Great Northern Railway Buildings

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Great Northern Railway Buildings are a set of five building complexes in or near Glacier National Park in Montana. They were built by the Great Northern Railway during the period of the park's founding to provide a unified tourist experience to visitors to the park, using the Swiss chalet as a building model.”
Wikipedia article Great Northern Railway Buildings, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1987 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Glacier National Park, Glacier National Park, 59434
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 87001453 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Great Northern Railway Buildings between 1994 and 2019, burning about 34,223 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
26 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	ALL TOW FIRE
24 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	STMARYFIRE
23 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CUTBANK
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SWAMP FIRE
30 August 1998	Natural	15 acres	Glacier National Park	RED EAGLE
27 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE SLASH PILE
25 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	FOX

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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Saint Mary Ranger Station	6.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001453 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.