Anaconda Reduction Department, Southeast side of Warm Springs Valley, Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, MT

Significance: The Foundry Department of the Anaconda Reduction Department was organized as an independent venture in the late 1880s. Originally known as the Anaconda Hardware Company - dealers in stoves, iron, steel, cutlery, and glassware - the firm was purchased by the Tuttle Manufacturing Company in 1890. This latter concern expanded the complex to include the production of industrial wire, engines and boilers as well as domestic hardware...
Survey number: HAER MT-37
Building/structure dates: 1885- 1889 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1902 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1904- 1905 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1914-1915 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1960 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1975-1976 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work