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Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	908 Main St., Miles City, Montana
Coordinates	46°24′26″N 105°50′44″W / 46.407222°N 105.845556°W / 46.407222; -105.845556
Area	less than one acre
Built	1914
Built by	C.F. Walker Contracting Co.
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	88001118
Added to NRHP	July 21, 1988

The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Miles City in Custer County, Montana was built in 1914. Also known as the Rowland, Thomas & Co. Building, it includes Renaissance Revival. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The building was originally occupied by Mountain States Telephone Company, later by the Rowland, Thomas & Co public accounting firm which was acquired by Avitus Group, Inc (the current occupant).

The building is a tall two-story building, on a raised basement and with a high parapet with a pressed metal cornice. Its walls are of pressed red brick, and it has rusticated piers made of buff-colored brick.

The Mesker Bros. Iron Co. of St. Louis provided the building's hollow section steel window sashes and its cast-iron stairs, and it may also have provided the building's entrance canopy and the cornice.

It was designed by an unknown architect of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. and was built for $30,000 by C.E. Walker Contracting Co. of Denver, Colorado. C.E. Walker built similar buildings for the company in Lewistown, Montana in 1912, in Helena, Montana (a major addition) in 1926, in Missoula, Montana (a major addition) in 1926–29, all in Renaissance Revival style. It also built buildings in Havre, Montana (in Prairie style) in 1925, in Great Falls, Montana (in Art Deco style) in 1930, and in Billings, Montana (in Collegiate Gothic) in 1930.

The listing includes a 1931-built garage at the back of the property, which is a second contributing building.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. John Goff and Patricia Bick (April 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Building / Rowland-Thomas Co. Building". National Park Service. Retrieved May 28, 2017. With four photos from 1988.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Custer County, Montana
Historic districts	Carriage House Historic District East Main Street Residential Historic District Main Street Historic District
Historic properties	Fort Keogh George M. Miles House Holy Rosary Hospital Ismay Jail Locate Creek Bridge Miles City Steam Laundry Miles City Waterworks Building and Pumping Plant Park Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company Building Northern Pacific Railway Depot Olive Hotel Thomas and Beulah Shore House Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart US Post Office-Miles City Main Walrond and Elizabeth Snell House William Harmon House
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Custer County, Montana and List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana

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