This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Wyoming.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Park County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.[1]
There are 42 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, six of which are National Historic Landmarks.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 28, 2024.[2]
| Albany - Big Horn - Campbell - Carbon - Converse - Crook - Fremont - Goshen - Hot Springs - Johnson - Laramie - Lincoln - Natrona - Niobrara - Park - Platte - Sheridan - Sublette - Sweetwater - Teton - Uinta - Washakie - Weston |
Current listings
| [3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[4] | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Absaroka Mountain Lodge |  | October 30, 2003 (#03001105) | 1231 North Fork Highway 44°27′25″N 109°47′29″W / 44.456944°N 109.791389°W | Wapiti | Dude ranch established in 1917, with 15 contributing properties; an operational and nearly intact example of a local business model spurred by the rise of middle-class auto tourism.[5] |
| 2 | American Legion Hall | December 11, 2023 (#100009598) | 324 East 1st Street 44°45′10″N 108°45′21″W / 44.7527°N 108.7557°W | Powell | ||
| 3 | Anderson Lodge |  | September 14, 1987 (#87001548) | Greybull Ranger District, Shoshone National Forest 44°06′06″N 109°25′59″W / 44.101534°N 109.433139°W | Meeteetse vicinity | Rustic 1890 artist's cabin turned Yellowstone Forest Reserve administrative building, associated with rancher, artist, and superintendent Abraham Archibald Anderson (1846–1940) and the development of the U.S. Forest Service.[6] |
| 4 | Quintin Blair House | September 27, 1991 (#91000998) | 5588 Greybull Highway 44°30′34″N 109°00′05″W / 44.509334°N 109.001307°W | Cody | Wyoming's only Frank Lloyd Wright building, built 1952–53 in his "natural" style which influenced post-World War II suburban house design.[7] | |
| 5 | Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home |  | June 5, 1975 (#75001906) | 720 Sheridan Ave. 44°31′27″N 109°04′25″W / 44.5241715°N 109.0737033°W | Cody | One of Wyoming's oldest and most moved buildings, constructed in 1841 in LeClaire, Iowa, and brought to the first of three locations in Cody in 1933 as a tourist attraction. Now on the grounds of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.[8] |
| 6 | Buffalo Bill Dam |  | August 12, 1971 (#71000890) | 4808 North Fork Highway 44°30′05″N 109°10′59″W / 44.5015°N 109.183056°W | Cody | One of the nation's first two gravity-arch dams, built 1905–1910 under challenging conditions for the Shoshone Project, a pioneering federal effort to boost the settlement capacity of the arid American West.[9] |
| 7 | Buffalo Bill Statue |  | December 31, 1974 (#74002319) | 720 Sheridan Ave. 44°31′34″N 109°04′30″W / 44.526054°N 109.074999°W | Cody | 1924 equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a latter-day subject in the Euro-American tradition of artworks commemorating white explorers and frontiersmen.[10] |
| 8 | Clay Butte Lookout |  | January 8, 2014 (#13001065) | Forest Service Rd. 142 44°56′40″N 109°37′36″W / 44.944392°N 109.626573°W | Clark vicinity | Rare surviving example of a fire lookout tower with New Deal-style standard design elements, built 1941–1943 and expanded 1962–63, symbolizing the U.S. Forest Service's wildfire management practices and the Civilian Conservation Corps.[11] |
| 9 | Colter's Hell |  | August 14, 1973 (#73001937) | West of Cody on U.S. Route 14 44°30′53″N 109°07′02″W / 44.514722°N 109.117222°W | Cody | Geothermal area (now largely dormant) encountered by explorer and mountain man John Colter (c. 1770–c. 1812) in 1807; the first definitive place in Wyoming described by a Euro-American.[12] |
