CPR's MOST THREATENED PLACES for 2007

See also: Lost Treasures • Why Preserve? • For Sale

Losing Historic Cobblestones
Montana Standard article
Montana Standard editorial

Longfellow School • Dumas Brothel • Old Gas Station
CPR encourages interested parties to investigate these properties. We hope that they can be preserved and developed for community or private use.

Dumas Brothel

Detailed information about the Dumas, including the $20,000 gift to CPR to repair it, has been moved to the Dumas Page.

Old Conoco Gas Station at Wyoming and Granite

CPR believes that this early gas station, dating to at least 1927, deserves to be saved. A possible interpretive space or covered picnic area, the structure is crumbling and ugly. The wooden canopy is supported by steel beams on brick piers, and the original tin ceiling is intact. Jerkin-headed gables (tips of gables are clipped and slope back) mark the north and south ends of the roof. See photos below.

1979 photo from Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), Library of Congress 2007 photo

Detail showing edge of roof and original tin ceiling

Longfellow School demolished

Since the Longfellow School was demolished despite the requirements of the Historic Preservation Ordinance, it is no longer threatened. It is now described on our Lost Treasures Page.

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1979 photo from Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), Library of Congress	2007 photo

Detail showing edge of roof and original tin ceiling