The Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin, also known as the Baring Creek Cabin or Baring Cabin, in
Glacier National Park was an example of the
National Park Service Rustic
National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings ...
style. Built in 1935 by local contractor Harry E. Doverspike, the cabin was the last remaining building of the Sun Camp Ranger Station complex of buildings, which at one time included a ranger station, barn and woodshed located near the mouth of Baring Creek. The fireguard cabin was built according to cabin specifications provided by the NPS Division of Landscape Architecture. The only apparent dissimilarity is the center-wall placement of the entry. There was no indoor plumbing and heat was provided by a wood stove whose stovepipe exited through the back log wall to a stone chimney.
On July 22, 2015, the cabin was destroyed by the Reynolds Creek Wildfire.
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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Residential buildings completed in 1935
Log cabins in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier County, Montana
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
1935 establishments in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park
National Park Service rustic in Montana
Burned buildings and structures in the United States
Firefighting in Montana
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