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DATAForm 10-306 (Oct. 1972)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM

FOR FEDERAL PROPERTIES(Type all entries - complete applicable sections)

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Arizona

CoconinoFOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY DATE

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Buckey O'Meill Cabin (H.S.-7)AND/OR HISTORIC:

Buckey 0*Neill

STREET AND NUMBER:

Grand Canyon National Park, Sec, 23, T31N, RSE, G.& SR BMCITY OR TOWN:

Grand CanyonArizonaGrand Canyon

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:

Third

Coconino 005

CATEGORY CCftecfc One)

OWNERSHIP

District ffi] Building

Site Q Structure

d Object

n Public[wl PrivatejgxCD Both

Public Acquisition:

Q] In Process

[~~| Being Considered

STATUS

^3] Occupied

I""] Unoccupied

I | Preservation work

in progress

ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC

Yes:

(<£] Restricted

| ] Unrestricted

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PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

[~~1 Agricultural

fj-1 Commercial

Q Educational

[~~l Entertainment

Q Government

Q Industrial

(~~j Military

[ | Museum

|~~| Private Residence

[ 1 Religious

] Scientific

| | Transportation

.Q Other (Specify)

| | Comments

(owner of property)* (See notation -//?)Fred Harvev. subsidiary of Amf ac ' Cor-p * * Grand Canyon

REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS-. (If applicable)

___________Grand Canyon National ParkCITY OR TOWN:

Grand Canyon

STREET AND NUMBER:

Arizona

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COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC:

Coconino County CourthouseSTREET AND NUMBER:

CITY OR TOWN:

Flagstaff Arizona

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TITLE OF SURVEY:

DATE OF SURVEY: Federal State Cou/g^

DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: ^^T^-TM

STREET AND NUMBER:

CITY OR TOWN:

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CONDITIONfggl Excellent f~~| Good (""] Fair

('Check One)

[31 Deteriorated

(Chec/c One.)

[^] Altered |~jj Unaltered

|~~| Ruins £3J Unexposed

(Check One)

Q Moved [3 Original Site

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL, (if known) PHYSICAL. APPEARANCE

Preservation recommended

This structure is approximately 35' x 20' and is made of round logs. There is a field stone chimney at the west end of the cabin. The gable ends are board and batten, as they originally were. In exterior appearance, the cabin probably appears today much as it did when first constructed.

Today, there are two front entrances, giving access to the two rooms into which the cabin has been divided. These two entrances are appar ently original. The chinking between the logs was probably originally mud; today the chinking is cement.

A row of cabins, similar in style, has been built onto the south wall of the O'Nelll cabin, and the group is called, the Buckey O'Nelll Lodge.

Boundary; There is no historic land to be designated with this struc ture. The park plans eventually to move all man-made objects back from the rim of the canyon. At such time, the cabin will probably be moved to a historical village.

Class VI lands; none

Cost: not owned by the Federal Government

•* (Ownership - there is a respectful difference of opinion as to the pre sent ownership in that the railroad has title in so far as its use is consistent with its grant under the Railroad Right-of-Way Act of .1875 and in the United State of America in so far as said use is inconsistent with said grant, in which case it has or will revert to the United States of America.)

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NATIONAL REGISTER

feSEE CONTINUATION SHEET

Form 10-300a (July 1969)


NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM

(Continuation Sheet)

STATE

ArizonaCOUNTY


ENTRY NUMBER DATE1975——(Number all entries)

The connection between the Buckey O'Neill Cabin and a wing of Bright Angel Lodge built in 1935 is wood frame. It sits low to the ground on a rock foundation. On the west side, the finish siding of the connection is in the form of vertical boards without battens, beneath a double hung wood window with green-painted trim. Beyond the window and moving toward the 1935 wing of the Lodge, the finish siding changes to short lengths of horizontal rough-sawn planks. The irregular edges of the planks are butted together and the end joints are aligned. The wall was then caulked, appar ently with concrete. On this side, the face of the cabin and the face of the wall of the lodge are flush. On the roof, the ridge of the lodge roof meets at right angles the ridge of the cabin roof.

On the east side, the same materials were employed in the lodge extension, except that on this side the Buckey O'Neill Cabin projects about five feet beyond the lodge wall. Eaves are clipped close to the building wall. The finish roofing on the connection appears to be hand-split shakes, as it is on the cabin.

The cabin and the lodge are compatible in architectural design, and are well tied together. The 1935 structure was done with taste, probably under the direction of Mary Colter, architect. The connection is will screened with vegetation and is not readily noticeable.

