How is Plenty Coups' home being cared for today?

Plenty Coups' house is in excellent condition today. Not long ago, the outside of the building was repaired, and now the inside is being fixed up. These projects will keep the house in tip top shape; so many more people can see it in the future. In 1993, the park completed a stabilization project on the exterior of the building. Approximately $122,000 was spent to support the foundation, repair logs that had rotted, repaint, re-roof and re-chink the entire exterior of the building.

In 1997, the Chief Plenty Coups Advisory Council (Friends) began a stabilization project on the interior of the house which includes taking out linoleum, wall board and other items that were added after Plenty Coups died in 1932. The museum is also removing the electrical improvements and lighting added by ranch families during the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Eventually, the house will be basically the way it was during Plenty Coups' time in the early 1900s. The next phase is a project to restore certain rooms to the way they were during Plenty Coups' time. The highest priority is, of course, Plenty Coup's upstairs room of honor which needs a lot of restoration work to save the wall coverings and to make it look like the photographs that the museum has of that time period. From: Chief Plenty Coups State Park Museum Tour Content