Property Record
South Lake Road, DEVIL'S LAKE STATE PARK
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Devil's Lake State Park: South Shore Contact Station |
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| Other Name: | DNR: Devil's Lake # 1033 (DNR) |
| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 227157 |
| Location (Address): | South Lake Road, DEVIL'S LAKE STATE PARK |
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| County: | Sauk |
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| Township/Village: | Baraboo |
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| Year Built: | 1947 |
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| Survey Date: | 20132013 |
| Historic Use: | gatehouse |
| Architectural Style: | Rustic Style |
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| Wall Material: | Log |
| Architect: | Wisconsin Bureau of Engineering |
| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Devil's Lake State Park |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/21/2015 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 2/28/2014 |
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| Additional Information: | This small one-story Rustic Style building was built in 1947 to manage the rapidly expanding numbers of visitors to the park that were using the southeast shore of the lake as an informal campground. The building is rectilinear in plan, it measures 24-feet-long by 16-feet-wide, and it rests on a concrete pad foundation. The lower half of the walls that rest on this pad are clad in horizontally positioned half-round debarked logs while the upper half is clad in vertically positioned half-round debarked logs. These walls are sheltered by the very wide overhanging open eaves of the gable roof that covers the building and whose ridgeline runs southeast-northwest, and the building’s gable ends are clad in vertical board-and-batten, the bottom ends of which have been sawn so as to have a flattened “V” profile. The main façade of the building faces northeast and a gable-roofed ell that is centered on it contains the small office that houses the ranger who first makes contact with visitors arriving by car. The lower portions of the walls of this ell are clad in the same half-round debarked logs that cover the lower portions of the building’s other walls but the upper portion is mostly glass on all three sides of the ell to facilitate visibility for both the ranger and the visitor. There is also an entrance door located on the building’s southwest-facing rear elevation as well and it is sheltered by a gable-roofed entrance hood that is supported on heavy wood brackets and whose gable end is open and features a king post. |
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| Bibliographic References: | DNR Records |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |