T E Ranch Headquarters National Register Form Size

Form 10-300 STATE: (July 1969) ___Wyoming COUNTY; NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Park INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY "RY NUMBER (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) SSI 30 miles southwest of Cody on CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC G District gj Building G Public Public Acquisition: £8| Occupied Yes: Restricted G Site G Structure 0 Private [| In Process G Unoccupied Unrestricted G Object Both G Being Considered I I Preservation work in progress No PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) IK] Agricultural I | Government G P°rk G Transportation G Comments G Commercial I | Industrial |~~1 Private Residence Q Other (Specify) G Educational G Military f I Religious G Entertainment [I Museum | | Scientific OWNER'S NAME: Charles Duncan COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: 1002 Sheridan Avenue iiB TITLE OF SURVEY: Wyoming Recreation Commission DATE OF SURVEY: Summer"Fall 1967 D Federal State I | County G Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Wyoming Recreation Commission STREET AND NUMBER: 604 East 25th Street CITY OR TOWN: Cheyenne Wyoming 56 (Check One) Excellent Q Good j~] Fair I I Deteriorated l~i Ruins Q Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) Moved jjF] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL. APPEARANCE *i* As is' typical of most western livestock enterprises, the JHeadquarters was the ranch house. This was a low, singl.e story, multi- roomed, white painted, log structure. Although its walls were raised to ordinary~one story^ height, its broad gables were so gently sloped that its ridgepole (in this case an actual roof tree) perched at an only slightly greater elevation. This ranch house stood, as it still stands, on river-bottom land of the then South Fork of the Stinkingwater (since renamed the Shoshone) but between one and two hundred yards back from the northwest bank of the stream itself. It was surrounded by a spacious lawn of native meadow grass, a white picket fence and numerous trees of which a few were ever greens but most were cottonwoods of the broad leaf and wide spreading variety. The cabin of the original homesteader (a man named Bob Burns) may have been incorporated into this structure but it appears more than likely that it was not. At least the log end joinings at the building's several corners are all in the same saddle- v-notched style and, apparently, all of them the- work of the selfsame craftsman. The length of the house parallels the course of the river, that is roughly from southwest to northeast, and is, in the central core, somewhat more than sixty feet long by eighteen or twenty feet wide. However, this long and narrow profile was broken on its southeast (front) side, not in the center but nearer to the northeast end, by an approximately twenty foot wide wing which protruded about fifteen feet from the general wall line. On the northwest (back) side a similar wing, but this one nearer to the southwest end, also protruded from the central axis. On the front, separated by the protruding wing, two shallow, open porches extended toward their respective ends of the building. This house originally contained a kitchen, dining room, living room, and two or three bedrooms. In the Wyoming of 1890 years it was considered a spa cious, comfortable ranch home. ; Presently, this basic building still exists and still functions as the headquarters of the T E Ranch. In that capacity it serves, as it has for many years past, as the home of the ranch foreman-manager. The shallow, open porches on the front have been extended to the full pro trusion of the above described wing and screened in against summer time river-bottom insect life. Vines have grown over tibJL greening thus chang ing the aspect of the building in the front corners and angles to one of straight lines. Evidently, insulating quality of a log structure, the low ce il ing ted in some uncomfortableness from summer heat. Anyway ^ upolas Hptve been raised on the roof of the house, pensate for light lost because of porch extensions and vlpke to permit the.. escape of_ interior... heat. \ " "V_i\ PERIOD (check One or More as Appropriate) Q Pre-Columbian! D 16th Century 18th Century 20th Century n 15th Century D 17th Century 19th Century SPECIFIC DATEtS) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGN I FICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal | | Education Political j | Urban Planning Q Prehistoric f~] Engineering Religion/Phi (Specify.) £3t Historic |~~] Industty losophy Cattleman's (jrjj Agriculture Q Invend'on Science Frontier (jjjj Architecture [~] Landscape Sculpture D Art Architecture Social/Human [ | Commerce Q] Literature itarian [~~| Communications Q1 Military Theater [~| Conservation Music Transportation A total of five historic