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Carey Block

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ48791446 ↗
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The Carey Block—located at 602 Greybull Ave. in Greybull, Wyoming, United States—is a building that was built in 1916. It has also been known as Hurst Block, First State Bank, and Greybull Hotel .

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

It includes a two-story portion that is 75 by 80 feet (23 m × 24 m) in plan and a one-story wing. It was built by Gagnon & Co. in Early Commercial style.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carey Block” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.