Anderson Lodge

Historic house in Wyoming, United States

United States historic place


Anderson Lodge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


44°6′5.5″N 109°25′59.3″W / 44.101528°N 109.433139°W / 44.101528; -109.433139
Built	1890
Architect	Abraham Archibald Anderson
Architectural style	Rustic
NRHP reference No.	87001548
Added to NRHP	September 14, 1987^[1]

The Anderson Lodge or Anderson Studio was built in 1890 in the Absaroka Mountains west of Meeteetse, Wyoming, in what was then the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve, soon renamed the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. The two-story rustic log structure became the home of rancher and artist Abraham Archibald Anderson from 1901 to 1905. Anderson played a significant role in the development of the forest reserve as Special Superintendent of Forest Reserves, and the Anderson Lodge was used as an administrative building for the forest.^[2]

The National Register lists the site as a historic district, including the Anderson Lodge, a one-room log cabin, an outhouse, two log footbridges, a developed spring, and a pole corral. Its significance is related to its wilderness setting, its association with the beginning of a national conservation movement in the United States, and the early history of the United States Forest Service.^[2]

The lodge location is now managed as part of Shoshone National Forest, in the Washakie Wilderness.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Anderson Lodge". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 25, 2008.