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 ...

Milwaukee Depot

Between 1906 and 1909, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway—almost universally known as the Milwaukee Road—expanded west to Puget Sound. The line spanned South Dakota and Montana with track arriving in Missoula in 1908 along the south shore of ...

Lewis and Clark in Missoula

Adjacent to an East Broadway bridge spanning Rattlesnake Creek, right in front of a McDonald’s Restaurant, sits a small historical marker proclaiming the site to be a Lewis and Clark camping spot. With a little imagination, the rippling waters and ...

Missoula Mercantile Warehouse

Established 1866, the Missoula Mercantile—affectionately known as “ The Merc”—was one of Missoula’s first commercial establishments and quickly became its most important. In true mercantile fashion, the variety of merchandise sold there was unmatched. According to a store advertisement, “ ...

Labor Temple

The traditional center of the organized labor movement in Missoula is the Labor Temple building on East Main Street. In 1896, Copper baron Marcus Daly donated the land for a union hall where organizers constructed a simple frame building. Besides ...

Missoula First Presbyterian Church

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the juncture of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own ...

East Pine Historic District

Now located near the heart of downtown Missoula, the East Pine Historic District was once an isolated and untamed area on the outskirts of town.

In an effort to escape the hustle and bustle of downtown Missoula, Francis Worden built ...

Francis Worden Residence

On the corner of East Pine and Adams Street is an unassuming two-story house, clearly historic, but “ straightforward and unpretentious.”  With a steeply pitched gable roof and an open front porch, it’s the type of house one would expect ...

Sponsor – Jeannette Rankin Peace Center

Visit the Peace Center—say you found us on Next Exit History and choose a free “Speak Your Mind” button.

In 1986, when peace and justice advocates from the Missoula area envisioned opening a center to serve as “ ...