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The Western Heritage Center is a regional museum located in historic downtown Billings, Montana, United States. The museum is housed in the historic Parmly Billings Memorial Library, built in 1901. The building is a stately Richardsonian Romanesque structure with twin towers, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Billings: 30: Montana National Bank: March 14, 2022 : 201 North Broadway Billings: 31: Preston B. Moss House ... Parmly Billings Memorial Library. October 26, 1972
Billings French had six siblings: Parmly (1863–1888), Laura, Frederick, Elizabeth, Ehrick (1872–1889), and finally Richard. Mary was the fourth child, after her brother Frederick and before her sister Elizabeth. [2] [3] The Parmly Billings Memorial Library, now called the Western Heritage Center, is named for Mary's brother Parmly.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Montana provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Montana, where 17 libraries were built from 17 grants (totaling $219,200) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918. As of 2013, 15 of these buildings are still standing, and 9 still operate as libraries.
1901 – Public Library established. [5] [6] 1902 – Billings and Northern Railroad in operation. [citation needed] 1903 – Moss Mansion (residence) built. 1904 – Northern Hotel in business. 1906 – Babcock Theater built. [7] 1908 – Billings Polytechnic founded. 1910 Masonic Temple (Billings, Montana) built. Population: 10,031.
By the end of his first term, the economy had come “roaring back,” Inboden said. Inflation dropped from a high of 13.5% in 1980 to 4.6% come the 1984 election.
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Frederick Billings endowed the Billings Library, completed in 1885 for the University of Vermont, and purchased the George Perkins Marsh collection of 12,000 volumes for it. [ 1 ] Additional Billings gifts included $50,000 to endow a professorship at Amherst College in memory of his son Parmly, who was an Amherst graduate. [ 1 ]