{"id":78,"date":"2009-10-19T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:15:58","slug":"old-faithful-inn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/yellowstone-hotels\/old-faithful-inn\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Faithful Inn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin:5px 10px 5px 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/images\/hotels\/old-faithful-inn-5.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/images\/hotels\/old-faithful-inn-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Old Faithful Inn Yellowstone\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"image-border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"photo-caption-f\">Old Faithful Inn photo by National Park Service<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMore than any other building in the national parks,\u201d wrote architectural historian Harvey K. Kaiser, \u201cthe <strong>Old Faithful Inn<\/strong> not only met but far exceeded the concessionaires ideas for development.\u201d Yellowstone Park Association, a concession whose silent partner was the Northern Pacific Railroad hired 29-year-old Seattle architect Robert C. Reamer in 1902 to design the <strong>Old Faithful Inn<\/strong> at <strong>Old Faithful Geyser<\/strong>.  It was built between 1903 and 1904 with local stone and timber in the rustic style for $140,000 plus $25,000 for furnishings.  <strong>Old Faithful Inn\u2019s<\/strong> seven-story, log framed lobby soars 91 feet to the roof line.  \u201cThe lobby was the focus of Mr. Reamer\u2019s rustic effect,\u201d historian Aubrey L. Haines wrote. \u201cIt is a great balconied cavern, open to the roof, with all supporting beams in braces exposed to view like the skeleton of some enormous mammal seen from within.\u201d  You must stand on more than one of its balconies to gasp its spectacle.  The wrought iron work was largely forged on site. The <strong>Old Faithful Inn\u2019s<\/strong> chalet features applied to its log skeleton typify the rustic style.  The Inn was meant to be blunt competition from rival Union Pacific package tours became in Yellowstone&#8217;s West entrance. The east wing was added to the Old Faithful Inn between 1913 and 1914; the west wing in 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xanterra Official Site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com\/old-faithful-inn-96.html\">Old Faithful Inn Reservations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 20px; font-weight: bold\">References<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 10px 0px 25px 50px\">\n<p>This post incorporates&nbsp;text from:<\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone National Park Handbook 150. 2001.<br \/> National Park Service, Division of Publications. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Faithful Inn photo by National Park Service \u201cMore than any other building in the national parks,\u201d wrote architectural historian Harvey K. Kaiser, \u201cthe Old Faithful Inn not only met but far exceeded the concessionaires ideas for development.\u201d Yellowstone Park Association, a concession whose silent partner was the Northern Pacific Railroad hired 29-year-old Seattle architect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/188"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonenationalpark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}