Officer’s Row consists of four identical Mission style concrete buildings. Each of these buildings are 2.5 story duplex buildings that would have houses junior officers, officers, commanding officers and their families.
Building T-27 is a slightly larger building that was designed as a four-plex building to house junior officers. From 1941 to 1943 when Fort Missoula was the site of an Alien Detention Center, this building was used for civilians employed by the INS. After the detention camp, the building housed military officers and senior enlisted men. Today, the buildings on Officer’s Row are owned by the Northern Rockies Heritage Center and house a variety of offices for local non-profits.
Buildings T-24 and T-26 are large “U” shaped concrete buildings with the same Missoula Style architecture as Officer’s Row. Also built from 1906-1912, these two buildings were first used as company barracks as well as a recruiting center in 1940. When the Italian detainees first arrived at Fort Missoula during World War II, these buildings were used as housing before separate barracks were built. They were then later used as Army staff for the disciplinary barracks after World War II. Today, the Lolo National Forest Service uses these buildings.
