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📖 This month’s Preservation Dictionary term is: The Teton County List of Historically Significant Buildings!
Did you know teton county has its own list of historic buildings?
The TCHPB is responsible for maintaining a list of locally significant historic buildings. the county list is for buildings outside of jackson town limits, but carries the same incentives. Putting your property on the teton county list of historically significant buildings is a voluntary process and always requires the consent of the landowner. Your house or building must be more than 50 years old.
For more information, visit: https://tetonhistoricpreservation.org/resources/
and: https://www.jacksonwy.gov/612/Historic-Preservation
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Did you know one of the original activities at Jackson Hole dude ranches was swimming? How about in a pool, perhaps during a pool party? Though their definition of “pool” was much more loose than ours. Pools were a popular part of life at the Bar BC, White Grass, and the Bear Paw Ranch to name a few.
📸: Pool party at the Bear Paw Ranch. (2005.0016.014 History Jackson Hole Collection)
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The Josiah Ferrin house on East Pearl was built around 1913 by local builder Charlie Fox. It is thought that Fox lived in the house until he rented it out to Dr. Charles Huff and his wife Edna about 1915. The Huff’s daughter Gretchen was born in the house in 1916. Only a year later Fox sold the house to Josiah “Si” Ferrin. Ferrin was the owner of the Elk Ranch, thought to be Jackson Hole’s largest cattle ranch through the 1920s. Many ranchers maintained houses in town, where they could spend the winter, send their children to school, or to ease the isolation experienced living in the northern end of the valley. Sometimes they took up short-term contracts for a time to supplement income or for a change of pace. Ferrin held the mail contract to bring mail between Jackson and Moran during the years he lived in this house.
📸: 1. Fox home after construction as seen from E. Pearl (1958.2386.001 History Jackson Hole Collection), 2. Thomas G. Huff (Dr. Huff’s brother) on west side of house (HS.0200 History Jackson Hole Collection), 3. Fox-Huff-Ferrin home today (Photo by Samantha Ford) @jacksonhole_history
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R is for: Ranch architecture
Ranch-style houses are recognized for their low-pitched gable roofs, asymmetrical design, and usually an attached garage. Though the style can be broad, and have a wide variety of appearances. Decorative features can include board and batten siding, brick, stone, or stucco. Decorative window panes or shutters were popular. Often these houses had a contrasting paint style, that helped these elements to stand out from each other.
In Jackson, the Gill Addition has several classic examples of this style, though they are being lost at an increasing rate. The house featured here, 380 Teton Ave was torn down in the summer of 2025.
📸: Ryan Dorgan @jacksonfunk.jh
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You may have seen in the news recently that the Huff Memorial Library (the Old Library) is getting some much needed repairs as it nears its 90th anniversary. We thought we’d share more about the important history of this building:
The Huff Memorial Library was built in 1938 to commemorate the life of Dr. Charles Huff, who dedicated his life to the health and social wellbeing of Jackson Hole. In addition to being the only doctor within a 100-mile radius and responding to emergencies 24/7 by horse, skis, wagon, or on foot, he held most of the community offices in town. He oversaw the construction of the first hospital, and the circulation of the first library. Upon his untimely death, the community wanted to recognize his superlative life with more than a static monument. They wanted something grand to equal his legacy, and something dynamic that could serve them well.
The Huff Memorial Library became one of the most successful partnerships of Town, County, National Park, and the larger Jackson Hole community. Logs were provided by Grand Teton National Park, nearly every family in town and tourist alike provided some small monetary contribution, a local architect and dude ranch owner donated architectural plans, and government officials came together to acquire the land and Works Progress Administration funds for the labor. Upon its completion the Huff Memorial Library was hailed as “Jackson’s most beautiful public building.”
📸: Huff Memorial Library (1958.1073.001P HJH Collection)
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🗓️ Mark your calendars for the 2nd Tuesday of every month for the Preservation Board meeting!
🤝 Our next Board Meeting is tomorrow Tuesday, February 10th from 7-9pm in person and via Zoom. Meetings are held in the Teton County Board of Commissioners Meeting Room.
👥The public is welcome to comment at every meeting. For details about this month’s meeting, see the links below:
📋 AGENDA: https://tetonhistoricpreservation.org/tchpb-meeting-documents/
💻 ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/teton-preservation-zoom
📸: Dan C. Nowlin and family (1958.0082.001P History Jackson Hole Collection)
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🗓️ Mark your calendars for the 2nd Tuesday of every month for the Preservation Board meeting!
🤝 Our next Board Meeting is Tuesday, January 13th from 7-9pm in person and via Zoom. Meetings are held in the Teton County Board of Commissioners Meeting Room.
