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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Bear Lake Comfort Station
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Structure Number:
| HS-0157
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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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Bear Lake Generator Building
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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:
| 023481
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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:
| Bear Lake Comfort Station is significant for its rustic design. Stephen Mather and Horace Albright advocated rustic design within the National Park Service as early as 1918 believing that buildings should blend with their natural surroundings. With its stone and wood exterior, exposed rafter tails, and "tucked" positioning in the hillside, the Bear Lake Comfort station exemplifies NPS rustic design.
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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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Branch of Plans & Design
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Landscape Architect
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2.
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Rehabilitated
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1995
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AD
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NPS
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Other
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Comfort Station (Latrine)
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Primary Current Use:
| Electrical Power Plant
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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:
| 373
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Framing
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Wood
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2.
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Foundation
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Fieldstone
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3.
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Roof
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Shingle
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4.
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Walls
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Weatherboard
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5.
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Walls
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Fieldstone
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6.
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Other
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Fieldstone
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Short Physical Description:
| One-story frame building with a gable roof clad in wood shingles. The upper portion is covered in lap siding; the lower portion is stone. The central chimney is stone. The building has divided light windows painted yellow.
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Long Physical Description:
| The one-story, wood frame building has a wood shingle roof. The chimney is fieldstone. The building has exposed rafter tips and purlin ends. The walls are wood clapboard siding painted dark brown on the top half and native stone on the lower half. The wood windows are painted yellow and divided into twelve panes. Some windows are boarded over and painted brown. The doors are vertical wood painted yellow. The foundation is uncoursed fieldstone. The interior ceiling is exposed log rafters, unfinished but painted white. The interior floors are concrete. There are fieldstone retaining walls surrounding the entrances to the building. The building was converted from a comfort station to a generator building at an unknown date.
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