{"id":2034,"featured":1,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:05","latitude":46.012179900000006682603270746767520904541015625,"longitude":-112.5414504999999962819856591522693634033203125,"title":"Masonic Temple, Butte","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/e52c6ad858984462d8aa6efdede14ffa.jpg","address":"314 West Park Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"The first Masonic Lodge in Butte was chartered October 3, 1876. With a membership of 550 after the turn of the twentieth century, the organization had outgrown its old quarters on West Park. The new temple, completed in 1902, provides an early example of the grandly scaled Beaux-Arts style that came to dominate Butte’s later civic structures. Link and Carter, the forerunner of the prestigious architectural firm of Link and Haire, created the new temple, enhancing its façade with Ionic columns, a cornice of lions’ heads, and decorative borders of acanthus leaves and geometric designs.","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/e52c6ad858984462d8aa6efdede14ffa.jpg":{"id":2381,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Masonic Temple","description":"Masonic Temple (PAc 91-51 B3 RollJK09 F34). Front view of the building, facing south on West Park Street near the corner of West Park and South Washington 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/e52c6ad858984462d8aa6efdede14ffa.jpg"}}}