{"nrhp_refnum":"78000369","name":"Hockett Meadow Ranger Station","other_names":["Buildings 75 &amp","139"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Silver City in Sequoia National Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Silver City","county":"Tulare County","state":"CA","lat":36.376894169000025,"lon":-118.65628492699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building ranger station complex in Hockett Meadow, Sequoia National Park, California, at 8,500 feet elevation, built by the National Park Service in the summer of 1934. It has a log ranger residence and a smaller log storage barn or tack room.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance in architecture, landscape architecture and social/humanitarian endeavor. The log buildings are presented as excellent examples of National Park Service rustic design, built from local materials to blend with their setting. They were also erected by the Civilian Conservation Corps, described as the most concerted social program in the region.","narrative":"Hockett Meadow Ranger Station is a small complex of two log buildings set in an open meadow at 8,500 feet in Sequoia National Park, surrounded by dense conifer forest. A one-story residence measuring 23 by 33 feet has three rooms, a stone-floored porch and a central stone chimney. A one-room storage barn stands to the northeast. The National Park Service built both in the summer of 1934, with minor finish work in 1935. Their walls are lodgepole pine logs cut nearby, set on foundations veneered with native granite, and the roofs were originally handcut shakes on log rafters. These choices reflect the rustic design approach of the period, which sought harmony between buildings and landscape and echoed early Sierra Nevada pioneer structures. The complex is valued for that design and for its link to the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose crews erected it. The buildings remain in good condition, though the residence's later metal roof departs from its original appearance.","period_of_significance":"1934","architect_builder":"National Park Service","architectural_style":"National Park Service rustic (\"NPS-rustic\")","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both structures are in good condition and essentially unaltered except for an aluminum/metal roof on the ranger station; the form checks occupied and park use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.583971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000369.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000369/7769144504-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000369/7769144504-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hockett_Meadow_Ranger_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hockett_Meadow_Ranger_Station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862228","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockett_Meadow_Ranger_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682275"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tulare-county/hockett-meadow-ranger-station-78000369/"}