{"id":1994,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:04","latitude":46.011624699999998711064108647406101226806640625,"longitude":-112.5339046000000280400854535400867462158203125,"title":"Dumas Hotel","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/2339e2181f3a67a2b2c4932753fc9276.jpg","address":"45 East Mercury Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"French Canadian brothers Arthur and Joseph Nadeau built this house of prostitution in 1890. Reflecting the architecture of the trade, each room features a door and window so customers could “shop.” In 1900, when Grace McGinnis was madam, the Dumas was in the heart of the red-light district, an area roughly two blocks square and crowded with saloons and gambling halls. Prostitutes worked everywhere from squalid alley “cribs” to high class “parlor houses” such as the Dumas. Prostitution, although never legal in Butte, was tolerated as a necessity for miners and “gentlemen” alike. The district faded as years passed, but women at the Dumas serviced customers until 1982.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["Read about the Butte National Historic Landmark District","See photos of the Butte National Historic Landmark District"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/2339e2181f3a67a2b2c4932753fc9276.jpg":{"id":2463,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Dumas Hotel","description":"Dumas Hotel (PAc 91-51 B1 RollCBD07 F26). Front to side view of the building, facing northwest on East Mercury Street. B&W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1985 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/2339e2181f3a67a2b2c4932753fc9276.jpg"}}}