{"nrhp_refnum":"78000291","name":"Knapp Cabin","other_names":["Artist's Cabin"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W of Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon National Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cedar Grove","county":"Fresno County","state":"CA","lat":36.78378945700007,"lon":-118.63687637899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-room frame and shake cabin in the South Fork Kings River valley near Cedar Grove, in Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno County, California, built in 1925 for George Owen Knapp.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the few surviving reminders of recreational use of the Kings River canyons before Kings Canyon National Park was created in 1940. It is judged of local significance in conservation and recreation. Federal reviewers accepted it as a rare building type tied to early development of the park and to Knapp.","narrative":"Built in 1925 for George Owen Knapp, a Union Carbide executive, this one-room cabin stands in the valley of the South Fork of the Kings River, west of Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon National Park. Its pole frame, some of the poles squared, came from the surrounding pine and cedar forest, and the walls and roof are covered in shakes probably cut from nearby cedar. The cabin measures about 10 by 20 feet, with a door at each end, no windows, a dirt floor and a small porch formed by an extended gable. Knapp did not use it as a residence. He and his friends camped along the riverbank and kept equipment and supplies in the cabin until he stopped visiting by 1928. Parties visiting the canyon used it occasionally in the following decade, and use ended after the park was established in 1940. It is listed as a reminder of pre-park recreation in the Kings River canyons, and its setting remains much as Knapp knew it apart from the road.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"George Owen Knapp","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Unaltered except for a new shake roof added by the National Park Service about 1966; managed by the National Park Service as a historic structure since the 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.03052-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000291.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000291/1d87bdeec9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000291/1d87bdeec9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KNAPP_CABIN_IN_KINGS_CANYON_NATIONAL_PARK,_CALIFORNIA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD</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:KNAPP_CABIN_IN_KINGS_CANYON_NATIONAL_PARK,_CALIFORNIA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78000293","name":"Shorty Lovelace Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/shorty-lovelace-historic-district-78000293/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858667","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapp_Cabin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/fresno-county/knapp-cabin-78000291/"}