NOEL DORSEY VERNON, ASLA
California State Polytechnic University – Pomona Sierra Madre, California, 19024
Telephone: 1‑626‑355‑0790 (H)
1‑909‑869‑2663 (W)
Fax: 1-909-869-4355
E-mail: ndvernon@csupomona.edu
1984 MA, history, The Ohio State University
1981 BSLA, summa
cum laude, The Ohio State University
1972 BA, Antioch College (Antioch University), Yellow Springs, Ohio
1967 The Emma Willard School, Troy, NY
Associate Dean, College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1993 - present
§ Professor of Landscape Architecture, 1999 – present
§ Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, 1993 – 1999
Teaching expertise: landscape history and cultural landscape preservation.
Department of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
§ Chair and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, 1990-1992
§ Chair and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, 1988 to 1990
§ Assistant to the Chair and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, 1987-1988
§ Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University, 1985‑1990
Teaching expertise: landscape history, design and cultural landscape preservation.
PROFESSIONAL
REGISTRATION
Participate solely in academic practice, including teaching, research, and service.
Historic American Landscapes Survey: Guidelines for Historical Research and Reports. Co-authored with Judith Robinson, one of three parts of the NPS’HALS Guidelines. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2005.
“John W. Gregg” for Pioneers of American Landscape Design II, with Linda McClelland (publication pending).
“Cornelia Oberlander” for Pioneers of American Landscape Design II (publication pending).
"Adolph Strauch: Garden- and Grove-maker of the Middle West,” in Midwestern Landscape Architecture. William Tishler, ed. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000, pp. 5-24
"Adolph Strauch," in Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Charles Birnbaum, ed. Washington, DC: National Park Service, 2000, pp. 385-388
“Leimert Park’s Plaza: Cultural Landscape Preservation in Community Revitalization.” With Dr. Charles E. Loggins. Association for Preservation Technology [APT] Bulletin (3:1), spring 1999, pp. 9-14
“Some Basic Cultural Landscape Preservation Resources: A Review of Available Information.” Association for Preservation Technology [APT] Bulletin, spring 1999 (3:1), pp. 57-59
“Frederick Law Olmsted.” Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Kier B. Sterling et al., eds. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1997
“Leimert Park: An Historic Landscape in Transition.” With Ronald Lewis and Charles E. Loggins. ASLA 1996 Annual Meeting Proceedings. Cheryl Wagner, ed. Washington, D.C.: ASLA, 1996
“How Should We Meaningfully Address Issues of Multiculturalism and Gender in Teaching?” With Karen Rollet, Miriam Rutz, and Takeo Uesugi. What Do We Expect to Learn from Our History: The First Symposium on History in Landscape Architecture. Daniel Nadenicek and Eliza Pennypacker, eds. State College, PA: The Center for Studies in Landscape History, Penn State University, 1994, pp. 105-106
"Selecting Rehabilitation as a Treatment for the Olmsted Brothers' Designed Hills and Dales Park." With Malcolm Cairns. The Landscape Universe: Historic Designed Landscapes in Context. Charles Birnbaum, ed. New York: Wave Hill and the National Park Service Preservation Assistance Division, 1993, pp. 47-54
"Rehabilitation of a Woodland Park: Hills and Dales, Dayton." With Malcolm Cairns. CRM Bulletin , vol. 16, no. 4 (1993), pp. 26-28
Hills and Dales Preservation Master Plan. With Malcolm Cairns. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1993
William Howard Taft Cultural Landscape Report. With Tom Salmon II, Camille Fife, and Scruggs and Hammond, Inc., Omaha: National Park Service, 1993
"History, Entropy, and the Ranlett Plan for the Hermitage." Proceedings of The Garden Conservancy Conference on the Hermitage. 1992
"Mission San Luis Rey Historic Landscape Preservation Proposal" With Birnbaum, et al. Patricia O'Donnell, ed. San Diego, CA: Mission San Luis Rey, 1991
An Oral History Guide for Landscape Architects and Design Historians. With Elizabeth Garvey and Sherda Williams. Washington, D.C: ASLA, 1990
"A.D. Taylor." American Landscape Architecture. William Tishler, ed. Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1988, pp. 104-107
The Art of the Indiana Landscape: A Landscape Architectural History. Slide-tape. With Fritz Loonsten, et al. Funded by the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1988
"Landscape Architecture and Public Service: The Olmsted Brothers in Dayton, 1894‑1930." Proceedings of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 1987 Annual Meeting. Providence, R.I.: RISD, 1988, pp. 112-119
"The Olmsted Landscapes of Dayton." BSU summer faculty research grant report and project documentation. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1987
"Documenting the Olmsted Landscapes of Ohio." Landscape Architecture (77:4), 1987, pp. 94-95
"The Olmsted Landscapes of Dayton,” The Bulletin of American Garden History (2:2), 1987
"Toward Defining the Profession: A History of the Development of the Standards of Professional Practice, the Schedule of Charges, and the Code of Ethics of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 1899‑1927," Landscape Journal (7:2), 1987, pp. 13-20
Ohio's Landscape Architectural Legacy: The Design Memoirs of Five Ohio Master Practitioners. Slide-tape. With funding from the Ohio Arts Council/Ohio Humanities Council Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities, the Ohio Chapter ASLA, the University of Cincinnati, and Taft Broadcasting, 1984
U. C. Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan. Member of research team and co-author of the history section. Authored historic context statement. In partnership with Vonn Marie May, worked with the University and its consultants to incorporate the Thomas Church layer into U.C. Berkeley’s landscape legacy. See http://www.cp.berkeley.edu/lhp/index_flash.html. 2004.
Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument Landscape Preservation Master Plan. With Jeffrey Chusid and HSSHM staff. Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument. 1995 - 1998. Among other tasks, developed finding aids using FileMaker Pro to organize plans, drawings, correspondence, and other primary source materials documenting the development of the landscape of Hearst Castle. Organized and produced the plan of existing Hearst Castle site plantings on AutoCAD (a 6’ x 12’ plan at 10-scale). Ran the final stages of this three-task project and tracked and reconciled the grant accounts.
Hills and Dales Park, Dayton, Ohio: Historic Preservation Master Plan. With Malcolm Cairns. City of Dayton, Ohio. October 1992. Wrote the site history, interviewed community members and (with Cairns) organized community meetings and produced the final Master Plan Report.
“The Art of the Indiana Landscape.” Slide-tape. Funded in part by a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 1988.
"The Olmsted Landscapes of Dayton: Phase II." Ball State University Summer Faculty Research Grant. 1987.
"The Olmsted Landscapes of Dayton: Phase I." Garden Club of Dayton, Federated Garden Clubs of Dayton, and Woolpert Consultants.1985 –1986.
“Ohio's Landscape Architectural Legacy: The Design Memoirs of Five Ohio Master Practitioners.” Slide-tape. Funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council/ Ohio Humanities Council Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities. 1986.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“The American Landscaped Cemetery: Here and Back Again” for the 2007 California Preservation Annual Meeting, “Preservation Goes Hollywood”, as part of the Cultural Landscapes Track, May 4, 2007.
“Why CA is not MA” for the “Pioneers of American Landscape Design” Symposium, Wave Hill, The Bronx, NY, November 10, 2000. Revised for presentation at the Cultural Landscape Symposium, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, IL, March 15, 2002, the ASLA Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, fall 2002, and the California Preservation Foundation Annual Meeting, May 2005.
“Significance and Integrity in Cultural Landscape Preservation,” for the California Preservation Foundation [CPF] Historic Landscapes Preservation Workshop, CPF 2002 Annual Meeting, Santa Rosa, CA, May 2, 2002
“Leimert Park: An Historic Landscape in Transition,” with Charles E. Loggins and Ronald Lewis, at the American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, October, 1996
“Historic Landscape Preservation in Japan and the United States,” Kyushu Institute of Design, Fukuoka, Japan ($3,000 travel grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education), March 1996
“A. D. Taylor,” at the American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, October, 1995
"Preservation Planning for Hills and Dales Park: A Model for Hillcrest?" City of Fullerton and Fullerton City Beautiful, November 13, 1994
"Leimert Park" with Terry McGhee and Charles Loggins. 1994 California Geographical Society Annual Meeting, April 30, 1994
"The Landscape Architect as Historian." Invited presentation, 1992 ASLA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 10, 1992
"Some Issues in Historic Landscape Preservation: Entropy, Imagination, and the Ranlett Plan for The Hermitage," for the Garden Conservancy (presented in absentia by Robin Karson), March 13, 1992
"Andrew Downing: First American Landscape Architect." Wegerzyn Garden Center, Dayton, Ohio, Feb 2, 1992; SAH Indianapolis Chapter, April 18, 1991; Junior League of Columbus, OH (for Smithsonian Victorian Garden History exhibit), July 21, 1990
"The History of Hills and Dales Park" (various presentations for Hills and Dales grant, December-February 1991)
"Adolph Strauch: Garden- and Grove-maker of the Middle West," First Annual Institute of the Clearing, Ellison Bay, WI, September 24, 1990.
