Wyoming's Historic Governors' Mansion
Near Cheyenne, Wyoming
Five blocks from the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne, a Colonial Revival mansion built in nineteen oh four served as the official residence of Wyoming's governors for seven decades. Architect Charles Murdock of Omaha designed the two and a half story brick structure with sandstone Corinthian columns for just over thirty-three thousand dollars. Nineteen of Wyoming's first families lived here.
The most historically significant was Nellie Tayloe Ross, who moved in after her husband Governor William Bradford Ross died in office in nineteen twenty-four. She was elected to complete his term and took the oath of office on January fifth, nineteen twenty-five, becoming the first female governor in United States history, two weeks before Miriam Ferguson was inaugurated in Texas. The mansion became a state museum in nineteen seventy-seven when a modern governor's residence was built nearby.
