{"id":1877,"slug":"myra-brothel-and-hotel-butte-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The building at 108 South Arizona Street was a tinsmith's pride before it was ever a brothel. Swiss-born Antone Canonica pioneered the tin business in Butte from 1898, built the ground floor in 1915, finished the second story by 1920, and fixed his wife Myra's name over the door. The file's research notes insist on this building identity: the same address now anchors a tour district for the neighboring Cabbage Patch shantytown, but the Myra is its own parcel and its own history.","The brothel chapter was brief and deniable by design. After federal crackdowns scattered Butte's open red-light district into rooming houses, the Canonicas leased the upper floor from 1926 to 1929 to Mary Owen, whose \"furnished rooms\" were probably a guise for prostitution. Mary's husband died suddenly in the Grady Block in 1927 while with a female companion, and officials investigated his death as possible moonshine poisoning. After the lease ended, the Canonicas kept the building to themselves and raised six children in it; Antone died in 1948, Myra in 1955."]},{"heading":"The voice calling Rosie","paragraphs":["Southwest Montana's haunted-places coverage files the reports: voices in the building calling a name — Rosie — and the smell of cigar smoke. The research notes warn that sensational death and character assertions were omitted from the file pending archives, so Rosie stays a reported name with no verified person attached.","Context still earns the paragraph: Butte's district of Mercury and Galena street cribs, Pleasant Alley and Venus Alley, ran a thousand working women at its peak, and the last bordello, the Dumas, closed only in 1982. Against that documented economy, one leased floor and one whispered name is a modest file — kept honest."]}],"name":"Myra Brothel and Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"FORMER_BROTHEL","type_label":"Former Brothel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings"],"desc":"Former brothel with reported voices.","full_desc":"A former brothel in Butte, Montana, Myra Brothel and Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Former brothel with reported voices. HauntHunt files it with haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"108 S. Arizona Ave.","city":"Butte","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":48.289615,"lon":-112.833777,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Same address is used for a broader Cabbage Patch tour district; retain building identity separately and investigate parcel boundaries. Sensational death/character assertions omitted pending archives.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":967,"type":"VOICES","description":"Southwest Montana recounts voices calling Rosie and cigar smells. The reports at Myra Brothel and Hotel are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places' keep the claim in circulation. The sounds are the site's most consistent claim — the one detail witnesses agree on.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Southwest Montana recounts voices calling Rosie and cigar smells. The site in Butte, Montana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Southwest Montana’s Haunted Places","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/haunted-places/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}