Northern Pacific Railroad Depot

In the early twentieth century, railroads provided remote communities with a vital link to the outside world. The 1883 arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad provided reliable transportation for the people of Missoula and served as a commercial boon for ...

Mullan Road

As run along the Missoula Marathon course on an early summer morning, you’d never know that in the mid-1800s the path you’re on was the route of a major military wagon road. This historic travel corridor served as one of ...

Missoula County Courthouse

Missoula County, one of Montana’s oldest counties, had outgrown its original courthouse by the early years of the twentieth century. Local architect A. J. Gibson designed the new Neoclassical style Missoula County Courthouse. The cornerstone was laid in 1908 on ...

Lewis and Clark in Missoula

Adjacent to an East Broadway bridge spanning Rattlesnake Creek, right in front of a McDonald’s Restaurant, sits a small historical marker proclaiming the site to be a Lewis and Clark camping spot. With a little imagination, the rippling waters and ...

Missoula Mercantile Warehouse

Established 1866, the Missoula Mercantile—affectionately known as “ The Merc”—was one of Missoula’s first commercial establishments and quickly became its most important. In true mercantile fashion, the variety of merchandise sold there was unmatched. According to a store advertisement, “ ...

Labor Temple

The traditional center of the organized labor movement in Missoula is the Labor Temple building on East Main Street. In 1896, Copper baron Marcus Daly donated the land for a union hall where organizers constructed a simple frame building. Besides ...

Joseph Dixon Residence

In 1891, Joseph Dixon, a twenty-four year-old North Carolina native and recent college graduate, wrote a letter to his father’s cousin Frank Woody, who practiced law in the small frontier town of Missoula, Montana, asking if he could work under ...

Missoula First Presbyterian Church

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the juncture of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own ...

East Pine Historic District

Now located near the heart of downtown Missoula, the East Pine Historic District was once an isolated and untamed area on the outskirts of town.

In an effort to escape the hustle and bustle of downtown Missoula, Francis Worden built ...

Francis Worden Residence

On the corner of East Pine and Adams Street is an unassuming two-story house, clearly historic, but “ straightforward and unpretentious.”  With a steeply pitched gable roof and an open front porch, it’s the type of house one would expect ...