Emanuel Lutheran Church

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Swedish Lutherans established their first congregation in Butte in 1896 and erected a small wooden chapel on the back of this lot in 1901. Like many congregations, the membership quickly outgrew the structure, which however continued to serve Butte and was a mattress factory when it burned in 1937. In 1912, the congregation began construction of this church, which cost $15,000. The prominent octagonal spire rests on a wooden tower ornamented with pinnacles and projecting gables. The steep pitch of the gables, lancet-arched tracery windows, and diagonal buttresses capped with contrasting sandstone trim all mark this church as Gothic Revival. Butte Unity Truth Center, a nondenominational Christian church, purchased the building in 1958, when Emanuel Lutheran moved to the Flat.

Butte's second Swedish church was the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church that stood at the northwest corner of Copper and Alaska Streets.

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