Chouteau

The bank was established June 1, 1880, by T. E. Collins, Charles Duer and L. H. Hershfield and Brother.

Financial ruin in the wake of the Civil War brought brothers Charles E. and William G. Conrad from Virginia to Fort Benton in 1867.

I. G. Baker and T. C. Power built the original Twing House in 1868.

When fire destroyed the original Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1905, this beautiful Tudor style structure of rough cut stone and...

Originally this site was occupied by a wooden frame building that housed Mose Solomon’s Medicine Lodge.

Fort Benton’s building boom of 1887-1884 saw the construction of many commercial buildings made of locally produced soft brick.

Geraldine, MT

In 1913, as workers laid track on the spur line from Harlowton to Great Falls, Milwaukee Road surveyors platted towns along the new...

The Fort Benton Engine House, built in 1883, and the Grand Union Hotel are two of only a few structures remaining to remind us of the...

This structure opened in 1882 during Fort Benton’s “glory days” as Montana’s largest hardware store.

Members of Masonic Lodge #25 built this brick structure in 1882, housing their temple on the second floor.

Prominent Montana merchant and cattleman John T. Murphy, who also ran a major freighting outfit between Fort Benton and the mining camps,...

Reverend George Stewart designed this English Gothic church, constructed in 1899.

Originally built to house the Stockmen’s National Bank, this solid structure represents typical pre-1900s commercial architecture.

In 1867, merchant T. C. Power, destined to become one of the state’s wealthiest and most influential men, brought his first wagonload of...

T. C. Power and Bro.