Marblemount Ranger Station Historic District: Cultural Landscape Inventory, North Cascades National Park, National Park Service
Dolan S. 2006. Marblemount Ranger Station Historic District: Cultural Landscape Inventory, North Cascades National Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 400183. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office/CLI Database
Marblemount Ranger Station Historic District is less than one quarter of the area of the entire ranger station. Marblemount Ranger Station is an administrative facility within North Cascades National Park Service Complex that has been operated and expanded by the National Park Service since 1968. The ranger station was originally built by the United States Forest Service, and has existed in this location since 1908. It is the only remaining ranger station in the NPS Complex that is derived from the Mt. Baker National Forest, and even earlier, the Washington National Forest. The historic district is the core of the ranger station that remains from the 1920s and 1930s. The historic district is an integral part of the everyday functioning of the larger Marblemount Ranger Station, which serves as an administrative center, a maintenance facility, a residential area, a visitor contact station, a center for search and rescue, firefighting, and trail crew operations, and the center of the greenhouse and sub‑alpine plant revegetation program for the entire park. During the 1920s and 1930s, the part of the ranger station within the historic district served as the administrative headquarters of a National Forest Ranger District, namely the Washington National Forest Skagit District Headquarters, later the Mt. Baker National Forest Skagit District Headquarters, and as a maintenance facility, and residential area. While more buildings, structures, roads, and functions have been added to Marblemount Ranger Station since the 1930s, the historic district still reflects the spatial organization of the early ranger station, a smiliar distribution of use‑areas, its loop road system, and its central, open meadow area. Marblemount Ranger Station Historic District is significant for its design as an early USFS Pacific Northwest‑style administrative facility constructed by the CCC between 1933 and 1942, and as the only remaining Mt. Baker National Forest Ranger Station remaining in the park, for its association with the event of the early federal government administration of the public lands of the North Cascades Mountains.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dolan, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2006-12-20
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- NOCA , PWR
- Keywords
- Administrative Facility, Architecture, Backus Ranger Station, Civilian Conservation Corps, Conservation of Natural resources, forest preservation, historic site, Rustic style, Skagit Ranger Station, United States Forest Service
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 400183: Marblemount Ranger Station Historic District