{"id":2049,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:12","latitude":46.01446299999999922647475614212453365325927734375,"longitude":-112.5487934999999879437382332980632781982421875,"title":"834 West Quartz","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/5ce6c414aa75496fde0f8c0ba76a71c0.jpg","address":"834 West Quartz Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"As its population tripled in the 1890s, Butte began its transformation from a mining camp to a small city. The percentage of married men grew by 10 percent, and local builders worked busily to fulfill the increasing demand for single-family homes. Carpenter John Shackleton constructed several, almost identical cross-gable residences, including two on the 800 block of Broadway and one on this lot. Built in 1897, the two-story, wood-frame residence was home to Edward and Alice Holden in 1900. Edward worked as telegraph editor for the Butte Miner, a daily newspaper. Ella Heuser and her husband Edward, a drugstore owner, purchased the residence circa 1908, and were likely responsible for building the one-story rear addition. By 1920, the home belonged to Jacob and Cora Pincus. Jacob had a varied career as a jeweler, watchmaker, and tobacco merchant. While he was &quot;industrious,&quot; &quot;trustworthy,&quot; and one of the city&#039;s &quot;most conservative and substantial&quot; businessmen by his own account, others remembered him as a &quot;black sheep… [who] never did anything right.&quot; The Pincuses lived here until Jacob&#039;s death in 1942.<br />","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/5ce6c414aa75496fde0f8c0ba76a71c0.jpg":{"id":2092,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"834 West Quartz","description":"834 West Quartz (PAc 91-51 B1 Roll04 F04). Front view of the house, facing south on West Quartz Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Sept. 1981 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/5ce6c414aa75496fde0f8c0ba76a71c0.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/d4c70b572e2f740cd3b83ebb1b8f0ea8.jpg":{"id":2093,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"834 West Quartz","description":"834 West Quartz (PAc 91-51 B1 Roll04 F05). Front to side view of house, facing south to southwest on West Quartz Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | Sept. 1981 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/d4c70b572e2f740cd3b83ebb1b8f0ea8.jpg"}}}