National Park Service Historic Listings of NPS Officials

¹ On 2/23/1969 title changed to Asst. to Reg. Dir., Great Lakes Area Field Office.

² Great Lakes Area Field Office closed permanently on 12/31/1970.

¹ Mr. Small retired 7/31/1970 and was immediately reappointed as a reemployed annuitant.

¹ Replaces Fire Island NS and New York City NPS Group established 2/12/1967. Also, includes Fort Stanwix NM, Saint Gaudens, Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vanderbilt Mansion, and Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS's, Saratoga NHP and Morristown NHP -- Edison NHS group.

¹ Dist. covered Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Lava Beds NM in California.

¹ Other titles to Office: Columbia River Basin Recreation Survey Branch, 11/1946 to 7/1962; Division of Resource Planning, Portland, 7/1962 to 2/1964; Office of Cooperative Activities (Portland), 2/1964 to 3/1966; and Portland Field Office, 3/1966. The Field Office is a part of Cooperative Activities, Pacific Northwest Regional Office.

² The Portland Office was officially closed on 1/30/1976, but Mr. Arnold was appointed as a reemployed annuitant (Landcape Architect), 2/29/1976, duty station Portland, Oregon, immediate office of the Associate Regional Director, Cooperative Activities, PNWRO. Mr. Arnold served intermittently until 2/28/1980.

¹ Supervises the following: Shenandoah NP, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Birthplace NMS, Appomattox and Colonial NHPs, Manassas and Richmond NBPs, Fredricksburg NMP, Petersburg NB and Poplar Grove NC.

¹Mr. Goodwin's office located in Portland, OR. Mr. Goodwin retired 7/19/1925. Portland Office closed in spring of 1926. Acting Chief Engineer and a few employees moved to Yellowstone National Park.

²Mr. Kittredge appointed Chief Engineer in summer of 1927 and established the Branch of Engineering in San Francisco in September 1927. The office was closed in August 1937 when the Branch of Engineering was transferred to the Washington Office and many of the staff were transferred to the newly established four regional offices.

³Landscape Division reorganized as the Branch of Plans & Design in 1933. Office in San Francisco closed in 1937 when Mr. Vint and his central office staff transferred to the Director's Office in Washington and most of the landscape architects and architects were transferred to the then newly established four regional offices. All associated WASO design functions transerred to Chicago on 9/1/1942, and returned to Washington D.C., on 11/17/1946. Mr. Vint retired 11/09/1961, but later served as a collaborator from 1/02/1962 to 6/30/1962. He served intermittently as as reemployed annuitant in the WODC until 7/03/1965.

⁴Mr. Vint entered the Service in 1922 with headquarters at Yosemite NP. His office moved to Los Angeles, CA, in 1923 when the Landscape Division was established. The Division moved to San Francisco, CA, in 1927.

⁵Educational Division established July 1, 1925, with headquarters at Berkeley, California.

⁶Forestry Division created in 1927 as a part of Education Division with Ansel Hall being assigned the additional title of Chief Forester. John D. Coffman employed in July 1928 as Fire Control Expert. Educational Division abolished July 1, 1930, with the establishment of the Branch of Research and Education in the Washington Office. Mr. Coffman retained his office in Berkeley until his transfer to the Washington Office in March 1933.