Warr Building

Austin W. Warr hired architect John H. Kent, one of the architects for the Montana Capitol Building, to design this building. Warr had organized the Lewistown Telephone Company in 1899, and when the new office building was completed in 1904, he moved the company here. The Lewistown Telephone Company remained here until 1912, when Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph bought the local telephone companies. The Fergus County Argus then operated from the building for several years. In 1941, the Lewistown Pharmacy opened here and continues to serve Lewistown from this location. Beginning in 1918, the second floor served as a rooming house. A cast-iron column separates the residential entry from the storefront. Lewistown was known as the City of Stone because stone was its primary building material, and the facade's alternating cut and dressed stone and flamboyant arches reflect the stone masonry craftsmanship common in Lewistown buildings of the early twentieth century.

Lewistown, Montana · United States