When I purchased the cottage in 2001 I was asked if I was planning on bull dozing it. My response was absolutely not! I saw it as a diamond in the rough.
The Rose Cottage was built in 1934 only a few years after the long tunnel in the park was completed. A product of its time when money was scarce, a number of structural elements were salvaged from buildings in the park such as the oak flooring that came from the a Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) camp as well the the divided lite windows in the living room. It used to have a green wood shingled roof that originally were on the Nature Center - also in the park.