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Home My WebLink About201 E Mendenhall 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: 201 E Mendenhall Historic Address (if applicable): 102 N Bozeman Avenue (1904- 1961), 48 N Bozeman Avenue (1891), 16 N Bozeman Avenue (1884-1890) City/Town: Bozeman Site Number: 264 Historic District Number (if applicable): County: Gallatin Historic Name: Color World of Montana (1973-2011) Gallatin County Tribune (1962-1973) Original Owner(s): Gallatin County Tribune Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Alphagraphics Owner(s): Color World of Montana, Inc Owner Address: 201 E Mendenhall St., Bozeman, MT 59715-3637 Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 2S Range: 6E NE ¼ SE¼ NW ¼ of Section: 7 Lot(s): Lots 1-5 Block(s): Block I Addition: Bozeman Original Plat Year of Addition: 1870 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Commercial Publishing Firm Current Use: Commercial Construction Date: 1961 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83 (preferred) Zone: 12 Easting: 497354.7 Northing: 5058572.4 National Register of Historic Places NRHP Listing Date: Historic District: NRHP Eligible: Yes No *Property does not meet the City of Bozeman’s definition of an eligible property (see below). Date of this document: 11/25/2020 Form Prepared by: 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: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Other (specify) If Other, specify: Contemporary commercial Property Type: Commerce Specific Property Type: Print shop Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Unknown Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Unknown Source of Information: N/A This site is a concrete and stucco commercial building with a rectangular plan shape and concrete foundation. The building is located on a corner lot. The west end is a single-story volume, and the east end is two stories. The entire building is sided in stucco and ribbed steel sheet, with sections of stone veneer. The primary facade faces south onto E Mendenhall Street and the main business entry is located within the single-story volume. The entrance is located within a recessed bay at the west end of the south facade, with a free-standing stone-faced corner post at the southeast corner. The entry itself is a pair of side-hung glass doors flanked by modern metal fixed windows. Additional banked fixed windows are to the east and continue onto the south end of the west elevation. A two-story flat roofed volume clad ion ribbed steel sheets comprises the east half of the building, the south facade of which has a recessed bay with a sectional garage door and standard steel service door. The east elevation of the building is unadorned. The west, which faces N Bozeman Ave, has banked and paired modern metal casement windows. The rear elevation faces a paved back parking lot and has several shoulder-height single-lite windows and a double door service entry. The site is in excellent condition, though it has been remodeled extensively. An architect's rendering of a planned 1975 expansion of the building depicts its earlier iteration as a single-story brick-faced building with a folding-plate roof shape, characteristic of post-modern commercial design. The folded plate roofing system has since been concealed with a tall, profiled fascia, which probably occurred during a remodeling in 2007. A "CW" sign above the taller south portion of the building implies that Color World implemented the remodeling, in which the concrete masonry units were covered with metal panels on all walls except those along the north side which were finished with EIFS to match the fascia. It no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey its historic character. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 HISTORY OF PROPERTY The property currently addressed as 201 East Mendenhall Street is located on lots 1-5 in the Bozeman Original Plat, S07, T02S, R06E, Block I. The building stands on the site of a former two-story wood-frame building which housed the Chronicle Printing Office on the first floor and a lodge on the second as early as 1884 (Sanborn, 1884). Later it housed the Bozeman Bath Rooms and Healing Institution, St. John's Baptist Church and Rectory, and finally Ella Ross's furniture and antique store and residence (Bozeman Weekly Chronicle, 16 May 1888; R.L. Polk, 1954 – 1961). The two-story frame building was razed around 1960 and replaced with the current structure--a concrete block building intended for publishing. Gallatin County Tribune and Belgrade Journal operated here beginning in 1961. The Gallatin Tribune was published from August 1954 to December 1973; the Belgrade Journal from 1933 to 1973. Both were issued weekly (Chronicling America). On December 16, 1973, the Gallatin Publishing Company bought the two journals from Montie Stanhope and Stanley Burgard (the owners since April 1967) and ceased their publication, issuing only The Valley Shopper papers (Great Falls Tribune, 16 December 1973; The Montana Standard, 15 December 1973). Stanhope and Burgard took this opportunity to "…continue and expand the commercial printing division of their plant" and to change the name to Color World of Montana, Inc., with offices remaining at 201 E. Mendenhall (The Montana Standard, 15 December 1973). The Color World building was expanded – and likely fitted at this time with the folding plate