Missoula Federal Building

Located on the corner of Pattee and East Broadway, Missoula’s first bona fide federal building was completed in 1913. Senator Joseph Dixon, from Missoula, secured funds for its construction, and James Knox Taylor, an architect with the U. S. Treasury ...

Carnegie Library - Missoula Art Museum

At the corner of Pattee and East Pine streets, stands Missoula’s original Carnegie Library, which is now home to the Missoula Art Museum. Carnegie Libraries are found throughout the country and are the product of the philanthropic efforts of nineteenth-century ...

Caras Park/Missoula Mills Millstone

Missoula’s beginnings can be traced to the Clark Fork riverfront that is now Caras Park. In 1860, town founders C. P. Higgins and Francis L. Worden established a trading post in Hell ...

Indian Camp Plantation

The plantation home, built in the 1850s, became the site of the Louisiana State Leprosarium in 1894. The U.S. Public Health Service acquired it in 1921. It is now known as the National Hansen's Disease Center.

Erected by the Department of ...

The National Hansen's Disease Museum and Archives

Visitors come to the National Hansen's Disease Museum (NHDM) to experience the story of Carville, the only National Leprosarium (leprosy hospital) in the United States. Starting in 1894, patients, doctors and other health care professionals lived, worked, and made medical ...

Brick Block/Montgomery Ward

Main Street and Higgins Avenue is one of Missoula’s busiest intersections and it has been since the town’s earliest days. So it should come as little surprise that town founders Francis L. Worden and C. P. Higgins chose to locate ...

Babs Apartments/Garden City Commercial College

Set behind Missoula’s Hip Strip commercial district on the south end of the Higgins Avenue Bridge, it’s hard to miss the Babs building. Built in 1905 and designed by Missoula architect A. J. Gibson, this Queen Anne-style Victorian landmark features ...

1909 Missoula Free Speech Fight

The corner of Higgins Avenue and West Front Street, known today as “Free Speech Corner,” marks the location of an important victory in the fight for national free speech rights. The Free Speech Fight in Missoula began in the fall ...

Atlantic Hotel

With the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the 1880s, Missoula became a regional transportation hub. The increase in visitor traffic through Missoula necessitated the construction of new hotels near the recently constructed Northern Pacific Depot, among these, the ...

Plaza de la Constitution

The plaza sits in the center of downtown St. Augustine, originally called the Plaza de Arms. It was constructed as a part of the town plan drafted in 1596. Like many Spanish coastal communities, the plaza sits on the bay ...