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Home My WebLink About628 W Main St 2020 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: 628 W MAIN ST Historic Address (if applicable): City/Town: BOZEMAN Site Number: 081 (An historic district number may also apply.) County: GALLATIN Historic Name: Lovelace Oil Company Original Owner(s): John A. Lovelace Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: N/A Owner(s): Jalal Neishabouri Owner Address: PO Box 186, Bozeman, MT 59771-0186 Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 02S Range: 05E SW¼ SE ¼ NE ¼ of Section: 12 Lot(s): Lots 19 - 21 Block(s): E Addition: Story Add (STO) Year of Addition: 1872 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Commercial Dodge Plymouth Sales and Service Current Use: Commercial Construction Date: 1931 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83(preferred) Zone: 12 Easting:496395.2 Northing: 5058385.3 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: NRHP Eligible: Yes No *Property meets the City of Bozeman’s definition of an eligible property (see below). Date of this document: 5/12/2020 Form Prepared by: E. Sakariassen, S. Wells, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. with C. Alegria and C. Hendry, Extreme History Project Address: Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., Bozeman, MT Daytime Phone: 406-219-3535 MT SHPO USE ONLY Eligible for NRHP: □ yes □ no Criteria: □ A □ B □ C □ D Date: Evaluator: Comments: Site would contribute to a potential Historic District. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Architectural Description Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Art Deco-Moderne If Other, specify: Property Type: Commerce Specific Property Type: Multi unit commercial retail Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Unknown Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Unknown Source of Information: N/A This site consists of one historical architectural feature: a single-story, brick-faced, commercial building on a corner lot. The building was completed in 1931 and exhibits characteristics of the Moderne style, with a curved northwest corner and unadorned flat roof. The building currently contains several retail spaces, with separate exterior entrances and décor. The building has a rectangular footprint with a concrete foundation. The roof is flat and the exterior walls are clad in redbrick. Both the north and west elevations act as primary facades, with storefronts. The focal point of the building is, however, the store entrance on the curved northwest corner. The corner entry has a standard wood door with a fixed lite. It has a transom lite above, and wrapping around the corner are banks of large divided-lite display windows. These windows appear to be original. Additional windows across the north and west elevations are fixed metal windows. Shop entrances consist mostly of side-hung glass doors, each with a transom above. The retail entrance at the east end of the north elevation has been modified by the corresponding business to have a projecting wood-framed entry vestibule. The vestibule is stylized with a flared hipped roof, covered in asphalt shingles. The three sides of the vestibule are clad in vertical board with faux-stone veneer along the base. There are divided-lite windows as well, and brackets beneath the shallow eaves of the vestibule roof. The southernmost entry on the west elevation has also been adorned with a distinctive treatment. It has a bank of tinted-glass display windows beneath a tall black cloth awning, and exterior light fixtures have been installed along this end of the elevation. The south elevation is divided into five bays, each originally contained a very large multi-lite fixed window. Two of the openings have been altered. One has been replaced with divided-lite windows and a rear exit. Another has been reduced in size by infilling a majority of the opening with concrete and installing a smaller tinted window. A paved parking area spans the south elevation and is accessed by an east-west-trending alley behind the building. