{"id":569,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-07-28 22:20:03","latitude":45.6796073000000006913978722877800464630126953125,"longitude":-111.03654099999999971259967423975467681884765625,"title":"Tivoli Beer Hall","subtitle":"Main Street Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/f964b908c283b1a392868e7021993722.jpg","address":"17 East Main Street, Bozeman, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Railroad anticipation sparked a frenzied building boom prompting a shortage of brick that postponed completion of this popular watering hole for nearly two years. Begun in 1880, R. Vogel and F. Buchler&#039;s Tivoli Beer Hall finally opened in 1882. William Beall was both designer and contractor. The Italianate style building originally featured four arched entries and an upstairs porch spanning the front. In the finely appointed second-floor lodgings, quiet was the only amenity lacking, since downstairs a main attraction was the music. Patrons turned around the spacious dance floor and revived at tables gaily decked with red-and-white gingham cloths. By 1910, John Fechter, who once played oboe in John Philip Sousa’s nationally renowned band, managed the Tivoli. As director of Bozeman’s German Band and the first conductor of the Bozeman Symphony, Fechter maintained the saloon’s &quot;dance hall&quot; tradition well into the 1920s. In August of 1960, Hartman-Mockel Menswear was established on the main floor. Bob Paynich and Bob Braaksma owned the successful enterprise by 1983.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/bbeac471-5bdd-4e10-8c1a-afdb3282a4dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Main Street Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/9bcf0073-0962-4a53-8f7d-28b74988be5d/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Main Street Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/f964b908c283b1a392868e7021993722.jpg":{"id":6628,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Tivoli Beer Hall","description":"View of facade, facing north.  | Montanan Historical Society | July 2026 | Arizona Duff","alt":"alt=&quot;&quot;","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/f964b908c283b1a392868e7021993722.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/08aa203348e5a2d077a91b1bf8e7565c.jpg":{"id":3933,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Tivoli Beer Hall","description":"Tivoli Beer Hall. Front view of the building, facing north on East Main Street. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Apr. 1983 | Mary Kay Peck","alt":"alt=&quot;&quot;","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/08aa203348e5a2d077a91b1bf8e7565c.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/9aa7626cb51a2bdbcbbc46bfa67eec46.jpg":{"id":6229,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Tivoli Beer Hall","description":"Newspaper clipping advertising Tivoli Beer Hall and Saloon.  | Newspapers.com | Wednesday, October 4, 1882 | Gallatin News (Bozeman, MT)","alt":"alt=&quot;&quot;","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/9aa7626cb51a2bdbcbbc46bfa67eec46.jpg"}}}