The Great Northern Hotel

The Great Northern Hotel is a fictional setting featured in the television series Twin Peaks.[1] It is where much of the series takes place. The lead character, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, is a resident of the hotel for the length of the series.[2][3][4][5][6] The exterior of The Great Northern Hotel is the Salish Lodge in Snoqualmie, WA.[1] (In 1988, the building was completely remodeled and reopened as the Salish Lodge.)[7] The lodge that inspired The Great Northern Hotel is the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington.[4] The Kiana Lodge was built in the late 1920s and is furnished with alder bentwood pieces dating from that era.[4]

The Great Northern Hotel
Snoqualmie Falls and exterior of the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge,[1] used for The Great Northern Hotel, upper left, in June 2008
Created byDavid Lynch, Mark Frost
GenreDrama
Information
TypeHotel
Notable locationsTwin Peaks
Not to be confused with the Great Northern Hotel, Townsville, Australia.

History

The hotel is owned by Ben Horne, a business associate of Leland Palmer; the death of whose daughter Laura Palmer is the catalyst for the series.[8]

References
  1. "The Real Great Northern Hotel". InTwinPeaks.com.
  2. "Stay At The Great Northern Hotel in Twin Peaks For Half The Price, No Joke". WelcomeToTwinPeaks.com. November 2, 2012.
  3. "Twin Peaks". The New York Times.
  4. Shields, Jody (October 4, 1992). "Design; American Rustic". The New York Times.
  5. "Twin Peaks". MovieLoci.com.
  6. Diaz, Eric (February 19, 2015). "Twin Peaks Revisited: Episode Six – "Cooper's Dreams"". Nerdist.
  7. http://www.salishlodge.com/lodge.php
  8. Mactaggart, Allister (2010). The Film Paintings of David Lynch: Challenging Film Theory. University of Chicago Press. p. 59. ISBN 9781841503325.
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