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Billings, MT

Built in 1915, this Craftsman style residence was the longtime home of Ray and Olga Wise.

Billings, MT

Not long after Lester and Mabel Punch moved to Billings in 1919, they purchased this house in the growing North Elevation subdivision.

Billings, MT

One of only a few Colonial Revival style homes in the historic district, this side-gable, two-story residence dates to circa 1913.

Billings, MT

Dubbed one of Billings’ “pioneer building contractors,” Emanuel Lindstrom waited until age thirty-eight to marry twenty-two-year-old...

Billings, MT

Built in 1915 at the height of Craftsman style popularity, this two-story home features the style’s characteristic exposed rafter tails...

Billings, MT

Built c. 1916, this one-and-one-half-story bungalow still looks much as it did when card parties and club luncheons filled its owners’...

Billings, MT

One of sixty Craftsman style residences in the North Elevation district, this circa 1916 home features many hallmarks of the style.

Billings, MT

Simplicity, honesty, functionality, and efficiency were the architectural watchwords of the 1910s.

Billings, MT

The first owner of this one-and-one-half-story home, Matthew Barry, owned the Barry Motor Company, a car garage and “livery”—or rental...

Billings, MT

This classic example of an American Foursquare house with Prairie style details was completed by 1916 when photographer Frank Crosby was...

Billings, MT

Valued at $7,000 in 1930, this newly built residence was home to grocer Robert Milligan, his wife Ida Mae, their three children, a...

Billings, MT

A pedimented entryway and multi-pane transom window are among the Greek Revival style elements that decorate this side-gable brick home,...

Billings, MT

Rapid changes in technology, industry, and social customs marked the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

Billings, MT

The Prairie style is well represented in this two-story America Foursquare home built in 1915.

Laurel, MT

Turned porch supports, elaborately carved brackets, a baluster frieze, and decorative cresting along the roofline ornament this...

Billings, MT

When Evelyn and Arnold Graf purchased this property in 1938, the area was still predominantly wild, covered with native grasses and scrub...

Billings, MT

Link and Haire, Montana’s most prestigious turn-of-the-twentieth-century architectural firm designed this singular residence built in...

Billings, MT

Constructed in 1907 during a period of robust city growth, the Babcock replaced the original Billings Opera House, which was destroyed in...

Billings, MT

J. Collins West, Exalted Ruler of Lodge 394 of the Elks Club, planned this turn-of-the-century Italian Renaissance Revival style building...

Billings, MT

In 1906, the Northern Pacific Railroad moved its central railroad transfer point from Billings to Laurel.

Billings, MT

Warehouses are known for their solid construction, and the Crane Co. warehouse, built of brick with heavy timber frame support and a...

Billings, MT

The number of motels in Billings grew rapidly as the national economy boomed after World War II.

Billings, MT

Built in 1901, Billings’ fourth school had six classrooms and an auditorium.

Billings, MT

In the 1910s, Billings promoted itself as the capital of the “Midland Empire.

Billings, MT

Longtime Billings businessman and western art entrepreneur Harold Ruth and his wife, Marion, chose this setting, very remote in the...

Billings, MT

Ignatius D. O’Donnell came to Montana Territory from Michigan in 1882 to seek his fortune.

Billings, MT

In 1884, two years after the Northern Pacific founded the town of Billings, a one-story wooden grocery store stood on this site.

Laurel, MT

Despite the crippling effects of the Great Depression, American auto tourists took to the roads in record numbers in the 1930s.

Billings, MT

John Losekamp brought boots and shoes to Billings by mule train in 1882, when a cluster of tents and a few log cabins defined the...

Billings, MT

National cigar and tobacco wholesaler Louis Cohn occupied this two-story brick building, constructed in 1919.

Billings, MT

When Preston B. Moss built this red sandstone mansion in 1902-1903, it was some distance from the growing city of Billings.

Billings, MT

Billings’ first depot was built in 1883, a year after the arrival of the Northern Pacific.

Billings, MT

The homesteading boom was in full swing in 1910, but not all of Montana's newcomers came to farm.

Billings, MT

In 1901, the Billings community celebrated the opening of this city landmark as its new library.

Billings, MT

Parmly Billings Memorial Library, built in 1901, is one of the few remaining older public buildings in the city.

Billings, MT

Situated in the heart of the extended commercial railroad corridor that developed in the 1910s, this vernacular Western Commercial style...

Billings, MT

The later 1940s and the aftermath of World War II brought economic prosperity.

Billings, MT

A twist of fate landed 16-year-old German immigrant Alfred Heimer a job with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show in 1894.

Billings, MT

The delicious odor of roasting coffee must have added a pleasing dimension to this industrial area when Sawyer Stores, Inc. opened its...

Billings, MT

Gustavus Swift of Sagamore, Massachusetts, founded a meat-packing company in 1850 that revolutionized the industry.

Billings, MT

With schools “crowded to suffocation,” the Billings School District decided to construct a new four-room school on the city’s West Side...

Billings, MT

Once considered the “wrong side of the tracks,” Minnesota Avenue was known for its many bars, brothels, cigar stores, and Chinese...