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Objectives

• Promote public awareness of the value of historic architecture.
• Encourage economic revitalization through historic preservation.
• Provide public education regarding Butte's historic architecture.
• Recognize individuals and groups for outstanding renovation and maintenance of historic structures.
• Provide financial aid in preservation, restoration, and revitalization of historic structures.
• Promote historic preservation through public policy.
• Mothball abandoned buildings, securing and stabilizing them for future use.
• Stop the demolition of architecturally significant buildings.
• Help prevent theft of historical elements.
• Salvage architectural features for reuse.

Membership

Butte CPR is a Butte CPR is a 501(c)3 non-profit Montana community organization. Donations are gratefully appreciated! Meetings are held monthly, on second Tuesdays; check the home page or the calendar for location. We have a new membership structure and new dues beginning in 2008. Information on levels of support, benefits, and membership are on the dontations page. CPR Memberships are for the calendar year, and are due in January each year.

Volunteers

Volunteers are critical to our operation! We have more and more activities going on, and can ALWAYS use your help. When you do volunteer for CPR, please keep track of your time, as it is vital in terms of match for our Montana Cultural Trust Grant.

Demolition Counter

It's often said that the preservation community demands that every single building be saved. On the contrary: the Historic Preservation Commission approves many, many demolitions for every one that it argues about. Below is the count of demolitions recorded in Butte since March of 2007, when the current Historic Preservation Ordinance went into effect.

This is a work in progress and does not include all demolitions, but it does count demolitions for which the HPC had no input, or when demolition occurred despite a HPC ruling. "Demolitions Denied" includes only denied requests that are still standing. As of Sept. 5, 2012.