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Masonic Lodge (Missoula, Montana)

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Built
  
1909

NRHP Reference #
  
90000649

Area
  
3,642 m²

Architectural style
  
Beaux-Arts architecture

Added to NRHP
  
30 April 1990

MPS
  
Missoula MPS

Opened
  
1909

Phone
  
+1 406-543-4674

Architecture firm
  
Link & Haire

Masonic Lodge (Missoula, Montana)

Location
  
120–136 E. Broadway Ave., Missoula, Montana

Address
  
126 E Broadway St, Missoula, MT 59802, USA

Similar
  
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The Masonic Lodge in Missoula, Montana, is a Beaux Arts building from 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

History

The property was originally owned by Hugh Forbis, president of the Forbis-Toole Company (an investment company that handled farm loans, mortgages, and irrigation bonds. The company had offices in the building). Ownership stayed in the Forbis family until the Masonic Temple Association purchased the property in 1954.

Since construction, the building's primary tenant has been Missoula Lodge #13, A.F&A.M., which has meeting rooms on the third floor and a dining room and billiard room on the second floors. Other tenants of the building have included commercial businesses, offices, and even a business college. Montana Power Company occupied the building, beginning in the 1920s.

The building was designed by Link and Haire, Montana's most prolific early twentieth century architectural firm.

References

Masonic Lodge (Missoula, Montana) Wikipedia