National Register of Historic Places listings in Uinta County, Wyoming
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Uinta County, Wyoming.
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
There are 14 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 9, 2024.[1]
Albany - Big Horn - Campbell - Carbon - Converse - Crook - Fremont - Goshen - Hot Springs - Johnson - Laramie - Lincoln - Natrona - Niobrara - Park - Platte - Sheridan - Sublette - Sweetwater - Teton - Uinta - Washakie - Weston |
Current listings
edit[2] | Name on the Register | Image | Date listed[3] | Location | City or town | Description |
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1 | Black and Orange Cabins | April 23, 2020 (#100005191) |
37000 I-80 Business Loop 41°19′05″N 110°23′21″W / 41.318°N 110.3892°W | Fort Bridger | Wyoming's best surviving motor court representing the impact of auto tourism along the Lincoln Highway in the 1920s and 30s, with five contributing properties including two four-unit cabins with their own carports. Preserved within Fort Bridger State Historic Site.[4] | |
2 | Bridger Antelope Trap | January 21, 1971 (#71000893) |
Address restricted[5] | Evanston | Wooden quarter-mile (400 m) wing and 700-foot-diameter (210 m) circle into which Native Americans would drive pronghorns sometime before 1850, representing a distinctive hunting strategy of the northwestern Great Plains.[6] | |
3 | Downtown Evanston Historic District | November 25, 1983 (#83004307) |
Roughly bounded by Center, 9th, 11th, and Front Sts. 41°16′04″N 110°57′58″W / 41.2677°N 110.966°W | Evanston | Downtown district with 41 contributing properties that chart Evanston's evolution from a railroad boomtown to a major commercial and government center in southwest Wyoming.[7] | |
4 | ERT Bridge over Black's Fork | February 22, 1985 (#85000441) |
County Road CN19-217 41°18′05″N 110°23′31″W / 41.3014°N 110.392°W | Fort Bridger | Rigid-connected Warren truss bridge built circa 1920; an early example of a widely used configuration after Wyoming's shift from county-funded bridges to standardized, state highway department designs.[8] Replaced in 1988.[citation needed] | |
5 | Fort Bridger | April 16, 1969 (#69000197) |
37000 I-80 Business Loop 41°19′03″N 110°23′25″W / 41.3175°N 110.3902°W | Fort Bridger | Site of a trading post (1843–1857) turned U.S. military fort (1858–1890), with 15 contributing properties. A vital point for commerce, overland migration, transcontinental communication and transportation, and U.S.–Native relations through key stages of western history. Preserved as a state historic site.[9] | |
6 | Piedmont Charcoal Kilns | June 3, 1971 (#71000894) |
County Rd. 173 41°13′12″N 110°37′10″W / 41.2199°N 110.6195°W | Piedmont | Trackside kilns built circa 1869 to produce charcoal to fuel mining smelters—three intact and one partial ruin of once-common frontier structures that left vast areas devegetated in the service of industry. Preserved as a state historic site.[10] | |
7 | A. V. Quinn House | September 13, 1984 (#84003712) |
1049 Center St. 41°16′03″N 110°58′04″W / 41.2674°N 110.9678°W | Evanston | 1883 house of Anthony Quinn (1831–1913)—a western settler turned prosperous merchant and politician—and Mattie Quinn (d. 1898), a founder of the state's temperance movement and a University of Wyoming trustee.[11] | |
8 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | November 17, 1980 (#80004057) |
949 Sage St. 41°15′58″N 110°58′04″W / 41.266°N 110.9677°W | Evanston | Exemplary Carpenter Gothic church built 1884–85 by an Episcopal congregation, but serving multiple communities of faith for a time as Evanston's only Protestant house of worship.[12] | |
9 | Triangulation Point Draw Site District (48UT114; 48UT377; 48UT392; 48UT440) | September 16, 1986 (#86002320) |
Address restricted[5] | Verne | District of Late Prehistoric occupation sites illuminating influences from the eastern Great Basin and northwestern Great Plains that characterized Indigenous lifestyles in southwest Wyoming.[13] | |
10 | Uinta County Courthouse | July 14, 1977 (#77001385) |
225 9th St. 41°15′59″N 110°57′54″W / 41.2663°N 110.9649°W | Evanston | The long-serving seat of Uinta County government and Wyoming's oldest county courthouse, with an 1873 core covered by expansions in 1874 and 1910.[14] | |
11 | Union Pacific Railroad Complex | February 26, 1985 (#85000685) |
Main and 15th Sts. 41°16′18″N 110°58′12″W / 41.2716°N 110.9701°W | Evanston | Railroad division headquarters complex with 10 contributing properties built 1880s–1920s, a well-preserved symbol of the economic impact of the Union Pacific Railroad on anchoring Evanston.[15] | |
12 | US Post Office-Evanston Main | May 19, 1987 (#87000790) |
221 10th St. 41°16′01″N 110°57′59″W / 41.267°N 110.9663°W | Evanston | 1908 post office and federal courthouse noted for its superlative Beaux-Arts architecture and import as (porkish) federal recognition of Evanston secured by Senator Clarence D. Clark. Also a contributing property to the Downtown Evanston Historic District.[16] | |
13 | Wyoming State Insane Asylum | February 27, 2003 (#03000084) |
831 Wyoming Highway 150 S. 41°15′48″N 110°56′58″W / 41.263333°N 110.949444°W | Evanston | Wyoming's only state-run psychiatric hospital, an important statewide resource and a longstanding local institution. Contains 16 contributing properties built 1887–1948 that reflect trends in the treatment of mental illness.[17] | |
14 | Brigham Young Oil Well | April 25, 1985 (#85000872) |
Northeastern quarter of the northeastern quarter of Section 4, Township 13, Range 119[18] 41°08′15″N 110°50′10″W / 41.137500°N 110.836111°W | Evanston | Natural petroleum seep used by the initial 1847 Mormon pioneers, and expanded into a well used up until 1869 by Mormon migrants and settlers in the Salt Lake Valley.[19] |
See also
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References
edit- ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
- ^ The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
- ^ Kelly, Bethany (2019-12-12). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Black and Orange Cabins (PDF). Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ a b Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
- ^ "Bridger Antelope Trap". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ Starr, Eileen; Michael Gorman (September 1982). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Downtown Evanston Historic District. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ Fraser, Clayton B. (1982-05-24). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ^ Barnhart, Bill (1969-02-26). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Fort Bridger. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ^ Barnhart, Bill (1971). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Piedmont Charcoal Kilns. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ^ Gorman, Mike (1984). National Register of Historic Places Inventory— Nomination Form: Quinn, A. V., House. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
- ^ McIntosh, Jim (1980-08-19). National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: St. Paul's Episcopal Church. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "Triangulation Point Draw Site District". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ Junge, Mark; Clayton Fraser (1977-02-01). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Uinta County Courthouse. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
- ^ Gorman, Michael; Eileen Starr; Sharon Bollinger (November 1982). National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Union Pacific Railroad Complex. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ Kolva, H. J. "Jim" (April 1986). National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form: Evanston Main Post Office. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ Barbero, Kerry; Barbara Bogart; Dubbe~Moulder Architects (2002-11-20). National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Wyoming State Insane Asylum. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
- ^ Emmons, Samuel Franklin, and Edwin Clarence Eckel. Contributions to Economic Geology, 1905. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 285. Washington: GPO, 1906, 345.
- ^ "Brigham Young Oil Well". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2024-03-23.