Sheridan Inn

The Sheridan Inn was built in 1892 and 1893 near the town's railroad depot, modeled on a Scottish hunting lodge: a long, low building whose roof carries sixty-nine gables. Buffalo Bill Cody had a hand in running it and is said to have auditioned riders and performers for his Wild West show from its front porch. The ornate oak and mahogany bar is said to have been a gift to him from Queen Victoria; no one has proved it. Over the years the inn's guests included Herbert Hoover, Will Rogers and Ernest Hemingway.

The inn closed in the 1960s, when passenger trains stopped coming. A restoration costing $4.8 million ran from 2006 to 2009, and in May 2015 its upstairs reopened to overnight guests for the first time in about fifty years, with twenty-two rooms each named for Buffalo Bill or someone in his life. The inn is a National Historic Landmark.