National Register of Historic Places listings in Yellowstone National Park

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yellowstone National Park.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and Montana, 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 Google map. ^[1]

There are 19 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the park, five of which are National Historic Landmarks.

      This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 17, 2023. ^[2]

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Current listings

[3]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed [4]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Fort Yellowstone	Fort Yellowstone More images	July 31, 2003 (#03001032)	Mammoth and Norris, Wyoming; Gardiner, Montana; near Buffalo Lake, Idaho 44°58′30″N110°41′53″W / 44.975°N 110.698056°W / 44.975; -110.698056 (Fort Yellowstone)	Yellowstone National Park	Headquarters complex and remote patrol cabins built during the initial administration of the park by the U.S. Army 1886–1918, establishing policies and procedures that influenced subsequent conservation and national park management. [5]
2	Grand Loop Road Historic District	Grand Loop Road Historic District More images	December 23, 2003 (#03001345)	Grand Loop Rd. 44°42′12″N110°35′36″W / 44.703453°N 110.593345°W / 44.703453; -110.593345 (Grand Loop Road Historic District)	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. [6]
3	Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District	Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District More images	December 7, 1982 (#85001416)	Yellowstone Lake Rd. 44°32′59″N110°24′15″W / 44.54967°N 110.404228°W / 44.54967; -110.404228 (Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District)	Lake, Wyoming	Fish hatchery complex with nine rustic contributing properties built 1930–1932, a reminder of the 57 years of fish stocking in the park and changed conservation policies. [7]
4	Lake Hotel	Lake Hotel More images	May 16, 1991 (#91000637)	235 Yellowstone Lake Rd. 44°32′59″N110°24′01″W / 44.54985°N 110.400156°W / 44.54985; -110.400156 (Lake Hotel)	Lake, Wyoming	The park's only surviving grand early hotel, established in 1891, altered and expanded in Colonial Revival style beginning in 1903 by Robert Reamer. [8]
5	Lamar Buffalo Ranch	Lamar Buffalo Ranch More images	December 7, 1982 (#82001835)	Northeast Entrance Rd. 44°53′44″N110°14′08″W / 44.895556°N 110.235556°W / 44.895556; -110.235556 (Lamar Buffalo Ranch)	Lamar Valley	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. [9]
6	Madison Museum	Madison Museum More images	July 9, 1982 (#82001720)	Grand Loop Rd. and West Entrance Rd. 44°38′32″N110°51′44″W / 44.642222°N 110.862139°W / 44.642222; -110.862139 (Madison Museum)	Madison Junction, Wyoming	1930 museum significant for its NPS rustic design and association with the park service's adoption of visitor education as an objective. [10]
7	Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District	Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District More images	March 20, 2002 (#02000257)	North Entrance Rd. and Mammoth–Norris Rd. 44°58′27″N110°41′56″W / 44.974167°N 110.698889°W / 44.974167; -110.698889 (Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District)	Mammoth, Wyoming	The park's longstanding administrative and concession headquarters, with 192 contributing properties built 1891–1948. Associated with the development of Yellowstone and national park policies in general, the New Deal, and numerous architectural styles. [11]
8	Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station	Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station More images	July 21, 1983 (#83003362)	Grand Loop Rd. 44°43′35″N110°42′12″W / 44.726278°N 110.703454°W / 44.726278; -110.703454 (Norris Museum/Norris Comfort Station)	Norris Geyser Basin	Rustic 1929 museum and 1930s restroom dating to the early years of the National Park Service's visitor education initiatives. [12]
9	Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums	Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums More images	May 28, 1987 (#87001445)	Norris Geyser Basin, Madison Junction, and Fishing Bridge 44°33′47″N110°22′40″W / 44.563018°N 110.377748°W / 44.563018; -110.377748 (Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums)	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. [13]
10	North Entrance Road Historic District	North Entrance Road Historic District More images	May 22, 2002 (#02000529)	U.S. Route 89 between Gardiner and Mammoth 45°00′00″N110°41′34″W / 45°N 110.692889°W / 45; -110.692889 (North Entrance Road Historic District)	Gardiner, Montana	Five-mile (8 km) entrance road and iconic 1903 Roosevelt Arch, 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. [14]
11	Northeast Entrance Station	Northeast Entrance Station More images	May 28, 1987 (#87001435)	U.S. Route 212 45°00′16″N110°00′38″W / 45.004498°N 110.010427°W / 45.004498; -110.010427 (Northeast Entrance Station)	Silver Gate, Montana	Well-preserved park entrance complex with two buildings, constructed in 1935 and promoted in New Deal-era training guides as a paragon of rustic style for park facilities. [15]
12	Obsidian Cliff	Obsidian Cliff More images	June 19, 1996 (#96000973)	Approximately 13 miles south of Mammoth; east side of U.S. Route 89 south of Obsidian Cliff Kiosk 44°49′19″N110°43′40″W / 44.821944°N 110.727778°W / 44.821944; -110.727778 (Obsidian Cliff)	Mammoth, Wyoming	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 stone archaeological artifacts. [16]
13	Obsidian Cliff Kiosk	Obsidian Cliff Kiosk More images	July 9, 1982 (#82001719)	Grand Loop Rd. 44°49′26″N110°43′45″W / 44.823976°N 110.729249°W / 44.823976; -110.729249 (Obsidian Cliff Kiosk)	Mammoth, Wyoming	The first roadside interpretive exhibit in the national park system, built in 1931 in superlative National Park Service rustic style. [17]
14	Old Faithful Historic District	Old Faithful Historic District More images	December 7, 1982 (#82001839)	Both sides of Grand Loop Rd. at Old Faithful Geyser 44°27′13″N110°50′09″W / 44.453611°N 110.835833°W / 44.453611; -110.835833 (Old Faithful Historic District)	Upper Geyser Basin	Visitor service complex representing the NPS's early-20th-century development of automobile tourist facilities and its aesthetic use of rustic architecture even on utilitarian buildings. [18]
15	Old Faithful Inn	Old Faithful Inn More images	July 23, 1973 (#73000226)	3200 Old Faithful Inn Rd. 44°27′35″N110°49′52″W / 44.459841°N 110.831245°W / 44.459841; -110.831245 (Old Faithful Inn)	Upper Geyser Basin	Masterful and rare surviving example of a log hotel, built 1903–1927; a key precursor of National Park Service rustic style and hotel design. [19] Also a contributing property to the Old Faithful Historic District. [18]
16	Queen's Laundry Bath House	Queen's Laundry Bath House More images	July 25, 2001 (#01000790)	Sentinel Meadows 44°33′49″N110°52′14″W / 44.563678°N 110.870574°W / 44.563678; -110.870574 (Queen's Laundry Bath House)	Lower Geyser Basin	Ruins of an 1881 bath house, the first federally-funded visitor facility built in a national park. Also associated with Philetus Norris (1821–1885) and the park's early years under a civilian superintendent. [20]
17	Red Lodge-Cooke City Approach Road Historic District	Red Lodge-Cooke City Approach Road Historic District More images	May 8, 2014 (#14000219)	U.S. Route 212 44°57′59″N109°28′42″W / 44.966389°N 109.478333°W / 44.966389; -109.478333 (Red Lodge-Cooke City Approach Road Historic District)	Cooke City, Montana	60-mile (97 km) alpine road built 1931–1936, better known as the Beartooth Highway. Significant for federal scenic route planning, new recreational access, and engineering in challenging conditions. [21]
18	Roosevelt Lodge Historic District	Roosevelt Lodge Historic District More images	April 4, 1983 (#83003363)	100 Roosevelt Lodge Rd. 44°54′45″N110°25′01″W / 44.9125°N 110.416944°W / 44.9125; -110.416944 (Roosevelt Lodge Historic District)	Tower Junction, Wyoming	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. [22]
19	US Post Office-Yellowstone Main	US Post Office-Yellowstone Main More images	May 19, 1987 (#87000789)	114 Albright Ave. 44°58′37″N110°41′56″W / 44.976944°N 110.698889°W / 44.976944; -110.698889 (US Post Office-Yellowstone Main)	Mammoth, Wyoming	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. [23]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Teton County, Wyoming
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Wyoming
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Park County, Montana
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wyoming
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana

