{"id":141,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:05","latitude":45.18613260000000053651092457585036754608154296875,"longitude":-109.24688869999999951687641441822052001953125,"title":"Pollard Hotel","subtitle":"Red Lodge Commercial Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6f9bd2a9d777fe076dd156e3180c46da.jpg","address":"2 Broadway Avenue North , Red Lodge, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":7,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"The Rocky Fork Coal Company constructed this hotel, originally the Spofford, which welcomed its first guests on July 4, 1893. This architectural landmark, built before the commercial district was platted, originally had its main entrance on 11th Street, which was the busy roadway leading to the Eastside coal mines. Early guests included Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and William Jennings Bryan. In 1903, an annex added twenty-five guest rooms and the Golden Rule Store. By 1907, the entrance was relocated to Broadway. The Pollard’s commercial space housed the post office, a bank, and other tenants, and it soon became a primary business and social center. Today the brick walls chart a century of remodeling and change.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/f8b08e86-d03b-4868-9cc0-def05e2655c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/839e62c4-1039-4929-a4ca-251b9845a691/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Red Lodge Commercial Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6f9bd2a9d777fe076dd156e3180c46da.jpg":{"id":725,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Pollard Hotel","description":"View of facade and main entrance | MT State Historic Preservation Office | April 2015 | Kate Hampton","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6f9bd2a9d777fe076dd156e3180c46da.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/85ca918bd82f949aa7d818a593fbc9e7.jpg":{"id":621,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Pollard Hotel, streetview","description":"Still image capture of the hotel located at 11th and Broadway. Streetview looking to the northwest. Number 41. b&amp;w print. | Official records of the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, Montana | September, 1981 | Kommers, McLaughlin, &amp; Leavengood, Architects 120 E. Callender, Livingston, Montana 59047 ","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/85ca918bd82f949aa7d818a593fbc9e7.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/b29b407f1c671d06f47ad1781fe95a19.jpg":{"id":724,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Pollard Hotel","description":"View to south | MT State Historic Preservation Office | April 2015 | Kate Hampton","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/b29b407f1c671d06f47ad1781fe95a19.jpg"}}}