Black Moshannon State Park Day Use District

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.