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Darrington Ranger Station

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Darrington Ranger Station
The Darrington Ranger Station, headquarters of the Darrington Ranger District
Darrington Ranger Station is located in Washington (state)
Darrington Ranger Station
Darrington Ranger Station is located in the United States
Darrington Ranger Station
Location1405 Emmens Street, Darrington, Washington
Coordinates48°15′40″N 121°36′13″W / 48.26111°N 121.60361°W / 48.26111; -121.60361 (Darrington Ranger Station)Coordinates: 48°15′40″N 121°36′13″W / 48.26111°N 121.60361°W / 48.26111; -121.60361 (Darrington Ranger Station)
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Area23 acres (9.3 ha)
Built1933–1938
Built byCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleRustic architecture of USDA
MPSUSDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
NRHP reference #91000155[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 6, 1991

The Darrington Ranger Station is a collection of buildings operated by the USDA Forest Service in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, serving as the headquarters of the Darrington Ranger District in Darrington, Washington. Most of the buildings were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) between 1933 and 1938, and the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on March 6, 1991.[2] The multiple buildings reflect the expansion of Forest Service responsibilities from custodial supervision to extensive resource management.[2] The Darrington Ranger Station is considered historic both for its rustic architecture and for its association with the federal New Deal programs.[2]

History

The land occupied by the ranger station was acquired by the United States for administrative purposes under the Act of March 3, 1925.[2] Its earliest buildings predate the federal relief programs of the 1930s, including the barn of 1916 and the two ranger residences of 1921 and 1922.[2]

Most of the complex was built during the Great Depression by the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose Camp Darrington opened a half-mile north of the town on May 20, 1933.[3] The camp was planned to house up to 200 men, and its enrollment grew to 172.[3] One enrollee later recalled that the Forest Service was establishing a new headquarters compound at Darrington at the time, moving several older buildings onto new foundations and constructing new shops.[3] The nomination characterizes the station as typifying CCC construction projects and as benefiting the local community through the employment of young men and experienced craftsmen, the purchase of building materials and supplies, and the personal spending of enrollees.[2]

The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 6, 1991, under criteria A and C, in the areas of politics/government, conservation, and architecture, with a period of significance of 1933 to 1941.[2] Several of its buildings were also documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (survey WA-191), whose records are held by the Library of Congress.[4]

Architecture

The Darrington Ranger Station is one of many Forest Service administrative complexes built by the Civilian Conservation Corps across the 19 national forests of the agency's Pacific Northwest Region between 1933 and 1942, and listed together under a single multiple-property submission.[5] The station's buildings exemplify the rustic architectural style developed by the region's Regional Office to convey the agency's identity. The program documentation credits the office's design group with the architects Linn A. Forrest, Howard L. Gifford, James Pollock, and W. I. "Tim" Turner, along with landscape architect Emmett U. Blanchfield.[5][lower-alpha 1]

The wood-frame buildings rest on poured-concrete foundations and are clad in weatherboard, clapboard, wood shingles, or vertical board-and-batten, with wood-shingle roofs, several of which were later replaced with sheet metal.[2] A recurring decorative feature is the Forest Service pine-tree cutout in the building gables; the regional documentation describes this tree symbol as the agency's emblematic and only explicit ornamentation, rendered most often as a cut-out in boards and occasionally in wrought iron or stone.[5]

Contributing buildings

The station's 15 contributing buildings, together with 28 non-contributing buildings constructed between 1945 and 1985, stand on a 23-acre (9.3 ha) site.[2] The contributing buildings include:

