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.
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71975611