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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
Property Address: 314 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1691
(An historic district number may also apply.)
Historic Address(if applicable):
City/Town: Bozeman County: Gallatin
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Historic Name: Legal Location
OriginalOwner(s): unknown PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E
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Current Ownership ❑ Private ❑ Public SE '/4 NE '/4 NW '/4 of Section: 7
Current Property Name: Lot(s): W 1/2 of Lot 17
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Owner(s): Samuel J. and Cynthia A. Elson ` Block(s): NA
Owner Address: 5100 Bozeman Trail Rd. Addition: Perkins and Stone Year of Addition: c. 1889
Bozeman, MT 59715-1608
USGS Quad Name: Bozeman, MT Year: 1987
Phone:
Historic Use: residence UTM Reference w%vw.nris.state.m.t.us/topofinder2
Current Use: residence ❑NAD 27(preferred) ERNAD 83
Construction Date: 1904 ❑Estimated ®Actual Zone: 12 Easting: 497529 Northing: 5058770
® Original Location ❑Moved Date Moved:
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National Register of Historic Places Date of this document: January 2006
NRHP Listing Date: Form Prepared by: Dale Martin, Renewable
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Historic District: i
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:
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Property Name: 314 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1691
ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ❑ See Additional Informatio]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'/-story, rectangular, vernacular residence of wood-frame construction. Exterior walls are clad with wide-lap
siding of a Masonite-like material (non-historic). The gable roof is covered with galvanized corrugated steel, and has an
interior chimney made of brick. Most windows are 1/1 double-hung units in historic openings; smaller 1-light and 3-light
fixed windows exist on the north elevation. The foundation is concrete; it may not be original to the house.
A 8 x 10-foot metal shed was added to the site in about 1980.
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Property Name: 314 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1691
HISTORY OF PROPERTY ❑ See Additional Information Page
The house at this address was erected at some unknown date before 1905. In 1903, Alson Sawyer purchased the
property. Sawyer, variously listed in the city directories as a bartender and laborer, resided in a cabin behind the main
house for a short time in about 1909. In 1919, Minnie Freel purchased the house and lot, and began a long tenure at
this address. Freel was widowed at the time she acquired the property and a son William lived there with her into the
mid-1920s. At least during the late 1910s and early 1920s, she worked as a laundress for the Gallatin Laundry
Company, while her son worked as a laborer. Freel lived at 314 N. Rouse until the early 1940s. In 1940, she deeded
the house to her son, then living in Laurel. In 1946, William Freel sold the house (presumably shortly after her death).
In 1947, Lee and Edna Ping purchased the house. Mr. Ping worked as a bartender. After his death, Edna Ping
remained at the house until 1978-1979.
INFORMATION SOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHY ❑ See Additional Information Page
1904 Sanborn map
R.L. Polk& Company. Bozeman City Directory, 1902-1979
deeds on file at Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder's Office (refer to attached partial chain of title)
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Property Name: 314 North Rouse Ave. Site Number: 24 GA 1691
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 building is a representative example of a small, largely 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 potentially 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, however,
suffers from a diminished level of historic integrity(as described below). Because of this loss of integrity, the building is
no longer a high-quality example of its type, and is not independently eligible for the National Register of Historic
Places.
INTEGRITY(location, design,setting,materials,workmanship,feeling,association) ❑ See Additional Information Page
This building retains integrity of location and setting. Other aspects of integrity have been diminished by non-historic
alterations to the building's exterior, primarily the addition of non-historic exterior cladding to the building.
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