Slideshow presentation of Richard Gibson's presentation "Hidden Tunnels of Butte."

1. Under the Sidewalk
Hidden Tunnels of Butte
By Dick Gibson
2013

2. Disclaimer

3. Types of Tunnels
 Mine tunnels
 Steam tunnels
 Storm-water tunnels
 Utility conduits
 Sub-sidewalk vaults

4. Mine Tunnels

5. The 1906-07 building boom
 Metals Bank
 Phoenix building
 Carpenters Union
 Silver Bow Club
 Telephone Co. (Water Co.)
 Thornton Hotel addition
 Napton Hotel
 Leonard Hotel
 Butte Floral
 Marcus Daly Statue
 St. Francis Apartments
 St. Mark’s Church
 First Baptist Church
 Buol Building (W.Broadway)
Napton Hotel façade

6. Steam
Tunnels
Butte Miner, Oct. 14, 1906
24-30 East Park
The barber in the
basement here was
Charles Reichle

7. 1914 map
24-26 and 30-34 E. Park still there in 1956
(addresses 18-20 & 22-24 after Rialto built in 1916)
Would become Rialto Theater
Would become Park Theater
Board of Trade
shaft

8. Steam Tunnels
1914
Steam Plants

10. Steam Tunnels
A year or two later than 1914

11. Storm-Water Culverts
Buffalo Gulch

12. 1884
Buffalo Gulch

13. Buffalo Gulch

14. “Large amount of water in
Spring and Winter”
“Culvert”
“Underground Ditch”
Photo by Robert Edwards

15. “Underground Ditch”
“Sewer”
Courtesy Sekisui America Corp. via
Montana Standard (2011)

16. 1884
1888

17. Utility conduits
1906

18. Utility conduits
2012

19. Sub-sidewalk vaults
Basement under sidewalk
Store room under walk

20. East Broadway: Southern Hotel

23. 1900
1916

24. Sub-Sidewalk Vaults
Sub-basement beneath Galena Street
sidewalk
Photo courtesy John McKee

25. Photo courtesy Old Butte Historical Adventures

26. Basement, 113 N. Main

27. Hirbour Tower
Photo courtesy Old Butte Historical Adventures

28. Photo courtesy Old Butte Historical Adventures

29. Photo courtesy Old Butte Historical Adventures

30. M&B Block (W. Broadway)

31. 119 Hamilton

32. Keg Slides

33. Glass Bricks

34. Sub-sidewalk vaults
Chinatown had them too

35. Wah Chong Tai

36. Mai Wah
inside

38. Vent

39. Other
tunnels

40. Other
tunnels
“not used” - 1951

41. Thank You!