Lewistown’s Silk Stocking Historic District consists of seven large residences built during the city’s greatest prosperity from 1904 to 1919, when central Montana entrepreneurs whose fortunes reflected the area’s historic resource development established their homes in this small neighborhood. In 1904, J. T. Wunderlin, a partner in the Barnes-King gold mine at Kendall and an organizer of the Empire Bank and Trust of Lewistown, built his home there. Rancher George Wiedeman built his home in 1905 while also pursuing interests in the Montana Hardware Company and the Lewistown Brick and Tile Company. In the following years, homes were also built by Weymouth D. Symmes, owner of Power Mercantile and a Lewistown mayor; by John Waite, pioneer sheep rancher, banker, and state senator; by department store owner E. C. Swietzer; by rancher-businessman Fred Warren; and by banker T. T. Taylor. Many of these homes were designed by architects, and their Roman Revival, Shingle Style, Arts and Crafts, and Georgian designs reflect the exuberance of this special era in Lewistown’s history.