tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66808873892418644712024-03-13T21:49:10.564-06:00Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark DistrictA catalog of contributing historic resources in the Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark DistrictRichard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-7903394088033761842015-02-12T04:00:00.000-07:002017-11-01T15:32:31.634-06:00Lovers roost<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Address: 600 West Gold<br />
Built: 1909<br />
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By Richard I. Gibson<br />
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Lover’s Roost or Lover’s Knoll is the quaint name given in the old days to the little hill between West Gold and Platinum Streets, with a high point east of South Crystal Street. There’s only one house on this entire block. <br />
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The home at 600 West Gold was built in 1909 for Mrs. Harriet Armstrong, a widow. The property was first staked as a mining claim by William Farlin in 1875. Farlin had established the nearby Asteroid claim, Butte’s first underground silver mine, in 1874. He developed the Asteroid, later known as the Travona, using a $30,000 loan from W.A. Clark’s bank. When Farlin defaulted, Clark took over the Travona, one of his first profitable mines. Mrs. Armstrong, widow of James, bought the undeveloped block about 1908 from the Clark-Montana Realty Company and had the house built from local rock in 1909.<br />
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There is a great deal of rumor surrounding the home's occupants. It’s been suggested that Mrs. Armstrong built the isolated house away from others because she felt spiteful that Butte’s high society had rejected her because of an alleged 25-year illicit love affair with Alexander Johnston, a cashier with the W.A. Clark & Bro. Bank. He lived in the upscale 900 block of West Broadway in 1900, and at the Silver Bow Club in 1910.<br />
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Alternative tales included the idea that the woman resident in the house was jilted by a suitor and had gone mad. There is no good evidence for any of these rumors, and while the truth is likewise unknown, it’s probably pretty mundane. <br />
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Although the home has strong Craftsman-style elements, there is also no evidence that it was designed by Gustav Stickley himself. Other rumors suggested it was modeled after the wing of a Swiss chalet.<br />
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Mrs. Armstrong died of cancer about 1931, and the house was occupied by Alex Johnston from 1934-37. Yes, that Alex Johnston. Real evidence for the rumor? Or circumstantial? Maybe Johnston took advantage of his position with the bank to acquire the house. In any case, it stood vacant for a couple years, until about 1939 when the second long-time owners purchased the home. Dr. Robert G. Kroeze and his wife Cynthia lived here for at least 32 years. Dr. Kroeze’s office after about 1942 was in the Mayer Building (Park Street Liquors, Park and Montana) until his retirement in 1972. <br />
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The house, its chimneys, and the prominent retaining walls on Platinum and Crystal Streets are all constructed of “porphyry rock,” local granite. The house on Lovers Roost was the first of several to be made from this rock.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Never before has the waste from a mine been so artistically arranged.”—Anaconda <i>Standard</i>, November 30, 1919</span></blockquote>
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The <i>Standard </i>reported in 1919 that the stones used in the home’s construction were “really the outcroppings of a silver and manganese ledge of unusual length and richness,” assaying from 4 to 60 ounces of silver per ton and 12 to 18% manganese. Some of the rock richest in silver was reportedly from the ledge on the 200-foot level of the Travona. <br />
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William Farlin was among the few prospectors who stayed in Butte in the late 1860s and early 1870s, when the population dwindled to a few dozen as the easy-to-find gold played out. He eventually took samples to Salt Lake City where they assayed high in silver, and on his return to Butte he staked 13 claims on January 1, 1875, including the Travona (initially named the Asteroid). Farlin's discovery proved to be the rejuvenation of Butte – this time, for silver.<br />
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Image above from Stacy Leipheimer, who adds, "<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ed and Myrna Leipheimer bought the house in 1979 and that is when they had to move the cars out. Dr. Kroese was spending time at his home in Mexico when he came home and found they had lowered Platinum Street."</span></span><br />
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Resources: Architectural Inventory; Anaconda <i>Standard</i>, Nov. 30, 1919; May 16, 1909; <i>Popular Mechanics</i>, April 1917; Sanborn Maps; City Directories; 1884 Bird’s-Eye View.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com6600 West Gold Street, Butte, MT 59701, USA46.007271 -112.54446620.485236500000003 -153.85306 71.5293055 -71.235872tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-23423515377708845692014-11-25T16:31:00.000-07:002014-11-25T16:38:25.853-07:0022 East Quartz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built c. 1915<br />
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In 1915, James E. Murphy owned this building. It was built by Nelson & Pederson to be used as a garage. The cost of the original construction was $13,500. It had a concrete first floor and hollow tile second, steam heat, electric lights and a wood truss roof.<br />
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In 1916 it was Perham & Riley's Garage with a capacity of 44 cars. From 1918 through 1927, it was known as the Montana Cadillac Company. In 1928, the name changed to the Quartz Street Garage. From 1929 through 1934, it was known as the Alemite Quartz Street Garage, and was managed by the Bartsch Brothers.<br />
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In 1942, William H. and Jack H. Harkins opened the Harkins Bottling Company. The business included making and bottling soda pop; distributing the soda and numerous snacks to businesses around the Butte area. The business was truly a family-run operation as the brothers’ wives took turns working in the office. Harkins Wholesale and Bottling Company existed until the early 1980s.<br />
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The lot where this building stands held a small frame lodging house ("furnished rooms" - but it was so small, there couldn't have been many rooms) from before 1884 until the middle 1890s. It appears that this was a vacant lot for close to 20 years until the garage was constructed. </div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-38934668747995289682014-10-26T09:55:00.000-06:002014-10-31T21:01:20.594-06:00Miner’s Savings Bank & Trust Co. Building<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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49-55 West Park Street<br />
Built: 1913<br />
Architect: John Shackleton<br />
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Butte experienced its second mining boom in the teens before and during World War I. The Miner’s Bank is indicative of the healthy economy during these years when copper rose to a high of twenty cents a pound. The Miners Bank and Trust Company was established in 1907, with David J. Charles the first president. David Charles also owned a men’s furnishings store at 905 E. Front Street, and he lived with his wife Lallie at 701 E. Galena. The second bank president, beginning in February 1931, was A.J. Lochrie, husband of artist <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/05/elizabeth-lochrie.html">Elizabeth Lochrie</a>. In 1935, when the state-chartered bank had deposits of $800,000, it was chartered as Miners National Bank of Butte, the second national bank in Butte at that time, but the third national bank in Butte history (see the comment below). <br />
