The 4 Lazy F Dude Ranch is a historic district consisting of seven cabins, a lodge/dining hall, service/laundry buildings, barn, shed, and corral on the western bank of the Snake River above Moose, Wyoming. This historic district is significant because as a dude ranch it exemplifies the later period and evolution of the dude ranches as vacation spots in the area. It represents an example of complexes built strictly to be dude ranches, not one that evolved from a cattle ranch. The ranch was built in 1927 as a dude ranch and summer home for its owners, the William Frew family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They operated the ranch as a guest facility by invitation from the family. Throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, as the Frews expanded the facilities, the ranch developed into a small, but typical property type. The ranch was built to convey the western feeling that constituted much of the attraction of dude ranches. The district buildings all are built in a style referred to as dude ranch vernacular, characterized by log construction with some other wood products, such as board and batten siding, used for additions or in specialized service buildings.

The AMK Ranch, on the eastern shore of Jackson Lake, was built in two phases, one during the 1920s by William Louis Johnson, and the second in 1936-37 by Alfred Berol (Berolzheimer). The Ranch is significant because it exemplifies a portion of Rustic architecture at Grand Teton National Park, namely the rustic architecture of twentieth century vacation homes. During Johnson's ownership of the property a small lodge, barn/garage, and boathouse were designed and built in 1927 of log to capture the western atmosphere and the feeling of the natural pine forest surroundings. After Berol acquired the property he added a number of cabins, a new boathouse, and the main lodge.

The Andy Chambers Ranch Historic District is significant in that it remains as the only nearly complete farmstead/ranch of the once densely settled Mormon Row. Mormons made up the bulk of settlers that entered Jackson Hole from 1900 to 1920. Within a few years a discernible community had developed and even though it was not a town it was dubbed Mormon Row because of the religious preference of many of the settlers and the fact that they took up lands on either side of a road that ran north from the Gros Ventre River. Eventually a LDS church was built on the Row and the settlers started the process of turning pioneer farms into permanent ones. The Chambers place is located near the center of this settlement. The frame vernacular buildings at the farmstead date to the 1920s and include the house, an outhouse, a garage, a barn, a chicken house, a machine shed, grain storage buildings, and an oil shed.

The Bar B C Dude Ranch is a historic district consisting of 37 resources: a lodge, cabins, a dining hall, service/laundry buildings, barns, and corrals on the western banks of the Snake River above Moose, Wyoming. The district buildings, constructed in 1912, all are built in a style referred to as dude ranch vernacular characterized by log construction. The historic district is significant because as a dude ranch it helped define and set the standards for the local Jackson Hole industry. It is also important because it was built and operated by Struthers Burt, a local author and industry leader of dude ranching. Along with Horace Carncross, Burt operated the ranch as a guest facility until Burt's and later Carncross' retirement. It was then operated by the Corse family until after World War II when the ranch buildings became summer rental cabins.

The Cascade Canyon Barn, also known as the Cascade Canyon Patrol Cabin when it was converted around 1960, was constructed by the CCC in 1935. Like the cabins at Upper Granite Canyon, Death Canyon, and Moran Bay, the Cascade Canyon Barn is significant for its association with Grand Teton National Park administration and development and its association with National Park Service rustic architecture.

The Chapel of the Transfiguration is located within Grand Teton National Park on property owned and maintained by St. John's Episcopal Church of Jackson, Wyoming. The chapel is one of the most visited religious structures in America and has been seen and admired by thousands of tourists from all over the world who have visited the Tetons each summer since the chapel was built in 1925. The chapel was purposely built in the center of the dude ranch country. It was erected through private contributions as a venture of faith, and is an example of how the early settlers in the valley met their needs by sharing resources. The land was donated by Maud Noble, money was donated by the dude ranches, and labor was donated by those the chapel would serve.

The Cunningham Cabin consists of one standing log structure believed to be the original homestead cabin in Jackson Hole built in 1888 and the scattered remains of ranch buildings and corrals. The standing building is a restoration of a double-pen saddle-V-notched log structure of Appalachian origin. It is an example of the diffusion of frontier adaptations from the eastern seaboard of the United States to the montaine west.

The Death Canyon barn/patrol cabin and associated corral are located in the southwestern corner of Grand Teton National Park. The barn/patrol cabin is a one and one half story log building constructed on a substantial stone foundation. Like the barns/cabins at Upper Granite Canyon, Cascade Canyon, and Moran Bay, the Death Canyon Barn is significant for its association with Grand Teton National Park administration and development and for National Park Service rustic architecture. CCC crews constructed the barn at Death Canyon in 1935. It was converted to a tool-cache/habitation facility soon after dissolution of the CCC program. This modified barn housed trail-maintenance crews, rangers on a loop patrol of the southern park canyons, and, briefly, a ranger permanently stationed in the canyon in the 1950s.

The Double Diamond Dude Ranch Dining Hall, constructed in 1945, is significant for its association with rustic architecture. Significant design features include the log construction, massive stone fireplace, ranch-style floorplan, eave brackets, extensive fenestration, and the interior floorplan and finishes.

