Emerson Parks House | |
Location | 504 2nd St., Ten Sleep, Wyoming |
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Coordinates | 44°02′03″N107°26′40″W / 44.034192°N 107.444465°W |
Built | 1929 |
NRHP reference No. | 16000265 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 16, 2016 |
The Emerson Parks House in Ten Sleep, Wyoming is a historic two-story log house built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1]
It was home of Emerson Parks (1887-1965) and his wife Ina Miller Parks. [2]
The house was built using the "butt and pass" method of log construction, a kind of false notching, utilizing D-shaped milled logs presumably from the local Bighorn Mountains. [2]
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