Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District, Historic ranch district in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States
Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District is a historic district in Grand Teton National Park, Teton County, Wyoming, on the eastern edge of Jackson Hole below Shadow Mountain. Its 160 acres (65 ha) hold the surviving working-ranch buildings: a log bunkhouse built about 1921, a barn modeled on the Gerritt Hardeman barn near Wilson, a foreman's residence built in 1908 and modified in 1945, plus a chicken house, stud barn, hay shed, equipment shed and garage built in 1945. Architect Eber E. Piers of Ogden, Utah, designed the buildings and the Nelson brothers built them.
James Williams homesteaded the land in 1909. In the 1940s William and Eileen Hunter turned it into a hobby ranch with foreman John Anderson. The 520-acre ranch was sold to the National Park Service in 1957, with grazing and land rights retained by Eileen Hunter until her death in 1989. The Park Service removed the Piers-designed residence and guest cabins in 1992, and the district was listed on the National Register in 1998.
The ranch's log buildings appeared in the film The Wild Country, and one structure with a stone fireplace was used in the 1963 movie Spencer's Mountain. The barn was modeled on the Gerritt Hardeman barn near Wilson, Wyoming, source of much of the Hunter stock.
The ranch lies on the extreme eastern edge of Jackson Hole, beneath Shadow Mountain, inside Grand Teton National Park. The Park Service bought the land in 1957 and removed the Piers-designed residence and guest cabins in 1992, so only the working-ranch buildings remain. Grazing and land rights stayed with Eileen Hunter until her death in 1989.
The 160-acre historic district lies on the extreme eastern edge of Jackson Hole beneath Shadow Mountain, and part of its pasture is free of sagebrush, unlike most surrounding land. The barn was modeled on the Gerritt Hardeman barn near Wilson, Wyoming, source of much of the Hunter stock.
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