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Home My WebLink About210 S Black Ave 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: 210 S Black Ave. Historic Address (if applicable): City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: 152 Historic District Number (if applicable): 24GA0955 County: Gallatin Historic Name: Original Owner(s): Arthur A. Allen Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Owner(s): Kathleen J. Bryan Owner Address: 2607 Spring Creek Dr., Bozeman, MT 59715-6040 Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E SW ¼ NE ¼ SW ¼ of Section: 7 Lot(s): Lot 20, N10' Lot 19, S5' Lot 21 Block(s): Block C Addition: Black Addition Year of Addition: 1872 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Residential Current Use: Residential Construction Date: 1930 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83 (preferred) Zone: 12 N Easting: 497252 Northing: 5058151 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: 1987 Historic District: South Tracy - South Black Historic District (24GA0955) NRHP Eligible: Yes No *Property meets the City of Bozeman's definition of an eligible property. Date of this document: 05/20/2021 Form Prepared by: S. Wells and E. 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: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other (specify) If Other, specify: Arts and Crafts Property Type: Residential Specific Property Type: Single unit dwelling Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Unknown Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Unknown Source of Information: This site consists of one historical architectural feature: a house built ca. 1930. It was previously recorded in 1984 and then revised in 1985. The site was subsequently listed in the NRHP as a contributing site within the South Tracy - South Black Historic District (24GA0955) in 1987. McDonald described the building as follows: "This detached two-and-one-half story single-family residence has a rectangular plan with a shed-roofed partially enclosed (sun-room) front porch. The one-bay façade is asymmetrical and consists of an off-center front entrance with sidelights, and fixed and 2/2 and 6/2 double-hung windows. The frame construction is finished in stucco on the first floor and shingles on the upper floors. It rests on a concrete foundation. The gable roof is covered with blue asphalt shingles and features a central brick chimney. The axis of the roof is perpendicular to the street. Outbuildings include a one-bay garage with a flat roof." Metcalf revisited the site on October 14, 2020, and noted some minor modifications. The site consists of a 2-story wood-framed house with a clipped gable roof. The house has a rectangular plan shape and foundation that has been stuccoed over. The roof is covered in asphalt shingles and exterior walls are stuccoed on the first story and wood shingles on the upper story. The primary entry is on the west façade, at the south end within a pent roofed porch, and the north end of which is enclosed. The entry has unique side lites and transom with three fixed lites with small square lites at each end. The enclosed portion of the porch has two over two lite hung windows. The second story windows are six over two hung windows, with a three lite window in the peak. The windows appear to all be original wood sash. The north elevation has two over two lite windows on first story and six over two in the upper, with an additional small one over one lite window. There are also basement lites present, but the metal wells present in 1984 have been removed. The south elevation has a window on the upper story and two on the first. These appear to be one over one lite windows, but are partly obscured from the public Right of Way. The site is in excellent condition. The outbuilding to the southwest of the house described by McDonald has been removed. Vegetation includes deciduous bushes on either corner of the primary façade, and a large mature deciduous tree on the north side of the front sidewalk directly in front of the concrete walkway leading up to the front door. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 HISTORY OF PROPERTY The property at 210 South Black Avenue was platted as the Dawes Subdivision including portions of Block C, Black’s Addition and Fractional Lot 17, Lindley and Guy’s Addition, by R. S. Dawes, on October 1, 1912. There was a previous residence on this property, known as the Horace Annis homestead, marked as 212 South Black on the 1912 Sanborn map. In his will, Horace Annis directed that the homestead be reserved for the use of his daughter, Mary A. Cleaveland and not be sold by his executor prior to Mary’s death. After her death, he bequeathed the homestead to Mary Cleaveland’s heirs including his son Paul Jones Annis and his grandchildren, A. J. Mattison Morrill and Anna Kune Morrill Sturdivant. Between 1912 and 1927 the Annis house was removed. Arthur Alexander Allen purchased this property on August 30, 1927 from Bessie and John Clark for $1.00. A building with three apartments was built on this property in 1930, presumably by Arthur Allen. Arthur A. Allen was born in Fair Grove, MO on April 26, 1872 to James and Mary Allen. He came to Montana in 1896. He lived in Missoula, MT for a year and then came to Bozeman. On June 6, 1900, he married Margaret Ellis. For several years he worked as an assistant manager of the Golden Rule store in Bozeman, then