Kalispell Monumental Company

Last updated

Kalispell Monumental Company
KalispellMT MonumentalCompany.jpg
USA Montana location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location7 First Ave. E., Kalispell, Montana
Coordinates 48°11′55″N114°18′40″W / 48.19861°N 114.31111°W / 48.19861; -114.31111 (Kalispell Monumental Company)
Arealess than one acre
Built1911
ArchitectJoseph Gibson
MPS Kalispell MPS
NRHP reference No. 94000898 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 24, 1994

The Kalispell Monumental Company, at 7 First Ave. E. in Kalispell, Montana, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]

It was built to serve as a tombstone and monument retail company store, as a branch of Spokane's Sammis Monumental Company. Because it would receive and process marble and other stone blocks, being located next to a railway was necessary.

It was designed by Kalispell architect Joseph Gibson and was built at cost of $12,000. [2]

It later served as Main Street Motors and as Glory Day Emporium. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trinity Episcopal Church (Mobile, Alabama)</span> Historic church in Alabama, United States

Trinity Episcopal Church is a historic church in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was the first large Gothic Revival church built in Alabama. The building was designed by architects Frank Wills and Henry Dudley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grosse Pointe War Memorial</span> United States historic place

TheWar Memorial, also known as the Russell A. Alger Jr. House and as the Moorings was dedicated to the memory of veterans and soldiers of World War II. It is located at 32 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United States Post Office (Patchogue, New York)</span> United States historic place

The U.S. Post Office in Patchogue, New York is located at 170 East Main Street in the Suffolk County village. It serves the ZIP Code 11772, covering the entire Village of Patchogue, as well as the hamlets of North Patchogue and East Patchogue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kalispell Main Street Historic District</span> Historic district in Montana, United States

The Kalispell Main Street Historic District is a historic district in Kalispell, Montana, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, under the name "Main Street Commercial Historic District." Sixteen years later, the district was renamed and its boundaries were expanded.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Logan Pass Visitor Center</span> United States historic place

The Logan Pass Visitor Center in Glacier National Park was constructed at the summit of the Going-to-the-Sun Road during the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. The design concept was originated by architect Cecil J. Doty of the National Park Service Western Office of Design and Construction. Burt L. Gewalt of the Kalispell, Montana architectural firm Brinkman and Lenon was responsible for the construction documents, carried out between 1960 and 1962. Construction was completed in 1966. The visitor center uses common Mission 66 themes such as a broad, gently sloping roof, native stone, and glulam timber construction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vesey Street</span> Street in Manhattan, New York

Vesey Street is a street in New York City that runs east-west in Lower Manhattan. The street is named after Rev. William Vesey (1674-1746), the first rector of nearby Trinity Church.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Granite Building (Rochester, New York)</span> Historic commercial building in New York, United States

The Granite Building is a historic department store building located at 124 East Main Street in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.

Frederick Adolph Brinkman was an American architect based in Kalispell, Montana, and Brinkman and Lenon is a partnership in which he worked. More than a dozen of Brinkman's extant works in and around Kalispell have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Anderson Style Shop, Charles Boles House, Brice Apartments, City Water Department, Cornelius Hedges Elementary School, Russell School, Linderman School, the Montgomery Ward Store in Kalispell, and the O'Neil Print Shop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop</span> United States historic place

The Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop is a visitor services building in the Lake McDonald district of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. The coffee shop was built in 1965 as part of the National Park Service's Mission 66 program to upgrade visitor facilities, in order to increase visitor dining capacity. Under the Mission 66 projects, visitor facilities were usually comprehensive in nature, providing a range of visitor services. Specialized concession buildings like the Coffee Shop were unusual in Mission 66. It was leased to the Glacier Park Company for operation, in anticipation of the construction of lodging facilities by the company.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George H. Shanley</span> American architect

George H. Shanley was an architect of Great Falls, Montana.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Substation 7</span> United States historic place

Substation 7 is a traction substation located at 1782 Third Avenue at 99th Street in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. The Manhattan Railway Company built it in order to electrify the Second, Third and Ninth Avenue elevated lines. It served as a power source for the IRT Lexington Avenue Line from 1918 until the 1970s. It originally converted 25 Hz AC power from the 74th Street power station, to DC for the electric motors. The substation is owned by the MTA and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thayer's Hotel</span> United States historic place

