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Home My WebLink About057 (516 W Lamme St 2020) revised 04092020 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: 516 W LAMME ST Historic Address (if applicable): City/Town: BOZEMAN Site Number: 057 (An historic district number may also apply.) County: GALLATIN Historic Name: Unknown Original Owner(s): William Belless Current Ownership Private Public Current Property Name: Unknown Owner(s): Blake S Maxwell Owner Address: 516 W Lamme St, Bozeman, MT 59715-3433 Phone: Legal Location PM: Montana Township: 02S Range: 05E NW¼ SE ¼ NE ¼ of Section: 12 Lot(s): Lot 35 & 36, PLAT B-10 Block(s): E Addition: Tracy’s 2nd Add (TR2) Year of Addition: 1883 USGS Quad Name: Bozeman Year: 1987 Historic Use: Residential Current Use: Residential Construction Date: after 1904 & before 1912 Estimated Actual Original Location Moved Date Moved: UTM Reference www.nris.mt.gov NAD 27 or NAD 83(preferred) Zone: 12 Easting: 496519.4 Northing:5058609.8 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: 2/26/2020 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: MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 2 Architectural Description Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION Architectural Style: Queen Anne If Other, specify: Property Type: Residential Specific Property Type: Single family home Architect: Unknown Architectural Firm/City/State: Unknown Builder/Contractor: Unknown Company/City/State: Unknown Source of Information: N/A The property at 516 W. Lamme Street, consists of two historical/architectural features: a house built around 1900, and an outbuilding dating to 1905. The house is a wood-framed, two-story structure in the Queen Anne style of architecture. It faces north, onto W. Lamme Street and has a T-shaped footprint with a cut-stone foundation. The roof is gabled and clad in asphalt shingles. The exterior walls are clad in either horizontal wood or Masonite siding. The gables contain fish-scale wood shingles. The primary façade faces north, and is asymmetrical. The entry is on the east end of the elevation, recessed from the central gable- front portion of the house. The entry is accessed by an offset shed-roof open porch. The porch is of poured concrete, and above-grade, with board and batten siding on the front-facing wall around the door and adjacent window. Beside the front door is a one-over-one lite window, a replacement but within the original opening. In the central gable-front is a modern metal-framed window with two- side-by-side fixed lites on the first story. Above are two double hung windows with one-over-one lite windows in the upper story. Over the roof of the porch on the east end of the façade is a diamond-shaped window on the second story. On the west side of the façade, recessed from the gable-front, is a one-over-one lite double hung window on the first story. The west elevation contains a one-over-one lite double-hung window centered on the first story. The gable end on the west elevation has a one-over-one-lite double-hung window centered on the first and second stories, cornice returns, and wood shingles in the gable peak. The rear (south) elevation has a single-story gable roof extension to which a shed dormer has been added. The gable peak of this addition is clad in wood shingles. On the east side of the addition a shed roof, which offers protection for the backdoor entrance. On the first story of the south elevation is the door and a one-over-one lite, double-hung window. The windows throughout the structure are within the original openings, and conform to the original style. The two obvious replacements are the diamond shaped window and the first floor window on the north elevation. Feature 2 is a wood-framed, wood-sided, gable-front structure with a corrugated metal roof and Z-braced side-hung doors. City records show a date of 1905 for its construction. There are no windows on the east or west elevations, and the north elevation was not visible from the right-of-way. The exterior of the storage building is in original condition, and the metal roofing sheets are laid over the original wooden boards of the roof. A modern framework erected to support the panels of a solar energy system is at the rear of the property near the south alley. This property was first recorded in 1984 by James R. McDonald Architects. At this time it was considered an “intrusive element within a potential historic district.” The original survey indicates that design and materials have changed since the original construction. The site is in very good condition overall, and Metcalf finds it retains sufficient integrity to convey historic character. