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| Hotel Finlen | |
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General information | |
| Location | Butte, Montana, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 46°00′46″N 112°32′08″W / 46.012840°N 112.535580°W |
| Opening | January 1, 1924 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 9[1] |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 250[1] |
Hotel Finlen is a historic hotel in Butte, Montana, United States, built in 1924.
History
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The Hotel Finlen was established by James Finlen, the son of Miles Finlen, an Irish immigrant who had opened the McDermitt Hotel in Butte in 1889.[2] The Hotel Finlen opened on January 1, 1924, and was architecturally inspired by the Astor Hotel in New York City.[3] It was completed on a budget of $750,000[2] (equivalent to $14,089,806 in 2025). The tallest tower on the building was finished in 1924, and construction on a second tower began in 1927, but went unfinished due to the stock market crash of 1929.[3]
In 2018, the hotel was acquired by a group of four investors led by J. J. Adams, a professor at Montana Tech, by the Taras family, who had owned the hotel for approximately 40 years.[3]
Notable guests
[edit]The hotel was visited by various notable guests throughout the 20th century, including aviator Charles Lindbergh and Presidents Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Our Story". Hotel Finlen.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - 1 2 Madison, Erin (November 9, 2014). "Butte's Finlen Hotel is thriving". Great Falls Tribune.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - 1 2 3 Smith, Mike (January 16, 2018). "Sold! Butte's historic Finlen Hotel changes hands". The Montana Standard.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Olberding, Janelle M. (2019). Butte and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-439-66685-2.
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