{"id":1954,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:03","latitude":46.01407400000000080808604252524673938751220703125,"longitude":-112.548230999999987034243531525135040283203125,"title":"821 West Granite","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/6594897a91707a767f68f9187b7d1c5f.jpg","address":"821 West Granite Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"In 1890, the sound of hammers echoed throughout Butte’s West Side, a result of the community’s phenomenal growth as it converted from a silver town to a copper metropolis. Butte grew over two hundred percent during the 1880s, and this home was one of many built to accommodate the newcomers, who numbered middle-class professionals as well as miners. Early residents included William and Christina Paxson, parents of well-known western painter Edgar S. Paxson, whose work includes six murals in the Montana state capitol building. William died at age eighty-three in 1908, and by 1910, the one-story, brick-veneered residence had become home to drugstore owner Charles Hoskins and his wife Mary Ann. The couple lived here with their children and a live-in servant until Charles’s death in 1934. Sometime between 1900 and 1916, owners added a large rear addition and a spacious front porch supported by Tuscan columns, a reflection of changing architectural taste. Fashion dictated classical simplicity rather than Queen Anne style excess after the turn of the century.","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/6594897a91707a767f68f9187b7d1c5f.jpg":{"id":2149,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"821 West Granite","description":"821 West Granite (PAc 91-51 B1 Roll22 F19). Front view of the house, facing north on West Granite Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Sept. 1981 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/6594897a91707a767f68f9187b7d1c5f.jpg"}}}