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The Burton K. Wheeler House is a historic house at 1232 East 2nd Street in Butte, Montana, United States.Built about 1923, this modest working-class house was for many years the home of politician Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975), a Democrat who in 1924 ran for United States Vice President on the Progressive Party ticket.
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]
The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana.It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate maximum depth of 1,780 feet (540 m).
The Butte Civic Center is a 7,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Butte, Montana, USA. [1] Opened in 1952, it hosts locals sporting events and concerts as well as political events. It was the home of the Continental Basketball Association 's Butte Daredevils , who played there from their founding in 2006 until they folded in 2008.
Despite all the smaller temporary amusement rides at the state and regional fairs, and a few water slide parks, no major amusement park of the scale of the Columbia Gardens has been attempted in Montana since. When Butte broadcaster and historian Pat Kearney wrote his 1994 book about the park, the publisher's summary described the park as "a ...
Anaconda was created as a company town that contained the smelters for Butte's ore. The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railroad, connecting Butte and Anaconda, is a designated part of the expanded National Historic Landmark District. [2] Known as the "Gibraltar of Unionism", Butte saw the early development of a mine worker's union in 1878.
Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that stands atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana, United States. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World , the Statue of Liberty , and the Pegasus and Dragon .