Old Missoula

Sacajawea Lodge Is Thrown Open To Tenants – 1914

The doors were opened at Sacajawea lodge yesterday for the first tenants to move in. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have been besieged with applications for apartments in the attractive new building, and they are pleased that the rooms are now ready. Mr. and Mrs. French Ferguson and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart MacColl moved into the Lodge yesterday.

The new building has eight apartments, each containing three rooms and a private porch which may be used for a summer living room or a sleeping porch. Hardwood floors, concealed closet beds, steam heat, hot water service, kitchen cabinets, laundry trays, gas ranges, Harris kitchen cabinets are some of the modern conveniences which make the new apartment house desirable.

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Polleys have taken one of the apartments in the Rozale, and Mrs. W. W. Stevens have taken the other one of the two vacated by Mr. and Mrs. French Ferguson and Mr. and Mrs. MacColl.

The above article appeared in the June 7, 1914 Missoulian.

Each of these, Sacajawea Lodge, and The Rozale apartment house, borders Sacajawea Park, a place where I spent many hours in my early days. That city park was a center of controversy in its formation because it cut off the original path of Stephens Avenue as it moved toward the Missoula River. Many early residents were opposed to the formation of the park for that reason. Reading their hostile testimony today is enlightening when recognizing that the formation of some of the better aspects of Missoula came with a political price.

Several Missoulian articles on the park subject can be found at the links below:

Sacajawea Park – 1914

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