Overcoming Obscurity: The Yellowstone Architecture of Robert C. Reamer
Quinn R. 2004. Overcoming Obscurity: The Yellowstone Architecture of Robert C. Reamer. Yellowstone Science. Yellowstone National Park
First-Time callers to the Xanterra Central Reservations Offi ce in Yellowstone frequently make their first request a stay at the Old Faithful Inn. They do not always know what to call it; they say “Old Faithful Lodge” more often than not. Yet it is the lodging facility in Yellowstone that everyone seems to know. It may well be the second most famous feature in Yellowstone, after Old Faithful Geyser itself. By contrast, last summer a woman came into the inn looking for the plaque bearing the architect’s name—and, rare among visitors, she already knew it. She was visiting from Oberlin, Ohio, the place of Robert Reamer’s birth. Unfortunately, she found no such plaque at the Old Faithful Inn. It is difficult to find Reamer’s name anywhere around the park, even in the Yellowstone building that has come to be so powerfully linked with him—the building that has for many people come to define what they admiringly, if inaccurately, think of as the “Reamer style.”
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Quinn, Ruth
- Date of Issue
- 2004
- Units
- HIST , YELL
- Keywords
- architectural history, Architecture, Built landscape, ehistory, Grand Canyon hotel, History, Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Old Faithful Inn