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 3 History of Property Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 HISTORY OF PROPERTY William H. Tracy purchased this property from the United States on June 15, 1872, prior to the construction of a house at this location. He platted it as Tracy’s 2nd Addition on May 16, 1883. In the original survey of the property at 516 W. Lamme Street by James R. McDonald, the original home owner is noted as Roy Bair. However, no other reference has been found associating the home with this individual. Bair is listed in the 1908 R. L. Polk & Co. (Gallatin County, Mont.) City Directories as residing at 221 W. Mendenhall, which was also the location of his livery stable address, and shortly thereafter he moved from the community. William Belless purchased the property on August 22, 1903. William Belless was born in Soda Springs, Idaho on July 19, 1863. At the time of his birth, he and his family were traveling overland to Virginia City on a wagon train. He was reportedly the first non- native child in the Alder Gulch mining camp (The Billings Gazette 12 Dec 1939). In later years, from 1880 to 1885, William Belless drove the stagecoach from Virginia City to Bozeman (Ravalli Republic 12 Sept 1962). On March 3, 1890, William Belless married Clara Blain in Bozeman, MT (Ancestry.com 2002). Clara Blain was born in Webster City, Iowa on April 25, 1872, arriving in Bozeman around 1899. In 1910, William and Clara Belless lived at 614 West Lamme Street with their adopted daughter, Ina Belless (Ancestry.com 2006). In 1930 they still lived at the same house on West Lamme Street, but the address had changed to 516 West Lamme Street. William worked at the Montana State College (MSC) gymnasium as a janitor. Due to his work at MSC, he met and knew hundreds of students between the years 1921 and 1933 (The Billings Gazette 12 Dec 1939). William died on December 11, 1939. Clara died in Bozeman, MT on September 15, 1949 (The Great Falls Tribune 18 Sept 1949). Charles H. and Maidie L. Bell purchased the property on December 4, 1940. Charles H. Bell was born on October 21, 1899 in Belgrade, MT to David and Agnes (McCartney) Bell. On June 20, 1925, Charles married Letha Lobdell in Bozeman, MT (Ancestry.com 2017). Letha Lobdell, alternately referred to as Maidie L., was born on March 11, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois to Ralph and Zennetta Lobdell. The family moved to Belgrade in 1904. Letha received her primary education in Belgrade, and attended Billings Business School. When living in Bozeman, MT Letha worked as a secretary for Montana State University (The Billings Gazette 19 May 1988). Charles Bell was the president of First National Bank in Bozeman, where he worked for 34 years. He also served as president of Bozeman’s Chamber of Commerce. After Charles Bell’s death in 1960, Letha married C. E. “Ed” Stephenson on April 26, 1965. Ed Stephenson died in 1987. Letha Bell Stephenson died on May 18, 1988. Letha is buried with her first husband, Charles, in Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, MT (Find A Grave 2004). George E. and Juanita E. Foreman purchased the property on June 12, 1947. George Foreman was born on February 9, 1904 in Bozeman, MT to Edward and Iona Foreman. He began a career in the Forest Service at a fire lookout on Lone Mountain. He married Juanita E. Andrews on September 15, 1927. Juanita (Andrews) Foreman was born on August 28, 1910 in Sumner, Wisconsin to Augusta and Tom Andrews. The family moved to Montana in 1916 and settled on Brackett Creek (The Missoulian 28 Jan 1994). George and Juanita sold the property on July 6, 1953. He retired from the Forest Service on December 31, 1965 with 36 years of service in the Squaw Creek and Shields River districts (The Missoulian 16 Apr 1980). George Foreman died on April 14, 1980 in Bozeman, MT. Juanita Foreman died on January 25, 1994. George and Juanita are buried together in Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, MT. George and Juanita Foreman sold the property in 1953, and after that date the property changed hands seven times (see table). The current owner as of 2019 is Blake Maxwell. Table 1. Chain