Collection 1840-1926

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Collection 1840-1926

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv43779

A.J. Gibson was one of western Montana's first, and major, architects. The collection contains three scrapbooks of Gibson's work in Montana and miscellaneous items that relate to him.

0.25 linear feet; 1 box

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University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371874

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Gibson, A. J. (Albert John), 1862-1928

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Albert John Gibson was born in 1862 in Savannah, Ohio. He moved to Butte, Montana, when he was twenty-one and worked there for five years. In 1888, he arrived in Missoula, Montana, and worked with E. C. Selander as a carpenter. He later formed a partnership with Robert Mentrum and began to study architecture, for which he exhibited a natural genius. He designed St. Patrick’s Hospital, Missoula City-County High School, the Missoula County Courthouse, Sacred Heart Academy, most of the...