CCC Recreation Building-Nature Museum

McCormick's Creek SP, W of jct. of IN 43 and IN 46, Spencer, Indiana. County/parish: Owen.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 18, 1993. NRIS 93000176.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

CCC Recreation Building-Nature Museum

CCC Recreation Building-Nature Museum is a historic building located at McCormick's Creek State Park in Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, and is a one-story, frame building with board-and-batten siding and American Craftsman style design elements. It consists of a rectangular hip roofed main section, with a gabled wing. The wing features a large stone fireplace. The building was rehabilitated for use as a nature museum by the Works Progress Administration in 1936, and remained in that use into the 1970s.: 5 

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132001950

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