[Geysers] geyser-heated poultry house (Stephens)

[Lynn Stephens]

Thanks Scott.   I think the picture is probably the hothouse that was built in 1897 and was "designed to raise 'green stuff for the winter keeper and for similar purposes for the hotel' (Master Plan, 1939)."  The building was located "in an area behind where the Lower UGB Gas Station is today [1995], rested on a hot spring formation so as to keep it heated year round.  Howe, the manager of the YPA's hotels, ran the hothouse."  The building was still in place until at least 1939 since it was shown on the 1939 Master Plan.  {Source:  The Evolution of the Cultural Landscape in Yellowstone National Park's Upper Geyser basin and the changing Visitor Experience, 1892-1990" Master's Thesis by Karl John Bryand.}  Brand listed some of the other buildings built in association with the hotels in the UGB, including a privy for the shack hotel, and a comment by Assistant superintendent weimer that the "outhouse's location could be more discreet...and that the hotel grounds were 'utterly intolerable for a dog' because they were constantly littered with trash and other debris."  Brand discusses housing and laundry facilities for use by employees that were built by the hotel; and says "the Hotel company added other smaller structures." In addiition to a small caretaker's quarters, two separate engineers' quarters, the company buillt a "carpenter and paint shop, pipe shot, tailor shop, broiler house and power plane, a hose house, and a larger boler room/laundry."  Unfortunately, I couldn't find any mention of the "geyser-heated poultry house" in Brand's thesis. LynnFrom: TSBryan at aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:47:51 -0400
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: Re: [Geysers] geyser-heated poultry house  (Stephens)






I don't think this photo (attached) is the "poultry house," but it 
certainly was heated by thermal water. I do not remember my source but it was 
listed as a greenhouse and was somewhere in the Myriad Group (more or less 
behind the modern lower station, I think).
 
Scott Bryan
 

In a message dated 4/15/2012 5:43:38 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
lstephens2006 at hotmail.com writes:

  I'm working on another article for The Sput.  As I was 
  reading through some items from Yellowstone Nature Notes, I came across a 
  reference to a "geyser-heated poultry house maintained by the winter keeper of 
  the Inn" in an article written by Ranger Charles Phillips.  (The article 
  appeared in the February 28, 1927 edition of Yellowstone Nature Notes; April 
  12, 1927 Phillips was found dead on the floor of his cabin at the Old Faithful 
  Station, apparently from eating water hemlock.)  Does anyone have or know 
  where I can find information on the "geyser-heated poultry house?"  (I 
  skimmed through Les Quinn's "Old Faithful Village Timeline" but didn't see a 
  reference to the poultry house.)
 
Thanks.
 
Lynn 
  Stephens
 

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