Area less than one acre Architectural style Rustic Functional Added to NRHP 18 March 1993 | Built 1936 (1936) Opened 1936 | |
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Location McCormick's Creek State Park, west of the junction of State Roads 43 and 46, and east of Spencer, Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana Architect Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) MPS New Deal Resources in Indiana State Parks MPS Similar McCormick's Creek State Park, Versailles State Park, Deam Lake State Recreatio, Ouabache State Park, Spring Mill State Park | ||
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.
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