Silver Bow

Butte, MT

The Classical Revival style is grandly expressed in this exemplary residence of high-fired tan brick, built between 1916 and 1920.

Butte, MT

Deed records indicate that a Knights of Labor Hall stood here by 1887.

Butte, MT

Built in the shadow of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company’s sprawling Original and Gagnon mines, boarding houses and apartments once...

Butte, MT

New York capitalist Leonard Lewisohn—a principal in both the Boston and Montana and the Butte and Boston mining companies—invested...

Butte, MT

Platted by 1881, Nevada Street was part of the rare Butte neighborhood more oriented toward the railroad (which paralleled Front Street)...

Butte, MT

“Let us help you breathe the air of freedom by selling you a home on the monthly payment plan.

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Craftsman style bungalows were phenomenally popular in the 1910s, nationally and in Butte.

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Irish immigrant Charles Jenks was the first resident of this elaborate Craftsman style bungalow.

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Copper was a primary component in warships, ammunition casing, and tanks.

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Well-known Butte realtor E. Sterrett Shields and his family were the longtime residents of this interesting home, built just after the...

Butte, MT

Cast-iron pilasters, a metal cornice, interior hardwood paneling and a pressed metal ceiling are reminders of the varied remodelings of...

Butte, MT

Approximately 77 percent of Centerville’s male residents worked in the mines, and William Berryman, who owned this one-story, wood-frame,...

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A row of small one-story dwellings occupied the west half of this block in 1884.

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The stone foundation and masonry fabric of this early 1880s commercial building reflect the change to fireproof building materials after...

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A private ground-floor residence with rooms for rent upstairs was the original function of this 1880s two-story building.

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Mature landscaping surrounds this cozy cottage bungalow built circa 1915.

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A row of one-story frame shops including a harness maker, two carpenters, a cobbler, a saloon, a bakery, and a millinery filled this...

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Interesting window placement is a hallmark of prominent Butte architect Charles M. Prentice and his own modified Italianate style...

Butte, MT

Historic maps reveal that this magnificent Renaissance Revival style building had rather humble beginnings.

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Judge John McHatton, his wife, Rose, and their children made their home in this two-and-one-half-story Queen Anne style residence from...

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Butte School District #1 constructed this attractive four-story building between 1918 and 1920 to house the high school’s Manual Training...

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Among the oldest survivors in the neighborhood, this four-room shotgun house was built between 1888 and 1890.

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In 1890, a wooden shotgun house stood at 412 West Broadway, while a substantial brick residence stood to the east.

Butte, MT

Butte’s architectural diversity is legendary, and this Mission style home adds to that reputation.

Butte, MT

A round turreted entry with an elaborate porch is the focal point of this Queen Anne style home.

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William Mosby, proprietor of the King and Mosby Saloon, acquired this property in 1889.

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Attorney Louis Sanders, who resided next door, owned this lot in 1905.

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Almost a quarter of the buildings in Walkerville are four-square, hip-roof residences, what housing catalogs called “workingman’s cottages.

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Copper king William A. Clark and other prominent businessmen platted the Warren and Kingsbury Addition in 1878 just above Clark’s...

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Close proximity to the Original and Stewart mines guaranteed a steady stream of miners to keep the beds of this boardinghouse occupied.

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Architects promoted the Craftsman style as ideal "for the lover of the out-of-doors.

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Real estate developers platted much of Butte's West Side in 1889, anticipating the building boom that soon followed.

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Carpenter Lewis Morris built this Queen Anne style cottage in 1898 for approximately $300 during Butte’s second building boom.

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“Ores, mineral and mining rights reserved” stated the title abstract when contractor C. C. Goddard purchased this lot for $1,200 in 1897.

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South Butte was home to miners, small businessmen, and workers who rented and owned the district’s modest dwellings.

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With a two-story, north-side bay window providing extra light and air, this brick duplex takes full advantage of its corner lot.

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Shortly after F. J. Brule’s 1906 survey, Walkerville carpenter Ed Reimel built this one-and-one-half-story, brickveneered home with...

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Dubbed “the largest, busiest, and richest mining camp in the world today” in an 1885 magazine feature, Butte grew quickly from 3,300...

Butte, MT

The younger brother of Walkerville merchants Joseph and George Broughton, James lived with George after arriving in the booming silver...

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Prominently situated on a corner lot, this Queen Anne style residence is a neighborhood showpiece.