  • The ranger's residence (Building 1230) is a ​1 1⁄2-story wood-frame dwelling, 26 by 44 feet (7.9 m × 13.4 m), built in 1921.[2]
  • The assistant ranger's residence (Building 1229) is a ​1 1⁄2-story wood-frame dwelling, 24 by 45 feet (7.3 m × 13.7 m), built in 1922.[2]
  • The barn (Building 2415), built in 1916, is a wood-frame building, 30 by 67 feet (9.1 m × 20.4 m), with a bellcast gambrel roof.[2]
  • The crewhouse (Building 1232) is a ​1 1⁄2-story wood-frame dwelling, 27 by 47 feet (8.2 m × 14.3 m), built in 1934.[2]
  • The blacksmith shop (Building 2216), built in 1935, is a one-story wood-frame building with Forest Service pine-tree cutouts on its west gable.[2]
  • Two equipment sheds (Buildings 2316 and 2375), built in 1935 and 1938, are peeled-pole open-bay storage structures, 88 by 24 feet (26.8 m × 7.3 m) and 72 by 24 feet (21.9 m × 7.3 m) respectively.[2]
  • Two warehouses (Buildings 2215 and 2275), which the nomination dates to 1933, are utilitarian wood-frame buildings used for tool and equipment storage.[2][lower-alpha 2]
  • The truck-storage building (Building 2315), built in 1938, is a one-story 30 by 30 feet (9.1 m × 9.1 m) structure originally configured as a nine-bay garage.[2][4]
  • The automotive shop (Building 2190), built in 1938, is a two-story U-shaped building, 58 by 100 feet (18 m × 30 m), with pine-tree cutouts on its gables.[2]
  • The carpenter shop (Building 1316), 100 by 30 feet (30.5 m × 9.1 m), was built in 1938.[2]
  • The gas-and-oil house (Building 2515), built in 1938, has decorative shutters with pine-tree cutouts.[2][lower-alpha 3]
  • A wood shed (Building 1649) and the ranger's garage (Building 1575) are one-story wood-frame outbuildings.[2]

Later history

The complex remains the working office of the Darrington Ranger District.[11] A National Weather Service cooperative rain gauge has operated at the station since 1931, making it the closest long-term weather station to the site of the 2014 Oso landslide, about 12 miles (19 km) to the west.[12] The station's precipitation records were among the data used by scientists who analyzed the rainfall preceding that landslide.[13]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Darrington nomination instead lists the group as Forrest, Gifford, Ward Gano, Pollock, and Blanchfield, naming the Forest Service engineer Ward Gano in place of Turner. Turner was among the Forest Service architects who designed Timberline Lodge, where Gano served as a structural engineer.[2][6][7]
  2. ↑ The two warehouses carry the same building numbers across the records, but the sources differ on their dates and names. The 1986 nomination dates both to 1933 and labels Building 2215 the "Fire Warehouse" and Building 2275 the "FR&T" (Fire, Road and Trail) Warehouse.[2] The later Historic American Buildings Survey records instead conclude that both buildings predate the Civilian Conservation Corps work—their shingled exteriors matching the 1921 and 1922 residences rather than the Depression-era buildings—and name Building 2215 the "Road and Trail Warehouse"[8] and Building 2275 the "Fire and Truck Storage Building", noting that 2275 has always been used for fire-equipment storage.[9]
  3. ↑ The nomination numbers this building 2525, an apparent typographical error; the Historic American Buildings Survey records it as Building 2515.[10]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 E. Gail Throop (September 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Darrington Ranger Station. National Park Service. Retrieved June 24, 2026. Within the larger USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in the States of Oregon and Washington built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Darrington opens on May 20, 1933". HistoryLink. Essay 8583. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Darrington Ranger Station, Building 2315, 1405 Emmens Street, Darrington, Snohomish County, WA". Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. HABS WA-191-A. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 E. Gail Throop (January 1986). National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form: USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in the States of Oregon and Washington, Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. National Park Service. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Timberline Lodge". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  7. ↑ "The Builders of the Timberline". American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Darrington Ranger Station, Road & Trail Warehouse, 1405 Emmens Street, Darrington, Snohomish County, WA". Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. HABS WA-191-B. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Darrington Ranger Station, Fire & Truck Storage Building, 1405 Emmens Street, Darrington, Snohomish County, WA". Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. HABS WA-191-C. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Darrington Ranger Station, Building 2515, 1405 Emmens Street, Darrington, Snohomish County, WA". Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. HABS WA-191-J. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Darrington Ranger Station". U.S. Forest Service, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  12. ↑ Henn, Brian; et al. (2015). "Hydroclimatic Conditions Preceding the March 2014 Oso Landslide". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 16 (3). Retrieved June 24, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Near-record rainfall gave Oso mudslide its destructive force, USGS finds". The Herald. Everett, Washington. January 13, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2026.



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