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National Park Mystery Photo 48 Revealed: You Don’t See Many Patio Lights Like This One!

 Hubbell Trading Post’s historic wagon wheel patio light as it appears today and in a 1954 photo of Dorothy Hubbell taken on the family patio. Top photo by Kurt Repanshek, bottom photo courtesy Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site.

 National Park Mystery Photo 48 was taken at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in northeastern Arizona. The cropped photo you were challenged to identify shows one of the seven "hub lamps" of a chandelier-style patio light mounted on a pole beside a sandstone slab picnic table on the Hubbell family’s patio. The patio is located next to a stone hogan built in 1934 to honor Juan Lorenzo Hubbell, the founder of the trading post.

A renovation project in 2010 restored the flagstone patio, the wagon wheel patio light, and two barbecue grills to their appearance in 1965, the year the Hubbell Trading Post was acquired from the Hubbell family.

According to Ed Chamberlin, the park’s museum curator, the wagon wheel patio light was built sometime after 1920.

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The quick answer is "yes," at least on your two examples, plus a few others, like Hells Canyon NRA.  In an ideal world, the silly inter-agency rivalries and infighting wouldn't exist, and any federal land deemed worthy of being specified as a National Monument or National Recreation Area would be turned over to the management of the National Park Service, the agency specifically created to manage lands like these.
But since there seems to be so much governmental reluctance to transfer responsibility for tracts of federal land despite their re-designation to "National Whatever," maybe a solution could be some re-branding.  What I mean is that the designations that historically have mostly been applied to Park Service units (National Monument, National Recreation Area, etc.) could be reserved exclusively for the Park Service, while properties managed by other agencies could receive other designations.  An example of this already exists in the BLM, where they have National Conservation Areas, in addition to some National Monuments.
I don't know what these designations would be, but there are surely plenty of synonyms for "monument," "recreational area," etc., so that something different could be invented.
However, remember that despite their usual connection to the Forest Service, all of the agencies also manage Wilderness Areas, so in fairness the other agencies, including the NPS, would have to come up with their own version of "wilderness."
Probably, this is something that would never fly, but it could alleviate a lot of the confusion having multiple agencies managing identically-named properties creates.


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