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The Miners Bank was initially quartered in the <a href="http://www.buttecpr.org/properties/">Thomas Block</a> at 37-47 West Park Street. <br />
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On September 1, 1912, fire claimed the original Thomas Block, which housed the Miner’s Savings Bank. Depositors suffered no losses; the bank announced “the vault is standing. The safe is secure and will be opened as soon as it has cooled sufficiently.” The bank immediately planned to build its own building, next door to the Thomas Block, which was also rebuilt. John Shackleton designed and constructed the current building, completed in 1913. A flat roof, decorative brickwork, large display widows flanking three recessed entries, and rows of windows above the street level reflect the high demand for office and living space. A row of concrete “M”s uniquely embellishes the space between the first and second floors. <br />
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The Bank’s long-time janitor, <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2014/02/robert-c-logan.html"><b>Robert Logan</b></a>, was a former slave who was internationally known as a bass singer. <br />
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The bank occupied a ground floor office until the 1960s; the space was occupied by the Butte Uptown Post Office for years in the 1960s-70s. Upstairs, Lawrence and Katherine Graves were the longtime proprietors of the Miner’s Bank Block Furnished Rooms. In 1930, among their thirty-five lodgers were an architect, an actress, a teacher, miners, and salesmen. Also lodged under the same roof were government prohibition agent Carrol Olson and declared bootlegger Henry Allexis.<br />
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New owners in 2014 have established a Butte souvenir and memento company, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ButteStuff">Buttestuff</a>, in the western part of the building, and the eastern portion, which originally housed the bank, is the location for the <a href="http://buttelaborhistory.blogspot.com/">Butte Labor History Center</a> that will open in 2015. <br />
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Text modified from Historic Plaque by Montana Historical Society. Additional resources: Montana <i>Standard</i>, May 1. 1935; Anaconda <i>Standard</i>, Sept. 2, 1912. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-24978002879480507172014-01-19T10:44:00.000-07:002014-01-19T10:44:14.235-07:00803 West Granite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Prominently situated on a corner lot, this Queen Anne style residence is a neighborhood showpiece. Band leader Sam Treloar had the brick-veneered house constructed in 1901, possibly as an investment property. The Cornish bandmaster is best known as the leader of the Butte Mines Band, which he founded under a different name in 1887 and led for over fifty years. It was one of the United States’ most celebrated industrial bands, and its members, all miners, won first place in competitions across the West. <br />
<br />The two-story residence features an octagonal turret with wide overhanging eaves and a fixed stained glass window, an inviting front porch with double Tuscan column porch supports, and a projecting bay on the east façade. Banker Rupert Nuckolls lived here from 1908 through 1912 with his wife Georgia, their three children, and (after their eldest daughter married), their son-in-law and granddaughter. Georgia Nuckolls was an active clubwoman. Starting in the 1890s, the woman’s club movement provided its members social and intellectual opportunities (Nuckolls, for example was active in the Westside Shakespeare Club) as well as advocating for political reform.<br />
<br />Text from Historic Plaque by Montana Historical Society. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-32726567356646347872014-01-19T10:42:00.001-07:002014-01-19T10:42:03.963-07:00834 West Quartz<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Built: 1897<br /><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=834+W+Quartz+St,+Butte,+MT&hl=en&ll=46.014392,-112.548741&spn=0.003003,0.005541&sll=46.014072,-112.547722&sspn=0.006005,0.011083&oq=834+w+qu&t=h&hnear=834+W+Quartz+St,+Butte,+Montana+59701&z=18"><b>Map </b></a><br />
<br />As its population tripled in the 1890s, Butte began its transformation from a mining camp to a small city. The percentage of married men grew by 10 percent, and local builders worked busily to fulfill the increasing demand for single-family homes. Carpenter John Shackleton constructed several, almost identical cross-gable residences, including two on the 800 block of Broadway and one on this lot. <br /><br />
Built in 1897, the two-story, wood-frame residence was home to Edward and Alice Holden in 1900. Edward worked as telegraph editor for the Butte Miner, a daily newspaper. Ella Heuser and her husband Edward, a drugstore owner, purchased the residence circa 1908, and were likely responsible for building the one-story rear addition. By 1920, the home belonged to <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Pincus">Jacob and Cora Pincus</a>. Jacob had a varied career as a jeweler, watchmaker, and tobacco merchant. While he was "industrious," "trustworthy," and one of the city's "most conservative and substantial" businessmen by his own account, others remembered him as a "black sheep… [who] never did anything right." The Pincuses lived here until Jacob's death in 1942.<br />
<br />Text from Historic Plaque by Montana Historical Society. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-52625262723713821502014-01-19T08:33:00.002-07:002014-01-19T08:33:57.942-07:00815 West Granite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Built: 1897<br /><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=815+West+Granite,+Butte,+MT&hl=en&ll=46.014072,-112.548113&spn=0.001453,0.002771&hnear=815+W+Granite+St,+Butte,+Montana+59701&gl=us&t=h&z=19"><b>Map </b></a><br />
<br />Butte boomed as copper production doubled in the 1890s. The city issued 1,684 building permits between 1897 and 1898 as carpenters worked furiously to keep up with the demand for housing. The availability of mass-produced decoration allowed builders to embellish residences, and houses like this one showcased the Queen Anne style’s complicated textures and angles. Here the steeply pitched roof, cutaway front bay, square turret, fish-scale shingles, stained glass, and elaborate gable ornament all reflect the popular style.<br />
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Added between 1900 and 1916, the enclosed porch mirrors a later, simpler aesthetic. The hairpin fence, however, is likely original. Symbolically separating the 1897 residence from the street, the fence signals the Victorian notion that a dwelling should be a sanctuary from the larger world. In 1900, the residence became home—and perhaps sanctuary—to Cyrenus and Martha Smith. Cyrenus was a principal in the Owsley Realty Company and the Phoenix Electric Company. Victorian ideals aside, the house clearly suited them; the couple lived here until their deaths, his in 1938 and hers in 1955.<br />
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Text from Historic Plaque by Montana Historical Society. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-43986214831399506492014-01-18T12:44:00.001-07:002014-01-22T08:33:49.676-07:00833 W. Quartz (Soroptimist House)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: c. 1895<br />
Architect: H.M. Patterson<br />
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Butte architect H. M. Patterson designed this brick home for attorney John Colter in the 1890s. Semicircular windows in the gables, stone lintels, a prominent portico supported by Tuscan columns, and an inviting front porch ornament the residence. Henry Muntzer, founder of the Butte Brewery, purchased the property in 1901 for his wife Mary and their eight children. Family members lived here into the 1940s, adding the east-side addition before 1916.<br />
