Range Hoods · Mountain Modern & Rustic
Suspended Fireplace Hood, Many Glacier Hotel Lobby, Glacier National Park
The lobby of Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park, Montana, seen from above, with a freestanding fireplace and a suspended metal hood at the center of the room.
Design characteristics
Many Glacier Hotel, opened in 1915, was built in a Swiss chalet style for the Great Northern Railway. Its lobby centers on an open fireplace with a large conical hood suspended above it. The hood is the room's focal point, a sculptural object rather than a hidden flue. That idea, a statement hood treated as architecture, is directly relevant to kitchen design today, especially for an island range in a mountain home.
Classification
- Category
- Range Hoods
- Material
- Metal
- Motifs
- Suspended hood
- Photograph
- 2006
- Photographer
- GlacierNPS
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Heavy timber, log and stone, from park lodges to modern mountain houses. American West · rustic c. 1880–1940; modern 2000s onward.
