Great Northern Railway Buildings, Historic railway district in Glacier National Park, Montana, US

The Great Northern Railway Buildings are five building complexes in or near Glacier National Park, Montana, built by the Great Northern Railway using the Swiss chalet as a model. They are the Belton Chalets, just outside the park, and Granite Park Chalet, Many Glacier Hotel, Sperry Chalet and Two Medicine General Store inside it.

Great Northern Railway built these structures between 1910 and 1915 to create tourist lodging after the park was established. This model for developing park tourism through the railway influenced how other regions approached visitor access.

The Swiss chalet style was chosen by Great Northern president Louis W. Hill, who drew on European mountain architecture. The buildings served a range of tourists, from the grand Many Glacier Hotel to the rustic Granite Park and Sperry chalets. The Two Medicine General Store is the surviving part of a lakeside hotel, with one of its two log structures demolished.

These buildings are spread across different locations in the park and are reached either by hiking trails or by road. It helps to check ahead which locations are open during your visit and what access conditions are like.

This collection represents the largest gathering of Swiss chalet architecture in the United States and earned National Historic Landmark status in 1987. Many visitors overlook that most of these buildings still function as lodging today and are not just historical sites.