from 1903 to 1913 he managed a store in Livingston. Returning to Bozeman, Allen founded the City Dye Works. Allen also worked in the real estate business (The Independent-Record, 28 March 1946). Margaret Allen purchased the property from her husband on February 27, 1946 for $1.00. Arthur Allen died about a month later, on March 24, 1946. Margaret Allen had been born in Bronson, MI on February 9, 1876. She came to Bozeman with her family when she was a child and was one of the first graduates of Montana’s College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (currently known as Montana State University) in 1897, graduating with a degree in business (Great Falls Tribune, 11 May 1960). Margaret’s daughter, Norma Sim moved into the house with her mother when her husband, Rodney Sim, died in 1950. Margaret Allen sold the property to her daughter, Norma Sim, on September 30, 1960 for $1.00. Norma Sim sold the property to Jean Woods on May 24, 1961 and Jean Woods sold the property back to Norma Sim and Katherine Sim Titus on the same day, May 24, 1961. Katherine Sim Titus was Norma Sim’s daughter (Gallatin History Museum Vertical Files, 210 & 407 North Black). The granddaughter of Norma Sim, Betsy Allen and her husband Denny, lived in the house from 1980 to 1982. Betsy had fond memories of raspberry bushes and honeysuckle flowers on the property. A grandson of Norma Sim, Steve Titus, also lived in the house from 1979 to 1981. Debby Titus Kelly, another granddaughter of Norma Sim, remembers spending time in the house during the 1950s and 1960s, picking raspberries and hunting for night crawlers in the damp lawn with a flashlight at night. She and her siblings would walk up the street to "Cullen’s Corner" and buy candy. They would play Kick the Can across the street in a parking lot. Norma Sim and Margaret Allen lived on the "main floor, there were two apartments on the second floor . . . We had access to the basement. That’s where the canning stuff was, along with an open shower and a bedroom with a huge brass bed right at the foot of the stairs. You could see the furnace and behind it, the coal chute. That huge, dark hole in the wall of the dark basement! Scary! I loved the kitchen. It had huge windows facing north. The table sat under them. My great-grandmother, Grandma (Margaret Louise Ellis) Allen, played solitaire there for many hours. The sink was on the west wall by the door to the living room and there was a stool and a dipper, so we could all dip water there and quench our thirst. Not many dirty cups in that kitchen (Gallatin History Museum Vertical Files, 210 & 407 North Black)." Katherine S. Titus, Trustee of the Katherine S. Titus Revocable Trust, sold the property to Walter L. Jr. and Katherine Titus on October 8, 1992. Walter L. Jr. and Katherine Titus sold the property to Ruth W. and Tommy L. Austin and Joy A. and Randy L. White on December 8, 1992. Joy A. and Randy L. White deeded the property via Quit Claim Deed to Tommy L. and Ruth W. Austin on December 21, 2000. On April 11, 2002 Tommy L. and Ruth W. Austin sold the property to Kathleen J. Bryan and Randall F. Peters, the current owners as of April 2021. As a side note: 1912 Sanborn – the building marked 212 S. Black is on the lot where #152 now is and this previous dwelling was the Horace Annis Homestead – in his will, he directed that the homestead be reserved for the use of his daughter, Mary A. Cleaveland and it not be sold by his executor prior to her death. After her death, he bequeathed the homestead to Mary Cleaveland’s heirs, Paul Jones Annis (his son) and A. J. Mattison Morrill, Anna Kune Morrill Sturdivant (grandchildren) Martin B. and Lillie McLean, James S. and Blanche Dawes, Eva K. Moger, and Horace Cleaveland leased the the Annis Homestead to Mary and Harmon Cleaveland on April 25, 1905 (D: 36/22) Mary transferred the lease to James S. Dawes on June 29, 1912 (D: 46/476) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 History of Property Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 Ten feet off of the North side of Lot Nineteen, and all of Lots Twenty, Twenty-One, and Twenty-Two of Dawes; Subdivision of Portion of Block "C" of Black’s Addition and Fractional Lot 17 of Lindley and Guy’s Addition to Bozeman, Montana. Table 1. Chain of Title, 210 South Black Avenue, Bozeman, Montana. Grantor Grantee Date of Instrument Type of Instrument Property Description/Comments Reference USA William H. Babcock 10 March 1875 Patent E ½ SW ¼ Sec 7 T2S R6E GLO Records William H. Babcock Black & Story 06 July 1870 Deed W ½ E ½ SW ¼ Sec 7 T2S R6E (except 150’ x 50’ lot directly south of Gray and Grannis stable) (1/3 interest) D: H/71 Nelson and Ellen Story Leander M. Black 06 July 1870 Deed Same (1/3 interest) D: H/97 William H. Babcock Leander M. Black 13 April 1871 Deed W ½ E ½ SW ¼ Sec 7 T2S R6E (40 acres) D: H/246 Leander M. and Mary A. Black Portia Annis 20 October 1871 Deed [beg. 124.5’ S NW cor Block C] 175.5’ x 144.5’ Lot (1 acre), Black’s Addition D: I/304 Estate of Portia Annis Horace Annis (surviving husband of Portia Annis) 20 November 1880 Decree of Probate Court Same D: 1/480 In his will Horace Annis provided for Mary A. Cleaveland to use the property until her death, after which interest in the property would be divided amongst his heirs (Probate Records). Paul J. and Florence Annis Eva Keene Moger, Horace Annis Cleveland, Lilla Amy McLean, Mary Blanche Dawes 04 January 1905 Warranty Deed