page_title: Architects of the National Park Service
section_title: Sequoia National Park
hierarchical_section_title: Architects of the National Park Service / Works / California / Sequoia National Park
caption_attribution_description: English: Redwood Meadow Ranger Station — log cabin in Sequoia National Park, California, USA. Français&#160;: Poste de garde forestier de Redwood Meadow, Parc national de Sequoia, Californie, États-Unis
context_page_description: Architects of the National Park Service are the architects and landscape architects who were employed by the National Park Service starting in 1918 to design buildings, structures, roads, trails and other features in the United States National Parks. Many of their works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and a number have also been designated as National Historic Landmarks.
  The National Park Service was established in 1916, and Charles Punchard, Jr. became its first landscape architect in July 1918. Punchard died in 1920 and was replaced by his assistant, Daniel Ray Hull. In 1922, Hull hired Thomas Chalmers Vint as a draftsman. Vint became the head of the Landscape Architectural Division after Hull retired in 1927. Vint remained with the NPS until he retired in 1961 and is credited with directing and shaping landscape planning and development at the NPS. Vint also significantly expanded the design group's staffing in the late 1920s and 1930s, starting in 1928 with Merel S. Sager. The NPS Branch of Plans and Designs was organized in 1933. Vint was appointed as the first chief architect, with Charles E. Peterson in charge of the Eastern Division and William G.
context_section_description: Ash Mountain Entrance Sign, Sequoia National Park (design by NPS architects Merel S. Sager and Harold G. Fowler), NRHP-listed
  Cabin Creek Ranger Residence and Dormitory, off Generals Highway in Sequoia National Park, southeast of  Wilsonia, California (National Park Service: landscape architect Harold G. Fowler; Emergency Conservation Work landscape architect Lloyd Fletcher), NRHP-listed
  Generals' Highway Stone Bridges (1930-1931), Sequoia National Park, north of Mineral King, California (John Wosky of NPS Division of Landscape Architecture on the Clover Creek and Marble Fork Bridges), NRHP-listed
  Giant Forest Village-Camp Kaweah Historic District, Sequoia National Park (camp cabins laid out according to a plan developed by NPS landscape architect Merel S. Sager; NPS landscape engineer Daniel Ray Hull established the Giant Forest Village site), NRHP-listed
  Hockett Meadow Ranger Station (1934), Sequoia National Park, south of Silver City, California (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Moro Rock Stairway (1931), Sequoia National Park, north of Three Rivers, California (NPS landscape architect Merel S. Sager and engineer Frank Diehl), NRHP-listed
  Pear Lake Ski Hut (1939-1941), Sequoia National Park, north of Mineral King, California ("one of the most environmentally successful alpine structures ever designed by the NPS"), NRHP-listed
  Redwood Meadow Ranger Station (1938-1941), Sequoia National Park, vicinity of Three Rivers, California (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
caption: Redwood Meadow Ranger Station
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