As you exit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park into Gatlinburg, you are greeted by this magnificent building, park headquarters. The scene above is the one you see driving north on Rt 441 or Newfound Gap Road. Built during 1939 and opened in early 1940, it served as park headquarters and visitor center. In 1960 and new visitors center was constructed. Locally designed, many of the construction material were also sourced locally. The exterior limestone block were quarried at Ravensfork in North Carolina. Light fixtures hanging from the lobby ceiling were fashioned from a salvaged skidder once operated by the Little River Lumber Company. Funds to build the structure were provided by the WPA with some of the labor coming from WPA and CCC.
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