Same D: 36/18 Harmon and Mary A. Cleaveland Eva Keene Moger, Horace Annis Cleveland, Lilla Amy McLean, Mary Blanche Dawes 07 January 1905 Deed Same D: 36/19 Mattson A. Morrill and Paul S. and Anna K. June Eva Keene Moger, Horace Annis Cleveland, Lilla Amy McLean, Mary Blanche Dawes 30 March 1905 Warranty Deed Same D: 36/20 Horace A. Cleaveland Eva K. Moger 31 May 1911 Warranty Deed Same (1/4 interest) D: 45/69 Eva K. Moger James S. Dawes 29 June 1912 Warranty Deed Same (1/2 interest) D: 46/473 Martin B. and Lilla McClean James S. Dawes 31 July 1912 [dates are correctly copied] Warranty Deed Same (1/4 interest) D: 46/475 James S. and Mary Blanche Dawes Robert S. Dawes 22 July 1912 [dates are correctly copied] Warranty Deed Same D: 46/478 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 History of Property Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 Grantor Grantee Date of Instrument Type of Instrument Property Description/Comments Reference R. S. and Loie M. Dawes John D. Clark 06 October 1920 Warranty Deed Lots 18 – 22 Dawes Subdivision of portion of Block C, Black’s Addition D: 65/200 John D. Clark Bessie D. Clark 22 October 1923 Warranty Deed N 10’ Lot 15 and Lots 16 – 22, Block C, Black’s Addition D: 67/2 Bessie D. and John D. Clark A. A. Allen 30 August 1927 Warranty Deed N 10’ Lot 19 and Lots 20 – 22, Block C, Black’s Addition D: 69/419 Arthur A. Allen Margaret E. Allen 02 January 1946 Warranty Deed Same D: 93/6 Estate of Margaret E. Allen Norma A. Sim 30 September 1960 Executors’ Deed N 10’ Lot 19, all of Lot 20, S 5’ Lot 21, Dawes Subdivision of portion of Block C, Black’s Addition D: 136/186 Norma A. Sim Jean Woods 24 May 1961 Warranty Deed Same D: 137/359 Jean Woods Norma A. Sim and Katherine Sim Titus 24 May 1961 Warranty Deed Same D: 137/360 Katherine Sim Titus Katherine S. Titus, Trustee 11 August 1989 Quit Claim Deed Same D: Film 107/1889 Katherine S. Titus, Trustee of the Katherine S. Titus Revocable Trust Walter L. Jr. and Katherine Titus 08 October 1992 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 126/3811 Walter L. Jr. and Katherine Titus Ruth W. and Tommy L. Austin and Joy A. and Randy L. White 08 December 1992 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 128/1801 Joy A. and Randy L. White Tommy L. and Ruth W. Austin 31 December 2000 Quit Claim Deed Same D: #2028560 Tommy L. and Ruth W. Austin Kathleen J. Bryan and Randall F. Peters 11 April 2002 Warranty Deed Same D: #2065851 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Gallatin County Clerk & Recorder 1864-2021 Gallatin County Deeds. Gallatin County Clerk & Recorder, Bozeman, Montana. Gallatin History Museum No Date "210 & 407 North Black." Gallatin History Museum Vertical Files. Great Falls Tribune [Great Falls, Montana] 1960 "Bozeman - Allen, Mrs. A. A." 11 May. Great Falls, Montana. The Independent-Record [Helena, Montana] 1946 "Old-Time Bozeman Merchant, A. A. Allen Dies." 28 March. Helena, Montana. McDonald, James R. 1984-85 Montana Historical and Architectural Inventory. City of Bozeman. Bozeman, Montana. Electronic document, http://weblink.bozeman.net/WebLink8/0/doc/151603/Electronic.aspx, accessed 14 August 2020. Montana State Library. Montana Cadastral records online, http://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral, accessed 20 May 2021. R. L. Polk & Company 1904-2012 Polk’s Bozeman (Gallatin County, Mont.) City Directories. R.L. Polk & Co., Kansas City, Missouri. Sanborn Map Company 1890-1957 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana (Jul 1890, Nov 1891, Jan 1904, Sep 1912, Sep 1927, Sep 1943, Nov 1957). Sanborn Map Company, New York, New York. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Statement of Significance Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NRHP Listing Date: 1987 NRHP Eligibility: Yes No Individually Contributing to Historic District Noncontributing to Historic District NRHP Criteria: A B C D Area of Significance: Architecture & Events Period of Significance: 1930-1939 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The property at 210 South Black Avenue was previously recorded by James R. McDonald Architects, and subsequently included in the NRHP as a contributing site within the South Tracy - South Black Historic District (24GA0955) in 1987. Metcalf finds that it retains all aspects of integrity to convey historic character. This site is currently listed in the NRHP as a contributing site within the South Tracy - South Black Historic District and retains sufficient integrity to maintain its listed status. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Integrity Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) Site is in excellent condition, overall, and retains all aspects of integrity. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Photographs Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 Feature # 1 Facing: E Description: Property 152. Primary façade. (Image #0394, 10/14/2020. EAS) Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 152. Oblique view. (Image #0393, 10/14/2020. EAS) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Photographs Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 Feature # 1 Facing: NE Description: Property 152. Oblique view. (Image #0395, 10/14/2020. EAS) MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Site Map Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Topographic Map Property Name: 210 S Black Ave. Site Number: 152