Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Residence, Santa Fe River, North Rim, intersection of Canyon & Cerro Gordo Roads, Grand Canyon

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Project prepared in under the direction of the National Park Service, Western Regional Office, Marjorie Baer, historian. The team comprised project supervisor John P. White (Associate Professor of Architecture, Texas Tech University), architects Linda Kay Heinrich and Paula Beth Miller (Virginia Tech), and student architect Deborah Rehn Hurst (Washington University, St. Louis). Richard Frear, photographer. -- - -- - - - -- - - -- --- .. - - - - - - - - - --- -- ... __ . __ - -~ Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Residence HABS No. AZ-144-B (Page 2)

Historical Information

This residence was built by the National Park Service in II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION A. General Statement: 1. Architectural Merit and Interest: This structure, with its outbuilding, forms a harmonious part of the administrative area. 2. Condition of Fabric: Good B. Description of Exterior: 1. Overall dimensions: This three-bay, one story with cellar, is approximately eighteen feet by thirty-four feet. 2. Foundation: Stone. 3. Wall construction, finish, color: Wooden clapboard siding, with comer boards, painted brown. Wooden boards-and-batten siding on gable ends. 4. Structural system, framing: Wooden frame. 5. Porches, stoops, bulkheads, etc: There is a two-bay porch across the south front of the house.

The shed roof, covered with corrugated sheet metal, is supported by three, square wooden columns, with knee braces. The flooring is wooden narrow boards and there are three wood steps, off-center, on the south side. 6. Chimneys: There is a large brick chimney projecting through the ridge near the center of the house, which has a metal raincap on the top. 7. Openings: a. Doorways and doors: The main entrance is from the porch into the living room. The doorway, to the left side of the porch, has a wooden door with three horizontal panels below a glass panel. There is a wooden sill and threshold. A wooden-framed screen door has two small panels beneath one large panel. A wooden-framed screen door is at the doorway form the exterior leading to the service porch.

It has three small wooden panels Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Residence HABS No. AZ-144-B (Page 3) beneath a large screen panel. The doorway for the service porch into the kitchen has a raised wooden sill, with threshold. The wooden door has three horizontal panels below a large glass panel. b. Windows and shutters: Wooden windows have four-over-four, double- hung and six-light hopper sashes. 8. Roof: a. Shapes, covering: The gable roof is covered with corrugated sheet metal. The lean-to has an extension of the gable roof, giving a salt- box appearance. b. Cornice, eaves: Open eaves. C. Description of Interior: 1. Floor plan: a. Cellar: There is a small roof cellar under the bedroom, which is entered by a trap door in the floor of the bedroom. b.

First floor plan: The main entrance on the left side of the front fa9ade, leads into the living room. The living room extends across the width of the house and has a single hopper window on the west wall, a double window on the east wall and a single and double window on the south wall. There is a doorway in the northwest comer that leads into the kitchen. A cabinet extends along the west wall of the kitchen, with a window above it, over the sink. There is an alcove at the north end of the kitchen, with a double window on the north wall, which is dining. There is a built-in section on each side of the alcove. A doorway on the west leads to the service porch, which has a small pantry, with wire shelves. A doorway on the east wall of the kitchen leads into the bedroom.

The bedroom has a single window on the north wall and a double window on the east wall. There is a closet on the west and on the south. A doorway on the south leads into the bathroom which has a window on the east wall. 2. Flooring: The wooden floors have carpet over them in the living room, bedroom and bath, and linoleum in the kitchen. 3. Walls and ceiling finish: Walls and ceilings are gypsum board, painted ivory, with battens on the walls and ceiling in the kitchen. There is a narrow-board wooden wainscot in the kitchen with a chairrail. Grand Canyon Inn & National Park Headquarters, Residence BABS No. AZ-144-B (Page 4) 4. Doorways and doors: Wooden doors have five horizontal panels. There is a wood-grained plastic folding door on the west closet in the bedroom. 5.

Special decorative features, trim and cabinetwork: The built-in seats in the dining alcove, each have a hinged seat top and the vertical uprights are beaded wooden panels. There is a small hutch by the side of the alcove that has the same paneling. The kitchen cabinet has beaded-wooden doors. 6. Mechanical equipment: a. Heating: There is a large wood stove in the living room. b. Plumbing: The bath has a claw-foot cast-iron bath tub encased in plywood, an oval enameled-cast-iron lavatory and a modern water closet. c. Lighting: Single and multiple bare light bulb fixtures in living and bedroom and modern fluorescent fixtures in the kitchen. D. Site 1. General setting and orientation: The house sits on the north side of the entrance road into the administrative area.

Across the road on the south is the District Ranger residence. The house sits in a very wooden area with ponderosa pine, aspen and fir trees. 2. Outbuildings: There is a rectangular building, with one room, sitting about twenty feet to the west of the house. The small house has a gable roof, covered with corrugated sheet metal, open eaves, and wooden clapboard siding with corner boards. There is a fixed glass window on the north and south walls and a doorway on the east and west walls. Each doorway has a concrete step. The wooden door on the west end has one large panel below a glass panel and a two-panel wooden-framed screen door. The wooden door on the east end has three horizontal panels below a glass panel. The building is approximately twelve feet by fifteen feet.