Teton County Historic Preservation Board

A recent visit to the Luther Taylor homestead near Kelly revealed this unique newspaper chinking. The interior logs of this c.1923 cabin were handhewn to make them flat for the application of newspaper insulation and whitewashing. Taylor took several unusual steps in his construction of the cabin, which included a stone foundation and a wooden floor. When the wall collapsed on the northern room it revealed this unusual chinking material. This cabin would have been warm and brightly lit for the long cold and dark winter months.

📸: Photos by Samantha Ford.

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This view of the Bar BC is undated, and appears to show the Main Cabin in a state of disrepair, likely after the ranch closed in 1986. Compared with the same view today, these then and now perspectives can help us piece together what has been lost.

The Bar BC was the second dude ranch to open in Jackson Hole in 1912 by Struthers Burt and Horace Carncross. The Bar BC quickly became the largest and most-known dude ranch in the valley. At least 25 other ranches were started by former dudes of the Bar BC.

Thanks to the efforts of the Western Center of Historic Preservation, the remaining cabins at the Bar BC are being stabilized and preserved to continue to tell this important story.

📸: HJH 2005.0016.036 & Photo by Samantha Ford.

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The Mercer Cabin is one of Jackson’s most unique buildings, even with the current monochromatic paint scheme. However, close inspection reveals this was not always the case. The cabin was once brightly colored as evidenced by these remnants visible underneath layers of dark brown paint. The red pigment can be dated to 1954 when the cabin was purchased by Dale Fullenwider for his jewelry store. The Jackson’s Hole Courier described the cabin as a “storybook cottage from Hansel and Gretel with its red logs, sparkling white trim, window boxes, and wriggly green shingles climbing up the steeply pitched roof.”

So what do you think, should this cabin be returned to its original paint colors?

📸: Photos by Samantha Ford.

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Happy 95th anniversary to this photograph! Recent research uncovered the date this photo was taken as sometime this week in November. The configuration of buildings visible in this photograph helps us to identify a specific date. The water tower was built between November 1-17th in 1929. This was part of Jackson’s first water/sewer system which was gravity fed from this tower. Homer Richards had begun construction on his Ideal Lodge after November 7th, which isn’t yet visible in this photograph. We can see the log cabin on this lot has been removed, but the outbuildings remain. By the end of the month the project was completed. So these two properties help us to narrow the date of the photograph to November 7th to the 17th. See next slide for a cropped and annotated version showing these two locations.

There are several other places of note in the photograph: The original rodeo grounds (far right side, the curved of the track is visible), the original brick high school (bottom right corner), St John’s (middle left)

Do you recognize any other buildings here? Let us know in the comments.

📸: 1929 view of Jackson facing southeast. HJH 1958.0226.001.

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