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Butte’s Soroptimist Club purchased the residence in 1947 for $5,500. The charitable women’s organization campaigned tirelessly for funds to transform the house into a temporary “receiving home for dependent, neglected, abused, or abandoned children.” With volunteer help from Butte union members, the Soroptimists added four new rooms to the rear of the building, repaired the porches, updated the wiring, installed fire escapes, added a third bathroom, carpeted the floors, and built a playground. In its first ten years of operation, the home cared for over 1,700 children. After the Soroptimists moved in 1970, the residence fell into disrepair. It was rescued by Steve and Janet Hadnagy, who spent years restoring it to a single-family home.<br />
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Text from Historic Plaque by Montana Historical Society (Martha Kohl). Photo by Richard I. Gibson (<a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/03/anselmo-mine-yard.html">Anselmo </a>mine in right background). For more information about the Soroptimist House, see <i>Motherlode</i>, by Janet L. Finn and Ellen Crain (2005). </div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-60265593509513418222013-12-04T09:23:00.002-07:002013-12-04T16:02:46.862-07:00Apex Hotel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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429 West Park Street<br />
Built: 1918<br />
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Built by William Robertson for the Tait brothers, this residential hotel is typical of many erected during Butte's population explosion in the 1910s. John Tait was a dentist in 1910, in partnership with A.H. Cole with offices at 48 W. Park. John’s brother George was a clerk for the Anaconda Company, boarding at 844 W. Silver. By 1914 the Taits were evidently successful enough to branch into real estate, hiring William Robertson to erect the Tait Hotel on East Broadway that year; John lived at the Tait Hotel in 1915-17. In 1918 John's office was on the sixth floor of the Phoenix Building and George was a teller at Miners Savings Bank, and both lived at the Apex once it was completed. In 1928, George was out of the picture, John had moved his office to room 103 in the Pennsylvania Block, four blocks east of the Apex Hotel, and his wife Hattie managed the Apex.<br />
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The Tait family home in the 1890s, where I believe John and George lived as children, was at 13 West Copper, next door to a Chinese Laundry. It is a vacant lot today. Their father Robert was a contractor and a carpenter.<br />
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In 1923 the five-year-old hotel's residents included Mollie Allen, high school teacher; Juanita Daniels, clerk at the Leggat Hotel; J.J. Delphin, manager at the Ground Gripper Shoe Store at 112 W. Park; Kathryn Dowd, bookkeeper at the C.O.D. Laundry; and H.R. Doyle, a concrete loader.<br />
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So far as I can tell, Dr. John Tait was only directly associated with the Tait Hotel on Broadway Street until 1918 when the Apex was built. Beginning in 1917, he is no longer listed as the proprietor of the Tait Hotel, which was run by Mrs. Niconor Swanson.<br />
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Resources: Architectural inventories; Butte <i>Miner</i>, March 24, 1918 (historic photo); city directories; Sanborn maps. Modern photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-56358100199146116392013-11-24T19:44:00.000-07:002014-10-09T09:40:14.024-06:00The Five-Mile House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By Richard I. Gibson<br />
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5100 Harrison Avenue<br />
Built: c. 1905<br />
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The highway out of Butte to the east went south, along what is now Harrison Avenue and ultimately over Pipestone Pass to Whitehall. The route was marked by inns – Mile Houses – at least at 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, and 18 miles from the heart of uptown Butte, the last one about five miles east of the Continental Divide. The two most famous survivors are the Nine Mile, in Thompson Park, and the Five Mile, at 5100 Harrison.<br />
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An inn, with a café and saloon, was probably at this location by the late 1880s and certainly by the early 1890s. The property was owned in the mid-1890s by ticket broker, cigar wholesaler, and later real estate tycoon <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-iona-cafe-and-pincus-building.html">Adolph Pincus</a>. In 1896, all the personal property in the place, owned by one Ida Au Claire, was offered in security to Pincus for a loan of $855, which he carried at 2½% interest per month. The property included 8 horses, three wagons, two pair of bobsleds, and 150 cords of wood. <br />
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The inn on this site in the earliest 1900s was a resort and venue for prize fights “which could not be pulled off in Butte.” “Kid Foley” and “Kid Opie” both boxed there in lightweight bouts in 1901, and the place was well known as a venue for large private parties. Because of the proximity to the cemeteries out Harrison Avenue, it was also a frequent stopping-place for after-burial gatherings. <br />
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The original hostelry burned to the ground November 13, 1902. A kitchen fire spread, and the proprietor’s wife (Mrs. Joseph Ethier) reportedly suffered serious burns and injuries when she jumped from a second-floor window. The building was a total loss, estimated at $3,000. <br />
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Frank Cash (1858-1931) was an Austrian immigrant by way of New York. He came to the U.S. about 1886 and was in Butte by 1891, and after a short stint as a miner he began to work as a saloonkeeper. In 1898 Mr. Cash lived in Meaderville working as a laborer, but by 1900 he was operating a saloon at his residence at 21 Lincoln in Meaderville. The next year he had a new saloon at 1260 Talbot, the continuation of Mercury Street. His saloon was at Talbot and Watson, with the Monitor Mine in the back yard and the massive Braund Boarding House across the street (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LostButte"><i>Lost Butte</i></a>, p. 34-35). The <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Pennsylvania%20mine">Pennsylvania Mine</a> was just a few blocks straight north. His saloon, with a restaurant in the rear, came to be called the Cash House. This area is all in the Berkeley Pit or eradicated by its margin today.<br />
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About 1905 Frank Cash moved out Harrison Avenue to a house and saloon across from the present Five Mile House, which was built probably by 1904 or 1905. In 1906, family lore says the flip of a silver dollar allowed him to buy the Five Mile (if it had gone the other way, the owner of the Five Mile would have bought him out), and the family had many decades of connection to the place thereafter. In addition to managing the Five Mile House, Frank was the regional distributor for the Wurlitzer Music Company in Butte; one transaction in 1914 grossed $1,550 in a sale of a violin, flute, and piano. <br />
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Frank left Butte when prohibition started in 1919, moving to the Bitterroot Valley where he established a famous $100,000 ranch on 1,000 acres along Skalkaho Creek where he raised registered shorthorn cattle. <br />
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After Frank left Butte, his daughter Louise Kall managed the Five Mile even after divorcing her husband Martin Kall, and her daughter (Louise) and granddaughter (Donna Anderson) ran the place well into the 2000s. <br />
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Resources: excellent basic research and family history by Carl Jones (great-great grandson of Frank Cash), Butte High School, Ann Cote Smith Essay Contest, 2003; Butte Archives MC494-Box 1-FF 006 including Pincus chattel mortgage; Archives VF 0875.2; Anaconda <i>Standard </i>Nov. 13, 1902; Anaconda <i>Standard </i>July 4, 1920 (Frank Cash photo); Anaconda <i>Standard </i>Feb. 23, 1931; The 1919 Blue Book road guide for travelers; Sanborn maps; city directories. Building photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-907918910963385912013-11-24T12:21:00.001-07:002013-11-24T19:30:59.706-07:00Schumacher Building (25 S. Montana)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1919<br />
