Sandstone Buildings in Yellowstone Park
The only sandstone buildings in Yellowstone Park are “Fort Yellowstone” in Mammoth. Scottish stonemasons were hired to build these buildings in the earliest 1900’s. They were built for the US Army which ran the park back then. They quarried this...
Roosevelt Arch, Yellowstone Park
The Roosevelt Arch, at the north entrance to Yellowstone Park, was built in 1904 with TR himself laying the cornerstone. The arch is built from basalt column segments quarried somewhere in the park. Notice that the corners and arches were chiseled rectangular while...
Reclaimed Sandstone Project in Wyoming
In late 2021, we started reclaiming the stone from this old barn in central Montana. The sandstone was used on a new Jackson, WY residence. The stonework on the old barn had almost completely collapsed. The new residence, designed by Annex Architecture, is just being...
Sandstone Chapel at Mammoth in Yellowstone Park
This stone chapel was built in 1913, when the US Army managed Yellowstone from a fort in Mammoth. This sandstone was quarried by Scottish stonemasons from very nearby, between Mammoth and the Gardiner River. I haven’t seen the actual quarry yet. Nearly all of...