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Agnes Vaille Shelter
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| Nearest city: | Estes Park, Colorado |
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| Area: | less than one acre |
| Built: | 1927 |
| Architectural style: | Other, NPS Rustic |
| Governing body: | Federal |
| MPS: | Rocky Mountain National Park MRA |
| NRHP Reference#: | 92001669[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | December 24, 1992 |
The Agnes Vaille Shelter is a beehive-shaped stone shelter near the summit of Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. The shelter was built in 1927 by the National Park Service after a number of climbers died ascending LOng's Peak. The shelter was named for Agnes Vaille, who made the first winter ascent of the east face of Long's Peak by a woman, but who died of exposure as she descended on January 12, 1925. The shelter was designed in the spirit of the National Park Service rustic style to blend with the local landscape, located above 13,400 feet (4,100 m) elevation on the edge of an area known as The Boulder Field. The stone for the shelter came from this area.[2]
The shelter consists of a single circular room with a conical ceiling formed by the walls and roof of the shelter, entered by a single door opening whose door has been removed. There are two glazed windows and one filled-in opening. The floor is paved with stone.[2]
Recent scholarship asserts that the present shelter was built byVaille's family in 1935 to replace the 1927 Park Service shelter.[3]
The Agnes Vaille Shelter was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 24, 1992.[1]
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