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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]
Montana School of Mines, 1900. In 1900, Butte opened its first institution of higher education, the Montana School of Mines, which is contemporarily Montana Tech of the University of Montana. [30] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31]
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).
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 .
Montana has two consolidated city-counties—Anaconda with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County. The portion of Yellowstone National Park that lies within Montana was not part of any county until 1978, when part of it was nominally added to Gallatin County, and the rest of it to Park County.
They were known for their struggles over control of the local copper mining industry in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age. The battles between Clark, Daly, Murray and Heinze, and later between just Heinze and industrialist financiers William Rockefeller and Henry H. Rogers are a large chapter in Montana history.
The Hotel Finlen was established by James Finlen, the son of Miles Finlen, an Irish immigrant who had opened the McDermitt Hotel in Butte in 1889. [2] The Hotel Finlen opened on January 1, 1924, and was architecturally inspired by the Astor Hotel in New York City. [3] It was completed on a budget of $750,000 [2] (equivalent to $13,333,981 in 2023).
The Mike Mansfield Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, located in Butte, Montana. Completed in 1904, the building was expanded from 1932 to 1933. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as U. S. Post Office.