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The Queen Anne style is beautifully expressed in this fashionable “gay nineties” residence of Arthur H. Mueller, longtime president of...

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Architect J. Roy McGlauflin designed this Queen Anne style home in 1898 during Butte’s second building boom.

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Butte boomed as copper production doubled in the 1890s.

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Butte’s voracious appetite for laborers created a huge demand for housing and sent rental rates skyrocketing beyond the means of most...

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Built into the hill, so that the second story is level with the ground, this two-and-one-half-story structure dominates the block.

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In 1890, the sound of hammers echoed throughout Butte’s West Side, a result of the community’s phenomenal growth as it converted from a...

Butte, MT

James H. Lynch was a man of many hats.

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The gables, porches, and elegant detailing of the Victorian-era homes along this picturesque block compose a neighborhood streetscape...

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Emerson B. Weirick purchased the land to build this home in 1897 for a total of thirty dollars.

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The Queen Anne style is beautifully interpreted in this Victorian-era showpiece built circa 1891.

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Jennie Tallant, a founding member of the Montana Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and her husband, Walter, were early...

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Butte architect H. M. Patterson designed this brick home for attorney John Colter in the 1890s.

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As its population tripled in the 1890s, Butte began its transformation from a mining camp to a small city.

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James H. Monteath, assistant manager of the Inter-Mountain Publishing Company and assistant secretary of the Aetna Savings and Trust...

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Stone, brick, and wood combine to add texture to this Queen Anne style residence, whose design includes a projecting bay and a small...

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Railroads were crucial to facilitate industrial-scale copper mining, and it was South Butte that became the city’s great railway hub.

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In 1896, W. Mead Hanson departed Utah for Butte with his wife, Nellie, and their children.

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Distinctive enough to have its own society column in the Butte Miner, South Butte was less oriented toward the mines than other Butte...

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Architect William A. O’Brien designed and built this striking home in 1906 for ACM attorney Albert J. Campbell.

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The builder of this residence was the second of three Butte men of the same name.

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Butte as melting pot is well-chronicled in this Queen Anne style mix of high gables and multi-paned windows.

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In 1905, young New England attorney Burton Wheeler stepped off the train at Butte to stretch his legs, lost his money in a poker game,...

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Architect Herman Kemna, who began his Butte practice in 1898, designed this attractive corner landmark at the end of his productive career.

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The end of a long court battle between Amalgamated Copper and renegade mine entrepreneur F. Augustus Heinze in 1906 brought about an...

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A visiting journalist wrote in the 1890s that this neighborhood was “like a street leading into hell,” and, in 1910, even the passionate...

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Butte’s reputation as the “Gibraltar of Unionism” in the Rocky Mountains was further strengthened with the construction of this finely...

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Originally a three-story building, this old-timer was constructed circa 1884 as a restaurant and hotel.

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Businessman Charles Steele financed the $4,500 construction costs of this exceptional commercial block, designed by Butte architect James...

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Paired Ionic columns support a classical one-story porch while the parapet atop the curved two-story bay window evokes the image of a...

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Town halls originated in twelfth-century Italy, where bells were rung to call public assemblies.

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A one-story wooden residence built between 1888 and 1890 marked the earliest development of this lot.

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Civil War politics prevented young John H. Curtis from practicing law in Missouri since, as a Confederate sympathizer, he could not take...

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Elaborate and diverse architecture characterizes the homes along this stretch of Broadway today, but during the 1880s rather modest...

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Newly graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in veterinary surgery, Dr. John D. McGregor arrived in the Mining City in 1889.

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Butte miners called the deadly rocks that fell in mine tunnels “Duggans.

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French Canadian brothers Arthur and Joseph Nadeau built this house of prostitution in 1890.

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Prominent real estate developer Charles Passmore built three homes on this block in 1901, all for family members.

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A corner location affords two views of this captivating home, built in the mid-1880s and first owned by Butte attorney Thomas Napton.

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Architect William A. O’Brien designed this grandly scaled Craftsman style bungalow for prominenet attorney Lewis O. Evans circa 1906.

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French-Canadian brothers founded the Nadeau Investment Company in the late 1800s and amassed Butte real estate, much of it red-light...

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The decade following World War I brought an excess of copper to the world market and Butte suffered a severe economic slowdown.

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The Stevensville Baptist congregation first organized as the Etna Baptist Church of Christ at the nearby Etna schoolhouse in 1882.