References

• Culpin, Mary Shivers. National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form: Historic Resources of Yellowstone National Park. National Park Service 1995 https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/64500741_text

1. 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.
2. National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved March 17, 2023.
3. Numbers 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.
4. 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.
5. Simmons, R. Laurie; Thomas H. Simmons (2000-09-29). National Historic Landmark Nomination: Fort Yellowstone. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
6. Culpin, Mary Shivers; Elaine Hale; Nancy M. McClure (August 2003). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grand Loop Road Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
7. Tenney, Susan A. (1984-01-06). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Historic Resources of Yellowstone National Park (Partial Inventory: Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District). National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
8. Wheaton, Rod L.; Mary Culpin (1991-03-12). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lake Hotel. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
9. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1981-12-31). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Yellowstone National Park MRA: Lamar Buffalo Ranch. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
10. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1982-01-20). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Yellowstone National Park Multiple Resource Area: Madison Museum. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
11. Simmons, R. Laurie; Thomas H. Simmons (2000-09-25). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
12. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1982-11-11). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Yellowstone National Park MRA: Norris Museum/Comfort Station. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
13. Harrison, Laura Soulliere (1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Norris, Madison, and Fishing Bridge Museums. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
14. Culpin, Marcy Shivers; Christine Whitacre; Catherine Lentz; Lon Johnson (2001). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: North Entrance Road Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
15. Harrison, Laura Soulliere (1985). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Northeast Entrance Station. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
16. Johnson, Ann M.; Leslie B. Davis; Stephen A. Aaberg (1993-01-28). Obsidian Cliff National Landmark Nomination. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
17. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1981-11-30). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Historic Resources of Yellowstone National Park (Partial Inventory: Obsidian Cliff Kiosk). National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
18. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1982-10-08). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Historic Resources of Yellowstone National Park: Partial Inventory of Old Faithful Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
19. Harrison, Laura Soullière (1985). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Old Faithful Inn. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
20. Johnson, Lon (2001-02-01). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Queen's Laundry Bath House. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
21. Smith, Ian (February 2014). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Red Lodge–Cooke City Approach Road Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
22. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1982-10-04). National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Roosevelt Lodge Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
23. Kolva, H.J. (June 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form: Yellowstone Main Post Office. National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-11-19.