{"id":706,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:08","latitude":46.5876856000000003632521838881075382232666015625,"longitude":-112.0387213000000201645889319479465484619140625,"title":"First National Bank - Securities Building","subtitle":"Helena Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/74b6cdb6acd874c5a7726b422762743f.jpg","address":"101 North Last Chance Gulch, Helena, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"This magnificent structure was the second home of Montana Territory’s first bank, chartered in 1866. Combining Romanesque, French Second Empire, and popular Victorian-period stylistic elements, the talented St. Paul firm of Hodgson, Wallingford and Stem created a three-story masterpiece of native granite and brown Wisconsin sandstone. The bank occupied the building from its completion in 1886 to 1931. The Securities Building, as it is known today, stands as witness to Helena’s great prosperity in the 1880s.","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/74b6cdb6acd874c5a7726b422762743f.jpg":{"id":1005,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"First National Bank - Securities Building","description":"First National Bank - Securities Building, facing northeast on the Walking Mall/Last Chance Gulch with Bullwhacker statue in forefront, front/side view of building. | <a href=\"https://www.montanapictures.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MontanaPictures.net</a> | Mar. 2019 | MontanaPictures.net","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/74b6cdb6acd874c5a7726b422762743f.jpg"}}}