Grosvenor Camp Historic District: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Katmai National Park and Preserve
Region 11 Park Cultural Landscapes Program. 2007. Grosvenor Camp Historic District: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Katmai National Park and Preserve. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 975317. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS Alaska Regional Office, Anchorage, Alaska / CRIS-CL Database
Inventory Unit Description: Approximately 250 air miles south west of Anchorage, Alaska, Grosvenor Lake Lodge is one of the five original fishing camps established by Ray Petersen in southwest Alaska during the 1950s. The camp sits on a small peninsula separating lakes Grosvenor and Coville, where the physical constriction of the waterway makes the fishing for rainbow trout ideal. Native house remains exist nearby, indicating that this has been an excellent subsistence location for hundreds if not thousands of years. The Grosvenor Camp Historic District is a 2.34 acre historic district associated with the context of early tourism development in Alaska. It is considered significant under Criterion A and Criterion Consideration G. Camp Grosvenor contains representative buildings from all of its major era’s of development and can be characterized as a historic vernacular landscape. A determination of eligibility exists from 2002, and describes primarily the structures of the district. The district’s period of significance is 1950 to 1959. The district maintains its integrity of location, setting, feeling, association, design, materials and workmanship. This CLI updates the National Register of Historic Places eligibility status of the district, adds a site specific chronology, describes the landscape characteristics, and illustrates how these characteristics contribute to the integrity of the district.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Region 11 Park Cultural Landscapes Program
- Date of Issue
- 2007-06-04
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- AKR , KATM
- Keywords
- Alaska Native, Camp Coville, commerce, fishing camp, Grosvenor Camp, historic vernacular landscape, peninsula, Ray Petersen, sport fishing camp, subsistence, tourism