Marcus Daly Mansion Hamilton
— — the house copper built, kept in the family clock.
Not only on a wall.
“Riverside, the summer home of Marcus Daly, copper king of Anaconda, sits on a long lawn under old shade trees on the east edge of Hamilton. The house went through three generations: a modest farmhouse in the 1880s, a Queen Anne in the 1890s, and the 24,000-square-foot Georgian Revival the family completed in 1910 after Daly's death. Fifty rooms, twenty-five bedrooms, fifteen baths. The Bitterroot Mountains hold the western horizon. The orchards and stables are mostly memory now, but the trees the Dalys planted still keep the grounds. from the studio
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The Daly Mansion sits on what was the Riverside estate of Marcus Daly, the Irish-born mining magnate who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The house stands on the eastern edge of Hamilton, the Ravalli County seat, in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, framed on the west by the Bitterroot Range. The current building is a 24,000-square-foot Georgian Revival completed in 1910, ten years after Daly's death, when his widow Margaret commissioned architect A.J. Gibson of Missoula to rebuild and enlarge the earlier Queen Anne house. The estate is operated today by the nonprofit Daly Mansion Preservation Trust.
Architect A.J. Gibson, who also designed much of early Missoula including the original University of Montana buildings, recast the Dalys' Queen Anne in a more restrained Georgian Revival idiom: symmetrical brick facades, paired columns at the entry, dormered third storey, broad hipped roof. The house holds fifty rooms, including twenty-five bedrooms, fifteen baths, seven Italian marble fireplaces, and a third-floor ballroom. Riverside originally ran to about 22,000 acres of Bitterroot Valley land, with orchards, racehorse stables, and a Hereford herd that helped fund the family well after the founder's death.
The mansion sits at 251 Eastside Highway, about a mile north of downtown Hamilton, Montana, off US Highway 93. The grounds open daily; the house is shown on guided tours from mid-April through mid-October, with seasonal holiday tours in late autumn. Hamilton is roughly 47 miles south of Missoula by US 93, the Bitterroot River running through the valley to the east. Margaret Daly summered at Riverside until her death in 1941; the State of Montana acquired the property in 1986, and the Preservation Trust has operated and restored it since 1987.