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Montana Fish, Parks and Wildlife Center - Helena, MT

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12T E 422217 N 5159761

On the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Sanders Street, this stone faced building is one of the later ones to be built on the campus, being completed in 1976.

We never expected this building to be haunted, but it is said to be. Located on the site of an old industrial warehouse where several employees are said to have been killed in accidents, this seems a good candidate for hauntedness. We visited the building on a Sunday when no one was around so weren't able to go in and commiserate with the building's ghosts, so we have no personal experience with this haunted place.
The building houses not only Montana's Fish & Wildlife departments, but the Parks Department, as well.

Fish & Game Department

Fish & Game Department Building / FWP Headquarters Building (24LC2381), 1975-1976 (Contributing Building)
The Fish & Game Department Building is a two-story, wood-frame structure designed in the Postmodern style by the Helena, Montana architectural firm, Campeau & Crennen. With its window wall entrance and asymmetrical façade, the building obviously dates from the Modern era, but its stucco-covered exterior walls and false vigas are clearly alluding to the traditional pueblo architecture of the southwest. The building has a roughly rectilinear footprint. It is approximately 90’ deep (north/south) with a 30’ front (south) section that is about 158’ wide. At the north edge of the 30’ section, the building steps back about 15’ feet on each elevation. On the west elevation, the wall continues on this line to the back of the building. However, on the east elevation, there is another approximately 30’ recess at the back of the building. This occurs about 12’ south of the rear elevation. The main section of the building has a flat built-up roof hidden on all four elevations by a short parapet wall. Originally a common “built-up roof,” it was covered with modern EPMD membrane in 2004. A pyramidal hipped roof covers the building’s main entrance and interior lobby. This 56’ x 56’ section of roof is covered in its original standing seam copper roofing material.
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