Infantry Barracks (Museum)

Completed in 1887, this building served as an infantry barracks for troops stationed at Fort Bridger and was a vast improvement over the rude log barracks used since 1858. Built of quarried stone and shaped like an inverted capital T, its front section measured 102 by 38 feet, faced the parade grounds, and was mostly a dormitory where a fifty-man company lived and slept, with small shop rooms and store rooms on the right and another store room plus rooms for the 1st Sergeant and an orderly on the left. The rear portion measured 64 by 34 feet and contained the kitchen, dining room, barbershop, and washroom. It is the largest of the remaining original buildings at Fort Bridger. Only three years after its completion, the post was abandoned, and local residents used the building as a barn for several more years than it had served as a military barracks. In the mid 1900's, after the cows had been evicted, it was cleaned up and turned into a museum, and today it houses displays depicting the different periods in Fort Bridger's history.

Fort Bridger, Wyoming · United States