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In 1919 H.J. Schumacher had this 36x32-foot business block constructed as a showroom and garage for the Buick Motor Company. It replaced two 2-story duplexes on Montana Street and a single-story home on Galena. Arnold & Van House architects designed the building and the construction contractors were Kroffganz & Frank. The roof was erected by Carlson & Manuell, contractors noted for their heavy girder work at the <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/11/uptown-ymca.html">Park Street YMCA</a> and elsewhere. The building featured a second-story dance hall which was promoted as the largest in the state, accommodating 400 people on the dance floor, and including a gallery of tiered seats, cloak rooms, and restrooms for the patrons. The hardwood flooring in the dance hall displays the fact that the building is not quite square, like many uptown Butte buildings where streets don’t quite follow property lines that are sometimes along old mining claim boundaries. The dance floor is supported by huge metal turnbuckles that are exposed in the ceiling of the ground floor. <br />
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Over time the building saw various uses. In 1928, Schumacher had a meat store across the street (listed as 20 S. Montana, but there is no such address; his meat market was at 222 East Park in 1910, when he lived with his wife Jennie at 736 S. Wyoming) and lived in the upstairs apartment here (21 S. Montana) and managed the Rosemont Pavilion, as the dance hall was called. The building was still an auto sales and service center in the 1950s, with a wholesale tire dealership on the second floor. More recently the block was home to the Pioneer Club (which owned the building from the 1940s until 2010), City Vac and Sew, and Schulte’s Glass. In 2011 John and Courtney McKee renovated the building and in early 2012 opened <a href="http://headframespirits.com/">Headframe Spirits</a>, a boutique distillery, whose products bear names of Butte mines. Destroying Angel whiskey reflects the fact that the building stands on the western limit of the <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/02/destroying-angel.html">interesting Destroying Angel claim</a>. The dance hall upstairs continues to be used for events. <br />
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Resources: Architectural inventory; Sanborn maps; city directories; Anaconda <i>Standard</i>, Nov 2, 1919. Modern photo by Richard I. Gibson. Text modified from write-up by Gibson in Butte CPR 2011 Dust-to-Dazzle tour guide.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-70806716654908030812013-11-24T12:16:00.002-07:002014-09-11T21:39:16.496-06:00Grand Hotel (Wheeler Block)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By Richard I. Gibson<br />
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124 W. Broadway<br />
Built: 1916-17<br />
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The building known as the Grand Hotel began as a three-story labor temple in 1915-16, intended to be a meeting place for plumbers and other unions. To cover debts, the unions sold it to Butte lawyer and U.S. District Attorney (later U.S. Senator from Montana) <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/10/burton-k-wheeler-house.html">Burton K. Wheeler</a>, who added two stories by the time it was finished in 1917. <br />
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The façade is marked by terra cotta tiles and cornice, dressed stone columns, and decorative prism glass bricks in the transom level and in the central stair windows. Others managed the Grand Hotel for Wheeler for about 15 years until he sold it, but it continued as a hotel until 1989. A dance school conducted classes here in the early 1940s.<br />
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A promoter bought the Grand in 1989 and began to develop it as a boxing training center, with lodgings on the upper floors. In the summer of 1991 fireworks started a fire that was quickly controlled, but the following January a fire consumed most of the fifth floor and destroyed the roof. The building stood empty for about three years and reverted to the city-county of Butte-Silver Bow for unpaid taxes, and a new roof was installed. Various owners had it until 2011 when Chuck and Lyza Schnabel purchased the building and renovated the basement for the <a href="http://www.quarrybrewing.net/">Quarry Brewery</a> and tap room, which opened on Sept. 29, 2011. The ground floor was renovated in 2012-13. Plans for the upper floors include bed and breakfast, condos, and private usage. <br />
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<i>Note: the photo above is from 2011 before three new store fronts were renovated on the ground floor. </i><br />
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Resources: Architectural inventory; Sanborn maps; <i>Historic Uptown Butte</i>, by John DeHaas, Jr. (1977). Photo by Richard I. Gibson. Text modified from write-up by Gibson in Butte CPR 2012 Dust-to-Dazzle tour guide.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-7696985464652788162013-11-22T08:52:00.000-07:002014-12-01T13:32:15.041-07:00Pekin Noodle Parlor (117 S Main Street)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1909<br />
Architect: George DeSnell<br />
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<a href="http://ellenbaumler.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-pekin-noodle-parlor-not-brothel.html"><b>Ellen Baumler's blog post</b></a>: "Not a brothel"<br />
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Butte’s Chinese community settled on this block in the 1880s. Dwellings, club rooms, laundries, restaurants, and stores selling Chinese goods crowded its thoroughfares and alleyways. This business block is a lone survivor displaying Asian roots. G. E. DeSnell designed the building on speculation for Butte attorney F. T. McBride. Upon completion in 1909, Hum Yow moved his Mercury Street noodle parlor to the second floor and soon owned the property. Upstairs noodle parlors were common in urban Chinese communities and the Pekin’s central stair and sign long beckoned customers. <br />
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Close proximity to Butte’s once teeming red light district has fueled local legends about the Pekin’s curtained booths. However, these booths were a fixture in Asian restaurants and simply offered diners privacy. The two ground-floor storefronts housed Hum Yow’s Chinese Goods and Silks and G. P. Meinhart’s sign painting business. Hum Yow and his wife Bessie Wong—both California-born first-generation Chinese—raised three children in the rear living quarters. The Hums retired to California in 1952 and several more generations of the family have maintained this landmark business. Ding Tam (Danny Wong) and his son Jerry Tam celebrated the centennial of the family’s connection to the Pekin in 2011. <a href="http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/butte-s-pekin-noodle-parlor-celebrating-th-birthday-in-style/article_6e22298a-a539-11e0-a3b6-001cc4c002e0.html">News story</a> • <a href="http://www.butteamerica.com/pekin.htm">Menu</a><br />
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Resources: Historic plaque by Montana Historical Society. Top photo by Richard I. Gibson; black-and-while photo, 1979, by Jet Lowe, HABS/HAER (Library of Congress, public domain).</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-72218242461334909002013-11-19T12:01:00.000-07:002013-11-27T09:33:51.830-07:00116 West Park (Original City Hall)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1884<br />
