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Hancock County, United States

Seawall Campground Ranger Station

Hancock County, United States

Seawall Campground Ranger Station
Photo: Suekoehler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Seawall Campground Ranger Station, built in 1941 in Hancock County, exemplifies the National Park Service rustic architectural style that characterized federal park infrastructure of the era. Designed to serve administrative and visitor functions at a coastal camping facility, the structure embodies the aesthetic principles of NPS rustic architecture, which emphasized harmonious integration with natural surroundings through the use of local materials and restrained ornamentation. Listed as a contributing property on the National Register of Historic Places, the ranger station represents an important example of mid-twentieth-century park service architecture.

Movement

Built
Type
ranger station
Heritage
National Register of Historic Places contributing property
Place
Hancock County, United States

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Location

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