Modern Federal · Opera houses

Ticket booth of the 1907 Babcock Theater in Billings, at about 117,000 population (as of 2022), the largest city in the western state of Montana, located in the eastern, prairie-like part of the state far from mountainous towns to the west in the nation's fourth-largest state by area

Billings, Montana · 1850–1939

Ticket booth of the 1907 Babcock Theater in Billings, at about 117,000 population (as of 2022), the largest city in the western state of Montana, located in the eastern, prairie-like part of the state far from mountainous towns to the west in the nation's fourth-largest state by area, Billings, Montana, 1850–1939
Ticket booth of the 1907 Babcock Theater in Billings, at about 117,000 population (as of 2022), the largest city in the western state of Montana, located in the eastern, prairie-like part of the state far from mountainous towns to the west in the nation's fourth-largest state by area, Billings, Montana, 1850–1939. Opera houses — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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