File:Floor Plans - Child Residence, House, Southwest of Nichol Residence and South of Cafeteria, Mammoth, Park County, WY HABS WY-138-A (sheet 2 of 4).tif

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Floor Plans - Child Residence, House, Southwest of Nichol Residence and South of Cafeteria, Mammoth, Park County, WY
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Agutter, Jim
Title
Floor Plans - Child Residence, House, Southwest of Nichol Residence and South of Cafeteria, Mammoth, Park County, WY
Description
Reamer, Robert, Architect; Child, Harry W., Owner; Foster, J., delineator
Depicted place Wyoming; Park County; Mammoth
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS WY-138-A (sheet 2 of 4)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • STORED ON SITE. mchr
  • Significance: It is significant as an early, pure example of the Prairie School style. Built in 1908, the house evidences a direct link to, and understanding of, Frank Lloyd Wright's contemporary works in the Chicago area. The house was designed by Robert Reamer, who mastered a number of architectural style while working for Yellowstone concessionaire Harry W. Child

Reamer's influence in the architecture of Yellowstone is distinguished: some of the numerous park buildings credited to him include the Old Faithful Inn, designed in 1903 in the Rustic Style; the 1923 remodeling of the Lake Hotel in the Colonial Revival Style; and his 1910 design of the defunct Canyon Hotel, also in the Prairie School Style. The Child's House is located in the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District at the dine of a row of single family residences, also designed by Reamer. The one-story hipped roof house has broad overhanging eaves, and sits on a stepped concrete foundation that rises at various heights to the bottom of multi-pane casement windows. Horizontal board-and-batten siding emphasizes the horizontality that is typical of Prairie School Style design...

  • Survey number: HABS WY-138-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 02000257.

Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wy0591.sheet.00002a
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Object location44° 57′ 57.6″ N, 110° 42′ 43.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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