{"id":152,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-08-12 00:32:37","latitude":45.1926525845180009355317451991140842437744140625,"longitude":-109.2487773514100126703851856291294097900390625,"title":"Flager House","subtitle":"Hi-Bug Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e9a5e4e9bd10959cbc1dd7c4b43bf43b.jpg","address":"523 Hauser Avenue North, Red Lodge, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Architect Seth Hunneywell designed and built this Colonial Revival two-and-one-half-story home for Alfred and Ruth Flager, who lived here from 1902 to 1911. Costing approximately $3,500 to build and boasting &quot;all the modern conveniences,&quot; its &quot;eight large, airy rooms&quot; and third-floor billiard parlor were heated by &quot;a steam plant located in the basement.&quot; Alfred Flager was the proprietor of the old Carbon Mercantile Co. The civic-minded merchant actively promoted the city water system and was instrumental in organizing the telephone company. He also served on the school board, as an alderman, as city clerk, and as a director of the Red Lodge Building and Loan Association. The Flagers left Red Lodge in 1911. From 1911 to 1921 the house became a rental property, whose tenants included Thomas Pollard, proprietor of the Pollard Hotel. Maude and William Robinson, who owned the home from 1921 to 1948, added the garage in 1935. The three-story tower was built in 1975. The interior features an oak staircase, a pressed tin ceiling in the kitchen, maple floors, and a richly carved fireplace mantel.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/5ff6bfd7-37b4-41ed-a5b3-e52f26f0d5a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Hi-Bug Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/df68c3c8-b71d-4f93-b2ad-e271ac5c6e00/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Hi-Bug Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e9a5e4e9bd10959cbc1dd7c4b43bf43b.jpg":{"id":5124,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flager House, Red Lodge, MT","description":"View of facade | iPhone 8 image capture, jpeg | June 2021 | Martha Kohl, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/e9a5e4e9bd10959cbc1dd7c4b43bf43b.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/eee0950599aa71775cbb5cc802a0dd1b.jpg":{"id":2983,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Flager House","description":"Flager House (PAc 91-51 Red Lodge/Hi-Bug HD R06 F09). Front to side view of the house, facing southwest on the corner of Hauser Avenue North and 5th Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | July/Aug. 1985 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/eee0950599aa71775cbb5cc802a0dd1b.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/original/16da5a4082a28fc3a568b0d6c95b9cae.pdf":{"id":6759,"mime-type":"application/pdf","title":"Hi Bug Historic District","description":"Nomination Documentation. This document is an accessible remediation of the original 1986 scanned nomination form. | <a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/5ff6bfd7-37b4-41ed-a5b3-e52f26f0d5a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Original NPS Hi Bug Historic District nomination</a> | 2026 | Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/16da5a4082a28fc3a568b0d6c95b9cae.jpg"}}}