Great Lodges of the National Parks
The Companion Book to the PBS Television Series
by Christine Barnes
photography by Fred Pflughoft
and David Morris
published by Farcountry Press
produced by WW West, Inc.
- Updated 2016.
Stand amid soaring Douglas fir in the great hall of Glacier Park Lodge or sit in the setting sun and gaze into the Grand Canyon at El Tovar. This beautiful gift book will transport you to the majestic lodges of our national parks to relive the glory of past vacations or plan adventures anew. This book and the PBS television series of the same title (to air in spring 2002) take armchair travelers into these architectural wonders and explore the surrounding natural beauty of our national parks. Lodges, wildlife, and stunning vistas are showcased in 175 full-color and black-and-white photographs, along with historical documents from the PBS series. In his introduction, Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers a call to preserve this national heritage.
192 pages, 11, 61 b/w photos, 162 color photos, 22 illustrations, 2 map(s), 14 hardcovers per case
hardcover
ISBN 10: 0965392457
ISBN 13: 9780965392457
$35.00
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The Companion Book to the PBS Television Series |
| "The rehabilitated four-story structure, with its forest-green roof and brown-shingled siding, built on a steel-reinforced foundation of native volcanic stone, is a reminder of the past. The historical architects working on the projects had to look at the design in a new light. Instead of a traditional historic restoration, this would be a combination of reconstruction, rehabilitation, and restoration, to evoke the feeling of what the lodge should have been. The Portland architectural firm of Fletcher Farr Ayotte, whose original assignment was to design a new lodge, switched gears.
'With most historic structures there is usually an event, a person or an architectural style which defines its historic significance. Crater Lake Lodge had none of those,' explained David Wark, the firm's lead architect on the project. 'What it did have was a history that came from people's emotional attachment.' Miele echoed, '...a tremendous emotional attachment and affectation between the people that had stayed here over the years and Crater Lake Lodge.' Making the leap from 'emotional attachment' to how to approach the project was the challenge. After the firm's initial investigation, the first mystery to Wark was how the lodge was standing up. There were no foundations under the stone walls, and the mortar had turned to sand. Huge cables anchored on steel plates at the front and the back of the lodge and installed after World War II held the building together. 'When you had a heavy snow load, these cables were just as taut as a fiddle string,' said Miele. 'In the summertime the lodge would relax with the snow off and the cable would be real loose.' The deeper the firm looked, the worse things got, with all of the structural systems in failure. The initial rehabilitation plan became one of partial reconstruction. 'And so our strategy was to keep as much of the original fabric, remove it, and then put it back after we had installed the new systems,' said Wark." -from chapter six, Crater Lake Lodge: The Lodge Oregonians Wouldn't Let Die |
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Christine Barnes has written numerous books on historic lodges in the U.S. and Canadian national parks. She was the senior consultant and historian for the PBS television series based on her books, Great Lodges of the National Parks, Great Lodges of the National Parks Volume II, and Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies. Barnes is a two-time winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for best history book. A former newspaper editor, she is a graduate of Northwestern University. |