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Farmer, trader, and grist mill operator Andrew Jackson Davis, reportedly Montana’s first millionaire, founded the First National Bank in...

Butte, MT

The impressive appearance of this 1906 bay-fronted multi-family dwelling, a common building type in early day Butte, reflects a...

Butte, MT

A decorative iron fence symbolically separates this one-and-one-half-story brick residence from the street— reflecting the Victorian-era...

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Home ownership symbolized independence and respectability when John and Rose Gannon constructed this fiveroom cottage circa 1904.

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Little evidence survives today of the industrial giant that once consumed this neighborhood.

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Attorney John B. Wellcome, later implicated in the illegal shenanigans orchestrated by William Clark in his bid for the U.S. Senate,...

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A gentle arch, a simple balustrade, and a pair of sloping columns frame the entrance of this quietly elegant residence dating to the...

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Local legend has it that in 1915, Harry W. Turner jacked up the one-story 1890s house on this lot and constructed a new first floor...

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John and Elizabeth Hawke moved into their newly constructed home circa 1903.

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Twelve saloons, six grocery stores, eighteen boarding houses, a community hall, and three saunas served “Finn Town,” a bustling ethnic...

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In little more than a decade, entrepreneur Daniel Hennessy’s mercantile business became Montana’s first and most elegant department store.

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Less than a decade after the skyscraper made its debut in Chicago, the new technology of steel frame and curtain wall construction was...

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Thomas Hodgens, who held the prestigious position of cashier at the State Savings Bank, was the first owner of this magnificent T-shaped...

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The bright white façade of this stunning church, prominently located beneath Big Butte, serves as a beacon proclaiming the heart of...

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Both men and women were admitted to this temperance organization, whose Montana Grand Lodge was organized in 1868.

Butte, MT

Fraternal organizations were an important facet of most mining towns and helped establish social and civic stability in early communities.

Butte, MT

Originally built by Ben Johnson in 1881 as a one-story hotel convenient to Montana Union Railway brakemen, firemen, engineers, and...

Butte, MT

Ornamental wooden brackets tucked under wide overhanging eaves, spacious dormers, exposed rafter tails, and a full-length front porch...

Butte, MT

A prominent place at the top of West Park Street emphasizes the importance of this 1916 Craftsman style residence.

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The exceptional preservation of this very elegant home can be attributed to the meticulous care of its few longterm owners.

Butte, MT

Elaborate and elegant on its eye-catching corner, this well-tended gabled and turreted Victorian-era home was built circa 1897 for mining...

Butte, MT

A myriad of Victorian-era details makes this splendid residence and its next-door neighbor, built by brothers John E. and A. J. Davis,...

Butte, MT

Armed with a degree in mining engineering, Canadian John Gillie arrived in Butte via stagecoach on April 6, 1880.

Butte, MT

Joseph Richards came to Butte in 1892 and established an undertaking parlor in the Stephens Block on West Park.

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The early 1890s brought an urgent need for more living and street-level commercial space.

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The Butte chapter of this fraternal organization was founded in 1902 and its present quarters constructed in 191718.

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Graceful arches and a lovely stone balustrade atop a stone cornice make this attractive Georgian Revival style building a perfect...

Butte, MT

The distinctive façade of this longtime Butte business conceals a building whose varied history extends back to the early 1880s.

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Turn-of-the-twentieth-century social critics viewed apartment living as “the most dangerous enemy American domesticity has had to encounter.

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In 1900, Sixth Ward alderman and assayer Albert G. Sienbenaler lived here, in what was then a one-story residence.

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An overabundance of copper on the world market all but halted building activity in Uptown Butte during the 1920s.

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Entrepreneur Matt Korn opened a tiny restaurant here in 1930 featuring a drive-in window, an idea he imported from southern California.

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The strength of Butte’s early financial community is well represented in this monumental steel, brick, and stone skyscraper completed in...

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Butte experienced its second mining boom in the teens before World War I. The Miner’s Bank is indicative of the healthy economy during...

Butte, MT

The Enabling Act of 1889 laid the foundation for the Montana School of Mines, providing for the first federal land grants for the...

Butte, MT

A prominent location on a corner lot allows full appreciation of this grand church, built in 1899.

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Turn-of-the-century critics called apartment living “a shortcut .

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Lively and diverse architectural styles distinguish this part of Butte, where grand residences built for prominent citizens intermingle...

Butte, MT

By the early 1880s the railroad linked Butte to the outside world and the town had established itself as a mining camp with a great future.

