This is the Old Faithful Inn. They went to great lengths to try to keep it from catching fire during the 1988 fire. It was saved. We watched a movie on it at a Museum.
Here is a great link for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful_Inn
Excerpt from link above: "...In 1988 the inn was seriously threatened by the North Fork Fire, but was saved by the actions of firefighters, volunteers, and a sprinkler system which was installed on the roof the previous year.[8]"
Excerpt: "An initial design was prepared by architect A.W. Spalding in 1898, producing a design typical of the time, a turreted Queen Anne style hotel. The design was approved by the Park Service, but construction never started.[7] Child instead hired Reamer to design a much more radical building with antecedents in the rustic camps of the Adirondacks. Design work took place in 1902, and construction started in 1903, with work continuing through the winter to open in 1904.[6] The original cost of the Inn was about $140,000, using materials gathered from within the park. The hotel was furnished for another $25,000.[4]"
Excerpt from link above: "Initial construction was carried out over the winter of 1903-1904, largely using locally-obtained materials including lodgepole pine and rhyolite stone. When the Old Faithful Inn first opened in the spring of 1904, it boasted electric lights and steam heat..."
Crows Nest is at the top in the photo below
The central feature of the Old House is a tall gabled log structure housing the lobby, dominated by a deep, steeply-pitching shingled roof. The Old House uses load-bearing log lower exterior walls with a log pole interior framework supporting seven stories, six of which are the roof structure. The upper gable walls are of milled lumber framing with shingle sheathing. The front slope of the shingled roof is accented by shed and gabled dormers, some of which are purely decorative. Both interior and exterior framing is supported by twisted or curved branches, giving the entire structure a strongly rustic air.
"...Most of the logs came from a location about n8 miles (13 km) south of Old Faithful, where a temporary sawmill produced boards as needed. "
From link above: "With its spectacular log and limb lobby and massive (500-ton, 85-foot) stone fireplace,..."
Excerpt from link: "... It is also unique in that it is one of the few log hotels still standing in the United States. It was the first of the great park lodges of the American west."
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