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 HISTORY OF PROPERTY The Lovelace Oil Company building is located on Lots 19 through 21 of Block E, within what Nelson Story Sr. platted as Story’s Addition on June 18, 1872. In 1927, while most of the lots southwest of 7th Avenue and West Main Street had been dedicated to single-family dwellings and a few side-by-sides, the lots along the south side of West Main Street west of 7th Avenue remained undeveloped with few exceptions (Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1927). By 1943, several family-run commercial enterprises had been constructed along this section of West Main Street, including a restaurant at 712 West Main Street and a creamery on the adjacent lot of 708 West Main Street. The adjacent lot to the east (620 West Main Street) housed a small gas station that was also extant in the mid-1930s. Both the Lovelace building and the Embry & Jordan Gas Station are visible in a c.1936 photograph in the Gallatin History Museum collection (#90.1760, P1196N at GHM). John A. Lovelace purchased Lots 20 and 21 on March 30, 1928, and Lot 19 on July 1, 1929 from then owner Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company. John and his wife, Montana Hathhorn Lovelace, sold Lot 19 to the Lovelace Oil Company of Bozeman, Montana on September 15, 1930 and sold Lots 20 and 21 to the Mitchell Filling Stations company (a Montana corporation of which John Lovelace was president) on March 29, 1929. Lovelace changed the company’s name to the Lovelace Oil Company on April 9, 1930 (Abstract of Certification). In 1936, the Lovelace Oil Company sold Lots 19, 20, and 21 to The California Company, a Montana corporation in Helena, Montana. As noted in Bozeman Historic Resource Survey: 2008 Revised Edition, construction reflected, the increase in automobile travel generated new businesses that catered to the rising number of car owners and tourists. Gas stations multiplied from twenty-one in 1950 to twenty-nine in 1961 and to forty by 1970. While these facilities concentrated on East and West Main near the downtown center for many years, they began to move outward with the 1950s. In 1956, they stretched east to the United Gaseteria at 1205 East Main and west to the Carter Servicenter at 720 West Main (Renewable Technologies, Inc. 2008: 42). The gas station at 620 West Main Street and the Lovelace Oil Company building at 628 West Main Street both appear to have preceded the above referenced 1943 Carter Servicenter, located just a block west of 628 West Main Street, by at least eleven years. The Lovelace Oil Company was listed in Bozeman’s 1931 R.L. Polk Directory. The Lovelace Oil Company only operated in this building from 1931 through 1934, after which they operated out of their filling station at 711 East Main (R.L. Polk & Company, 1931 - 1936). In 1935-36, The Adams-Pence Motor Company managed Dodge-Plymouth Sales and Service at this site (R.L. Polk & Company, 1935 - 1936). A photograph taken of the building c.1938 shows a similar configuration as that in the earlier c.1936 photograph , with roof-mounted signs advertising Dodge and Plymouth; the canopy sign identifies the California Company (which owned the property from 1936 to 1966) and the provision of Calso Gasoline (#91.1186, P2950N at GHM). Earl W. Bryant sold Pontiac cars from the Bryant Motor Company here in 1940 (R.L. Polk & Company, 1940). Stanley H. Lemon had a longer run selling Chryslers and Plymouths from State Auto Company on this site from 1942 through 1956. Short-lived ventures again surfaced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with Frank C. McCrea selling new and used Pontiacs here in 1958, Milan D. McMurray operating Mike’s Automotive here from 1959 through 1962, and John’s Auto Inn selling gas here in 1963 and 1964 (R.L. Polk & Company, 1958 - 1964). Then the building variously served as a motorcycle sales shop and distributor for different types of snowmobiles (R.L. Polk & Company, 1965 - 1973). In 1978, the building was divided into several storefronts which housed realty offices, a video store, a waterbed store (during the waterbed heydays from 1987 through 1992), sundry pawn shops, and other offices (R.L. Polk & Company, 1979 - 2000). Rocky Mountain Rug Gallery settled in as an anchor tenant in 1998 (R.L. Polk & Company, 1998 - 2012), after Jalai and Jafar Neishabouri bought the property on March 4, 1998. They also operated a storefront at 201 East Main in downtown Bozeman. In April 2017, Sweet Peaks Ice Cream moved into the west portion of the building, taking advantage of the curved entry with flanking glazed storefronts. The building retains signs of prior uses, with brick patching at a prior canopy, and infilled openings (some with storefronts, some with brick). The many and varied uses of the building over time belie the more consistent ownership of the building. The Lovelaces owned the property from 1928 through 1936, The California Company from 1936 to 1966, the Lehrkinds and Streets had joint ownership from 1966 to 1977, David and Yvonne Jarrett from 1977 to 1987, and Dennis J. Wheat from 1987 to 1998. Jalai Neishabouri has been part- and full-owner since 1998. John Alfred and Montana Hathhorn Lovelace owned several buildings and businesses in Bozeman. John, who had been born on March 1, 1879 in Missouri, came to Livingston, Montana in 1901 (Ancestry.com, 2005; The Montana Standard, 2 April 1948). Within MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 History of Property Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 