Cambria Casino

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Cambria Casino
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Nearest city Newcastle, Wyoming
Coordinates 43°57′20″N104°11′35″W / 43.95556°N 104.19306°W / 43.95556; -104.19306 Coordinates: 43°57′20″N104°11′35″W / 43.95556°N 104.19306°W / 43.95556; -104.19306
Built1927
ArchitectRabenold, Bruce
Architectural styleTudor Revival
NRHP reference No. 80004058
Added to NRHPNovember 18, 1980 [1]

The Cambria Casino, also known as the Flying V Guest Ranch and the Cambria Casino Park-Memorial, is a resort on the western edge of the Black Hills in Weston County, Wyoming. The resort was named for Cambria, a nearby coal-mining community. The two-story sandstone lodge, designed by New York architect Bruce Rabenold, employs English Tudor and other medieval details to create a Tudor manor-like setting in the Wyoming hills. The lodge fronts on a court, entered through a gatehouse and originally flanked by wings housing guest rooms. The property is significant as an example of a unique eclectically style resort in eastern Wyoming. A portion of the casino was intended to serve as a memorial to Cambria-area miners. [2]

The dance hall opened on January 12, 1929. Seventy-five guests could be accommodated in the main building and in six cottages. The cottages have since been removed. The resort featured a freshwater pool fed by Salt Creek and a saltwater pool fed from salt springs about 2 miles (3.2 km) away. [3]

The interior features a second floor ballroom with a timber-framed roof resembling a medieval hammer-beam truss. The timbers may have come from area mines. Beneath the ballroom were a dining room, auxiliary dining room, kitchen sitting room and six guest rooms. [2]

The Cambria Casino was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Junge, Mark G.; Kendrick, Gregory D. (August 4, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Cambria Casino". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  3. "Cambria Casino/Flying V Guest Ranch". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2009-08-03.[ dead link ]

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