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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. One of the few standing structures from the formative era is this masonry, two-story landmark (center of photo above; Jail House Coffee Shop). Under construction in 1884, it housed the first official city administrative offices. Included among these were the jail and a courtroom. Although the height of the second-story windows has been reduced, the upper portion of the building appears as it did in the 1880s. Ornate details along the parapet of angled and corbelled brick reveal the excellence of Butte’s early brick masons. After 1890 city offices moved, and the façade was modified to accommodate commercial space. The original stairway at the east end remains intact.<br />
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Although this was the first city hall, the jail here was the second city jail. The pre-1884 jail was <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/01/old-jail-on-jackson-street-1884.html"><b>located on Jackson Street</b></a>, between Park and Galena. It was the far west edge of town at the time. <br />
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Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-57975082750233759452013-11-19T10:10:00.002-07:002013-11-25T18:20:43.228-07:00Index to place-based posts on Butte History blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is the first of several posts intended to serve as an index to place-based posts on the Butte History blog. Rather than duplicate them here, they are linked below and indexed with a label "Butte History blog posts."<br />
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<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-was-there-69-71-west-broadway.html">Butte Miner Building</a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/11/greeley-school.html">Greeley School</a>
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<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-southern-hotel.html">41-43 E. Broadway (Southern Hotel vaulted sidewalks)</a> <br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/08/sacred-heart.html">Sacred Heart (444 E. Park) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/05/elizabeth-lochrie.html">Elizabeth Lochrie House (Granite at Emmett) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-first-house-in-butte.html">First House in Butte (E. Quartz) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/05/welcome-all-to-hearth-and-hall.html">Basin Creek Reservoir Caretaker’s House </a> <br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-was-there-park-and-main.html">Owsley Block (Park and Main) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/04/buttes-second-deadliest-mine-disaster.html">Pennsylvania Mine disaster</a> <br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/03/polygamy-alley.html">Polygamy Alley (between Granite and Broadway)</a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/03/mrs-e-creighton-largey-1884-1939.html">Patrick Largey House (403 W. Broadway) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-coughlins-of-granite-street.html">223 E. Granite (Julia Coughlin)</a> <br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-board-of-trade-saloon.html">Board of Trade (16 E. Park) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-98-year-run.html">Richards & Rochelle (Main Street) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/gertie-babyseller-where-she-lived-and.html">Gertie the Babyseller (Hamilton Street)</a> <br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-january-15-1895-explosions.html">Warehouse Explosions (Jan. 15, 1895) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-rothschild-connection.html">Bluebird Mine & Mill (Burlington) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-first-house-in-south-butte.html">First House in South Butte (900 block S. Wyoming) </a><br />
<a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/12/walkerville-1884.html">Walkerville 1884</a> </div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-85654448304387489322013-11-19T09:14:00.002-07:002013-11-19T09:18:47.691-07:00121-127 W. Broadway<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By Richard I. Gibson<br />
Built: 1916<br />
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This building originally contained three store fronts on the ground floor and five apartments upstairs. The Butte <i>Miner </i>newspaper used this building (mostly the middle office, 125 W. Broadway) as its primary corporate office, serving the larger, 5-story Miner Building to the east on Broadway, where editorial offices and presses were housed. The <i>Miner </i>had been at this location since 1902, but the 1902 structure here was replaced by this building in 1916. After W.A. Clark died in 1925, his son, W.A. Clark, Jr., fought the Anaconda Company and his own relatives for three years over ownership of the Butte <i>Miner</i> and other Clark assets. But by August 1928 he lost that struggle, and the Anaconda <i>Standard </i>took control of the Butte <i>Miner</i>. The new combined newspaper became the Montana <i>Standard</i>.<br />
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125 W. Broadway became home to the Goodyear Shoe Company, while 121 W. Broadway (right side in photo above) held Mother’s Way Bakeshop for many years in the 1920s and 1930s. The western storefront, 127, was a hairdressing salon. Later tenants included S. J. Perry’s first Uptown office in 1939 and the Christian Science Reading Room from about 1954 to 1981. An adult bookstore occupied the building from 1982 to 2012. The second level apartments (123 W. Broadway) contain interesting Craftsman-style columns in the main rooms, and to save space, beds roll out from under closets and bathrooms. <br />
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New owners as of 2012 have renovated the building, returning the ground floor to three store fronts and revitalizing the upstairs apartments. The stone front seen in the photo above dates to about the 1980s.<br />
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Resources: Architectural inventory, 1928 newspapers, Sanborn maps, city directories. Note that city directories assign various offices of Clark businesses (Timber Butte Mill, Elm Orlu Mining, Street Railway, and others) to this address, but they were actually in the Miner Building a half block east. The story of Montana's newspapers and their relationship to the Anaconda Company is told in Dennis Swibold's <i>Copper Chorus</i> (Montana Historical Society Press, 2006). Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-313694632242263822013-11-18T17:43:00.002-07:002013-11-19T08:30:39.605-07:00220-224 N. Main (Chambers Block, Anaconda Company Pay Office)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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By Linda Albright<br />
Built: pre-1884<br />
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In 1884-85 the building was occupied by Hoge Brownlee & Company Bank in the northwest corner of the first floor; the rest of the first floor contained W. R. Kenyon & Company Hardware & Mining Machinery. It had a stone basement with its own boiler in the southeast corner of the basement. The building was owned by Marcus Daly in the mid-1880s and later by Donahue & Moyer; in 1900, the Daly Bank & Trust Company owned and occupied the building. John D. Ryan was bank president and John R. Toole served as vice president. This is the location where Ryan, later president of the Anaconda Company as well as the Montana Power Company (see <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/10/105-north-excelsior-hodgens-ryan-home.html"><b>this link to his house</b></a>) became acquainted with Marcus Daly. <br />
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By 1908, this block was owned by and housed the Anaconda Copper Mining Company’s pay office. Also known as the Mines Office (first floor rear), it also contained the ACM purchasing department on the second floor. In later years, the telephone switchboard and operators were located on the second floor at the rear of the building.<br />
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By the 1950s, the ACM still used this building for offices, but the pay office had moved around the corner to the adjacent building to the east (18 E. Quartz St., at left in photo at top). <br />
