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STAINED GLASS TOUR 2007
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| CPR's WALKING TOUR GUIDES: Julie Crowley, historian and tour guide Irene Scheidecker, historian and co-author of Stained Glass Booklet Nicole von Gaza, historian, tour guide Dick Gibson, Old Butte Hist. Adv., and co-author of Stained Glass Booklet |
The tour is FREE, and an informative 56-page full-color booklet published by the CPR is available for purchase for $5.00 ($7.00 mailed; click here for ordering information). Publication of the booklet was supported in part by grants from the Montana Cultural Trust and Butte's Urban Revitalization Agency, assistance that is greatly appreciated. The guided walking tour begins at the Leonard Hotel, 215 W. Granite St., and lasts about 1½ hours. • Free trolley rides will be provided from the last church, St. Mark's, back to the Leonard. The Trolley is courtesy of donations by Uptown Butte Glass Works (Nicole von Gaza) and Andrea Stierle, and the Chamber of Commerce. Thanks!
| Co-authors of the Stained Glass book, Dick Gibson and Irene Scheidecker, will be giving a presentation, Through a Glass Brightly: Vignettes of Butte History through Stained Glass, at the Montana Historical Society in Helena on May 17, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. |
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TOUR STARTS AT LEONARD HOTEL: Please Do NOT Go directly to the Churches
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Butte CPR is a non-profit organization that promotes the preservation of Butte's historic houses, commercial buildings, churches, and neighborhoods. Previously sponsored and conducted tours included the first stained glass tour in 2003, and tours of historic homes, the Anselmo and Steward mine yards, and the uptown commercial district.
Description of 2005 stained glass tour
Description of 2006 stained glass tour
Butte CPR is organizing its fourth tour of stained glass windows on Sunday April 22, 2007. Butte is blessed with an amazing array of stained and leaded glass windows. This year the tour will focus on historic places of worship, which hold some of the most spectacular examples of stained glass that Butte, once one of the wealthiest cities in the nation, could muster. The tour will take place on Sunday afternoon, April 22, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.