Cambria Casino


Cambria Casino
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Newcastle, Wyoming
Coordinates	43°57′20″N 104°11′35″W / 43.95556°N 104.19306°W / 43.95556; -104.19306Coordinates: 43°57′20″N 104°11′35″W / 43.95556°N 104.19306°W / 43.95556; -104.19306
Built	1927
Architect	Rabenold, Bruce
Architectural style	Tudor Revival
NRHP Reference #	80004058
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1980^[1]

The Cambria Casino, also known as the Flying V Guest Ranch and the Cambria Casino Park-Memorial, is a resort on the western edge of the Black Hills in Weston County, Wyoming. The resort was named for Cambria, a nearby coal-mining community. The two story sandstone lodge, designed by New York architect Bruce Rabenold, employs English Tudor and other medieval details to create a Tudor manor-like setting in the Wyoming hills. The lodge fronts on a court, entered through a gatehouse and originally flanked by wings housing guest rooms. The property is significant as an example of a unique eclectically-style resort in eastern Wyoming. A portion of the casino was intended to serve as a memorial to Cambria-area miners.^[2]

The dance hall opened on January 12, 1929. Seventy-five guests could be accommodated in the main building and in six cottages. The cottages have since been removed. The resort featured a freshwater pool fed by Salt Creek and a saltwater pool fed from salt springs about 2 miles (3.2 km) away.^[3]

The interior features a second floor ballroom with a timber-framed roof resembling a medieval hammer-beam truss. The timbers may have come from area mines. Beneath the ballroom were a dining room, auxiliary dining room, kitchen sitting room and six guest rooms.^[2]

The Cambria Casino was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 Junge, Mark G.; Kendrick, Gregory D. (August 4, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Cambria Casino" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
↑ "Cambria Casino/Flying V Guest Ranch". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

External links

Photographs of the Cambria Casino at the National Park Service's NRHP database
Cambria Casino/Flying V Guest Ranch at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

National Register of Historic Places in Weston County, Wyoming

Historic district	Newcastle Commercial District

Historic properties	Cambria Casino Jenney Stockade Site Toomey's Mills US Post Office-Newcastle Main Weston County Courthouse Wyoming Army National Guard Cavalry Stable

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Weston County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming

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