Finberg's Furniture Store

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French-Canadian brothers founded the Nadeau Investment Company in the late 1800s and amassed Butte real estate, much of it red-light properties that made the family wealthy. Their holdings at the height of Butte’s tenderloin included the far-famed Mercury Street Dumas Hotel and the Copper Block at Wyoming and Galena. The Nadeaus also owned real estate here on the outer fringes of the district. As older Park Street buildings gave way to more modern storefronts, the Nadeaus built this commercial building circa 1916. Paint covers the lower bricks, but the upper story retains its original light, multi-color buff brick and simple cornice. A decorative band of brick in a herringbone pattern with diamond and triangle concrete insets speaks to the early twentieth-century trend toward subtle ornamentation. In 1927, the Nadeaus remodeled the retail space. By 1928, E. J. McMahon’s cigar store and the Central Café occupied the ground floor. Russian Jewish immigrant Samuel Finberg moved his furniture store to this location in 1932 where he became a local fixture, doing business until he handed over the store to his son in 1966.

• Reference: Taken verbatim from National Register plaque (SHPO)
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