roofing structure that provided additional substrate for signage – in accordance with a striking rendering featured in the newspaper in late 1975 (The Independent-Record, 21 December 1975). In 1977, Stan and Lois Burgard bought Montie and Faye Stanhope’s part of Color World’s ownership, and operated and expanded this successful business until 2005, when their son Jeff Burgard became the owner (6 March 1977, The Independent-Record; R.L. Polk, 1974-2011). Their older son Mike Burgard had been instrumental in their 2001 purchase of Yellowstone Printing in Billings (The Billings Gazette, 17 April 2001). When Stanley Burgard died of lung cancer, at age 81, on December 23, 2012, his obituary noted that he had "ink running through his veins," having been involved in the printing and newspaper industry since age 23. He and Lois had married in 1956 and lived in his home state of North Dakota until they moved to Livingston, Montana in 1963. They moved to Bozeman in January 1966. His first Bozeman job was at Artcraft Printers, yet he soon partnered with Montie Stanhope to buy the Gallatin County Tribune and later to form Color World Printers (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 3 January 2013). According to Color World’s website, "Color World Printers is happy to announce we have joined the AlphaGraphics network and is now known as AlphaGraphics Bozeman. We continue to be locally owned and operated and service our clients in the Bozeman, Jackson and Cody area." (Color World website). AlphaGraphics has occupied the building since 2012 and is the current occupant as of December 2020 (R.L. Polk, 2012). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Ancestry.com 2001 Montana, U.S., State Deaths, 1907-2016 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, Utah. Electronic document accessed December 6, 2020. Ancestry.com 2004 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, Utah. Electronic document accessed December 6, 2020. Ancestry.com 2006 Y1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Lehi, Utah. Electronic document, accessed December 6, 2020. The Billings Gazette [Billings, Montana] 2001 "Eager creditor forces sale of Yellowstone Printing." 17 April: page 6. Billings, Montana. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle [Bozeman, Montana] 2013 "Stanley Michael Burgard: 1931-2012." 3 January. Bozeman, Montana. The Bozeman Weekly Chronicle [Bozeman, Montana] 1888 "Bozeman Bath Rooms." 16 May: page 3. Bozeman, Montana. Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sp860/S123/, accessed December 6, 2020. Color World of Montana website, http://www.colorworldprinters.com/, accessed December 7, 2020. The Independent-Record [Helena, Montana] 1975 "Expanding Color World." 21 December, page 34. Helena, Montana. The Independent-Record [Helena, Montana] 1977 "Printing Firm Sold." 6 March, page 24. Helena, Montana. The Montana Standard [Butte, Montana] 1973 "State newspapers sold." 15 December: page 1. Butte, Montana. R. L. Polk & Co. 1904-2012 Polk’s Bozeman (Gallatin County, Mont.) City Directories. R.L. Polk & Co., Kansas City, Missouri. Sanborn Map Company 1890-1943 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 5 Statement of Significance Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 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 site located at 201 E Mendenhall has not been previously recorded. The site consists of a 1- and 2-story commercial building with a rectangular plan shape, flat roof, and EIFS and brick veneer. It was built in 1961 as the Gallatin County Tribune building and later, Color World of Montana, Inc. The building was extensively remodeled in the 1970s and again in 2007, affecting integrity of materials, design, workmanship, and feeling. It is in excellent condition but no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey historic character. Sect. 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 and has been determined to lack integrity sufficient to convey historic character in reference to associations under Criteria A, B, C, and D. It is not located within an existing district and no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey historic character. Metcalf recommends the site not eligible. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 Integrity Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) The site is in excellent condition, though it has been remodeled extensively and the synthetic stucco and modern windows and stone veneer affect integrity of materials, workmanship, design, association, and feeling. The site no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey historic character. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Photographs Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 Feature # 1 Facing: NE Description: Property 264. Oblique view (Image #435, 10/14/2020. EAS). Feature # 1 Facing: NW Description: Property 264. Oblique view (Image #436, 10/14/2020. EAS). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Photographs Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 264. Oblique view (Image #437, 10/14/2020. EAS). Architect's Rendering of expanded and remodeled Color World of Montana. 21 December 1975 issue of the Independent-Record (Helena, MT). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Site Map Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Topographic Map Property Name: 201 E Mendenhall Site Number: 264