The Heaven's Peak Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The one-story timber-construction with a flat roof was built in 1945. The flat, overhanging roof is anchored to the stone foundation with cables. The lookout was to be built in 1940 by local contractor Ole Norden as part of a

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recove ...

project. However, Norden was unable to perform the work and it was completed in 1945 under a different contract.

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Government buildings completed in 1945 Towers completed in 1945 National Park Service rustic in Montana Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana 1945 establishments in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park {{Montana-NRHP-stub