The Goathaunt Bunkhouse was built as a service structure by the

Glacier Park Hotel Company The Glacier Park Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway (GN), constructed and operated hotels, chalets, and other visitor facilities in Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta from the 1910s through 19 ...

for the development of the Goathaunt site in Glacier National Park. This was part of the Great Northern Railway's broader development of the park as a tourist destination. The bunkhouse is the last surviving structure of this era at this location, near the southern end of

Waterton Lake Waterton Lake is a mountain lake in southern Alberta, Canada and northern Montana, United States. The lake is composed of two bodies of water, connected by a shallow channel known locally as the Bosporus. The two parts are referred to as Middle Wat ...

. Its design has been attributed to

National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propert ...

landscape architect

Thomas Chalmers Vint Thomas Chalmers Vint (August 15, 1894 – October 26, 1967) was a landscape architect credited for directing and shaping landscape planning and development during the early years of the United States National Park System. His work at Yosemite ...

. The site is at the southern end of

, 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.

References

Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Residential buildings completed in 1930 National Register of Historic Places in Glacier County, Montana 1930 establishments in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park Great Northern Railway (U.S.) {{Montana-NRHP-stub