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Home My WebLink About102 N Rouse 2006 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD For the Montana National Register of Historic Places Program and State Antiquities Database Montana State Historic Preservation Office Montana Historical Society PO Box 201202, 1410 8`h Ave Helena,MT 59620-1202 i Property Address: 102 North Rouse Ave. 1: Site Number: 24 GA 1688 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman i County: Gallatin _.........._...................._.........._.__.»............................................-4.----------------------------------..-.._._._._.._.._.._._..----------.._..-----•-------•--.._ Historic Name: unknown Legal Location Original Owner(s): School District No. 7 PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ❑ Private ® Public I NE '/4 SE '/4 NW '/4 of Section: 7 Current Property Name: Hawthorne School Lot(s): all lots Owner(s): I Block(s): G Owner Address: Addition: Original Year of Addition: 1870 i USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: -.._..................................................... ......................................_.._.._..-.._.._•--•-.._.._.._.._.._.. Historic Use: school UTM Reference www.nris.state.mt.us/topofinder2 Current Use: school ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: 1939 ❑Estimated ® Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497548 Northing: 5058604 ®Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: I National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006 i NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable Technologies, Inc. Historic District: NA Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ®Yes ❑No ; Daytime Phone: 406-782-0494 MT SHPO USE ONLY Comments: Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D Date: Evaluator: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Property Name: 102 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1688 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Information Page Architectural Style: Art Deco - Moderne If Other,specify: Property Type: Education Specific Property Type: Architect: Fred F.Willson Architectural Firm/City/State: Builder/Contractor: unknown Company/City/State: Source of Information: Concisely,accurately, and completely describe the property and alterations with dates. Number the buildings and features to correlate with the Site Map. This is a 2-story school building of irregular shape and "fireproof' (steel-reinforced concrete) construction. The main or central portion is two stories tall and houses the classrooms, while the two perpendicular wings to the east are one story in height. The north, nearly windowless wing houses the auditorium. The flat roof has flat parapets capped with galvanized steel. There is a tall, stuccoed chimney at the northeast end of the building. Exterior walls are of stucco over poured concrete. Most windows are single, paired, or triple double-hung 6/6 units in steel frames, but there are some glass block windows. Banks of glass-brick windows, two stories high, indicate the location of interior stairwells near the north and south ends of the building. All entry doors are modern, paired metal full-light units. The primary elevation of the building faces west, and the main entry doors are there. Deco detailing exists throughout the exterior of the historic building mass. The primary window areas are articulated into vertical bays through the use of stepped vertical bands. Horizontal notched courses (to simulate dentils) are present below the tops of the parapet. Stairwell-area window areas are topped with vertical detailing to simulate fluting. Non-historic additions, only partially compatible in style, exist at the northwest and southwest corners of the original building. They are of concrete construction, have flat roofs, and include fixed plate windows in tall, narrow openings. Another, newer addition stands near the building's northeast corner. This is a wood-framed, gable-roofed modular building with wide lap siding and small sliding windows. It is connected to the main building by a roughly-built enclosed hallway. There is a tiny separate building northwest of the school. It is listed as a "gas valve house" on the 1927/1943 Sanborn map. It has a hip roof, brick walls (one row headers for six row stretchers), a steel door, and 6-light windows. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 102 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1688 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page In 1883, the East Side School was built at the center of the 100 block on the west side of North Church Avenue. It underwent major expansion at the turn of the twentieth century, almost doubling in size. Renamed the Hawthorne School in about 1905, the two-story brick building served into the 1930s. Its replacement, the present Hawthorne School, was erected in 1939. This followed two contentious years among members of the school board, some of whom wished to replace the old school buildings in Bozeman and others who felt the replacements were not affordable. When a bond issue passed in 1938, provisions were made to replace the Hawthorne and Longfellow Schools and construct an addition to the Willson School. The new Hawthorne School stands at the opposite end of the city block from the old East Side School, facing Rouse rather than Church Avenue. To make way for the new school, the school district removed several houses and a large commercial storage building in that block, leaving a single residence intact along Mendenhall Street. In addition to classrooms, the new school featured an auditorium and manual training area. INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1900-1906 1927/revised to 1943 Sanborn map Bozeman Chronicle, 28 March 1983 Merrill G. Burlingame, "Gallatin County's Heritage: A Report of Progress, 1805-1976" (Gallatin County Bicentennial Committee, 1976), 102. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Property Name: 102 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1688 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NRHP Listing Date: NRHP Eligibility: ®Yes ❑No ®Individually ❑ Contributing to Historic District ❑Noncontributing to Historic District NRHP Criteria: ®A ❑B ®C ❑D Area of Significance: Period of Significance: STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ❑ See Additional Information Page The Hawthorne School is one of a series of Art Deco elementary and high school buildings constructed in Bozeman during the late 1930s. All were designed by Fred Willson, the most prominent Bozeman architect of the era, and all share design similarities. They are reflective of the city's growth during that era, and of the importance placed on education by the community. Individually and collectively, they are also Bozeman's finest examples of Art Deco architecture. The Hawthorne School building is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic places, significant under criteria "a" and "c." INTEGRITY(location,design,setting,materials, workmanship,feeling, association) ❑ See Additional Information Page The original portion of the Hawthorne School retains a high level of integrity overall, retaining all seven National Register aspects of integrity. The non-historic additions to the building, while only partially compatible, are smaller in scale than the main mass and do not significantly detract from it. The primary facades of the building remain virtually unaltered. In all, the building continues to strongly evoke its historic appearance. MONTANA HISTORICIRECORD PHOTOGRAPHS • •. Rouse E'T View VAT • T,f:- �Sl } .�.. • • View l� • southeast. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD SITE MAP Property Name: 102 North Rouse Ave Site Number: 24GA1688 Q JI N / ,,tom W E Lamme St FEI 0 W CD 102 c� E Mendenhall St 0 60 120 Feet Building outlines depicted on this map are approximate. They may not necessarily reflect current conditions, and are for illustration purposes only. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD TOPOGRAPHIC MAP Property Name: 102 North Rouse Ave Site Number: 24GA1688 q IT 1w IF f W " t Tro F'a}k I ik 4768RT* �=qr . • ' .� fir grornd ■ �{ tdb• ;� - / J' / NJ I I 61n1 h�• `r \ 4776 1 a� C _1 F t�•'� O�arks //p7 { 4jb►4 j 1c� Ift I4L 777 evv � Or n. Rk , /d i '�' �.icy ,� ;�i , � "' I , �', -s .� ...,� -- • � \ ' l USGS Topographic Quadrangle, 1:24000 scale Bozeman, Montana (1987) Section 7, T2S R6E