Standing tall on the corner of Granite Street just at the edge of the Uptown of Butte, the Romanesque Revival Victorian mansion home of William Andrews Clark overlooks the valley below. Erected and furnished prior to Montana's statehood, the 34 rooms of this home are furnished with pieces of furniture from all corners of the world with painted fresco ceilings and grand parquet floors from of rare woods. With a net worth of about $150 million at the time of his death in 1907, which comes out to be around $3.7 billion dollars, so naturally this home had all of the newest technologies of the day! Aside from the electric lanterns and chandeliers, the Clark home had Tiffany stained glass windows and hand carved staircases and fireplaces of great detail and beauty. The mansion has been privately owned by the Cote family now for four generations and they continue to operate the mansion as a bed and breakfast inn and a museum as one of the finest examples of the wealth one of the Copper Kings of Butte at her peak around the turn of the 20th Century.
