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Deer Lodge, MT

Only the jail, the county courthouse, the Episcopal Church, and a few Main Street businesses boasted two stories when this frame building...

Deer Lodge, MT

Banker S. E. Larabie financed the construction of this one-story brick post office in 1911.

Deer Lodge, MT

Woman suffrage was at the political forefront when Edward Gardner Lewis, a St. Louis promoter and publisher of women’s magazines, founded...

Deer Lodge, MT

Minnesota-born Otho Hartley returned home from World War I and attended photography school in Illinois.

Deer Lodge, MT

Wide cement pilasters, a gabled pediment above the entrance, large plate-glass windows, and a roofline balustrade distinguish the Larabie...

Deer Lodge, MT

Pioneer stockman, financier, and mining investor Nick Bielenberg came to Montana via Fort Benton in 1865.

Deer Lodge, MT

The December 1910 issue of Moody’s Magazine: The International Investors’ Monthly predicted a strong future for Deer Lodge’s new U.S....

Deer Lodge, MT

“What you hear and what you will see will linger in your memory like a beautiful dream,” proclaimed the Powell County Press when the...

Deer Lodge, MT

Hiding behind its brick façade is one of the oldest standing buildings in the business district.

Deer Lodge, MT

Eleven years before statehood, Deer Lodge became home to Montana’s first postsecondary school: the Montana Collegiate Institute.

Deer Lodge, MT

Seventeen-year-old William Coleman joined the Union ranks of Ohio’s volunteer infantry during the Civil War and then, drawn by tales of...

Deer Lodge, MT

Pioneer cattle baron Conrad Kohrs and his wife, Augusta, gave Powell County’s first public library building to the MT NATIONAL REGISTER...