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Many Glacier Hotel Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Many Glacier Hotel is a historic hotel located on the east shore of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Built in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway, the hotel is considered today to be a National Historic Landmark and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.”

Wikipedia article Many Glacier Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. W of Babb, Babb, 59434
  • When was it listed? September 1976
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MRA (AD); Glacier National Park MRA
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 76000173 - 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Many Glacier Hotel Historic District between 1998 and 2017, burning about 23 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Fireworks2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 1998Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkCRACKER
30 August 2015Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBOULDER
25 August 2000Natural22 acresGlacier National ParkGRINNEL POINT
5 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreGlacier National ParkMANY GLACIER
5 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreGlacier National ParkSWIFT
23 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkPTARMIGAN
11 July 2017Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkBOULDER

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Many Glacier Hotel Historic District: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cracker Lake MineCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Glacier County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Babb, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Heavy RainBabb-Gtom8 19.7 nw Logan Pass.
July 2014HailBabb-Large hail, measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized), was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainBabb-Heavy rain of about 1.5 inches since midnight was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainBabb-Heavy rain of about 2.25 inches since midnight was reported.
June 2014Heavy RainBabb-Heavy rain of about 4.25 inches since midnight was reported. Elevation 4500 ft.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBabb-High winds estimated at 52KT (60MPH) were reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
July 2013HailBabb-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
July 2013HailBabb-Hail measuring 1.50 inches (ping pong ball sized) was reported 6 mi NNE of Babb, MT.
August 2013HailBabb-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 1 miles WNW of Babb, MT.
June 2006HailBabb-no account filed
June 2004HailBabb-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Glacier 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse0.5 miles1996
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)1.0 miles2018
Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District1.0 miles1996
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin1.1 miles1996
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle5.2 miles1996
Logan Pass Visitor Center7.6 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000173 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier CountyAll 29 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.