{"id":3377,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:08","latitude":46.00582360974620854676686576567590236663818359375,"longitude":-112.5218557120024343021214008331298828125,"title":"1229 East Second Street","subtitle":"Butte Historic District","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/ee30b3074b25a3c9395908b61cac36a5.jpg","address":"1229 East Second Street","all_locations":[],"zoom":18,"creator":["Story of Butte"],"description":"Spurred by the arrival of streetcar service, the South Butte neighborhood developed from east to west between 1890 and 1900. French-Canadian immigrants Peter and Lizzie Huotte owned this Queen Anne style cottage—built circa 1895—from 1898 to 1904. Peter, a blacksmith at the Parrot Smelter, and Lizzie, a homemaker, took fine care of the property. In 1905, they hired Hall Bros. real estate firm to sell their home for $1,700. Their newspaper ad included a picture and noted the home’s “tip-top condition,” potential bathroom, storeroom, and two-room rear cabin (now demolished) that rented for $9 a month. Miner Charles Fournier and his wife Bertha bought the house and rented the cabin to lumberyard worker John F. Siegel. Unfortunately, a thief ransacked the cabin in July 1905 and stole $29 from Siegel’s mattress. William and Agnes One moved here with their three teenage children in 1917. When William died in 1920, their married daughter Bernice and her husband Thomas Williams, a railroad switchman, joined the crowded family home. Agnes lived next door after 1934, while Thomas and Bernice remained in residence until 1945.","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 Historic 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 Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/ee30b3074b25a3c9395908b61cac36a5.jpg":{"id":5265,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"1229 E. Second St., Butte, MT","description":"View of facade | Google Streetview digital image | Aug 2021","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/ee30b3074b25a3c9395908b61cac36a5.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/28fa79b99c04f8244938a6d9eeef9751.jpg":{"id":5264,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"1229 E. Second St. , Butte, MT","description":"View of facade | Property Record Card for 1229 E. Second St., Butte. On file at Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, MT. | 1959","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/28fa79b99c04f8244938a6d9eeef9751.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/original/05cadbfc17899da370e8c1f8ff536476.pdf":{"id":5266,"mime-type":"application/pdf","title":"1229 E. Second St., Butte, MT","description":"A collection of newspaper clippings pertaining to the occupants of this house.  | Newspapers.com | The Butte Miner, Butte, MT.","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/05cadbfc17899da370e8c1f8ff536476.jpg"}}}