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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Timber Creek Comfort Station
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Structure Number:
| HS-0247
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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:
| Rocky Mountain National Park
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Park District:
| ROMO West Unit
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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:
| Grand
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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:
| 023475
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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 Timber Creek Campground comfort stations are significant for their 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 wood shingle roofs, reverse timber framing, and dark-stained siding, the comfort stations exemplify this design philosophy because they reflect their forest setting. Built in 1939 on the west side of the park, the comfort stations demonstrate the continuum of rustic design over both space and time in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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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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Designed
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1935
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AD
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1935
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AD
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Baker, Howard W.
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Landscape Architect
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2.
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Designed
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1935
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AD
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1935
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AD
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NPS Branch of Plans and Design
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Landscape Architect
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3.
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Built
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1939
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AD
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1939
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AD
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CCC
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Other
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4.
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Restored
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2001
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AD
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2002
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AD
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NPS
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Comfort Station (Latrine)
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Primary Current Use:
| Comfort Station (Latrine)
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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:
| 262
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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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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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Walls
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Weatherboard
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4.
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Roof
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Shingle
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Short Physical Description:
| One-story, rectangular building with side gable roof covered in green wood shingles. The reverse board and batten sits on the inside of the log frame. Exposed rafter tips and purlin ends characterize the rustic design.
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Long Physical Description:
| There are three comfort stations in Timber Creek Campground (HS-0245, HS-0246, HS-0247). The one-story, timber frame structure has a gable roof clad in wood shingles stained green that double every fifth course. The log rafter tips and purlin ends are exposed. Walls are vertical board attached to the inside of the log frame. The wood windows are divided into two lights and painted green. There are two vertical wood board doors painted green. The foundation is poured concrete with log sills painted dark brown. The interior is finished with diagonal wood boards painted white. The floor is concrete.
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