{"id":1871,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:02","latitude":46.013735900000000356158125214278697967529296875,"longitude":-112.5333504999999831852619536221027374267578125,"title":"Finlen Hotel","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/86823095668d96c6414f33f711620eff.jpg","address":"100 East Broadway Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"The decade following World War I brought an excess of copper to the world market and Butte suffered a severe economic slowdown. The Finlen Hotel and the Fox Theater were the only two substantial structures built in Butte’s business district during the 1920s. New Year’s Day, 1924, marked the opening of this grand hotel modeled in miniature after New York City’s Hotel Astor. The nine-story hotel with a French Second Empire mansard roof was designed by Butte builder Albert Broadland. James Finlen, son of wealthy mining pioneer Miles Finlen, financed the building.","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/86823095668d96c6414f33f711620eff.jpg":{"id":918,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Finlen Hotel","description":"Finlen Hotel, facing southwest, side/back 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/86823095668d96c6414f33f711620eff.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/5b77797e41c4f79c74e2df9c9fa7e266.jpg":{"id":2403,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Finlen Hotel, Butte","description":"Photomechanical postcard of an artist&#039;s rendering of the Finlen Hotel, Butte, Montana. | PAc 946-105, Montana Legacy Collection, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | Between 1920 and 1930. | Hall, artist.","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/5b77797e41c4f79c74e2df9c9fa7e266.jpg"}}}