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Legal Description- Park Blk 15/Lots 6 & 7
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Ownership:name: Earl M. Creasy _
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Common Name: None
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Original Owner: Thomas
Original Use: Residence
Present Use Residence
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Research Sources:
❑ abstract of title ❑ city directories
❑ plat records/maps ® sewerlwaler permits
t /k►y-�-.. - — ❑ tax cards ❑ obituaries
❑ building permit El biographies
�'1 Y 9 Sanborn maps—dates- 1 9 Villa
Bibliography: Department of Sanitation
Interview with Helen Noble Crgasy, July,1983
LL- Bozeman Chronicle-March 30, 1983
Sewer Permit, 1903, T. E. Noble
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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 single-family residence has an L-shaped plan which is
unaltered. The house is in excellent shape and in original form. The porch is a
wrap-around with groups of 2-3 pilasters supporting the hip roof. The railing
is enclosed. The side porch has round columns. The one-bay facade is asymmetrical
and consists of an offset glass-paned front entrance with double-hung windows
with a 1/1 sash arrangement. There are a few leaded glass fixed windows on the
second story. The frame construction is finished in 3" beveled siding with
corner trim on the exterior. It rests on a cut stone foundation. The cross-
gable roof is covered with rust colored asbestos shingles and features box
cornices and one central brick chimney. The axis of the roof is perpendicular
to the street. The outbuildings include an attached rear garage.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Justify how the persons,important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the structurelsite
and surrounding area lend the property significance.
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This property was built for and by Thovias Noble, a partner in the Kenyon-Noble
Lumber Company, that continues under tEe same name today. Thomas Noble was
born in 1857 in the midwest, came to Salesville (Gallatin Gateway) in 1882
as a logger. Some years later he moved into Bozeman, building first at
316 South Third and in 1903, across the street at 311 South Third. He joined
j Squire C. Kenyon as a partner and in 1906 the firm incorporated under the
name Kenyon-Noble. Noble died in 1933. A daughter continues to live in
the home at 311 South Third.
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This tri-gabled vernacular house is exceptionally well preserved. The house
appears on the 1904 Sanborn Map without the present wrap-around porch. The
earliest listing for the house is from 1904-5, when Thomas E. Noble, yard mana-
ger at the S.C. Kenyon Co. was living here, with Joseph Machemer, a painter and
Melvin Machemer, a carpenter, as boarders.
i In 1906, the Kenyon-Noble Lumber Co. , which still operates today, was incor-
porated with Thomas E. Noble as vice-president.
? See also. 316 S. Third Ave.
Bibliography
� Bozeman Chronicle, March 30, 1983, pp. 2-3.
Application for Sewer Connection: June 2, 1903, T.E. Noble.
Sanborn Map, 1904.
INTEGRITY: Assess the degree to which the structure/site,and surrounding area accurately convey the historical associations of the
1 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 structurelsite may demonstrate or yield information about its historic use or construc-
tion.
None
FORM PREPARED BY: GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
Name_ JAMES R. MCDONALD ARCHITECTS P.C. Acreage:
Address* P.O. BOX 8163 LISGS Quad:
Date
�'1ISSOULA, MONTANA 59807 LITM's:
AUG 1984 Pry"77
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