| 10 | Dead Indian Campsite | May 3, 1974 (#74002030) | Sunlight Basin Road[13] | Cody vicinity | Archaeological site with multiple cultural assemblages spanning 4,500 years, with numerous stone and bone tools, a wide variety of faunal remains, and deer antlers placed in a rock cairn.[14] | |
| 11 | Downtown Cody Historic District | _001.jpg) | August 15, 1983 (#83003361) | 1155–1313 and 1192–1286 Sheridan Ave. 44°31′34″N 109°03′47″W / 44.526111°N 109.063056°W | Cody | Small commercial district representing the prosperity achieved by Cody and the surrounding region at the turn of the 20th century, with 20 contributing properties built 1900–1930s.[15] |
| 12 | Elephant Head Lodge | October 30, 2003 (#03001107) | 1170 North Fork Highway 44°27′17″N 109°48′16″W / 44.454722°N 109.804444°W | Wapiti | Operational and highly intact example of a dude ranch established in 1926, with eight contributing properties.[16] | |
| 13 | First National Bank of Meeteetse |  | September 5, 1990 (#90001388) | 1033 Park Ave. 44°09′25″N 108°52′21″W / 44.157044°N 108.872421°W | Meeteetse | 1901 bank building, a key vestige of Meeteetse's early commercial district. Restored as a museum in 1988.[17] |
| 14 | Fort Yellowstone |  | July 31, 2003 (#03001032) | Mammoth and Norris, Wyoming; Gardiner, Montana; near Buffalo Lake, Idaho 44°58′30″N 110°41′53″W / 44.975°N 110.698056°W | Yellowstone National Park | Headquarters complex and remote patrol cabins built during the initial administration of Yellowstone by the U.S. Army 1886–1918, establishing policies and procedures that influenced subsequent conservation and national park management. Extends into Teton County; Park County, Montana; and Fremont County, Idaho.[18] |
| 15 | Goff Creek Lodge | October 30, 2003 (#03001108) | 995 North Fork Highway 44°27′17″N 109°50′14″W / 44.454722°N 109.837222°W | Wapiti | Operational and highly intact example of a dude ranch, with 10 contributing properties built 1910–1945. Now the Creekside Lodge Yellowstone.[19] | |
| 16 | Grand Loop Road Historic District |  | December 23, 2003 (#03001345) | Grand Loop Rd. 44°42′12″N 110°35′36″W / 44.703453°N 110.593345°W | Yellowstone National Park | The nation's first large planned park road system, developed 1872–1905 in challenging conditions by the Army Corps of Engineers under Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917). Comprises 140 miles (230 km) and nine 1930s bridges harmonized to the setting.[20] |
| 17 | Hayden Arch Bridge |  | February 22, 1985 (#85000430) | Hayden Arch Rd. 44°30′37″N 109°08′50″W / 44.510278°N 109.147147°W | Cody | Wyoming's only large reinforced concrete arch bridge, built 1924–25.[21] |
| 18 | Heart Mountain Relocation Center |  | December 19, 1985 (#85003167) | 1539 Road 19 44°40′12″N 108°56′44″W / 44.669869°N 108.945481°W | Ralston | Site of a federal concentration camp for the internment of Japanese Americans 1942–1945, where some internees conducted the largest single draft resistance effort in U.S. history. Contains five contributing properties and an interpretive center.[22] |
| 19 | Horner Site | October 15, 1966 (#66000758) | On a bluff overlooking the confluence of Sage Creek and the Shoshone River, 5 miles (8 km) east of Cody[23] 44°33′21″N 108°59′39″W / 44.5558°N 108.9942°W | Cody | Site where Paleo-Indians processed bison for at least a thousand years, showing a variety of stone tools types in contemporaneous use; type site for the Cody complex.[24] | |
| 20 | Irma Hotel |  | April 3, 1973 (#73001936) | 1192 Sheridan Ave. 44°31′33″N 109°03′52″W / 44.525833°N 109.064444°W | Cody | Hotel established by Buffalo Bill Cody in 1902 as a first-class amenity and social center for his anticipated influx of wealthy vacationers, investors, and regional businessmen.[25] Also a contributing property to the Downtown Cody Historic District.[15] |
