Courthouse named after Missouri River

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Aug 19, 2008 at 6:59 AM MST

Story Updated: Aug 19, 2008 at 6:59 AM MST

GREAT FALLS - The new federal courthouse being built across the river from downtown Great Falls will be called the Missouri River Courthouse.

BC Development Co., of Kansas City, Mo., is overseeing construction and leasing of the three-story, $16.4 million building to the government. A principle owner of the company, Cathy Baier, says her firm selected that name based on the recommendations of Montana's federal judges.

Baier says the judges felt the name was fitting because the courthouse sits along the Missouri, which served as the water highway for Capts. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804-1806 exploration of the West.

The chief judge of the Montana district, Donald Molloy of Missoula, says Montana's eight federal judges met, "thoroughly discussed the issue," and agreed on Missouri River Courthouse.

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