- City:
- Helena, MT
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in 1938:
“Without warning, the old abandoned Elk’s Temple at Helena recently sagged and partially collapsed into one of the city’s principal streets. … WPA crews under an emergency project … [razed] from behind the damaged building…”
The structure was located on Broadway Street near Last Chance Gulch in the southwest corner of the city.
Source notes
"WPA Demolishes Old Helena Landmark"; Big Timber Pioneer, Sept. 8, 1938 (page 2).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 3, 2014.
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