The Cottage at Fishing Bridge

 15 June 2023

For more than 25 years (1945-1968), our family occupied a little brown cottage on the shores of Yellowstone Lake. It built in 1930 as an annex to the trailside museum, and is located just east of the current Visitor Center at Fishing Bridge. We spent every summer from 1st of June to end of August living in the little cottage.  Cooking and heating was done on a large Majestic wood-burning stove, and telephone contact was by a 1900 Kellogg magneto crank telephone. Today, the cottage, along with the Visitor Center, are on the national historic register of buildings in Yellowstone.  The Visitor Center, which was one of four original trailside museums constructed in Yellowstone in 1929-1930, was completely renovated and updated in 2020-2023.

For my sister's 80th birthday, I did the top wood-burning image of the old cottage the way it used to be when the two large lodgepole pine trees were out front and the courtyard was surrounded by a wooden fence with a gate. It was done on a 6"x 6" piece of Basswood.  I colored the roof shingles with an oil paint stick.  I wanted to have one for myself, so, I did another image (the bottom larger photo) on the same size piece of wood. The fence around the court is a little more to correct perspective.