- City:
- Herington, KS
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Shelters, Landscaping and Tree Planting
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Description
Multiple New Deal agencies: the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) were involved in the improvement and development of the park surrounding Lake Herington in Herington, Kansas.
1934: “Herington has been allotted $6,106 from the CWA state funds for improving Lake Herington. Excavating will be done and stumps pulled around the edges.”
“Lake Herington was created in 1929. WPA funds were used for the construction caretaker’s house and garage as well as the shelter house just up the street (N). Appropriations for the project in 1935 and 1936 exceeded $12,000, of which approx. $9,634 were for the construction of the house and garage.”
Description of the caretaker’s house, otherwise known as the Boy Scout Cabin: “Rising from a concrete foundation, this simple dwelling has ashlar, quarry-faced limestone walls laid in random range. Wood windows have 8/8 configuration and cast stone sills. The entry, centered in the symmetrical façade, has a multi-light wood door and is sheltered by a front gable portico supported on wrought iron supports. A stone chimney rises from the rear slope of the composition shingle roof. (Roof form: side gable).”
Description of the shelter house: “Shelter has a concrete foundation, limestone walls with large screened window openings (photographs show them boarded during winter season). Bands of multi-light transoms top large windows openings. Projecting hip roof addition on rear has an external chimney on the north for internal bbq/fireplace.”
Source notes
https://khri.kansasgis.org/?url=khri
Council Grove Republican, Jan. 12, 1934 (pg. 1): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/343728963/
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