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Walton "Kip" Danforth Stowell (January 30, 1936–January 20, 2009) was an American architect and historic preservationist, best known for his work for the U.S. National Park Service in designing visitors centers and interpretive exhibits in U.S. National Parks throughout the country. For most of his career, he worked at the (Harpers Ferry Design Center ) which is responsible for architectural design and interpretive planning in National Parks. Kip Stowell and his contemporaries were the first generation of historic preservationists at the National Park Service charged with implementing the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966〔United States. ''National Historic Preservation Act (Public Law 89-665)''. October 15, 1966. (online from the NPS at http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/FHPL_HistPrsrvt.pdf )〕 which was a monumental legislation enabling preservation of the nation's historic, cultural, and heritage resources.〔National Park Service. ''National Historic Preservation Act. Preserving America's Historic Places''. 〕〔Peterson, Charles E. ''Seventeenth-Century Porches''. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 16, 30-31 (1957). (to contribution by Stowell. )〕 in the now prestigious National Park Service's (Architectural Student Summer Program )〔Heritage Documentation Programs (HABS/HAER/HALS), Summer Documentation Program (of program available online at http://www.preservationdirectory.com/PreservationBlogs/ArticleDetail.aspx?id=780&catid=11 )〕 doing measured drawings for the Historic American Buildings Survey and for Charles E. Peterson who is considered to be the founding father of historic preservation in the United States.〔''Charles E. Peterson Archive and Library of Early American Building Technology and Historic Preservation.'' National Trust Library, University of Maryland. (of Charles Peterson Archive is available online at http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/peterson.html ).〕 Kip Stowell was also well known and admired regionally in West Virginia, Jefferson County, and Harpers Ferry for his many regional and local contributions to architecture, to historic preservation, and to the community.〔''Kip Stowell. Always experimenting.'' Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate, May 9, 1996. (to Stowell as NPS architect, interior designer and exhibit planner at HFC 1969-1995; studying under and being hired by Charles Peterson; working on the HABS; studying with Lee H. Nelson who was also a HABS summer intern in 1958 and who later was the Team Leader of the Independence Hall project; working on the Philadelphia Bicentennial restoration project; restoration of Independence Hall; restoration of The Second Bank of the United States for which Stowell received a Federal Design Award; working on the Bishop White House; design work for renovating and enlarging St. James Catholic Church in Charles Town, WV for which Stowell received a design award from the West Virginia Society of Architects; design work for a one room Montessori School in Harpers Ferry for which he also received a design award from the West Virginia Society of Architects; helping create the National Historic Districts in Harpers Ferry, Burkittsville, MD, and Petersham, Mass; restoration of Peter Burr House in Jefferson County; restoration of Fisherman's Hall in Charles Town, WV ).〕 ==Personal life== Kip Stowell was a native of Worcester, Massachusetts and grew up in Templeton, Massachusetts.〔''Logan John New "Eagle"''. Spirit Of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate, May 22, 1997. (to Stowell being Life Scout in Baldwinsville, Mass. )〕 He earned a degree of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. He lived in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia for the last three decades of his life. Kip Stowell was married to Mary Evalina "Nena" Manucy Stowell for 37 years—they were married at the (Harpers Ferry Design Center ) in 1972.〔''Miss Mary Mauncy, Mr. Stowell Exchange Vows'', Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate, June 22, 1972.〕 Nena Stowell is an artist and school teacher.〔C.W. Shipley Elementary School Art Teacher (2009) http://boe.jeff.k12.wv.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=770&〕 They lived in a vintage Sears Catalog Home in Harpers Ferry built by Abraham Kaplon in 1908. The house is a classic American Foursquare, and is one of the early examples of houses built of rusticated concrete block, in this case from a ''Miracle Block Machine''.〔''Home for the holidays. Historic halls decked.'' The Journal, December 19, 2008. (of Kaplon-Stowell House on Christmas tour. )〕〔''50th House and Garden Tour Scheduled April 23 & 24.'' Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate, April 7, 2005. (of Kaplon-Stowell House on local house and garden tour. )〕〔Stowell, Walton D. ''The "Miracle" and the "Wizard". Preliminary Notes on Concrete Building Block Machines''. Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology 5, 67-70 (1973).〕 (Kaplon was a prominent merchant in town just after the turn-of-the-century who also built magnificent multi-story brick department stores in Harpers Ferry and nearby Brunswick, Maryland'' ).〔West Virginia Jewish History and Genealogy. ''Harpers Ferry and Charles Town''. (online at http://www.westvirginiajewishhistory.com/charles%20town%20and%20harpers%20ferry.html ).〕〔Brunswick Historical Society. ''History of Brunswick''. (online at http://www.bhs.edu/hist/100ch9.html ).〕〔Rubin, Mary H. ''Brunswick Maryland (Images of America)''. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2007.〕 Kip and Nena operated an art gallery and a Bed and Breakfast in their house, and a Montessori School and hostel for Appalachian Trail hikers on their property.〔Stowell Galleries. http://stowellgalleries.googlepages.com/〕 Kip and Nena have one son, Walton D. Stowell II, who followed in his father's footsteps and has done architectural designs for a number of projects in National Parks around the country. Most notably, father and son collaborated on the restoration〔Lee, Andrew S., et al. ''Harpers Ferry Train Station : Historic Structures Report''. Harpers Ferry: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, 2004. (online at the Library of Congress at http://lccn.loc.gov/2004438305 ).〕 of the Queen Anne Style Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Harpers Ferry Train Depot (c. 1894)〔Historic American Engineering Record (Andrew Lee et al). ''Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV. (HAER WV-86).'' Washington, D.C: National Park Service, 2002-2006. (online at the Library of Congress at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wv0538 ).〕 designed by the famed architect E. Francis Baldwin. In this NPS project during 2002 to 2006,〔National Park Service Project No. HAFE 76736.〕 Walton, Jr. was a Field Supervisor and Walton, Sr. was (merely) a consultant. Kip Stowell died at his home in Harpers Ferry on January 20, 2009 at age 72.〔''Friends, family remember Stowell''. The Herald-Mail, February 3, 2009. (online at http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=215951&format=html ).〕 His ashes were spread in (Harper Cemetery ).〔Harpers Ferry Town Newsletter, February 2009. (online at http://www.harpersferrywv.us/tc/newsletters/newsletter_200902.pdf ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walton Danforth Stowell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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