The Anaconda City Hall, located at 401 E. Commercial in

Anaconda, Montana Anaconda, county seat of Deer Lodge County, which has a consolidated city-county government, is located in southwestern Montana, United States. Located at the foot of the Anaconda Range (known locally as the "Pintlers"), the Continental Divid ...

, was built in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is also a contributing building in the Anaconda Commercial Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1998. It is Late Victorian in style, designed by architectural firm Charles Lane & Company's Collins W. Reber and built by Jacobson & Co. It was asserted in 1896 that Lane and Reber "stated the City Hall would be 'the finest municipal building in the State,' and that it would be built in a 'straightforward manner... using local materials:' Anaconda pressed brick, granite, and trimmed with Anaconda copper." It is a structure. The

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facade faces onto Commercial Street and includes a clock tower; a treasurer's office and fire station were located in the west-facing facade. With . The building was threatened with demolition in 1978 but was saved by a local group led by Alice Clark Finnegan, which pressed a court action, and was aided by a

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grant.

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National Register of Historic Places in Deer Lodge County, Montana Victorian architecture in Montana Government buildings completed in 1895 Anaconda, Montana City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana 1895 establishments in Montana {{Montana-NRHP-stub