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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'j'Ave
Helena,MT 59620-1202
Property Address: 525 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1708
(An historic district number may also apply.)
Historic Address(if applicable): 297 N. Rouse i
City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin
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Historic Name: Legal Location
Original Owner(s): C.W. Haskins PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E
Current Ownership ®Private ❑Public NE '/4 NE 1/4 NW '/4 of Section: 7
Current Property Name: Lot(s): Tracts 29 and 30 in Lot 10
Owner(s): Alfredo D. and Lan! D. Caron Block(s): NA
Owner Address: 525 N. Rouse Ave. Addition: Beall's First Year of Addition: 1870
Bozeman, MT 59715-3747
USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987
Phone:
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Historic Use: residence UTM Reference wwNNt.nris.state.mt.us/topofinder2
Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83
Construction Date: 1893 ®Estimated ❑ Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497502 Northing: 5059040
® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved:
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National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006
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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
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
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Property Name: 525 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1708
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 building is a single-story, wood-framed house, vernacular in design. It rests on a concrete foundation. The primary
mass of the house, facing Rouse Avenue (to the east), displays a side-gable configuration, and there is an historic
gabled wing to the rear. The roof is surfaced with asphalt shingles. Exterior walls are clad with wide-lap siding (non-
historic, but similar in appearance to the likely original). Windows are modern wood-framed casement units, mostly in
non-historic openings. There is a small gabled overdoor sheltering the front entry.
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Property Name: 525 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1708
HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page
The house at 525 N. Rouse was built between 1893 and 1904 as a t-shaped, single-story house. C.W. Haskins
purchased the 54 x 130-foot lot on which the house stood in 1893, apparently as investment property. Haskins was a
Bozeman real estate agent who had moved to the (future) Montana Territory in 1864 from Illinois. Although 525 N.
Rouse apparently was the only property he held within the current project area, it seems likely that he possessed other
parcels in the vicinity. Haskins presumably contracted to have the house on Rouse Avenue erected in the mid-to late
1890s, and he must have immediately rented it out. The Haskins family never lived at this address.
By 1913, C.W. Haskins had died and in November of that year his heirs sold the house and lot to M.A. Wells. Neither
Wells nor the subsequent owner, I.D. Duke, lived at the property or held it for very long.
In 1917, when Peter Molitor bought the house, that event started a long tenure of occupation by Molitor family
members. In fact, family members owned and occupied the house until 1992, making the house at 525 N. Rouse the
longest occupied on that street by a single family(and heirs).
Peter Molitor was employed throughout his adult life in the grain elevator and milling business. Most of that time, he
was employed by the Bozeman Milling Company and its successor the Montana Flour Mills Company. It is not hard to
imagine that everyday Molitor walked from the house to his place of employment on North Rouse about 1 mile to the
north.
Possibly in the mid-1920s, Molitor married his wife Pauline. They raised a family of five children on North Rouse. In
the early 1940s, Peter Molitor died, while Pauline Molitor continued to reside at the home place. She briefly worked as
a dishwasher at Bill's Grill after her husband died. She apparently followed her husband in death in the late 1940s.
In 1948, one of her children, Mary Trent, inherited the house. Trent and her husband John then became long-time
owners of the house in their own right. John Trent was a truck driver during his adult life. The sale of the house many
years later, in 1992, marked the end of a 75-year period of Molitor family occupation of the house at 525 N. Rouse.
INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page
1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps
R.L. Polk &Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1892-1961
deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title)
tax assessor records
sewer/weater permits
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Property Name: 525 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1708
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 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 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 by non-historic
alterations to the building's exterior. These changes include exterior siding of non-historic pattern and materials, and
non-historic windows in a somewhat-altered fenestration pattern.
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