The Map at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel

enter Map of Wood © 2010 by Bo Mackison

click Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel in Yellowstone National Park is quite the place. It has an amazing number of things to explore. Designed by architect Robert Reamer, a veteran of park architecture, it was built in 1937, an addition to the National Hotel which had been built two decades earlier. There is a room called the Map Room because its focal point is a wall map, also created by Reamer. The map, probably 8 feet by 6 feet, is constructed, jigsaw-style, of 15 different types of wood. It’s a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, but one thing is odd about it.

https://alldayelectrician.com/raqmcs5jl When looking at the states that I am most familiar with, I noticed that my hometown is placed about 200 miles north of its actual location. Tucson, Arizona is almost due east of Phoenix. Reamer might have been a popular park architect and a talented woodworker, but his geography references were incorrect.

https://penielenv.com/84zk0bid6u1 There were several other comments from people who were looking at the map about the odd placement of cities. Wonder just how many places are marked incorrectly?

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  1. source url Fascinating, Bo! I wish it was larger so that I could see the details more clearly. Reckon I’ll just have to go there myself and ponder those questions. Lovers of maps, this will be something hubby and I will look up for sure!

  2. go I’m intrigued. I want to go see it for myself just to check out where Cleveland is. 🙂

  3. https://purestpotential.com/7d0r8y53 Location dysfunction must run in large wall maps. At my workplace we have a huge map of the world and we put several countries in the wrong continents. However, relative to the Sun, their locations are spot on. 🙂

    • Bo Mackison says

      follow I didn’t think geography was big in the schools now, but I thought they taught it a lot more in the 30s. Maybe Robert wasn’t paying attention. And when he was making the map, probably not a lot of reference books were available in Yellowstone, I’m thinking…

  4. https://getdarker.com/editorial/articles/3q7elauoe3e Great picture…who would have the patience to put that all together….likely Bo would.

  5. https://guelph-real-estate.ca/rw6ekkpu Interesting about the inaccuracy, but a work of art all the same.

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