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HomeMy WebLinkAbout503 E. Mendenhall 1984 MONTANA HISTORICAL AND ` ARCHITECTURAL ,INVENTORY Siteq :��: Legal Description: Rouse' s First. Block H Lots 1 and 2- Address. 503 East Mendenhall Ownership: name: Mi cheal a Shyne ❑ private address: Richard M. and Donna Shanahan Roll p 29 Frame# 1 - �' pubic ��`�"y,yt�� � ��,lt�yl E Historic Name: Unknown Common Name: Unknown f E estim-aled I Date of Construction: 1889-1890 cocumenied ' architect, Unknown 7 1 : Unknown z i B'Jllddr. _J Original Owner George Huffman IA HORNE Original use: Unknown SCHOOL `r _Lll _ Present Use: Office Building. IVL2 tJ' E/v 14 Research Sources: r � abstract of title ❑ city directoriesP b LI C E Q(plal records maps sewer/water permits ❑(lax cards ❑ obituaries F�R� _ _ [I building permit ❑ biographies _ U r q� ❑(Sanborn maps—dales: I..CI^() ur �' -T- - Y - Bibliography: C IT * � D + _ Progressive Men in Montana ' H A L ' Sewerpermit, 1924, Susan Huffman. --I-- L i 1 L 44ii1� �Yl Ire) PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Describe present appearance of structure/site,then contrast and compare that with it's original appearance, noting additions,alterations,and changes in materials.Discuss significant architectural features. This detached two-story office building has a greek cross plan and flush entry door offset to one side. The brick construction sits on a concrete foundation. The intersecting gable roof is covered with cedar shingles and features a central brick chimney. There has been some upgrading work, especially on the windows. Outbuildings include a garage with notched wood. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Justify how the persons,Important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the structure/site and surrounding area lend the property significance. . i . This residence was built for George Huffman , and early day Bozeman settler. He followed the gold strikes to Montana in 1864 from Kentucky and settled ih the Gallatin Valley in 1866. He resided part of the year on his ranch and part of the year in town. This structure is potentially eligible for the National Register because of its historical associations and because of its architectural integrity of materials, location, setting, and design. INTEGRITY: Assess the degree to which the structure/site,and surrounding area accurately convey the historical associations of the property. The historic integrity of this property has been retaln,: due to the survival of original design and materials and continuity of use, setting and location. INFORMATION VALUE: Explain how the extant structure/site may demonstrate or yield information about its historic use or construc- tion. None. FORM PREPARED BY. GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Name DAMES R. MCDONALD ARCHITECTS P.C. Acreage, Address: P. 0. BOX 8163 USGS Quad: Date:_ MISSOULA, MONTANA 59807 IJTM's• AUG' 9OA34 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD For the Montana National Register of Historic Places Program and State Antiquities Database Montana State Historic Preservation Office Montana Historical Society PO Box 201202, 1410 81h Ave Helena,MT 59620-1202 Property Address: 503 East Mendenhall Street Site Number: 24 GA 1912(update) (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): 104 North Church Avenue City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin Historic Name: George&Susan Huffman Residence Legal Location Original Owner(s): George&Susan Huffman PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ® Private ❑Public NW/4 SW'/a NE'/a of Section: 7 Current Property Name: Preservation Capital Lot(s): 1-2 Owner(s): 503 Mendenhall LLC Block(s): H Owner Address: 3240 Sentinel Drive Addition: Rouse's First Year of Addition: 1870 Bozeman, MT 59715-8791 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Phone: Historic Use: Single-Family Ri „ 4r , ' "M Reference www.nris.mt. og v/tol2ofinder2 Current Use: Office/Apartment 14AD 27 or ®NAD 83(preferred) U� 12 Eastin : 497670 Northing: 5058556n Construction Date: 1889 El Est �\ g g ® Original Location ❑Moved - Q National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: March 31,2016 NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Jon Axline Historic District: No Address: 448 Parriman St./Helena, MT NRHP Eligible: ®Yes ❑No Daytime Phone: 406-422-2111 MT SHPO USE ONLY Comments: Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D Date: Evaluator: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Property Name: George&Susan Huffman Residence Site Number: 24 GA 1912 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Information Page Architectural Style: Queen Anne If Other,specify: Property Type: Residential Specific Property Type: Single-Family Residence Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Source of Information: Concisely,accurately,and completely describe the property and alterations with dates. Number the buildings and features to correlate with the Site Map. The George and Susan Huffman Residence is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of East Mendenhall Street and North Church Avenue. It faces south onto East Mendenhall. The two-story masonry Queen Anne style residence features a cross-gable roof covered in wood shingles with wide wood fascia under the corniced eaves. The walls of the residence are red brick set in a running bond. The house sits on a plinthed stone foundation with stucco veneer. There are fish scale pattern wood shingles on each of the four gable ends of the house. Windows throughout the dwelling have segmental arch lintels and dressed limestone sills. The segmental arches on the first floor have soldier coursed lintels and header coursed lintels on the second floor windows. Windows on the second floor face north, south, east, and west and are all recent 1/1 double-hung units. The ground floor windows hold recent 2/2 double-hung units throughout except where otherwise noted. The residence displays symmetrical fenestration. An open-air shed roof porch is