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So I started working
in Yosemite in 2005,
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and the first year
that I was here
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I lived in the
Ranger Club.
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I wasn't really familiar with
this building or its history.
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I remember walking into
the living room here
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and seeing all these neat little
lights and this dark wood,
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this craftsman
style,
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and just... immediately
was kind of blown away
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by how charming and
intimate this space was.
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It is the first building
designed for the Park.
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It was designed by the Park
Service for the specific purpose
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of a Park Service
government function;
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that function being to
house Park Rangers.
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The Park was a park
for over 50 years
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before the National Park Service
was actually established,
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and one of the things that had
happened in those first 50 years
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was there was just kind of
a haphazard development
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over in the South
village area.
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From 1890 to
about 1914,
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the whole Park was managed
and run by the Cavalry.
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The Cavalry and the Army set
up various forms of housing,
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various forms
of structures,
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particularly down by
where Yosemite Lodge is today.
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In 1916, this new
agency was created,
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The National
Park Service,
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and the first Director was a
man named Stephen Mather.
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Stephen Mather was a
self-made millionaire,
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and he was
so motivated
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for there to be a home
for the Rangers in Yosemite
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that he used
his own money
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to pay for the construction
of the Rangers' Club.
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Mather hired architect Charles
Sumner to design this building
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to serve as a clubhouse
for the Rangers,
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and also to start
to set the tone
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for what the rustic design
theme for the Park would be.
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When you look at
this steep roof,
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the pitch of the roof and
the detail that was done here
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when Charles Sumner
was hired in the Nineteen teens,
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he was asked to develop
something that was unique,
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that would fit the character
of the National Park;
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the philosophy of
thinking, the granite,
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and the snow during
the wintertime,
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and the mountains,
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the thinking was, let's
incorporate into this structure
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influence of
the Tyrolean,
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Tyrolean meaning
Austrian Alps,
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you can see some of that
European influences
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