Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for great public projects aimed at building human happiness, and at Big Spring that vision took form in a dining lodge and visitor cabins built to harmonize with the landscape. Rising from the hillside above the river and spring branch, the lodge was constructed over nearly 11 months as CCC boys hewed beams and quarried, cut, and hauled the stone for the massive structure, which was designed in an Old England style. The architect in charge of designing the structures at Big Spring was Donald A. Blake, who served as architectural foreman for Co. 1710 during the winter of 1933-34 before transferring to Jefferson City to continue state park design planning, then later returned permanently to Big Spring as Camp Superintendent from November 1935 to 1937. The CCC also built cabins as woodland retreats for visitors, including 3 cabins in a rustic Old England half-timber design using native stone and massive oak beams to provide modern attractive accommodations while blending with the forested, rocky terrain, and they moved 3 existing cabins from the bank of the spring branch to the hillside and remodeled them to fit the landscape.