Frank Williams and Joseph Clark Jr. opened the Double Diamond Dude Ranch in 1924 on a small 14-acre parcel of land. Initial infrastructure included a log kitchen/dining room cabin, a log lounge cabin, a small commissary cabin, and about a dozen tent cabins. The land base was expanded in 1928 when Williams and Clark purchased 40 acres of the adjacent Manges homestead. The ranch provided tent accommodations and a wilderness experience for teenage boys until 1943 when Williams constructed cabins tailored to tourists in search of more comfortable quarters. Much of the historic dude ranch was destroyed by the Taggart Lake Fire that swept across the south edge of the complex in 1985. Only five cabins and the dining hall survived the fire.

Although architecturally undistinguished from hundreds of log structures that were constructed in Jackson Hole at the turn of the century, the Geraldine Lucas Homestead is unusual as the home of a pioneering single woman. In subsequent years, the cabin served as the summer home of Harold Fabian, who spearheaded John D. Rockefeller's successful effort to expand the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park to include the valley floor. The historic district is significant for its association with western settlement/agricultural development and with regional conservation. The district's period of significance extends from 1913, when Geraldine Lucas first filed for patent to 160 acres, until 1950 when Congress extended Grand Teton National Park. The historic district includes nine buildings clustered in an open meadow along the banks of Cottonwood Creek.

Although many buildings within the Highlands Historic District were not constructed until the 1950s, all adhere to a layout and design concept initiated in 1946. This historic complex represents the last privately owned and operated auto-camp/resort constructed in Grand Teton National Park in the historical period, prior to the initiation of Mission-66 concession-development schemes. It is significant for its association with dude-ranch rustic architecture and with area tourism. Although constructed over the course of three decades, the Highlands buildings are united not only by the carefully planned site layout, but also by the almost exclusive use of log for construction, the frequent inclusion of a front porch in the traditional Rocky Mountain Cabin style, and the simple design and small scale of the cabins. In an example of the overall uniformity of dude-ranch rustic design in Jackson Hole, the cabins bear a striking resemblance to those associated with the neighboring Double Diamond Dude Ranch.

In 1914, Pennsylvania natives Harry and Elizabeth Sensenbach filed a homestead claim to 160 acres along the east bank of Cottonwood Creek. By the late 1920s, in a pattern witnessed throughout Jackson Hole, the Sensenbach's augmented their meager ranching income with tourist dollars, renting a few cabins, and serving ''soft drinks and hard liquor'' to area visitors. Two tourist cabins, a second-generation residence, and the grave site of the Sensenbach's son (on original homestead acreage outside the historic district boundaries), date from this period of the site's history.

Charles Byron and Jeanne Jenkins and Gloria Jenkins Wardell purchased the Highlands site in 1946. From this date until 1956, they methodically added ''one or two cabins a year'' in a U-shaped pattern anchored by a large log/board-and-batten lodge. The lodge, originally envisioned as a ''Tyrollean type'' to conform to the frequent use of Swiss architecture in national parks, was instead constructed in the more typical regional rustic style. The Jenkins sold the Highlands to the National Park Service in 1972. The Park Service converted the buildings to seasonal quarters for temporary employees.

The Hunter Hereford Ranch has a diverse history, extending from 1909 when James Williams homesteaded 160 acres, throughout the 1940s and 1950s when William Hunter, Eileen Hunter, and ranch foreman John Anderson developed the site into a prototype of Jackson Hole ''Hobby Ranches'', to the 1960s when the site and its plethora of log buildings and spectacular views was chosen as the town site in the western film The Wild Country. The historic district is significant for its association with the growth of hobby ranches and for its association with vernacular architecture and with architect-designed rustic architecture. After William Hunter's death, Eileen Hunter sold the property to the National Park Service in 1957 yet retained rights to the water, land, grazing, and buildings for the remainder of her lifetime. Management of the ranch remained in John Anderson's hands for over twenty years. Upon Eileen Hunter's death in 1989, the National Park Service leased the rights to Hunter Hereford and adjacent Smith-Talbot infrastructure to the Triangle X Dude Ranch. This lease agreement was terminated in 1991 and the buildings abandoned as part of the Park Service's long-term plans to return the area to its natural state.

On a high terrace overlooking a marshy willow flat and Jackson Lake, with the Grand Teton Range as a backdrop, stands the Jackson Lake Lodge, a predominantly International Style hotel completed in 1955 in the Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Gilbert Stanley Underwood, former Supervising Architect of the United States, designed the lodge and its component buildings for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s Grand Teton Lodge and Transportation Company. In addition to the main lodge building, the complex includes a series of ''cottages,'' one-story attached room units in groups of four to ten. Most of the cottages came about as part of the construction of the Jackson Lake Lodge complex. Others at the outer fringes of the grouping date later, from the 1960s and 1970s. Also part of the Jackson Lake Lodge complex is a stable and a gas station dating from the period of initial construction. Located within the landmark boundary are cottages and two-story guest lodgings, employee housing units, a swimming pool added in 1964, a medical station and a telephone utility building, all constructed after the period of significance (1950-1955) and considered non-contributing to the NHL district. A system of driveways, walkway and trails are considered integral to the district. The integrity of the Jackson Lake Lodge and its associated buildings, the exceptional importance of the integrated modern/rustic architectural design of the building as a precursor to the modern architecture in the National Parks known as Mission 66, and its association with nationally renowned architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, contribute to its exceptional national significance under National Historic Landmark criteria.

