{"id":233,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:06","latitude":47.81760656560620503796599223278462886810302734375,"longitude":-110.6673549015057602673550718463957309722900390625,"title":"Pacific Hotel (Centennial Hotel)","subtitle":"Fort Benton Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/4824585198ebaa8317e5934b2c027700.jpg","address":"1502 Front Street, Fort Benton, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":18,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"In 1864, Mills and Douglas operated a restaurant and hotel on this corner. Mills and Robert S. Culbertson went into partnership in 1877, opening a new establishment called the Centennial Hotel in celebration of the United States&#039; 100th birthday. Culbertson, nephew of Alexander Culbertson who was the founder of Fort Benton, became full owner in 1881. In 1882, the hotel was rebuilt of brick and renamed the Pacific Hotel; later it was also known as the Culbertson House. Robert and his wife Lydia operated the hotel until her death in 1912. It was operated by one of their nine children, Esther Casey, until 1941, then sold by the family in 1946.","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/4824585198ebaa8317e5934b2c027700.jpg":{"id":1988,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Pacific Hotel (Centennial Hotel)","description":"Pacific Hotel (Centennial Hotel). Front to side view of the building, facing north on Front Street near the park on the west bank of the Missouri River. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | July 2018 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/4824585198ebaa8317e5934b2c027700.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3df99386d1fb3fa6651879c61621ef69.jpg":{"id":1990,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Pacific Hotel (Centennial Hotel)","description":"Pacific Hotel (Centennial Hotel). Front view of the building, facing northwest on Front Street. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | July 2018 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/3df99386d1fb3fa6651879c61621ef69.jpg"}}}