{"id":2380,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:06","latitude":46.0220575000000025056579033844172954559326171875,"longitude":-112.53543780000001106600393541157245635986328125,"title":"820 North Main","subtitle":"Apartment Building Supported Mining Widow and Children","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/bc1ca260104926bbb5f41fbb2f99fafa.jpg","address":"820 North Main Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana Historical Society"],"description":"Built into the hill, so that the second story is level with the ground, this two-and-one-half-story structure dominates the block. By 1900 the first floor housed a saloon and billiards parlor as well as a small residence. The second floor also served as a dwelling. By 1916, the building accommodated four apartments, whose residents included Ruth Barnicoat. Ruth moved here after her husband, a miner, died of pericarditis myocarditis (a heart infection), possibly brought on by tuberculosis, a disease common to Butte miners. Tasked with supporting children ages sixteen to four, Ruth purchased this income-producing property; she and the children lived in one apartment and rented out the other three. The building still contained four apartments in 1957, when Bud Aschenbrenner, a shift boss, and his wife Lillian, a switchboard operator at St. James Hospital, purchased it. Bud worked at the neighboring Mountain Con Mine; at times, he tunneled directly under the house. Both Bud and Lillian lived here until their deaths in 1980 and 2007, respectively. The residence’s most prominent feature—its two-story wraparound porch—is not historic, but was rebuilt to match the original pattern.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/bc1ca260104926bbb5f41fbb2f99fafa.jpg":{"id":2379,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"820 North Main","description":"820 North Main (PAc 91-51 B4 RollMaM08 F03). Front to side view of the building, facing southeast on the corner of North Main Street and Buffalo Street. B&W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1984 | Mary Murphy","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/bc1ca260104926bbb5f41fbb2f99fafa.jpg"}}}