The Woods Landing Dance Hall reflects the area's Scandinavian heritage in its peeled and rounded log construction with stepped and notched corners, tightly hand-hewn logs that needed no chinking, and a foundation of rocks gathered from the nearby Laramie River. Its oak dance floor, supported by 24 boxcar springs, became a popular attraction for lumberjacks, cowboys, and students from the University of Wyoming because the springs added bounce ideal for square dancing and folk dances done in unison to a specific rhythm. Designed and built by Hokon Lestum, the hall was completed in 1932 for Clarence and Mayme Lewellen, who envisioned a mountain resort where vacationers could relax; several cabins were also built but were later razed. After Clarence Lewellen died in 1936, Mayme married Hokon Lestum two years later, and after Hokon died of cancer in 1971, Mayme continued to operate the lodge and used the hall for auctions that raised funds for causes including cancer research until her death in 1988 at age 90, which ended the original ownership. The Woods Landing community itself had been established in the 1880s by Samuel S. Wood, who operated nearby sawmills, supplied ties to the Union Pacific Railroad, and ran a saloon here for tie-hacks and travelers when Woods Landing was a station on the Laramie-North Park Stage Route.