CLARK CHATEAU
Mansion — 321 West Broadway, Butte, Montana
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/clark-chateau-butte-montana/

Historic residence and museum.

Clark Chateau is a mansion in Butte, Montana. Historic residence and museum. It sits in the archive under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Clark Chateau is the honeymooned — the 'France copied' that's the couple's trip, the '26 rooms' that's the copper's spend. The 'bribery fled' is the stained — the 'judge bought' that's the '03 charge, the 'California ran' that's the leaving made. The 'song composed' is the sang — the 'state anthem' that's the music room's gift, the '1910 reception' that's the night kept.
The 'cobblestone yard' is the killed — the 'no grass grew' that's the smelter's air, the 'stones laid' that's the yard's fix. The 'senator housed' is the held — the 'Murray lived' that's the New Deal's man, the 'IRA backed' that's the Irish's cause. Clark Chateau is the layered — the 'copper king's son' that's the build's stain, the 'music school' that's the arts' use.
The file keeps the Chateau: the honeymoon's copy, the bribery's flee, the composed song, and the killed grass.
Clark Chateau is the archive's Montana file — the copper mansion where the state song was born.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Clark Chateau is the archive's Montana file — the bribery-stained mansion that gave Montana its song.
A chateau keeps its layers — the file's suggestion being that the Clark's hold is the mixed: the 'copper corruption' that's the build's stain, the 'anthem composed' that's the music's gift, and the 'cobblestone yard' that's the smelter's mark.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] reported presence: Southwest Montana recounts unspecified local haunting stories. Clark Chateau wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places' carries the account. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.
  source: Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places (https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Built in 1898–1899 for Charles and Katherine Clark; later housed a music college and fraternal club. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. The detail is preserved in 'Clark Chateau'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places — Southwest Montana
  https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/
· Clark Chateau — Southwest Montana
  https://southwestmt.com/listings/clark-chateau/

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