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The Old Faithful Historic District lies on the Grand Loop Road between Madison Junction and the West Thumb area of Yellowstone National Park. The District is dominated by the Old Faithful Inn and also consists of the Old Faithful Lodge, three stores, two service stations, five dormitories, ten support buildings, and the guest cabins behind the Old Faithful Lodge and the Snow Lodge. The District is both historically and architecturally significant. The historical aspect is its role in concessions development in the early 1900s to accommodate the thousands of people who came to view the well-known symbol of the National Parks, the Old Faithful Geyser. The Old Faithful Inn, built in 1903-04, is one of the premier rustic structures in the country. The adjacent support structures, the lodge, auto camp, stores, and the gas stations which all addressed the new auto tourism, were designed to be compatible with the Inn and were constructed from circa 1916 through 1940s. The use of the rustic log architecture represents the idea of enhancing rather than detracting from the sp

irit of the wilderness. This concept, the sensitivity of the architecture to the environment, would be a model for the National Park Service for succeeding decades.