|  | MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, WASHINGTON *To be demolished*Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center, Whimberley, Whisenand, Allison 
& Tong, Honolulu, McGuire & Muri, Tacoma, Washington, 1964-67
 
 
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 View of visitor center in winter snow, located 
at Paradise on the south side of Mount Rainier (elevation 5400 feet). 
(Photograph by Christine Madrid, March 1999)
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| Overall view of building, ca. 1970s. (Photographer unknown, n.d., courtesy National Park Service Historic 
Photography Collection)
 | First floor plan showing layout of building. (Courtesy National Park Service)
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| Details of the visitor center. A long, circular 
ramp leads visitors through a series of exhibits ending at the observation 
room. The enclosed observation area provides a 360-degree view of 
the surrounding mountain landscape. 
  Photographs by Christine Madrid, March 1999.
 |  Detail of ceiling in circular observation room.
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| Observation room with multi-colored 
walls of ramp. | Detail of window in circular observation 
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| Scene from the ramp. | Sweeping ceiling seen from the 
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