Picnic Shelter / Lodge

Its traditional style with cottage-like character and quality craftsmanship, for example:

• the simple massing of the building that consists of a one-storey, rectangular, hip-roofed structure with a massive fieldstone chimney;
• the elementary, symmetrical façades;
• the predominant use of wood with simple detailing such as, the horizontal wood siding installed between posts, the wide window, corner and door trims, wood fascia and soffit;
• the open interior volume of space;
• the surviving interior features such as, the exposed rafters and roof planking, stone fireplace, stone mantle with carved date and wood overmantle.

The manner in which the building maintains an unchanged relationship to its site, its compatibility with the picturesque character of the fort and its setting, and its familiarity as a landmark, as evidenced by:

• its ongoing relationship to its simple turf-grassed site nestled into the rolling terrain along the coast;
• its physical compatibility with other support facilities which together create a picturesque group adjacent to the ruins in the national historic site;
• the building’s use as a support facility frequented by visitors to the national historic site.