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Home My WebLink About540 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: 540 North Rouse Ave. i Site Number: 24 GA 1713 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin i 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 Current Property Name: I Lot(s): 3 Owner(s): Michael J. Shafer Block(s): NA Owner Address: 540 N. Rouse Ave. Addition: Perkins and Stone Year of Addition: c. 1889 Bozeman, MT 59715 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: -_.._..-.._..-.._.._...._....................................................... .��.._.._.._.._. ..J.._. .._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..�.�._._.._•--^_•-_.._.._.._.._. 1 Historic Use: residence UTM Reference w%vw.nris.state.m.t.us/tonofinder2 Current Use: residence ElNAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: by 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual j Zone: 12 Easting: 497644 Northing: 5059089 ® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: __._._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._. -------i.. ._._..___- ._.._._._.. ._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._. i � National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006 i NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable i Technologies, Inc. Historic District: North Rouse Avenue(Bozeman) Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ® Yes ❑No i i Daytime Phone: 406-782-0494 _.._ _.._.._..�._._.._..- -._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._ _ _.._ _.._._.._._.._ _. .�.._.i--—v-----------------.._.._..-.._..-..-..-.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..-----._.._.._.._.._.--.._.—.._.._. i MT SHPO USE ONLY ! Comments: Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no l Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑C ❑D Date: Evaluator: ! MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Property Name: 540 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1713 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 3/4-story house displaying largely rectangular massing. It is vernacular and of wood-frame construction. The cross gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles, and has a single stovepipe through it. The exterior is sided with wide lap siding, set vertically in the gable ends; this cladding is non-original, but may be historic. Most windows are 1/1 or 6/1 double-hung units, though some paired casements are also present; the double-hung windows are historic, while the casements are not. There is an enclosed, gable-roofed front porch at the center of the primary(west) elevation; this is non-original, but likely historic. The foundation is concrete. There is a full-width addition (probably non-historic) in the rear of the building. It stands under a hip roof. Southeast of the main house is a garage. This 1 1/4-story building was originally built as a two-stall garage, but one stall has been converted to a residential space. The entire building stands under a gable roof which is covered with asphalt shingles. It is sided with wide lap siding. The windows are casement. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 540 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1713 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page The early history of the house at 540 N. Rouse is unknown, but the Sanborn maps indicate that the building was erected on the lot sometime prior to 1904 and the current owner believes the house dates to 1903. Gallatin County sold the property at a public auction in the late 1920s when the owner failed to pay the 1924 taxes. The successful bidder was Ben Chandler, who immediately turned around and sold the house to Fred R. Carr. Fred Carr was a long-time Bozeman area resident who was employed at various times as a driver for the Bozeman Bottling Works and as a coal dock laborer and manager. He resided at the house on North Rouse briefly in the early 1920s before he purchased it. Later, Carr rented it out to a series of families between 1930 and 1945. These included William and Hazel Armstrong (baker and packer at the Montana Flour Mills), Mart and Daisy Moss, Neoma Lowen (cook at Russell's CafLs), Edna Johnson, and Edgar and Della Morris (laborer). When Forest and Cora Tidwell purchased the house in 1946, they lived there for only about 1'/2 years before selling it. Other owners during the late 1940s, also held the property for only short periods. In 1952, Jack and LaVera Lutes purchased the house. They lived there all of the years that they owned it. During that period, from 1952 through at least 1961, Jack Lutes was employed by the U.S. Postal Service, initially as a clerk and eventually as the assistant postmaster for Bozeman. INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page 1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1927-1961 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: 540 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1713 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NRHP Listing Date: NRHP Eligibility: ®Yes ❑No ❑Individually ® Contributing to Historic District ❑Noncontributing to Historic District NRI1P 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 some non-historic windows in an altered fenestration pattern, and non-original siding. In addition, the enclosed front porch may not be original. 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