Hotel Finlen hosts conferences, business meetings, corporate events, weddings and receptions in two ballrooms, a historic bar and its lobby, with guest rooms in a 1924 tower and a mid-century motor inn. The hotel is at 100 East Broadway Street in Uptown Butte, Montana, inside one of the largest historic districts in the United States.
Seminars and company events
The Treasure State Ballroom is the room the hotel presents for conferences and business meetings, and the Copper Bowl Ballroom also takes conferences and corporate events. Beyond company work, the hotel lists fundraisers, holiday parties, class reunions, graduations, birthdays and anniversaries among the events it hosts. The site does not publish capacities, room sizes or equipment, so send the number of guests and the layout you need through the request for proposal page and the sales team will confirm what fits.
Weddings and receptions
The two ballrooms are the wedding rooms. The Copper Bowl, on the main floor, is used for both ceremonies and receptions, and the Treasure State Ballroom for receptions and dancing. The hotel also hosts bridal showers and anniversary parties, and couples can hold the ceremony, the reception and the after-party in the same building.
Rooms and capacities
The Treasure State Ballroom has a large maple dance floor, crystal chandeliers, high ceilings and a full-service portable bar. The Copper Bowl Ballroom is decorated in Art Deco style, with a surrounding balcony, an oak parquet dance floor and a curved staircase. The ballrooms rise to 22-foot ceilings on copper leaf columns, with copper mirrors, decorative pillars and vintage dance floors. The Cavalier Lounge and the lobby are also listed as event venues.
Accommodation
Guests stay either in the Historic Tower, the 1924 building, or in the retro motor inn added in the 1950s. The hotel does not publish its current number of rooms, so ask how large a block it can hold for your dates.
Catering
The hotel does not run in-house catering for events. It points organizers to local caterers who know the building. The Cavalier Lounge, the historic bar on site, holds a full liquor license and serves draft beer, wine and cocktails, which covers the bar for a reception or a corporate evening.
History and setting
Hotel Finlen opened in 1924, designed after the Hotel Astor in New York in the Second Empire style. The original building had nine floors and 250 rooms. John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Thomas Edison and Charles Lindbergh are among its past guests. A hospitality and real estate group bought the hotel in 2018 and is upgrading it in stages. Butte grew as a copper mining city, and Uptown keeps its brick commercial blocks and mine headframes. The town hosts the Montana Folk Festival each July and an Irish festival in August, dates to watch when booking rooms.
Getting there
Bert Mooney Airport in Butte has flights to Salt Lake City. The city sits at the junction of Interstate 15 and Interstate 90, under two hours by road from Bozeman and from Missoula.