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During the labor troubles of the 1910s, the pay office was dynamited Sunday, July 6, 1919. “Little damage was done,” according to the <i>Engineering & Mining Journal</i>, but the New York <i>Times </i>reported “an iron grating was blown against a building across the street, narrowly missing a street car heavily loaded with miners. The damage is estimated at $5,000.” Windows were broken in 6 nearby stores.<br />
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Sources: Architectural inventory; <i>Engineering & Mining Journal</i>, Vol. 108, no. 2; New York <i>Times </i>July 6, 1919; Sanborn maps. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-31153636069841034752013-11-18T16:17:00.001-07:002013-11-19T08:33:01.022-07:00304 North Main Street (Tuttle Building)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1892<br />
Builder: J.C. Martin<br />
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Shelley Tuttle began a Butte foundry and machine shop business in 1881. By 1890, the expanded Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply Company had a plant in Anaconda and employed twelve machinists, blacksmiths, molders, and pattern makers. Tuttle supplied parts and machinery for local mining operations, including the immense smelter works of Marcus Daly, who was a major stockholder in Tuttle’s company. In 1892, Tuttle built this business block as an outlet for his foundry products and to house an inventory of hardware goods. Tuttle was also agent for Ingersoll-Sargeant drills, Knowles steam pumps, and a wire rope company. <br />
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Butte builder J. C. Martin designed the three-story brick building with graceful brick arches and rusticated stone trim. Besides mining supplies and machinery, Tuttle’s foundry manufactured cast-iron storefronts and architectural ornamentation like the metal brackets that support the cornice displayed here. He also sold home furnishings and Garland stoves. Daly bought out the company in 1896 and changed its name to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company Hardware Department. Daly Bank and Trust owed the building for a time in the early 1900s. The descendent of Tuttle’s foundry still operates in Anaconda today.<br />
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By the 1940s, this was the General Office of the Anaconda Company, housing such offices as the Purchasing Department, Coal Sales, Hardware Dept., Auditing, Insurance, War Bonds and Payroll processing, the Duplicating Department, and Kenwood Realty, a division of the company that managed its rentals and collected mortgage payments on properties sold by the Company. In 1944, the Anaconda Company leased equipment from the International Business Machine (IBM) Co. at a cost of more than $5,000 a month, enabling them to use more than 10,000,000 “tabulating cards” that could produce paychecks at a rate of 18 per minute in this building, for distribution at the <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/11/220-224-n-main-chambers-block-anaconda.html">Mines Office (Pay Office)</a> across the street to the south. The cards detailed 80 types of employee pay classifications and 700 contract pay rates. <br />
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The Montana Power Co. occupied the building in the 1970s.<br />
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Resources: Historic plaque by Montana Historical Society; architectural inventory; <i>Copper Commando</i>, vol. 2, no. 26, August 18, 1944: Digital Commons at Montana Tech. Historic photos probably by <i>Copper Commando</i> chief photographer Robert I. Nesmith; modern photo by Richard I. Gibson. Text from historic plaque with additions by Linda Albright and Richard Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-31975546114449675852013-11-18T08:21:00.001-07:002013-11-18T08:21:27.989-07:00Scott Block (15 W. Copper)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Builder: J.R. McGlauflin<br /><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=15+W+Copper+St,+Butte,+MT&hl=en&ll=46.015964,-112.536693&spn=0.005931,0.010589&sll=46.004373,-112.502593&sspn=0.759296,1.355438&oq=15+w+copper&t=h&hnear=15+W+Copper+St,+Butte,+Montana+59701&z=17"><b>Map </b></a><br />
<br />Single copper miners found ample accommodations at this fine boarding house, built in 1897 by J. R. McGlauflin for Mrs. Bridget Scott at a construction cost of $5,000. The handsome brick building with its full-height opposing bays, transomed windows, bracketed wood cornice, and central name plate illustrates an urban solution to a mining camp problem: adequate and ample housing for single men. In 1910, boardinghouse keeper Mrs. Mary Long had thirteen lodgers, and all but one (a postal clerk) worked in the copper mining industry. Rented rooms were on the second and third floors. Mrs. Long had her own rooms on the ground floor, where she prepared meals and served her boarders.<br />
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Extensive rehabilitation between 1991 and 1994 included a new metal roof like the original and restoration of interior transoms and rosette-trimmed woodwork. During these efforts, owners found a Prohibition Era treasure: concealed under the furnace room floor were two intact whiskey barrels.<br /><br />
Resource: Historic plaque by Montana Historical Society, with additions by Linda Albright. Photo by Linda Albright.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-41991816535771598942013-11-13T20:52:00.000-07:002013-11-13T21:22:30.179-07:00Socialist Hall (1957 Harrison Avenue)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1916<br />
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Hands and forearms clasped in solidarity symbolize a movement of local and national significance during the first decades of the twentieth century. One of the few socialist meeting halls remaining in the United States, the building is a monument to a turbulent era of labor unrest and political action. Socialists in Montana played an active role in forcing mainstream politicians to consider labor reforms. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company dominated Montana politics, much of the economy, and nearly everything in Butte, personifying all the negative aspects of the capitalist system. Butte, known as the “Gibraltar of Unionism” with its huge working class, was thus central to the socialist movement. <br />
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Members constructed this hall in 1916. It was the heart of socialist activity in Montana, housing the Socialist Party of Montana, the Butte Local, and the Butte Socialist Publishing Company. World War I hysteria prompted Montana to enact the nation’s most stringent measures to suppress radicalism and dissent. The Socialist Party suffered severely. In 1920, it deeded the building to the Bulletin Publishing Company, whose <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/10/st-pauls-methodist-episcopal-church.html"><i>Butte Bulletin</i></a>, edited by electrician and radical unionist W. F. Dunne, carried on the party’s principles by supporting the Non-Partisan League. Dunne lost the building to taxes in 1924 and the Bulletin ceased publication. Socialist Hall, with its rallying inscription “Workers of the World Unite,” is a poignant reminder of the efforts to create a “cooperative commonwealth” and the solidarity engendered by the Socialist Party of Montana.<br />
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Although the building is outside the boundary of the Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark District, it is officially a part of it, and it is also an independently listed National Register property, one of only 15 in Silver Bow County. Fran Johnson’s sport shop has occupied the building for many years.<br />
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Source: Modified slightly from historical plaque by Montana Historical Society. Photos by Richard I. Gibson (also found on Wikipedia). </div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-20451232201800375372013-11-13T15:57:00.000-07:002016-12-06T14:39:49.387-07:00Bennett Block #1 and #2 (Brinck's and Deluxe)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1906; 1888<br />
Status: Demolished Feb.-March 2014<br />
