{"id":1870,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:02","latitude":46.01411370000000289337549475021660327911376953125,"longitude":-112.5339036999999962063156999647617340087890625,"title":"Thornton Block","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/09fff4314070ca194a26842158829463.jpg","address":"65 East Broadway Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Beautifully detailed and thoroughly cosmopolitan, this $75,000 five-story hotel opened in 1901 featuring over one hundred rooms, a saloon, restaurant, barber shop, and bowling alley. A cast-iron and glass entrance canopy, stone balconies, Tudor arches, and decorative carving highlight the elegant exterior. Turn-of-the-twentieth-century hotel patrons, no doubt impressed with Butte’s metropolitan character, could even take an electric street railway direct to Sutton’s Broadway Theater. After 1947, the Thornton Block served for many years as a club for Anaconda Copper Mining Company employees.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/b2694698-4c33-4e3d-b1f9-d8b8740bf6dc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Butte National Historic Landmark District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/9ecb5fd7-e392-42a7-a16e-94df0f020422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Butte National Historic Landmark District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/09fff4314070ca194a26842158829463.jpg":{"id":922,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Thornton Block","description":"Thornton Block, facing northwest, front/side view. | <a href=\"https://www.montanapictures.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MontanaPictures.net</a> | June 2008 | MontanaPictures.net","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/09fff4314070ca194a26842158829463.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/38227f52e1e4e5982965b7a344b154c5.jpg":{"id":923,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Thornton Block","description":"Thornton Block, view of front door. | <a href=\"https://www.montanapictures.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MontanaPictures.net</a> | June 2008 | MontanaPictures.net","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/38227f52e1e4e5982965b7a344b154c5.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/d405ba473075b77593db298d08bf28ec.jpg":{"id":2405,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Thornton Block, Butte","description":"View of the Thornton Building at 65 East Broadway St., Butte, Montana. Built as a hotel in 1901, by this photo it is likely serving as the Miner&#039;s Club for employees of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. | PAc 946-108, Montana Legacy Collection, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | ca. 1947-50 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/d405ba473075b77593db298d08bf28ec.jpg"}}}