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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company dominated the local economy. Company subsidiaries built and maintained the city water supply, electric power system, and street railway. Daly and his associates established key commercial enterprises including the major bank, retailer D. J. Hennessy’s local company store, a race track, the highly acclaimed Montana Standard, and the Montana Hotel. Modeled after New York City’s Hoffman House, this premier hotel represented Daly’s political ambition as he promoted Anaconda in the race for state capital. Daly was bitterly disappointed when the city lost the capital race in 1894, but Anaconda survived as a vibrant piece of the Montana mosaic. Significant for its labor history and ethnic diversity, this unique company town was a place where private enterprise also flourished. Elaborate Victorian-era business blocks and the more utilitarian façades of the early twentieth century are testimony to a vigorous business community.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/4f2c939bc492c83e66873a15100548c4.jpg","items":[{"id":2824,"title":"Morse/Palace Block","latitude":46.12875333368587149607265018858015537261962890625,"longitude":-112.952923775556001828590524382889270782470703125,"thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/4f2c939bc492c83e66873a15100548c4.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/4f2c939bc492c83e66873a15100548c4.jpg","subtitle":"Anaconda Commercial Historic District","address":"213 Main Street, Anaconda, Montana","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":2834,"title":"Furst Block","latitude":46.129106106943567056077881716191768646240234375,"longitude":-112.9527449600937103468822897411882877349853515625,"thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/241a79f1eb27b99b439c1429cbdacf03.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/241a79f1eb27b99b439c1429cbdacf03.jpg","subtitle":"Anaconda Commercial Historic District","address":"113 East Park Avenue, Anaconda, Montana","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":307,"title":"Marcus Daly & Company Bank","latitude":46.1294134385467629044796922244131565093994140625,"longitude":-112.952814102282019348422181792557239532470703125,"thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/c2ec371de22514c2f7e470ac885ee24e.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/c2ec371de22514c2f7e470ac885ee24e.jpg","subtitle":"Anaconda Commercial Historic District","address":"123 Main Street, Anaconda, Montana","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":3040,"title":"Pay Office Hall","latitude":46.12963402252922406887591932900249958038330078125,"longitude":-112.9526829706810673314976156689226627349853515625,"thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/6fec8dc20be66b1585771aa24ac83c58.jpg","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/6fec8dc20be66b1585771aa24ac83c58.jpg","subtitle":"Anaconda Commercial Historic District","address":"121 N. 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