Downtown Cody Wyoming is the main street of Sheridan Avenue named after the great General Phillip Sheridan from the Army of the West one of many enterprising Cody business leaders who founded the Cody Chamber of Commerce in the late 1890's. Over a million people pass through downtown Cody each year on their way to Yellowstone National Park. Modern day businessmen & women provide contemporary and traditional western experiences for everyone no matter what brought you to cowboy country.
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Molesworth Furniture
In 1931 Thomas Canada Molesworth (1890-1977) started the Shoshone Furniture Company in Cody, Wyoming. The western "Dude Ranch" was a popular vacation destination in those days as this was prior to Disneyland and Hawaii vacation packages. In a few short years Molesworth had made a name for himself furnishing the Moses Annenberg lodge and big hotels in Wyoming and Montana. In 1940 he received a commission to furnish the TE Ranch which had formerly belonged to Buffalo Bill. Edward Grigware, an old classmate from Chicago collaborated with Molesworth on the TE Ranch project and several other commissions. Molesworth made furniture for some of the most prominent Americans of the twentieth century. He furnished Eisenhower's den, the Rockefeller Ranch and the homes and retreats of several celebrities and captains of industry and commerce. Today fine craftsmanship skill are still praticed in Cody Wyoming as a part of the long standing tradition established so many years ago by Molesworth.
