City Hall and Fire Station

In the early 1900s, as Miles City became the valley’s economic, social, and governmental center, local leaders decided to build a permanent city hall. Ed Arnold, a tailor and businessman who arrived in Miles City in 1885, was one of the driving forces behind the project; he served two terms as city treasurer and became secretary in the Custer County building. Designed by Grover C. Pruett, one of Miles City’s most successful early twentieth-century engineer-architects, the two-story concrete Renaissance Revival building faced in Hebron brick became his greatest landmark in the city. Its academically correct Renaissance styling symbolized Miles City as a progressive and cosmopolitan town, and it has continued in public service since 1914.

Miles City, Montana · United States