a year, he was a retail grocer in Livingston; in 1904 he opened a similar business with his two brothers in Bozeman (The Montana Standard, 2 April 1948; R.L. Polk & Company, 1914). He married Montana L. Hathhorn on June 30, 1909 in Livingston, Montana (Ancestry.com, 2016). Montana “Tan” Hathhorn had been born on April 23, 1882 in Livingston and grew up on a ranch in the Paradise Valley (Ancestry.com 2017; Kramer 2015). John was “elected state representative from Park county in 1913, he and his brothers also started a wholesale grocery concern that same year and in 1919 at Livingston he opened the second gasoline station in Montana. Other business enterprises included the formation in Bozeman of the Gallatin Valley Seed company of which he served as president for a time, and an auto supply firm which he had operated since 1931 (Montana Standard, 2 April 1948).” John and Montana raised their sons Jack and Daniel in Bozeman (Kramer 2015). The census records from 1920, 1930, and 1940 identify Lovelace as a self-employed merchant. John and his son Jack partnered on purchasing the Martin Block and Michigan Block, at 29-43 West Main Street in Bozeman, from Ella Martin in the mid-1930s; it is now known as the Hathhorn Building (Kramer 2015). The family also owned the Montana Motor Supply Company, behind the Michigan Block, at 23 W Babcock St, which was likely designed by renowned Bozeman architect Fred Willson, who designed a number of buildings for the Lovelace family, including alterations to both the Martin and Michigan buildings and a shop building for the Lovelace Realty Co. in 1944. After John Lovelace died on April 1, 1948, he was hailed as a business and civic leader who had been active in the Democratic party, the Associated Merchants of Montana, and had run a campaign to join the U.S. senate in 1934 (Montana Standard, 2 April 1948). His wife Montana died on February 25, 1971 in Bozeman (Ancestry.com, 2001). They were both buried at the Lovelace plot in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Bozeman (Findagrave 1948; 1971). Carl and Margaret Thompson Lehrkind were part of a Bozeman family that had been in the beverage business since 1885, when Carl’s grandfather Julius Lehrkind bought and operated a local brewery. The company branched into the bottling business which was awarded a Coca-Cola franchise in 1914. Julius’s son Carl Lehrkind Sr. and his son Carl Lehrkind Jr. ran the Lehrkind’s bottling business. The firm is now operated by Carl Lehrkind III and IV (Lehrkind website). Carl Jr. had been born on September 10, 1906 in Bozeman (Ancestry.com, 2017). He married Margaret Virginia Thompson on September 8, 1937 (Ancestry.com, 2019). Margaret had been born on December 15, 1913 in North Dakota, where she received a degree in Fine Arts. She moved to Bozeman to teach art at Montana State College in 1936. Soon after, she met and married Carl Lehrkind Jr. (Findagrave.com, 2012). The partners in the Lehrkind ownership in 1966 were Joseph Dewey and Arline Elliot Street. Joseph had been born in Springhill, Montana on March 27, 1898, to Theodore and Lillian Street. His parents were known as Gallatin Valley pioneers. After J.D.’s graduation from Montana State College, he worked for First Security Bank in Bozeman for 51 years. He was bank president from 1951 through 1967, and was active in the Bozeman community, serving on several boards, and as a member of the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers. He married Ethel Arline Elliott on July 10, 1927 (Findagrave.com, 1983). Known as Arline, she had been born on August 27, 1903 in LaPlata, Missouri (Ancestry.com, 2017) to parents born in Missouri (Ancestry.com, 2010). Joseph died on December 8, 1983 and Arline died on April 13, 1998; both were buried in Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman (Findagrave.com, 1998). Jalai Neishabouri has owned the building since 1998. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 History of Property Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 Table 1. Chain of Title, 628 W. Main St., Bozeman, Montana. Grantor Grantee Date of Instrument Type of Instrument Property Description/Comments Reference USA William H. Tracy 15 June 1872 Patent S ½ of NE ¼ section 12, T2S R5E D: I/56 William H. and Sarah J. Tracy Nelson Story 18 November 1871 Deed Same D: H/402 Nelson and Ellen Story Elias Story 04 November 1874 Deed Lots 13 – 32 in Block E, and all of blocks B, C, D, F, G, H, Story’s Addition D: I/538 Elias Story Ellen Story 14 November 1874 Deed Same D: I/542 Ellen and Nelson Story Elias Story Jr. 29 July 1889 Deed Same (2/3s interest) D: 17/122 Elias Story Jr. Nelson Story 01 August 1889 Deed Same (2/3s interest) D: 17/125 Nelson and Ellen Story Rose Story Hogan 04 October 1902 Warranty Deed Lots 13 – 32, Block E, Story’s Addition D: 