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The intersection of <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/02/transportation-hub-1884.html"><b>Utah and Front Streets</b></a> in the 1880s and early 1890s was the heart of <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-first-house-in-south-butte.html"><b>South Butte</b></a>, a separate town with its own address scheme and population count until the mid-1890s. Front Street was the embarkation point for many travelers, with the Montana Central Railroad just south of the warehouses on the south side of the street. In 1906, the Northern Pacific Depot was completed across the street from these two buildings, and still stands. The area was platted in 1881 as the Noyes & Upton Railroad Addition.<br />
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In late 1888 Bennett Block #1 (at right in photo at top) was constructed. Willard Bennett lived in Deer Lodge but was owner of the building and Vice President of Bennett Brothers Co., a dealer in agricultural implements, carriages, wagons, and produce. In addition to the store and office here, they had a large warehouse across Front Street as well as a store at 124-128 East Park in another “Bennett Block,” also known as the Willard House (lodgings) and (on the Arizona Street side) the Nelson Block. A saloon of various names occupied part of 128 E. Park for many years—from about 1901-1910 it was called The Council. The southwest corner of Park and Arizona is mostly a vacant lot today, with a small vacant spa store.<br />
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Bennett Block #1 in 1890 contained a general store, a cigar and stationery store, and the South Butte Post Office. <br />
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In 1890, a two-story building to the west was completed. It held a gambling hall and saloon. In 1906, as reflected in the year emblazoned on the parapet, a new building was erected there, Bennett Block #2 (left in photo at top). By 1908, the two Bennett buildings together comprised the Bennett Hotel, with “transients solicited” to enjoy electric lights, steam heat, stationary basins, and baths. The ground floor continued to serve as retail space, including a drug store and a restaurant. <br />
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The ghost sign on the back (north side) of Bennett Block #1 reflects the 1920s grocery store that was in the easternmost retail space. The Stilwell Grocery was owned and operated by Elias (President) and Roy (Vice President) Stilwell. They lived with their wives Olive and Rita at 2710 and 2802 State Street, respectively (the Floral Park neighborhood). In 1928 when the Stilwell Grocery was on the ground floor, the upper level continued as the Bennett Hotel, managed by Mrs. Agnes Brady. <br />
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By 1944 Block #1 was owned by Harry Brinck, the Montana state distributor for Rock-Ola phonographs, amusement games, and novelties. His long tenure there, into the 1970s, gives the common name to the building today: Brinck’s. Block #2 for many more recent years served as the Deluxe Café and Bar, and was still in use in 2012.<br />
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The city and county of Butte-Silver Bow inherited the Brinck’s building on unpaid taxes in 2009. Although offered to developers twice, no one took the property. Demolition was planned, but that was tabled in 2011 when it was discovered that the Deluxe, which was still in use next door, used as one of its walls the original west wall of the Brinck’s building. The Brinck’s was ordered to be mothballed by the city in September 2011, but a required roof or roof patch was never done, and in May 2012 the city declared it a safety hazard and planned again to demolish it. The problem with the common wall continued to be an issue until the city paid the owner of the Deluxe $40,000 to purchase it so that both buildings could be demolished. The pair was offered again on developers’ packet in 2013, but the two expressions of interest were deemed to be incomplete or untimely. As of November 2013, the city awaits an asbestos abatement analysis and plans to demolish both buildings. <br />
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Resources: Architectural inventories in Butte Archives; city directories; Sanborn maps; Council of Commissioners meetings. Council Saloon image in “Some Representative Businesses, Butte, Montana,” c. 1901. Modern photos by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-27999108587659875922013-11-12T14:39:00.002-07:002013-11-24T21:51:49.557-07:0042 West Broadway (Independent Order of Good Templars)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1891<br />
Architect: Henry Patterson<br />
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Both men and women were admitted to this temperance organization, whose Montana Grand Lodge was organized in 1868. Butte Lodge #14 commissioned architect H. M. Patterson to design this appealing three-story building, completed in 1891, where the third floor served as the group’s meeting hall. While Patterson demonstrated exceptional talent in local residential design, his commercial and public commissions were the key to his considerable reputation. This was his first major commercial project. The upper floors reveal Patterson’s creative flair: graceful semi-circular arches, recessed windows with rough-faced stone sills, and fine decorative brickwork. The building’s sometime use as a bar defied the Templar ethic to “…never cease until the last vestige of that fearful vice … is driven from our land.” Today, an antique shop occupies the ground floor.<br />
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In 2013, the vaulted sidewalk here was replaced, revealing the early construction method. A wooden framework was built within the vault, and wood planks, about 2”x12” were laid down to create a substrate upon which the concrete sidewalk was poured. When vaulted sidewalks are retained in Butte today, a steel framework forms the base for the concrete. <br />
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Resource: Historical plaque by Montana Historical Society. See also <i>Historic Uptown Butte</i>, by John DeHaas, Jr., privately published, 1977. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-29883026641579945252013-11-12T14:29:00.001-07:002013-11-12T14:29:59.806-07:00205 North Washington<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Neoclassical design elements define this substantial two-story brick home built in 1891. Dentils ornament the eaveline, multi-pane windows dominate the symmetrical front façade, and doubled columns provide support for what was once a full-length front porch with a second-story balustrade. A decorative iron fence symbolically separates the family sanctuary from the outside world and likely dates to the home’s construction. <br />
<br />The small garage, added sometime between 1900 and 1916, reflects the increasing importance of the automobile. Physicians were particularly indebted to their cars for ready transportation on late-night calls, and this residence was home to two doctors. Abram Leggat, a general physician and surgeon with an office in the Hennessey Building, lived here between 1900 and 1902, before he and his wife, Hattie, decided to move with their daughter to St. Louis. Dr. John McIntyre, a skilled surgeon and the medical examiner for several fraternal organizations, lived here with his wife, Annie, between 1910 and 1917.<br />
<br />Resource: Historical plaque by Montana Historical Society. Photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-33204158893738465412013-11-11T10:17:00.002-07:002013-11-11T15:09:55.133-07:00Big Hole Pump Station<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1899 (major addition, 1906)<br />
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The Big Hole Pump Station was a creative and far-sighted solution to the water supply problems faced by the mining industry and the residential community in the Butte area. The water system pumps over 15 million gallons a day over the Continental Divide to Butte and the surrounding areas, with a maximum distance covered of almost 28 miles.<br />
