{"id":1752,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-07-10 22:26:03","latitude":46.24171198870678978209980414249002933502197265625,"longitude":-114.1572739183902740478515625,"title":"St. Paul's Rectory","subtitle":"Hamilton Southside Residential Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/1ef8167f071be2cf4c3cc95a509047de.jpg","address":"207 Desmet Street, Hamiliton, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":19,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"In its earliest years, St. Paul's Episcopal Church held services twice monthly. The Reverend George Stewart traveled from Missoula to officiate. By 1900, the diocesan bishop recognized the need for a resident priest. The Reverend John Fogerty was called to serve the congregations of Hamilton, Darby, and Victor. Under his guidance, the Hamilton church grew to fifty-six communicants. In 1901, the congregation raised approximately $1,200 to build a rectory for Fogerty. The one-and-one-half story, wood-frame residence, which supplied all the modern conveniences, originally sported a full-length front porch. The kitchen was placed under a separate one-story roof at the back of the house. This common, nineteenth-century building practice helped keep heat and soot away from the main house and minimized damage in the event of a kitchen fire. Clergy families resided in this building until the late 1900s, when it fell into disuse. In the 1980s, a group of ambitious parish men undertook the needed repairs, restoring the building, which became an adjunct to the church building.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["Read about the Hamilton Southside Residential Historic District","See photos of the Hamilton Southside Residential Historic District"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/1ef8167f071be2cf4c3cc95a509047de.jpg":{"id":3024,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"St. Paul's Rectory","description":"St. Paul's Rectory (PAc 91-51 Hamilton R03 F13). Front to side view of the building, facing southeast next door to the east of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Desmet Street. B&W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Aug. 1987 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/1ef8167f071be2cf4c3cc95a509047de.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/original/b5d7dde0b8497b8b61ede24519b8f916.pdf":{"id":6556,"mime-type":"application/pdf","title":"Hamilton Southside Residential Historic District","description":"Nomination Documentation. This document is an accessible remediation of the original 1988 scanned nomination form. | NPS Hamilton South Side Residential Historic District Nomination | 2026 | Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/b5d7dde0b8497b8b61ede24519b8f916.jpg"}}}