{"id":1780,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:11","latitude":46.5088334759661705675171106122434139251708984375,"longitude":-114.084671138553630953538231551647186279296875,"title":"George May Residence","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3fe94a4f6f3457ef3c52fc6d04169483.jpg","address":"100 Park Avenue, Stevensville, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"George May and brother Albert entered the sheep and cattle business here in 1892, leasing Fort Owen where George lived and where his children were born. As the business succeeded, he continued to purchase land, including in 1899 the plot where this home stands. The brothers’ Bitter Root Livestock Company owned 3,000 acres of land, on which it ran 20,000 sheep and 500 cattle. In 1900, along with a third brother, William Harry May, the Mays organized the Stevensville Mercantile Company. In less than a decade it became one of Western Montana’s largest businesses. For its building—the largest in Stevensville—as well as his own home, George May hired prominent Missoula architect A. J. Gibson (designer of the Missoula County courthouse among many other buildings). The May home was constructed in 1909. Its fine interior oak woodwork is especially notable, for the rancher-merchant did it himself. At age sixteen in his native Canada, he had apprenticed as a cabinetmaker. Although his fortune came from other endeavors, George May never forgot his craft.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/nrhp/text/82000596.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the George May Residence</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/ff146251-e5d5-412a-a0da-c4e9cfff1648/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the George May Residence</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3fe94a4f6f3457ef3c52fc6d04169483.jpg":{"id":4232,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"George May Residence","description":"George May Residence. Front to side view of the house, facing southwest. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | 1910 | George May","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/3fe94a4f6f3457ef3c52fc6d04169483.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6816aeb590f475747696de0fcc217e3f.jpg":{"id":4233,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"George May Residence","description":"George May Residence. Front to side view of the house, facing east on Park Avenue. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Aug. 1981 | Kathleen Cook","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6816aeb590f475747696de0fcc217e3f.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c57cf12cd0e375f99e92f64bea84662c.jpg":{"id":4234,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"George May Residence","description":"George May Residence. Front view of the house, facing north from the driveway off of Park Street. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Aug. 1981 | Kathleen Cook","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c57cf12cd0e375f99e92f64bea84662c.jpg"}}}