Our Historic Home

The International Harvester Company, a 1901 Midwestern manufacturing company best known for agricultural manufacture, built a 47,625 square foot facility in Great Falls, Montana on 2nd Street, known as Machinery Row.

Despite economic hardships prefacing the Great Depression and the 1929 Stock Market Crash, the building was completed in 1929.

Northern School Supply, in business in Great Falls since 1931, purchased the facility in 1958. The company provided resources for educators across the state.

School Specialty, a Wisconsin-based company, purchased Northern School Supply in 1997 and consolidated Western operations out of Portland, OR.

The Cascade County Historical Society purchased the building in 1998.