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Home My WebLink About503 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 81h Ave Helena,MT 59620-1202 i Property Address: 503 North Rouse i Site Number: 24 GA 1701 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): 273 N. Rouse i i i City/Town: Bozeman i County: Gallatin i i Historic Name: Legal Location i Original Owner(s): unknown I PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E i Current Ownership ®Private ❑ Public NE '/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section: 7 i Current Property Name: Lot(s): Tract 20 in Lot 12 Owner(s): Janet L. Hermann Trust Block(s): NA i Owner Address: 1214 Birch Ln. Addition: Beall's First Year of Addition: 1870 Cody,WY 82414-6212 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: _.-.._.._..-..-...._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._._.._.._.._._.._.._.._.._.._..................... .................... ......... i Historic Use: residence UTM Reference w«w.nris.state.mt.us/tonofinder2 Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: before 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497499 Northing: 5058953 ®Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: i ---.._._.._.._.._.......... -._..-------.--.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..-.._.._.._.._.._.._.._-._..-..-..-.._.._.._.._.._.._..-..-.._.._ i National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006 NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable Technologies, Inc. Historic District: North Rouse Avenue (Bozeman) 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 i Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D Date: Evaluator: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Property Name: 503 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1701 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Information Page Architectural Style: OTHER: If Other, specify: vernacular Property Type: Residential Specific Property Type: Architect: unknown 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 small, single-story vernacular residence, wood-framed with a side-gable roof. There is also a gabled addition (historic) to the rear, containing a shed wing that is likely a former rear porch. The building rests on a concrete foundation. Exterior walls are shiplap, and the roof is surfaced with asphalt shingles. The primary (east) elevation is largely symmetrical, with a central entry door opening onto an open, shed-roofed front porch supported by turned wood posts. Most windows appear to be original to the building. Typical units are 1/1 double-hung. The north side of the east elevation features a cottage-type window. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 503 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1701 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page The early history of this house is unknown, but the Sanborn maps indicate that the building was erected sometime between 1891 and 1904. Most of the houses on the west side of Rouse Avenue in the 500 block also date to that period. The earliest known occupants of 503 N. Rouse were John C. and Rachael P. Hall, who lived in the house in the mid-1920s. John Hall was a laborer for the Northern Pacific Railway and later a trucker. The Halls were renters rather than owners during their residence. In 1931, Lucinda Davis, who had owned the house for some unknown period of time, sold it to George E. Belshaw. Like Davis, he chose not to live there, but instead rented it out to a series of blue-collar working families. Renters during the 13 years that Belshaw owned the property included Charles B. and Jessie Hoshaw (hay bailer), Arth and Silbina Glenn (laborer), Clyde H. and Mildred Latta (truck driver), Harold E. and Gene J. Hanson (laborer), and Samuel J. and Laura Woods (truck lines agent). The next owner who held the property for any significant length of time was Ruth Jenkins. From about 1947 to 1953, Ruth Jenkins and her husband Lucas resided at 503 N. Rouse. Lucas Jenkins was employed as a laborer for the City of Bozeman, and conceivably could have worked at the city's shops four blocks to the south on Rouse Avenue. When Ted J. and Betty J. Bartl purchased the house in 1954, they too chose to live in it. Ted Bartl was a lineman for Bozeman Community Television (?). He and his wife sold the house after owning it for slightly less than one year. The next owners, Elmer and Mabel Butler, followed closely in the Bartls footsteps, choosing to live in the house but then selling it only one year after purchase. Various members of the Charles H. Woodland family owned 503 N. Rouse between 1956 and 1972. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, if not longer, the house was occupied by renters, though. INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page sewer/water permits 1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps R.L. Polk & Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1825-1961 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: 503 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1701 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 quality, representative example of a small, largely vernacular 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 vernacular residential architecture, as well as for its association with the early growth of Bozeman and its agricultural industry. The building retains a high level of historic integrity, although no site-specific historical significance has been attributed to the house. This building is a contributing resource to the proposed North Rouse Avenue Historic District. INTEGRITY(location, design,setting,materials,workmanship, feeling, association) ❑ See Additional Information Page This building appears to retain all seven aspects of integrity as defined by the National Register. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PHOTOGRAPHS Property Name: 503 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1701 r r fA sou. K t �� „. 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