Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District

{{Short description|One of the first buildings built in Glacier by the National Park Service}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd

| nocat = yes

| image = Cut Bank Ranger Station.jpg

| caption =

| location = N side Cut Bank Creek, Glacier NP, East Glacier, Montana

| coordinates = {{coord|48|36|22|N|113|22|34|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Montana#USA

| area =

| built = 1917

| architect = National Park Service; Civilian Conservation Corps

| architecture = Swiss Chalet Revival

| added = January 19, 1996{{NRISref|2008a}}

| mpsub = Glacier National Park MPS

| refnum = 95001566

}}

The Cut Bank Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was one of the first buildings built in Glacier by the National Park Service. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=MT&PARK=GLAC&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=45|date=2008-11-10|work=List of Classified Structures|title=Cut Bank Ranger Station|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2008-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521171903/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=MT&PARK=GLAC&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=45|archive-date=2011-05-21|url-status=dead}}

The station was staffed year-round until the late 1930s when it became a summer-only station. It was one of the first National Park Service-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.{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Cut Bank Ranger Station Historic District|url={{NRHP url|id=95001566}} |format=pdf|date=June 1995 |author=Ann Hubber |publisher=National Park Service |journal=National Register of Historic Places Inventory}}

A barn was added in 1935 by Civilian Conservation Corps labor, along with a woodshed. Both structures were built to adaptations of Park Service standard designs.