This small building is one of the oldest surviving Forest Service structures.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt declared that much of the Applegate River watershed would henceforth be protected as a National Forest. This one-room building in the middle of an alfalfa patch was the first administrative headquarters for the Applegate Ranger District. After the Civilian Conservation Corps built a new ranger station in the 1930's, the building was used as a tack room until the 1940's and then for general storage. Over the years, it was moved several times.

A related historic property is the Star Ranger Station.