Two Medicine Store Explained

Two Medicine General Store
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Nocat:yes
Nearest City:West Glacier, Montana
Coordinates:48.4849°N -113.369°W
Built:1912
Added:February 14, 1986
Mpsub:Glacier National Park MRA
Refnum:86000372
Nrhp Type2:nhldcp
Designated Nrhp Type2:May 28, 1987
Partof:Great Northern Railway Buildings
Partof Refnum:87001453

Two Medicine Store, formerly part of Two Medicine Chalets, is a historic building in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The chalet was originally built in 1914 by the Glacier Park Hotel Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, as part of the railway's extensive program of visitor services development at Glacier. The chalet group originally featured a complex of log buildings, all built in the rustic style, which provided dining and lodging facilities.[1] Overnight accommodations at the chalet ended with the onset of World War II, and the other buildings at the site were intentionally burned in 1956.President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a national radio address from Two Medicine Chalets on August 5, 1934, while on a visit to Glacier.[2]

The Two Medicine Store is a National Historic Landmark contributing property, being one of five sites in the Great Northern Railway Buildings National Historic Landmark. While other chalets, Granite Park Chalet and Sperry Chalet, were constructed of stone, the Two Medicine Chalet complex was of log construction.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Two Medicine Chalet General Store. 2008-11-10. List of Classified Structures. National Park Service.
  2. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14733 Franklin D. Roosevelt: Radio Address from Two Medicine Chalet, Glacier National Park