HomeMy WebLinkAbout316 E Main 1985 MONTAINA HISTORICAL AND
ARCHITECTURAL INVENTORY SiteN ��
Legal Description: Original Townsite Lots E141 of 14 all of 15 Blk G
Aadress: 316 East Main
Ownership:name: Fraternal Order of Eagles #326
❑ private address: Box 274 Roll N 78 Frame N 7
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Common Name: Unknown
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1901 estimated
Date of Construction: fs� documented
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Architect: Unknown
Builder. Unknown
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I Research Sources:
❑ city directories
❑ abstract of title
❑ plat records/maps ❑ sewerlwater permits
I � ❑ tax cards ❑ obituaries
W I i I Elbuilding permit C' biographies
Sanborn maps—date$: L 9�4
Z ��y Bibliography:
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Avant Courier, 5-4-1901
`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 two-story commercial structure has a rectangular plan with a diagonally
inverted front entrance with decorative tiling. The symmetrical facade consists
of a central entrance with a small fixed window at street level . The upper
facade features five 1/1 double-hung windows on the upper floor and three tiny
windows inset into the intricate corbeled brick cornice. The windows have sand-
stone sills and headers. The brick construction is finished with a header
course every 6th course. The flat-built-up roof is perpendicular to the street.
The old storefront has been totally removed and closed in with brick and concrete
block.
the persons,important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the strucxufu' ���
h{ISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Justify how
significance. for
and surrounding area lend the Property ht and Power Company
was built for the Bozeman Electric Light
This property s as well as storage•
use as a car born for the trolley
element within a potential his orl'C
This a contriW thn9 he
commercial aspect of the
Civic
structure qualifies as Its association ment.
due to
district historic/architectural develop
Phase of Bozeman s
' area accurately convey the historical associations of the
INTEGRITY: Assess the degree to which the structurelsite,
and surrounding �
property. has been retained due to
the s
ity of this property
ro erty and location.
The historic tegr
materials and continuity of use, s
Of origins etting
mat
ation about its historic use or cons ru
INFORMATION VALUE: Explain how the extant structu relsite may demonstrate or yield inform -
tion.
None.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:
FORM PREPARED BY: Acreage'
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nEVIS1E0
n 1984 ��ntt1•n':: �. Cohen
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316 E. Main
1985 revision
Matt Cohen, surveyor
The last physical evidence of Bozeman' s extensive streetcar system, which
operated between 1892 and h922, this Gallatin2LightyPower brick
ablock
Railway built
Companyrlastime
between 1898 and 1902 by t
office, trolley car barn and lstorareaf cili tthe . toftthe Featherston Ble: the western docknfbuhlt
parapet of this block slight y pAn
in 1898, 312 E. Main , thus indicating a date of construction after 1898. we
Application for Sewer Connection was filed by the Gallatin
orm alleyists190ghasPor
and Railway Co. for this site in 1902. The inventory
date of construction , but with no verifyable documentation. Like the adjacent
Featherston Block, this building displays
ystvery complex brickwork in the parapet -
a hallmark of the Commercial Queen
A tall sign in the shape of an inverted "T" originally hung perpendicular
to the building over the sidewalk, displaying t e words : "Electric Office"
reproduced in Bozeman s Historic
Resources, p.The Eagles Lodge has occupied the upper story of this building since 1903, and
despite a plan to build a new $135,000, Fred nwilllssonsdellgneddocc headdquarterspies and at
the corner of Babcock St. and
Bozeman Ave.the building today (Bozeman Chronicle,
Nov. 17 1949) .
Following the demise of the streetcar theuilding ing was bound ghti nloor uthe11930' s by
"Pop" Kelley, who ran an auto rep garage The 1927 Sanborn Map shows a
1940' s (Lowell Switzler, interview, 9/5/85) .
garage here with a sales room in the northeast corner, where the electric
office formerly was.
The Eagles bought the building around 1945, which
i sand proadded thewhenithey hanging
remodeled the storefront to its present appearance, probably
neon sign - a significant
nteradtition to the
obuildln the egteriordentailed removal of
} the architect for the
the large trolley barn doors , and construction of the present brick an
ornamental cinder block.
Bibliography.
Lowell Switzler, interview, 9/5/85
Sanborn Maps , 1904, 1927 1949
Bozeman Chronicle, November 17, 55 (photograph) .
Bozeman' s Historic Resources , p•
Application or Sewer Connecton, October 21, 1902, Gallatin Light Power
and Railway Co. , St. Mendenhall , General Manager.
Fred F. Willson Job
��List: 1932, job 43227 - "Alt. to Eagles' Building -
Frank Boedecker.
1945, job #4508 - "Alt to Eagles Club Building."
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