The buildings exhibit a consistency of style and construction, with exposed gable trusses and oversized paired logs at the corners, all with brown paint.

Many native populations were displaced by non-natives, but there was quality brown and rainbow trout fishing in the Firehole, Madison and Gibbon Rivers.

In 1953 the National Park Service began closing the hatcheries and stopping stocking operations.

An arched log truss is a prominent feature of the end elevation, together with a rubblestone chimney.

[4][8] Building 729 was an office and summer residence for the Fish and Wildlife Service's hatchery director.

[4] Other facilities built at about the same time included boathouses, a dock, and rearing ponds, which have not survived.