Whitehorse Park Pavillion

A Grand Shelter in the Woods

The Whitehorse Pavilion frame was cut during another community build, the Lake Roesinger build in 2019.  The workshops took place at the Evergreen State Fairground in Monroe, Washington.  

“Three weeks before we arrived in September 2020, the building site for the Whitehorse Park Pavilion was a wild riot of vegetation. The workshop team was a bit concerned, but we attended the general contractor’s kick-off meeting with Snohomish County Parks and Recreation and were reassured that all would be ready. Less than three weeks later, the site had been cleared, the foundation installed, and the site graded for our work. On the Monday before the raising, the team arrived at tthe workshops site in Monroe, Washington, to shake out timbers that had sat for 18 months under open-sided cover, fit them and adjust for the inevitable shrinkage, finish cutting half of the massive curved braces and scarfed plates, and prepare the bottom of the posts to accept the Timberlinx connectors. We delivered the timbers to the job site by the end of the week and staged them in anticipation of a midmorning start to the crane raising.On Saturday, October 3, the Guild arrived with five instructors and fifteen volunteers to raise the frame for the pavilion on a glorious Pacific Northwest fall day. At the end of the day, the pavilion was complete and it nestled into the park beautifully. The large timber posts and braces scaled perfectly against the forested backdrop. As always, we are grateful for a wonderful team, from our local partner, Snohomish County, to our sponsors to the excellent lead team, and, of course, our volunteer-members who make the Community Building Workshop Program possible with their contributions of time and energy”

-Mike Westgard Guild Member

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