Our Lady of the Rockies

The Gift Shop will be closed on Thursday, February 20th as we make some updates to our computer system. We appreciate your patience and we will see you during our regular store hours on Friday! #ladyoftherockies #ourlady #ourladyoftherockies #giftshop #buttemontana #visitbutte #shoplocal

The Lady of the Rockies Gift Shop will be closed Tuesday, January 7th for inventory. We're excited to bring you more wonderful and unique gifts, books, and memorabilia in 2025. We'll be back to our regular hours on Wednesday at 11am.

Are you done with your holiday shopping? If not, we can help! Come visit the Lady of the Rockies Gift shop today from 11-2pm to pick up those last minute gifts and stocking stuffers! Happy Holidays! #ladyoftherockies #ourlady #ourladyoftherockies #giftshop #buttemontana #visitbutte #Christmas #holidayshopping #shoplocal

Prize drawing for the Holiday Open House

Here is the prize drawing for our Holiday Open House! We'll be reaching out to all the winners so you can come and claim your prizes! We'd like to thank the following community businesses for the generous donations they provided during our Holiday Open House last night. • Ace Hardware • Audie James • Amy Schulte with maurices • Butte Chamber of Commerce • Chellie and Chera's Smell of Dreams Scentsy • Front Street Market • The Petunia Factory • Safeway • Three Bears Alaska Inc. • Walmart We'd also like to thank everyone who participated in our celebratory event! We enjoyed a wonderful evening with each and every one of you! We appreciate all the kind and positive comments on the store upgrades. Thank you again, and we hope to see everyone soon! Merry Christmas! Our Lady of the Rockies staff.

Time is running out to book your tour up to the Lady for 2024! Soon weather will make the road to the ridge impassible. Now is a beautiful time of year to visit with the fall colors just starting to change. Call the gift shop today to reserve your spot! 406-782-1221. #ladyoftherockies #ourlady #ourladyoftherockies #summer #buttemontana #visitbutte #memorials 🎥 by Lela Rae Designs

Our Lady’s History - with excerpts from Miracle on the East Ridge by Pat Kearney. Photos from Memories of Our Lady of the Rockies by Joe H. Roberts. Once Leroy Lee had built the hand, he laid out plans to build the face. Joe Roberts had told him the most important thing about the face was it needed to be attractive. Lee designed a blueprint model for the face with a lot of the measurements from the model statue from Shirley Lochrie. Construction of the forehead proved much more difficult than he had imagined, but once it fell into place, the rest of the face followed. The process was helped when a rolling machine was donated to the project by Bearing Incorporated. This made shaping the features of the face much easier without having to hammer away for hours on end on one piece of metal. In December 1983, the face was completed with some sandblasting and painting. It was placed in the equipment yard at Roberts Rocky Mountain Equipment on the afternoon of December 21, 1983. It stood 14 feet high and weighed 1500 pounds. Vic Duran saw the face in the yard at a time when he was having some personal trouble. He approached Leroy Lee to see how he might help with the project. Vic had some minor experience welding and was willing to learn, so Lee was willing to teach him. "Throughout the winter, Leroy Lee, Ron Hughes, and Vic Duran spent their time welding the head section of the statue. Lee would draw chalk lines on the iron based on measurements from his grid plan. Ron Hughes would cut out the section, Leroy would tack it into place, then Duran or Hughes would weld the piece into place. The trio had developed the method down to clockwork. Unfortunately, in the spring of 1984, Ron Hughes got a job out of state which left the main welding and ironwork of the skin to Lee and Duran." By the spring of 1984, the head and shoulder section of the statue was completed. It was sandblasted, sprayed with primer, and coated with a special wear-resistant white paint donated to th