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Cambria Casino
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| Nearest city: | Newcastle, Wyoming |
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| Built: | 1927 |
| Architect: | Rabenold, Bruce |
| Architectural style: | Tudor Revival |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 80004058 |
| Added to NRHP: | November 18, 1980[1] |
The Cambria Casino, also known as the Flying V Guest Ranch and the Cambria Casino Park-Memorial, is a resort on the western edge of the Black Hills in Weston County, Wyoming. The resort was named for Cambria, a nearby coal-mining community. The two story sandstone lodge, designed by New York architect Bruce Rabenold, employs English Tudor and other medieval details to create a Tudor manor-like setting in the Wyoming hills. The lodge fronts on a court, entered through a gatehouse and originally flanked by wings housing guest rooms. The property is significant as an example of a unique eclectically-style resort in eastern Wyoming. A portion of the casino was intended to serve as a memorial to Cambria-area miners.[2]
The dance hall opened on January 12, 1929. Seventy-five guests could be accommodated in the main building and in six cottages. The cottages have since been removed. The resort featured a freshwater pool fed by Salt Creek and a saltwater pool fed from salt springs about 2 miles (3.2 km) away.[3]
The interior features a second floor ballroom with a timber-framed roof resembling a medieval hammer-beam truss. The timbers may have come from area mines. Beneath the ballroom were a dining room, auxiliary dining room, kitchen sitting room and six guest rooms.[2]
The Cambria Casino was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
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