Eagle's Store, commercieel gebouw in West Yellowstone, Verenigde Staten van Amerika
Eagle's Store is a three-story log building at 3 North Canyon Street in West Yellowstone, Montana, two blocks from Yellowstone National Park's west entrance. Completed in 1930 to designs by Bozeman architect Fred F. Willson, it has fir logs 18 to 36 feet long set into a rhyolite and concrete base, with basalt buttresses. Willson donated his services to promote the Western Rustic style, similar to Old Faithful Inn.
Samuel P. Eagle and his partners founded the first store at this location in 1908, a tiny 12 by 12 foot building that quickly grew to serve the expanding town. The original structure was demolished in 1927, and the current building was completed in 1930, following the arrival of the railroad to West Yellowstone in 1907.
The store takes its name from founder Samuel P. Eagle and has served as a gathering place for both residents and park visitors since its opening. This building shows how people in a frontier town relied on a single store to meet their needs and connect with each other.
The store is located at 3 North Canyon Street in the heart of West Yellowstone and is easily accessible on foot. Visitors can view the rustic exterior while passing by and step inside to browse the gift shop or enjoy the soda fountain that has operated since 1910.
The white marble soda fountain was bought in 1910 for $1,391.80 from the Liquid Carbonic Company of Minnesota, and the mahogany bar from that era is still in the store. Sam Eagle also served as West Yellowstone's postmaster, with the post office inside the store from 1909 to 1935.
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