Cyclorama Building
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Cyclorama Building in Zeigler's Grove
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Location: | Zeigler's Grove 125 Taneytown Road[1] Gettysburg Battlefield |
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Built: | 1958-1962[2] |
Architect: | Richard Neutra |
Architectural style: | Modernist (Mission 66) |
Governing body: | Gettysburg National Military Park |
Part of: | Gettysburg Battlefield HD (#75000155) |
The Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg is a vacant concrete and glass Mission 66 structure dedicated November 19, 1962[3] by the National Park Service (NPS) to serve as a Gettysburg Battlefield visitor center, to exhibit the 1883 Paul Philippoteaux Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama and other artifacts, and to provide an observation deck (replacing the 1896 Zeigler's Grove Cope Truss tower).
The Gettysburg Cyclorama painting was removed and in 1998, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places identified the building possesses "exceptional historic and architectural significance."[4] (The painting was reopened to the public in the spring of 2008 at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center]].) Funding requests to rehabilitate the Cyclorama Building were denied in 1993 and 1996, i.e., $2.7M in 1993 for roof removal/replacement, asbestos ceiling removal, patching cracks and treating masonry, and efficient redesign of interior.[5]:126 On September 24, 1998, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places determined the "Cyclorama Building was eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places", reversing conclusions by the National Park Service in December 1995 and the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Officer in May 1996.[5]:118 In 1999, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts opposed the demolition.[5]:126
After the building was not added to the National Register of Historic Places,[6] inn 2010, a U.S. District court judge ruled for the Recent Past Preservation Network (Plaintiff) that the NPS "had failed to comply with federal law requiring it to analyze the effect of the Cyclorama Center demolition and come up with alternatives to destroying it".[7]