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Red Lodge, MT

Local physician Dr. Samuel Souders owned this commercial lot in 1909, when Dan Davis, an advocate for the construction of a fancy opera...

Red Lodge, MT

This distinctive two-story brick building designed by W. H. Perham of Butte enlivens the district’s architectural landscape.

Red Lodge, MT

Over a quarter of the houses in the elite “Hi Bug” neighborhood were built between 1900 and 1901, including this one-and-one-half-story...

Red Lodge, MT

Americans organized much of their social life around fraternal groups at the turn of the twentieth century.

Bearcreek, MT

A coal-mining town established in 1905, Bearcreek developed quickly, and after just one year the town boasted telephones, city water, and...

Red Lodge, MT

The little log schoolhouse was comfortably full on a spring evening in 1889 when the Reverend Charles Linley, an Episcopal minister from...

Red Lodge, MT

Butte architect P. J. Donahue drew the plans for the 1899 landmark after fire destroyed its predecessor.

Red Lodge, MT

Forty-five guests enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and housewarming at the home of John and Alphia Chapman on November 12, 1903.

Red Lodge, MT

Perched high on a hill overlooking the district, this Craftsman style bungalow reflects the original owners’ love of nature and natural...

Red Lodge, MT

A natural springs and pond provided ice and water for a brewery established here in the early 1890s.

Red Lodge, MT

Architect Seth Hunneywell designed and built this Colonial Revival two-and-one-half-story home for Alfred and Ruth Flager, who lived here...

Fromberg, MT

The first Protestant services in the Clarks Fork Valley were held in 1897.

Red Lodge, MT

Prominent lumber merchant C. C. Bowlen purchased this lot in 1901.

Red Lodge, MT

Photographer Mark E. Hawkes and his son Charley built a photography studio at this location where much of Red Lodge’s history was...

Bridger, MT

The coal found near here so impressed Butte’s William A. Clark that he formed a company to mine it two miles west of the center of...

Red Lodge, MT

In the 1920s Italian shoemaker Ludovico Iarussi (later changed to Jarussi) owned this property containing his shop MT NATIONAL REGISTER...

Fromberg, MT

Norwegian-born immigrant John Gibson arrived in the Clarks Fork Valley at the turn of the twentieth century and soon opened brickyards in...

Joliet, MT

"Chief shepherd"" Walter Jordan and ""singing evangelist" Lucile Park preached to a packed house at an October 1908 revival meeting, held...

Red Lodge, MT

One of seven side-gabled cottages built in this neighborhood at the turn of the twentieth century, the Craftsman style tri-arched façade...

Red Lodge, MT

Red Lodge Miner’s Local No. 1771 had grown to more than a thousand members when this labor temple was built in 1909.

Red Lodge, MT

The sloping roof of this one-and-one-half-story house once shaded an open porch.

Bridger, MT

Organization of the Bridger Methodist Episcopal Church and the Ladies Aid took place in 1899, pre-dating by one year the founding of the...

Red Lodge, MT

These two turn-of-the-twentieth-century wood-frame commercial buildings with a tiny shop sandwiched in between today share one façade.

Red Lodge, MT

German-born Victor and Otto Neithammer first established their meat market on North Broadway in 1912, raising their own livestock to...

Fromberg, MT

The Gebo Mine, founded in the Clarks Fork Valley in the late 1890s, brought the tracks of the Northern Pacific to this area.

Red Lodge, MT

One of nine remaining homes on Nutting Row, this foursquare cottage features a hip-roofed main block with ornate dormers with shingles in...

Red Lodge, MT

Irish immigrant Daniel G. O’Shea arrived in Carbon County in 1887.

Red Lodge, MT

“Coziness” was the watchword of progressive builders in the early twentieth century.

Red Lodge, MT

Designed by Red Lodge carpenter and amateur architect Frank A. Sell and built by W. T. Pernham in 1902, this impressive brick commercial...

Red Lodge, MT

During the summer of 1887, Ben F. Pippinger became Red Lodge’s first teacher, hired to teach the children of the Rocky Fork Coal Company...

Red Lodge, MT

High transom windows that provide interior light for a mezzanine commercial display area are an interesting design feature of this...

Bridger, MT

Raymond Hough, one of six entrepreneurial brothers who settled in this area, came to “String Town” in 1900.

Red Lodge, MT

"A hook and ladder outfit stored at a central point" and a loosely organized volunteer company served as Red Lodge's defense against fire...

Red Lodge, MT

Prominent Red Lodge businessman William B. Nutting subdivided this northwestern neighborhood as the Nutting Addition circa 1899.

Red Lodge, MT

Original rusticated and ashlar concrete blocks and the 1935 ROMAN marquee distinguish the façade of this early movie theater.

Red Lodge, MT

Real estate speculation abounded after the Northern Pacific Railroad constructed a branch line to Red Lodge to take advantage of the...

Fromberg, MT

Jewish merchant Samuel Greenblatt moved to Fromberg from Gebo in 1900.

Red Lodge, MT

According to an oral tradition handed down in the Crockett family, this gable-front cottage was moved here from “Old Town.

Red Lodge, MT

W. A. Talmage arrived in Red Lodge in 1888 to manage a branch of a Billings mercantile.

Red Lodge, MT

Originally intended as a meeting hall with storefront space, tenants Byton Down and Robert Pryde redesigned the building’s ground floor...

Red Lodge, MT

Coal was discovered in the upper Rock Creek Valley in 1866.

Red Lodge, MT

A keen sense of the town’s future prompted businessman William Talmage to move his hardware business away from the busy commercial center...

Red Lodge, MT

This fine example of masonry architecture, with its unusually preserved storefront and recessed entry, appears almost as it did in 1900...

Red Lodge, MT

Red Lodge was at the heart of a tourism boom in the 1950s when the federal Mission 66 program brought improvements to national parks.