11 / Main Stairway
Across the front registration desk, another staircase (or the adjacent elevator) takes you up to the heart of the lodge, the Main Lobby. More recycled cedar utility poles, called newel posts, of the main stairway highlight animals and birds of the region. The wrought iron handrails were created with hand held tools without welding, bolts or rivets. To the left, at the top of the first flight of stairs, is the Main Lobby.
Note: An accessible ADA accessible elevator is available from the Ground Floor Lobby to the Main Lobby, located to the left of the main stairway.
Carved wooden Newel Posts of Beaver, Black Bear, Fox, Lynx, Mallard with Broken Wing, Owl and Western Kingfisher by WPA carvers, 1936-37
Newel post plaster molds created by Florence Thomas, 1936-37
Iron handrails by WPA blacksmiths 1937
LOCATION: FRONT DESK HALLWAY GROUND FLOOR
WOOD- IRON