| 21 | Lamar Buffalo Ranch |  | December 7, 1982 (#82001835) | Northeast Entrance Rd. 44°53′44″N 110°14′08″W / 44.895556°N 110.235556°W | Yellowstone National Park | Five-building complex used for bison management 1907–1952, initially under cattle ranching methods, illustrating bison conservation, the evolution of wildlife management practices, and changing park ranger duties.[26] |
| 22 | Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District | .jpg) | March 20, 2002 (#02000257) | North Entrance Rd. and Mammoth-Norris Rd. 44°58′27″N 110°41′56″W / 44.974167°N 110.698889°W | Mammoth | Yellowstone National Park's longstanding administrative and concession headquarters, with 192 contributing properties built 1891–1948. Associated with the development of the park and national park policies in general, the New Deal, and numerous architectural styles.[27] |
| 23 | Mummy Cave |  | February 18, 1981 (#81000611) | North Fork Highway[28] 44°27′39″N 109°44′10″W / 44.4607°N 109.736°W | Wapiti | Unusually dry and well stratified rock shelter occupied from the late Paleoindian to the Late Prehistoric period, preserving rare organic artifacts and a high-status human burial.[29] |
| 24 | Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station | .jpg) | July 21, 1983 (#83003362) | Grand Loop Rd. 44°43′35″N 110°42′12″W / 44.726278°N 110.703454°W | Yellowstone National Park | Rustic 1929 museum and 1930s restroom dating to the early years of the National Park Service's visitor education initiatives.[30] |
| 25 | Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums |  | May 28, 1987 (#87001445) | Norris Geyser Basin, Madison Junction, and Fishing Bridge 44°33′47″N 110°22′40″W / 44.563018°N 110.377748°W | Yellowstone National Park | Three trailside museums and a staff residence built 1929–1931, whose National Park Service rustic architecture was a major influence on buildings in national, state, and county parks around the U.S. during the New Deal.[31] |
| 26 | North Entrance Road Historic District | .jpg) | May 22, 2002 (#02000530) | North Entrance Road between Gardiner and Mammoth 44°59′00″N 110°41′29″W / 44.983333°N 110.691389°W | Yellowstone National Park | Five-mile (8 km) entrance road associated with the park's planned road system, early Army Corps of Engineers contributions, seminal rustic style, and the first entrance marking at a national park. Extends into Park County, Montana.[32] |
| 27 | Obsidian Cliff |  | June 19, 1996 (#96000973) | Approximately 13 miles south of Mammoth; eastern side of U.S. Route 89, south of Obsidian Cliff Kiosk 44°49′19″N 110°43′40″W / 44.821944°N 110.727778°W | Yellowstone National Park | Pivotal Native American quarrying site for obsidian tools and ceremonial objects traded throughout the North American interior for 11,500 years. Also a key site in the development of geochemical analysis of lithic artifacts.[33] |
| 28 | Obsidian Cliff Kiosk |  | July 9, 1982 (#82001719) | Grand Loop Rd. 44°49′26″N 110°43′45″W / 44.823976°N 110.729249°W | Yellowstone National Park | The first roadside interpretive exhibit in the national park system, built in 1931 in superlative National Park Service rustic style.[34] |
| 29 | Pagoda Creek | December 22, 2017 (#100001914) | Address restricted[35] | Wapiti | Site used during 7th century BCE winters for butchering and processing large game and manufacturing and maintaining stone tools.[36] | |
| 30 | Pahaska Tepee |  | March 20, 1973 (#73001938) | 183 North Fork Highway 44°30′10″N 109°57′47″W / 44.502847°N 109.962997°W | Wapiti | Buffalo Bill Cody's 1901 hotel and hunting lodge, an influence on the development of Yellowstone's east entrance road and on the conservation ideas of his prestigious private guests.[37] |
| 31 | Pioneer School |  | October 5, 1993 (#93001011) | County Road 1-AG north of Badger Basin 44°58′23″N 109°05′03″W / 44.972963°N 109.084167°W | Clark | Rare surviving example of Park County's 20th-century rural schools, active 1914–1969.[38] |
