Crystal Lake State Park
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The Crystal Lake State Park is a historic site in Barton, Vermont
, United States
. It is located at 96 Bellwater Avenue, off Willoughby Lake Road
just east of the village, at the northwestern end of Crystal Lake
. It was added to the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places
on August 30, 2005.
The park's beach house was constructed in the late thirties by the CCC
with a unique architectural design. It is made of granite
which was quarried beside the lake.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is located at 96 Bellwater Avenue, off Willoughby Lake Road
Vermont Route 16
Vermont Route 16 is a north–south state highway in northern Vermont, United States. The route is long and connects Hardwick to Westmore. It begins at VT 15 in Hardwick and heads northward to U.S. Route 5 in Barton. From Barton, it heads eastward to VT 5A in Westmore...
just east of the village, at the northwestern end of Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake (Vermont)
Crystal Lake is near the village of Barton in Orleans County, Vermont. It is a glacial lake and deep in places. Route 5 runs along the lake's western shore. Crystal Lake is in the northeast section of the state of Vermont...
. It was added to the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
on August 30, 2005.
The park's beach house was constructed in the late thirties by the CCC
CCC
- Businesses and organizations :* Canterbury of New Zealand, a New Zealand-based sports apparel company* Center for Community Change, one of the larger community building organizations in the United States* Color Climax Corporation, a Danish pornography company...
with a unique architectural design. It is made of granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
which was quarried beside the lake.