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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Grant Grove Lodge Tent Cabin 309
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Structure Number:
| 309
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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| No records. |
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Park:
| Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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1.
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General Grant National Park Historic District
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Structure State:
| California
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Structure County:
| Tulare
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Region:
| Pacific West
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Cluster:
| Pacific Great Basin
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Administrative Unit:
| Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
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LCS ID:
| 373680
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Determined Eligible - SHPO
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National Register Date:
| 12/29/1998
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| Contributing
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Short Significance Description:
| The proposed General Grant National Park Historic District was determined to be significant for criteria A and C; period of significance 1890-1947. The level of significance was not established in the DOE.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Historic
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
| Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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1940
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AD
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1941
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AD
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Cabin/Lookout
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Primary Current Use:
| Cabin/Lookout
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Structure Contains Museum Collections?:
| No
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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| No records. |
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Building
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Volume:
| 1 - 2,000 cubic feet
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Square Feet:
| 144
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Foundation
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Wood
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2.
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Walls
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Wood
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3.
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Roof
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Cloth/Canvas
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Short Physical Description:
| 10’ x 14’ cabin with hip roof on 4x4 wood post set into ground. Wood frame with V-Rustic wood siding, wood plank door and sliding wood sash windows with screens. Fabric roof supported by wood rafters.
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Long Physical Description:
| Today the roof of the Grant Grove tent cabins is striped canvas-like fabric. The upper wall sections that were once canvas-covered have subsequently been filled in with wood siding. The cabins are very basic, with no electricity orinterior wall finish. Wood stoves heat the tent cabins, the cabins have sliding wood windows, wood plank doors and wood platform floors, and fabric roofs supported by a pyramidal wood frame.
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