Grames Cabin (2) Markers

Albert Grames built his cabin in 1891, and when he moved to Price in 1904 he wouldn't leave it behind — he took it apart, hauled the logs into town, and rebuilt it larger. A Grames lived in it for the next seventy-four years. It needed the room: Albert fathered fifteen children, five with his first wife Celia and, after her death, ten with his second, Lilly, and fourteen of them were born in this cabin or the one before it. Restored in 1991, it stands furnished as a family home once more.

What the plaque says

The Albert Grames cabin, built in 1891, stood originally on a site two miles northwest of here. In 1904 Grames bought land in Price, dismantled his cabin, and used the logs to build this somewhat larger structure. The cabin is unique in that it was occupied by Grames or by members of his family for seventy-four years. He had fifteen children - five by Celia Downard Grames and, after her death, ten by Lilly Bass Grames. Fourteen of those children were born in this structure or its predecessor. Seven grandchildren were also born here. Moved to this site in 1964, the cabin was later badly vandalized. In 1991 it was fully restored to lived-in condition. The cabin is furnished with authentic pioneer artifacts and furniture gathered from local residents.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 0.7 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 0.7 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 21 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

More markers nearby

• Oldest Cabin in Price — steps away
• Carbon County World War I Memorial — steps away
• Notre Dame de Lourdes — 0.5 mi
• The Price of Freedom World War I Memorial — 0.6 mi