Cheyenne Historic Preservation

🖋 Last week, Mayor Patrick Collins signed a proclamation declaring May as "Historic Preservation Month" in Cheyenne!

🎉All citizens in Cheyenne are invited to celebrate the preservation of our recognized National Historic Landmarks and Properties throughout the City.

On this day in 1930, the first airline stewardesses made their flying debut traveling from Cheyenne to Chicago and San Francisco to Cheyenne.

The Boeing Air Transport starting training the world's first stewardesses in Cheyenne. When the airline transitioned to United Airlines, they operated the training school from 1947 to 1961.

While the original terminal building and airport fountain are already included in the National Register of Historic Places, our Board is working on a new nomination for the 1961 terminal! Stay tuned for more updates.

📷 - all courtesy of Wyoming State Archives
01: First stewardess class in front of Boeing Air Transport plane, 1930
02: United Airline stewardess, 1937.
03: United Airline stewardesses, c. 1930s to 1940s
04: Frontier Airline plane in front of the 1961 airport terminal still standing in Cheyenne.