{"id":226,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:06","latitude":47.81782463822234063854921259917318820953369140625,"longitude":-110.6671607494354248046875,"title":"Cummings Building","subtitle":"Fort Benton Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/eea240d11500f95a0747cbb29071d8f9.jpg","address":"1506-08 Front Street, Fort Benton, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":18,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Originally this site was occupied by a wooden frame building that housed Mose Solomon’s Medicine Lodge. This legendary saloon was open twenty-four hours a day from spring thaw to first snow. When the building burned, prominent lawyer, customs collector, insurance agent, and stockman Thomas Cummings replaced it with this two-story brick structure. Cummings sold out and the building then housed a Chinese restaurant and emporium with an opium den in the basement until the turn of the twentieth century.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/d3c6e9a5-b840-497a-a601-6986671c1bad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Fort Benton Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/b28d7f01-2242-47fa-a565-8ac14f9adeba/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos in the Fort Benton Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/eea240d11500f95a0747cbb29071d8f9.jpg":{"id":4742,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Cummings Building","description":"Cummings Building. Front view of the building, facing northwest on Front Street. | Overholser Historical Research Center, Fort Benton Tour; Fort Benton, MT | Date unknown | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/eea240d11500f95a0747cbb29071d8f9.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e098af069787234cfbb0e9c7167ce957.jpg":{"id":4741,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Cummings Building","description":"Cummings Building. Front view of the building, facing northwest on Front Street. | Overholser Historical Research Center, Fort Benton Tour; Fort Benton, MT | July 2020 | Ken Robison","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/e098af069787234cfbb0e9c7167ce957.jpg"}}}