{"id":856,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:09","latitude":45.292892213800996614736504852771759033203125,"longitude":-111.947413981609997790656052529811859130859375,"title":"Buford Block (Site of Wells Fargo Office)","subtitle":"Virginia City National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/1fede6a96578c0b34726fb8b7cae43db.jpg","address":"300-312 West Wallace Street, Virginia City, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Ben Holladay’s Overland Stage reached Virginia City in 1864, and from that time until 1899, stages arrived and departed from this site for connections all over the West and the States. Bought out by Wells Fargo and Company in 1866, the office also housed the telegraph. In 1899, S. R. Buford, whose successful grocery and hardware stores were on either side of the older building, tore it down and constructed this building, the Buford Block, to expand his grocery department. The Wells Fargo office then moved to a rented location two doors east. After Buford’s death in 1905, his sons carried on the business until 1926.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/22389964-91bd-4c66-917f-0279004a042e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/e0b9251f-b92e-4e8e-ae20-c0bc3cec7394/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/1fede6a96578c0b34726fb8b7cae43db.jpg":{"id":2554,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Wells Fargo Express Office, Virginia City, Montana","description":"View of the Wells Fargo &amp; Co. Overland Mail and Express Office in Virginia City, Montana with unidentified man at left. The building was demolished in 1899 by S. R. Buford to expand his general store. Charles Bovey added the painted sign reminiscent of the original in the 1950s.   | PAc 956-222, Montana Legacy Photograph Collection, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | ca. 1880 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/1fede6a96578c0b34726fb8b7cae43db.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/629df2865745e8693b1642233b927080.jpg":{"id":2449,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Buford Block, center and west sections","description":"View of building facades | Montana Heritage Commission | Oct 2019 | Kate Steeley, Montana Heritage Commission","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/629df2865745e8693b1642233b927080.jpg"}}}