Red Lodge city attorney Frank Whicher built this Queen Anne style home in 1910, the same year his wife Cora delivered Frank, Jr., the first of their four sons. Frank and Cora were active in local politics and civic and social organizations. Frank served on the school and library boards, wrote the ordinance officially creating the Red Lodge Public Library, and served terms as master of the local Masonic and Elks lodges. Cora, a former eighth-grade teacher, stayed home with her boys and was active in the Red Lodge Woman’s Club. In 1922, citizens elected Frank as mayor of Red Lodge. Soon after, he lectured to a large group of women at the Carbon County Federation of Woman’s Clubs, encouraging them to participate in politics and to “elect clean, dependable men to county office.” Non-Indian Montana women won the right to vote in 1914, six years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women’s suffrage nationally. The Whichers moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1926, and in 1927, sold the home to wholesale grocery merchant Thad C. Pound and his wife Stella.
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