{"id":680,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:08","latitude":46.58442900000000008731149137020111083984375,"longitude":-112.0354839999999967403709888458251953125,"title":"17-19 South Rodney Street","subtitle":"Helena Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/2cc775323c204d5509af56b88e5005c4.jpg","address":"17-19 South Rodney Street, Helena, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"In September 1887, the Helena Weekly Herald noted &quot;nine first-class brick residences&quot; under construction on South Rodney Street. Among them were three nearly identical duplexes, called Galen Estates after one of the development&#039;s principal investors. A trader who first visited the area in 1858, Hugh Galen settled in Helena in 1866. The multifaceted businessman ran a freighting company, operated a stage line, owned several large ranches, served as one-time president of the Capital Lighting Company, and was a director of the Montana National Bank. Simply ornamented with a metal cornice and stained-glass transoms above the front picture windows, this two-story building originally provided rental housing for Helena&#039;s elite. In 1890, &quot;capitalist&quot; and large-scale sheep rancher Henry Cannon resided in the north duplex with his wife Emma and their live-in servant. Successful merchant James Wells lived in the south duplex. After Helena&#039;s wealthiest citizens migrated to the West Side, the class of tenant changed. By 1933, the duplex had been converted into a four-unit building, which housed the families of a miner, an auditor, a smelter worker, and a Northern Pacific watchman.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/3fca4448-c79e-4066-a62a-fe552a5d23e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Helena Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/d8c79c92-0567-4c6d-8d35-cf378fb0b7ce/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Helena Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/2cc775323c204d5509af56b88e5005c4.jpg":{"id":2587,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"17-19 South Rodney Street","description":"17-19 South Rodney Street (PAc 91-51 South Central Helena Roll09 F18). Front view of the building, facing south on South Rodney Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1981 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/2cc775323c204d5509af56b88e5005c4.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/f986683b447ae991704edfb643d2ae2f.jpg":{"id":4907,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"17-19 South Rodney St., Helena, MT","description":"View looking east, southeast at facade. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | May 2019 | Joe Furshong, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/f986683b447ae991704edfb643d2ae2f.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/5057d5d6d7333dc4b3a0873ca156a73f.jpg":{"id":4908,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"17-19 South Rodney St., Helena, MT","description":"View looking east at facade. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | May 2019 | Joe Furshong, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/5057d5d6d7333dc4b3a0873ca156a73f.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/834f5dc9aeaa8f62e6be12aa72749ab7.jpg":{"id":4909,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"17-19 South Rodney St., Helena, MT","description":"Detail view of front entrances. View looking east. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | May 2019 | Joe Furshong, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/834f5dc9aeaa8f62e6be12aa72749ab7.jpg"}}}