- City:
- Angola, IN
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Bathhouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees completed the Potawatomi Inn bathhouse in 1935.
Records are sparse, so it is unclear whether CCC workers remodeled/completed a building begun by Civil Works Administration (CWA) in 1933-34, or the CCC constructed an entirely new bathhouse.
The structure has been used to house boat rentals for several decades. The style is classified as Parks Rustic, although it is a very modest example.
Source notes
DNR Historic Site and Structures Inventory
Glory-June Greiff, People, Parks, and Perceptions: A History and Appreciation of Indiana State Parks. Indianapolis, 2009.
______, New Deal Work Projects in Indiana State Parks, Discrete survey for Indiana DNR, 1990-91.
National Historic Register Nomination Form for Pokagon State Park, https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/219ee/N/Pokagon_State_Park_Steuben_CO_Nom.pdf
Site originally submitted by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation/Nicole Cory on July 11, 2014.
Additional contributions by Glory-June Greiff.
At this Location:
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Pocket Museum - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park Development - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Fish Rearing Ponds (former) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Overnight Cabins - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Saddle Barn - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Camp SP 7 (demolished) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Office Building - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Drinking Fountains - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Shelter House - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Beach and Bathhouse - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Group Camp - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Spring Shelter - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Toboggan Slide - Angola IN
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