Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop

Built in 1965 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop is a visitor services building in the Lake McDonald district of Glacier National Park, Montana. The coffee shop was built in 1965 as part of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program to upgrade visitor facilities, in order to increase visitor dining capacity.”
Wikipedia article Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1965, modern architecture, by Fred Brinkman.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lake McDonald Lodge Blvd., Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, 59936
When was it listed? October 2008
Category. building
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1965
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Fred Brinkman
National Register reference number. 08001014 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31,668 acres in total. 24 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	24
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SNYDER
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	LABOUR
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	SNYDER
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	REBECKA
22 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Glacier National Park	FLAT ROCK
1 September 2012	Natural	160 acres	Glacier National Park	AVALANCHE
9 August 2017	Natural	1.5 acres	Glacier National Park	ROGERS MOUNTAIN
9 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	VAUGHT

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District	0.1 miles	1978
Lake McDonald Lodge	0.2 miles	1987
Greve's Tourist Cabins	0.3 miles	2008
Alice Beck Cabin	0.8 miles	2008
Kelly's Camp Historic District	1.2 miles	2009
Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District	1.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001014 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead County	All 168 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.