{"id":1937,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:03","latitude":46.0145263522909999664989300072193145751953125,"longitude":-112.53877328318003492313437163829803466796875,"title":"Silver Bow County Courthouse","subtitle":"Beaux Arts Style","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/83fed25f6bcaab1e75f833ff1bdc4d02.jpg","address":"155 West Granite Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana Historical Society"],"description":"Prestigious architects Link and Haire designed this magnificent four-story courthouse in the Beaux Arts style. This grandiloquent form introduced at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition was often utilized in American civic buildings. Offices within are laid out around a rotunda with an elaborate stained glass dome, and a molded stone figure of blind-folded Justice presides over the façade. Dedicated in 1912, the courthouse has served as podium for such famous statesmen as William Jennings Bryan and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1914, the courthouse became barracks for state militia when Butte was under martial law following violent labor disputes.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Public","lede":"The courthouse features a rotunda with an elaborate stained glass dome.","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/83fed25f6bcaab1e75f833ff1bdc4d02.jpg":{"id":2515,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Butte-Silver Bow County Courthouse","description":"View looking northwest at building facade decorated for 4th of July | PH016.05.16, Keith and Rachel Harris Photography Collection, Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, MT. | ca. 1915 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/83fed25f6bcaab1e75f833ff1bdc4d02.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/928af77b25d005f3847d8f16c202d2ea.jpg":{"id":1167,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Courthouse-Butte","description":"Silver Bow County Courthouse, front/side view of the building, facing northeast on West Granite Street. Catalog #946-097 | Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT | Between 1911 and 1925 | B.E. Calkins Co.","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/928af77b25d005f3847d8f16c202d2ea.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/084b97a7fc143da18a89de15bdb47452.jpg":{"id":2489,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Butte-SilverBow County Courthouse","description":"View looking northeast at building facade | Montana Historical Society | Nov 19 | Christine Brown, Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/084b97a7fc143da18a89de15bdb47452.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/10849da96acf397f4eb89ed1db5170a5.jpg":{"id":2490,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Butte-Silver Bow County Courthouse, Butte","description":"View looking northwest at building facade | Montana Historical Society | Nov 2019 | Christine Brown, Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/10849da96acf397f4eb89ed1db5170a5.jpg"}}}