United States Government, Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), Glacier National Park, Sperry Chalet Dormitory, Lake McDonald, MT (1914)

Structure Type: built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels; built works - dwellings -public accommodations - inns

Designers: Cutter and Malmgren, Architects (firm); Kirtland Kelsey Cutter (architect); Karl Gunnar Malmgren (architect)

Dates: constructed 1914

Lake McDonald, MT
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The Sperry Chalet consists of two buildings: a dormitory and central dining hall. The Sperry Dormitory had rubble walls, rough-hewn log balconies and a shake roof. It contained 23 guest rooms originally. It was on one of four designed for the Saint Paul-based Great Northern Railway in Glacier National Park; they included the Sperry Dining Hall and Dorm, Many Glacier Hotel (Thomas D. McMahon, architect), Granite Chalet (Samuel L. Bartlett, architect) and Two Medicine Store (Samuel L. Bartlett, architect).

PCAD id: 13406

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