Of Sage and Stone: A Guide to Southwest Montana's Rural Treasures
This full color guide book to arts and culture sites in Southwest Montana features a “Loop” map with driving itineraries, descriptions and directions to heritage attractions, artist studios, galleries, craft workshops, historic lodgings & eateries, and annual heritage and culture events.
MPA and JM Kaplan Fund Industrial Architecture Grants
In 2008, MPA gave grants to three historic Montana industrial properties -- the Red Lodge Brewery Cannery, the Original Mine Hoist House in Butte, and the Gilbert Brewery in Virginia City.
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The Last Best Barns: A Pictorial History 
In partnership with the Montana Historical Society Press, MPA will release a beautiful book featuring color and black-and-white photographs of over 80 of Montana’s most striking historic barns, including historic photos and the fascinating stories behind these farm and ranch buildings.
Whaley Homestead Restoration
With a Preserve America grant from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation,
MPA and the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge have been working on a project to preserve and
interpret the historic Whaley Homestead. MPA, refuge staff and volunteers have
worked to spruce up and weatherproof the historic Whaley farmhouse, cleaning
and ejuvenating, mending windows and repairing porches.
The Whaley Homestead is a masterfully-crafted two-story square-hewn log
farmhouse that is clad with wooden clapboards. The grounds are shaded by
large cottonwood trees overlooking some of western Montana’s finest
waterfowl habitat. Click on the image for an UPDATE.
Yellowstone National Park Architectural Evaluations
More to come . . .
Montana Battlefields Inventory
More to come . . .
ONGOING PROGRAMS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
MPA produces a membership
newsletter, holds public meetings and creates presentations
that increase public awareness of and appreciation for Montana's
fragile cultural heritage, while promoting a broad range of
historic preservation activities.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
MPA's volunteer
historians, architects, city planners and other preservation-related
professionals offer timely, direct assistance in a variety of
locally tailored forms ranging from limited advisory services
for specific historic sites to in-depth weekend workshops focusing
on heritage tourism, downtown revitalization, local historic
preservation planning, and other preservation-related topics.
Several rural communities, such as Virginia City, Malta, Havre,
Lewistown, Winnet, Charlo, Joplin, Big Sky, Superior and Fort
Benton have benefitted from MPA's Technical Assistance Program.
