Historic Preservation Month

Historic Preservation Month

The 2011 Historic Preservation Month poster is now is available. The poster features a 1947 photograph by Thomas Carrigen of the Natrona County High School in Casper. The posters are free of charge and may be picked up at the State Historic Preservation Office in Cheyenne, 3rd floor Barrett Building, 2301 Central Ave. or in Laramie, at the Anthropology Building at 12th and Lewis, Room 312. Limit one poster per person. We still have a few 2008 and 2010 posters in stock; however, the 2009 poster is no longer available.

State Historic Preservation Office
Barrett Building
2301 Central Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82002.

View our past posters

2010 - Buffalo Bill Dam
2009 - Sheridan Main Street Histroic District
2008 - Evanston Roundhouse

Casper Celebrates Historic Preservation Month

Approximately 300 students and alumni joined the Casper Historic Preservation Commission and members of the Natrona County History Club for a group photo celebrating "This Place Matters". Built in 1924, the Natrona County High School is designed in the traditional Collegiate Gothic style. The dramatic entry tower is the focal point of the façade with a two-story bay window and extensive use of terra cotta ornamentation. The school is an important landmark of Casper's heritage and a source of community pride. Virginia Moriarty, 96, the oldest alumni attending the ceremony remembers learning to swim at the indoor swimming pool, an amenity unknown in Wyoming when it was installed in 1930.

The Preservation Commission also treated the public to guided historic tours of downtown and opened the historic Bishop Home for tours. The tours and group photo were designed to raise awareness about the power historic preservation has to protect and enhance our homes, neighborhoods and communities—the places that really matter to us.