Two Medicine Store

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Two Medicine General Store
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Two Medicine Store
Nearest city:	West Glacier, Montana
Coordinates:	48°29′5.85″N 113°22′8.32″W / 48.4849583, -113.3689778Coordinates: 48°29′5.85″N 113°22′8.32″W / 48.4849583, -113.3689778
Built/Founded:	1912
Added to NRHP:	February 14, 1986
NRHP Reference#:	86000372[1]
MPS:	Glacier National Park MRA
Governing body:	National Park Service

Two Medicine Store, formerly part of Two Medicine Chalet, is an historic building in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The chalet was originally built in 1914 by the Glacier Park Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, as part of the railway's extensive program of visitor services development at Glacier. The chalet originally featured a complex of log buildings, all built in the rustic style, which provided dining and lodging facilities. Overnight accommodations at the chalet ended with the onset of World War II, and the other buildings at the site were intentionally burned in 1956.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a national radio address from this building on August 5, 1934, while on a visit to Glacier.^[2]

The Two Medicine Store is a National Historic Landmark, being one of five sites in the park listed under the title of The Great Northern Railway Buildings National Historic Landmark. While the two other surviving chalets, Granite Park Chalet and Sperry Chalet, were constructed of stone, the Two Medicine Chalet complex was of log construction.

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• Harrison, Laura Soullière (1986). Great Northern Railway Buildings. National Park Service: Architecture in the Parks. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
• Chapter 3: Affected Environment (pdf). Glacier National Park Final Commercial Services Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. National Park Service (2004). Retrieved on 2006-04-27.