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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Glacier Basin Ranger Station
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Structure Number:
| HS-0012
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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1.
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Glacier Basin Campground Station
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Park:
| Rocky Mountain National Park
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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| No records. |
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Structure State:
| Colorado
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Structure County:
| Larimer
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Region:
| Intermountain
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Cluster:
| Rocky Mountain
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Administrative Unit:
| Rocky Mountain National Park
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LCS ID:
| 023286
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
| 01/29/1988
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| Local
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Short Significance Description:
| Significant under criterion C for its representation of NPS rustic architecture (1870-1941).
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Long Significance Description:
| The Ranger Station at Glacier Basin Campground is significant for its rustic design. Stephen Mather and Horace Albright advocated rustic design within the National Park Service as early as 1918. Rustic-style buildings utilize local materials in an effort to blend with the surrounding environment. By employing wood shingle roofs, log construction, and fieldstone many buildings within Rocky Mountain National Park exemplify this design philosophy. The Keeper of the National Register found the ranger station, along with other NPS constructed rustic buildings, to be significant in 1988.
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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
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1.
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Built
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1930
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AD
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NPS, Branch of Plans & Design
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Landscape Architect
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2.
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Preserved
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1983
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AD
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1983
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AD
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NPS
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Ranger Station
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Primary Current Use:
| Visitor Contact (Visitor Center)
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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:
| 2,000 - 20,000 cubic feet
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Square Feet:
| 450
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Walls
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Log
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2.
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Foundation
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Concrete
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3.
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Roof
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Shingle
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4.
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Framing
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Log
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Short Physical Description:
| One-story log building with side gable roof covered in wood shingles. A log addition to the rear has hog-trough corners. The logs are square-notched. There are divided light windows. The foundation is concrete.
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Long Physical Description:
| The one-story, log structure has an L-shaped plan. The gable roof is covered in wood shingles that double every fifth course. The walls are square notched logs painted dark brown. The shed-roof addition to the rear has hog-trough corners. The porch sits under the main gable; it has one log column and a concrete floor. Divided light wood windows are painted light green and yellow. Doors are wood. The foundation is poured concrete with sill logs.
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