The Great Northern Railway built the Many Glacier Hotel from 1914 to 1917. This iconic hotel, built in the style of a Swiss chalet, is perched on the edge of Swiftcurrent Lake overlooking the glaciated valleys and mountains of Glacier National Park’s less-traveled east side. The Many Glacier Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1987. However, due to significant deficiencies in the knob-and-tube wiring, the plumbing and fire-suppression systems, and the gravity and lateral load-resisting structural systems, the structure was placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual list of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” in 1996. …