{"id":2696,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:14","latitude":45.7899935349620221813893294893205165863037109375,"longitude":-108.5191038428820462513613165356218814849853515625,"title":"1040 North 31st Street","subtitle":"North Elevation Historic District","fullsize":"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/8369cc2c7c87f7b2e1e5dbd8ccb57363.jpg","address":"1040 North 31st Street, Billings, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Dubbed one of Billings’ “pioneer building contractors,” Emanuel Lindstrom waited until age thirty-eight to marry twenty-two-year-old Radina Holen, a fellow immigrant from Norway. In 1913, the Lindstroms moved into this Prairie style residence, where they raised three children. The two-story American Foursquare home features restrained geometric ornamentation, a hipped roof with extended eaves and a central attic dormer, and a wraparound front porch, enclosed sometime after 1958. Between 1912 and 1923, the Lindstroms added a two-car garage, a reflection of the growing importance of automobiles to North Elevation homeowners. Home prices suffered during the Great Depression and the residence, valued at $10,000 in 1930, was worth only $6,500 in 1940. Benjamin Harwood purchased the residence from the Lindstroms in 1937, just a year after Benjamin was first elected district judge. A dedicated jurist, Ben was also interested in aviation. A World War I pilot wounded in France, he was instrumental in developing the Billings airport as chairman of the airport commission. He and his wife Nina lived here until 1971.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://mhs.mt.gov/shpo/docs/NRnoms/MT_YellowstoneCounty_NorthElevationHD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the North Elevation Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/8369cc2c7c87f7b2e1e5dbd8ccb57363.jpg":{"id":1359,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"1040 North 31st Street","description":"1040 North 31st Street. Front view of the house, facing slightly east from the front sidewalk along North 31st Street. Photograph taken in early fall. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office | Sept. 2009 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/8369cc2c7c87f7b2e1e5dbd8ccb57363.jpg"}}}