The Queen Anne-Style house at 105 Clark Ave, built in 1903, is arguably one of Billings' most picturesque homes. It was originally home to Billings pioneer Ignatius D. O'Donnell until he died in 1948. When Frederick Billings, the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, helped to established the “town on paper” called Billings in 1882, he soon discovered that while there was coal in the Bull Mountains to the north there was little land worth his salt for agricultural development. only water would make the ground bloom, so the construction of the Big Ditch began. It ran through the Billings family land, known as Hesper Farm. When Billings son Parmly unexpectedly passed away, Billings turned to one of his son’s workers, and friends, I. D. O’Donnell, to make his land valuable and to give life to the town that was named for him. O’Donnell, self taught in the value of land, irrigation engineering, and the possible miracle crop of sugar beets, became the Oracle of Irrigation for not only the Yellowstone Valley but for all of the northern plains.
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