Bozeman High School

At the corner of West Main and 5rh Avenue, the Nelson and Ellen Story Mansion stood after its construction in 1886 until it was dismantled in 1838 as part of the Gallatin High expansion, and salvaged porch columns and balustrades now mark the Story family plot in Sunset Hills Cemetery. At the east end of the block, the Gallatin County Free High School was constructed in 1902, and in 1936-37 the school district used Works Progress Administration funding to double its size with a Streamline Moderne addition designed by Bozeman architect Fred Willson. After his death in 1956, the building was renamed Willson School in his honor. Willson also designed the Gallatin County Jail, now the Pioneer Museum, across the street in 1911 as an improvement to the jail in the 1880 Gallatin County Courthouse, and the 1880 Courthouse was replaced in 1935 by an Art Deco building he also designed.

Bozeman, Montana · United States