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Mountain Home History
The 1893 First Christian Church on 6th Street.
First Baptist Church large building built 1953.
First Methodist Church was prominent on Main Street.
The Patio Drive-In was fast food for the 1950s and 60s.
Main Street’s Cedar Grill provided fine dining, lodging and meeting space.
The Evans, on the East side of the square, was Mountain Home’s first movie house.
WWI recruits in front of Taylor’s Store at Main and 7th prepare to leave for training at Camp Robinson.
Inside Ralph Morris Hardware, 1950s.
Grand opening of T. E. Robertson Store in 1936.
The Baxter Theater open in 1953 to entertain for years.
A busy day in 1904 on 7th Street on the south side of the Square.
Early businesses at the northeast corner of the Square.
Cotton sellers gathered on the square to trade.
The courthouse gained a third story in 1912-13.
The courthouse in the late 1930s, looking northeast.
The Baker Building is the oldest commercial building on the Square, built in 1882. Shown here in 1973.
The third courthouse was razed in 1940-41 to be replaced by the current one.
The stone building at the SE corner of the Square has housed many businesses through the years.
One business at the SE corner was the 1919 Ford dealership.
A 1950s homecoming parade rounds the SE corner of the square.
Looking south along Main Street in 1950.
In 1945, the then-new current Baxter County Courthouse was a showplace at the city’s hub. In those days the third story served as the County Detention Center.
Looking NW across the Square and second courthouse in 1895, our oldest picture of downtown Mountain Home.
A 1920s cattle auction on 7th Street on the Square.
The old T. E. Robertson in about 1930.
A very early view looking north on Main Street.
The brick building at 5th and Baker Streets housed the City Hall and Fire Station, with the stairway leading to the Public Library.
The Hutchinson Cotton Gin at 8th and Baker Streets, was one of many in the area. It was torn down in 1948.
The Randolph D. Casey House, the oldest still standing in Mountain Home, was restored and is maintained by the County and the Baxter County Historical Society.
The Hackler Chevrolet Company operated on South Baker Street in the 1950s and 60s.
H. E. Keeter Lumber Company at the ”Y”, the junction of Highways 5 and 62, and Pigeon Creek Road (now 201 North).
KTLO began broadcasting to the “Twin Lakes of the Ozarks” about 1953 from its first building on Highway 5 North.
Mountain Home Auto Parts at Main and Highway 62 West was ready to deliver wherever parts were needed.
A new Mountain Home High School on South College Street opened for its first classes in 1948, and now serves as Pinkston Middle School.
Students of the Mountain Home Baptist College enjoy a day on the campus around 1915.
The Mountain Home Baptist College Administration Building and Girl’s dormitory were imposing structures along College Street from the 1890s through the 1920s. The dormitory structure is still in use.
The Peoples Bank opened at the Northwest corner of the Square in 1947.
On 6th Street west of the square, the Saltzman Hospital was an important precursor to today’s BRMC. Dr. Ben Saltzman was both a respected doctor and active city leader in the 40s and 50s.
In the late 1940s, McCabe Motors was an expanding auto dealership and garage just south of the city square.
The square’s Northeast corner was the site of the Powell Furniture and Appliance business in the 1940s and 50s.
Along Main Street where the Ozark Shopping Center is now, the Baker residence was one of the towns many impressive homes.
The Redus Lumber Mill operated in the southwest section of town on Dodd Creek, on the site of an earlier grist mill established by Col. Orrin Dodd, one of Mountain Home’s prominent early pioneers.
The old Mountain Home High Public school had all twelve grades and was the fourth building of the Male and Female Academy established before the Civil War by Professor John S. Howard.
The new Mountain Home School, starting with all 12 grades, was constructed with WPA funding in 1937, eventually became Mountain Home elementary, and now is repurposed as Guy Berry College and Career Center.
The Baxter Bulletin and Shiras Brothers Print Shop, 511 South Main, built around 1920 and still part of the Historic District.
The front entrance to the Baxter Bulletin and Shiras Brothers Print Shop, 511 South Main, built around 1920.
