Compared with the Inn, which is a full-service hotel, the Lodge provides only dining, social, administrative and registration services for lodgers, who are accommodated in detached cabins surrounding the Lodge. Several earlier buildings were consolidated by Underwood into the single rambling structure, with the help of National Park Service architect
Daniel Ray Hull, in 1926-27.[2]
The Lodge includes a common lobby, dining spaces and a recreation hall, known as Geyser Hall, of log construction in the
National Park Service Rustic style. The roof structure of the 136-foot (41 m) by 100-foot (30 m) Geyser Hall is reminiscent of
Gothic wood construction, with a height of 73 feet (22 m) to the ridge. The hall is arranged with a central
nave-like structure, with subsidiary side aisles.[3]
Accommodations are located behind and to the east of the lodge in "frontier cabins" with en-suite toilets and "budget cabins" with communal toilets and showers. The lodge and cabins are open during the summer season.[4] The cabins are descendants of the original tent camps established by the Shaw and Powell Camping Company in 1913-1915. From 1919 the camp was operated by several owners under the Yellowstone Park Camps Company. Concurrent with the construction of the consolidated Old Faithful Lodge, the camp was acquired by
Harry W. Child in 1928 and renamed the Yellowstone Park Lodges & Camps Company. This company was amalgamated with Child's Yellowstone Park Company in 1936.[2][5]
References
^Kaiser, Harvey (1997). "Landmarks in the Landscape", San Francisco: Chronicle Books
ISBN0-8118-1854-3, p. 143
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abOld Faithful Historic District: A Brief History and Walking Tour (NPS brochure). National Park Service. August 2010.
^Kaiser, Harvey (2008). "The National Park Architecture Sourcebook", New York: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN978-1-56898-742-2, pp. 257-258