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 West Side Historic District - Anaconda, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 46° 07.650 W 112° 57.246
12T E 349038 N 5110069
As Anaconda prospered, the West Side quickly became the enclave of successful businessmen and the managerial class of the copper smelting industry. It is here where all of the elegant homes and opulent hotels and business blocks sprang up.
Waymark Code: WMKMV9
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2014
Views: 2
Marcus Daly watched with pride as Anaconda steadily gained momentum after its founding in 1883. While Daly’s social and political ambition was reflected in the elegant downtown Montana Hotel, Anaconda Company managers, city officials, and other affluent residents built homes adjacent to and west of Main Street. The West Side encompasses a majority of the city’s original townsite and includes some of Anaconda’s most elaborate residences as well as impressive public buildings and modest dwellings.
The buildings of the West Side’s eclectic streetscapes, diverse in both style and function, feature Victorian-era spindling, scrollwork, and leaded glass as well as early twentieth-century Craftsman-style detailing. Cast-iron street lamps, locally produced by the Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply Company, visually unified the district by 1920. Judge George B. Winston was the first to build a fine home on the West Side in 1888. By 1890, expensive architect-designed homes were scattered throughout the neighborhood. Designs of local and regional architects include those of Joseph Smith, Martin Kern, Fred Willson, and Herman Kemna. Prominent early residents included Anaconda Standard editor John Durston, county attorney John Boarman, Superintendent of Schools W. K. Dwyer, metallurgist Frederick Laist, and Marcus Daly’s two sisters.
The City Common (Kennedy Common), with its distinctive bandstand and winter skating rink, anchors the northeast corner of the district. The Deer Lodge County Courthouse, Hearst Free Library, Washoe Theatre, Brentwood Apartments, and three historic churches are integral to the civic, educational, and social tapestry of a planned community that took root in the dreams of its founder, Marcus Daly.
From the NRHP Plaque
Anaconda's West Side
Street address:
Essentially all of Anaconda west of Main Street
Anaconda, MT USA
59711
County / Borough / Parish: Deer Lodge County
Year listed: 1998
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Social History, Politics/Government, Exploration/Settlement, Entertainment/Recreation, Education, Community Planning And Development, Architecture
Periods of significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899
Historic function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Education, Government
Current function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Education, Government
Privately owned?: yes
Season start / Season finish: From: 01/01/2014 To: 12/31/2014
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 1: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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