Red Lodge in Carbon County, Montana — The American West (Mountains)
Pierson House
Red Lodge Hi Bug Historic District
Photographed by Barry Swackhamer, July 22, 2021
1. Pierson House Marker
Inscription.
Michigan-born attorney George Pierson and his wife Loretta moved to Red Lodge in 1894. Soon thereafter they purchased this lot, where they lived in a one-story cottage. After the Piersons decided to build this Free Classic Queen Anne style residence in 1903, C. C. Bowlen bought their original house and moved it a block south. The Piersons new eight-room home featured a Queen Anne style hipped-roof, cross-gabled plan and angled bay windows. It also had the decorative moldings and accented boxed eaves common to more classical styles. Unlike most married women of the era, Loretta worked outside the home as a teacher in 1910. In 1917, Charles and Meryl Draper purchased the house, which suited their prominent community position; Charles was a newspaper editor and publisher. In the 1970s, the house became infamous for its association with the Red Lodge Five, defendants in a notorious drug case. A fire, which according to local legend was set to destroy evidence, damaged the home. A 2004 remodel added the current two-story wraparound porch but carefully preserved traces of the fire that marked the original maple floors and
Location. 45° 11.535′ N, 109° 14.917′ W. Marker is in Red Lodge, Montana, in Carbon County. It is on Hauser Avenue North near 6th Street West, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 511 Hauser Avenue North, Red Lodge MT 59068, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Yellowstone Country and in Greater Billings. It is also in the American Mountain West and in the Lewis & Clark Corridor. Globally, it is in North America, the Rocky Mountains, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Ruperts Land and also the Louisiana Purchase.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: McDonald House (within shouting distance of this
Credits. This page was last revised on January 14, 2022. It was originally submitted on January 14, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California. This page has been viewed 369 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on January 14, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
