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Return to: Documents Determining Significance | Timeline of Events Resolution of the Historic Resources Committee of the American Institute of Architects, adopted unanimously 15 March 1997, Washington, D.C. RETHINKING the decision finding the Gettysburg Visitor Center and Cyclorama Building ineligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and allowing its demolition as a noncontributing building. WHEREAS We find the determination of eligibility report to be much more complete and balanced in the areas reflecting Civil War activities in the area of the Visitor Center and Cyclorama Building, than in the section concerning the building and its architects, WHEREAS Considering the internationally important status of the architect, Richard Neutra, FAIA, and the very small number of his commissions built in the Mid-Atlantic region, the building assumes an importance greater than the reviewer allowed... RESOLVED In view of this we request a rethinking and reevaluation of the determination. As one of a number of Mission 66 buildings by internationally prominent architects, the building should be judged in the context of Mission 66 and work commissioned by the NPS during the era of construction. It also merits judging in relation to other Neutra structures in its area; of the other nine buildings identified in the area, the overwhelming number are residential, with only two of the projects being public, one a college dormitory and the other a classroom building. The Visitor Center thus stands alone as a public work and ought to be judged in that context. WE URGE the involvement of Neutra scholars and architectural historians in a rethinking of the decision that this building is not eligible for listing.
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