Qualla: Canyon Hotel https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/canyon-hotel-lobby-15836001284.jpg Qualla: Canyon Hotel https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel Canyon Hotel: Introduction https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Canyon_Hotel,_Yellowstone.jpg: J.P. Clum lantern slide derivative work: Acroterion (talk), Public domain. The demolition contract went for twenty-five dollars. In 1959, the Carlos Construction Company of Cody, Wyoming, bid that sum to tear down what had been the largest building ever constructed in Yellowstone National Park, a hotel with a one-mile perimeter that architect Robert Reamer had designed to rival the great resorts of Europe. The company was given 900 days to complete the work. On the night of August 8, 1960, the Canyon Hotel burned to the ground. No cause was ever determined. What fire took, time has erased further. Today, only photographs remain of a building that represented the most ambitious architectural vision ever attempted in America's first national park.

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/9xcq-canyon-hotel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Canyon Hotel: Three Hotels, One Site https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain. The Canyon Hotel that burned was actually the third hotel built near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The first, a prefabricated structure opened in May 1886, was intended as a temporary replacement for tent accommodations. By agreement with the Department of the Interior, it...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/9xcq-canyon-hotel-three-hotels-one-site.mp3 0:06 2 full Canyon Hotel: Reamer's European Vision https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain. In 1909, Robert Reamer traveled through Europe with Yellowstone Park Company president Harry W. Child. They visited the great resort hotels of England, Germany, and Switzerland. Child returned home determined that Yellowstone would have a hotel to match. Reamer, who had already d...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/9xcq-canyon-hotel-reamers-european-vision.mp3 0:06 3 full Canyon Hotel: A Mile of Architecture https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain. The Canyon Hotel's perimeter measured one mile. Four hundred rooms with one hundred baths filled a structure that showed clear influences of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School, with its emphasis on horizontal lines and dominating rooflines. The interior featured sturdy pilasters...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/9xcq-canyon-hotel-a-mile-of-architecture.mp3 0:06 4 full Canyon Hotel: Mission 66 and the End https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain. After World War II, the National Park Service declared the Canyon Hotel outdated. The park's master plan explicitly stated that present hotels should be placed into disuse and ultimately removed as they deteriorate. Mission 66, the Park Service's ambitious modernization program, ...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/c/q/canyon-hotel-wp/9xcq-canyon-hotel-mission-66-and-the-end.mp3 0:06 5 full Canyon Hotel: The Night It Ended https://qualla.com/canyon-hotel/ Photo credit Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain. Superintendent Lemuel Garrison ordered demolition in 1959, citing foundation issues dating to the 1891 building that could not be economically repaired. Some debated moving portions of the structure to Lake, but the idea was abandoned. On August 17, 1959, the Hebgen Lake earthqua...

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