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<a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/03/124-west-granite-butte-telephone-company.html">The Butte Water Company </a>was established in 1898. The pump station, built the next year, contained an 840-foot pump lift that fed to reservoirs on Divide Creek, and then over the Continental Divide to Basin Creek. The water drained by gravity through continuous-stave redwood pipelines to Butte. Seven zones were established to maintain appropriate pressures in the distribution system. Pumping was minimized by creating piping interconnections between three independent water sources (Yankee Doodle Creek, Basin Creek, and the Big Hole River). <br />
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The 1899 brick pump station stands on a concrete foundation and contains two 20,000-pound traveling cranes, one in each pumproom, and a large repair shop. The original #1 pump was a horizontal triple-expansion two-stage plunger pump manufactured by the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. of Madison, Wisconsin. It was initially powered by steam generated by burning coal, but it was electrified in 1907 and continued to operate until 1946.<br />
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The 1906 expansion was to accommodate the #2 pump, similar in most respects to the #1 pump. It was capable of pumping 4,000,000 gallons per day. The electric motor is an 800-horsepower induction motor. The #3 pump was installed in 1916, a Worthington five-stage horizontal turbine driven by a 1300-hp induction motor capable of pumping over 6,000,000 gallons per day. The 7-million-gallon #4 pump, dating to 1930, is a Cameron four-state 12” horizontal turbine with a 1300-hp synchronous motor. The #5 and #6 pumps, from 1954, each could pump 3.5 million gallons per day. They replaced the #1 pump, removed in 1953.<br />
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The 150-foot riveted steel smokestack was erected in 1899 for the original steam boilers. A coal ramp (since removed) was built onto the rear of the building for the hauling and dumping of coal into the bins. The Sterling boilers still exist but have not been used for many years. <br />
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<i>Note: The Big Hole Pump Station is beyond the Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark District, but it is an independently listed National Register property in Silver Bow County (one of only 13). </i>See also the complete <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.mt0093">HABS/HAER photo collection</a>, as well as a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.316723378445808.73672.302223256562487&type=3">set of modern photos on Facebook</a> by Dick Gibson. <br />
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Source: Text modified slightly from HABS/HAER documentation transmitted by Kevin Murphy, June 1984; reference: Patricia Bick and Miles Tuttle, National Register Nomination Form, May 12, 1980. Historic photos by Jet Lowe (HABS/HAER, public domain, Library of Congress); modern photo by Richard I. Gibson.</div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-85153633978211239742013-11-10T14:34:00.001-07:002014-11-19T16:46:26.929-07:0071-73 East Park (Chester Block)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1917-18<br />
Architect: James C. Teague<br />
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Businessman Charles Steele financed the $4,500 construction costs of this exceptional commercial block, designed by Butte architect James C. Teague, in 1917 (completed 1918). The building is architecturally significant for its striking terra cotta ornamentation and historically important as the founding site of the Teamsters Union Local No. 2. This powerful group held its first meetings in the upstairs hall until they built their own building on Harrison Avenue.<br />
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The building’s upper story, with its multi-light windows, terra cotta quoins, decorative name plate, and cornice, remains in pristine condition. Terra cotta, here painted cream-color in stunning contrast with the red brick, is a feature seldom seen in Butte. The original mosaic-tiled floor spans the length of the three ground-floor entrances. Whitehead’s cutlery shop has occupied one of the two commercial spaces for many years, while the other once housed a mortuary.<br />
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s the Rumpus Room occupied the upper floor. The northeast portion of the top floor sported a bar, with the remainder of the floor dedicated to tables, chairs, and a large dance floor. At that time, entrance to the bar was from the alley. Prior to opening in the Chester Block in 1963, the Rumpus Room was located at 2 South Main St., below the Rialto Theater (demolished in 1965).<br />
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Resources: Expanded from historic plaque by Montana Historical Society. Historic photo from <a href="http://buttehistory.blogspot.com/2012/01/east-gagnon-street.html">FSA/OWI collection</a> (public domain), c. 1942; newspaper photo from Butte <i>Miner</i>, March 24, 1918; modern photo by Linda Albright. </div>
Richard Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03330538991049552829noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6680887389241864471.post-49537281171883109332013-11-10T12:37:00.005-07:002013-11-11T09:18:07.547-07:00971 North Main Street (Trinity Methodist Church)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Built: 1896<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bclny3EZQao/Un_gBndIT4I/AAAAAAAABtM/ffpSQKLR95s/s1600/trinity+glass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bclny3EZQao/Un_gBndIT4I/AAAAAAAABtM/ffpSQKLR95s/s320/trinity+glass.jpg" width="107" /></a>Thousands of skilled miners from Cornwall, England, immigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as English tin and copper mines played out. Many settled in Butte’s working-class communities. Centerville was home to equal numbers of Cornish, who were mostly Methodists, and Catholics from Ireland. There were two sets of businesses and two churches—one serving each group. By 1884, Centerville’s Cornish residents had formed a Methodist congregation; in 1885 they met in a small frame building on East Center Street. <br />
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During the pastorate of Rev. Joel Vigus, the Butte and Boston Mining Company donated the land and this church was built in 1889. Together with the 4-room parsonage, the church cost $4,000, including electric lights donated by U.S. Senator (1895-99) and former Butte mayor Lee Mantle. Workers added brick veneer, a vestibule, a choir room, and dug a basement to accommodate a fellowship hall; all the extra work added about $5,000 to the cost, and the church was finally dedicated in 1896. The original stained glass windows were presented by <a href="http://butte-anacondanhld.blogspot.com/2013/03/301-west-granite-mj-connell-house.html">M.J. Connell</a>, a prominent Butte store owner. More recent stained glass windows are all dedicated, including some as recent as 1955. Much of the glass is of the opalescent variety. <br />
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An enduring Cornish tradition is the pasty, a meat pie in a pastry envelope. Carried underground in dinner pails, miners lovingly called it a “letter from ’ome.” Trinity’s fellowship hall hosted many pasty dinners. The simple Gothic style “miner’s church” (in contrast to the “mine owners church, Mountain View) with its sturdy central tower recalls the Cornish miners and their families, far from home, who worshiped here.<br />
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Resources: Historic plaque by Montana Historical Society; <i>Historic Stained Glass in selected houses of worship, Butte, Montana</i>, by Richard I. Gibson and Irene Scheidecker (Butte CPR, 2006). Photos by Richard I. Gibson <span style="font-size: x-small;">(the photo through the cracked Mountain Con window won an honorable mention in the National Park Service National Historic Landmarks photo contest in 2007-8, and was published as the 13th month in their 2009 calendar)</span>.</div>
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