{"nrhp_refnum":"07001146","name":"Terrace Park Girl Scout Cabin","other_names":["Big Stone Gap Girl Scout Cabin","101-0046"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"211 Proctor St. N.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Big Stone Gap","county":"Wise County","state":"VA","lat":36.86537264200007,"lon":-82.78031553599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story rustic log cabin at 211 Proctor Street North in Terrace Park, Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia, built in 1938 by the National Youth Administration for the Girl Scouts and community use.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cabin is an outstanding example of New Deal log construction, with the hallmarks of the era's log structures in the southern Appalachians. It is also significant in Social History as a joint Girl Scout and National Youth Administration project used for leader training, domestic-skills training for young women, and community gatherings.","narrative":"Terrace Park in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, holds a one-story log cabin built in 1938 by the National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency. Round pine logs are saddle-notched at the corners, and cobblestone chimneys stand at both ends. A log shed addition runs along one side, and a porch wraps around two sides. Inside are a large meeting hall, a kitchen, a bathroom and several small bedrooms. Local Girl Scout leaders raised money and worked with the youth agency to create a training and recreation center. Young men of the agency built it under local carpenter Joseph Blessing, with B. Seay as volunteer architect, and it was finished in February 1939. Young women trained there in sewing, cooking and nursing, while Girl Scouts met in the evenings. The town later rented it to cover debts and repairs. A proposed housing project threatened it in 2000, but it was saved, and restoration of the meeting hall and cabin is under way. It is valued for New Deal construction and its social role.","period_of_significance":"1938-1956","architect_builder":"Seay. B. architect; Blessing, J. M., construction supervisor","architectural_style":"Other: rustic log cabin","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and not in use at the time of the form; restoration and repair work is under way to return it to community use through the town's Parks and Recreation Department.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.388838-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/6842/41684206/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07001146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001146/0df0f8e318-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001146/0df0f8e318-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blackoffee","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace_Park_Girl_Scout_Cabin_corner_shot.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackoffee</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace_Park_Girl_Scout_Cabin_corner_shot.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684206","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_Park_Girl_Scout_Cabin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16901445"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/wise-county/terrace-park-girl-scout-cabin-07001146/"}