The Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home is a historic frontier house displayed in the Cashman Greever Garden at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. It offers a compact look at nineteenth-century house construction and a piece of Buffalo Bill Cody history; the house is outside the Buffalo Bill Museum.
- Location: Cashman Greever Garden, outside the Buffalo Bill Museum
- The Center publishes seasonal hours, with different schedules across the year
- Adult admission is $24; children ages 6–17 pay $17
What the Boyhood Home Commemorates
The Boyhood Home preserves a frontier house built in LeClaire, Iowa, and later brought to Cody. The National Park Service record identifies it as a building at 720 Sheridan Avenue in Cody.
The house was built in 1841, five years before William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born. Cody was born on February 26, 1846, in a log cabin on a farm about two miles west of LeClaire—not in this house.
The home was brought to Cody in 1933 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1975.
What to Look for at the Site
The house is a wooden frontier town home made with sawed lumber, hand-hewn beams and corner posts, with pine clapboard siding. It measures about 25 feet long, 18 feet wide and 20 feet high at the gable peak.
The original house had an attached lean-to kitchen, but that section stayed in Iowa. Upstairs were two or three bedrooms, while the ground floor held two multipurpose rooms. The home is displayed in the garden outside the Buffalo Bill Museum; the Center does not say whether you may enter the house, so plan to view it from outside.
How to Fit It into a Cody Visit
You can start with the home in the garden, then continue into the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, where it is displayed. The Center is at 720 Sheridan Avenue.
From the inn, it is about a 13-minute walk or 2-minute drive, so you can visit both without changing locations. A Wyoming Inn offers a place to stay while you explore the Boyhood Home and the Center.
You can use the Cody city centre guide to plan around its shops, sights and getting around.
Access and Visitor Information
- Opening hours
- May 1–September 15, 8 a
You can plan around the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s seasonal opening hours: May 1–September 15, 8 a.m.–6 p.m.; September 16–October 31, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; November 1–November 30, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; December 1–February 28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursday–Sunday; and March 1–April 30, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Admission is $24 for adults, $23 for seniors, $22 for students with valid ID and $17 for children ages 6–17. Children age 5 and under and active U.S. military members enter free. Park County youth ages 17 and under may also enter free with one accompanying adult through a program supported by the Frère family.
Hours and rates can change, so check the official site before you go. The Center does not specify parking instructions or accessibility details for the Boyhood Home, so you may want to confirm those arrangements before setting out. The Cody city centre guide can also help you plan around local shops, sights and getting around.
Pairing the Stop with Nearby History
The Boyhood Home sits within the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, so you can make it part of a broader visit to the Center. Its setting outside the Buffalo Bill Museum makes the house easy to locate within the complex. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West visitor guide covers the Center’s sights alongside this historic home.
FAQs
Was Buffalo Bill born in the Boyhood Home?
No. William F. Cody was born in a log cabin on a farm near LeClaire, Iowa. The house now displayed in Cody was built in LeClaire in 1841.
Can visitors go inside the Boyhood Home?
The Center identifies the house as being in the Cashman Greever Garden but does not state whether you may enter it.
Where is Buffalo Bill’s Boyhood Home?
It is in the Cashman Greever Garden at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, outside the Buffalo Bill Museum, at 720 Sheridan Avenue in Cody.