Lake Temescal Beach House and Cliff Swallows

The Lake Temescal Beach house was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1940 and is now used for public and private event rentals. In addition to the Beach House, WPA labor helped create the park's walking paths and added rocks, or riprap, along the shoreline to protect it from erosion. If you look up above the windows and under the eaves of the roof, you'll see the nests of the American cliff swallow, extremely social songbirds that can often be found in large nesting colonies of hundreds or thousands of birds.