I have seen significantly higher quality work methods and materials in 
the log shelters and buildings and stick-built furniture at the old 
Niobrara State Park, in Nebraska, built about 1937 by the CCC boys (my 
uncle was one), which I enjoyed as a boy in the 1950s & 60s. The park 
and structures were designed by John Kendricks, father of current-day 
Phil Kendrick, preservation architect now of Dover, NH. Phil has the 
original drawings for the park, and I have my memories, and some stories 
of the construction from my uncle, Eddy Hass, in Verdigre, Nebr.

Much of the old park was wiped out by flooding in the 1970s due to Army 
Corp of Engineers building dams on the Missouri river in 1945-50. Damn 
those dams--also wiped out the small town river culture up and down the 
Missouri.

John
www.HistoricHomeWorks.com

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