Table of Contentss

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Dinosaur

Wright Brothers

Gettysburg

Pertified Forest

Rocky Mountain

Cecil Doty

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Mission 66 Visitor Centers Chapter 6

Cecil Doty, Architect

After the official conclusion of the Mission 66 program in 1966, Cecil Doty received the Department of the Interior's distinguished service award and transferred to the Eastern Office of Design and Construction. His main project during this time involved working with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill on the fountains around the Mall. Doty retired two years later. Two oral history interviews were conducted in the mid-1980s, when Doty lived in Walnut Creek, California. [45]

In 1990, the year Doty died, he described one of his "pet peeves"—the fact that as a Park Service employee he was always considered a draftsman, not an architect. [46] Many of the buildings he designed were constructed without his presence; some without his ever seeing the finished product. But in his old age Doty could rest assured that he had made a significant, if largely unheralded, contribution to the National Park System. Doty is the individual responsible for the consistency of design that is the Park Service Modern style. The hand of Cecil Doty influenced nearly every visitor center built, including three of the five featured in this study. In the same way that Doty closely imitated Herbert Maier's work, admiring Park Service architects copied his designs. As we evaluate Mission 66 visitor centers, we should not become too preoccupied with whether or not a building is an original Cecil Doty design. The Park Service Modern style, like Park Service Rustic, was the choice of its day and the work of its generation.

 

 

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