The Baker Highway Maintenance Station, in

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near Strawberry, California, was built in 1931. It was listed on the

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in 2004. The listing included 11

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and a contributing object on . It is located at 33950

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. It is a remote compound that housed workers and machinery who maintained the high elevation portion of the trans-Sierra, Sonora-Mono Highway, west of the

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crest. According to its National Register nomination, "Baker's place in the history of the development of California's highway and highway maintenance system is evidenced in three major ways: Its remote, montane, forested setting, adjacent to the highway it served; in its simple, basic materials of wood and corrugated metal; and in its site design and underlying social geography that separated work and residential areas and distanced the superintendent's from the other residential buildings." Architect:

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Architecture: Bungalow/craftsman, Wooden cabin It may also have been referred to as the Baker Station Historic District, and it has designations CA-Tou-55-0016H; P-55-006760; and FS 05-16-53-0571. With The station is now used as the High Sierra Institute of Columbia College?

References

National Register of Historic Places in Tuolumne County, California Buildings and structures completed in 1931 {{TuolumneCountyCA-NRHP-stub