These are the remains of the Glacier Hotel, operated between 1887 and 1925 by the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Glacier National Park. The hotel was famous for it's sophistication and as a base for mountain exploration. Starting in 1887, George, William, and Mary Vaux of Philadelphia photographed and measured the Illecillewaet Glacier and became prominent in mountaineering and scientific circles. They developed their negatives in the basement containing the boiler in this photo.
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