{"id":1919,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:12","latitude":46.01176099999999991041477187536656856536865234375,"longitude":-112.53711340000000973304850049316883087158203125,"title":"Paumie Block","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3708c370ba5684fdbbd2b269e9eefdfe.jpg","address":"58-60 West Galena Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Maria and Camille Paumie came to Montana from France in 1887. They constructed the west half of this building circa 1890, known as the Parisian House; its furnished rooms were rented out under various proprietors. The bottom floor was the Parisian Dye Works, a dye house and dry-cleaning business run by the Paumies who also lived in the building. Paumie’s was one of the town’s first steam dry-cleaners. Located on the fringe of Butte’s notorious red light district, much of Paumie’s cleaning business was with the prostitutes who worked and lived just to the east. The business expanded in 1898 with the addition of the east half of the building. Camille Paumie died in 1899 and Maria continued the business until the 1920s. Paumie’s Parisian Dye Works later had different owners who retained the Paumie name. The original three-story masonry building, with its fine cast-iron storefront and metal “eyebrow” lintels, appears much as it did in the late 1890s. A complex of interconnected extensions link this address with 110 S. Dakota.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/b2694698-4c33-4e3d-b1f9-d8b8740bf6dc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Butte National Historic Landmark District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/9ecb5fd7-e392-42a7-a16e-94df0f020422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Butte National Historic Landmark District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3708c370ba5684fdbbd2b269e9eefdfe.jpg":{"id":2185,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Paumie Block","description":"Paumie Block (PAc 91-51 B1 RollCBD07 F35). Front to side view of the building, facing east to southeast from the corner of West Galena Street and South Dakota Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1985 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/3708c370ba5684fdbbd2b269e9eefdfe.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3b0516eafb791da798df425aecb5992e.jpg":{"id":5105,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Paumie Block, Butte, MT","description":"View of north facade | iPhone 8 image capture, jpeg | May 28, 2021 | Martha Kohl, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/3b0516eafb791da798df425aecb5992e.jpg"}}}