Yakima Park Stockade Group

Infobox_nrhp | name =Yakima Park Stockade Group
nrhp_type =nhl


caption =
location= Sunrise (Yakima Park), Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
lat_degrees = 46
lat_minutes = 54
lat_seconds = 49.31
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 121
long_minutes = 38
long_seconds = 32.45
long_direction = W
locmapin = Washington
area =
built =1930
architect= Ernest A. Davidson; Et al.
architecture= Other
designated= May 28, 1987cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2007&ResourceType=District
title=Yakima Park Stockade Group |accessdate=2008-02-26|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = May 28, 1987cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
refnum=87001337

Yakima Park Stockade Group, also known as North and South Blockhouses, Museum, and Stockade at Sunrise, is a building complex consisting of four log buildings in Mount Rainier National Park that is architecturally significant on its own. The first of the blockhouses and the stockade were built in 1930, while the second blockhouse followed in 1943. [harvnb|Filley|1996|p=70]

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/87001337.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Yakima Park Stockade Group / North and South Blockhouses, Museum, and Stockade at Sunrise] |32 KB|date=1985 |author=Laura Soullière Harrison |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/87001337.pdf "Accompanying 28 photos, exterior and interior, from 1985"] |32 KB] cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/harrison/harrison21.htm |title="Architecture in the Parks: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study: Yakima Park Stockade Group", by Laura Soullière Harrison |accessdate=2008-02-26|work=National Historic Landmark Theme Study|publisher=National Park Service]

References

ources

* Filley, Bette (1996). "The Big Fact Book About Mount Rainier", Dunamis House, ISBN 1880405067.