Green Block - Lewistown, MT
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N 47° 03.989 W 109° 25.457
12T E 619645 N 5213757
Possibly showing off his product, concrete block manufacturer Andrew Green faced the Green Block with concrete blocks of his own making.
Waymark Code: WMXWFJ
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 03/07/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member lumbricus
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We're going to guess that this "Then" photo was taken shortly after construction of the Green Block. Notice all the "good ole boys" hanging out in front, all of whom way have lived in the European Hotel upstairs. We notice that all the original tenants of the building were still in place when the photo was taken. Both photos were taken from Main Street, looking straight south.

Built in 1909 by concrete block manufacturer Andrew Green, the Green Block was built as a retail space on the ground floor and hotel, the European Hotel, on the upper floor. The ground floor was divided into two halves, originally housing a grocery store, the Lewistown Grocery Company, on one side and a butcher shop, the Lewistown Meat Company, in the other half, making the building a "one stop shopping" food store.

Owner Andrew Green's main business was the manufacture of pressed concrete blocks which replicated stone blocks. Possibly this building served a twofold purpose, those of investment property and advertising medium, as he built the building using his "rock face" blocks.

Though the Green Block housed a furniture store in 1984, today the only sign on the building advertises, Lewistown Hoppers, a fitness centre.
Green Block The Green Block was built in 1909, a period of great prosperity and growth in Lewistown. "Trading Post" architecture rapidly gave way to permanent masonry building in the first 10 years- of the 20th Century. Andrew Green, who manufactured concrete blocks as early as 1908, built the Green Block utilizing his "rock face" concrete blocks on the buildings' façade.

The Green Block housed the Lewistown Grocery Company, with E. K. Cherrington, F. S. Struckler and Russell P. Krieger, proprietors; the Lewistown Meat Company with Robert C. Lowman and Joseph Dugart, proprietors; and Alice and William Brownfield managed the European Hotel on the second floor.

A two story "cast stone" (in this case, the concrete was cast to look like cut stone) flat roof commercial structure with a sheet metal pediment projected above the roofline and a sheet metal entablature. Repetition of the mold marks within the façade can be seen if the façade is studied carefully. The projected "pediment" is rectangular and proportionally small; the word "Green" is displayed in raised letters and is flanked by two rosettes. The first floor is of remodeled materials; the back (southeast) wall is "giant" concrete block. The foundation is sandstone.
From the NRHP Nomination Form, Site# 127
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Green Block - Circa 1910
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Green Block - 2017
Year photo was taken: 1910

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