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The Copper King Mansion, [2] also known as the W. A. Clark Mansion, is a 34-room residence of Romanesque Revival Victorian architecture that was built from 1884 to 1888 as the Butte, Montana, residence of William Andrews Clark, one of Montana's three famous Copper Kings. The home features fresco painted ceilings, elegant parquets of rare ...
Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31] It had also established itself as "one of the most solid union cities in America." [32] After 1905, Butte became a hotbed of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or the "Wobblies") organizing. [33]
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. [170] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper. [171]
In 1980 the Berkeley Pit, the Clark Fork River and the smelter outside the town of Anaconda, MT were declared federal Superfund sites by the US EPA. A statue of Daly by Augustus Saint-Gaudens stands at the main entrance to Montana Tech of the University of Montana (formerly the Montana School of Mines), at the west end of Park Street in Butte.
Silver Bow County is a county in the U.S. state of Montana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,133. [1] Its county seat is Butte. [2] In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the single entity of Butte-Silver Bow.
The Battle for Butte, by Michael P. Malone.2006 ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. ISBN 0-295-98607-7; The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates- A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther.