609 Ibid. After the National Park Service took over the
operation the site 1955, information receptionist was stationed the
Gate House collect admission fees, arrange tours, and sell slides, postcards and
literature. 9," 1. There very little information Gate House furnishings.
808 NPS, "HFR, Gate House, Building No.F, Larchar, March 1942, Historical Research Dept. George Meister, the former
Edison pay master quoted above, believed the screen was put some time during
Fred Devonald’s tenure gate man, which was 1891 through 1903.606 Early 1972, the visitor’s entrance was moved Building the
laboratory’s Power House, relieve "the horrendous problems posed over the past
years when using the tiny, cramped Gate House. This type stove makes sense view the fact
that physical and photographic evidence indicates that the Gate House never had
a chimney.609
The only other information furnishings the Gate House from the period in
the 1950s and 1960s when the National Park Service used the room visitors
center and souvenir stand.
Furnishings.
807 Chief, Visitor Services and Protection, Edison NHS Chief, Harpers Ferry Center, NPS, March 22,
1972. 9," 6. Charles Edison thought
the partition, screen, and two circular topped pay windows had been installed
before his father’s death 1931, but acknowledged that the screen and pay
windows may have been installed late 1933.were admitted the plant, and gate men were instructed admit only
authorized non-citizens the plant.
606 NFS, "HSR-Part Gate House, Building No.608
Charles Edison and George Meister remembered round, pot-bellied stove used to
"over heat" the Gate House. also
recalled using the windows issue pay., 7.
Until least 1959, the room was divided low partition with wire screen
that extended from the top the partition the ceiling. John Brady, son former gate man Pat Brady,
remembered kerosene stove.606
606 John Nichols S.
By 1959 the Gate House was used visitor entrance and reception station by
the National Park Service.’’607 Today, the Gate House
serves security station. No
interior photographs exist, and interviews conducted when the "Historic
Structures Report" was written 1959 reveal little about the Gate House interior. The 1959 "Historic Structures Report" describes the
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