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Home My WebLink About1812 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 8th Ave Helena,MT 59620-1202 Property Address: 1812 N. Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1735 (An historic district number may also apply.) Historic Address(if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin i Historic Name: City of Bozeman shops Legal Location Original Owner(s): City of Bozeman PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E Current Ownership ❑ Private ® Public WEST HALF '/4 NW '/4 NE %4 of Section: 6 Current Property Name: City of Bozeman shops Lot(s): Tract 12 in NW 1/4 NE 1/4 Owner(s): City of Bozeman Block(s): Owner Address: PO Box 1230 Addition: NA Year of Addition: Bozeman, MT 59771-1230 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987 Phone: ; I Historic Use: city street maintenance shops ; UTM Reference www.nris.state.mt.us/topofinder2 Current Use: city street maintenance shops ❑NAD 27(preferred) ®NAD 83 i Construction Date: about 1948 ®Estimated ❑Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497590 Northing: 5060544 ®Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved: ............................._.._-------- -....................................... -.-.._.._.. .._.._.._..--------------..-...... -.................................................-------•----- National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: March 2006 NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Mark Hufstetler, Renewable Technologies, Inc. Historic District: Address: 511 Metals Bank Bldg., Butte, MT 59701 NRHP Eligible: ❑ 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: 1812 N. Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1735 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Information Page Architectural Style: OTHER: If Other, specify: vernacular Property Type: Government Specific Property Type: maintenance shops Architect: Architectural Firm/City/State: Builder/Contractor: 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 site serves as an auxillary maintenance yard and storage are for the City of Bozeman. It includes four groups of buildings of differing age and use, as described below. The southwestern corner of the site, nearest the entry gate, includes four rectangular, metal-framed storage buildings, used in part to house road sand and other materials. The history of the buildings is not known, but they appear to be manufactured structures, and may date from approximately the 1940s. They were reportedly moved to this location in the 1970s. The buildings rest on high concrete foundations; they are metal-sided, and have shallow-pitch metal gable roofs. One end of each building is largely ocupied by a large metal overhead door; the doors appear to date from the relocation of the buildings, rather than their construction. The lower wall of the southeastern building in this group is collapsing outward, due to pressure from road sand stored inside. A small, square brick building stands to the northeast of the storage buildings. This building dates from the construction of a wastewater treatment facility on the site in the 1940s, and was a part of that facility. The building has a concrete foundation, and a flat roof behind a low concrete parapet. A square brick chimney is near the building's northwest corner. A metal door and metal-sash, 6-light windows are present; all are historic. A continuous concrete lintel connects the tops of all doors and windows, running completely around the perimeter of the building. Concrete window sills are also continuous, though they do not extend around building corners. What appears to be a solar collection panel is mounted on the roof of the building. Except for this panel, this building fully retains historic integrity. A small rectangular barn is at the north end of the property, beyond the wastewater treatment building. The barn is wood-framed, with shiplap siding and a gambrel roof, covered with modern, sheet-metal roofing. Fenestration in the building is wood or wood-framed, and includes person and animal doors, a hayloft door, and small, square window openings. Except for the roof, the barn appears to retain historic integrity. East of the wastewater treatment building, there are three modern garage/storage buildings, all with metal siding and roofs. The westernmost building is wood-framed, with a shed roof and a largely open south elevation; it may date from the 1970s. The buildings to the east are metal-framed, larger, and fully enclosed, with metal overhead garage doors. According to city representatives, they were constructed in approximately 2002. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 Property Name: 1812 N. Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1735 HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page In the mid-1920s, Robert and Margaret Yetsinga were selling relatively small parcels of land in Section 6 north of Bozeman to various parties. In 1928, they deeded 15 acres at the future site of the Bozeman City Shops to Reuben and Grace Hicks. The Hicks held the land for four years. When they sold it to Paul Smith in 1932, the property included buildings, a hot water boiler, and an electrical pump. No other information about the property is readily available, so the purpose to which the Hicks put the land is unknown. Paul Smith and his wife Nora retained possession of the parcel, and presumably its buildings, until 1948. Although unconfirmed, it is possible that the small barn surviving at this site dates from that era. The City of Bozeman acquired the 15-acre parcel, less about'/acre previously deeded to the Ohio Oil Company for a natural gas substation, in 1948. The property was reportedly developed into a wastewater treatment facility at that time. The brick building at the site survives from that period of use. The city's growth, however, soon prompted the construction of a larger wastewater facility, and one was completed just west of Springhill Road by the 1970s. The Rouse facility was closed, and converted into a storage yard for Bozeman's road crews and other city departments. The four metal storage buildings now at the site were reportedly moved there at that time; one or more of those buildings may have been relocated from city property farther south on Rouse that became the site of the Bozeman City Library. City maintenance crews continue to use this location; it is known informally by them as the"lower yard." INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office(refer to attached partial chain of title) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Pro erty Name: 1812 N. Rouse Site Number: 24 GA 1735 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 site contains buildings reflecting a variety of historic uses-- private agriculture, public utilities, and roadway maintenance. Well-preserved buildings from the first two uses survive at the site, but other buildings and features once integral to those historic uses are now completely gone. In addition, the earlier buildings are overshadowed by the modern or relocated road maintenance buildings, which date from the 1970s or later. Because of this, the site can no longer convey its historic uses, and does not retain the integrity required for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. INTEGRITY(location, design,setting,materials,workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page The barn and wastewater treatment buildings at the site retain all aspects of integrity except setting. All remaining buildings at the site either postdate the historic era, or have lost integrity due to their non-historic relocation to this site. MONTANA HISTORIC1 ' 1 ' 1 PropertyPHOTOGRAPHS h � / a♦ �� '[ !y A.� ♦K rga. Q♦ I � YY AMML Z. bb }�S.! ,}- 1• y ; ♦0 fir` 1.. �Y ,. r � j ;�• + Z `�• ..w ova pw �111�111, n Okr) 00 N m N u cOi ►°. � GxG � 0.x1 � PG 00 0 o PG y i Cc 00 o a aCd �o }ay y M 0 a z (0 N •y � � � � O U N U � ,M. � z 'o u v c4 cC 7C p 0 0. kn N W) N O 'IT o It o u o. 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