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Main Lodge
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Front doorway to the main lodge which is built of horizontal chinked-logs with stone entrance steps; two stone chimneys on a cedar shake roof. Striped awnings adorn the three front windows. A profusion of flowers are around the entrance and front yard, with the trunk of large pine tree in the immediate foreground.
1956
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W012H2C
WHi 148539
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Main Lodge Flower Gardens
October 1948
A profusion of flowers grow along the house and front lawn of the main lodge. The lodge is a single-story chinked horizontal log house with a cedar shake roof and stone front porch. A dirt driveway...
Main Lodge Entrance
circa 1950-1959
Single-story vertical chinked-log house with a stone foundation and one visible stone chimney. Striped window awnings cover two windows that have window boxes growing ivy. An unpaved driveway curve...
Mary Griggs and Male Guest in Front of Main Lodge
1945
Mary Griggs, wearing a salmon colored dress and cardigan is standing in front of the Main Lodge with a male friend who is wearing a gray suit and tie while smoking a cigarette. There is a profusion...
Main Lodge Entrance with Flower Gardens and Planters
1950
Circular flower garden with tall pink and white flowers as well as white alyssum edge a mowed lawn, near a main lodge entrance. Large hollowed log planters with pink flowers are located on the porch.
Main Lodge Entrance with 100th Anniversary Banner
1993
The front entrance to the main lodge with a banner above the door that reads: "FOREST LODGE : 100TH ANNIVERSARY 1893-1993." The lodge is constructed of chinked-horizontal logs with a log overhang. ...
Entrance to Main Lodge at Forest Lodge
1997
Stone steps leading to the front door of the horizontal chinked log and cedar shake roofed main lodge. Log flower boxes are under the windows and two larger log planters are on each side of the por...
