ill.; "Interviewed by Stephen R. Mark on March 7, 1995; transcribed by Chris Prout, August 1997." - T.p.
Topics include interviewee's education, service as a ranger-naturalist, National Forest Service landscape architect in 1932 for Crater Lake, on the regional foresters' Travel Team assisting with various projects in Oregon including Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, becoming the first regional landscape architect for the North Pacific Region, associations with employees in the National Park Service, and service as a landscape architect from 1949-1973 for the California State Park system.; To the reader: I knew of Emmett Blanchfield's work as long ago as 1988, while on a visit to Mount Hood that summer. An old address frustrated my efforts to contact him until a historian who worked on the Historic American Buildings Survey project for Timberline Lodge contacted me. She gave me some valuable insights about the connection between National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service projects in the 1930s, along with Mr. Blanchfield's current location, during the course of our telephone conversation. Less than three months later I made my way to Sacramento in conjunction with other business and spent the better part of a day interviewing him. Much of the interview is captured by the following transcription, but we also had riveting conversations over dinner the previous evening and met again for breakfast. Explanatory field notes which summarize these conversations, along with subsequent correspondence, are in the park's history files. Stephen R. Mark August 19 97 Topics include interviewee's education, service as a ranger-naturalist, National Forest Service landscape architect in 1932 for Crater Lake, on the regional foresters' Travel Team assisting with various projects in Oregon including Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, becoming the first regional landscape architect for the North Pacific Region, associations with employees in the National Park Service, and service as a landscape architect from 1949-1973 for the California State Park system.
Topics include interviewee's education, service as a ranger-naturalist, National Forest Service landscape architect in 1932 for Crater Lake, on the regional foresters' Travel Team assisting with various projects in Oregon including Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, becoming the first regional landscape architect for the North Pacific Region, associations with employees in the National Park Service, and service as a landscape architect from 1949-1973 for the California State Park system.; To the reader: I knew of Emmett Blanchfield's work as long ago as 1988, while on a visit to Mount Hood that summer. An old address frustrated my efforts to contact him until a historian who worked on the Historic American Buildings Survey project for Timberline Lodge contacted me. She gave me some valuable insights about the connection between National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service projects in the 1930s, along with Mr. Blanchfield's current location, during the course of our telephone conversation. Less than three months later I made my way to Sacramento in conjunction with other business and spent the better part of a day interviewing him. Much of the interview is captured by the following transcription, but we also had riveting conversations over dinner the previous evening and met again for breakfast. Explanatory field notes which summarize these conversations, along with subsequent correspondence, are in the park's history files. Stephen R. Mark August 19 97 Topics include interviewee's education, service as a ranger-naturalist, National Forest Service landscape architect in 1932 for Crater Lake, on the regional foresters' Travel Team assisting with various projects in Oregon including Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, becoming the first regional landscape architect for the North Pacific Region, associations with employees in the National Park Service, and service as a landscape architect from 1949-1973 for the California State Park system.