Grand Canyon Park Operations Building, was designed 1929 on the South Rim of the gorge in gorge parkland. It’s vital as AN example of a parkland Service building designed to mix harmoniously with the natural surroundings, within the parkland Service Rustic vogue. The Operations Building was designed to switch the Superintendent’s Residence because the park headquarters. It had been successively replaced by a more recent building in 1967, and presently functions because the headquarters for park enforcement. The building was designed by the parkland Service Landscape Division underneath the direction of Thomas Chalmers Vint, and has been selected a National Historic Landmark for its style significance.
The Park Operations Building could be a two-story structure, with dust Kaibab stone construction to the sill level of the primary floor and wood frame construction on top of. The building is dominated by huge battered dust piers extending to the second floor sill level, with 3 massive in the altogether log corner posts at every corner. The building is topped by a shallow-pitched roof with deep, bracketed overhang. A 1938 toilet addition is made in a very similar manner, with sympathetic use of kind and materials. The gabled roof runs back from the principal elevation, that options a ribbon of windows at the second floor and a central entrance door flaked by windows at the primary floor.
Little remains of the initial interior, that was considerably restored in 1938 and several other times later. The lobby, however, remains considerably intact, with an oversized stone fire whose chimney supports log ceiling beams.
The Operations Building is one in all the earliest and largest samples of Park Service rustic style at the gorge, a part of the biggest developed space in a very U.S. Parkland. The gorge Village ensemble was developed with a regular and original style theme in a very vogue distinctive to the Park Service, con to the eclectic sort of park concessioners at the El Tovar edifice.
The Park Operations Building was declared a National Historic Landmark on might twenty eight, 1987, reflective its standing as a outstanding example of rustic construction within the national Parks. It’s enclosed within the gorge Village National Historic Landmark District.
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