Lake Hotel

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1891 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Lake Hotel, also known as Lake Yellowstone Hotel, is one of a series of hotels built to accommodate visitors to Yellowstone National Park in the late 19th and early 20th century. Built in 1891, it is the oldest operating hotel in the park.”
Wikipedia article Lake Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1891, Colonial Revival architecture, by Robert Reamer · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. North side of Lake Yellowstone St., Yellowstone National Park (YELL), 82190
When was it listed? May 1991
Category. building
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
When was it built? 1891
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. Robert Reamer
National Register reference number. 91000637 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lake Hotel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,669 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 1992	Natural	1.5 acres	Yellowstone National Park	STORM
8 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	J LOOP
6 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ALICE
5 August 1994	Natural	81 acres	Yellowstone National Park	PELICAN
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	BRIDGE
29 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	WEASEL
26 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	LAKE STUMP
24 August 2006	Other causes	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SEFTON

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District	0.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000637 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 65 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.