BUTTE — High above the everyday hustle and bustle at the historic Butte-Silver Bow County Courthouse, it is no easy feat to replace windows that date back 113 years.

"They look small from the road, but when you get close, like the ones we’re working up there...they’re twelve and a half feet tall," says Thomas Jensen.

Jensen is the lead apprentice with Butte-based Custom Construction. He is leading a team of six carpenters in the project that began in July 2025. He says it is tricky getting the massive windowpanes—some weighing up to 500 pounds—into place.

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"You have to get up there and lift ‘em onto there on a little piece of metal for it to snap into," says Jensen.

"This project to us is, it’s huge. Cause it’s a lot of pride that goes into changing these windows out, b

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