The Museum Club - Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

The Museum Club and its Neon Guitar Sign are one of the most famous landmarks in Flagstaff. The Club is a Roadside attraction, and listed as a National Historic Landmark. The building began life in 1931 built by Dean Eldredge as a Taxidermy Museum, because of its history, it was nicknamed the Zoo. The building, is said to be the largest log cabin in Arizona. The Museum Club now plays host to national acts as well as Country & Western regional bands.

"The Museum Club, a Route 66 icon in Flagstaff, Arizona, began its life as the boyhood dream of taxidermist Dean Eldredge in 1931. When Eldredge found a petrified frog as a child in Wisconsin, it spurred a lifetime as a sportsman, adventurer and collector. Dean began his taxidermy business in 1918. In the early 1930s Eldredge saw an opportunity when he purchased a piece of federal land, three miles east of Flagstaff on Route 66. Soon, he hired unemployed lumberjacks to cut trees, haul them to his property and built what he touted as "the biggest log cabin in the world.” Later he would revise his claim to "the biggest log cabin in the nation,” then to "the biggest log cabin in Arizona.” In any case, he finally had a showplace for his lifetime collection of stuffed animals, six-legged sheep, Winchester rifles, Indian artifacts, two-headed calves, and more than 30,000 other items. Operating as a museum, taxidermist shop, and a trading post, scores of Route 66'rs stopped in to visit Dean and his collection during the five years that he operated the museum. Before long, locals dubbed the museum "The Zoo,” a name that has stuck with the building to this day." Text Source: (visit link)

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3404 E. US 66
Flagstaff, AZ Coconino
86004

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