Manzanita Lake Naturalist's Services Historic District

Shasta County, United States

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The Manzanita Lake Naturalist's Services Historic District encompasses visitor interpretation facilities at the northwest entrance of Lassen Volcanic National Park in northeastern California. The district's origins trace to Benjamin and Estella Loomis, early park concessioners who built the 1927 Loomis Museum, a seismograph hut, and the Loomis House (which functioned as residence, photography studio, and shop) before donating these structures and 40 acres to the National Park Service in 1929. During the 1930s, the Park Service expanded the district with National Park Service Rustic structures including an entrance station (1930), ranger residence (1931), and comfort station (1931), followed by a 1933 naturalist's residence built with Civilian Conservation Corps labor. The area was evacuated in 1973 following geological concerns about rockfall from Chaos Crags but was reoccupied in 1987 after hazard reassessment. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 2006.