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Greenwood Lodge

Greenwood Lodge is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Greenwood Lodge rather than just read about it. In short: Greenwood Lodge is a Rustic-style log cabin lodge which dates from 1932, in the Arapaho National Forest and Roosevelt National Forest in Grand County, Colorado, in the vicinity of Grand Lake, Colorado, US. It has also been known as Spence Cabin.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Greenwood Lodge from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Greenwood Lodge is a Rustic-style log cabin lodge which dates from 1932, in the Arapaho National Forest and Roosevelt National Forest in Grand County, Colorado, in the vicinity of Grand Lake, Colorado, US. It has also been known as Spence Cabin. The lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

History When this lodge was built, World War I was over and World War II had not yet started. Roads were improving and people started to be able to own cars, the U.S. Forest Service had invited the American public to explore outdoor recreation, especially in the west. The Greenwood Lodge was built with a special permit in order to be located on National Forest land, which was made possible due to the Occupancy Permit Act of 1915. The lodge is a one-story log cabin with porch, located at 161 County Road 451 in Grand County, near Grand Lake. It is 32 by 32 feet (9.8 m × 9.8 m) in plan, designed by Lt. Col. James M. Hynes. The Hynes were Washington D.C. residents, and alongside his wife, Harriet, they designed this lodge as a summer home and retreat. Whole logs that were peeled with v-notching create the exterior walls, rubble masonry perimeter walls comprise the foundation, and native stone forms the centrally placed chimney. A front-gabled roof tops the building and green composition shingles originally sheathed the roof. A brown metal roof that matches the stain used on the logs and trim, replaced the composition shingles in 1983 to address wildfire safety concerns. The cabin is located on a hillock about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Shadow Mountain Lake, the structure does not dominate the landscape. "The cabin sits at an elevation of 8,840 feet (2,690 m) and is located about 14 miles (23 km) north of the depot in Granby, Colorado, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west from the boat ramp in Grand Lake, Colorado." Originally, a lodgepole pine forest surrounded the site, however most of the trees around the lodge were removed in 2006 under the Forest Service special use permit requirements because of lodgepole beetle kill. It was deemed significant as a good example of politics/government, entertainment/recreation, architecture and landscape by the United States Forest Service Recreation Residence Program, particularly its Rapid Development and Aggressive Promotion phase. The listing included a contemporary shed as a second contributing building. The "natural mounting setting" and the landscaping around the property were deemed contributing sites in the listing. Rock-lined paths and a low rubble masonry wall, built around 1965 were deemed non-contributing. The lodge has retained its historical integrity in terms of the location, design, setting, material, workmanship.

See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand County, Colorado

References

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Park Service.

External links Media related to Greenwood Lodge at Wikimedia Commons

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Greenwood Lodge

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Greenwood Lodge claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Greenwood Lodge before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Greenwood Lodge ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Greenwood Lodge

In research: Greenwood Lodge appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Greenwood Lodge in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Greenwood Lodge is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1932, Log buildings and structures in Colorado, Log cabins in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Greenwood Lodge outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Greenwood Lodge in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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