Ainsworth House
National Register of Historic Places

Ainsworth House

Big Trails, Washakie County, Wyoming
Listed
September 10, 1986
Type
Building
Period
Early Republic
Ref No.
86002321

About this property

The Ainsworth House, also known as the Greet Ranch, was built in 1886 by homesteader Frank S. Ainsworth and his wife in Big Trails, Wyoming, in the Nowood Valley of Washakie County. The Ainsworths built the frame house after living in a tent and a log dugout. The house was one of the first permanent habitations to be built in the Bighorn Basin. The 1886 section of the house is a 1½ story framed and clapboarded building, to which was appended a 1½ story log house built in 1890 and expanded upward in 1911. Ainsworth was born in Iowa in 1857. He went west to Denver, then hunted and trapped in northwestern Colorado. By 1879 he was trapping in the Bighorn Basin. In 1885 he returned to Iowa to marry Lucy Ann Albee and brought her back to the Bighorn Basin where they built their house. They subsisted by cultivating the native hay of the region, which allowed them to grow sufficient fodder to withstand the severe winters. Ainsworth also worked as a carpenter in the area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Location

Big Trails, Washakie County, Wyoming
43.79669, -107.31519

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When was Ainsworth House listed on the National Register?

Ainsworth House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986.

What type of historic resource is Ainsworth House?

Ainsworth House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Ainsworth House is recorded as the early_republic era, specifically around 1857.

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