Uptown Butte and the Butte-Anaconda Historic District: A Landmark City on the Hill
Butte does not have a downtown in the usual sense. It has Uptown, a dense city center of brick and stone that climbs the steep flank of the Butte Hill, with mine headframes standing on the slopes above the rooftops. The name reflects the geography, because nearly everything in the historic core is uphill from the flats to the south.