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A relocated Victorian mansion turned South Hills restaurant, with a resident-ghost story named Edith
102 Ben Hogan Dr, Missoula, MT 59803
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
An upscale dinner restaurant. Dinner is served nightly from 5pm; reservations are recommended for the dining rooms. Standard restaurant pricing applies.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved drive and parking on a South Hills golf course
Equipment
Photos OK
Greenough Family Mansion · Relocated Historic Building (1964) · Missoula Railroad and Mining History
The building that houses The Keep began as the home of the wealthy Greenough family in late-1800s Missoula. Thomas Greenough made his fortune in railroads and mining, and the family's Victorian mansion was a landmark of the period.
In the 1960s the mansion stood in the path of the planned route for Interstate 90. Rather than demolish it, family members and preservationists had the roughly 287-ton building dismantled and moved, piece by piece, up to the South Hills, where it was reassembled in 1964 at what is now 102 Ben Hogan Drive.
The relocated mansion later operated as a restaurant known as The Mansion. On June 11, 1992, a fire destroyed it. One year and one day later, a successor restaurant opened on the site, and the building was rebuilt.
Today it operates as The Keep, an upscale dinner restaurant overlooking a South Hills golf course. The restaurant's own history pages trace this line from the Greenough mansion through the fire to the current building, and the relocation is a well-documented piece of Missoula history.
Sources
The restaurant's ghost story centers on Edith Greenough, a daughter of Thomas Greenough, whose spirit is blamed in local folklore for a set of pranks. As recorded by the Missoulian's haunted-Missoula feature, staff have attributed exploding glasses in patrons' hands, a swinging chandelier, flushing toilets, a dropping dumbwaiter and flickering lights to her.
A long-time employee described one dining room where separate tables of diners would argue loudly across the room over trivial matters, leading staff to nickname it the 'Edith Room.'
The article also passes along a darker piece of the lore — that after the restaurant's reopening, staff believed Edith was responsible for two elderly guests who fell on interior stairs, though both were reported largely unhurt. These are staff beliefs and tour-style stories rather than documented incidents, and they are presented here as the building's folklore. The restaurant leans into the Edith legend as part of its identity in the historic mansion.
Notable Entities
Dine in the former Greenough mansion, a late-1800s Victorian that was dismantled and moved to Missoula's South Hills in 1964. Dinner is served nightly from 5pm in the dining rooms, lounge and outdoor terrace; reservations are recommended for the dining rooms. The 'Edith Room' is part of the building's folklore.
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