Yeah, there’s a small wooden structure there.
It has an upstairs to it?
The old machine shop?
O.K. the old machine shop. Well, upstairs there was an old apartment. I don’t know if there is still anything up there or not.
Well there’s a skeleton of an apartment and different uses.
Well, the first winter I was here, we used that as the chief ranger’s office up there. Because Carlisle [Crouch] wanted to get out of here. He thought it [a first floor office] was too dark because the snow did come down. See, our Ranger office was over in the southwest corner of the Administration Building.
Bottom floor?
Bottom floor, yeah. And that middle part of it was the chief ranger’s office and the bigger part of it…which is what now? It’s a coffee room or something of the sort, is it a lunch room?
Yes.
O.K. that was kind of a bull pen for the permanent rangers, which I say was two, and at times three. But this apartment, when the Leavitts would come up, they would stay in that apartment. Now they would usually come up again in March or something like this. And sometimes they would stay overnight and sometimes they would stay a couple of nights. So this was usually the size of it; they would come up twice during the wintertime. And that was the only thing that we would ever see of the Superintendent during the wintertime. Now, the chief ranger at that time was acting superintendent, and I don’t ever imagine that it was designated this, but he was the Acting Superintendent up here at the Park. So he would have to go to Medford occasionally to talk and to conduct business down there. Right after the war, Carlisle Crouch stayed through the first summer and through the next winter, and I think he left probably in the spring of 1947, something like this. And he went back to Assistant Superintendent at Blue Ridge Parkway. I don’t know if Carlisle is still alive or not.