"The Role of Detail in Historic Landscape Preservation," Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Viejo San Juan, PR, April 26, 1990
"Women and the Designed Landscape," for "Women in the Garden: At the Crossroads of Gender, Art, and Ecology." Bowling Green State University School of Art, July 16, 1988
"The Olmsteds and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)," Indianapolis Horticultural Society. Presentation resulted in an historic landscape preservation master plan for the Olmsted Brothers gardens of the IMA. March 8, 1988
“Working in Archives," National Park Service/ASLA Joint Symposium on Historic Landscape Preservation," Baltimore, MD, October 29, 1987
"A National Perspective on Landscape Architectural Research and Records," Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, New York, NY, September 5, 1987
"Andrew Jackson Downing: Another Life and Times," University of Illinois, Champaign‑Urbana, April 2, 1987
"Collaboration with Eleanor Christie, FASLA" Indiana Governor's Conference on Aging, Fort Wayne, October 19, 1986
"Contextual Criticism and the Use of Native Plant Material: Reinforcing the Imperative for Regional Site Design," CELA, Helena, GA, September 11, 1986
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE
§ Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), 1983-present
- Southern California Chapter HALS Liaison, 2006 - 2007
- Reviewer and interviewee, “Connections: America’s Landscape Legacy,” independent video written and directed by Gina Angelone, produced by Charles Birnbaum, and narrated by Angela Lansbury. Washington, D.C.: ASLA, et al:, 1996
- Member, ASLA Annual Meeting Program Committee, 1996-1998. Co-developed session on “The Landscape of Film” with actor Rick Wilcox. Participants included director Randa Haines and actor/producer Jack Larson, among others.
- ASLA Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network
Member, 1984-present
Chair, 1990-1991
Co-Chair, 1988-1990
- Member, Southern California Chapter ASLA, 1993-present
- Member, Indiana Chapter ASLA, co‑chair of IN/ASLA Committee on Historic Preservation, 1985 -1992.
§ Member, Committee on Landscape Resources, for the California State Historical Resources Commission of the State Office of Historic Preservation, 2006-2007
§ Board Member, Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1998 –
- TCLF Board Co-Chair, 1998-2001, with Sally Boasberg
- Co-chair, TCLF Education Committee, 2003 – present
o Co-edited text for Landslides program and website, 2002 and 2006. Edited précis for Garden Design magazine article, published June 2006.
o Co-edited text for Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms website, 1999-2000.
- Assisted in development of TCLF business and strategic plans
- Assisted with fund- and friend-raising events at the Paul Rudolph House, NYC, as well as at events in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles.
§ Team Chair, Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board [LAAB] Visiting Teams, for departments of landscape architecture at:
- University of New Mexico (initial review, MLA), 2003
- University of Minnesota (MLA), 2001
- Harvard University (MLA), 2000
- University of Virginia (MLA), 1999
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Service to the National Park Service {NPS]
(selected)
- Co-author with Judith Robinson, Historic American Landscapes Survey: Guidelines for Historical Research and Reports (draft published 2005)
- Proposal reviewer, NPS Center for Preservation Technology, 1996 – 1999
- Reviewer and part of team that developed The Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. Charles Birnbaum, ed. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1996. Also authored text to relate Guidelines to Native American ethnographic landscapes (p. 6).
- Organizer, with the NPS Western Regional Office, Historic Landscape Preservation Training Session for the NPS Western and Rocky Mountain Regions, August 25-27, 1994
- Co-organizer, ASLA/NPS Cultural Landscape Symposia, 1984-1990.
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Member, US/ICOMOS, 1993 – present.
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California Garden and Landscape History Society,
1996-present.
§ Reviews Editor, Landscape Journal, 1988 – 1994.
§ NEA Design Arts Panelist, Washington, D.C., May 1991 and March 1992
§ NEA Federal Design Achievement Award and NEA Presidential Design Award nominee, 1991. Jointly awarded to the American Society of Landscape Architecture's Historic Preservation Open Committee [ASLA HPOC] and collaborating organizations for ASLA/National Park Service Symposia as part of the "National Park Service Historic Landscape Preservation Initiative." I was one of a small team that coordinated seven years of ASLA/NPS Symposia.
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San Diego APA Merit Award for the Mission San Luis Rey Historic Landscape
Preservation Proposal, as member of 7-person ASLA Historic Preservation
Open Committee charette team, 1991
LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL SHORT-COURSES AND WORKSHOPS:
§ California Preservation Foundation [CPF]
- Co-organizer, Cultural Landscape Preservation track, CLF Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA, May 2005. Presented overview of California’s cultural landscape history.
- “Cultural Landscape Significance and Integrity,” Cultural Landscape Training Session, CPF 2002 Annual Meeting, Santa Rosa, CA, May 2, 2002.
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“Cultural Landscape Significance,” CPF 1997
Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA, May 31, 1997.
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“Identifying, Documenting and Evaluating
Historic Cultural Landscapes within the Historic Cultural Landscape
Preservation Planning Process”, CPF Cultural Landscape Preservation training
Session, City of Industry, CA, 1994.
§ National Preservation Institute, “Planning, Design and Implementation for Historic Landscapes”, Los Angeles, CA, October 30, 2000.
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Historic Landscape Preservation Short Courses,
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation, summer 1994, 1996 and 1998 (three to
four-day training sessions team-taught with Patricia O’Donnell).
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University of Southern California Historic
Landscape Preservation Training Session, June 24-25, 1994 (cultural landscape
session)