Half way between Missoula and Frenchtown on the old Mullan Road was the Cyr Hotel, also known as “Half Way House.” The building was located on the Cyr Ranch, the Cyr’s being a large French immigrant family that settled several parts of the Grass and Frenchtown valleys in the 1870s.
John Cyr built the ranch house (left half) in 1885. In the late 1800s, an addition was constructed (right half) and the former residence began operating as a hotel. By the early 1900s, the place was a full blown roadhouse, complete with bar and dance hall, helping to ease the lives of people traveling to and from the city by horse, coach or buggy.
The last hurrah for the roadhouse was the period around 1908 when the Milwaukee Road was put through. Construction crews provided a brisk trade at the time, but evidently business later fell off resulting in eventual closure of the hotel.
By 1926, when the Sol family purchased the ranch property, the addition had been torn down. The original Cyr ranch house thus became the Sol ranch house which, Lynn (Sol) Moss remembers, had seven bedrooms. “The hotel part was torn down, leaving this beautiful house…it had four 6 foot cherry wood pillars in the living room ..granite counters in the kitchen and an exquisite claw foot bathtub…which came later.”
Joe Sol lived at the ranch house into the 1960s. The Sols sold much of the ranch in 1965. Evidently, the house still stands but sadly is in a state of grave disrepair with broken glass and doors hanging open.
Many thanks to Michael Sol and Mark Sol for photos and information on this lost treasure.
The Sol ranch house in the 1950s
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The ranch house today.