{"id":1964,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:04","latitude":46.0115447580270000571545097045600414276123046875,"longitude":-112.5407943842200211292947642505168914794921875,"title":"St. Paul&#039;s Methodist Episcopal (South) Church","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/23f7c88cd8bb9d99773648305602e149.jpg","address":"101 South Idaho Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Noted architect William White designed this majestic, multi-gabled church of stone and brick, built at a cost of $10,000 in 1899. Gothic lancet windows, stained glass, Romanesque arches, and wood tracery in the gable windows showcase White’s meticulous attention to fine detail. A steeple above the entry and pyramidal roof once crowned the two corner towers. By 1918, the church housed the Butte Daily Bulletin, a radical newspaper voicing policies of the anti-corporate Nonpartisan League, published by William F. Dunne. The office was also a known stronghold of the incendiary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). On September 13, 1918, local police and federal troops under Major O. N. Bradley raided the Bulletin, arresting twenty-four men and thwarting a miners’ strike. A fine example of turn-of-the-twentieth-century ecclesiastic architecture, quiet commercial use of the building today more closely follows its original function.","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/23f7c88cd8bb9d99773648305602e149.jpg":{"id":915,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"St. Paul&#039;s Methodist Episcopal (South) Church","description":"St. Paul&#039;s Methodist Episcopal (South) Church, facing southwest, front 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/23f7c88cd8bb9d99773648305602e149.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/6bfa62e102822c45a4adac4178a64a93.jpg":{"id":2303,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"St. Paul&#039;s Methodist Episcopal (South) Church","description":"St. Paul&#039;s Methodist Episcopal (South) Church (PAc 91-51 B3 RollJK12 F27). Front to side view of the church building, facing  southwest on the corner of South Idaho Street and West Galena Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1984 | Jeff Kestle","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/6bfa62e102822c45a4adac4178a64a93.jpg"}}}