Clear Creek State Park Family Cabin District

Near Sigel in Jefferson County, the Clear Creek State Park Family Cabin District is a group of twenty-eight buildings and one structure built between 1933 and 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, specifically CCC Camp S-53. The cabins sit in two clusters, one along Clear Creek and one along the Clarion River. Most are single or two-room log cabins with saddle-notched corners and white cement chinking, while others use irregularly coursed ashlar stone, wane-edged siding and stone chimneys. Nine of the cabins along Clear Creek housed officers and technical staff of the camp, and others served as a mess hall, headquarters and foremen's quarters. The district is regarded as an example of rustic park architecture that uses local materials and blends into its surroundings. It also reflects the New Deal's Depression-era relief work, which employed many young men, and an early joint effort by state and federal governments to build public recreation facilities.