Thayer's Hotel is a historic hotel building at 136 Main Street in downtown Littleton, New Hampshire. Built in 1843, it is a prominent precursor to the region's later grand resort hotels, and a distinctive example of Greek Revival architecture with a monumental temple front. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now operated as Thayer's Inn.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jackson Conoco Service Station</span> United States historic place

The Jackson Conoco Service Station is a one-story brick structure located in El Reno, Oklahoma. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, it was constructed by the Continental Oil Company in 1934 as a service station to serve the increasing automobile traffic along Route 66. Conoco built and operated many such facilities in the 1930s, all identical except for the positioning of the service bay; one other example is listed on the NRHP in Oklahoma, the Spraker Service Station in Vinita.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant</span> United States historic place

The Oklahoma City Ford Motor Company Branch Assembly Plant is a four-story brick structure in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Located at 900 West Main Street it opened in 1916 as a Branch Assembly Plant, where they first assembled knocked down Model T and TT cars and trucks which had been shipped in by rail. It was one of 24 such plants built by Ford between 1910 and 1915. It served as an assembly plant until 1932 when sales of cars began to drop. From 1932 to 1968 the plant served on as a Ford Regional Parts Depot. Fred Jones Remanufacturing bought the facility in 1968 and utilized it for their Authorized Ford Remanufactured Parts business. Rebuilding Engines, starters, generators, transmissions and other automotive related parts, shipping them the world over. More recently in 2018, the facility debuted as a boutique hotel known as the 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City. It was inducted into Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, not long thereafter in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sankot Motor Company</span> United States historic place

The Sankot Motor Company, also known as the Sankot Garage, is a historic building located in Belle Plaine, Iowa, United States. The historical significance of this building is its association with the increase in all-season travel and the development of businesses to serve them along the Lincoln Highway, the United States's first transcontinental route. It is a brick front building with side walls of clay tile that was constructed on a concrete foundation. The west half of the building was added in 1927. It was operated by O.B. Charles and Sid Sankot until 1937. They also sold Chryslers. Gasoline was sold from 1920 to 1944. F.L. Sankot bought the business in 1937. In addition to vehicle repair he sold Case and Oliver tractors and implements. William and Jerry Sankot purchased the business in 1985, and limited it to passenger, commercial and agricultural vehicle repairs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It was included as a contributing property in the Belle Plaine Main Street Historic District in 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Courthouse Historic District (Kalispell, Montana)</span> Historic district in Montana, United States

The Courthouse Historic District in Kalispell, Montana is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It included 18 contributing buildings and one contributing site.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anderson Style Shop</span> United States historic place

The Anderson Style Shop, at 222 Main St. in Kalispell, Montana, was built in 1941. It was designed by Kalispell architect Fred Brinkman in Moderne style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

The Continental Oil Company Filling Station at 35 First Ave. N. in Kalispell, Montana was a historic filling station built around 1932 for the Continental Oil Company which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It has since been demolished.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aztec Motor Company Building</span> United States historic place

The Aztec Motor Company Building, at 301 S. Main in Aztec, New Mexico, was built around 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)</span> United States historic place

The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant is a historic former automobile assembly plant in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Located along a stretch of Baum Boulevard nicknamed "Automobile Row" due to its high concentration of auto-related businesses, the plant was built in 1915 by Ford Motor Company to assemble Ford Model T cars using the company's pioneering mass production processes. It was designed by Ford's corporate architect John H. Graham, Sr. and constructed from reinforced concrete. The plant consists of an eight-story main building which contained the assembly areas and a vehicle showroom, and a six-story crane shed which was used to hoist parts unloaded from the adjacent Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to the appropriate level for assembly. Due to the steeply sloping site, the building has only five stories above grade along the street elevations.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Kalispell Monumental Company / Main Street Motors / Glory Day Emporium / 24FH". National Park Service . Retrieved August 20, 2018. With accompanying six photos from 1992