E of El Portal in Yosemite National Park, El Portal, California. County/parish: Mariposa.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 04, 1978. NRIS 78000357.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Glacier Point Trailside Museum was one of the first projects in Yosemite National Park by Herbert Maier in what would become the National Park Service Rustic style. Located at Glacier Point, it was funded by Laura Spelman Rockefeller's estate as a project for the Yosemite Museum. It was the first "trailside museum" in the National Park system and was a prototype for enhanced visitor interpretation services in the parks.
The museum is in reality a small stone shelter with arched openings on the north, east, and west sides. The roof is supported by log timbers.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859742