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Home My WebLink About7 E Beall St 2021 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: 7 E Beall St Historic Address (if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: 138 Historic District Number (if applicable): County: Gallatin Historic Name: Unknown Original Owner(s): Unknown Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Ridge Center, LLC Owner(s): Cory T. Lawrence Owner Address: P. O. Box 1795, Bozeman, MT 59771-1795 Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E SE ¼ NE ¼ NW ¼ of Section: 7 Lot(s): Lots 7-11 Block(s): Block D Addition: Bealls 2nd Addition Year of Addition: 1882 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Commercial Current Use: Commercial Construction Date: 1978 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83 (preferred) Zone: 12 Easting: 497129 Northing: 5058748 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: NRHP Eligible: Yes No Date of this document: 11/19/2020 Form Prepared by: S. Wells and A. Sakariassen, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. with C. Alegria and C. Hendry, Extreme History Project Address: PO Box 1526, Bozeman, MT 59771 Daytime Phone: (406) 219-3535 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: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other If Other, specify: Twentieth Century Modern Property Type: Commerce Specific Property Type: Office building Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Unknown Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Unknown Source of Information: Montana Cadastral records online, accessed 09/07/2020. The property at 7 E. Beall consists of a 1.25-story brick and wood-faced commercial office building, built in a Twentieth Century Modern style. It was previously recorded in 1984, by James R. McDonald Architects, and regarded as an "intrusive element within a potential historic district." McDonald described the building as follows: "This detached one-and-one-half commercial structure has an L-shaped plan with the front entrance flush to the interior joint of the ell. The two-bay façade is asymmetrical and consists of an offset front entrance with narrow fixed windows as sidelights and ground-to-roof fixed windows in the front façade . The brick construction has diagonal wood siding on the gable ends including glass-insets to the gable peaks. The structure rests on a concrete foundation. The gable roof is covered with wood shakes and features boxed, overhanging eaves." Metcalf revisited the site on October 13, 2020, and noted some modifications. The roof has new asphalt shingles, and a four lite skylight at the center of the peak of the western roof. The ground level is clad in brick veneer, and the upper story gable ends are clad in vertical board and batten, and no longer the diagonal boards from 1984. The primary façade faces east onto Beall St. to the south, with the main entry set at-grade at the west end of the long side of the ell. A wooden pergola extends from the eaves to define the entry, filling the inside angle formed by the intersection of the exterior walls. The actual door is set in the west wall of the front-facing gable end. The east half of the façade has a wide gable front, with paired casement windows flanking a central bay containing a series of four single-lite casement windows. On the upper level of the east half of the façade, the gable end contains a pair of side-hung glass doors with side-lites, and a three-lite transom that fills the gable peak. The doors give access a second story balcony, with metal railings, projecting over the parking spaces below. A paved parking lot wraps around the south and west sides of the building, and an alley skirts the north side. The west elevation is dominated by a wide gable-end that projects slightly over the lower story. A secondary entry is recessed and protected by a shallow pergola of wood. A series of fixed-lite windows are set to either side of the entry. Four stacked fixed-lite windows are centered vertically below the gable peak. The north elevation faces the rear alleyway, the long wall has been stuccoed and four mismatched fixed windows are placed asymmetrically along its length. The east elevation has a solid metal entry door, with a concrete stoop, near the north end, flanked on one side by a narrow fixed-lite window, and to the south three similar fixed-lite windows. In the stucco-clad gable end two similar windows are centered in the peak. The building is modern, built in 1978, and is in excellent condition. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 HISTORY OF PROPERTY This property is a modern commercial office building, built in 1978, renovated in 1995, and remodeled in 2010. At the time of McDonald's survey and report in 1984 the property was owned and operated by Medical Associates Partnership. The current occupant in Suite 100 is the American Prairie Reserve, who, according to their website "is a freestanding Montana-based nonprofit that started to assemble land in 2004...[whose] main focus is to purchase and permanently hold title to private lands that glue together a vast mosaic of existing public lands so that the region is managed thoughtfully and collaboratively with state and federal agencies for wildlife conservation and public access." MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY American Prairie Reserve 2021 "About US." Electronic website, https://www.americanprairie.org, accessed 18 May 2021. James R. McDonald Architects 1984 7 E Beall St. Montana Historical and Architectural Inventory Form. Document on-file with the City of Bozeman. Bozeman, MT. Montana State Library, Montana Cadastral records online, https://svc.mtgov/msl/mtcadastral, accessed 07/09/2020. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 Statement of Significance Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 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 The property at 7 E. Beall St. was previously recorded in 1984, by architect James R. McDonald, and deemed "an intrusive element within a potential historic district", and has not been drastically altered since that time. The building is a commercial office building built in 1978, and remodeled in 2010 in a Twentieth Century Modern style. It is in good condition overall. The recorded building is a modern structure and has not reached the 50-year threshold for consideration as a historic property, and does not satisfy Criterion Consideration G (properties that have achieved significance within the past 50 years). Metcalf therefore recommends the property not eligible for inclusion in the NRHP. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 Integrity Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) The property is in good condition, overall, but is modern and, as such, has no historic integrity. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Photographs Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 Feature # 1 Facing: NE Description: Property 138. Oblique view (Image #339, 10/13/2020, EAS). Feature # 1 Facing: E Description: Property 138. West elevation (Image #340, 10/13/2020, EAS). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Photographs Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 138. Oblique view (Image 341, 10/13/2020, EAS). Feature # 1 Facing: SW Description: Property 138. Oblique view (Image 342, 10/13/2020, EAS). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Site Map Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Topographic Map Property Name: 7 E Beall St Site Number: 138