Rebuilding Sperry Chalet
2017 Wildfire Burns Sperry Chalet Sperry Chalet was built in Glacier National Park in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway. Six miles from the nearest trailhead, Sperry Chalet welcomed guests for more than 100 years before a September 2017 wildfire destroyed the wooden...
Parkitecture in Northwest Montana
A Project Inspired by Sperry Chalet Sperry Chalet was built in Glacier National Park in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway. It is one of several backcountry lodges built by the railroad as a way to increase passenger traffic . The stone used to construct the Sperry...
Saving the Creamery
Homestead-era stone buildingThe “Creamery” was built in the 1880’s by European immigrants who settled in Montana during late 19th century. Milk collected from surrounding homesteads was processed and sold to residents of Great Falls, ten miles to the...
Enigmatic Hovenweep
On a windswept canyon rim in far southeastern Utah stand the remains of some of the most baffling stone structures in North America. Ancestral Puebloans The Anasazi (now more properly called Ancestral Puebloan) populated the Four Corners area of the southwestern US...