Swanson Boathouse

Built in 1936 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Swanson Boathouse, also known as the Two Medicine Boathouse, was built in 1936 by concessioner Billy Swanson at Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park. The rustic structure remains in its intended use.”
Wikipedia article Swanson Boathouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1936, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. E shore of Two Medicine Lake, Glacier NP, East Glacier, 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? 1936
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 95001577 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Swanson Boathouse between 1992 and 2016, burning about 9 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
Recreation and ceremony	20
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	STUMP FIRE
8 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glacier National Park	DRY FORK
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BLUE FIRE
7 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	ANOTHER DAM FIRE
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	GRANOLA FIRE
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	MARSHMALLOW FIRE
6 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	GLACIER
6 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	REDHEAD

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 Swanson Boathouse: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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

3 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
LITTLE CHIEF (boat)	under 500 feet	2017
Two Medicine Campground Camptender's Cabin	0.4 miles	1996
Glacier Park Women's Club	7.5 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001577 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier County	All 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.