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HomeMy WebLinkAbout544 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 i Property Address: 544 North Rouse Ave. ! Site Number: 24 GA 1714 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): i i City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin i Historic Name: Legal Location i 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: _.._.._.._.._.._.._..-.._.._..-.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..-.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._._.. ..-.._..--._.._.._.._._._._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._._._.._.._ 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 i ® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: .._.._.._.._.._.._.. ................. .._.._.._._.._.._.._.._.._.._-_.._.._..J..._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._..------_--_.__--_--_--_--_.._.._..__._.._..----- 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 PAGE 2 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. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 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) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 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 PHOTOGRAPHS Property Name: 544 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1714 a 1 View to east. / '�;�� - •l.. 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