The Great Northern Hotel


The Great Northern Hotel is a fictional setting featured in the television series Twin Peaks. It is where much of the series takes place. The lead character, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, is a resident of the hotel for the length of the series.
The exterior of The Great Northern Hotel is the Snoqualmie Falls Lodge in Snoqualmie, WA. The lodge that inspired The Great Northern Hotel is the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. The Kiana Lodge was built in the late 1920s and is furnished with alder bentwood pieces dating from that era.

History

The hotel is owned by Ben Horne, a business associate of Leland Palmer; the death of whose daughter Laura Palmer is the catalyst for the series.