{"id":860,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:09","latitude":45.29307167284871837864557164721190929412841796875,"longitude":-111.94692902244452170634758658707141876220703125,"title":"Content&#039;s Corner","subtitle":"Virginia City National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/7fb3b1baa7b23ddc2665741d7a5e23ac.jpg","address":"300 West Wallace Street, Virginia City, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"When Solomon Content built this commercial building in 1864, it was one of the area’s most impressive, desirable business spaces. Stucco scored to look like stone originally covered the rubble stone walls, and Gothic transoms lent a civilized dignity. While Virginia City was Montana’s Territorial Capital (1865-1875), the second floor held the entire territorial government offices. The first floor housed retail stores, including grocers Rockfellow and Dennee (1864) and clothing stores of the Seigel brothers (1866), Henry Elling (1872), Armstrong and Johnson (1873), and Robert Vickers (1883). In 1943, Vickers&#039; grandson Bob Gohn, who lost his sight in a mine accident at age twenty, opened his famous bar, grocery, and hardware store here, which he ran with remarkable ability until his death in 1986.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/22389964-91bd-4c66-917f-0279004a042e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/e0b9251f-b92e-4e8e-ae20-c0bc3cec7394/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/7fb3b1baa7b23ddc2665741d7a5e23ac.jpg":{"id":2443,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Content&#039;s Corner, Virginia City","description":"View of a large stone building with seven men standing along the rail on the upper floor and seven men on the street at the corner. Clothing displayed at the front of the building and an advertisement for the Montana Post on the side. Henry Siegel &amp; Company clothing store with<br />\r\nMontana Territory executive offices on the upper floor at Content&#039;s Corner, Jackson and Wallace Streets, Virginia City, Montana. | PAc 956-122, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | ca. 1868 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/7fb3b1baa7b23ddc2665741d7a5e23ac.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/12a864c58e7a0924081e84c3fd2d36fa.jpg":{"id":2837,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Early view of Virginia City, MT with Content Corner at left","description":"View of livestock auction at the Elephant Auction house. Content&#039;s Corner is the building on the left. The auction sometimes blocked traffic along Virginia City&#039;s busy Wallace St.  | Montana Heritage Commission | ca. 1863 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/12a864c58e7a0924081e84c3fd2d36fa.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/aa60cf7a7e598e4908fd732a9391eedd.jpg":{"id":3058,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Wallace Street, Virginia City, MT.","description":"View of businesses along a dirt street, south side of Wallace St., Virginia City. Content&#039;s Corner, the two story stone building on the far left, at the corner of Wallace and Jackson Streets with a prominent sign for &#039;Armstrong &amp; Johnson.&#039; Businesses visible along Wallace Street include William Douglas&#039;s Variety Store, Ten Pin Alley, Sacramento Blacksmith Shop, and a liquor store on the far right.  | PAc 956-310. Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | ca. 1875 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/aa60cf7a7e598e4908fd732a9391eedd.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/b4bb9841526f3bab09e8f89f607aef94.jpg":{"id":2782,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Content Corner, Virginia City","description":"View of south and east elevations | National Historic Landmark nomination form for Viriginia City. From an inventory report compiled by Olaf Hagen, U.S. Forest Service Region 2, 1937. On file at the Montana State Historic Preservation Office and the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D. C. | 1937 | W. R. 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