{"id":2832,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:14","latitude":46.0122663941194929293487803079187870025634765625,"longitude":-112.5432586669922017108547152020037174224853515625,"title":"502 West Park Street","subtitle":"Butte National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/3e34685dcef887f9cc8b15882f90c74b.jpg","address":"502 West Park Street, Butte, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":18,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"As Butte boomed from 3,300 people in 1880 to over 20,000 in 1890 and over 45,000 in 1900, rentals remained in great demand. Built before 1891, this two-story brick building, which now houses four units, originally contained eight separate apartments. A large, open front porch (now enclosed) and a second porch that ran the entire length of the Jackson Street façade ornamented the exterior. In 1910, fifty-six-year-old widow Martha York served as the apartment house’s landlady, supporting four children, ages twelve to twenty-one. In addition to the Yorks, the building was home to an undertaker and his family (including four children), a copper miner and his wife, and four male lodgers. Mary Kelly, also a widow, ran the apartment in 1920. Because mining was such a dangerous occupation, Butte was known as a city of widows and orphans; running boardinghouses or apartments offered widowed women a way to support themselves without leaving home. The apartment’s residents reflected Butte’s diversity: the Irish-born Kelly rented to American-born, Irish, Bohemian, and Finnish tenants, whose occupations ranged from hod-carrier and miner to sheepshearer, electrician, waitress, and housekeeper.","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/3e34685dcef887f9cc8b15882f90c74b.jpg":{"id":3512,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"502 West Park Street","description":"502 West Park Street (PAc 91-51 B3 RJK09 F29). Front to side view of the house, facing southwest at the intersection of West Park Street and Jackson Street. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | 1984 | Jeff Kestle","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/3e34685dcef887f9cc8b15882f90c74b.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/978075e8b8e82929e86f0afc517d844c.jpg":{"id":5082,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"502 West Park, Butte","description":"View of facade | iPhone image capture, jpeg format | May 28, 2021 | Martha Kohl, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/978075e8b8e82929e86f0afc517d844c.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/fe67553815426c8ac30488cf68d04c18.jpg":{"id":5083,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"502 West Park, Butte","description":"View of east and north facades | iPhone 8 image capture | May 28, 2021 | Martha Kohl, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/fe67553815426c8ac30488cf68d04c18.jpg"}}}