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Home My WebLink About412 N. Montana 2006 (Formerly 402 N. Montana) 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 Property Address: 412 N. Montana Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1741 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): 409 N. Rouse and 406A N. Montana County: Gallatin City/Town: ................. ........ Historic Name: Legal Location Original Owner(s): PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ®Private ❑Public SE '/4 NE '/4 NW '/4 of Section: 7 Current Property Name: Lot(s): most of 14 Owner(s): Douglas R. and Martha S. Drysdale Block(s): NA Owner Address: 1408 S. Black Ave. Addition: Beall's First Year of Addition: 1870 Bozeman, MT 59715-5638 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: ' Historic Use: residence UTM Reference www.nris.state.mt.us/tonotinder2 Current Use: residence i ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: ® Estimated ❑ Actual i Zone: 12 Easting: 497486 Northing: 5058860 ❑ Original Location ®Moved Date Moved: between 1927 and 1943 ._......................... ................................ National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: March 2006 NRFIP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Mark Hufstetler, Renewable Technologies, Inc. Historic District: NA Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ®Yes ❑No i 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: 412 N. Montana Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1741 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Information Page Architectural Style: OTHER: If Other,specify: vernacular Property Type: Residential Specific Property Type: Architect: Architectural Firm/City/State: Builder/Contractor: 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 building is a wood-framed, single-story residence displaying elements of the Queen Anne architectural style. The building displays a simple, rectangular massing. The foundation is concrete, and walls are clad with narrow-exposure wood siding. The gable roof is surfaced with asphalt shingles; the eaves display partial returns on the primary (east) elevation. Doors are wood, and windows are wood-framed; most appear to be historic. There is an enclosed rear porch; it may not be original to the house, but is likely historic. The building's Queen Anne detailing is evinced by two primary architectural elements. The first is the open front porch, at the southeast corner of the building. It has a flared hip roof, turned wood support posts, and spindlework bracketing. There is also a shallow octagonal bay window on the south elevation. Note that the building faces Rouse Avenue(which is across Bozeman Creek from the house), even though it currently has a Montana Avenue address. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 412 N. Montana Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1741 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page At some unknown date between 1927 and 1943, the owner of Lot 14 of Beall's First Addition moved this house from another site to its current position. The owner, Frank Slaughter, also owned two other houses which stood on that lot west of Bozeman Creek. Slaughter was a long-time resident of North Montana, having moved there at about the time he purchased Lot 14 in 1914. He resided at 406 N. Montana, a house facing directly on Montana that he probably built himself or had built. Early on employed as a cook, he soon became a constable, working sometimes for the city and sometimes for private businesses. He stayed in that profession until the late 1930s. Although Slaughter had deeded the lot to George Slaughter, a presumed brother, in 1931, Frank Slaughter probably acted as the owner in all other respects. He was almost certainly the one responsible for moving this house to its position adjacent to Bozeman Creek. Frank Slaughter may have died in the early 1940s and George Slaughter died by the early 1950s. In 1951, their heirs sold Lot 14 (excepting the triangular piece on the east side of Bozeman Creek) to James and Jennie McReynolds. The property stayed in the McReynolds family until 1965 when purchased by Martha Story Drysdale. It seems that, initially, access to the house at 412 N. Montana was via a bridge across the creek, but by 1943 the house had a Montana Avenue address even though the bridge still stood. The house has always been rental property since its move. RTI did not research its renters as a part of the current project because the house's historic addresses were not available during the time allotted for such research. ------------- INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page 1927 and 1927/revised to 1943 Sanborn maps R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1912/1913-1942 deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Property Name: 412 N. Montana Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1741 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 This building is a unusually well-preserved representative example of a small, Queen Anne-style home from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Houses of this scale and level of detailing were typical of working-class neighborhoods in turn-of-the-century American towns, and it is the characteristic building type in Bozeman's northeastern residential neighborhood. This portion of the community was home to much of Bozeman's small industrial area -- primarily devoted to the processing and shipping of agricultural products-- and consequently, much of the neighborhood's residential component served blue-collar workers and their families. In general, these houses were smaller and less ornate than those found elsewhere in the town. The bulk of the neighborhood's homes were constructed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of growth for the town of Bozeman as a whole, and particularly for the northeastern neighborhood, which benefitted from proximity to the newly-constructed Northern Pacific and Milwaukee Road railway lines. This house, therefore, is significant as a representative example of period residential architecture, as well as for its association with the early growth of Bozeman and its agricultural industry. The building appears to fully retain its historic integrity, and displays a level of architectural detail higher than that of many of the neighborhood's homes. This building is independently eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, significant under National Register criteria"a" and "c." INTEGRITY(location, design,setting,materials,workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page This building appears to retain all seven aspects of National Register integrity. MONTANA HISTORIC1RECORD PHOTOGRAPHS Property +ARM;,;:` �""01��.\�`♦ l� .tya� � :� , t � { f.:e. � �`�!*V 1t �agf�P,�''�,yV� � Q�a•`(•r1 � r'1`:T�4 'll� �� /h�G`'"„,�•_+��_ `t°�'�gaS('•�p �,yy'�11!. 3� ��(1 tt��t�h�+ �u,..mot• ` y��1�� \ 4 - - 1��k 4`t ;i, �..t\ '�rYf �. r�gTVr y. �h ! �.rt ...... 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