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National Historic Landmark - Old Faithful Inn

This Landmark was the first building in a National Park constructed in an architectural style harmonious with the grandeur of the surrounding landscape. Old Faithful Inn reflects Adirondack Rustic architectural idiom, but blown up to enormous proportions. Its seven-story high ...

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National Historic Landmark - Obsidian Cliff

Obsidian Cliff occupies a unique position in national prehistory as a singularly important source of lithic materials for prehistoric peoples of interior western North America. It is recognized as an exceptionally well preserved, heavily utilized lithic source that served the ...

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National Historic Landmark - Madison Museum

Madison Junction Trailside Museum

Built between 1929-31, the architect tried to make his designs harmonize with their surrounding landscapes. They are the best structures of rustic design in the National Park System and they served as the models for hundreds of ...

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National Historic Landmark - Norris Museum

Norris Geyser Basin Museum

Built between 1929-31, the architect tried to make his designs harmonize with their surrounding landscapes. They are the best structures of rustic design in the National Park System and they served as the models for hundreds of ...

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National Historic Landmark - Fishing Bridge Museum

Fishing Bridge Museum

Built between 1929-31, the architect tried to make his designs harmonize with their surrounding landscapes. They are the best structures of rustic design in the National Park System and they served as the models for hundreds of State ...

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National Historic Landmark - Murie Ranch Historic District

Murie Ranch is the most important property associated with Adolph, Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie, whose studies and advocacy changed the way the federal government and scientific community study and manage natural lands and their wildlife populations. The Muries supported ...

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National Historic Landmark - Lake Guernsey State Park

This park represents the highest achievements of the collaboration between the NPS and the Bureau of Reclamation in developing what became known as "recreation areas" around reservoirs built in Western states.

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National Historic Landmark - Medicine Wheel

This represents one of the most interesting and mysterious remains of late period aboriginal culture. Its builders and function are unknown. Composed of loose, irregularly shaped, whitish flat stones placed in a circle, it is apparently little modified since its ...

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National Historic Landmark - Jackson Lake Lodge

Jackson Lake Lodge, completed in 1955, represents a break with the traditional rustic style of architecture used in the National Park Service. Designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who previously had designed the Ahwahnee, Bryce Canon and North Rim Grand Canyon ...

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National Historic Landmark - Independence Rock

Independence Rock is a well-known natural landmark on the Oregon Trail, 1900 feet long and 850 feet wide. Numerous travelers painted, carved, or wrote their names on its surface over the years.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, ...

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