{"id":851,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:40:09","latitude":45.29335400000000078080120147205889225006103515625,"longitude":-111.94721420000001899097696878015995025634765625,"title":"Anaconda Hotel (Faiweather Inn)","subtitle":"Virginia City National Historic Landmark District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6d062aec743c7bfdf690f6154293d0c7.jpg","address":"305 West Wallace Street, Virginia City, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":16,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"The oldest section of this building, dating to 1863, was first a simple one-story building that housed a restaurant called the “Young American Eating House.” A butcher shop followed from 1866 to the 1880s, and then in the 1880s the building was a hotel/saloon. It became the Anaconda Hotel and Saloon in the 1890s under proprietor Frank McKeen. Renaming it the Fairweather Inn after the discoverer of gold in Alder Gulch, in 1946 Charles Bovey raised the height of the old hotel to two stories and added a “new” façade that duplicates the gold rush-era design of the then-demolished Goodrich House in Bannack.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/22389964-91bd-4c66-917f-0279004a042e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/e0b9251f-b92e-4e8e-ae20-c0bc3cec7394/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of Virginia City National Historic Landmark District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6d062aec743c7bfdf690f6154293d0c7.jpg":{"id":2557,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Anaconda Hotel, Virginia City","description":"Old Anaconda Hotel and restaurant, lower Wallace Street, north side, Virginia City, Montana, now the Fairweather Inn, built on the site of the Anaconda Hotel in 1946. | PAc 956-235, Montana Legacy Photograph Collection, Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT. | 1940-1949 | Unknown photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6d062aec743c7bfdf690f6154293d0c7.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/b71fb3a01ce67be4c033d927fd62ca57.jpg":{"id":2432,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Anaconda Hote/Fairweather Inn, Virginia City","description":"View looking northeast at building facade | Courtesy of Montana Heritage Commission | Oct 2019 | Kate Steeley, Montana Heritage Commission","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/b71fb3a01ce67be4c033d927fd62ca57.jpg"}}}