Broadway Avenue between 8th and 13th Streets is the preserved main street of a Montana coal town, six blocks of late-Victorian and early-20th-century brick fronts that the National Register listed in 1983. Sixty-four contributing buildings line the street: the Pollard Hotel (1893), the Carbon County Bank (1893), the old Roman Theater, hardware stores, saloons, and the corner banks that lent miners money to buy houses in the Hi Bug district.
Walk it slowly. Several of the buildings have small plaques explaining what they were and when, and the chamber of commerce produces a free walking-tour pamphlet. The town has been careful with its main street — no chain signage, no plastic facades — and the result is one of the most coherent small-town streetscapes in the northern Rockies.