Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin

Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	St. Mary, Montana
Coordinates	48°41′11″N 113°35′13″W / 48.68639°N 113.58694°W / 48.68639; -113.58694Coordinates: 48°41′11″N 113°35′13″W / 48.68639°N 113.58694°W / 48.68639; -113.58694
Built	1935
Architect	National Park Service
MPS	Glacier National Park MPS
NRHP reference No.	99000776
Added to NRHP	July 1, 1999[1]

The Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin, also known as the Baring Creek Cabin or Baring Cabin, in Glacier National Park was an example of the National Park Service Rustic style. Built in 1935 by local contractor Harry E. Doverspike, the cabin was the last remaining building of the Sun Camp Ranger Station complex of buildings, which at one time included a ranger station, barn and woodshed located near the mouth of Baring Creek. The fireguard cabin was built according to cabin specifications provided by the NPS Division of Landscape Architecture. The only apparent dissimilarity is the center-wall placement of the entry. There was no indoor plumbing and heat was provided by a wood stove whose stovepipe exited through the back log wall to a stone chimney.^{[2] [3]}

On July 22, 2015, the cabin was destroyed by the Reynolds Creek Wildfire.^[4]

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Media related to Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin at Wikimedia Commons

• Photographs of the Baring Creek Cabin at the National Park Service's NRHP database