👥The public is welcome to comment at every meeting. For details about this month’s meeting, see the links below:
📋 AGENDA: https://tetonhistoricpreservation.org/tchpb-meeting-documents/
💻 ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/teton-preservation-zoom
📸: The old Jenny Lake Post Office (1958.0151.001P History Jackson Hole Collection)
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Did you know Grand Teton National Park once held a rodeo grounds with grandstands and food concessions? The old (original) Elbo Dude Ranch hosted rodeos during the summers for the dude ranches north of town, who were too far to make it to the weekly rodeos in town. They operated for a brief time during the 1920s, until it was sold to the Snake River Land Company in 1929. During the 1930s the area was used for Park Service housing until the Beaver Creek area was developed.
📸: Then and now perspectives on the Elbo rodeo (1958.1192.001P History Jackson Hole Collection) @jacksonhole_history
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Happy New Year from the TCHPB! This rare view of the St. John’s campus in winter shows the Rest Home (right, c.1911) and the original hospital (left) in the 1920s. The hospital was built in 1916, and had only four rooms. An operating theater and kitchen were downstairs, and recovery rooms were upstairs. More rooms were added in 1919 as this was not enough space. Eventually in 1927 the building more than doubled and 25 beds were added. The hospital remained here servicing the entire valley for more than 40 years until 1958. The final patients were removed from the old log hospital in 1960. During dismantling in 1962 a fire broke out and most of the building was lost. A few wings were saved and moved to various locations around Jackson Hole.
We hope your family enjoys good health in the New Year!
📸: HJH 1999.0025.001 @jacksonhole_history
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📖 This month’s Preservation Dictionary term is: The Jackson Historic Register
Did you know the town of Jackson has its own register of historic buildings? In February, 2021, the Town of Jackson adopted into its Land Development Regulations (LDRs) a new program to preserve historic structures in the Town. Putting your property on the Jackson Historic Register is a voluntary program and always requires the consent of the landowner. The Town cannot designate properties without landowner permission. Your house or building must be more than 50 years old to qualify for listing.
For more information, visit: https://www.jacksonwy.gov/612/Historic-Preservation
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The Clymer House and Studio in Teton Village was added to the National Register of Historic Places this year. It is Teton County’s first mid-century modern house to be added to the National Register. The Clymer House was preserved forever with a preservation easement with the Teton Trust for Historic Places @tetontrust22. We hope to see more buildings from this era be recognized and preserved in the coming year.
John Clymer began his career illustrating covers for the Saturday Evening Post, and he became their second-most published artist after Norman Rockwell. After the Post, Clymer turned to his first love of oil painting. He was instrumental in developing the American Western Art genre.
John and his wife Doris traveled the country seeking inspiration for his Saturday Evening Post covers when they discovered a hobby. The American West was just beginning to record its history, and they wanted to help immortalize it. Their painstaking research produced a viable, living quality to Clymer’s paintings.
Clymer was recognized for his talent, receiving multiple awards from the Academy of Western Art, Cowboy Artists of America, the National Wildlife Art Collector’s Society, and others. Today, the contents of his studio are replicated on display at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, where Clymer was the first recipient of the Rungius Medal.
“In the historical painting, somebody who just puts down the facts isn’t making a total contribution. You have to make it real, make it live. Your characters have to have interplay, like all living things do. When Doris and I make a discovery, we feel we’re making a contribution to our Western heritage.” –John Ford Clymer
📸: Matthew Stirn, National Register Nomination
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✈️ Making plans to travel for the holidays? These two images show that traveling in and out of Jackson Hole has always been tricky. Both were taken on Teton Pass, two decades apart in the 1920s and the 1940s. Which one is earlier? Read below for the answer. The technology in both is your hint.
🚗 If you guessed the second image with cars pulled over for the horses to pass is the earlier photo from the 1920s, you are correct! The Teton Pass Road was graded for automobiles in 1918, and this image shows us the struggles of the early years when horses and cars were in equal numbers. Summer was busy on the Pass, being the only season it was guaranteed to be open.
🐎 The first image in the winter was taken much later in the 1940s, and demonstrates the formidable transportation corridor this road continued to be. Though the State was supposed to keep the road open year-round, heavy snows often made this impossible and necessary freight shipments were made by horse. Though this image shows one of the last times horses and sleighs were used in winter.
🏔️ The Old Pass Road was replaced in 1970 with the current route. The Old Pass Road still exists thanks to the dedicated work of local Jim Verdone. His great preservation work was recently highlighted in a Jackson Hole News & Guide article!
📸: 1: Teton Pass Winter Travel c.1940s (History Jackson Hole Collection 1958.0521.001P), 2: Teton Pass Summer Traffic c.1922 (History Jackson Hole Collection 1958.0509.001P) @jacksonhole_history
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