The Jenny Lake boat concession buildings -- Reimer's cabin, a boathouse, a boat dock and two employee cabins -- are located in the southwestern corner of Grand Teton National Park, on a peninsula of land that extends into Jenny Lake. The Jenny Lake area was the first to be developed by the National Park Service after establishment of the park in 1929. Even before the park was established a boat ''concessioner'' operated on Jenny Lake under a Forest Service Special Use Permit. Local residents and park staff consistently refer to the boathouse as the Wort boathouse in reference to first concessioner Charles Wort. By 1935 Robert Reimer had assumed the boat concession license. Reimer's new residence was completed during the summer of 1937. Reimer's cabin is a significant example of National Park Service rustic architecture.

The Jenny Lake Ranger Station Historic District is significant because it remains as a clear statement of the local interpretation of the National Park Service rustic building philosophy of the 1930s at Grand Teton National Park. The district contains the only clearly dateable examples of the local rebuilding of acquired structures into ones to fit park needs and design standards in the Park. It is also significant in that it was built by the National Park Service as one of the first ranger stations and visitor centers in the Park. It remained the center of visitor activity until 1960 when new buildings specifically built for that purpose were completed. Finally, the district contains examples of three types of rustic architecture, all from the 1930s, that represent many other buildings both extant and now removed in the Park. The district has a building built by the Service using recycled parts (ranger station), a concessioner rebuilt building of the 1930s fitting the rustic mold, and the two comfort stations representing the Civilian Conservation Corps work to improve visitor facilities in the Park. The ranger station itself was rebuilt from a cabin first built by Lee Mangus about 1925 and acquired by the Park Service about 1930. The cabin originally was located north of Moose a few miles. The building was moved to Jenny Lake in 1930 and served as a visitor center and ranger station for thirty years.

The Kimmel Kabins is a historic district built in 1937 by J. D. and Lura Kimmel consisting of eleven cabins, a lodge/dining hall, and a footbridge in a complex that straddles Cottonwood Creek south of Jenny Lake. At one time there also was a store and office, now removed. The buildings are built in a style referred to as dude ranch style. The design of the individual buildings and the overall complex retains the appearance of a 1920s-1930s motor court with the attempt by the builders to achieve a feeling of pioneer log structures. The Kimmel Kabins historic district is significant because it is the lone surviving example of a motor court type at Grand Teton National Park. During the period between World War I and World War II as many as a dozen tourist camp/motor courts were in business within the Park. In 1962 Lura Kimmel died and the cabins became seasonal housing for the National Park Service.

The Leigh Lake Ranger Patrol Cabin was built in the early 1920s using standardized plans of the United States Forest Service to be a backcountry ranger patrol cabin for horse patrols. It was built on the northern edge of Leigh Lake northwest of Moose, Wyoming, along a former patrol trail into the Teton Mountains. The cabin was built in an adaptation of vernacular style as defined by the Forest Service for backcountry cabins. It was one of the first ranger cabins to be built in the backcountry in Grand Teton National Park when Congress established the original boundaries for the Park. Since then it has continued to be a part of the Park Service's system of patrol cabins for resource and visitor protection.

Manges Cabin was constructed in 1911 by James Manges and is significant for its association with vernacular architecture. It was originally built as part of Manges Elbo Ranch homestead and was later used as part of a tourist facility which included twelve guest cabins. By 1956 the National Park Service had acquired the property and converted the ranch to employee housing. Around 1973 the Park Service removed many of the structures on the property and converted Manges Cabin to a barn.

Menor's Ferry was a 19th century ferry operation crossing the Snake River near present day Moose, Wyoming. In 1892 Bill Menor came into Jackson Hole and settled on a homestead by squatter's right. Menor built a ferry that would carry a wagon load of logs and a four horse team across the Snake in one trip. The site includes the homesite of Mr. Menor as well as the Ferry itself. In 1929 the Rockefeller family came into possession of the property and restored it. In 1953 the site became the property of the National Park Service.

The Moose Entrance Kiosk was built during the period 1934-1939 by either the Public Works Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps for the National Park Service using Service developed plans for natural parks. Before its move to its present location during the early 1960s the kiosk was located closer to the Old Administrative/Housing area of the Park at Beaver Creek, the heart of Grand Teton National Park until completion of the newer headquarters complex where the kiosk is now located. The kiosk is significant because it remains as a clear statement of the National Park Service rustic style of architecture of the 1930s. It is the only example of that particular building type in the Park.