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VFW Club
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Location930 Adirondac
Hamilton, Montana
Coordinates 46°15′18″N114°10′16″W / 46.25500°N 114.17111°W / 46.25500; -114.17111
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1937
Built byVeterans of Foreign Wars Club
Architectural styleClassicized Cape Cod Style
MPS Hamilton MRA
NRHP reference No. 88001287 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 26, 1988

The VFW Club, or Veterans of Foreign Wars Club, at 930 Adirondac in Hamilton, Montana, was built around 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

It is a one-and-a-half-story woodframe building, built by veterans of World War I, including Grundy Nichols who employed his team of horses and a slip to help excavate the basement. Early charter members also included Wilbur Vallance, Lawrence Waters, and Cecil Tucker. [2]

Nichols' war service was in the Siberian Wolf Hound Division; he served for 13 months as a guard on the railroad going inland to "Lake Bycol" (sic, presumably meaning Lake Baikal, which was crossed by the Trans-Siberian Railway). [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Kirk Michels; Ada Powell (September 28, 1987). "Montana Historical and Architectural Inventory: VFW Club". National Park Service . Retrieved August 29, 2019. With accompanying photo from 1987