The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters in
Yosemite National Park
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was built by the U.S. Army at Camp A.E. Wood in the
Wawona district of the park in 1904 to house the commander of the military administration that operated the park in the years prior to the establishment of the
National Park Service
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. It was moved to the
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley ( ; ''Yosemite'', Miwok for "killer") is a U-shaped valley, glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States. The valley is about long a ...
in 1906. The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters is the last remaining structure at Wawona associated with the park's military administration. The cabin followed the military to the Yosemite Valley, remaining there until 1958, when it was moved back to Wawona.
It is part of the
Pioneer Yosemite History Center.
The cabin is a by -story frame structure with board-and-batten siding and redwood shingle roof. The roof is very steeply pitched. A small porch fronts the building. It was used as a residence while in the Yosemite Valley. It is now part of an exhibit on the Army administration in the park.
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The Acting Superintendent's Headquarters was placed on the ]National Register of Historic Places
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on June 9, 1978.
See also
*Other structures at the Pioneer Yosemite History Center include:
:* Chris Jorgenson Studio
:* Hodgdon Homestead Cabin
:* Wawona Covered Bridge
The Wawona Covered Bridge is a covered bridge spanning the South Fork Merced River near Wawona, California, in Yosemite National Park. The open bridge (without the covering) was built by Galen Clark, the steward of what was then called the Yosem ...
*
References
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Museums in Mariposa County, California
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in California
National Register of Historic Places in Mariposa County, California
National Register of Historic Places in Yosemite National Park
Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Rustic architecture in California
Defunct museums in California
1904 establishments in California
Relocated buildings and structures in California
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