page_title: Architects of the National Park Service
section_title: Minnesota
hierarchical_section_title: Architects of the National Park Service / Works / Minnesota
caption_attribution_description: Recreation hall chimney, only remains of Yellowbanks CCC Camp, St. Croix State Park, MN, USA
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: Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Picnic Grounds, off Minnesota State Highway 210 southeast of Forbay Lake, Thomson Township, Carlton, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Jay Cooke State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Service Yard, off Minnesota State Highway 210 east of Forbay Lake, Thomson Township, Carlton, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Interstate State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Campground, off U.S. Route 8 southwest of Taylors Falls, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Lac qui Parle State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic District, off Co. Hwy. 33 at southeast end of Lac qui Parle, Lac qui Parle Township, Montevideo, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Lake Carlos State Park WPA/Rustic Style Group Camp, off Minnesota State Highway 29 on northeast shore of Lake Carlos, Carlos Township, Carlos, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Scenic State Park CCC/Rustic Style Service Yard, off County Highway 7, Scenic State Park, Bigfork, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  Scenic State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources, Off County Highway 7 east of Bigfork, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  State Park CCC/Rustic Style Historic District, off U.S. Route 71 west of New London, Minnesota (National Park Service), NRHP-listed
  St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area, off Minnesota State Highway 48, along the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Clover, Ogema, Crosby, Munch, and Chengwatana Townships, Hinckley, Minnesota (NPS), NRHP-listed
  The National Park Service provided technical, overall expertise on the design of traffic circulation in the park, and in buildings' designs;  work was done by CCC and WPA.
caption: Surviving CCC camp building chimney, at St. Croix Recreational Demonstration Area
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