Fort Union Trading Post Historic Structures Report (Part II) Historical Data Section

Located behind (to the north) of the bourgeois' house, the kitchen never appeared in any of the illustrations of the fort. In 1843 Denig said the building was about two steps from the hall that divided the bourgeois' house--"so situated for convenience in carrying in the cooked victuals to the mess-room." In 1835 Larpenteur made a reference to the kitchen that is not quite clear, but he seemed to be saying that the kitchen floor had just been "paved." In 1864-65, he described various efforts to maintain the structure: daubing the walls, repairing the roofs, and whitewashing the walls with white earth.

The kitchen had an ignominious end. Larpenteur noted in his diary on August 4, 1867, that the building had been torn down and its wood used as fuel by the SB Miner. No illustrations exist.