On July 18, 1998 Fort Steele Heritage Town and the RCMP opened the North-West Mounted Police Officers' Quarters display in celebration of the Mounted Police's 125th Anniversary.

This building is the only original NWMP structure which remains of Kootenay Post. Many of the eight original buildings were moved in the early twentieth century to the Industrial School at the St. Eugene's Mission, others merely decayed and were burned. Because it was the most highly finished of the buildings, the Officers' Quarters was utilized by people in the years following the NWMP's withdrawal as: the residence and office of the Provincial Constable; a private residence; a storage house; a museum; and even a chicken coop.

The building was moved to its present location by Fort Steele staff in 1962. The move was an attempt to both integrate this building as part of the reconstructed Kootenay Post and to protect this historically important building from further decay. When the logs were rechinked by Fort Steele staff, they discovered 1880s copies of the Illustrated London News and Paris Match that had been used to fill gaps in the walls.

The Officers' Quarters was indicative of the rank and status that the officers held within the force. The quarters include private rooms, finely finished interiors and a separate kitchen lean-to to supply meals for the officers. The officers' higher pay scale and rights to have a great deal of personal goods transported in at force expense, allowed them to obtain many luxuries. Finely crafted furniture, oriental rugs, gourmet foodstuffs and personal items were only some of the frivolous items that NWMP officers shipped to the frontier.

The four officers commanding 'D' Division at Kootenay Post included Superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele, Inspectors Zachary Taylor Wood and Charles Francois Albert Huot, and Assistant Surgeon Frederick Hamilton Powell. All were descended from relatively wealthy and influential eastern families, and had obtained their commissions as NWMP Officers through political and family connections.