{"nrhp_refnum":"87000109","name":"Whipple Dam State Park Day Use District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"10 mi. S of State College, E of PA 26","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntingdon","county":"Huntingdon County","state":"PA","lat":40.68478529400005,"lon":-77.86444979324986,"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 district of about 32 acres in Whipple Dam State Park, Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, made up of 10 buildings and 9 structures grouped around Whipple Lake. Built by Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-60 between 1933 and 1941 in the rustic style.","why_significant":"The district is associated with the Emergency Conservation Work of the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the major New Deal relief efforts, and is regarded as exceptionally significant for architecture. Its buildings and structures exemplify the rustic style promoted by the National Park Service and represent an unprecedented cooperation between state and federal government on state-owned land.","narrative":"Whipple Dam State Park's day use district sits on the shore of Whipple Lake in Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, and covers about 32 acres. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-60 built the district between 1933 and late 1941 as part of the Emergency Conservation Work program. The present dam dates from 1936 and replaced an earlier state dam of 1927, which itself succeeded a sawmill dam built by the Whipple family. The district includes ten buildings and nine structures, among them concession and storage buildings, latrines, picnic pavilions and picnic shelters. Most use local materials such as log columns, stone piers, stone fireplaces and wane-edged siding, and they are placed to blend with the surrounding landscape. The resources are important for their rustic architecture, their link to the New Deal relief program that employed many young men, and their role in providing public outdoor recreation.","period_of_significance":"1933-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recreational facilities in use for approximately fifty years as stated; present condition recorded as fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.233797-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87000109.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000109/c38e185d72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000109/c38e185d72-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whipple_Dam_Ranger_HQ_Huntingdon_Co_PA.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:Whipple_Dam_Ranger_HQ_Huntingdon_Co_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993069","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98844861"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/huntingdon-county/whipple-dam-state-park-day-use-district-87000109/"}