The Jenny Lake Ranger Station Historic District comprises an area that was the main point of visitor contact in Grand Teton National Park from the 1930s to 1960.

The ranger station was built as a cabin by Lee Mangus north of Moose, Wyoming about 1925 and was moved and rebuilt around 1930 for Park Service use.

[2] The ranger station was reconstructed from a cabin originally built by Lee Manges about 1925 which was acquired by the National Park Service in 1930 and moved to the present site.

Crandall also painted, his work appearing in magazines and collected by John D. Rockefeller Jr.[4] The studio-visitor center consists of two main rooms in a long, deep log structure, with a high open ceiling lighted by clerestory windows in roof monitors.

[3] The comfort stations were built in 1934 and 1935 from Park Service standard plans by Civilian Conservation Corps labor,[3] based at Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4.