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Havre Boy Scout Myles Steinmetz points out Monday on a sign mounted on the Atrium Mall building in Havre the year the building that housed Frank Buttrey's Havre department store - now the Atrium - was built. As his Eagle Project, Steinmetz designed and mounted signs on the Atrium and the 305 Building, formerly Havre's Masonic Temple, giving some of the history of the historic buildings.
A sign mounted by Havre Boy Scout Myles Steinmetz as part of his Eagle Scout project gives some of the history of the historic Atrium building in Havre.
Myles Steinmetz stands next to the sign he mounted at the Atrium in Havre.
Sixteen-year-old Myles Steinmetz thought a good Eagle Scout project would be one that tells people the long and interesting history of two of the older buildings in Havre - the Atrium and the 305 Building.
"I like the history of Havre," Myles said. "They're cool-looking buildings."
Myles' project includes large informational signs so people passing by can read what has been happening in the 100-year-old buildings.
Eagle Scout is the highest Boy Scout rank, and Myles said he thought it was the perfect excuse to stake signs that say things like the Atrium was built by Frank Buttrey in 1904 as a retail and grocery store. And unlike it is now, the floors of the building were not open; all three floors stretched the length of the building, from wall to wall, Myles said.
Myles, who is a musician, also pointed out that the radio station KFBB used to broadcast from inside the former Buttrey Building.
The building has since changed - the floor has been carved out in the middle, Frank Buttrey is no longer the owner and there is no radio station broadcasting from inside. David and Kris Shaw own the building.
The 305 Building used to be the Masonic Temple, where regional freemasons met, Myles said.
Among the things that are associated with the building, Myles pointed out, the Hi-Line's first elevator lowers and ascends inside it.
The 305 Building was sold to locals Marc Whitacre and Erica Farmer a few years ago and has since undergone a revitalization. Some parts of it are still being refurbished, while others have been renovated and serve as space for various Havre entrepreneurs.
Myles finished his junior year at Havre High School this year and has one more year to decide where he will go to college. While being an Eagle Scout would give him a pay grade advantage should he enroll in the U.S. military, he said, the military is not in the forecast. Myles said he'd like to go into aerospace engineering.
"I want to go into that field, specifically in the field of space travel. There are going to be a lot of extremely exciting developments in the space industry in the coming decades because of private space companies and I hope to be a part of that," he said.
And yes, he said, if he should ever get a shot, he would love to go to space.
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