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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 8h Ave
Helena,MT 59620-1202
Property Address: 529 North Rouse Ave. 1 Site Number: 24 GA 1710
(An historic district number may also apply.)
Historic Address(if applicable):
City/Town: Bozeman i County: Gallatin
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Historic Name: Legal Location
Original Owner(s): unknown PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E
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Current Ownership ®Private ❑ Public NE '/4 NE '/4 NW A of Section: 7
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Current Property Name: Lot(s): S27' of Tract 1 in Lots 9 and 10
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Owner(s): Kenneth K. and Florence W. Baldwin Block(s): NA
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Owner Address: 8600 Huffman Ln. Addition: Beall's First Year of Addition: 1870
Bozeman, MT 59715-9211
USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987
Phone:
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Historic Use: residence UTM Reference www.nris.state.mt.us/topofinder2
Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83
Construction Date: by 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497495 Northing: 5059055
® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved:
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National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006
NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable
Technologies, Inc.
Historic District:
Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701
NRHP Eligible: [:]Yes ®No
i Daytime Phone: 406-782-0494
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MT SHPO USE ONLY Comments:
Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no
Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D
Date: i
Evaluator:
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Property Name: 529 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1710
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 one-story, wood-frame residence of vernacular design and complex rectangular massing. The gable roof is
covered with asphalt shingles. The building appears to be been built in three parts. The middle of the house is probably
the oldest. Its foundation is covered by rough-coursed stone. The siding is clapboard, and the windows are double-
hung 1/1, plate, and casement. The second part of the house, the front, is newer, but still likely historic. It has wide-lap
siding, a fixed 3x4 multi-light window on the front(east), a stone foundation, and an enclosed entry bay with a small,
inset front porch. It has a concrete foundation. There is a stone chimney on the north elevation of this part. The rear
addition is offset to the north and was built in the mid-to late 1950s as a garage. It has a gable roof, wide-lap siding,
and a concrete foundation. An entry at the northeast corner of the rear addition has a gable overdoor. There is a shed-
roofed addition attached to the north side of this rear addition.
A truck shed stands at the back of the lot adjacent to the alley. Ken Baldwin, the owner at that time, built in in the late
1950s, for a truck he used in his gasoline distribution business. He and his wife added a second, modular house to the
property in 1999. It stands immediately north of 529 N. Rouse. It has an attached garage.
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Property Name: 529 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1710
HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page
The house at 529 N. Rouse was built sometime between 1891 and 1904, probably in the early 1890s. In late 1891,
Lizzie Woods purchased a 108 x 136-foot lot at that location, marking the first time that the lot had been separated from
a much larger parcel. When Woods sold the lot in 1905, the property had appreciated by$800, indicating the
approximate value of the house erected on the parcel. Woods was a single woman who never lived on the property,
but instead purchased it as an investment. She lived on the first block of Mendenhall east of Rouse Avenue, at a
"female boarding house." Woods almost surely was a prostitute, who appears to have wisely invested her earnings.
In 1905, Woods sold the house and lot to Edward Ross. Ross was a teamster for Kenyon Noble. He and his wife Olive
lived at this residence on North Rouse for the three years which they owned it. It may have been during their tenure on
the property that a barn was erected at the back of the lot adjacent to a privately-owned alley there.
The Rosses sold out to James H. Wood, who chose not to live there. Wood owned the house from 1908 to 1913, and
presumably rented it out. The next purchaser was John Arnold. Arnold lived on the property for most of the 11 years
that he owned it. He was employed in a variety of jobs between 1910 and the early 1920s. These included work as a
laborer for the Bozeman Water Works, an engineer at the Golden Rule Department Store and the county courthouse,
and a fireman.
Harry and Lela Smith were the next owners. Although they kept the title for as long as 15 years (to 1939), unlike the
majority of longer-term property owners on North Rouse Avenue, the Smiths did not reside at 529. Among their renters
were Christ and Lula Knudsen, Edgar and Fannie Cash, and Charles and Jessie Hoshaw. The Hoshaw family resided
there for at least seven years, and during that time Charles Hoshaw worked as a hay bailer, laborer, and stationery
fireman.
Palmore and Mary Clayton were the next owners, purchasing the house and lot in 1939 and holding it until the fall of
1945. They resided there through World War II, during which time he worked in the trucking business.
When Ken and Florence Baldwin moved to Bozeman from Great Falls in 1945, they bought 529 N. Rouse. They have
owned it ever since, and occupied the house until 1999 when they brought a modular home onto the lot immediately
north of the old house and moved in there. Throughout his working career in Bozeman, Ken Baldwin worked as a oil
and gas distributor for the California Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of California (the latter
company became Chevron USA).
INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page
1891, 1904, 1912, and 1927 Sanborn maps
R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1904-1961
deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title)
Bob Baldwin (childhood occupant and son of current owners), personal communication
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Property Name: 529 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1710
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 an unusual example of a small, largely vernacular home from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century
that was substantially enlarged later in the historic period. 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, however, has
been heavily altered --siding and fenestration have been changed, and the building has been significantly enlarged.
Due to the loss of integrity caused by these changes, the building is not eligible for listing in the National Register of
Historic Places, and is a non-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 altered exterior siding and fenestration, as well as large
structural additions to the rear of the building.
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