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.
Part of New Deal Resources in Indiana State Parks MPS (NRIS 64500215).
1 contributing building.
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132001950