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Address: 506 East Babcock -
Ownership:name- Stan Clark, Helen Kent, Carole Simon
❑ private address: 506 East Babcock Roll N 80 Frame k 14
❑ public
r ,,n Historic Name: None
j - • T- 'J( Comri�on Name: None
1881 ❑estimated
Date of Construction: documented
Architect• Unknown
Builder. Unknown
Ui II Original Owner
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Original Use: Residence
- Residence
CK I$ Iq 8� Present Use
T Research Sources:
i --- ❑ abstract of title ❑city directories
25 plat records/maps tract ❑ sewer/water permits
❑ tax cards ❑ obituaries
❑ building permit ® biographies
�. ❑ Sanborn maps—dates:
v �� .--• __ Bibliography:
r-- Leesons 1884
Avant-Courier August 4, 1881; December 29,
1881
• 0 �.-(•vE 1884 Birdseye Map
! i1CI Dippartment of Sanitation
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 one-and -one-half story single family residence has an ell-shaped
plan with an open front porch with an open balcony above. The one-bay facade ' '
is asymmetrical and consists of an offset glass-paned front'entrance' flanked
by one fixed window and double-hung (2/2) windows. There are shutters on
the bottom windows. The fixed windows are made to look like six-paned.
The frame construe finished in brick veneer and rests on a concrete .
foundation. Th able roo is covered with pink asphalt shingles and features
dormers and overhanging eaves. There are two brick chimneys , one exterior
and one interior. Additions have been added to the west and the south with
sliding glass doors made to look multi-paned.
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Justify how the persons,important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the structurelsite
and surrounding area lend the property significance.
This property is significant because this residence is associated with a person
important in Bzeozeman history, Daniel E. Rouse. Rouse, with Willson J. Beall,
laid out the townsite of Bozeman in 1864. Some 160 acres of Rouse's original
land claim, including Rouse's First and Second Additions, are part of early
Bozeman. In the fall of 1864, Rouse put up a log cabin, the first dwelling
in Bozeman. Among his business ventures, Rouse owned a brick yard, and
supplied brick for many Bozeman structures.
This structure is potentially eligible for the National Register because
of Its historical associations and because of its architectural integrity
of materials, location, setting, design and use.
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 retained 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:
DAMES R. iKCDONALD ARCHITECTS P.C.Name Acreage:
P. U. BOX 8163
Address: USGS Quad:
f:.I::SOULA, MONTANA 59807
Date: ;j_ I UTM's:
:,G 1984