HomeMy WebLinkAbout224 S Sixth 1985 MONTANA HISTORICAL AND
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Legal Description* Park Blk 12/Lots 14. 85' of 13 and 14 `
Address: 224 South Sixth I
Ownership:name: Gordon Wi rkham
lR private address: 224 South Sixth Roll N 63 Frame#17A-1
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Common Name- Unknown
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L% : f Uj L Date of Construction• C.. 19n8 M documented
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> 1 a > Original Owner: Unknown '
, JJ Original Use: Residence
Present Use, Residence
Research Sources:
r— I ❑ abstract of title ❑ city directories
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I3 plat recordslmaps tract [�A sewer/water permits
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F- ❑ tax cards ❑ obituaries
❑ building permit ❑ biographies
ram" lZ Sanborn maps—date& 1912
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` Bibliography:
r� r Sewer Permit, 1932, George Bartz; note on
sewer permit - house has been
connected for years
Department of Sanitation
Locauun mapPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Describe present appearance of structurelsite,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 single-family residence has a square plan with a
hipped roof front porch with gable overdoor and solid railing. The one-bay
facade is asymmetrical and consists of an off-center front entrance with
fixed, transomed (with beveled glass) and 1/1 double-hung windows. The bearing
wall construction is brick and has shingles on the gable ends. The structure
rests on a concrete block foundation. The hipped roof is covered with rust
asphalt shingles and features partially returning eaves and a central brick
chimney. The axis of the main roof is perpendicular to the street with gable
intersects facing front and side.
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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Justify how the persons,important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the structure/site
and surrounding area lend the property significance.
Research in the sources consulted in this survey has not yielded any
significant historical information concerning persons or events
associated with this property.
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This structure qualifies as a contributing element within a potential historic
district due to its association with the residential aspect of the Civic
Phase of Bozeman 's historic/architectural development.
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:
Name IArAFS R 1.-rr0NALD ARCHITECTS P.C. Acreage:
Address: P 0 BOX 8163 USGS Quad:
Date: MISSOULA, MONTANA 59807 UTM's:_
4 REVISED
Mafthew A. Cohen
Bozeman, Montana
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224 S. 6th
1985 revision
Matt Cohen, surveyor
One of only five brick buildings in the district, this house seems to have
been patterned after "House Design #1061" in Hodgson' s turn of the century
mail order house catalog. It may have been built as part of a pair, along
with 221 S. 6th Ave. , another brick house directly across the street. Both
houses stand on prominent corner lots.
Undocumented research on the survey form places the date of construction at
c. 1908 - a reasonable estimate. George Bartz, an employee of Thomas Red &
I CO. (a grocer at 11 E. Main) , is listed in the 1904-5 directory as living
on S. 3rd Ave. , but in the 1910-11 directory as living here. By 1916 Bartz
had apparently opened his own grocery at 225 W. Main St. In 1927 his grocery
was at 27 S. Tracy. Bartz died in 1932, at which time his wife apparently
moved out of this large house and built 513 W. Curtiss next to it as a small
residence and grocery store.
Since a virtually identical house in wood, 422 S. 6th Ave. , as well as 221
S. 6th Ave. , noted above, are both associated to some degree with local
builder A.J. Svorkmoe, tentative attribution to that builder for this house
can be made.
Bibliographer
Application for Sewer Connection, September 8, 1932, George Bartz, "For Record
only. House has been connected for years, but not shown on Sewer Map. "
City directories: 1904-5, p. 75; 1910-11; 1916-17; 1927
Sanborn Map, 1912 (house appears)
Hodgson.
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