{"id":2014,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:12","latitude":46.0098363000000034617187338881194591522216796875,"longitude":-112.5388805999999703999492339789867401123046875,"title":"Emanuel Lutheran Church","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/fa314b40e637cd67b60063bf51aa8ce0.jpg","address":"300 South Montana Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Immigrants to Butte during the mining boom often lived, socialized, and worshipped with fellow nationals. Swedish Lutherans first congregated in 1896, and in 1901 they built a small wooden chapel on the back of this lot. They quickly outgrew the building, which was a mattress factory when it burned in 1937. In 1912, the congregation, which kept its early records in Swedish, began construction of this brick church at a cost of $15,000. Modest compared to neighboring St. Mark’s a German Lutheran church, Emanuel Lutheran’s most prominent feature is its octagonal spire, which rests on a wooden tower ornamented with pinnacles and projecting gables. The steep pitch of the gables, lancet-arched tracery windows, and diagonal buttresses capped with contrasting sandstone trim all mark the church’s design as Gothic Revival. Butte Unity Truth Center, a nondenominational Christian church, purchased the building in 1958 when Emanuel Lutheran followed its congregants to the flats. By then Emanuel Lutheran no longer exclusively served Swedes; its days as an immigrant church—bringing comfort to worshippers far from home—were over.","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/fa314b40e637cd67b60063bf51aa8ce0.jpg":{"id":2234,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Emanuel Lutheran Church","description":"Emanuel Lutheran Church (PAc 91-51 B3 Roll06 F34). Front to side view of the church building, facing northeast on Montana Street near the corner of Montana and West Silver Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1983 | Martha Catlin","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/fa314b40e637cd67b60063bf51aa8ce0.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/e3f045542c50ad525e725dbe933a97ff.jpg":{"id":2235,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Emanuel Lutheran Church","description":"Emanuel Lutheran Church (PAc 91-51 B3 Roll06 F35). Front to side view of the church, facing southeast on the corner of Montana Street and West Silver Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1983 | Martha Catlin","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/e3f045542c50ad525e725dbe933a97ff.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/53d1159277d6468c086215d17cdc2b98.jpg":{"id":5514,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Emmanuel Lutheran Church","description":"facade | Google Streetview | May 2008 | Google Streetview Image ~ Date:  May 2008","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/53d1159277d6468c086215d17cdc2b98.jpg"}}}