The Butte Store is the only structure left from what was once Butte
City. Well built to have lasted so long when everything else is gone,
this old building was constructed in 1857 from local schist fieldstone
with doors and windows framed in fired brick. The post office was
housed here for a short time in 1857, and some accounts claim that the
structure once housed a bakery run by a man named Xavier Benoist. At
one time iron doors and shutters covered all the openings, but vandals
made off with those on the lower level. The original owner of the
building is not known for sure, but it eventually came into the hands
of a man known as Ginnochio, by whose name the building is also known.
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