attached on the north of the west facade. The footprint of the porch is historic as is the roof, but the support system and decking are recent. The north end of the porch roof is clad in wood fish scale shingles. The porch roof is sheathed in wood shingles and the ceiling is bead board. The roof is supported by square wood posts with 2 x 6 wood boards veneering them. The porch has recently added horizontal board railings on the west and north. The porch has a concrete foundation veneered with red concrete pavers. It is reach by a paver- veneered step on the south. The primary entry to the building is reached through the porch. It has a recent decorative wood door with a fixed light. A window is adjacent to the doorway on the north. Window openings are located adjacent to the porch on the south and on the south side of the bay. A doorway is located on west of the south elevation of the bay. A window is adjacent to it on the west. It is not known when the doorway was added to the dwelling, but it does not appear in historic photographs of the house. It has a recent wood paneled door with a decorative frosted fixed light. Two window openings are located on the ground floor of the south elevation. The west window appears in an undated historic photograph of the house as a doorway with a transom; it was later reconstructed as a window. It is taller in height than the east window and has an infilled transom with"503" in raised letters is attached to the infilling the feature. Both windows have segmental arched lintels and 1/1 double-hung windows. The west window is mostly obscured by a lilac bush. The east facade has a projecting bay that corresponds with the west(facade) bay. A single window opening is located in the gable-end with a window directly below it on the ground floor. A gable roof wall dormer is adjacent to the second floor window on the north. The dormer has a gable roof sheathed in wood shingles and the gable-end in squared wood shingles. The dormer has a small 1/1 double-hung window with a soldier-coursed brick sill. Window openings are situated on the north and south of the east facade. A brick arch opening leads to the basement and once functioned as a coal chute. It is mostly obscured by exterior A/C units sitting on a concrete pad. The north elevation has a window centrally located on the second floor. A doorway is offset to the east on the elevation. It has a brick segmental arch lintel and a stone sill. The doorway is reached by two concrete steps. The doorway is infilled with vertical wood tongue-in-groove boards and holds a recent fixed octagonal window. There are no other buildings or structures on the lots. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: George&Susan Huffman Residence Site Number: 24 GA 1912 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ® See Additional Information Page The house first appears on the July 1890 Sanborn fire insurance map. It is shown as a 1'/story cross-gable brick dwelling. The map indicates there was some kind of veneer over the brick on the south and east sides of the residence. The 1891 Sanborn map shows the house in the original configuration, but with a wood frame building located south of the dwelling. It is not known the function of the building, but historic photographs indicate it was much closer to the north side of the house than the map suggests. An open-air wood frame porch had been added to the north of the west side of the house by 1891 (corresponding to the existing porch). There were no changes to footprint of the house (including additions) on the 1904 and 1912 Sanborn maps. The 1927 maps show that the outbuilding may have been converted to an automobile garage and the porch on the west side had been removed. There were also outbuildings at the northeast corner of the lot adjacent to the alley(they no longer exist). There were no other changes to the house on the last two Sanborn maps(Sanborn maps, 1884, 1890, 1891, 1904, 1912, 1927, 1943). On March 28, 1888, George and Susan Huffman purchased lots 1 and 2 on Block H of Rouse's First Addition from Bozeman saloonkeeper Mathias and Emma Mounts for$100. Six months later, in September 1888, the Huffmans lost the property in a bet over an election to R. C. Hite. The Huffman's obtained a mortgage loan from Bozeman schoolteacher A. C. McComb, to buy back the property from Hite and build a house on the lots. They built the house in 1889 (Deed Book 16, p. 126; Leeson 1885: 1147; Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1889, 1890; Bozeman Weekly Chronicle). Born in Kentucky in 1836, George Huffman was orphaned at an early age"and was well prepared by his early dependence on himself and his thorough training in the hard school of adversity. . . ." He worked as a farmer in Missouri from 1856 to 1859 and then joined the Pike's Peak gold rush to Colorado. When he failed in the gold fields, he returned to Missouri and then tried his hand at farming in Kansas and Nebraska until 1861, when he joined the Confederate Army. His enlistment in the army lasted less than a year and then spent a short time in Dakota Territory and Iowa. Huffman arrived in Virginia City, Montana Territory in August 1864. After trying his hand at mining on Alder Gulch and in Helena, he returned to Missouri. Huffman came back to Montana in 1866 on the Bozeman Trail and settled on the East Gallatin Rivera few miles north of Bozeman in Section 25, T1 S,_R5E. He obtained the patent INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page Bozeman City Directories. Omaha, Nebraska: R. L. Polk&Co., Publishers, 1947-2010. Deed Records. Clerk& Recorders Office. Gallatin County Courthouse. Bozeman, Montana. General Land Office Records. Viewed at www.glorecords.blm.gov. "George Huffman Dead." The Butte(Mont.) Inter Mountain, 13 July 1903. Leeson, M. A. History of Montana, 1739-1885. Chicago: Warner, Beers&Company, 1885. "Old Pioneer Passes Away." The Anaconda (Mont.) Standard, 14 July 1903. Progressive Men of the State of Montana. Chicago:A.W. Bowen, 1902. "Real Estate Transactions." The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle, 5 December 1888. