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ARCHITECTURAL INVENTORY Site# .7
Legal Description: Or Townlots E. 19' of E, W 23' of 4/Blk F
Address 9 East Main �^
0 nership:name: - -
private address:
❑ public ✓Gerald Miller 1620 Trail Creek Road Roll N �o�+ Frame rY
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Common Name:_
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Date of Construction: 1887 documented
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Architect: Unknown
f --TT-T Builder: Unknown?
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Original owner: Un k no n
rn i Original Use: Mercantile
— J-11 Present Use:
Research Sources:
El abstract of title El city directories
f ❑ plat records/maps ❑ sewerlwater permits
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t v j ❑ tax cards ❑ obituaries
❑ building permit Y1 biographies
fKl Sanborn maps—dates, 1889
L Bibliography:
LL` Avant-Courier November 3, 1887
> Q I Progressive Men
l Miller's History 1894
Elsworth, W.E. , A History of the Gallatin
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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 attached two-and-one-half story commercial structure has a rectangular plan
with a streel-level awning over one-half of the front facade and an inset entrance
in the other half. The symmetrical facade consists of two entrances with
storefront windows at streetlevel and 2-paned pivotal wood windows set into
three bays on the second floor. Tiny fixed multi-paned windows appear on the
top level . The brick running bond construction is finished in stucco on the
street level and bonds of brick divide the building up into nine sections by
corbelling out 1 ". The flat built-up roof lies perpendicular to the street.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: -Justify how the persons,important events,and/or historical patterns associated with the structure/site
and surrounding area lend the property significance,
This property is associated with a person important to Bozeman history,
Achilles Lamme. Lamme, born in 1857 was trained as a physician at the St.
Louis Medical School. Choosing to follow the gold strikes, Lamme came to
Montana in 1865, setting up a dry goods store rather than practicing
medicine. In 1866, he established a business with John S. Mendenhall
selling dry goods. Lamme was associated with at least three business
houses, 27 East Main, A. Lamme & Co. built about 1882 and 9 East Main built
in 1887, Raleigh, Lamme & Co. Raleigh was William B. Raleigh, a dry goods
merchant in Helena. Lamme died in 1888. His son Edison B. Lamme continued
his business interests until 1901 with the Raleigh Lamme, and Co. that
incorporated in 1893 as the Gallatin Valley Mercantile Company.
This structure is a neutral element within a potential historic district.
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 not been retained due to change
in original design and materials.
INFORMATION VALUE: Explain how the extant structure/site may demonstrate or yield information about its historic use or construc-
tion.
None.
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