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Home My WebLink About507 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 Property Address: 507 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1703 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): i 1 City/Town: Bozeman i County: Gallatin i _..�._.._..�._. ._._.. ._._.._.._.............._.._.._.._.._.._.._.—-----.._-.......... a_._.._..�.��_�._ _.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..- - - - --._.�.�._�.._.._._._.._...., i Historic Name: Legal Location OriginalOwner(s): unknown PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ®Private ❑ Public NE %4 NE '/4 NW '/4 of Section: 7 i Current Property Name: I Lot(s): North 241/2' of Tract 1 of Lot 12 and South 42 1/2' of Tract 6 of Lot 11 Owner(s): Donald E. Barefield i Block(s): 11 Owner Address: 507 N. Rouse Ave. Bozeman, MT 59715-3747 i Addition: Beall's First Year of Addition: 1870 }i Phone: ? USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 _.._.._.._.._.._._.._.._.._......................_.._.._.._........................................a.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._............... .._.._.._.._ i Historic Use: residence j UTM Reference wrw-w.nris.state.mt.us/tonofinder2 Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: between 1904 and 1912 ❑Estimated Zone: 12 Easting: 497504 Northing: 5058970 ®Actual i ® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: _.._.._.. ._................................................_-_.._.._._.._.._.._.._.._.. .. .._.._.._...._._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._._._.._.._.._ 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) i Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ® Yes ❑No i Daytime Phone: 406-782-0494 ............................................................... ...............i.. ..-..--_.._.._.—.-.._---._-._.--_.._-._.._.._-._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._-.-.._.._----•- - i 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: 507 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1703 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 1-story, L-shaped residence of wood-frame construction. The intersecting gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The exterior is primarily sided with drop siding, although the south wall has non-historic wide-lap siding. Windows are 1/1 double-hung units occurring singly or in pairs. The front porch has a shed roof, which is supported by a modern bracket and one turned wooden post. The foundation is concrete. On the rear of the house is an older, shed-roofed addition. Attached to the north wall is another, recent shed-roofed addition. A one-stall garage is to the north of the house. According to the tax assessor, it dates to 1966. The garage is made of cinder blocks, and has a gable roof and a sliding door. There is a large, 1 1/2 story building at the southwest corner of the lot, containing garage space at ground level and rooms upstairs. It appears to be non-historic. The building has wide lap siding, a gable roof surfaced with asphalt shingles, and a concrete foundation.. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Pro a Name: 507 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1703 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page Until the early 1940s, the houses at 503 and 507 N. Rouse stood on a single 114 x 125-foot lot. The house at 503 was built first, sometime before 1904, and the house at 505 added between 1904 and 1912. If the list of reported occupants between the mid-1920s and mid-1940s is any indication, the two houses were mostly, if not exclusively, occupied by renters throughout their earliest histories. Early ownership information about the two houses is not readily available, but by 1931 Lucinda Davis owned them. In that year, she sold the house (and 503 N. Rouse) to George Belshaw, who held both houses until 1944. From the mid- 1920s to the end of World War Il, renters included John and Loretta Sponsler(laborer), Arth and Selvina Glenn (they later rented 503 N. Rouse), Lawrence and Ella Hanson, Marvin Parsons, William and Pearl Nevin (sheepshearer), Guy and Genevieve Nevin (sheepshearer), Robert Lambertson, and Staten and Dorothy Thelander(laborer). In 1944, owner Belshaw divided the 114 x 125-foot lot in two, and thereafter 503 and 507 N. Rouse were owned by different parties. Viola Williams purchased 507, and held it until late 1959. During that time, she and her husband Steve Williams occupied the house themselves. Steve Williams worked as a janitor at Anderson Motors and, later, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page 1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps sewer/water permit 1941 R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1925-1961 deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Pro erty Name: 507 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1703 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 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 neighborhoods. 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 potentially 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 an acceptable level of historic integrity, although no site-specific historical significance has been attributed to the house. This building is a contributing resource to a proposed North Rouse Aveune Historic District. INTEGRITY(location,design, setting,materials,workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page This building retains integrity of location and setting. Other aspects of integrity have been diminished somewhat by non-historic alterations to the building's exterior. These changes include exterior siding of non-historic pattern on the south elevation, and a non-historic addition to the rear of the house. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PHOTOGRAPHS Property Name: 507 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1703 Y� E r�•'_ �_�-�.: 'v fir,t � .,F' �. {�, View to northwest. r �1 t1- .- • mot.-. ..�.-. _. • /:4.-.J_ ..-y�':� '••'.�'�l _._ —_.._.. - _... 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