{"id":2387,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:06","latitude":46.0284070000000014033503248356282711029052734375,"longitude":-112.54756900000000996442395262420177459716796875,"title":"723 West Daly (Dewey Point)","subtitle":"Residence of Bandmaster for the Alice Mine","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/76c25d8af4a83ac1faa61cff88a840cf.jpg","address":"723 West Daly Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana Historical Society"],"description":"Shortly after F. J. Brule’s 1906 survey, Walkerville carpenter Ed Reimel built this one-and-one-half-story, brick-veneered home with extended eaves and a hipped roof dormer with flared ends. Victorian elements include beveled glass windows in the gable end, segmented arch accents over the windows, and a hairpin fence providing symbolic protection from the outside world. Cornish immigrants John and Mary Rich were the first owners. John worked as a bookkeeper. He was also bandmaster for the Alice Mine and Mill Band and secretary of the Musicians Mutual Protective Union. In 1917, as a musician at the Rialto Theater, he doubtless played the sound tracks for silent movies. Mary was in women’s groups including the Miriam Rebekah Lodge #3 and the Walkerville Circle #547, Neighbors of Woodcraft. In 1924 the Riches moved down the street to a smaller home. From 1925 to the 1940s, this was home to William Richards, co-lessee of the Goldsmith Mine, and his wife Bessie and their four children. Their daughter Lavina lived here until 1990.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/76c25d8af4a83ac1faa61cff88a840cf.jpg":{"id":2229,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"723 West Daly (Dewey Point)","description":"723 West Daly (Dewey Point) (PAc 91-51 B2 RollDC09 F07). Front to side view of the house, facing northwest on West Daly Street near the corner of West Daly and 6th Street. B&W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | June 1984 | David Cassidy","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/76c25d8af4a83ac1faa61cff88a840cf.jpg"}}}