"New" Montana State Fieldhouse

[superman7515]

I was looking through some of my fathers old Popular Mechanics magazines and found this article from September 1954 on the new Montana State University fieldhouse. I thought some may find it interesting to see one of these being built 60 years ago. Click on the photos and they should enlarge enough for you to read the article, it was just a two page article so the photos are in this order Top Left, Bottom Left, Top Right, Bottom Right:

http://s26.postimg.org/6cu4l2zr9/Bobcats1.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/6cu4l2zr9/)
http://s26.postimg.org/p6kivtnd1/Bobcats2.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/p6kivtnd1/)
http://s26.postimg.org/6fillnssl/Bobcats3.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/6fillnssl/)
http://s26.postimg.org/mf1957oud/Bobcats4.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/mf1957oud/)

[Catbooster]

Interesting - that's not MSU's fieldhouse, but ours was the world's largest timber dome when it was built in the early 50's. I wonder if that is UM's fieldhouse. I'm afraid I don't know the history of their fieldhouse, but the pictures are of arches. MSU's fieldhouse is a dome, about 305' diameter.

[Hansel]

Interesting - that's not MSU's fieldhouse, but ours was the world's largest timber dome when it was built in the early 50's. I wonder if that is UM's fieldhouse. I'm afraid I don't know the history of their fieldhouse, but the pictures are of arches. MSU's fieldhouse is a dome, about 305' diameter.

The hills in the background do look more like Missoula than Bozeman

[Catbooster]

Looks like MSU's fieldhouse was built in 1956

http://arc.lib.montana.edu/msu-photos/item.php?id=216

[Hammersmith]

Montana's Dahlberg Arena was built from 1951 to 1953 and seems to fit the photos.

[superman7515]

Apologies if it's incorrect, having never been there I could only go by what the article has, haha.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Apologies if it's incorrect, having never been there I could only go by what the article has, haha.

At one point UM was actually Montana State. Don't know the timing of the name changes but would have thought it much prior that that but either way it's cool as hell and I really appreciate you upping it here supey.

[superman7515]

According to the article from Popular Mechanics, see photo 2, the structure was being built by Timber Structures Inc.

According to this link, Brick Breeden Fieldhouse (originally Montana State College Fieldhouse) was built by Timber Structures Inc. http://structurae.net/structures/brick-breeden-fieldhouse

[Hammersmith]

At one point UM was actually Montana State. Don't know the timing of the name changes but would have thought it much prior that that but either way it's cool as hell and I really appreciate you upping it here supey.

Nope. That's where the confusion is coming from.

1893 - University of Montana
1913 - State University of Montana
1935 - Montana State University
1965 - University of Montana

You learn something new every day.

As for the other one...

1893 - Agricultural College of the State of Montana (Montana Agricultural College)
1913 - Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
1920s - Montana State College (don't know if/when it was formalized)
1965 - Montana State University