Breitenbush Guard Station

Breitenbush Guard Station
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Willamette National Forest, Detroit, Oregon
Coordinates	44°46′54″N 121°57′59″W / 44.78167°N 121.96639°WCoordinates: 44°46′54″N 121°57′59″W / 44.78167°N 121.96639°W
Area	2.9 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1935
Architect	USDA Forest Service
Architectural style	Rustic
MPS	Depression-Era Buildings TR
NRHP Reference #	86000843[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 8, 1986
Removed from NRHP	February 7, 2011[2]

The Breitenbush Guard Station in Willamette National Forest, Detroit, Oregon was designed by architects of the United States Forest Service and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935.^[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its Rustic architecture, as part of a multiple property listing of Depression Era works of the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon and Washington.^[3] Its nomination asserts:

The Breitenbush Guard Station exemplifies the rustic architectural idiom developed

by the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, to impart Forest Service identity and to represent its purposes and ideals; and signifies the agency's particular interpretation of a singular expression of early twentieth century

American architectural thought.^[3]

The nomination continues to assert that the station is an "outstanding example of an architectural locution invested with special aesthetic and associative values by the agency that created it."^[3]

The listing included two contributing buildings, a single dwelling and a secondary structure, on 2.9 acres (1.2 ha).^[1] The station building was an H-shaped, wood building on a concrete foundation, with a high gabled roof.^[3]

It was removed from the National Register in February 2011 after being destroyed by fire in 2000.^[2][4]

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. National Park Service (February 18, 2011). "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/7/11 through 2/11/11". Retrieved February 20, 2011.
3. E. Sail Throop (September 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination: Breitenbush Guard Station" (PDF). and accompanying two photos from 1983 (excerpt from larger "Depression-Era Buildings TR" thematic resources nomination)
4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6k5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2usDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4574%2C4133942