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Tel: (307) 344-7901 (2008). This was the earliest hotel still operating in Yellowstone National Park. Originally, an unprepossessing gable-roofed, wood frame building, Seattle architect, Robert C. Reamer, enlarged the hotel in three areas and added its Neo-Classical Revival Style elements. Archival documents on the Yellowstone Park Hotel can be found at the Montana Historical Society Library, Helena, MT 59620; Yellowstone Park Company records, 1866-1933. Author: Yellowstone Park Company.; Child and Anceney.; Yellowstone Park Association.; Yellowstone Park Camps Company.; Yellowstone Park Hotel Company. Summary: This collection contains records of four of the Yellowstone Park Company's predecessor companies.

Remodeled by architect Robert C. Reamer beginning in 1903. He added its grand portico with demilune, Ionic columns, bright yellow paint job, and 15 faux balconies. In 1929, the hotel gained a large porte cochere, a dining room and its sunroom, as well as a general interior remodeling. The National Park Service and the Lake Yellowstone Hotel's operator, TW Recreational Services, began in 1981 and ten-year renovation effort to restore the Lake Hotel to its 1920s appearance; this culminated in the hotel's centennial year, when it was also placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

PCAD id: 4367