{"id":715,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:09","latitude":46.59096670000000273148543783463537693023681640625,"longitude":-112.037080800000012459349818527698516845703125,"title":"Iron Front Hotel","subtitle":"Helena Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/bab5aefd538780d024d059edf73b852b.jpg","address":"415 North Last Chance Gulch, Helena, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Helena architects Heinlein and Matthias designed this elegant European-style hotel, formerly the Windsor House. Built in 1888, it is Montana’s only known example of a prefabricated iron façade. The locally pre-cast façade represents a building trend popular in larger cities during this period. In 1889, House Republicans of the state’s first legislature regularly caucused in the hotel’s meeting rooms. The fourth-story ballroom features an oak floor once billed as the best dance floor in the West.","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/bab5aefd538780d024d059edf73b852b.jpg":{"id":3268,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Iron Front Hotel","description":"Iron Front Hotel. Front to side view of the building, facing northeast on North Last Chance Gulch with the C.W. Cannon Building to the right in the photograph. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | Jan. 2020 | Michael Connolly","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/bab5aefd538780d024d059edf73b852b.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/d1e6c6cd2ee56a85784da5782db99964.jpg":{"id":3269,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Iron Front Hotel","description":"Iron Front Hotel. Front view of the building, facing east on North Last Chance Gulch. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | Jan. 2020 | Michael Connolly","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/d1e6c6cd2ee56a85784da5782db99964.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/7a2301e3aa500721157b3cb9b0763973.jpg":{"id":3270,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Iron Front Hotel","description":"Iron Front Hotel. Front to side view of the building, facing southeast on North Last Chance Gulch with the C.W. Cannon Building to the right in the photograph. Digital photograph. | Montana Historical Society | Jan. 2020 | Michael Connolly","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/7a2301e3aa500721157b3cb9b0763973.jpg"}}}