Layers of Time on Main Street & Northwestern Energy- Butte, Montana

I often walk around Uptown Butte imagining what it must have been like back in its heyday.

How many people walked up Main Street over the years? Who were they? Where were they going? I am fascinated with the dichotomy of “then and now.” Of old and new. Of what has changed, and what is still the same.

This street scene shows the new Northwestern Energy Building and its reflection, as well as the Medical Arts Building that burned down.

Original artwork © Lisa Wareham Photography. Historic image © BSB Archives.