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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Paradise Inn (1917)

Use of local materials, such as Alaska Yellow Cedar, evoke Alpine and other European resort architecture in the two-and-a-half-story Inn. Numerous additions have been made to the building over the last eighty years, such as the annex constructed in 1920; however, the Inn possesses remarkable integrity.

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Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, 1996, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey. [Library of Congress reproduction number: HABS, WASH,27-PARA,1- (HABS WA-223-2)]



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