{"nrhp_refnum":"79000315","name":"Camp Curry Historic District","other_names":["Curry Village"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Yosemite Valley","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yosemite National Park","county":"Mariposa County","state":"CA","lat":37.74274932350005,"lon":-119.57179525300153,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Camp Curry (Curry Village) is a historic guest-camp district at the base of Glacier Point in the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California. It was founded in 1899 by David and Jennie Curry and covers about 48 acres.","why_significant":"The district illustrates the founding and early growth of the Curry family enterprise, which became the Yosemite Park and Curry Company, and its low-cost, family-style camp accommodation still offered in national parks. It is described as locally significant in exploration/settlement and commerce. Four surviving structures are cited as important early examples of rustic architecture.","narrative":"Camp Curry, also known as Curry Village, sits beneath Glacier Point at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, among granite boulders and cedars. David and Jennie Curry opened it in 1899 with seven tents, offering an inexpensive, family-style alternative to the valley's hotel. Guests gathered for nightly campfire programs and the firefall, and over time the camp added a registration office in 1904, a swimming tank and auditorium in 1913, and rustic cabins and bungalows. Four early structures remain at the heart of the district: the 1904 Registration Office, the roughly 1914 entrance sign, the 1916 Foster Curry Cabin and the 1917 bungalow built for Jennie Curry. All use unpeeled logs, cedar bark and river stone. Hundreds of tent cabins and later cabins surround them. The district was listed for its role in the Curry family's concession business and the continuing style of park accommodation it established, though fires and newer construction have changed parts of the original complex.","period_of_significance":"1899-1924","architect_builder":"David A. Curry, Foster Curry","architectural_style":"Rustic style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good and altered; the site is occupied and in commercial use, with continuing construction and rehabilitation. Several early buildings were lost to fires in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.37168-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79000315.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"04001159","name":"Yosemite Valley","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/yosemite-valley-04001159/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859735","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49476674"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mariposa-county/camp-curry-historic-district-79000315/"}