The Historic Russ House

Cemetery at U.S. National Leprosarium

The cemetery on the campus of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center has many graves dating to the opening of the Carville Center in 1894. Many of the names are aliases, due to the stigma attached to Hansen's Disease ...

Indian Camp (Woodlawn) Plantation

In 1857, during the period of Greek revival architecture (1820-1860), sugarcane planter Robert Camp built Indian Camp Plantation, deigned by architect Henry Howard. On Persac's map of the Mississippi, c1858, the tract of land is identified as "Woodlawn." The mansion ...

Toole Park - Salish Campground

The Salish Indians have a long and storied history in this valley. The area where you are standing was once used by the Salish to harvest bitterroot, a dietary staple for Indian tribes in the region. Every spring, the Salish, ...

The Florence Hotel

With “ sleek and streamlined”  Art Moderne lines, the Florence Hotel once billed itself as“ America’s Finest Small Hotel.”  Built in 1941 the hotel’s design is a stunning example of the Art Deco trend of the era, but the hotel’s ...

St. Francis Xavier Church

Jesuit missionaries had a profound effect on the history of the Northwest, and their influence on Missoula is no exception. In 1841, the first Jesuit priests made their way through the Missoula valley in response to a request by the ...

Rattlesnake Creek Streetcar Abutments

Before the automobile became a ubiquitous part of the American landscape, street cars provided an efficient form of urban transportation. Missoula’s first streetcar system, a horse-drawn car on tracks, operated briefly during the 1890s. William A. Clark, a prominent Butte ...

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 ...

The Montana Block

On March 21, 1889, the Western Montana National Bank, Missoula’s second bank, was chartered. Originally located on the corner of Higgins Avenue and Main Street, it moved to the Montana Block (now called the Montana Building) on Broadway and Higgins ...

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 ...