Glacier Park Lodge - East Glacier Park, Montana

Today we visited the Glacier Park Lodge, in East Glacier Park. Below are my personal pictures, with excerpts from wikipedea.

Glacier Park Lodge was built a century ago by the Great Northern Railway.  The porch is flanked by projecting gabled bays, with each story projecting beyond the story below, capped by a broad roof with deep eaves in a chalet-like style.

Situated on the Blackfeet Reservation, the hotel site was purchased from the Piegan, a tribe of the
  Blackfeet Nation.

This site was in a settlement then known as Midvale.

When the present railway depot was built in 1912 the area was renamed Glacier Park Station and
  then became known as East Glacier Park in 1950.

The section of the lodge containing the lobby and dining room was erected in 1912-1913 and opened
  to guests on June 5, 1913.  The opening was a very festive occasion.

Glacier Park Lodge was intended to be a signature building. The lodge was loosely styled as a Swiss chalet akin to other lodges built by the Great Northern between 1913 and 1917.

The lodge is built around a three-story lobby measuring 200 feet (61 m) by 100 feet (30 m), lined with Douglas-fir columns 40 feet (12 m) tall and between 36 and 42 inches (91 to 106 cm) in diameter. Each column was brought in by rail from the Pacific Northwest because trees in Montana rarely grow so large. A total of 60 such trees were used, with Douglas-fir in the lobby and cedars for the exterior. The logs in the main hall are detailed with smaller logs at their tops to resemble the Ionic order. 

The original structure contained 61 guest rooms, the lobby and the dining room. The addition housed another 111 guests.^[1]

The addition is a four story structure to the south of the main building, connected by an enclosed breezeway with intimate seating areas. The final cost of the lodge and addition by 1915 was $500,000.^[2]

The Blackfeet erected their tepees on the grounds and over 600 invited guests.

Amtrak still markets the park as a tourist destination for its Empire Builder passenger train, and many of Glacier National Park visitors still arrive by train. Once common among many National Park railroad tour destinations, the Glacier Park lodges are among the last with a real railroad connection.