{"id":87,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:05","latitude":45.730491999999998142811818979680538177490234375,"longitude":-107.60641270000002123197191394865512847900390625,"title":"Hotel Becker","subtitle":"Hardin Commercial Historic District","fullsize":"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/051fcafdb51be4571750e03e135f9efe.jpg","address":"200 North Center Avenue, Hardin, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":7,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"German immigrant Anton Becker had great faith in Hardin’s future. Becker bought this lot on May 30, 1907, the day town lots went on sale. He soon constructed a two-story brick building, in front of which he installed Hardin’s first cement sidewalk. He and his wife, Katie, and their six children lived upstairs; downstairs was Becker’s Montana Saloon. In 1917, the Beckers hired Billings architect Curtis Oehme to convert the saloon into a hotel, adding a third story and extending the entire building to the alley. Oehme’s design drew attention to the hotel’s canted entrance through a square tower decorated with pressed metal, a metal roof, and an ornamental flagpole. According to the Hardin Tribune, the hotel, which cost $60,000 to build, included “a large lobby on each of the three floors, a barroom, dining room, kitchen and parlor … [and] thirty-eight handsomely furnished rooms, some of them en suite with private bath.” Ghost signs on the west and north walls still advertise rooms for “$1 up” and “$1.50 up,” respectively. Although Anton died in 1920, the hotel remained in the Becker family until 1954.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/0f9b4d33-90de-4c10-b9ad-55da9f67c7e2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the Hardin Commercial Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/db2e7f99-3c9b-4afe-bf58-cd4731502988/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See buildings in the Hardin Commercial Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/051fcafdb51be4571750e03e135f9efe.jpg":{"id":645,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Becker Hotel","description":"Northwest-facing still image capture of the Becker Hotel, Hardin, Montana. Image information drawn from print verso. b&amp;w print.  | Official records of the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, Montana | July, 1984 |  Fredric L. Quivik, RTI","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/051fcafdb51be4571750e03e135f9efe.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6fb4a9854bcf7854668213cf34473f33.jpg":{"id":700,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hotel Becker, Hardin, MT","description":"View of corner tower | Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, MT | Sep 2018 | Kate Hampton","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6fb4a9854bcf7854668213cf34473f33.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/ef91441f8de98f63da1bc6cc2460f41e.jpg":{"id":702,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hotel Becker, Hardin, MT","description":"Street view of facade | Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, MT | Sep 2018 | Kate Hampton","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/ef91441f8de98f63da1bc6cc2460f41e.jpg"},"https://historicmt.org/files/fullsize/1d49d099bea70d9628ca006910b3f646.jpg":{"id":701,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Hotel Becker, Hardin, MT","description":"View of Second Street (south) facade | Montana State Historic Preservation Office, Helena, MT | Kate Hampton","thumbnail":"https://historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/1d49d099bea70d9628ca006910b3f646.jpg"}}}