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1884, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1904, 1912, 1927, 1943. Research Center. Montana Historical Society. Helena, Montana. United States Census Records. Viewed at www.ancestry.com. "Valley Resident Since 1881 Taken by Death." The Bozeman (Mont.) Daily Chronicle, 27 May 1947. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Property Name: Geor a&Susan Huffman Residence Site Number: 24 GA 1912 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NRHP Listing Date: NRHP Eligibility: ®Yes ❑No ®Individually ®Contributing to Historic District ❑Noncontributing to Historic District NRHP Criteria: ❑A ❑B ®C ❑D Area of Significance: Architecture Period of Significance: 1889-1966 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ❑ See Additional Information Page Built in 1889 by George and Susan Huffman, the residence is associated with a pioneer Gallatin Valley family. George Huffman originally came to Montana in 1864 and returned to the territory with his bride, Susan, in 1881. Despite the couple's long association with the valley and Bozeman, they do not appear very often in the historic record and their contributions to the development of the area are minimal. The construction of the house does not appear to be associated with any historic event in Bozeman. The house does not appear to be associated with the economic boom that characterized communities in Montana along the route of the Northern Pacific Railway in the 1880s. The Huffman Residence, however, does retain excellent integrity and is a representative example of a simple cross- gable-roofed masonry Queen Anne dwelling. The building displays the irregular footprint common to Queen Anne residences and the characteristic intersecting gable roofs, still sheathed in asphalt shingles. The window and door openings are intact in their original configuration, all with brick segmental arched lintels, cut stone sills, and double-hung windows. The house very much presents the appearance of a late 19th century Queen Anne-style residence, a style common in Bozeman. The George and Susan Huffman Residence is individually eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C for its high degree of architectural integrity and as a representative example of the Queen Anne style. The residence, moreover, may also contribute to a potential historic district. INTEGRITY(location,design,setting,materials,workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page The residence retains excellent integrity and is little changed since its construction in 1889. It has been well maintained and updated to serve its current function as a business on the ground floor and an apartment on the second floor. The house is at its original location and retains its historic footprint and fenestration. The brick walls are intact and have not been altered with the exception of the installation of a door on the south elevation of the central facade bay. The windows are recent additions, but appear to be the same style that graced the house originally. The only changes to the original design are the reconstruction of the open-air porch on the facade with modern materials(the shed roof, though, is intact)and the partial infilling of doorways on the north elevation and the inclusion of a recent fixed octagonal window. The original door opening is intact. The interior brick chimney was removed at an unknown date. The historic materials (brick) are still dominant on the structure as are the decorative wood fish scale shingles on the gable ends and the end of the porch roof. The residence displays excellent workmanship, feeling, and association as a late 19th century masonry Queen Anne style dwelling. The rebuilt porch, infilled doorway and new doorway on the south of the central bay do not detract significantly from the overall integrity of the house. The landscaping surrounding the house appears to be historic age and accentuates the visual appeal of the property. The setting of the residence is also largely intact. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PAGE Property Name: George& Susan Huffman Residence Site Number: 24 GA 1912 HISTORY OF PROPERTY(cont.) to 80 acres through cash purchase in February 1871. In June 1873, he purchased an additional 68 acres in adjoining sections. Huffman married Susan Lovell in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1881. The couple returned to Montana that year and lived on the ranch until 1886, when they moved to Bozeman. After 1889, George Huffman divided his time between this house and his ranch on the East Gallatin River. The 1900 census shows Huffman, his wife, Susan, and two children living at this address. He listed his occupation as farmer in the census. George Huffman died in Bozeman on July 13, 1903 and his wife inherited the property(Progressive Men 1902: 1691; US Census Records; Bozeman Daily Chronicle 1947; Montana Standard 1903; Butte Inter Mountain 1903; GLO Records). Huffman's widow, Susan continued to live in the house until her death on May 25, 1947. The 1940 census indicates she lived in there with her son, Hugh. He worked as a"stationary engineer" in a heating plant. Susan's other housemate was a roomer named Harry Peck. In April 1939, Susan signed over ownership of the house to Hugh. Hugh sold the house to Hilda Glade in November 1951. A few weeks later, she sold it to Mark Fuller, a retired Madison County rancher, in December 1951. He owned it until January 1957, when he sold it D. G. Dick, the vice president of the First National Bank of Bozeman. From 1951 until the late 1970s, the house has served as a rental unit for several owners. Beginning in 1977, it functioned as an office building for an architectural firm and a court reporting service (2005-2014) (Bozeman Daily Chronicle 1947; Deed Book 95, p. 511; Ibid, book 107, pp. 19, 35; Ibid, book 123, p. 126; US Census Records; Bozeman City Directories). 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