1905 - Washoe Brewery - Anaconda, MT
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N 46° 07.604 W 112° 56.226
12T E 350349 N 5109952
Built in 1905, this one time brewery with apparent skullduggery in its past is the landmark building on East Park Avenue. All brick, it was built with copious amounts of artistic brickwork, very much typical of the era.
Waymark Code: WMKM5Q
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 04/30/2014
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An architecturally impressive landmark and gateway to Anaconda’s east side, the Washoe Brewery symbolizes the private enterprise that flourished in this company town. The imposing Italian Renaissance-inspired brewery with its signature corner tower is a bold reminder of an industry important to Anaconda’s residents. It also represents an intriguing, unsolved corporate mystery. In 1904, the upstart manager/vice president of the Anaconda Brewing Company (ABC) suddenly resigned his position to establish a rival brewery. Despite William Haltonhoff’s resignation, he oddly remained ABC’s manager during construction of the $80,000 Washoe Brewery, completed in August of 1905. The ABC purchased the Washoe in December for $81,000 and shut it down. The building was subsequently long unoccupied. After Prohibition in 1933, the Washoe reopened under A. J. Tuchscherer, producing Rocky Mountain Beer until 1955. The brewery’s boardinghouse and bottling works are now separate properties, but the gable-front house and wagon barn remain intact. The brewery itself, little changed over time, is of primary significance to Goosetown’s historic neighborhoods.
From the NRHP Plaque
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