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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Administration Building , 107 Park Headquarters Road, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
- Title: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Administration Building , 107 Park Headquarters Road, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN
- Other Title:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Headquarters Building - Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Eakin, J. Ross
Mattson, Frank E.
Barber, Charles I.
Peterson, Charles E.
U.S. Public Works Administration (PWA)
Southeastern Construction Company
Great Smoky Mountains National Park , sponsor
Jacobs, James A. , historian
Rosenthal, James W. , photographer - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 25
Data Page(s): 45
Photo Caption Page(s): 2 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS TN-256
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The headquarters building at Great Smoky Mountain National Park holds significance as the administrative center of one of the largest national parks in the eastern United States and the most visited park in the entire national park system. At the time of its completion, the headquarters building anchored the main administration area of the park, facing the landscaped intersection of two prominent roads, and would provide basic visitor services in the area until the construction of the Sugarlands Visitor Center. The Colonial Revival design was also noteworthy as one of the first major buildings constructed in the implementation of the park’s initial master plan. It was intended that the design of the headquarters would guide the establishment of an architectural theme thought to be appropriate for the park and its geographic region. Frank E. Mattson, the park’s resident landscape architect, was one of the principal designers of the final scheme for the building and the manager of its overall design process. He observed early in 1941 that while the headquarters building “gives an idea of a fair sized residence,” it was a thoroughly modern office building. Its scale, five-part arrangement, and finely worked and laid-up stone cladding, quarried within the park and laid-up by Civilian Conservation Corps-trained masons, have no direct historical precedents in the region. Still, the form of its center pavilion and the finish of the lobby were a nod, however inventively, to “the character of the best early domestic architecture of Tennessee.” Indeed, the formal character of the façade and the rustic architectural details present in the lobby convey a vague impression of the genteel domestic architecture that began appearing in the region around 1800. For the final design, Mattson collaborated with Charles I. Barber, an eminent Knoxville architect, championed by park superintendent J. Ross Eakin. In addition to Barber and Eakin, Mattson, as a staff member for the National Park Service’s Branch of Plans and Design, also considered the input of the branch’s chief architect and engineer as well as the director of the National Park Service and his advisors. This varied group was able to shape the design of an administration building, and surrounding landscape, having a quietly sophisticated presence within the larger natural landscape that conveyed its importance to the establishment and development of the park. While the building maintains a high degree of physical integrity to its period of construction, the construction of the Sugarlands Visitor Center (1957-58; 1961) drastically altered its original siting at an important road intersection, lessening its visual prominence in the park.
- Survey number: HABS TN-256
- Building/structure dates: 1938-1940 Initial Construction
- Subjects:
- Colonial Revival architectural elements
- administration buildings
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- stone buildings (sandstone)
- steel I-beams
- steel trusses
- reinforced concrete construction
- roofing slate
- paneling
- raised basements
- pavilions (building divisions)
- hyphens
- gable roofs
- porches
- garages
- national parks & reserves
- stone retaining walls
- New Deal
- public works
- World Heritage sites
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 35.687114, -83.536799
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS TN-256
- Medium:
Photo(s): 25
Data Page(s): 45
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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- Call Number: HABS TN-256
- Medium:
Photo(s): 25
Data Page(s): 45
Photo Caption Page(s): 2
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