In the 32-month history of Last Best News, few stories were as fun to report as the one about Kate Morris’ grain bin house, which the former Lockwood school teacher built on some family property north of Great Falls. (more…) Continue Reading →
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If I had to choose my favorite story out of the 600-some pieces that have been posted on Last Best News in the 17 months of its existence, I think I’d go with our story on the Brockway Dairy Day Rodeo. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Ann Coulter, Brockway, John Warner, Kate Morris, Montana Quarterly, Shonkin Sag, Terry Badlands
Another good reason to like the grain bin house
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Regular readers of Last Best News will probably remember our story about Kate Morris’ little grain bin house on the prairie, which we wrote about when it was under construction and again after its completion. We wrote about how Kate worked with Nick Pancheau from Collaborative Design Architects to realize her dream of living in a converted grain bin on the property north of Great Falls that she inherited from her parents. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Collaborative Design Architects, grain bin house, Kate Morris, Nick Pancheau, zombie apocalypse
Grain bin house makes list of ‘genius’ conversions
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More accolades for Kate Morris’ beautiful grain bin house near Great Falls. Yahoo! Homes put the house, designed by Nich Pancheau, of Collaborative Design Architects in Billings, on its 2014 list of “most genius converted spaces.” Other projects on the list include a coverted monestary in France, a 120-year-old church in London and a laundromat boiler room converted into a tiny guesthouse in San Francisco, so Kate and Nick are in some pretty cool company. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Last Best Blog, Collaborative Design Architects, Kate Morris, Nick Pancheau
Breathtaking grain bin house is finished
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In June, I wrote about the grain bin house being built outside Vaughan, north of Great Falls. The owner of the house, as you may recall, is Kate Morris, an artist and teacher who has lived in Billings for many years and will continue to spend some time here. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Culture, Collaborative Design Architects, HOUZZ.com, Kate Morris, Louis Habeck, Nich Pancheau, Vaughn
Big-house debate? We’ll sit this one out
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How big is too big? That is a question people love to weigh in on when the subject is houses. Or so I have found. When I first wrote about what was going to be the biggest house in Yellowstone County, which is being built just outside the Ironwood subdivision, readers flooded the Last Best News Facebook page with spirited comments on the subject. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Abe Lincoln, Ironwood Subdivision, Kate Morris, Randy and Janna Hafer, Thomas Jefferson
Little grain bin house on the prairie
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VAUGHN — Late last year, building contractor Tom Skovron was at the lumberyard in Great Falls when he ran into Art West. (more…) Continue Reading →