J., 156
Bye, A. E., 159
Cables, Herbert Jr., 182
park supported by, 78–79, 86, 108
regional directorship of, 100–101, 136–37, 165
Stanton house opening and, 115, 117
Cabrillo National Monument, 11
Cape Cod National Seashore, 6, 18
Carey, Hugh, 137
Carissimi, Jimmy, 85
Carter, Jimmy Earl, 181
National Park Service funding under, 73
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 99
Cayuga–Seneca Canal, 25, 61, 151
Cayuga State Park, 135
Chatfield-Taylor, Adele, 182
Wesleyan Chapel design competition and, 138, 146, 146–157, 171
Chermayeff and Geismar, 159, 165
Clara Barton National Historic Site, 18, 53, 162
Clinton, Bill, 5
Cliver, Blaine, 182
community support
Convention Days, 44–45, 86, 92, 155, 168, 172
historic preservation district, 40–41, 54, 67
National Women’s Hall of Fame, 29, 35–37, 54, 78, 99, 137, 173, 174, 183
Stanton house purchase and, 42–44
Urban Cultural Park, 38–42, 61, 67–68, 115, 118, 132–35
See also Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
Conable, Barber, 66
Conable, Charlotte, 66, 137, 153
Conscience, Sites of, 15
Convention Days, 44–45, 86, 92, 155, 168, 172
Cornell University, xiii, 36–41, 66, 80, 101, 125, 140–41, 166, 177–78
Crumlish, Paul, 45
Crump, Bobbie B. Jr., 156
Curry, John Steuart, 21
Darcy, John, 108–9, 112, 115, 118–19
Declaration of Sentiments
in Wesleyan Chapel design, 169
See also M’Clintock house
Declaration Park, xvii, 3, 156, 168, 172
Department of Community Affairs, Hart’s position with, xiv–xvi
Department of Housing and Urban Development, 38–39
Department of the Interior, 7, 19–21, 37–38, 62–63, 126
Design Arts Program (NEA), 138
design competition, Wesleyan Chapel
Dickenson, Russell E., 76–77, 108, 110, 125, 181
Dixon, Maynard, 21
Douglass, Frederick, 2
Doyle, Joe, 36
Economic Research Associates (ERA), 133
80 Years and More (Stanton), 105
Eisenhower College, 24, 29, 78, 84, 86, 95, 99, 134
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, 18, 50–51, 53, 162
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation, 6
advisory commission and, 54, 137
park opening and, 99
Stanton house purchased by, 33, 42–44, 74–77, 93, 96, 116–19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Park, 40, 78, 150
environmental impact statement (EIS), 128
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 89–90, 97
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, 173
Fall Street revitalization, 38–42
Federal Highway Administration, Hart’s position with, xiv
Finger Lakes National Heritage Area, 173
First Wesleyan Methodist Society, 122
Flanagan, Martin, 156
Fortner, Bert, 40–41, 60–62, 67, 77, 133, 152, 183
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, 64
Freeland, Robert G., 78, 96, 144, 153, 183
Friebaum, Janice, 86, 98, 103, 182
Wesleyan Chapel purchase, 125–27, 138–144, 165–67
Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 5–7, 74, 120, 125–27, 166
Galvin, Denis, 14, 48, 141–43, 150, 181
Gans-Piazza, Karen, 157
Gateway National Recreation Area, 6, 21, 78, 95
general management plan (GMP), 128–132
General Services Administration (GSA), 82–84
George, Carrie, 137
George, Ted, 156
Ginzburg, Lori D., 172
Goddard College, Hart’s education at, xiv–xvi
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 21
Gonzalez, Edgar J., 156
Gropper, William, 21
Haines-Gooding, Pat, 86, 91–92, 94, 100, 182
Halderman, Peggy. See Lipson, Peggy
Harpers Ferry Center, 137
Hart, James Solomon, ix–xi, xi
Congressional hearings and, 58–68
departure as superintendent, 164–65
early life and education of, xii–xvi, 22–23
successes and mistakes of, 100–104, 160–61
See also park development
Hart, Mamie, ix
Hart-Bartlett- Sturtevant, x
Hartley, Shirley, 36
Harvard University, xiv–xv, xv, 99, 154, 160
Hemenway, Alice, 100
Henderson, Fay, 101
Historic Sites, Buildings and Antiquities Act, 12–13
Historic Structures Report (HSR)
Hunt house, 198
M’Clintock house, 198
Stanton house, 112
Village Hall, 198
Wesleyan Chapel, 148
Hochul, Kathy, 175
Hoff-Wilson, Joan, 152
Holden, Becky, 36
Home State Bank of Kansas, x
Horton, Frank J., 181
congressional district boundaries of, 125
park funding supported by, 6–7, 125–27, 139–143, 166–67, 170
Wesleyan Chapel design competition and, 146, 146–47, 157, 158
House of Representatives, park legislation passed in, 56–60
Howard Brandston Associates, 159
H.R. 6407, 58
Hunt, Richard, 28
