Old Faithful Inn historic lobby
— — a room built to feel like the forest, indoors.
Not only on a wall.
“The seven-story lobby Robert Reamer drew in the winter of 1903, finished the next summer in lodgepole pine cut from the surrounding park. A stone chimney of rhyolite rises eighty-five feet through the center, with eight separate hearths venting through a common flue. The balconies twist where the pine grew twisted, kept rough on purpose. A National Historic Landmark since 1987 and still working as a hotel. — from the studio
Old Faithful Inn historic lobby, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Old Faithful Inn stands at the western edge of the Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone, opened in June 1904 after a single winter of construction. The architect was Robert Reamer, twenty-nine at the time, working from drawings made on site. The Northern Pacific Railway financed the building to draw passengers off the Cinnabar line. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and remains the largest log hotel still standing in the world.
The central chimney is rhyolite quarried from the Black Sand Basin a mile south, set in a single mass that climbs eighty-five feet from the lobby floor through the roofline. Reamer drew the fireplace with eight separate hearths, four facing the lobby and four the upper balconies, all venting through a common flue. The estimated five hundred tons of stone took two seasons to lay. The clock above the main hearth was forged on site from copper and wrought iron.
The hotel opens for the summer season around the first week of May and closes mid-October, with a shorter winter season from mid-December through late February. Lobby tours run daily at no charge during operating months. The Bear Pit lounge keeps its original 1936 wood panels by Walter Oehrle; the dining room serves three meals on a fixed schedule. Reservations for the inn's three hundred and twenty-seven rooms typically close out thirteen months in advance.