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Norris Geyser Basin Museum

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The Norris Geyser Basin Museum is one of a series of trailside museums in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming designed by the architect Herbert Maier in the National Park Service Rustic style. It was built between 1929 and 1930 on the Grand Loop Road between two geothermal basins, with two rectangular sections joined by a breezeway and a prominent log framed jerkinhead gable. The museum exhibits cover geothermal geology and thermal ecosystems, and an adjacent historic comfort station now serves as a bookstore run by the Yellowstone Association. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Trailside museum 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Park County, United States 2
Completed Year
1929 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Museum 2
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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Norris Geyser Basin Museum (Wikipedia)

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1. Norris Geyser Basin Museum (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_Geyser_Basin_Museum, lead definition
    The Norris Geyser Basin Museum, also known as Norris Museum, is one of a series of "trailside museums" in Yellowstone National Park designed by architect Herbert Maier in a style that has become known as National Park Service Rustic.
  • standing status determination
    The museum exhibits cover geothermal geology and thermal ecosystems, and an adjacent historic comfort station now serves as a bookstore run by the Yellowstone Association.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1929)
    completion_date/completed = 1929-30
  • In Style: Rustic Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: National Park Service Rustic
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
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2. Norris Geyser Basin Museum (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Trailside museum)
    Wikidata item Q7053299, instance of (P31): trailside museum
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Park County, United States
    Wikidata item Q7053299, property P131/P17 (location): Park County, United States
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