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The Montana traveler: The Charles M. Bair Family Museum, little palace on the prairie
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On the wind-swept grasslands of central Montana is a prairie palace, its rooms brimming with Louis XV and George III furnishings, crystal chandeliers, and gilded mirrors. The sprawling ranch house near Martinsdale, once the home of Charlie Bair, a prominent sheepman and entrepreneur in the early 1900s, is now a museum. The Charles M. Bair Family Museum, the vision of sisters Marguerite and Alberta Bair, offers a peek into the opulent life-style of another era while retelling the history of th...
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The Montana traveler: The Charles M. Bair Family Museum, little palace on the prairie
Montana; The Magazine of Western History
; On the wind-swept grasslands of central Montana is a prairie palace, its rooms brimming with Louis XV and George III furnishings, crystal chandeliers, and gilded mirrors. The sprawling ranch house near Martinsdale, once the home of Charlie Bair, a prominent sheepman and entrepreneur in the early
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Valley residents back Bair Museum
The Billings Gazette
; Residents of the Musselshell Valley want to know what it will take to keep the Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale open and its eclectic collections intact. About 100 people attended a meeting in Harlowton Thursday night to collect ideas for keeping the historical/cultural center in Martinsdale up
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Friends of Martinsdale, Mont., Museum Seek Intervention in Reopening Facility.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Jim Gransbery, Billings Gazette, Mont. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 3--Several residents of the Musselshell Valley have asked a Billings ... 2004, Billings Gazette, Mont. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. USB,
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Bair museum trial set for Aug. 30
The Billings Gazette
; A bench trial to determine whether the trustee advisory board abused its discretion when it closed the Charles M. Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale two years ago has been rescheduled for Aug. 30. The lawsuit was to begin Wednesday before District Judge G. Todd Baugh. Baugh ruled in March that
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Trustees opt to shut down Bair family museum
The Billings Gazette
; ... to the community and Montana. "This is not a decision that the board has taken lightly," board chairman run Roscoe said at a news conference held at the Alberta Bair Theater. Roscoe said the board plans to investigate options outlined in the trust agreement ...
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Impressive collection
Missoulian
; MARTINSDALE - Inside the front door of the stately ranch home was a collection of mostly red hats, and when the doorbell would ring, Alberta Bair would select one of them, put it on, and answer the door. If it was a friend, she would welcome them in and remove the hat, adding, "We just got home
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Bair museum won't reopen
The Billings Gazette
; MARTINSDALE - The Charles M. Bair Family Museum here will not open this spring, museum trustees have decided. The museum, the family's ranch home in the Musselshell River Valley, was a gift of Charles Bair's daughters, Marguerite and Alberta, to the community and Montana. The house is a repository
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YAM to display Bair art collection permanently
The Billings Gazette
; Artwork and artifacts on temporary loan to the Yellowstone Art Museum from the Charles M. Bair Family Home will be at the YAM permanently, the Charles M. Bair Family Trust Board of Advisers said Wednesday. The YAM also plans to begin a $1 million fundraising effort to create a new 3,000-square-foot
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Tip-Top Shape
The Billings Gazette
; There are no more buckets to collect dripping water in the gym of the Bair Family Club House Boys and Girls Club. Thanks to support from the community and hard work by contractors, the clubhouse on Orchard Lane is in tip-top shape, interim Professional Officer Brian Dennis said. A project to
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Alberta Bair meant what she said, judge says
The Billings Gazette
; Alberta Bair's trust document is clear in its meaning, a state district judge ruled Monday. The decision partially settles the dispute over the closure of the Charles M. Bair Family Museum in Martinsdale two years ago, but leaves the question of whether the trustee board that oversees the museum
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