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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
^The latitude and longitude information provided in this table was derived originally from the National Register Information System, which has been found to be fairly accurate for about 99% of listings. Some locations in this table may have been corrected to current GPS standards.
^ abNumbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
^The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
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