Miller Cabin

Miller Cabin
Location Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming, USA
Nearest city Jackson, Wyoming
Built 1895–98
Architect Robert A. Miller
NRHP Reference # 69000195
Added to NRHP April 16, 1969[1]

The Miller Cabin complex consists of three buildings that were the residence of Robert A. Miller, the first superintendent of Teton National Monument. A house, a barn and a cabin built by the U.S. Forest Service are included. The property was eventually transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in what became the National Elk Refuge. The buildings are a component of the closely related Grace and Robert Miller Ranch.[2]

Robert Miller was born in Wisconsin in 1863, and took up permanent residence in Jackson Hole in 1885, settling on land along Flat Creek. A prominent local citizen, Miller helped to organize the town of Jackson, Wyoming in 1901 and was president of the local bank. His wife served two terms as mayor of Jackson in the 1920s. Miller was chosen by Abraham Archibald Anderson, administrator of the new Yellowstone Timberland Reserve to be administrator of the Teton Division of the reserve from 1903, running the operation from his cabin.[3][4]

As a result of local rancher, photographer and Wyoming legislator S.N. Leek's efforts, the National Elk Refuge was established in 1912 from nearly 2,000 acres (810 ha) of Miller's land, and was administered from the house adjoining Miller's cabin.[3]

The original cabin was Miller's home during his time with the Forest Service. The adjoining two-story house was used as the headquarters for the National Elk Refuge in its early years.

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Miller Cabin". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. 2008-10-19.
  3. 1 2 Frost, Nedward M. (February 26, 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Miller Cabin" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  4. ↑ Cassity, Michael (August 30, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Grace and Robert Miller Ranch" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

Coordinates: 43°29′20″N 110°44′16″W / 43.48889°N 110.73778°W / 43.48889; -110.73778


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