Francis G. Lange

Oh, I guess the next question was just about any people you would have known who would have worked for the Forest Service at that time. I know we’ve discussed that.

Yeah. Well, I did have some contact with some Forest Service officials. I think, as I recall, I remember Blanchfield; I’m saying that, I think I remember it. I liked him, he was alright. This Cascade designer.

Did you see some of the early design? Like up on McKenzee Pass there’s that Dee Wright observatory. The Forest Service did some nice things up to about ’36 or so with some of their community kitchens.

Yeah, I saw that, but not in detail.  I remember they were working on that.  I heard that had a lot of favorable comments on it. I never looked, I remember passing by. 

Was it always that same house, that third stone cottage?

Yes, they always gave it to me.

Did they put the dormers in when you were there? I know they originally looked a lot simpler.

They were added later on.

With the porches and the…

Yeah, that was added later on.

Was that when you were living there?

No, they did it after it. They must have done that after ’40.