{"id":2213,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:06","latitude":46.01091519999999945866875350475311279296875,"longitude":-112.5502827999999908570316620171070098876953125,"title":"923 West Mercury","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/d827b1412ddbb11d38856a739f5e66a8.jpg","address":"923 West Mercury Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"In 1896, W. Mead Hanson departed Utah for Butte with his wife, Nellie, and their children. Leaving his job as mail clerk for a short-gauge railroad, the thirty-two-year-old Mead opened a cigar store in the Lewishon Building in the heart of Uptown. By 1900, the family had purchased this home, then a duplex. The Hansons lived on one side and rented the other to machinist Timothy Martin and his family including his wife, sister-in-law, two children, and a nursemaid. Only one other residence stood on the block, even though developers had started selling lots ten years earlier; construction had only just begun on the massive Paul Clark Home across the street. By 1916, the Hansons had converted the duplex into a single-family home and neighbors on both sides crowded their one-story, hipped-roof, four-square cottage. The couple remained in residence until Mead—by then working as an insurance agent—died in 1932. An unusual two-story outhouse—on site throughout the Hansons’ residency—still stood behind the home in 1957, a surprising remnant of an earlier time.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/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/NRHP/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/d827b1412ddbb11d38856a739f5e66a8.jpg":{"id":2214,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"923 West Mercury","description":"923 West Mercury (PAc 91-51 B2 RollLB10 F12). Front view of the house, facing north on West Mercury Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1984 | Linda Bell","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/d827b1412ddbb11d38856a739f5e66a8.jpg"}}}