Home sweet mobile home park

Abstract

Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, the historic preservation field has begun to include modern resources from the 1950s and 1960s under its purview. Though fitting the definition of a modern resource, mobile home parks as a cultural resource have not yet been considered. This thesis provides a developmental history of mobile home parks to present the resource’s historic context. Case studies are then used to determine the possibility of a successful nomination of a mobile home park to the National Register of Historic Places.