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Yakima Park Stockade Group

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administrative and interpretation services for the Yakima Park area. The south blockhouse initially contained two administrative offices on the first floor, as well as a kitchen, dining room and living room for staff. The upper level included six bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Stockade is a vertical log fence built in the 1930s that hid a mess hall, since demolished, and which now conceals a split-face concrete block water treatment building built in 1985. Work on the visitor center and the north blockhouse began in 1939, and was completed in 1943, delayed by funding problems. The north blockhouse resembles the south blockhouse, with greater attention to stonework. The north blockhouse houses seasonal park employees. The visitor center is set between and behind the blockhouses, with a view of
273:. The design concept originated with Davidson, who was inspired by early structures erected by settlers against the possibility of Indian raids. Stone came from a rockslide about a mile away, and the white pine for framing and siding came from the area of the White River, about twelve miles from Yakima Park. Davidson had mixed feelings about the development, commenting that the location was less attractive than it had been before it was developed, but was still far superior to other developed areas of the park that had grown with no plan or regulation. 85: 1293: 1304: 72: 92: 1333: 286:
through large south-facing windows. The building was previously known as the "campers' shelter" and the Museum. The visitor center is built of logs, with an overhanging second story, but with less of an overhang than the blockhouses. All of the structures have hipped roofs clad with cedar shingles.
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The south blockhouse was built first, in 1930. While it appears to be constructed of logs, it is a wood-frame structure with log siding. The square two-story building has a battered stone foundation wall extending to sill level, which is overhung by the second floor. The south blockhouse housed
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The stockade complex was designed by architect A. Paul Brown and landscape architect
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Yakima Park Stockade Group, Longmire vicinity, Pierce County, WA
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Contributing Property

Yakima Park Stockade Group is located in Washington (state)
Mount Rainier National Park
Washington
46°54′49.31″N 121°38′32.45″W / 46.9136972°N 121.6423472°W / 46.9136972; -121.6423472
Ernest A. Davidson
Mount Rainier National Park
ID97000344
87001337
Mount Rainier National Park
National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark District
Ernest A. Davidson
National Park Service
Mount Rainier


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"Yakima Park Stockade Group"
Filley 1996
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Yakima Park Stockade Group / North and South Blockhouses, Museum, and Stockade at Sunrise"
Accompanying 28 photos, exterior and interior, from 1985

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