Breitenbush Guard Station

Breitenbush Guard Station
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
Governing body Forest Service
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]

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