{"nrhp_refnum":"87000101","name":"Black Moshannon State Park Day Use District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"9 mi. E of Philipsburg on PA 504","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philipsburg","county":"Centre County","state":"PA","lat":40.916777910000064,"lon":-78.0624815716007,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-02-12","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 day use historic district of about ten buildings and eleven structures along the shore of a lake at Black Moshannon State Park near Philipsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The park's CCC work began in 1933 at Camp S-71.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district meets Criteria A and C as an example of Civilian Conservation Corps recreational development in Pennsylvania state parks. Its pavilions, picnic shelters, bathhouse and latrines are described as representative of the rustic style promoted by the National Park Service, built with local natural materials and placed to blend with the landscape. The buildings and structures are also presented as products of a New Deal federal relief program that employed thousands of young men.","narrative":"Along the shore of a lake at Black Moshannon State Park in Centre County, Pennsylvania, this day use district groups roughly ten buildings and eleven structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Camp S-71 began work at the park in May 1933 and remained active until January 1937, and the CCC's first projects included a new dam at Black Moshannon Lake. The district includes open picnic pavilions with pyramidal roofs and timber supports, a large picnic shelter with a log railing, stone pump shelters decorated with applied pebbles, a log concession building, a bathhouse with stone columns, and a former stone pavilion with a large fireplace set into a bank. Its rustic design uses local natural materials and follows the style promoted by the National Park Service. The buildings are important because they show the federal relief program of the New Deal applied to state-owned recreational land, and they reflect the Depression-era employment of many young men. Three later buildings are counted as non-contributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The document describes the Museum building as being converted into a nature museum and notes that some buildings were converted to other uses, but it gives no current overall condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.971697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87000101.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000101/74a6075e60-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000101/74a6075e60-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"User:Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Moshannon_SP_Beach_House_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Ruhrfisch</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Black_Moshannon_SP_Beach_House_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992500","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98897148"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/centre-county/black-moshannon-state-park-day-use-district-87000101/"}