{"id":3564,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:58:11","latitude":46.01254550367098516971964272670447826385498046875,"longitude":-112.548647224903106689453125,"title":"Cornelius F. Kelley Mansion","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/6022ebc01cad82134dbe076537a974c5.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Fred Quivik"],"description":"The Kelley family moved to Butte in 1883, and Kelley’s father, who became a close associate of Marcus Daly, went to work as superintendent of the Bell mine. When Con Kelley graduated from Butte High School in 1892, Daly gave him a job as a surveyor in the mines. After two years, he left for college at the University of Michigan, returning to Butte each summer to work in ACM’s engineering department. After graduating with a law degree in 1898, Kelley opened a law practice in Butte, and the following year, he was appointed Chief Deputy County Attorney. Shortly after William Scallon became president of ACM, he hired Kelley to work in the company’s legal department. He became chief counsel in 1908 and was appointed ACM vice president in 1911. Kelley was instrumental in helping Ryan to consolidate the several major mining properties in Butte under the ownership and operation of ACM, and he played a similar role in helping ACM to acquire properties elsewhere in the U.S. and the Americas. He served as an officer of several of those subsidiaries. He became president of ACM when Ryan died in 1933 and chairman of ACM board of directors in 1940, at which time ACM vice president James R. Hobbins took over as president. Kelley chaired ACM board during the initiation of the Greater Butte Project, which resulted in the sinking of a new mineshaft. It was named the Kelley shaft. Con Kelley retired from ACM in 1955, when the company changed its name to The Anaconda Company. He died two years later.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhen Kelley returned to Butte from law school, he lived with his family for a few years on North Main. After he joined the legal department of ACM, he lived in the Lenox on West Granite in 1903 and then for four years in one of the rowhouses on West Broadway built by the Largey estate. His rapid rise in ACM was demonstrated by the new mansion he built on West Park, immediately east of the D.J. Hennessy mansion at the corner of Park and Excelsior. Built in 1906, the house was designed by W.A. O’Brien. Like Ryan, Kelley moved to New York City after Amalgamated was dissolved, and ACM ran its global enterprise from New York.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"Cornelius F. (Con) Kelley, along with John D. Ryan, was one of the two most prominent figures in ACM history after Marcus Daly. Con Kelley was born in 1875 in Nevada, where his father worked as a mill superintendent for George Hearst.","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/6022ebc01cad82134dbe076537a974c5.jpg":{"id":5898,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Kelley Mansion, 829 W. Park","description":"Cornelius F. (Con) Kelley was a prominent ACM attorney when he hired architect W.A. O’Brien to design this house on W. Park in 1906. He lived here until he moved to ACM’s corporate headquarters in New York City in 1915. | Fred Quivik, July 2025","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/6022ebc01cad82134dbe076537a974c5.jpg"},"https://storyofbutte.org/files/fullsize/82ebb58dc28ad4b1d995773be128c5ce.jpg":{"id":5899,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Largey Estate Apartments, 403-407 W. Broadway","description":"Patrick Largey had a large mansion (no longer extant) at the northwest corner of Broadway and Washington. In 1898, his estate built three apartments (rowhouses) on the lots west of the Largey mansion and often rented the apartments to prominent people who needed housing until they built their own houses. Con Kelley lived in 407 W. Broadway from about 1901 until he moved into his new house at 829 W. Park. Another prominent ACM official who lived here was J.R. Hobbins, who lived in 407 when he was named assistant to Con Kelley in 1922 and until he bought the Orton residence at 1039 W. Broadway.  | Fred Quivik, July 2025","thumbnail":"https://storyofbutte.org/files/square_thumbnails/82ebb58dc28ad4b1d995773be128c5ce.jpg"}}}