The log building sits on the edge of the Queen's Laundry thermal feature in the Lower Geyser Basin.

Begun by Yellowstone park superintendent Philetus Norris, the bath house was intended to have two rooms and a dirt-covered roof, but was never completed.

[2] The ruins are located near the western end of Sentinel Meadows on a travertine mound formed by Queen's Laundry Spring.

The interior comprises two rooms of approximately equal size, which are in the process of gradually being covered by hot springs deposits.

After the structure was partly built, Superintendent Patrick H. Conger took over management and declined to pursue its completion.