Pokagon State Park: Potawatomi Inn Bathhouse – Angola IN

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.

The bathhouse is not marked as CCC. But there is now a CCC Pocket Museum with exhibits in the old gatehouse and the Nature Center has an exhibit that lists all the structures CCC enrollees worked on.
 

 

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.

Location Info


450 Lane 100 Lake James
Angola, IN 46703
Steuben County

Coordinates: 41.702781, -85.02309

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