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Show Bryce Canyon Airport Hangar on U.S. Historical Register , . ' ,' i 1 . , ' . 4 ( ' , i,i .'. . - . , ' - ' . ..L-jy V ; RflUlc& J'J'S ... ...1 . . . - - g vs ; ,. ,';.. (,'., . fct- I Bryce Canyon Airport Hangar the hangar were cut as part of the CCC project to eradicate the black beetle in southern Utah. The infested trees were cut and sawed at the East Fork Sevier River sawmill by volunteer Garfield County men. They hauled the logs with teams of horses to the construction site. The Reuben Syrett family used its tractors to level the runway which is 7586 feet in length. Since the WPA only provided partial funding, the county called for local men to donate thir labor towards completion of the hangar. Land for the airport was donated by Reuben Syrett, J. Austin Cope and others. Design of the structure and construction supervision was handled by the three county commissioners, Sam Pollock, Jennings Allen and Walter Daly. A small metal plaque, centered over the front entry, reads; Airport hangar, Constructed by Garfield County and the Works Project Ad-minsitration, Ad-minsitration, 1938-37. The airport has been in continuous con-tinuous operation since that time. In the realms of airplane hangar construction and design, the building is truly an oddity as many pilots from all over the nation have testified. The barn-like construction of native materials reflects the ranching . agricultural background of the men who built it. Having no previous experience in designing or building an airplane hangar, they built in the style they knew with what they had. The soundness of the building that has housed many airplanes over the years bears witness to the excellence of craftsmanship and ingenuity of design. BHMBHHt BRYCE CANYON AIRPORT AIR-PORT (A) The unusual barn-like, hangar at Bryce Canyon Airport, listed on the US. Historical Register, is a dying species and probably the last of its kind left in the nation. In the mid 1930's, remote places like Garfield County began to realize the benefit that could derive from the then-embryo air services. .1 The forces of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Garfield County combined to bring the project about. The country was then in the midst of a depression but the project was able to move forward with much donated labor. The unusual building is a sawed log structure, barn-shaped barn-shaped with a gabled roof of corrugated tin. The roof is supported by an intricate network of large timbers, and a half-timber effect is achieved at the front gable by an angular placement of logs. From the front facade it appears that there are additions ad-ditions on either side of the -hangar, however, only the south addition is a true shed. It contains the airport offices and waiting room. On the north side there is merely a shed overhang with a narrow chamber on the front containing the sliding door. The main portion of the hangar, excluding the sheds, measures approximately 65x45 feet. Double-sashed windows, each with six panes, were placed in a continuous row on all sides of the structure, facing into the shed on the : north. I The native ponderosa pine logs, retaining much of the bark, used in construction of |
