Superior Hotel

The original Superior Hotel was constructed by Charlie Jameson in 1891, and finished by A.P. Johnston a year later. A writer for the Missoula Weekly Gazette recommended Jameson’s place as having “as good accommodation as any place between Missoula and Wallace. The expectation of trying his cuisine lightened the inconveniences of the slow and uncomfortable Missoula cut-off.”

Back in 1908, Gideon International member Archie Bailey was a regular guest at the Superior Hotel, while working for a company which was assisting the railroad to expand. “He approached Edna Wilkinson, the hotel’s proprietor, to see if he could place a Bible there at the hotel desk clerk’s station. Edna countered with a bigger proposition: could Archie actually place a Bible in each of the guest rooms? Archie agreed.”