Goathaunt Bunkhouse

The Goathaunt Bunkhouse was built as a service structure for the Great Northern Hotel Company's development of the Goathaunt site in Glacier National Park. The bunkhouse is the last surviving structure of this era at this location, near the southern end of Waterton Lake. Its design has been attributed to National Park Service landscape architect Thomas Chalmers Vint.[2]

Goathaunt Bunkhouse
LocationS end of Waterton Lake, Glacier NP, St. Mary, Montana
Coordinates48°57′39″N 113°53′53″W
Built1930
ArchitectGlacier Park Hotel Co., George Baker
MPSGlacier National Park MPS
NRHP reference No.95001568
Added to NRHPJanuary 19, 1996[1]

The site is at the southern end of Waterton Lake, near the modern Goat Haunt Ranger Station. It was built to house the crew of the M.V. International, a small passenger launch that plied the route between the American and Canadian ends of Waterton Lake.[3]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Goathaunt Bunkhouse". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-12. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
  3. Ann Hubber (June 1995). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Goathaunt Bunkhouse (pdf). National Park Service.


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