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Home My WebLink About521 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 8th Ave Helena,MT 59620-1202 Property Address: 521 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1707 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin Historic Name: Legal Location i OriginalOwner(s): unknown PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ® Private ❑ Public NE '/4 NE '/4 NW 1/4 of Section: 7 Current Property Name: Lot(s): N. 14' of Tract 1 in Lot 11, and Tract 6 of Lot 10 i Owner(s): Douglas and Martha S. Drysdale ` Block(s): 10 and 11 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/tonofinder2 Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: by 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497507 Northing: 5059024 i ® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: ................----......................................._..........._.._.. -._.._..�. .J_.....................................................................«.......�._.._............... ~ 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 ............................................ ........ _ _ _._.._._.. .._._.._.-_..-.-_.._.._.._.._.._.._......_.._.._.._.._.._.._.-----__�._.__r.___�._._._. i MT SHPO USE ONLY Comments: Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no i Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D Date: Evaluator: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Pro a Name: 521 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1707 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, vernacular house with a rectangular plan. It is of wood-frame construction. The side-gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles, and an interior brick chimney is present. The exterior is sided with wide-lap siding (non- original). All windows are 1/1 double-hung units; they appear to be historic, and are in historic openings. The primary (east) elevation is symmetrical, with a centered entry door; the entry is under a hip-roofed overdoor. The foundation is concrete. On the rear of the house is a shed-roofed addition which is covered with the same wide lap siding as the rest of the house; it is non-original, but likely historic. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 521 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1707 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page The early history of 521 N. Rouse is unknown because RTI was unable to develop a chain of title before 1945. Nevertheless, Sanborn maps indicate that the house was erected between 1891 and 1904, or roughly at the same time as most other houses on the west side of Rouse in the 500 block. By 1922 Ella Ford resided at 521 N. Rouse. Like a significant if small number of other Rouse Avenue inhabitants during the historic period, Ford was a widow all during her tenure at 521 N. Rouse. She remained at that address until about the mid-1930s. Following her departure, John and Naomi Oleson briefly rented the house. He was a roofer at the time. The next renters were John and Effie Williams, who resided at the house from the late 1930s into the early 1940s. John Williams was a mechanic for the Bozeman Implement Company and later a driver at Montana State College. The last known renters during the World War II-era were Albert and Zella Sparr, the former a laborer. In 1945, Clyde and Midora Cox bought 521 N. Rouse from Gallatin County, which likely had received it in previous years when the then owner failed to pay back taxes. The Coxes may have considered the house simply investment property because they apparently never lived there and sold it within 1%years of purchase. In 1947, the purchasers were Sherley and Clara Dupay. Clara Dupay worked at the Louise Caf6. The timing of the purchase and subsequent sale suggests that the Dupays may have initially rented the property from Clyde and Midora Cox. They owned and occupied the house only very briefly, because by April 1947 William and Ruby Kinkade purchased 521 N. Rouse. Their ownership was short-lived, too, like that of the previous owners. When they sold the house in 1951, they apparently had never lived in it. Harold and Dena Poynter purchased the house in 1951, as a rental property. They held it until 1961, and during their ownership renters included Ermagene Ross (waiter at Colonel's Drive Inn), June O'Connor, and Henry and Millie Breeton (she a cook at Colonel's Drive Inn) INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page 1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps R.L. Polk&Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1922-1961 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: 521 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1707 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 a proposed North Rouse Avenue 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 the non-historic exterior cladding added to the house. The overall historic appearance of the house, however, remains clearly evident. 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