{"id":2775,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:14","latitude":45.79035464704850966199956019409000873565673828125,"longitude":-108.51945628504836349748075008392333984375,"title":"1102 North 31st Street","subtitle":"North Elevation Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/615a67cdbe61917381540a0fe0012d18.jpg","address":"1102 North 31st Street, Billings, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Noted Billings architect J. G. Link designed this two-story residence circa 1921. It is one of only four architect-designed homes in the North Elevation Historic District. A classic American Foursquare, or “Prairie Box,” the house features a symmetrical façade, low-hipped roof, wide overhanging eaves, a full-width, hipped-roof porch, and horizontal accents. The walls are clad in stucco, a fashionable and modern material in the 1920s. Many Prairie Box designs incorporated secondary details from other styles. Link used blonde brick to create quoins (corner accents) and the home originally featured a tile roof, details common to the Italian Renaissance and Mission styles respectively. A tuck-under garage accessed from the back of the house answered the needs of the modern age while maintaining a front façade that complemented the block’s other homes. Attorney Manton Lamb and his wife Opal, an active club woman, purchased the house by 1921. Opal sold the home in 1949. The longest resident was avid gardener Edith Yapuncich, who lived here with husband John, a chemist, and their nine children. Edith was in residence from 1955 to 2003.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://mhs.mt.gov/shpo/docs/NRnoms/MT_YellowstoneCounty_NorthElevationHD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the North Elevation Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/615a67cdbe61917381540a0fe0012d18.jpg":{"id":1335,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"1102 North 31st Street","description":"1102 North 31st Street. Front view of the house, facing southwest near the front sidewalk on North 31st Street. Winter photograph featuring resonate holiday cheer between the two windows on the upper level of the home. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Jan. 2015 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/615a67cdbe61917381540a0fe0012d18.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e3932eb477ba6dd8fe68c0f498d7dcd6.jpg":{"id":1325,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"1102 North 31st Street","description":"1102 North 31st Street. Front view of house from the corner of 11th Avenue North and North 31st Street, facing northwest. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Nov. 1980 | Karin Bryan","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/e3932eb477ba6dd8fe68c0f498d7dcd6.jpg"}}}