| 32 | Ralston Community Clubhouse |  | July 23, 1998 (#98000907) | 969 Carbon St. 44°43′11″N 108°52′05″W / 44.719646°N 108.867992°W | Ralston | Clubhouse in use since 1930 by a longstanding women's club, forming the social and civic center of a dispersed rural community.[39] |
| 33 | Red Lodge-Cooke City Approach Road Historic District |  | May 8, 2014 (#14000219) | U.S. Route 212 44°55′41″N 109°38′10″W / 44.928056°N 109.636111°W | Clark | 60-mile (97 km) scenic federal highway built 1931–1936 in challenging alpine conditions. Better known as the Beartooth Highway, it extends into Carbon and Park County, Montana.[40] |
| 34 | Red Star Lodge and Sawmill | October 30, 2003 (#03001106) | 349 North Fork Highway 44°29′43″N 109°56′06″W / 44.495375°N 109.935016°W | Wapiti | Operational and highly intact example of a dude ranch, with 24 contributing properties built 1924–1950. Now the Shoshone Lodge.[41] | |
| 35 | Roosevelt Lodge Historic District |  | April 4, 1983 (#83003363) | 100 Roosevelt Lodge Rd., Tower Junction 44°54′45″N 110°25′01″W / 44.9125°N 110.416944°W | Yellowstone National Park | Rustic lodge and cabin complex with 124 contributing properties built 1919–1938, associated with the park's early educational programs and development of accommodations for middle-class automobile tourists.[42] |
| 36 | Stock Center |  | January 1, 1976 (#76001960) | 836 Sheridan Ave. 44°31′32″N 109°04′14″W / 44.525506°N 109.07057°W | Cody | Community-built museum patterned after a frontier ranch house; original home of the Buffalo Bill Museum 1927–1969.[43] |
| 37 | Paul Stock House |  | January 27, 2000 (#99001727) | 1300 Sunset Dr. 44°31′24″N 109°04′50″W / 44.523333°N 109.080556°W | Cody | Four-building residence constructed 1945–46 by Paul Stock (1894–1972), a pioneer in the Wyoming oil industry, three-time mayor of Cody, and philanthropist.[44] |
| 38 | T E Ranch Headquarters | April 3, 1973 (#73001939) | 30 miles southwest of Cody on South Fork Rd. 44°16′53″N 109°29′30″W / 44.281381°N 109.491771°W | Cody | Log main house of a ranch owned by Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917) from 1895 until his death.[45] | |
| 39 | US Post Office-Powell Main |  | May 22, 1987 (#87000787) | 270 N. Bent St. 44°45′19″N 108°45′29″W / 44.755236°N 108.757951°W | Powell | 1937 post office, one of five in Wyoming with Section of Painting and Sculpture artwork, symbolizing the extensive New Deal public works and federal presence benefiting small communities.[46] |
| 40 | US Post Office-Yellowstone Main |  | May 19, 1987 (#87000789) | 114 Albright Ave., Yellowstone National Park 44°58′37″N 110°41′56″W / 44.976944°N 110.698889°W | Mammoth | 1937 post office, the only example in the western U.S. merging a standard Moderne plan with French Renaissance Revival elements. Also a contributing property to the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District.[47] |
| 41 | UXU Ranch | May 24, 2003 (#03000581) | 1710 North Fork Highway 44°27′18″N 109°42′53″W / 44.455°N 109.714735°W | Wapiti | Operational and highly intact dude ranch established in 1929, with 11 contributing properties; representing local entrepreneurship upon the rise of middle-class auto tourism.[48] | |
| 42 | Wapiti Ranger Station |  | October 15, 1966 (#66000759) | 2285 North Fork Highway 44°27′52″N 109°36′52″W / 44.464462°N 109.614311°W | Wapiti | The nation's first U.S. Forest Service ranger station, built for Shoshone National Forest in 1903.[49] |
Former listings
| [3] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | City or town | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homesteaders Historical Museum | June 19, 1973 (#73002262) | April 6, 2011 | 301 E. 1st St. | Powell | Also known as the Shoshone Project Headquarters Office. Demolished in 1974. |
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