On the interior, the approach to the Buckey O'Neill Cabin is simply that of a hotel corridor. The interior of the cabin itself is an adaptive res toration for hotel purposes, pleasingly furnished with Victorian furniture and lamps; many of the furnishings, especially the hanging lamps, have the appearance of authenticity rather than of reproduction. The adaptive restoration is noteworthy as a particularly fine example providing visitor accomodations, great atmosphere, with a minimum effect on the structural integrity of the cabin.

GPO 921-724

PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate)

1~1 Pre-Columbian [~] 16th Century

O 15th Century

18th Century

19th Century

[~| 20th Century

SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) ' S

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

Aboriginal

Q] Prehistoric

CD Historic

| 1 Agri culture

Q] Architecture

G] Art

[X] Commerce

|~~1 Communications

|"X1 Conservation

Q Education

Q Engineering

[~] Industry

Q Invention

Q Landscape

Architecture

[~~| Literature

[~1 Military

Q Music

O Political

C3 Religion/Phi

losophy

['I Science

[~~| Sculpture

j~~] Social/Human

itarian

CU Theater

[~~| Transportation

[~~| Urban Planning

Q Other (Specify)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

3rd order

The life of William Owen O'Neill has been best summarized by Hughes:

Buckey O'Neill was born in Missouri, received a legal education in Washington, D.C., came to Arizona in 1879, and in a brief and brilliant career- became an author, reporter, editor, judge, and superintendent of schools, and was involved in several busi ness ventures in the Vast territory between Tombstone and the Grand Canyon, As Sheriff, he was famed for the capture of the men who robbed the A. and P. train at Canyon Diablo in 1889, after chasing them all the way to' Wahweap Canyon, Utah. Later he was the candidate of the People's Party for territorial delegate, and twice defeated. O'Neill had prospected a bit and located what he thought was a rich copper mine near Anita, 1*1- miles south of the Grand Canyon. Like all other miners in the area he was faced with the prohibitive cost of shipping out the ore. What was needed was a railroad. He succeeded in in teresting the Chicago firm of Lombard, Goode and Company in the mines, the railroad and the Canyon, and sold out to them in 1898 shortly after his election as mayor of Erescott and just before he went to Cuba with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, where he lost his life in the charge up San Juan Hill. He is memorialized in a statue which stands in front of the Yavapai County Courthouse in Krescott, and in a much larger monument, O'Neill Butte, which towers above the Kaibab Trail below Yaki Boint in the Grand Canyon.

Built in the early l$90s by Buckey O'Neill, this cabin reportedly served as an office for a small tourist accommodation on the South Rim of Grand Canyon. It was later sold to the Santa Fe Railroad and Fred Harvey Company, and the Bright Angel Hotel was erected beginning in 1896 on O'Neill's place. The cabin remained, apparently, pretty much in its original location, and is still there, serving today as a tourtst cabin in the Bright Angel Lodge complex.

The cabin today stands as a monument to one of the prominent pioneers, and perhaps most colorful character of northern Arizona. Moreover, it is one of the early, if not the earliest cabins associated with the tourist business at Grand Canyon, and as such, it is one of the few surviving remnants of the early visitors to Grand Canyon when transposition was by stage coach.

"Historic Building Survey," file, Grand Canyon National Park

Ralph Keithley, Buckey p'Heill, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Erinters, Ltd*, 1949)

J. Donald Hughes, The Story of Man at Natural History Assn.,"

Cannon (Grand Canyon

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY

NW

NE

SE

SW

LATITUDE

Degrees Minutes Seconds

LONGITUDE


LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATESDEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY

OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES

LATITUDE


36° 03' 2V

LONGITUDE


112° 08' 32"

APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: HjQRQ Q1_ &CTQ

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTES OVERLAPP INGS TAT E O R C O U N Ty

NAME AND TITLE!

_______F. R. Holland, Jr^,,HistorianBUSINESS ADDRESS:

_____• Denver Service Center, 'NFS"STREET AND NUMBER:

7200 W. Alameda

State Liaison Officer recommendation:

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State Liaison Officer Signature'

In compliance with Executive Order 11593, I her/by

nominate this property to the National Register, certify

ing that the State Liaison Officer has. been allowed 90

days in which to present the nomination ,to the State Re™

view Board and to evaluate itsy/ianificance. The recom-

Jmende/d level of significante/s/_Q National f~] State

RUG.<>

Keeper of The National Register

I hereby certify that this property is- included in the

National Register.

Date /e^&£

.GPO 938-449

Form No 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (7/72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE


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PHOTO CREDIT: F.R. Holland, Jr.DATE OF PHOTO: M8.y 1972

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DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. "- -\ ' j 'OV^.""

Front view of Buckey O'Neill Cabin as a tourist cottage.

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