The Willow Park Patrol Cabin, also known as the Willow Park Ranger Station and the Willow Park Cook and Mess Hall, was built in
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park is an American national park located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and ...
in 1923 to the design of members of the
National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propertie ...
Landscape Engineering Division under the supervision of
Daniel Ray Hull
Daniel Ray Hull (1890–1964), sometimes stated Daniel P. Hull, was an American landscape architect who was responsible for much of the early planning of the built environment the national parks of the United States during the 1920s. Hull planned t ...
. The cabin is an early 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 that was gaining favor with the Park Service. The cabin, along with the
Willow Park Stable
The Willow Park Stable in Rocky Mountain National Park was designed by National Park Service landscape architect Daniel Ray Hull and built in 1926. The National Park Service Rustic style stables and the nearby Willow Park Patrol Cabin were buil ...
, originally accommodated maintenance crews on the Fall River Road.
See also
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Architects of the National Park Service Architects of the National Park Service are the architects and landscape architects who were employed by the National Park Service (NPS) starting in 1918 to design buildings, structures, roads, trails and other features in the United States Nationa ...
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References
External links
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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
Historic American Buildings Survey in Colorado
Houses completed in 1923
Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado
Log cabins in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Rocky Mountain National Park
National Park Service rustic in Colorado
National Park Service ranger stations
National Register of Historic Places in Larimer County, Colorado
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
1923 establishments in Colorado
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