Look for a sturdy two-story yellow-brick warehouse on the corner, with tall rectangular windows and brown brick accents, and the words “GAMBRILL BUILDING” painted along the front.
This is the Gambrill Storage Building, put up in 1910 by Horace C. Gambrill in a Renaissance Revival style... which is a fancy way of saying, “even our warehouse should look respectable.” Notice those original, boxy windows topped with arched brick lintels, and the two-toned brickwork on the front-details that have somehow survived every passing trend since the days when mustaches and waistcoats were considered basic work gear.
Here’s the fun tension in the story: when the Rapid City Journal wrote about it in 1910, this was reportedly the ONLY dedicated storage warehouse in town. One building trying to hold everyone’s extra stuff-furniture, crates, maybe a few badly packed dreams. In 1984, it earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places, basically getting a long-overdue “you still look great” card.
When you’re set, Milwaukee Road Freight House is a 7-minute walk heading east.
