{"id":639,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:08","latitude":46.33247860000000173386069945991039276123046875,"longitude":-113.2937048000000004321918822824954986572265625,"title":"Walker Commercial Company","subtitle":"Philipsburg Historic Disctrict","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/2cd861af6cf39cba11cd3ba650c0cdd5.jpg","address":"109 East Broadway Street, Philipsburg, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Prominent Missoula architect A. J. Gibson designed and built this two-story commercial building in 1905. The fine design includes a metal modillioned cornice and panels with a full height glass storefront and polished granite skirt below. The Walker Company operated stores in both Philipsburg and nearby Granite, selling dry goods and hardware. The Golden Rule handled similar merchandise at this location in the 1920s, and Philipsburg Hardware carried on the same tradition beginning in 1932.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/6d67f5f6-60b5-43ca-81d2-c1ca4972ee02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Philipsburg Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/df9ccd24-a7c0-4ecc-9c6b-ea13416853f0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Philipsburg Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/2cd861af6cf39cba11cd3ba650c0cdd5.jpg":{"id":1072,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Walker Commercial Company","description":"Walker Commercial Company, facing north on Broadway Street, front view of façade and side view of the building, digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | June 2019 | Michael Connolly","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/2cd861af6cf39cba11cd3ba650c0cdd5.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/d3f1311271134217164f38cd59c4b7db.jpg":{"id":1071,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Walker Commercial Company","description":"Walker Commercial Company, facing northeast on Broadway Street, front and side view of building/façade, digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | June 2019 | Michael Connolly","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/d3f1311271134217164f38cd59c4b7db.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c220b438f1214afdac3ae82fe4bbc14c.jpg":{"id":3460,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Walker Commercial Company","description":"Walker Commercial Company. Facing north on Broadway Street, front view of façade and side view of the building. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1980-1984 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c220b438f1214afdac3ae82fe4bbc14c.jpg"}}}