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Seattle architect Earl W. Morrison (1889-1955) designed the $500,0000 Mount Baker Lodge for a group of investors that included Bert W. Huntoon, C.H. Park, J.B. McMillan, Frank Sefrit and Everett B. Deming. According to Thomas P. Deering, Jr., author of "Mountain Architecture: An Alternative Design Proposal for the Wy'East Day Lodge, Mount Hood Oregon," "The Mount Baker Lodge project enjoyed the enthusiastic support of the people of Bellingham. Stock was sold in the Mount Baker Development Company with the help of numerous flattering and persuasive front-page articles in the Bellingham Herald. In only two hours over one third of the 2,500 shares available were sold at $100 each. Within six days the entire subscription had been sold out." (See Thomas P. Deering, Jr., "Mountain Architecture: An Alternative Design Proposal for the Wy'East Day Lodge, Mount Hood Oregon,"Accessed 09/25/2012.) It opened on 07/14/1927. Construction of the lodge was contingent on the building of the Mount Baker Highway, which had been extended to Heather Meadows, just to its northeast, by 1926. (See "Ramon Heller - Mount Baker Ski Area," Alpenglow Ski Mountaineering History Project,Accessed 09/25/2012.)

Demolished; the lodge burned on 08/05/1931.

PCAD id: 18075