The White Center Fieldhouse & Caretaker Cottage were built between 1938-1940 by the Works Progress Administration on 12 acres donated by the Mountain View Community Club. Both buildings are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings are Rustic/National Park in style; including a half-log clad fieldhouse (1940); a caretaker’s residence (1940); Garage (1941); low rock walls and sections of river-rock gutter.

To note, the White Center Fieldhouse was one of eight WPA developments built in King County. Five of the original buildings are still standing, and two of the buildings are currently maintained by King County Parks:

• Des Moines Fieldhouse, City of Des Moines – S 219th Street & 11th Ave S
• Enumclaw Fieldhouse, City of Enumclaw -Enumclaw Chinook Pass Road
• Preston Community Center, King County Parks – 8625 310th Ave SE
• Si View Community Center, City of North Bend- 40 SE Orchard Dr
• White Center Fieldhouse, King County Parks – 1321 SW 102nd St SW

During the Great Depression, the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) offered construction funds for public buildings; the communities provided construction materials, and the government funded the labor. Designed in the Rustic style popularized by the National Park Service, the buildings feature broad covered porches with oversized log support posts. And while the National registry lists the building in WC as a Fieldhouse, locals have come to know the space as The Log Cabin.