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 The Picket Block - Red Lodge, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 45° 11.255 W 109° 14.816
12T E 637716 N 5005283
On the east side of Broadway just south of 10th Avenue, this is one of the few buildings in the district that was architect designed, albeit by a local amateur, Frank Sell. He didn't do such a bad job; it's symmetrical and well laid out.
Waymark Code: WMXNGA
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2018
Views: 1
Until March of 1900 The Red Lodge Picket rented space on the second floor of the Red Lodge Improvement Company Block. On the morning of March 20th, 1900 a fire destroyed four buildings, including the Red Lodge Improvement Company Block. By August of 1902 The Picket had built a new brick building beside the Red Lodge Improvement Company Block, which also rebuilt. On August 29, 1902 the Picket placed this ad in their own paper, advertising the fact that they would have office space for rent by September 1st, " The Most Desirable Offices In The Town".
PICKET BLOCK
Designed by Red Lodge carpenter and amateur architect Frank A. Sell and built by W. T. Pernham in 1902, this impressive brick commercial building was home to the Red Lodge Picket and, after 1918, the Picket-Journal, the primary news sources for the community and Carbon County for over fifty years. Publisher Walter Anderson, who came to Red Lodge in 1893, was the original owner. The newspaper’s offices and print shop were located on the second floor while a succession of businesses, including a millinery shop, undertaking parlor, and hardware stores, occupied the ground floor. When the Carbon County News acquired the Picket Journal in 1943, Red Lodge grocer Frank Romersa purchased the building and turned the second floor over to the Fraternal Order of the Knights of Pythias, a benevolent society dedicated to universal peace and good will among men. With its distinctive second floor-brick arches, this imposing building has been a significant fixture on Red Lodge’s Main Street for over a century.
From the NRHP plaque at the building
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The Red Lodge Picket
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August 29, 1902
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