Many Glacier Hotel

Construction began in 1914 and finished on July 4, 1915 — one year, by design. The Great Northern Railway built Many Glacier Hotel on the east shore of Swiftcurrent Lake as the centerpiece of its push to brand Glacier National Park as the "American Alps," with Louis W. Hill choosing a Swiss chalet style to sell that idea. Four stories of brown-painted wood siding and Swiss jigsawed balconies later, the hotel still operates on the same lakeshore, a contributing property in the National Historic Landmark Great Northern Railway Buildings district.