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BOTD: Building 70 Apartments, located on the east side of the Fort Yellowstone portion of the administrative area in Mammoth. This two-story English-Tudor style apartment building was erected in 1936 to provide housing for NPS employees, a function it retains to this day (w/ 20 apartments). It was the first government building built at Mammoth following the departure of the Army in 1918.

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BOTD: YGS Employee Dormitory at Tower Fall. Built in 1941, this building houses employees who work at the Tower General Store.

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BOTD: P-Cabin Lift Station. Built in 1960, this lift station takes sewage from the P-series of guest cabins in Canyon Village and pumps it to the Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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BOTD: The Madison Museum, located at the Madison Service Area, just south of Madison Junction, and south of the Madison Campground, at the foot of National Park Mountain. It was constructed in 1929 along with three other museums at Fishing Bridge, Norris, and Old Faithful (which was razed in 1971 to make room for the original OF Visitor Center). These museums were built using funds provided through a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. The museum at Madison is now home to the park's Junior Ranger Program and a Yellowstone Association bookstore. It faces National Park Mountain because the road through this area originally ran in front of the building. There's also a plague in front of the Museum honoring Stephen T. Mather, the founding Director of the NPS.

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BOTD: Vault Toilet at the Hard Road to Travel Picnic Area/Turnout (north of West Thumb on the road to Lake). Built in 2008, it survived the burnover of the Arnica Fire in 2009. There are almost 150 vault toilets located throughout the park.

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BOTD: Soapsud Residence 33 (rear view). These (four) small residences (30-33) were originally constructed to house Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and their families.  They came to be known as “Soapsud” houses because the spouses of the NCOs would often do laundry for the officers. This structure was built in 1897, and today houses park staff.  First floor has a parlor, dining room, kitchen, pantry and a hallway, and the second floor has two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a landing at the top of the stairs.  The other buildings are structurally identical to this one, generally speaking.

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BOTD: Lamar Ranger Residence 106, built in 1922. This building is located at the Buffalo Ranch in Lamar Valley, and is a residence for one of the law enforcement rangers who lives there.

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BOTD: The Mammoth Jail, built in 1911 as a part of Fort Yellowstone. It replaced an older structure. This building was to have been converted into a residence, and a new jail built into the new Justice Center that opened in 2006. But funding limitations prevented that from happening, so this building was remodeled. Today it has 4 cells.