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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`h Ave
Helena,MT 59620-1202
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Property Address: 544 North Rouse Ave. ! Site Number: 24 GA 1714
(An historic district number may also apply.)
Historic Address(if applicable):
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City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin
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Historic Name: Legal Location
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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: Lot(s): 2
Owner(s): Debbi Newsome Block(s): NA
Owner Address: 544 N. Rouse Ave Addition: Perkins and Stone Year of Addition: c. 1889
Bozeman, MT 59715
USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987
Phone:
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Historic Use: residence UTM Reference www.nris.state.m.t.us/topofinder2
Current Use: residence ElNAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83
Construction Date: by 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497546 Northing: 5059106
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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: North Rouse Avenue(Bozeman)
Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701
NRHP Eligible: E 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: 544 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1714
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'/z-story, rectangular, vernacular residence of wood-frame construction. The gable roof is covered with
asphalt shingles, and has an interior, concrete-covered brick chimney. The exterior is sided with wide-lap Masonite-
type siding on the upper second floor and asphalt shingles over horizontal wood boards on the first floor. Siding is non-
original, but may be at least partially historic. The windows include double-hung units (mostly 2/2) occurring singly and
in pairs, plus sliding horizontal windows. The front door is under a gable-roofed overdoor. All fenestration appears to
be historic, in historic openings. The back entry is enclosed under the gable. The foundation is concrete.
A roughly-built, one-stall garage, positioned southeast of the house, has a gable roof. It is sided with brick-pattern
asphalt siding (insul-brick), and has a 4-light window in the north wall. Outward-swinging garage doors are present.
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Property Name: 544 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1714
HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page
This house was built at some unknown date prior to 1904. By 1911, S.J.V.B. Henderson owned the building.
Henderson was a laborer and miner who apparently never occupied the house. When he sold it in 1911, the house
passed through the hands of two other parties in rapid succession until Frederick Hinman acquired it in 1913. Hinman
was a barber who apparently purchased the property as an investment because he chose to live on W. Main rather
than N. Rouse. He rented the house to unknown renters until he sold it in 1921.
In 1921, Frank Redfield purchased the property. When he first moved into the place, he was accompanied by three
other members of the Redfield family, presumably his brothers. All worked as laborers, at least one of those for the
Northern Pacific Railway. By the late 1920s, Frank Redfield lived at the house with his wife Lizzie and a daughter
Anna. At that time, he worked as a weighmaster at the county scales. During the 1930s up to 1938 when Redfield sold
the house, the family rented out 544 N. Rouse. One of the renters, William Sharp, was a miller, and probably worked at
the nearby Montana Milling Company cereal mill.
In 1935 or 1936, Edith Bryant moved into 544 N. Rouse as a renter, remained there into 1938. In that year, she
acquired the house under her name but immediately sold it to another party. Like many other North Rouse residents,
Edith Bryant was a widow. During the late 1930s, she was employed as a cook at The Bungalow.
The next owners of record were Jack and Thelma Brant. They bought the house in 1938 from Edith Bryant and sold it
seven years later in 1945. The house was strictly rental property, and occupants included Virgil McNeil (baker at Betty
Ann Bakery), Jesse and Elsie Brown (laborer), and William and Clara Nickerson.
Dan and Helen Klandt were the next owner-occupants, but they retained possession for less than eight months. Walter
and Alice Kude purchased the house from the Klandts and lived there into the late 1940s. Walter Hude worked as a
section foreman for the Northern Pacific Railway at that time.
The last property owners during the historic period were John and Mildred Matulis. They acquired the house in 1950
and lived there into the late 1970s. John Matulis worked as a laborer at a variety of places during the 1950s, including
William D. Howells (cabinetmaker shop), Montana State College, and Diane Shop. He was retired by the late 1960s.
INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page
1891 and 1904 Sanborn maps
R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1900-1980
deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title)
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Property Name: 544 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1714
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
NRHP Listing Date:
NRHP Eligibility: M Yes ❑No ❑Individually M Contributing to Historic District ❑Noncontributing to Historic District
NRHP Criteria: M A ❑B M 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, 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 appears to largely retain all seven aspects of National Register integrity. The only substantial change to
the property appears to be the non-original exterior cladding; at least some of this cladding likely dates from the historic
period.
MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD
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