Registered Historic Site St. Mark's Episcopal Church

Address

601 Main Street
Anaconda, MT 59711 View on Map Own or manage this business?

Website http://pintlercluster.com Email reverend@pintlercluster.com Phone 406-563-3625

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About Anaconda grew quickly after Copper King Marcus Daly established it as his smelter town in 1883, but the community’s Episcopalians needed to wait seven years before they could lay the cornerstone for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on October 21, 1890. Before then, they had depended on priests from Deer Lodge and Butte, or on visits of Bishop Richmond Leigh Brewer from Helena. Services were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church South building and later above Foskett’s saloon. At the latter site, water for a baptism by the Rev. A. B. Howard of Deer Lodge once was supplied from downstairs, and in a beer mug. Even after having their own building, the congregation was dependent on the smelter’s fortunes, and St. Mark’s closed for some months in 1892 when the smelter was shut down. The buff sandstone for this Romanesque Revival church was quarried near Garrison. The original floor plan was that of a Latin cross except for the square entrance bell tower; and a brick one-story addition has squared off the space between transept and apse. From the NRHP Plaque

Contact

MAILING ADDRESS 105 East 6th Street
Anaconda, MT 59711

CONTACT 406-563-3625

Details

SPECIAL DIRECTIONS To find St. Mark's Episcopal Church from the west on Montana 1 turn right on Main Street up six blocks. From the east on Montana 1 turn left on Main Street up six blocks. St. Timothy's - proceed from Anaconda on Montana 1 to Discovery Ski area turn off, turn right and church is visible from road on 6th and Main.

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