The Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives occupies a historic 1900 Butte Fire Department station house located in the Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark District. The facility collects and preserves historic artifacts while providing access to the community, tourists, and history buffs. After the Archives outgrew the building’s configurations, the design team launched an extensive rehabilitation of the existing space and created a state-of-the-art vault addition to provide ample secure storage for the facility’s copious historic treasures. The vault mirrors the original, historic building. Additionally, a transitional lobby was constructed to connect the two buildings in a linear fashion, seamlessly merging old with new. Unique design details epitomize the admiration people share for Butte’s enduring place in Montana history. Six quotations are etched in the vault’s exterior granite panels, including the powerful words of Mary Hagan, the great grandmother of infamous stuntman Evel Knievel: “…when you get to the new world, don’t stop in America. You go straight to Butte, Montana.”