Hunt house, 72
initial Reconnaissance Study of, 27–29
Hutchinson Family Singers, 116
Huyck, Heather, 129
Ickes, Harold, 21
Independence National Historical Park, 10
International Sites of Conscience, 15
Ivey, Lynn, 2
Jenkins, Coline, 82, 89, 115–17, 173, 184
Jenkins, Rhoda, 66, 89, 115–16, 147, 184
Jensvold, Judy, 137
Johnson, Lyndon B., 9
Jones, Martha S., 172
Kaiser, Patty, 100
Kearns, Kathy, 100
Kennedy, Roger, 5
Kinoshita, Ray, xvii, 154–161, 158, 165, 167–170, 182
Krupsak, Mary Anne, 44
Landmarks Preservation Commission, 138
Lane-Frenchman Associates, 133
Leacock, Eleanor, 99
legislation, xii
Leone, Ralph, 85
Lerner, Gerda, 100
Liebman, Theodore, 152, 153, 171, 175, 182
Liebman Melting Partnership, 152
Linck, Dana, 148
Congressional hearings and, 68–69
Lambe and, 52
Lowell National Historical Park and, 54
Little, Brown & Company, Hart’s position with, xiii
Lost and Found: Nineteenth Century Architecture in Seneca Falls, 37
Low, Juliette Gordon, 106
Lowell National Historical Park, 32, 52, 54, 65
Ludovico, Frank, 51, 124–25, 127, 128, 183
Lujan, Manuel, 5
Luoni, Stephen, 156
Maggie Walker National Historic Site, 18
Manno, Paul, 156
Manzanar National Historic Site, 14
Marcet, Rosendo E. Jr., 156
Marchand, Anne, 156
Marshall, Ann Wills, xvii, 154–161, 158, 165, 167–170, 182
M’Clintock house, 71
draft legislation regarding, 51–52
initial Reconnaissance Study of, 27–29
national significance of, 3, 23, 29–30, 37–38
Park Service purchase of, 70–73
restoration of, 173
McMillan, Gwen, 156
Mintzmeyer, Lorraine, 5
Montezuma Wildlife Refuge, 135
Mott, Lucretia, 1, 57, 100, 145, 147
Mott, William Penn Jr., 144–47, 146, 150, 155, 157, 181
Mouton, Grover III, 152, 153–54, 171
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, xviii, 181
park legislation and, 51–55, 56–57, 60
Wesleyan Chapel design competition and, 146, 146–47, 157, 158
Myth of Seneca Falls, The (Tetrault), 172
National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, 173
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 138–144, 149
National Historic Landmarks, 4, 22, 106, 107
National Historic Preservation Act, 37
National Parks and the Woman’s Voice (Kaufman), 5
National Park Service
exclusion of women in, 3–5, 7–12
Hart’s service with, xi–xii, xvi–xvii, 16–19
National Park Service General Authorities Act, 31
National Park Service Organic Act, 12
National Park Service Preservation Center, 76
National Register of Historic Places, 37–38
national significance, 29–30, 37–38
of M’Clintock house, 3, 23, 29–30, 37–38
National Trails System Act, 60
National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), xv–xvi
National Women’s Hall of Fame, 29, 35–37, 54, 78, 99, 137, 173–75, 174, 183
National Women’s History Museum, 145
National Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, 173
Nemura, Liz, 157
New Area Study, 29–34, 47–51, 124, 128
New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, 138
New York State Barge Canal, 3, 41–42
New York State Downtown Revitalization Initiative, 175
Obama, Barack, 15
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 62–63
Olmstead, Joan, 52
Olmstead, Thomas, 52
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 64
omnibus bills, 60
grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony, 91–98, 97
Senator Moynihan’s visit, 84–86, 85
staffing for, 86
Osterus, Grey, 100
Pachen, Kenneth Lee Jr., 70, 183
advisory commission for, 52, 54, 119, 135–37, 144, 153, 188
bureaucratic challenges to, 30–34, 56–57
changing interpretations of, 171–72
community support for, 35–46, 67
environmental impact statement, 128
general management plan for, 128–132
initial Reconnaissance Study, 23–29, 128
New Area Study, 29–34, 47–51, 124, 128
precedent established by, 13–15
visitor center, 82–84, 87, 130, 171
See also funding; Hunt house; legislation; M’Clintock house; opening events; Stanton house; Wesleyan Chapel
Park Service Historic Preservation Center, 108–9
Patchen, Lee, 70
Peden, Neal, 137
Perkins, Frances, 99
Peters, Ralph, 42–43, 74–77, 108, 110, 115–18, 116, 183
Pitcaithley, Dwight, 136
Plautz, Michael James, 156
Povero, Lucille, 23–24, 43, 62, 68, 91, 96, 183
preservation district, 32–34, 40–41, 52–54, 67
Preston, Julieanna, 157
Prigmore, Phil, 40–41, 61–62, 67, 77, 133, 152, 183
Public Law 94–98, 31
Public Law 98–402, 71
Publishing Procedures Institute, Hart’s education at, xiii
