The Butte City Jail was constructed in 1890 along with City offices above, the Fire house, Police station and City court. Beneath the ground is the all-original 1890 jail designed to house 43 inmates with separate sections for drunks, ladies, real bad guys and of course a tank or isolation cell.

Robert (Evel) Knievel received his famous name here in 1956 while serving time with William (Awful) Knofel. Abandoned in the mid-1970s the jail is now cleaned and opened as a museum including the thousands of bits of graffiti, original beds, toilets, water fountains and memorabilia from Butte's heydays. The jail was closed because of a suicide by hanging off the shower stall in 1971 — but all the original fixtures, including the shower, are still there to be seen. Montana Standard article

The Old Jail is part of our City Underground Tour.