Paris Mountain State Park, Bathhouse, Paris Mountain State Park, off SC Route 253, Greenville, Greenville, SC
Summary
Significance: Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. The CCC was a program of the Emergency Conservation Corps Work Act (ECW) passed by Congress under administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Purpose was to ease the critical unemployment situation for America's young men and to provide for the conservation of the nation's devastated forest and soil resources. Its activities also accelerated the development of state and national parks and resulted in the building of numerous park structures which would be significant to the development of twentieth century park architecture.
Survey number: HABS SC-598
Building/structure dates: ca. 1935 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1935
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cary, Brian
Location
Greenville (S.C.), 34.89332, -82.40060
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html