{"id":951,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-06-30 19:58:31","latitude":46.8785000999999965642928145825862884521484375,"longitude":-113.99548820000001114749466069042682647705078125,"title":"426 North First Street West","subtitle":"Northside Missoula Railroad Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/709f9373b25c080cddac22f8ce345ef6.jpg","address":"426 North 1st Street West, Missoula, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"One hundred thirty-seven Missoulians—mostly railroad workers—lived in the Ross House, a large hotel complex that occupied half this block in 1890. Ten years later, a covered walkway still connected the two-story wooden building on this site—home to white day laborers and their families—with the next-door boarding house for Japanese railroad section men. The block lost its large boarding houses between 1902 and 1909, but it retained its working-class character and connection to the railroad. By that year, Northern Pacific engineer Arthur Rogers and his sister Marguerite lived in this wood-framed residence, constructed after the boarding houses were demolished. Frank Pfau, who worked as a packer for the Northern Flour Mill, lived here throughout the 1930s with his wife Katie and their nine children. The hipped-roof house, which boasts a large front gable, is more elaborate than many in the neighborhood. Turned porch supports and crown casing over the gable window are among the home’s Queen Anne style details.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/950b1eee-3709-4493-90e6-3ba65f48617a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Northside Missoula Railroad Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/fbe1bdb6-8d94-4546-b194-b2d6e6bb3239/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Northside Missoula Railroad Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/709f9373b25c080cddac22f8ce345ef6.jpg":{"id":6530,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"426 North First Street West","description":"View of facade, facing north.  | Montana Historical Society | June 2026 | Arizona Duff","alt":"alt=&quot;&quot;","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/709f9373b25c080cddac22f8ce345ef6.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/fdd1e8c977cee73f5e734b1b2a85db7b.jpg":{"id":2854,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"426 North First Street West","description":"Front to side view of the house, facing north on North 1st Street West. Black and white photograph. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society, PAc 91-51 Northside Missoula R9612 F04 | Mar. 1994 | Allan Matthews","alt":"alt=&quot;&quot;","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/fdd1e8c977cee73f5e734b1b2a85db7b.jpg"}}}