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Photograph of Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse
Photograph by National Park Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse

Built in 1938 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse in Glacier National Park, also known as Packer's Roost East, were constructed to serve backcountry pack trail activities near the Many Glacier Hotel. The barn was designed in 1938 by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Design to replace a barn that had burned in the Swiftcurrent Valley fire of 1936, using a simplified form of the National Park Service Rustic style.”

Wikipedia article Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1938, rustic architecture.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Glacier Rt. 3 at Apikuni Flat, Glacier NP, St. Mary, 59434
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
  • Census division. Glacier National Park
  • When was it built? 1938
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95001570 - 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 Barn and Bunkhouse 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 Barn and Bunkhouse: 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

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 Hotel Historic District0.5 miles1976
Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District1.5 miles1996
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)1.5 miles2018
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin1.6 miles1996
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle5.3 miles1996
Logan Pass Visitor Center8.0 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001570 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.