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Show 14 and forestry technician. Staff moved to a leased facility in the late 1960s and the office was converted a bunkhouse, likely soon thereafter. (It was a bunkhouse by 1983). The front room became a bedroom while the back room served as a kitchen and a closet next to the restroom was plumbed to be a shower. 3. Barn (#0305, formerly #1308): The CCC likely helped build the R4 Plan 11 horse barn, which cost 15 $2,151 when completed in 1936. An exterior stair on the south was added in 1963 and replaced in 2004. By 1966, engineering records referred to the building as a "Barn-Warehouse," suggesting its 16 horse stalls had been removed by then. 4. Garage: (#0309, formerly #1312): This R4 Plan 21 garage/storeroom, completed behind the Dwelling for $1,664, accommodated two vehicles and provided firewood storage at one end. It had a chimney "so that if heat should become necessary it can be supplied with a stove or furnace." Indeed, a coal stove was in the storeroom by 1983. The CCC may have been involved with its construction as George Nichols noted it was nearly complete in 1936. As of 2003, the District stored signs and ATVs in the garage. 5. Equipment Shed: Although constructed with the other historic buildings in 1936, the equipment shed was not a Region 4 standard plan. George Nichols described it in 1937 as "Truck Trail Handbook Plan 17 1," referring to a Forest Service handbook governing road construction. Built for $1,783 just south of the office, the equipment shed had corrugated metal siding and roofing, painted to match the other buildings at the station (white with Nile green trim and light green roofs). It had X-braced wood doors on its north side and Nichols stated, "Do not paint the crosses on the doors nile green, as they look too conspicuous.,,18 The Forest Service dismantled and re-erected it in 1949 at the Price Yard, where it 19 became the Price Equipment Shed. In 1952, Reginald C. Pragnell drew a planting plan that called for the removal of the concrete pad on which the equipment shed had stood. 6. Oil/Gas Shed (#0332): Although the engineering database (Infra) provides a construction date of 1970 for this 20-sf building, it is clearly much older and may date to the CCC era (c.1936). The wood-framed, 4' x 5' structure has corrugated metal siding and a shed roof. It may be the building that appears in a 1961 photo of the barn. Its size and red paint suggests it may have served as a fire tool cache at some point. When a new flammable storage building was constructed in 2003, the shed was moved from near the southeast corner of the warehouse to its current location southwest of the warehouse. Existing Modern Buildings: 1. Three-Sided Storage Shed: Situated along the south side ofthe garage, this small structure dates to c.2010 and is not currently listed in Infra. 14 "Manti-Lasal Building Program, Ferron Ranger District, December 22, 1964," File: "7300 Buildings, Ferron Admin Site," MLNF Eng Office. 15 George L. Nichols, Memorandum for Operation, July 1, 1936. 16 "Station Improvement Maintenance Record," no date, File: "7300 Buildings, Ferron Barn 0305," and F. Fail, Historical Record for Buildings, Ferron R. S. (Barn-Warehouse), January 1966, MLNF Eng Office. 17 George L. Nichols, Memorandum for Operation, June 14, 1937, File: "7300 Buildings, Ferron Administrative Site," Ferron Office. 18 Ibid . 19 Robert H. Park, Forest Supervisor, to Regional Forester, September 2, 1949, File: "7300 Buildings, Price Yard Admin Site," MLNF Eng Office; and "Supplemental Descriptive Sheet," no date, File: "7300 Buildings, Ferron Admin Site," MLNF Eng Office. 4 |
