Just north of the Kiser
Studio is the Sinnott Memorial, a structure perched atop
Victor Rock some 50 feet below the main portion of the
promenade. It was the first park building to incorporate
massive stone masonry in its construction, thus setting the
tone for a group of structures and associated landscape
features which came about as part of the naturalization
program in Rim Village and Munson Valley.
Opened in 1931,
the Sinnott Memorial is an irregularly shaped building that
features an open observation room which provides
unobstructed views of the caldera and nearby peaks. A stone
parapet is a safety measure but also contains exhibit
panels. Double doors provide access from the observation
room to a museum, which, when open, supplements
interpretation provided at the parapet. Both are encased in
concrete formwork, but individual boulders three and four
feet in height are used to face the structure and make it
seem a part of the caldera's inner walls.
Sinnott Memorial,
Cultural Landscapes Inventory,
Rim Village Historic District, Crater Lake National Park, 2004
Establishment of Crater Lake
National Park Should Spur Advocates of Roosevelt Reserve
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August 28, 1924 - Crater Lake News -
Congressman
Sinnott in the House of Representatives when the
establishment of the park was under discussion described the
great beauty of Crater Lake, unique in its scenic grandeur,
in these most forceful words: "CAULDRON-LIKE and circular,
7,000 feet high, is perched amid the peaks. Perpendicular
sides of slaggy lava rise over a thousand feet from waters
of indigo blue 6 miles across and 2,000 feel deep.
Sinnott Memorial
- Smith Brothers' Chronological History of Crater Lake
National Park.
Sinnott Memorial Building
(Bldg. #067) - Structures Eligible for the
National Register, Summary
of Important Structures, Historic Resource Study,
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, 1984
Sinnott Memorial Building, 1981.
Photo by David Arbogast, NPS, DSC.
Veranda of Sinnott Memorial
Building, 1938. Courtesy Oregon Historical Society.
