Two Medicine Store, formerly part of Two Medicine Chalet, is a historic building in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Montana

Montana

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. The chalet was originally built in 1914 by the Glacier Park Company

Glacier Park Company

The Glacier Park Company, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway , constructed and operated hotels, chalets, and other visitor facilities in Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta from the 1910s through 1960...

, 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

World War II

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, and the other buildings at the site were intentionally burned in 1956.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 gave a national radio address from this building on August 5, 1934, while on a visit to Glacier.

The Two Medicine Store is a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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 contributing property, being one of five sites in the Great Northern Railway Buildings

Great Northern Railway Buildings

Great Northern Railway Buildings is a National Historic Landmark that now includes five complexes of buildings in Glacier National Park. The buildings were built by Great Northern Railway....

 National Historic Landmark. While the two other surviving chalets, Granite Park Chalet

Granite Park Chalet

Granite Park Chalet is located in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The chalet was built in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway and is a National Historic Landmark contributing property, being one of five structures in the...

 and Sperry Chalet

Sperry Chalet

Sperry Chalet is located about seven miles east of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The chalet was built in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway and is a National Historic Landmark contributing property, being one of five structures in the Great Northern Railway...

, were constructed of stone, the Two Medicine Chalet complex was of log construction.