Stock Center

United States historic place


Stock Center
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Stock Center viewed from the northwest
44°31′32″N 109°4′14″W / 44.52556°N 109.07056°W / 44.52556; -109.07056
Built	1927
NRHP reference No.	76001960
Added to NRHP	January 1, 1976^[1]

The Stock Center in Cody, Wyoming, United States, was built in 1927 as the original home of the Buffalo Bill Museum, serving in that purpose until the museum was relocated to a new complex across the street in 1969. The log structure is intended to suggest a stockman's log cabin, rendered on a large scale.

The irregularly shaped one-story building was arranged with a small lobby leading to exhibit rooms intended to represent a living room, trophy room-library, dining room, kitchen and bedrooms in a rancher's house. These rooms housed the Buffalo Bill Museum's collections. The museum was built as a community project, using Buffalo Bill Cody's T E Ranch Headquarters as the basis for the design.^[2]

After museum's move, the former museum was purchased by Paul Stock, a Cody-area oilman, rancher, and three-term mayor of Cody, who then passed the property on to the town of Cody for community use.^[2] The Stock Center was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Frost, Ned (January 29, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Stock Center". National Park Service. Retrieved July 25, 2009.