WholeStoryContFmPreviousPhoto: …. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Filled Out & Signed By Montana State Preservation Officer, Aug 4 2010,
=> By HSG, Selected Excerpts From Form’s SUMMARY PARAGRAPH ….Laurel, Montana is located fifteen miles west of Billings, Montana's largest urban center, and a mile north of the banks of the Yellowstone River, near the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone. Interstate 90 passes immediately south of Laurel. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company tracks, an east-west rail corridor, runs parallel to Laurel's Main Street, ...
….The land area of the city of Laurel is 1.9 square miles, with an average elevation of 3,300. The topography of the city is generally flat, sloping gradually downhill south to the Yellowstone River. Laurel is located on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, on Clark's return journey route. It is also located along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, & the Canyon Creek Battlefield, the site of one of the Nez Perce battles ….,
….The Laurel Downtown Historic District encompasses approximately twenty acres, or slightly more than eight city blocks. The district is comprised of fifty-nine contributing resources, including fifty-seven buildings, [[Impt to ZMM Book Are=>]]
203 East Main Street. Owl Cafe. c. 1915/c. 1958 This building is a Boomtown/False-front style, commercial and residential building. The building has two portions, one a three-story, front-gable, false-front, frame building, which dates to c. 1915, and the other a one-story, L-shaped, concrete block building with a flat roof that envelopes the original building, which dates to c 1958. The building has a frame, false-front spanning both portions of the building, and a frame, full-width awning. The Owl Cafe has been in this location since 1924.
19 Pennsylvania Avenue. Hurzler Hotel. 1920 The former Hurzler Hotel is a two-story, frame, Western Commercial style building with a flat roof with a frame parapet, and a partial basement. The building is clad in asbestos shingles, many of the windows have been replaced, and a wood cornice has been removed. A fire in 1991 burned through the roof and caused significant water damage to the interior. The building has an associated, front-gable, frame, garage clad in asbestos shingles. Despite alterations and damage, the original siding is intact beneath the asbestos siding, and the elaborate original entrance is intact. Inside, the original floor plan, millwork, and fixtures survive…. WholeStoryContinuedNextPhoto.
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