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Home My WebLink About605 N 7th-2019 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: 605 N. 7th Historic Address (if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: (An historic district number may also apply.) County: Gallatin Historic Name: Union Service Station Original Owner(s): Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Subaru Auto Shop Owner(s): William & Karen Ruh Owner Address: Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 5E SE ¼ SE ¼ SE ¼ of Section: 1 Lot(s): 1 Block(s): 1 Addition: Year of Addition: USGS Quad Name: Year: Historic Use: Gas Station/ Auto Shop Current Use: Unoccupied, set for redevelopment Construction Date: 1954 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83(preferred) Zone: Easting: 496374.47 Northing: 5059133.74 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: NRHP Eligible: Yes No Date of this document: 5/24/2019 Form Prepared by: Phillipe Gonzalez Address: 20 E. Olive, Bozeman MT 59715 Daytime Phone: MT SHPO USE ONLY Eligible for NRHP: □ yes □ no Criteria: □ A □ B □ C □ D Date: Evaluator: Comments: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Architectural Description Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other: If Other, specify: Small Box with Canpoy Property Type: Transportation Specific Property Type: Gas Station Architect: Architectural Firm/City/State: Builder/Contractor: Company/City/State: Source of Information: The Unions Service Station building is a one-story gas station with a rectangular footprint and connected awning. The service station has a two-bay entrance for servicing vehicles along the West façade, a large window next to the office entrance. The North Façade contains two plate glass windows and two doors, likely for restroom entrances. The rear of the building contains two sets of plate glass and the South façade contains two sets of fixed glass plate windows. The cantilevered awning is supported by 4 large metal poles. The Union Service Station is representative of the mid-century “Small Box with Canopy” architectural gas station type. The structure appears to be clad in metal panels that make up the rectangular structure and awning. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: HISTORY OF PROPERTY The current property where the Union Service Gas Station resides was subdivided in 1951 by property owners Reuben and Ethel Williamson and the Durston Realty Co. The property resides along the N. 7th Ave, a historic thoroughfare running north to south through Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley. North Seventh Avenue has been called the Yellowstone Trail on various maps though the connection is not clear. By the 1940s and 1950s North Seventh was dominated by gas stations, motels and car repair shops, all servicing the post war expansion of the city that heavily relied on automobile transportation. 1954 to 1975 the structure was owned and operated as a Union Service gas station, renamed Union “76” Service in 1958 based on Polk Directories. Later the station was operated by the Sinclair gas company and eventually as a Best Rate Repair & Towing and Intensive Car: Auto Repair, specializing in Subaru repair. The building remained vacant after 2016. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY John A. Jakie & Keith A. Sculle, The Gas Station in America, 1994 The John Hopkins University Press Daniel I. Vieyra, “Fill’er Up”: An Architectural History of America’s Gas Stations.1979, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. R.L. Polk and Company (1954-2015). City Directory: Bozeman, Montana. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 Statement of Significance Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: 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 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 Integrity Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Integrity Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: Façade: North Façade: West MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Photographs Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: Façade: South Façade: East MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Photographs Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: Façade: Northeast Undated Historic Photo #1 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Photographs Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: Undated Historic Photo #2 Undated Historic Photo #3 Undated Historic Photo #4 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Photographs Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Site Map Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 13 Topographic Map Property Name: Union Service Station Site Number: