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Home My WebLink About621 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: 621 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1720 i (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): i City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin i Historic Name: Legal Location i Original Owner(s): Stephen and Lulu Newman PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E I Current Ownership ® Private ❑ Public i SE '/4 SE '/4 SW `/4 of Section: 6 i Current Property Name: 1 Lot(s): 1-3 i Owner(s): Julie K. Maxwell 1 Block(s): 43 #i Owner Address: 314 E. Cottonwood St. t Addition: Imes Year of Addition: 1890 Bozeman, MT 59715 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: _.._.._.._.._.._.__..---- _.._.._.—.._.. -••- - _ _ -._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._�_.._.._.._.._..- _ - - _� _�.�.�.� _r.._.____.�._.._.._.._.._.._.._-•- i Historic Use: residence 1 UTM Reference www.nris.state.nit.us/topotindci2 Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 Construction Date: 1895 ❑ Estimated ® Actual ? Zone: 12 Easting: 497509 Northing: 5059213 i ® Original Location ❑ Moved Date Moved: '• i National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006 NRHP Listing Date: 1 Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable Technologies, Inc. Historic District: 1 Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ❑Yes ®No 1 Daytime Phone: 406-782-0494 .................................._._.._._................................................._._._._. .._._---------------------------------_._._.._.._. .._.._.._.._.._.._.._.._.................... i MT SHPO USE ONLY 1 Comments: Eligible for NRHP: ❑yes ❑no Criteria: ❑A ❑B ❑ C ❑D i Date: ; Evaluator: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Property Name: 621 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1720 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 1 1/2-story, wood-framed residence of vernacular design. The building's outward appearance suggests the 1940s or 1950s, and it was either built or heavily remodeled about that time; the details described here all date from that period. The building rests on a concrete foundation. Walls are clad with wide-lap siding, and the gable roof is surfaced with asphalt shingles. The north half of the primary(east) elevation projects outward, providing a fully-enclosed entry area. There is a large, exterior brick chimney on this wall. Windows are wood-framed, a mixture of fixed-light and casement units. There are two dormers on the building: a single-bay, hipped roof dormer on the south, and a larger, gable-roofed dormer to the north. The northern dormer probably postdates the southern one. There is an open, gabled porch at the west end of the north elevation, and a non-historic shed-roofed carport at the rear of the building. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 621 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1720 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page Stephen and Lulu Newman built the house at 621 N. Rouse in 1895. They immediately sold it to Sarah Mileham, who acquired the adjacent four lots in 1896. Mileham, a widow, resided at the house with two male relatives, presumably sons. Harvey Mileham worked as a teamster and Ellery Mileham as a machinist. Sarah Mileham sold the house and six lots at this location to another widow, Jerusha Littlefield, in 1900. Jerusha held the property for eight years. During that time, two other Littlefields, presumably sons, lived there as well. John Littlefield worked as a laborer and prospector, while Abner Littlefield was employed as a clerk at W.D. Farmer's bowling alley and the Gallatin Drug Company. Marvin Farmer purchased the property from Littlefield in June 1908, and just 13 short months later sold it. While residing briefly at 621 N. Rouse, Farmer was a printer for the Chronicle Publishing Company. Charlie and Margaret Howard were the next owners and, with minor exception, retained title to the house and adjacent lots until 1943. Immediately prior to purchasing 621 N. Rouse, Charlie Howard had rented another house on North Rouse Avenue, in the next block to the south. During his residence on the street, a period which presumably accounts for most of his adult life, he worked as a laborer(at one time for the Bozeman Street Department), teamster(for a time at the Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company), and a farmer. Apparently via a contract for deed, Lonzo and Rose Garren purchased 621 N. Rouse in 1943. They owned the property for the following 23 years. At least part of that time, Loren Garren worked as a conductor, possibly for the Northern Pacific Railway. The Garren family lived at the house on North Rouse almost continuously until about 1960. INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page 1904 Sanborn map R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1900-1961 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: 621 North Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1720 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 While this building apparently dates from the beginning of the twentieth century, its current appearance reflects a 1950 or even 1960s total remodel. When viewed as such, the house is not a representation of late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential building in the northeast Bozeman neighborhood, but instead is reflective of the practice of enlarging and remodeling older homes to serve modern needs. Because the alterations have been so extensive, this building cannot contribute to the proposed North Rouse Avenue Historic District. INTEGRITY(location,design, setting,materials, workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page If indeed this is the house that was first built on the lot in 1895, it has lost integrity in all respects except location and setting. The only late nineteenth century architectural feature that might survive on the building's exterior is the hipped dormer. r :fi r Syr•« n,r�ra I f� M ar i' 1 iv ..,• S, 444, �,I'� toj� IAi• f�� ,T ,•fir ,� � I r �. J aiy,4T�lvdr 16. ' fill I t '.f ARM ! `7 t t. 'IT ^d M M 00 [- W) H N a> �. 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