Altair Campground Community Kitchen

Altair Campground Community Kitchen
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Port Angeles, Washington
Coordinates	48°0′42″N 123°35′30″W / 48.01167°N 123.59167°WCoordinates: 48°0′42″N 123°35′30″W / 48.01167°N 123.59167°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1935
Architect	Civilian Conservation Corps
Architectural style	Rustic
MPS	Olympic National Park MPS
NRHP Reference #	07000732 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 13, 2007

The Altair Campground Community Kitchen was built in Olympic National Park to serve the Altair Campground. It is an open rectangular shelter built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps personnel from the Elwha River Camp in the National Park Service Rustic style.

Located near the Elwha River, the peeled log structure is capped with a cedar shake roof, enclosing a cooking fireplace and chimney. It measures about 28 feet (8.5 m) by 17 feet (5.2 m), with a stone cooking fireplace in the middle, rising through the roof. The lower portions of the log columns have been replaced with concrete piers due to deterioration, and the original peeled log railings have disappeared.^[2]

The Altair and Elwha Campground Community Kitchens are the only such structures remaining in Olympic National Park. The Altair campground was named after the USS Altair, whose crew regularly used the site in the 1920s and 1930s.^[2] The kitchen structure was listed on National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 2007.^[1]

See also

• Elwha Ranger Station nearby

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Evans, Gail E.H.; Toothman, Stephanie; Luxenberg, Gretchen (1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Altair Campground Community Kitchen" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 18 October 2013.