Butte, MT

A pair of two-story projecting bays, rounded balconies, and slender columns with ornate bracketing give this former hotel a delightful...

Butte, MT

Butte’s Chinese community settled on this block in the 1880s.

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Symons Department Store suffered two major setbacks before it moved into this longtime location in 1906.

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For almost one hundred years, members of a single family lived in this Queen Anne style cottage.

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A catastrophic fire in 1879 destroyed all evidence of Butte’s first commercial district.

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A myriad of rail-dependent businesses located in this area during the last decades of the nineteenth century, Hinds and Company,...

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The Scandinavian Brotherhood, organized at the Silver Bow County courthouse in 1889, endeavored to unify Scandinavians through...

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William A. O’Brien, architect of the Leonard Apartments and the Kelly and Hennessy mansions, designed this handsome building of brown...

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Single copper miners found ample accommodations at this fine boarding house, built in 1897 by the Scott family.

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John Scovil worked as a watchman for the Anaconda Company after he first arrived in Montana in 1884.

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The elegance of Renaissance Revival-inspired details conveys the extravagance of Butte’s first men’s social club, established in 1882.

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Prestigious architects Link and Haire designed this magnificent four-story courthouse in the Beaux Arts style.

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The Beaux Arts style building complex comprising the county courthouse and jail serves to firmly anchor Butte’s business district.

Butte, MT

Built as a hospital in 1902, this building illustrates the early development of care for the indigent in Montana and is the only such...

Butte, MT

Hands and forearms clasped in solidarity symbolize a movement of local and national significance during the first decades of the...

Butte, MT

An open balcony adds architectural interest to this brick apartment building, constructed circa 1912 by the proprietress of the adjacent...

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Five Sisters of Charity came to Butte from their motherhouse at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1881 to found St. James Hospital.

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A small stone building erected on this site in 1881 was one of Butte’s first churches.

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Bishop John Brondel founded St. Joseph’s Parish in 1902 to serve the varied ethnic groups settling on Butte’s south side.

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Bishop Brondel created Butte’s second Catholic parish, that of St. Lawrence O’Toole, in 1897.

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Square towers, a central circular window, and stained glass grace this Catholic church, which long represented the heart and soul of...

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Butte’s early Catholic community built its first parish church, a temporary wooden structure, west of this site in 1879.

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Noted architect William White designed this majestic, multi-gabled church of stone and brick, built at a cost of $10,000 in 1899.

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South Butte and the main business district up the hill grew toward each other as the streetcar line along Utah Street connected the two...

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Two stories and a daylight basement provided ample room for the many lodgers that lived comfortably in this spacious...

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A grand arched entryway topped by a wooden bracketed cornice and ornate iron rail welcomes visitors to the Napton.

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Radical building improvement on West Park Street during 1913 included the construction of this large retail and business block.

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Traveling by stagecoach from Quebec, Canadian-born Thomas Lavell arrived in Deer Lodge in 1874 to join his brother, Geoffrey.

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The emerging talent of architect H. M. Patterson is evident in this early example of his work, built circa 1890.

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Premier Montana architects J. G. Link and C. S. Haire designed this three-story annex in 1906 as an extension of the elegant Thornton...

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Swiss-born Antone Canonica pioneered the tin business in Butte, opening his first shop in 1898.

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Thousands of skilled miners from Cornwall, England, immigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as English tin and...

Butte, MT

The Butte Miner declared this “the largest apartment house between St. Paul and Spokane” when it opened in 1916.

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Shelley Tuttle began a Butte foundry and machine shop business in 1881.

Butte, MT

Excellence of design, thoughtful planning and careful owners have allowed this exceptional apartment building to survive the test of time.

Butte, MT

A unique blend of historical elements and details characterize the home of W. A. Clark Jr., built in conjunction with the adjacent...

Butte, MT

Self-made multimillionaire William Clark spent an estimated $260,000 on the construction of this splendid thirtytwo-room residence...

Butte, MT

Upscale neighborhoods often placed “restrictive covenants” to assure new buildings did not compromise the ambience.

Butte, MT

According to a prominent nineteenth-century architect, the Renaissance Revival style suggested “simplicity, grandeur, order and...

Butte, MT

A graceful rounded portico with Ionic columns and a central square bay with French doors highlight the perfect symmetry of this grand...

Butte, MT

Scattered development marked this Butte neighborhood during the 1890s as the population grew and the demand for all types of housing...