Mormon Row barns with Tetons (Moulton barns)
— — a roof line older than the road that found it.
Not only on a wall.
“The Moulton barns sit on Antelope Flats in Grand Teton National Park, on the dirt grid the Mormon homesteaders laid out in the 1890s. The T.A. Moulton barn is the one almost everyone photographs. The John Moulton barn stands a few hundred yards north, a little older, with a small green house behind it. Behind both, the Tetons rise without foothills. The light that gets quoted is the ten minutes after sunrise, when the range goes pink and the barn wood is still cold. By eight the photographers have gone for coffee. from the studio
Mormon Row barns with Tetons (Moulton barns), on ceramic.
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Mormon Row is a strip of homesteads along what is now Mormon Row Road, off Antelope Flats Road inside Grand Teton National Park. Latter-day Saint settlers from Idaho began arriving in the late 1890s and laid out farms in a clustered, irrigated pattern unlike the scattered ranches around them. The Mormon Row Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The T.A. Moulton barn was built between 1912 and 1945 by Thomas Alma Moulton; the John Moulton barn, just north, dates to the 1910s. Both face roughly east, with the Teton Range running north–south behind them at an elevation of about 6,660 feet on the valley floor.
The Tetons rise from the valley with no foothills, which is what makes the alpenglow here so abrupt. At first light the granite of the Grand, Middle, and South Teton turns coral for a few minutes before the sun crests the Gros Ventre Range to the east and lifts onto the barn itself. In summer that window opens around 5:45 a.m.; in October it slides past 7. Photographers arrive in the dark. The barns face roughly east, so the long shadow of the roof falls behind the building while the front planks catch the warmest minute of the day.
Mormon Row Road is plowed only as far as the historic district in winter, then closed beyond. The barns are accessible all year, but the surrounding meadows change radically: yellow balsamroot and lupine carpet the flats in late June, the grass goes gold by September, and the first snow usually lays the ridgelines white by early November. Bison from the Jackson herd often graze the flats just south of the row, sometimes within frame of the barns. The Park Service asks visitors to stay on roads and pull-offs and not climb on the structures, which are stabilized but not restored.