Y. M. C. A. Helena, Montana

The 1914 Y.M.C.A building, on the SE corner of Lawrence and Fuller. It was demolished in the 1970s.1

Kohrs was to become identified as a big stock grower, who was to own the famous Johnnie Grant ranch, near what afterwards was to become Deer Lodge, whose blooded cattle and horses were to be known all over the state, and he was also to become instrumental, with his half brother, John Bielenberg, in erecting, 1914, a beautiful building for the Y. M. C. A. in Helena.

The initial gifts of $20,000 and $13,000 which made the building at Helena, Montana, possible were from two old-time cattle men who had never been identified with any particular religious organization, John Bielenberg and Conrad Kohrs. They had made money on the plains. Their daughters were living in .he city and intensely interested in the condition of boys and young men there. Mr. Kohrs had said that he "felt like doing some good with his money before he passed away." These men, used to the hard lives of the plain and familiar with what their cowboys went up against in the city, are very "mellow" than they were dreamed to be towards the youngsters in the city.

References

1. HELENA As She Was: Images of Montan's Capital City. Retrieved July 3 2009 from www.lifelikecharm.com/