Grant Village
By 1960 there was a divergence of opinion on the project's design: the primary concessioner, the Yellowstone Park Company, wanted a compact layout, while the Park Service's Western Office of Design desired a dispersed arrangement. Financial difficulties left the Yellowstone Park Company unable to exert much influence. Construction of the first phase of Grant Village, named after President Ulysses S. Grant, was completed in June 1963, comprising a campground, picnic area and boat ramp. A marina was completed by 1965, with construction of motel-style lodging, service facilities and restaurants continuing into the 1980s. The development remained smaller than originally intended; in 1981 Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt responded to pressure from the park gateway town of West Yellowstone, Montana, cutting the project's scope.
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References
- ^ "Grant Village". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Culpin, Mary Shivers (2003). "Chapter 12: Mission 66: A Concessioner's Obituary 1956-1966". For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: A History of Concession Development in Yellowstone National Park 1872-1966 (PDF). p. 106. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ Culpin, p. 113
- ^ Carr, Ethan (2007). Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-55849-587-6.