{"id":342,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:06","latitude":47.06217490000000225336407311260700225830078125,"longitude":-109.43211109999998598141246475279331207275390625,"title":"Lehman Bunkhouse","subtitle":"Lewistown Courthouse Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6a31d0e585aeed1b373bd55c6d110328.jpg","address":"801 West Broadway Street, Lewistown, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Two distinct buildings of different origins but with a shared purpose rest companionably side by side on this site today. Pioneer merchant Charles Lehman constructed the handsome stone segment in the 1890s as a rooming house for his unmarried male employees. By 1908, a rubblestone addition had doubled the size of the original cut stone building. The residence also served rural students who boarded in town while attending the county high school. The old Lehman property was purchased by the Lewistown branch of the Montana Institute for the Arts in 1970. When the new art center needed additional space, the turn-of-the-twentieth-century two-story frame building was literally rescued from the bulldozer and moved here in 1977. Large doors reveal its former function as the carriage house of local district judge Rudolph Von Tobel. The few exterior alterations, including beautiful stained glass from St. Joseph’s Hospital incorporated into a window and a main entry linking the two buildings together, have little altered the original appearances. The complex now serves the community as an art center and as an inspirational model of adaptive reuse.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/89db8708-ff03-4c79-9d3a-b961674ca749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Lewistown Courthouse Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/fe2a8576-25bb-43d9-b212-72749ab3bd07/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Lewistown Courthouse Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6a31d0e585aeed1b373bd55c6d110328.jpg":{"id":2068,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"801 West Broadway, Lewistown","description":"Rear side view of Lehman Bunkhouse, looking south | Aug 2019 | Christine Brown, Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6a31d0e585aeed1b373bd55c6d110328.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/0126bb69db4878dcaf9826d369cb4b5b.jpg":{"id":2069,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"805 West Broadway, Lewistown","description":"Front view of Lehman Bunkhouse, looking southwest | Aug 2019 | Christine Brown, Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/0126bb69db4878dcaf9826d369cb4b5b.jpg"}}}