29/237 Rose Story and Garrett L. Hogan Bartholomew Cronin 12 February 1906 Warranty Deed Same D: 35/419 Bartholomew and Mary B. Cronin Ellen Story 11 February 1907 Warranty Deed Same D: 38/44 On September 4, 1909, Ellen and Nelson Story sold the S 8’ of their lots to the City of Bozeman for the purpose of opening a public alley through Blocks E, F, and part of Block G in Story’s Addition (D: 42/23). Nelson and Ellen Story The Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company 18 May 1910 Warranty Deed Same D: 41/278 Rose Story Hogan The Kenyon Noble Lumber Company 05 April 1912 Quit Claim Deed Lots 13 – 21, 24 – 32, Block E, Story’s Addition D: 21/636 Lot 19 Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company John A. Lovelace 01 July 1929 Warranty Deed Lot 19, except S 8’, Block E, Story’s Addition D: 75/321 J. A. and Montana H. Lovelace Lovelace Oil Company 15 September 1930 Warranty Deed Same D: 74/330 Lots 20 and 21 Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company John A. Lovelace 30 March 1928 Deed Lots 20 and 21, Block E, Story’s Addition D: 71/611 J. A. and Montana H. Lovelace Mitchell Filling Stations 29 March 1929 Warranty Deed Same D: 74/63 Lots 19 - 21 Lovelace Oil Company The California Company 06 April 1936 Warranty Deed Lots 19 – 21, except S 8’, Block E, Story’s Addition D: 79/310 The California Company (State of MT) The California Company (State of CA) 31 December 1936 Deed All real property in Gallatin County D: 80/135 Chevron Oil Company (fka The California Company and as California Oil Company) Carl and Margaret T. Lehrkind 25 February 1966 Warranty Deed Lots 19 – 21, except S 8’ for alley, Block E, Story’s Addition (1/2 interest) D: 150/407 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 History of Property Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 Grantor Grantee Date of Instrument Type of Instrument Property Description/Comments Reference Chevron Oil Company (fka The California Company and as California Oil Company) J. D. and Arlie E. Street 25 February 1966 Warranty Deed Same (1/2 interest) D: 150/408 Carl and Margaret T. Lehrkind and J. D. and Arline E. Street Dennis Wheat and Keith Wheat 31 July 1968 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 37/1582 Dennis and Ellen S. Wheat and Keith Wheat David C. and Yvonne G. Jarrett 01 June 1977 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 37/1583 David C. and Yvonne G. Jarrett Dennis J. Wheat 02 December 1987 Quit Claim Deed Same D: Film 99/3640 Dennis J. Wheat Jalal Neishabouri and Jafar Neishabouri 04 March 1998 Notice of Purchaser’s Interest Same D: Film 182/1137 Jafar Neishabouri Jalal Neishabouri __ August 2000 Quit Claim Deed Same D: #2026683 Jalal Neishabouri and Jafar Neishabouri Dennis J. Wheat 04 March 1998 Quit Claim Deed Same D: #2343443 Jalal Neishabouri Dennis J. Wheat 10 March 2010 Warranty Deed Same D: #2356025 Dennis J. Wheat Jalal Neishabouri 29 March 2011 Warranty Deed Same D: #2385281 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Ancestry.com 2001 Montana, State Deaths, 1907-2016 [database on-line]. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services; Helena, Montana; Montana Death Records. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=5437&h=1103419&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=61591, accessed June 22, 2020. Ancestry.com 2005 U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Registration State: Montana; Registration County: Park; Roll: 1711438. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6482&h=1185614&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=WOG38&_phstart=successSource, accessed June 22, 2020. 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Ancestry.com 2017 Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1987 [database on-line]. Montana State Historical Society; Helena, Montana; Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61578&h=90537661&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=WOG51&_phstart=successSource, accessed June 22, 2020. Ancestry.com 2019 Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-Current [database on-line]. The Missoulian; Publication Date: 22/ Apr/ 1980; Publication Place: Missoula, Montana, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/348753621/?article=d3b8f1d6-c03d-4137-98c2-63eca5db7ac6&focus=0.030547632,0.49853146,0.2716962,0.632143&xid=2378, accessed July 10, 2020. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 Find A Grave 2004 John Alfred Lovelace (1879 – 1948). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51339548/john-alfred-lovelace, accessed June 22, 2020. Find A Grave 2004 Montana Lilly Hathhorn Lovelace (1882-1971). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51337173/montana-lilly-lovelace, accessed June 22, 2020. Find A Grave 2004 Joseph Dewey Street (27 Mar 1898 – 8 Dec 1983). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74160693/joseph-dewey-street, accessed June 23, 2020. Find A Grave 1998 Arline Elliot Street (27 Aug 1903 – 13 Apr 1998). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74160726/arline-street, accessed June 22, 2020. Find A Grave 2012 Margaret Thompson Lehrkind (1913-2012). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87758953/margaret-lehrkind, accessed June 22, 2020. Historic Photographs from the Gallatin History Museum, Bozeman, Montana. Kramer, Courtney. “Historic Spotlight: The Main Street Historic District.” Bozeman Magazine 31 August 2015. 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MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Statement of Significance Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 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 This site consists of one historical architectural feature: a single-story, brick-faced, commercial building on a corner lot. The building was completed in 1931 and exhibits characteristics of the Moderne style, with a curved northwest corner and unadorned flat roof. The building was owned by the Lovelace family, prominent local businessmen. The Lovelaces had a long-standing relationship with renowned Ecole-trained Bozeman architect, Fred Willson, and it is possible that he is responsible for the design of this building as it coincides with design and remodeling of other buildings owned by John and Jack Lovelace and bears characteristics of the Moderne style that Willson was known to practice late in his career. One other example, the former Lovelace Motor Supply (“Montana Motor Supply”) at 23 W Babcock, remains in excellent condition and has been recommended as a contributing property within the Bozeman Main Street Historic District for its associations under Criterion B with these prominent local residents (Carpenter 2014). This site also has more broad historic associations with the Nationalization Phase of Bozeman’s development, which saw the perpetuation of many earlier building practices, but also the rise of new streamlined styles, new construction, and infill—particularly that associated with the booming auto industry (RTI 2008). The site retains sufficient integrity to convey historic character within this context. Sec. 38.700 of the Bozeman Municipal Code defines an eligible property as one that meets the criteria for inclusion in the NRHP or State Register either 1) individually or 2) as a contributing building to an existing or potential historic district. This site has been evaluated against the NRHP Criteria. Metcalf has been unable to confirm an association with architect Fred Willson, and the association with the Lovelace family was brief—only during the three-year period in which the Lovelace Oil Company operated in this location. Other buildings associated with the Lovelace family are, perhaps, better representations of their affluence and influence on the development of central Bozeman. For these reasons, Metcalf does not currently recommend that the site has individual significance under Criterion A, B, C, or D. However, considering district potential in the vicinity, this site reflects a period of expansion west, along Main Street on the fringe of a primarily residential neighborhood in the 1940s that altered the character of the surrounding area and ties in with the understanding of development within the Story Addition. For this reason, Metcalf recommends the site be considered eligible/contributing to a potential district and that further research be conducted regarding Bozeman’s Story Addition in order to determine district potential. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Integrity Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) Changes to individual storefronts and the replacement and in-fill of original windows and openings have affected integrity of materials and design to some extent. Other aspects of integrity remain intact and the site has sufficient integrity to convey historic character. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Photographs Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 081. Oblique view. (Image #03-0073, 10/20/2019. EAS) Feature # 1 Facing: NE Description: Property 081. Oblique view. (Image #03-0074, 10/20/2019. EAS) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Photographs Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 Feature # 1 Facing: NW Description: Property 081. Oblique view. (Image #03-0075, 10/20/2019. EAS) Feature # 1 Facing: S Description: Property 081. Front façade. (Image #03-0083, 10/20/2019. EAS) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 13 Site Map Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 14 Topographic Map Property Name: Lovelace Oil Company Site Number: 081