National Register of Historic Places
Moose Lake Camp Historic District
Philipsburg vicinity, Granite County, Montana
The record
- Listed
- December 29, 2017
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Moose Lake Residential Site, Lots 4 & 5, Block B, Philipsburg vicinity
- County
- Granite
- State
- Montana
- Contributing resources
- 9 buildings
- Coordinates
- 46.05421, -113.53219
- Reference number
- 100001931
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The story
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The Moose Lake Camp Historic District is a group of nine contributing buildings on a 1.55-acre site near Philipsburg, in Granite County, built between 1918 and 1925 in a regional log style. The nomination names Martin Johnson as the camp's architect.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2017, under criterion A, with significance at the local level in entertainment and recreation. Its period of significance runs from 1918 to 1967, reflecting the cabin's construction in 1918.
Physical character
The log buildings have half-log or round-log walls with square-notched corners and pole chinking, on stone or concrete foundations under asphalt or metal roofs. A kitchen and dining addition was built onto the main cabin in 1963, and Leslie Savage added a sun porch and enclosed a porch around 1924. In 1997 the cookhouse got a new picture window and interior remodel, and in 2013 the icehouse/woodshed became a bathhouse on a concrete slab.
Historical context
Julian and Gladys Itter hired Johnson to build them a cabin at Moose Lake in 1918. Savage bought the cabin in 1922 and left the lake in 1936. Joseph and Mae Lyden bought the property in 1945, and the Lydens sold it to John C. and Elizabeth C. Hauck in 1962. The Haucks transferred the property to Thomas and Jane Van Dyk in 1986.