Fort Belknap Indian Agency, Employees Club, Fort Belknap, Blaine County, MT
Summary
Significance: The Employee's Club building is significant because of its association with 1920s construction at Fort Belknap and the development of standardized plans for agency buildings. The Employee's Club was built according to a BIA standard plan and all of the dwellings at the Fort Belknap Agency dating from the period ca. 1908 to 1933, the Employee's Club best typifies such BIA agency housing architecture. The structure also served as living quarters for some of the Agency's employees and is significant because of its association with the activities of BIA employees during the 1920s and later.
Survey number: HABS MT-80-A
Building/structure dates: 1924 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1908
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Renewble Technologies, Incorporated, contractor
GCM Services, Incorporated, contractor
Casebolt, Cathy, field team
Anderson, Paul, photographer
Quivik, Fred, historian
Fiege, Mark, historian
Anderson, Paul, historian
Location
Fort Belknap Agency, 48.48250, -108.76544
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html