Mount Tamalpais State Park, The Mountain Theater , Rock Spring Trail, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Mill Valley, Marin County, CA

2nd Place Winning Entry 2014 HALS Challenge: Documenting the Landscapes of the New Deal
Significance: The Mountain Theater is significant:
-as a work of landscape architecture associated with landscape architect Emerson Knight;
-as a representation of rustic park design from the first half of the twentieth century;
-as an important feature within Mount Tamalpais State Park;
-as the venue of the Mountain Play which began as an annual theater production at this site in 1913;
-and as a representative project of federal "New Deal" programs of the 1930s built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
Survey number: HALS CA-107
Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1934-1940 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1988 Subsequent Work