Daniel B. Young Landscape Architectural Records

This collection contains photographs and nine sets of landscape architectural drawings for projects in Delaware, Grant, and Madison counties, Indiana, designed by Daniel B. Young and Daniel B. Young and Associates. It covers the period 1971 to 1979.

Many of the drawings are for proposed improvements at municipal and county parks: Shideler Park, Gaston town park, Bicentennial Park in Daleville, Streaty Park in Anderson (on microfilm), and four city parks in Marion, Indiana. Specifications for some of the park improvements are included as well, as is a copy of the 1976 Delaware County Parks and Recreation Master Plan. One set of drawings concerns landscape improvements to the courthouse plaza in Portland, Indiana. For private clients, Young’s office designed a parking plaza for a bank in Portland, Indiana (1974) and the landscape for a prototype prefabricated house built by Ball Building Systems (1978).

On photographic film are views of the landscape for a First National bank; the office of Daniel B. Young and Associates on High Street in Muncie, ca. 1975, with employees Lloyd Trump and Michael Sommer; and a 1976 event at Shideler Park, with Dan Young, Betty Guemple, Norman Tirey, and Dick Johnson.

The earliest project in the collection is a 1971 set of drawings by Young for an “Optimal Planning Approach to an Ecologically Defined Unit of Land.”