Many of the Designs and Plans Produced by the Region 6 Architectural Team Were Published in Groben's Acceptable Plans, Forest Se
Many of the designs and plans produced by the Region 6 architectural team were published in Groben's Acceptable Plans, Forest Service Administrative Building (Figure 23). These buildings had an elemental feel in the use of stone and wood, and the term "Rustic style" became associated with these Depression-Era structures that were locally designed by trained architects and constructed by local carpenters. Some of the same plans were used at different ranger stations although there was usually somevariation in the construction materials. For example, one of the standard three-room residences was built at three locations in the Siskiyou National Forest (Gasquet, Patrick Creek, and Ferron), and as guard cabins in the Wallowa, Deschutes, and Colville forests. These plans and designs could be modified (with approval) to meet the needs of the various ranger districts. Generally, the "Rustic" (or "Cascadian") style took the form of wood-frame buildings with mid-to-high pitched gable or hip roofs covered with cedar shingles (or sometimes larger, rougher cedar or pine shakes), and had dormers, fieldstone or brick chimneys, horizontal clapboard, drop, or wood shingle siding often with vertical boards or shingles on the gable ends, and fieldstone or concrete foundations, entries, and patios. Window treatment represents one of the most successful ornamental schemes on many CCC-built Forest Service buildings in Region 6. The multiple-lights windows, with simple wide trim, gave the buildings a distinctly "cottage-like" look. Figure 23. Leavenworth RD Residence, Wenatchee NF. Standard Plan No. 201 reproduced in Acceptable Plans FSAdministrative Buildings, 1938 (right). Ornamental elements on the buildings included timber brackets at doorways and entries, timber porch posts, and wooden shutters andlor gable-end trim boards with the familiar Forest Service "pine- tree" symbol.
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