Project Overview | Physical Facilities |
Updated, June 25, 2006

Together, these facilities combine to provide the following business meeting and conference facilities:

• Conference-presentation auditorium able to handle up to 1,252 attendees, plus over 50 presenters. 
• Large meeting room and/or ballroom 84’ x 57’, with integrated presentation stage, kitchen and bathrooms.
• 4 smaller meeting, presentation and/or break out rooms, including one configured as a boardroom. 
• Staging and presentation preparation spaces.

The Butte Center for the Performing Arts Building houses the Mother Lode and Orphan Girl Theatres.  The building includes a large entrance lobby area, suitable for staging registration services, receptions, cocktail parties and the like.  The main auditorium, which houses the Mother Lode, is the main large conference center area, able to house meetings of up to 1,252 attendees.  While the auditorium is large, its design allows for much smaller conferences on the main floor area, ranging in size from 100 to 303 attendees, all without conference participants feeling like they are sitting in the middle of a stadium.  This unique design provides for 303 seats on the main floor, 370 on the mezzanine level, 182 on the front balcony and 347 on the rear balcony.  Space is available for an additional 50 temporary seats in the auditorium, if needed. 

The auditorium, stage, orchestra pit and all support areas represent a first class conference-presentation facility, that by itself would cost in excess of 30-million dollars to construct today.  The facilities comprising the theatre have undergone more than 4-million dollars of renovation in recent years.  This conference-presentation facility is currently state-of-the-art in terms of its physical infrastructure, staging, and support areas.  The conference-presentation facility specifications include:

Presentation Facilities Load-In:
The loading doors for are from the west side of the building ( Washington Street ).
Load-in door: 8'x10' and 9' above street pavement.
A hydraulic platform lift, 71/2' x 10' @ 3,000 lbs. capacity is used to load from street level or truck bed to stage level. The load-in area will be barricaded and free of snow and obstacles prior to load-in.
Preparation room load-in access is from street level under the hydraulic lift.
Street level access to the MTA ballroom in the basement of the theatre (Galena Street-south of theatre).  .

Presentation Stage:
Hardwood floor, over 1 ½" "sleepers."
Traditional proscenium ¾ stage.
Proscenium opening 41'9"
Proscenium height 25'
Plaster line to back wall 27'9" max SL - 23'9" min SR (back wall angles)
Plaster line to last US line set 20'10"
Plaster line to apron edge 36"
Max. depth w/pit cover 35'9" @ center line
SR wing (unobstructed) 15'
SL wing (unobstructed) 19'
Wing height 21'6"
Plaster line to FOH bridge 48' @ approximately 45 degrees

Orchestra Pit:
Orchestra pit has a removable cover to increase downstage area. Pit is equipped with 6 dimmable and 6 house duplex A/C outlets. Orchestra pit has a fixed floor (non-hydraulic). Will accommodate approximately 20 musicians or other support personnel. Adjacent to the pit are 2 removable platforms (cover downstage access steps) at stage level that add 72 square feet of presentation area.
Stage abutment length 34'7"
Min. depth each side 4'10"
Max. depth in center 8'11"

Lighting System:
Control console-ETC Insight 2X memory control located in control pit at bottom of mezzanine. 1.44 Mb
3 ¼ disk storage; 600 cue capability; 1556 channel/sub masters; soft patch. The light board is DMX and AMX compatible. DMX port backstage left. Monitors are recessed in dedicated control location and to be used by road consoles.
There are approximately 180-2000 watt 20A dimmers for general use. 10 are dedicated for house light use. All can be multiplexed.
There are 2-D50AF 50-amp dimmers wired to U.S. wall plugs.
See attached stage plan for circuit information. All circuits permanently wired to dimmers.
Road service power DSL wing-400A 3 phase 120/240 V safety switch.

