As Ralph may say, "Not every artichokes is a dumas."

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The first owners of the Dumas were the French Canadians Arthur and Joseph
Nadeau. Joseph came to the United States in 1868, and in 1878, married Delia,
also a French Canadian. They came to Butte in 1879. The ownership of the
Dumas was listed in her name. From 1888 until 1900, Joseph Nadeau was
proprietor of the Windsor Hotel and Restaurant at 13 E. Broadway, in the
heart of the respectable business district. Just a few blocks south of this
enterprise, lay the Red Light District, which by 1890, had been established
along Mercury and Galena Streets, east of Main and West of Arizona streets.

The Nadeaus created the Nadeau Investment Company and by 1922 owned several
building in the Red Light District, including the Copper Block, a large brick
saloon and hotel, which provided living quarters for area prostitutes,
gamblers and others of questionable reputations. The Copper Block, on the
corner of Galena and Wyoming streets, just north and east of the Dumas, was
demolished in the early 1990's.
Joseph's imaginative descriptions of himself reflect the changing times: in
1885 he listed his occupation as "landlord," until 1905 his self-proclaimed
title was "capitalist," and in 1905 he listed his business as "real estate."

"When Almodovar came here from L.A., she entered a fight over the town's
soul. On one side are residents of the flats, the suburban realm of
McDonald's and Staples. Susan Kaluza, 41, lives there with her husband, three
children, and bunnies that run freely on her immaculate green lawn. "I didn't
want Butte to be identified with the sex workers of the U.S.," says Kaluza,
spokeswoman for the Concerned Citizens. "What if our children see the Dumas
and say, `O.K., this seems like a good career'?"

On the other side is the uptown district where the brothels were. It draws
assorted Old West romantics and libertarians. Curt Buttons, 54, is one of the
folk who keep the saloons open until 2 a.m. A former Dumas client who
estimates he has had sex with 50 prostitutes, Buttons, a retired railroad
worker, has given more than $1,500 to restore the Dumas. "I hate the town
Butte is becoming," he says. "You can't have a great time." John Cloud,
American Scene, The Oldest Profession Gets a New Museum, Time, 08/14/2000 p4.