POWELL (AP) - Wood from the recently replaced century-old floorboards of Old Faithful Inn were returned to the historic building this week, but in a slightly different form: as mirror frames.

Park County woodworker Rich Holstein, who has gained fame as the crafter of picture frames made from Old Faithful Inn's floorboards, has donated 110 framed mirrors to Yellowstone National Park's most famous structure.

The mirrors will be hung in all 108 old house guest rooms and the main lobby of Old Faithful Inn just in time for the building's grand reopening Monday.

After spending three months in the crown jewel of the park pulling out some 13 miles of wood flooring and more than 300,000 nails by hand, Holstein developed a fondness for the building. That fondness and a desire to give something back to the place that turned his small frame-building business into an overnight success prompted the donation.

The former Powell woodworker said building the frames for the mirrors took him and assistant Eric Porter nearly 200 hours. The frames are worth around $37,000.

"But it's not all about the money," Holstein said. "This work has allowed me to put my stamp on history."

This week, Holstein was busy individually numbering and hand-signing the backs of the frames. They are his legacy.

"One hundred years from now, my frames will still be hanging in the inn," he said. "A century from now, someone will turn one of these over and picture me here signing these. When they write a book about the great restoration of 2005 and 2006, there will be a little blurb in there about what I did with the floors."

It was not long ago that Holstein by chance secured the rights to remove the flooring in the inn's old house as the massive Old Faithful Inn restoration project got under way. His agreement with the National Park Service specified his rights to the 1936 lobby maple and original 1904 fir - as long as he removed it.

The flooring had to be lifted in order for reconstruction crews to replace and update wiring and plumbing. New flooring has since been laid.

Holstein began fashioning the recovered wood into picture frames and mirror frames.

Word quickly spread, and his business began to boom.

"They're more than just picture frames," he said. "They're a piece of history. The frames become history themselves. Think of who has walked on this wood over the past 100 years."

It was Holstein himself who walked into the newly restored inn Tuesday before the public reopening to begin hanging the mirrors by hand, one by one, the same way he removed the floorboards just months ago.

"This wood came from the floor of Old Faithful Inn, and I felt it was the only place for some of this wood to be," he said. "It's back where it belongs. As an artist, this is as special as it gets."