The Cut Bank Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was one of the first buildings built in Glacier by the

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. Built in 1917, the design is in keeping with park hotel structures built by the Great Northern Railway in a Swiss chalet style that predated the fully developed National Park Service Rustic style. The station was manned year-round until the late 1930s when it became a summer-only station. It was one of the first

-built facilities in Glacier. The design pre-dates the standardized National Park Service Rustic style, using a similar but simplified construction technique resembling pioneer construction. It is similar to the Saint Mary Ranger Station. A barn was added in 1935 by

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labor, along with a woodshed. Both structures were built to adaptations of Park Service standard designs.

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Ranger stations in Glacier National Park (U.S.) Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Government buildings completed in 1906 Swiss Chalet Revival architecture Civilian Conservation Corps in Montana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier County, Montana 1906 establishments in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park {{Montana-struct-stub