Radcliffe College, Hart’s education at, xiii
rangers
Rapone, Anita, 100
Reagan, Ronald, xi, 62–63, 181
deauthorization of national parks under, 70, 73
National Park Service funding under, 5–7, 31, 43, 50, 74
Wesleyan Chapel purchase and, 126
women in leadership positions under, 5
Reconnaissance Study, 23–30, 128
Regional Conference of Historians, 45
restoration/reconstruction
M’Clintock house, 173
Park Service policy on, 28
ribbon-cutting ceremony, 91–98, 97
Richards, Barry A., 156
Robert Silman Associates, 159
Rogers, Jerry, 14
Roosevelt, Eleanor, xvi, 18, 44, 53
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park, 14, 162
Saratoga Springs State Park, 101
Savage, Terry, 182
Scalamandré, 112
Schlesinger, Jeanne, 156
Scott, Ann Firor, 99
Second Seneca Falls Women’s History Conference, 99–100
Senate, park legislation passed in, 56–68
Seneca Falls Bicentennial Committee, 30
Seneca Falls Historical Society, 29, 30, 36–37, 99, 118
Seneca Knitting Mill, 83, 173–75, 174
Shawnee Mission High School, xiii
Sinicropi, August, 183
advisory commission and, 137
Urban Cultural Park program and, 38–44, 61–62
Wesleyan Chapel design competition and, 153
sites of conscience, 15
Slotnick, Elizabeth M., 156
Smith, Peter, 138–141, 144, 148–159, 168, 182
Souhan, George, 36, 46, 80, 83–85, 85, 96, 130, 183
Souhan, Sue, 83
SS Red Oak Victory, 14
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
descendants of, 66, 82, 115, 173, 184
exhibit on, 116
induction into Women’s Hall of Fame, 36
sculpture of, 145
See also Stanton house
Stanton Foundation. See Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
Stanton house, 32
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s changes to, 105, 112
free speech sites at, 172
initial Reconnaissance Study of, 23–25
national significance of, 3–4, 23, 29–30, 37–38, 105–7, 113–15
purchase of, 22–25, 42–44, 51, 75, 93
restoration of, 106–15, 107, 111, 114, 120
See also Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation
Statue of Liberty campaign, 139–140
Stein, Jeff, 156
Stein Partnership, 159
Stone, Lucy, 100
Stonewall National Monument, 15
Subcommittee on National Parks and Insular Affairs, 58–60
Suffolk University, Hart’s education at, xiv
Tanski, Carol, 32
Taughannock Falls State Park, 61
Taylor Winery, 135
Tetrault, Lisa, 172
Trinity Episcopal Church, 42, 59
Trinkets Alliance, 104
Tripod (cat), 118
Trump, Donald, xvii
Truth, Sojourner, 100
Tubman, Harriet, 68
uniforms, ranger, 7–10, 9, 103
Untidy Origins (Ginzburg), 172
Upstate New York Women’s History Conference, 99
Urban Cultural Park (UCP), 24, 38–42, 61, 67–68, 115, 118, 132–35
Val-Kill, xvi
Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 4
Vanguard (Jones), 172
Versen, Michael, 156
Village Hall, 130–31, 142–43, 149–156, 161
Vision Realized, A (Hart), 154
visitor center, 82–84, 88, 130, 171
Vonier, Thomas, 152
Votes for Women History Trail Route, 173
Walker, Maggie, 18
Ware, Susan, 99
Watt, James
advisory commission and, 135, 137
deauthorization of national parks under, 70, 91
Park Service funding under, 5–7, 78–79, 108
Park Service purchases banned by, 43–44, 75, 82, 120, 124–26
Weatherly, Debbie, 140–41, 166
Weiss, Elaine, 172
Wellman, Judith, 86, 88, 127, 153, 182
Wesleyan Chapel
design competition for, xvii, 145–160, 168–69, 168–170
general management plan for, 128–132
initial Reconnaissance Study of, 25–26
national significance of, 1–3, 23, 28–30, 37–38, 121–25
restoration of, 50–51, 65, 120, 122, 130–32, 132, 170–71, 170–71
Wesleyan Chapel Block
Wesleyan Methodist Society Chapel, 26
West, Donna Carlson, 137
Whalen, William Joseph, 5, 21, 47–49, 53, 56, 69, 181
White, Hubert, 157
Whole Duck Catalog, The, 41
Wilday, Cassandra, 156
Willard, Frances, 106
William G. Pomeroy Foundation, 173
Wilmont, Eileen, 137
Wilson, Woodrow, 12
Wirth, Conrad, 8
Wolfe, Deborah, 86, 102–3, 182
Woman’s Hour, The (Weiss), 172
Women Making History (National Park Service), 172
women rangers
Women’s Rights Convention (1848)
changing interpretations of, 171–72
Declaration of Sentiments, 2, 23, 27, 64, 122, 169, 191–93
See also Wesleyan Chapel
Wong, Terry L., 148
Wood, Waddy Butler, 21
Woodmancy, Elaine, 45
Work, Hubert, 7
Workman, R. Bryce, 8
Wright, Carol Ritter, 183
Wright, Martha Coffin, 1
Yellowstone National Park, ix, 7, 21
Zitzler, Paula A., 148
Zucker, Charlie, 138