Housing an Air Force and a Navy: The Wherry and Capehart Era Solutions to the Postwar Family Housing Shortage (1949-1962), Volume I: Main Report

Author(s): Kirsten Peeler; Christine Heidenrich; Katherine E. Grandine; Dean A. Doerrfeld

Year: 2007

Summary

This historic context, Housing an Air Force and Navy: The Wherry and Capehart Era Solutions to the Postwar Family Housing Shortage (1949-1962), was prepared to support the Department of the Air Force and the Navy in executing the Program Comment for Capehart and Wherry Era Housing at Air Force and Navy Bases. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation issued the draft program comment on 10 September 2004 and the final comment on 18 November 2004. The Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Navy published their acceptance of the program comment in the Federal Register on 18 November 2005. This programmatic treatment for residential properties was developed in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), as amended, to take into consideration the effects of future management activities upon Air Force and Navy housing constructed between 1949 and 1962.

Cite this Record

Housing an Air Force and a Navy: The Wherry and Capehart Era Solutions to the Postwar Family Housing Shortage (1949-1962), Volume I: Main Report. Kirsten Peeler, Christine Heidenrich, Katherine E. Grandine, Dean A. Doerrfeld. 2007 ( tDAR id: 457951) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8457951

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Keywords

Site Name
Building 1067 • Building 1843 • Building 1901

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Cultural Resources • Design Standards • Family Housing • Field Investigation • Field Investigations • Historic Context • Interviews • Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson • Lustron Housing • Military Architecture • Navy • Navy Housing • Navy Housing Conditions • Oral History • Postwar Family Housing • Senate Bill 1184 • Wherry Act • Wherry and Capehart Era housing • Wherry Housing

Geographic Keywords
Alaska (State / Territory) • Anchorage, AK • Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana • Kelly Air Force Base • Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho • Randolph Air Force Base

Temporal Keywords
Capehart Era • Post World War II • Wherry Era • World War II

Spatial Coverage

min long: -150.152; min lat: 26.54 ; max long: -62.438; max lat: 61.381 ;

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