Hecla House

Approx. 11 mi. W of Glendale on Trapper Creek Rd. #188, Melrose, Montana. County/parish: Beaverhead.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 10, 2005. NRIS 05000885.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Hecla House

The Hecla House, in Beaverhead County, Montana near Melrose, was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

It is a one-story 18 by 28 feet (5.5 m × 8.5 m) log building, built of squared logs with dovetail notching upon a dry fieldstone foundation. It is the last standing building in the former townsite of Hecla, a company mining town below the glacial cirque headwall of Lion Mountain.

It is located about 11 miles (18 km) west of Glendale on Trapper Creek Rd. #188.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71975611

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