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Photograph by L.S. Harrison, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sperry Chalets

Built in 1913 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Sperry Chalet is located about seven miles east of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The chalet was opened in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway and was a National Historic Landmark contributing property, being one of five structures in the Great Northern Railway Buildings National Historic Landmark.”

Wikipedia article Sperry Chalet, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1977 · category: District · built in 1913, rustic architecture, by Cutter & Malmgren.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of West Glacier, West Glacier, 59936
  • When was it listed? August 1977
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • When was it built? 1913
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. Cutter & Malmgren
  • National Register reference number. 77000115 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sperry Chalets between 1994 and 2017, burning about 17,144 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkLABOUR
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkSNYDER
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkREBECKA
22 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlacier National ParkFLAT ROCK
1 September 2012Natural160 acresGlacier National ParkAVALANCHE
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkAVALANCHE
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreGlacier National ParkWALTON
10 August 2017Natural16,982 acresGlacier National ParkSPRAGUE

Every fire recorded in Flathead County

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Glacier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
November 2006Flash FloodWest Glacier$7,000,000The Associated Press reported 7.0 million in damages. Glacier National Park received 9.1 of rainfall in 36 hours. An additional .5 to 1.0 million in damages occurred to the park's trails.
February 2015Heavy RainWest Glacier-A rockslide was reported along US-2 just east of West Glacier, MT. The eastbound lane was blocked by softball-sized rocks. Road crews cleared debris and the road was usable again an hour later.
July 2014Heavy RainWest Glacier-The Glacier National Park RAWS reported 0.76 of rainfall in one hour. Other heavy rainfall reports include 0.78 40 min. ending 4:10 pm MDT 3 miles east of Creston and 0.65 in one hour via Hungry Horse RAWS at 6:11 pm MDT.
May 2013FloodWest Glacier-Minor flooding occurred to agricultural lands in the low lying areas adjacent to the middle fork of the Flathead River near West Glacier.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
May 2006FloodWest Glacier-no account filed
June 2006HailWest Glacier-no account filed
September 2004HailWest Glacier-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Going-to-the-Sun Road1.9 miles1997
Gunsight Pass Shelter2.2 miles1986
Mount Brown Fire Lookout2.8 miles1986
Thomas J. Walsh Lodge4.1 miles1998
Greve's Tourist Cabins4.2 miles2008
Alice Beck Cabin4.2 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000115 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead CountyAll 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.
  • 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.