Small Museums, Important Collections - Day 2 - Plenary: Protecting Landscapes and Structures as Collections

For historic sites, the built environment is a fundamental part of the collection. As tangible evidence of the human impact on our world, the design, construction, maintenance, adaptation, and function of historic buildings and cultural landscapes are potent sources of information. Brucemore, a cultural center and historic site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, preserves a nineteenth- and early twentieth-century country estate that includes seven primary structures, as well as twenty-six acres of grounds designed by noted landscape architect O.C. Simonds. On August 10, 2020, an inland-hurricane called a derecho roared through eastern Iowa, causing $3 million in damage to the estate’s structures and toppling over 250 major trees – 75% of the canopy. In forty-five minutes, nearly a century of growth was eliminated. Brucemore’s work restoring one of the most significant cultural landscapes in the Midwest provides lessons and cautionary tales, as the frequency and severity of extreme weather events grows.

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