{"nrhp_refnum":"87000054","name":"French Creek State Park Six Penny Day Use District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"7 mi. NE of Morgantown on PA 345","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morgantown","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.23335452550003,"lon":-75.79462238487378,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Conservation","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of five buildings and three structures in the day use area beside Six Penny Lake within French Creek State Park, near Morgantown in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The facilities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is associated with Emergency Conservation Work by the CCC, a major New Deal relief program, and that its buildings exemplify the rustic style promoted by the National Park Service. It is also presented as representing federal and state cooperation on state-owned land and the humanitarian relief of jobless young men during the Depression.","narrative":"Six Penny Lake Day Use Historic District is a group of recreational buildings and structures beside a lake in French Creek State Park, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Civilian Conservation Corps crews built the facilities between 1935 and 1942 under Camp SP-17, as part of the Recreation Demonstration Area program. The district contains a large bathhouse with two hipped-roof wings flanking a central pavilion, two open pavilions with gabled roofs and log supports, four gable-roofed latrines with wane-edged siding, and a dry-laid, cut-stone arched dam across Six Penny Run with a stone splash apron below its spillway. The buildings use local natural materials and are placed to blend with the surrounding landscape, reflecting the rustic style favored by the National Park Service. The district is significant for its ties to the CCC, one of the most important New Deal relief programs, and for its representation of federal and state cooperation during the Depression. The bathhouse is no longer in use.","period_of_significance":"1925-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The bathhouse is not in use; the form describes the condition as fair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.397956-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87000054.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000054/ae17872c0b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000054/ae17872c0b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:French_Creek_Foundation.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:French_Creek_Foundation.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992412","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98893933"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/french-creek-state-park-six-penny-day-use-district-87000054/"}