Lighting Inventory:
ETC Source Four Ellipsoidal (575 W halogen)
8 ea. 10 degree
8 ea. 19 degree (6 x 16)
51 ea. 26 degree (6 x 12)
20 ea. 36 degree (6 x 9)
9 ea. 50 degree (4.5 x 6)
30 ea. 8" Fresnels (750 W halogen) 6 barn doors; no top hats
4 ea. 18"-1000 W Scoops
6 ea. 4 cell sky cyclorama (1500 W halogen)
6 ea. Par cans (1000 W incandescent)
2 ea. Lycian Starklite 2 follow spots w/1200-watt MSR lamps. Located on FOH bridge.
Will order specific gels required for a performance. Allow 2 weeks delivery.

Audio System:
The theatre has superior acoustics. Excessive audio amplification is not necessary for presentation speakers to be heard in upper balcony. The house P.A. (eq'd for the hall) is sufficient for most uses.
Allen & Heath GL3-424 (24 x 4 x 2) house console.
Denon 720B cassette w/ variable speed
Denon DNI000F CD w/ variable speed
Lexicon Reflex MIDI Reverb
2 ea. Behringer MCX 2000 audio interactive dynamics processor dual channel compressor/limiter
Ashley MCX231031 band dual EQ for monitors
4 ea. JBL 4731 dual 12" two-way loudspeakers (mounted to proscenium wall, 2 ea. L & R)
Items below located DSR wing
Crown Macro Tech 1200 amplifiers
TDM equalizers model 30GE-1 (pre-set for house)
Patch panel (27 sends, 8 returns to FOH position)

Other inventory:
3 ea. Shure SM58 vocal mics
3 ea. Shure SM57 vocal mics
2 ea. Shure wireless mic system w/lavalier or handheld transmitters
2 ea. AKG C 391B Condenser mics
3 ea. Shure 819 PCC floor mics
3 ea. Shure MX202B/C floor mics
3 ea. Shure MX Choir mics
10 ea. Ultimate 21989B two-piece boom stands
3 ea. Countryman Type85 direct boxes
4 ea. Ramsa WS-A500K monitor speakers w/lean back stands

Intercom System:
ClearCom PS-22 2 channel power system
Stations - Control pit Channel - a/b. FOH bridge - b. Projection booth - a/b. Fly operating dock - b. DSR & DSL SM pos. - a/b. Dress/Green rooms - a. Manager's office - a/b.

Projection Booth:
The Mother Lode Theatre is equipped with a 'Simplex XL' 35 mm projector, located in upper balcony, Dolby stereo sound system and 36'x 18' presentation screen. located in upper balcony. There is room for setting up a subtitle projector. Other locations for a subtitle projector are available. Sound link is available to control pit. House movie screen can be lowered to use for subtitles.

Other Equipment:
A black Roscoe 'Performance' dance floor is available (40' wide x 24' deep).
9' Baldwin concert grand piano owned by Butte Community Concert Association
50 Manhasset music stands & 60 black padded chairs
Full size podium
Full size speaking podium available.
One 300-pound Genie man lift (30' working height)

The Masonic Temple Building is a five story facility with business and conference center facilities located on the 1^st floor and basement levels.  This facility easily provides a large ballroom or business conference-presentation room with a stage, four smaller meeting or breakout rooms, a dining room, kitchen facilities serving all meeting areas and restrooms. 

1^st Floor Facilities include:  

·          3 Meeting and/or breakout rooms w/kitchen facilities
- Room-1:  21’ x 26’ : Can be set up for various configurations, including high density seating.
- Room-2:  18’ x 29’ : Room currently configured with boardroom conference table and chairs.
- Room-3:  17’ x 29’ : Can be set-up for various configurations, including high density seating. 
- Tables and Chairs Available for all rooms 

·          1 Dining Room w/kitchen facilities

·          Restroom Facilities

Basement Level Facilities include: 

·          1 Large Conference-Presentation Room / Ballroom : 84’ x 57’ /includes: 
- Presentation or entertainment stage : 37’ x 18’ with curtain
- Catering Staging / Kitchen Area : 37’ x 20”
- Tables and Chairs for attendees and presenters.
- Restroom Facilities

·          1 Small Meeting and/or breakout room : 18’ x 15’ /includes:
- Additional space available
- Tables and Chairs Available
- Restroom