places located in or near Cody, Wyoming and each possessing a specific relationship to Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) are believed to be worthy of nomination for enrollment in the National Register of Historic Places. These places are: one, T E Ranch; two, z Buffalo Bill Campground; three, Pahaska Tepee; four, Irma Hotel; and five, o (under slightly different circumstances), Buffalo Bill Historic Center. Since every nomination to the National Register should---and under form u chart guidance must---provide a purview of the prospective registry's sig nificance and since each one of the places mentioned in the foregoing owes its founding in one way .or another to a common vision and execution of the resulting plan, the immediately following introductory sketch applies equally to all five places and has been framed as a common section to all five of the separate nominations. Thus these five historic places form a little group of their own and their individual nominations for enrollment in the "Register" are submitted together, but this submission is not as a block with a "take all or none" implication. Indeed, and to the contrary, LU the five are offered on the basis of individual merit and the failure of LJ any one of them to win approval by review-authority should not reflect on the decisions that authority may make as regards the other four. Almost from the city's very founding date, at least only shortly thereafter, four of these five historic places were components of either Cody itself or its environs while the remaining one, though coming later, was a natural outgrowth of particular circumstances which contributed to that founding. Opening of the first of these (at least the first within the actual town site) together with the rise of several scattered business and residential structures plus the designation of a United States Post Office bearing the Cody, Wyoming'title were all established facts by August, 1896. From the beginning, and probably in a greater extent than is normally the case, geographical location-^^ir,st in the general sense and second in the exact sense- had a dec^^^iLpift^yWppn the commerical and the cultural develop ment of a compo4i|fe^J^toi£y/Jhich was a blend of already partially established ruKsHfcfttsttwP&ith xSjMind new urbanization. See* addendum LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE- AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY C 1 DEFINING TH£| CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY —— ..;. ——— - ——| ————: ——— F, OF} LESS THAN TEN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATItUpre LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW ' ° ' " o • 44° 16' 55" 109° 29' 33" N E ° ' " ° SE ° ' « sw : o , o APPROXIMATE ACRE AGE O F NOMIN ATED PROPERTY: 2 S-CTBS /*\"\^\ 1 1 "S'/'^/X/ |LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING S T kffe&^t O U N^£ BbCj^'^^l ES STATE: CODE COUNTY A^y jfFPpJVpn <,A CODE ————i^f — nrf &fl 1Q79— t^ ———: — ~ — — STATE: CODE COUNTY - —-Hj Utb" «*O I3/^ S-^<-- — \j , CODE, , , ., ._ ——— V4— NATiOW F — +&& ——— —— STATE: -. CODE COUNTY^ ^\ '^C] ' ^^f *1" l^ CODE 1^~ X 'M-VJSOf L.SV A^/ ;-. ;'^>" <Q-\/ STATE: ! CODE COUNTY: \//^^_ -f'^\^^ CODE - ^<!^TT\^>^ - - NAME AND TITLE: • Nedward Frost, Chief -Historic Division, ORGANIZATION DATE Wyoming Recreation Commission Sept 22, 1972 STREET AND NUMBER: o P.O. Box 309 z CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Chevenne ...... Wyoming „„.„„./. „„„.„,„,„.....,.,„„.,„..„„„,„. ,,,.56 .. As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law National Register. 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set (I^JjJAJfh./^fijjuy forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Office of Archeology an&Wistoric Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: Nat*6nal Q Sta|te QQ Local n Date 4/*fi±.- . I I - . ' : N.me ^M (I($/£&$/~~- ATTEST: / Title State Liaison Officer \sS&T>^°^/ Keeper of /The Nati£rlal~Re&ister\. "Date September 22, 1972 X7 / V?a/g7>/ / ^ GP 0. 9 0 I .0 8 7 Form 10-300a (July 1969) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Continuation Sheet) (Number all entries) Statement of Physical Appearance - 2 Within, the house has been periodically upgraded am today, it presents all the aspects and conveniences---made tt by the services of the local Rural Electric Administration Comp any recently constructed home. The grounds of this "home-ranch house" have also received continuous care. Domesticated lawn grasses replace native river-meadow species; several tree varieties indigenous to the region but not necessarily to this valley floor locality, such as the blue spruce, have been planted and encouraged to grow; planned patches of flowers dot the lawn; as mentioned, vines cover the porches and climb the exteriors of native stone fireplace chimneys.

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