The Mount Baker Lodge. Photo by Bert Huntoon.
Collection of the Whatcom Museum of History & Art #9076.
The Mount Baker Lodge. Take a trip back in time to discover our natural heritage and a bygone era through the lens of Bert Huntoon.
Entrepreneur, engineer and developer, Huntoon was able to capture clarity and light in the natural terrain of
Washington State's North Cascades region long before roads to these wilderness areas were constructed. In the
early 1920s and throughout his lifetime, Huntoon actively promoted this natural beauty with clear, crisp
photography. He was instrumental in the construction of the Mt. Baker Highway and the Grand Lodge at the
end of the highway – a lodge comparable in design to Yosemite’s Ahwahnee or Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Inn
that unfortunately was destroyed by fire a few years later. Promotional images were sent out to attract west
coast adventurers, and movie makers vied to create their films here as well.
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