A Miracle In Hotel Building. The Dramatic Story Of The Building Of The New Canyon Hotel In Yellowstone Park

J.H. RAFTERY

Publication: Yellowstone Park Company, nd ca 1939, NP

Third Edition. 9" x 6" in cream pictorial wrappers showing photographs of the First Canyon Hotel with 2 wagons parked in front and also of the New Canyon Hotel. 16 pp. with eleven photographic illustrations by official Yellowstone photographer F. J. Haynes (includes six views with horses being used to transport building materials, full page views of the Hotel's lobby, lounge, dining room and panel room). In 1910, architect Robert C. Reamer (who also designed the Old Faithful Hotel) presented designs for a new hotel to be located at Canyon Village, adjacent to the Falls of the Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, to be known as the Canyon Hotel. This hotel incorporated portions of a previous hotel, built in 1891, and was 750 feet long with 400 rooms and 100 baths. Occupying a prominent site on a hillside, it was built in the winter of 1910-1911. The design bore a close resemblance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style work, with a strong horizontal emphasis and a commanding roof line. Haynes was hired to illustrate the pamphlet for this new hotel and many of the images in the publication were also available as postcards."The hotel, which has been under construction for more than a year, was opened, except for the lounging room, when the park season began, June 15. It was built under incredible difficulties and every pound of material within this great structure, which stretches along the mountainside for 700 feet and is full five stories in height, was brought in by freight wagon and sleds from Gardner, 40 miles away, and for several months, through snowdrifts 10 to 12 feet in depth, with the thermometer far below zero for weeks at a time. The hotel has 450 rooms and 75 bathrooms" (Anaconda Standard, Aug. 4, 1911). Minimal soiling to wrappers and with minimal rubbing to spine. Very good plus.