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Northern Hotel
Holabird & Root's ten-story hotel of 1942, built after the first Northern Hotel on this site burned in 1940; a renovation cut 212 rooms to 160.
- Built
- 1942Present ten-story building opened 1942 after the earlier Northern Hotel burned in 1940. The brief's 1904 and the hotel's 'since 1902' describe the lost first hotel on the site.
- Style
- Modern
- Architect
- Holabird & Root
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 160
- Area
- Downtown Billings
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
The Billings Investment Company built the first Northern Hotel on this site in 1902, and it became the city’s social center. When it burned in 1940, company president Preston Moss commissioned Chicago’s Holabird and Root to design a larger fireproof hotel. The new ten-story Northern opened in 1942 despite wartime material shortages. A later renovation cut the rooms from 212 to 160.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site free
- Address: 19 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.