Montana Building - Lewistown, MT
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N 47° 03.935 W 109° 25.555
12T E 619522 N 5213653
Essentially the cornerstone building of the Lewistown Central Business Historic District, though it came later than the majority of the buildings in the district, the Montana Building is the largest, at six stories, and the most elegant.
Waymark Code: WMXTQJ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 02/26/2018
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Built by a consortium of Lewistown's best and brightest businessmen, the Montana Building was initially home to Montana's oldest state bank, the State Bank of Fergus County, and the largest hardware company in the town, the Montana Hardware Company. As well, the building was large enough to house the offices of dozens of businesses and services, including lawyers, doctors and dentists, realtors, miners - almost every endeavor was housed in the building at one time or another.
With the drought induced exodus of settlers in the early 1920s, all the banks and many of the businesses of Lewistown failed, including the Bank of Fergus County and the First National Bank. In 1924 a second First National Bank was established, taking up offices on the ground floor of the Montana Building alongside the Montana Hardware Company. When the latter moved out in 1960 the bank took over the entire ground floor. It remains there to this day, under the name of the First Bank of Montana.
The Bank of Fergus County wasted no time in advertising that they were open for business after moving across the street to their new digs:
Name of publication (required): Fergus County Democrat
Date of Publication (required): September 14, 1916
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