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| Sherri and Parsons Lodge marker |
Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 003, Site 017-Parsons
Memorial Lodge
National Registry ID: 79000283
Team: YOLT
Date: June 27, 2013
Location:
Coordinates:
37°52′42.36″N
119°21′59.82″W
Address: Tuolumne Meadows
Date Built: 1915
Architect: Mark White and Walter
Huber, Bernard Maybeck (probably)
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| Parsons Lodge |
We walked across Tuolumne Meadows with
our initial John Muir Trail packs. For some reason our stride was
good and the step was quick. So we made good time on this flat
ground. Coming to Parsons Lodge, we did three things: took off our
packs, drink some water-it was warm, and talked to the volunteer
manning the Lodge. We have been to the Lodge several times, so
talking with the volunteer was good. The stones from the building do
give a sense of being part of the area, rather than a building incongruous with its surrounding.
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The lodge is a memorial to
Edward Taylor Parsons, a New Yorker who joined the Sierra Club about
1900, and who eventually became the club's director from 1905 to
1915. Parsons was heavily involved in the losing fight against the
flooding of the Hetch
Hetchy Valley to provide a municipal water
source for San Francisco. Parsons died in 1914, and in memorial the
Sierra Club established a fund to build a club meeting house, library
and headquarters in Yosemite. The site at Tuolumne Meadows was chosen
for its accessibility to park backcountry and its location near Soda
Springs, a location that the Sierra Club wished to safeguard.[4]It is not clear who designed the Lodge. Mark White, brother-in-law and partner in Maybeck and White to architect Bernard Maybeck, was credited at the time of the lodge's completion. White was a Sierra Club member. Maybeck scholars Gary Brechlin and Kenneth Cardwell have suggested that Maybeck was involved in the design, chiefly through similarities to Maybeck-designed buildings at Lake Tahoe. Maybeck is alleged to have done the conceptual design, which was developed by White and White's brother John, who would go in to design the LeConte Memorial Lodge. (Wikipedia)
References:
- Wikipedia
- National Registry of Historic Places: Documentation
and Pictures
(NRHP)
- NoeHill
(NOE)
- Historical
Marker Database (HMDB)
- Waymarking
(WAY)
- Architecture
in the Parks
Overall Landmark References:
- National
Registry of Historical Places (NRHP)
- NoeHill
(NOE)
- Historical
Marker Database (HMDB)
- Waymarking
(WAY)
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