The Halone House features porches built as advertisements of stonework skill

Alex Halone was a Finnish immigrant who arrived at Ellis Island in 1904 with a trade and a name change. He learned the art of stone cutting from his father and worked at a stone quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, before making his way to Thermopolis. He homesteaded land and expanded his homestead to 640 acres, operating a quarry and building a two-story house in 1909-1910.

He began by digging a 12-by-12-foot sandstone basement for his family to live in during the winter of 1909. By 1910, he had erected a two-story structure of rock-faced ashlar sandstone, measuring 27.5 feet by 27.5 feet. Details were executed in travertine found in the terraces of local thermal springs.

Halone built a series of porches and dependent structures as advertisements of his stonework skill. The house features a chimney on the east side using slate, pink granite, and sandstone, which incorporates a balcony and a window.

Today, you can still see the work of a man who built the base for the statue of Buffalo Bill in Cody and the fireplaces at Old Faithful in Yellowstone. The grounds hold a log Finnish sauna built between 1946 and 1951 by Alex and his son Eugene with assistance from Lauri Suikaonen. The sauna is noted on the National Register nomination as exceptionally significant.

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