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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Lower Logging Lake Snowshoe Cabin
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Structure Number:
| B0593
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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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Logging Lake Patrol Cabin
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Park:
| Glacier 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:
| Montana
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Structure County:
| Flathead
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Region:
| Intermountain
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Cluster:
| Rocky Mountain
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Administrative Unit:
| Glacier National Park
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LCS ID:
| 051612
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Entered - Documented
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National Register Date:
| 01/19/1996
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| State
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Short Significance Description:
| This patrol cabin is a significant resource both architecturally and historically as a shelter (about one day's travel 8-12 mi.) for rangers patrolling the backcountry. Criteria A and C. Period of significance 1925 - 1949.
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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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Designed
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1932
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AD
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Peterson, Charles E.
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Landscape Architect
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2.
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Built
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1933
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AD
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Weikert, Powell, and Peck
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Other
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3.
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Altered
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1978
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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:
| Patrol Cabin
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Primary Current Use:
| Patrol Cabin
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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:
| 312
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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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Roof
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Shingle
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3.
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Foundation
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Concrete
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4.
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Walls
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Log
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Short Physical Description:
| One story, rectangular, log cabin with gable roof covered with wood shingles, windows are multiple light casements, doors are simple solid wood construction.
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Long Physical Description:
| The Lower Logging Lake Snowshoe Cabin is a rectangular building with a wood-shingled gable roof extended to form a full porch with 11 purlins and 7 vertical supports beneath the purlins on a tie beam and vertical posts. The square-cut purlin crowns extend beyond the gable end. The cabin logs are saddle notched with sapling chinking and rest on a concrete pad foundation. The structure has 3 six-light casement windows and simple solid wood doors.
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