of Title, 516 W. Lamme 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 and SW ¼ of NW ¼ of section 7, T2S, R6E (113.40 acres) D: I/56 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 4 History of Property Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 Table 1. Chain of Title, 516 W. Lamme St, Bozeman, Montana. Grantor Grantee Date of Instrument Type of Instrument Property Description/Comments Reference William H. and Sarah J. Tracy Alfred Lycan 15 October 1901 Warranty Deed Lots 35 and 36, Block E, Tracy’s 2nd Addition D: 28/277 Alfred Lycan O. F. McHargue 21 June 1902 Warranty Deed Same D: 27/73 O. F. and Alma J. McHargue W. D. Belless 22 August 1903 Warranty Deed Same D: 34/165 W. D. and Clara Belless Alice Johnson 03 November 1909 Warranty Deed Same D: 41/4 Alice Johnson W. D. Belless 11 September 1918 Warranty Deed Same D: 55/523 W. D. and Clara Belless W. W. Blain 29 June 1936 Warranty Deed Same D: 79/447 W. W. and Amanda Ellen Blain Carl Bussey 02 August 1939 Warranty Deed Same D: 82/583 Carl H. and Margaret F. Bussey Charles H. and Maidie L. Bell 04 December 1940 Warranty Deed Same D: 84/364 Charles Huston and Maidie L. Bell George E. and Juanita E. Foreman 12 June 1947 Warranty Deed Same D: 95/571 George E. and Juanita E. Foreman Lowell A. and Renetta Rathbun 06 July 1953 Warranty Deed Same D: 120/539 Lowell and Renetta Rathbun Raymond R. and Irene Hedrick 15 December 1955 Warranty Deed Same D: 120/541 Raymond R. and Irene Hedrick Joseph V. and Rollene Thill 15 July 1961 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 10/796 Joseph V. and Rollene Thill Diana Irene Cooksey 14 December 1981 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 97/1685 Diana Irene Cooksey Allen Gregory and Amy A. Morris 15 May 1987 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 97/1557 Allen Gregory Morris Ronald H. Williams and Elizabeth F. Payne 03 November 1989 Warranty Deed Same D: Film 108/1843 Ronald H. Williams and Elizabeth F. Payne Patrick E. Sewell and Bennett N. Sewell 30 November 2005 Warranty Deed Same D: #2211295 Patrick E. Sewell and Bennett N. Sewell III Blake S. Maxwell 27 June 2006 Warranty Deed Same D: #2232980 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 5 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 INFORMATION SOURCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY Ancestry.com 2002 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Provo, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6224&h=106189688&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=mrb1186&_phstart=successSource, accessed December 17, 2019. 2006 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7884&h=162858686&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=mrb1183&_phstart=successSource, accessed December 17, 2019. 2017 Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1830-2011 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Lehi, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61255&h=36940&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=mrb1188&_phstart=successSource, accessed December 17, 2019. 2017 Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1987 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Lehi, Utah. Electronic document, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61578&h=533945&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=mrb1197&_phstart=successSource, accessed December 17, 2019. The Billings Gazette [Billings, Montana] 1939 “Early-Day State Resident Dies at Home in Bozeman.” 12 December. Billings, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/410444693/?article=2463c153-c64e-4531-bf7e- 0e0e3c8762cb&focus=0.02051487,0.54295707,0.14852153,0.6856026&xid=2378&_ga=2.84011677.522955362.1576426631- 51480127.1566255182, accessed December 17, 2019. 1988 “Letha Bell Stephenson.” 19 May. Billings, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/415507652/?article=78da7c3f-787e-4d81-a035- 025106c8ecb1&focus=0.21466969,0.31644797,0.37023336,0.54586804&xid=2378&_ga=2.138014640.1425241046.1577046078 -51480127.1566255182&_gac=1.53328986.1576702075.Cj0KCQiAuefvBRDXARIsAFEOQ9Egyntv5gffpPTWszevcc2ECzR- YNYec5nlcZDwQ_w8UVwwMl8LMqMaAn3TEALw_wcB, accessed December 22, 2019. Find A Grave 2004 Charles H. Bell (21 Oct 1899 – 13 Jan 1960), Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51018217/charles- h-bell, accessed December 17, 2019. 2004 Letha Bell (11 March 1902 – 18 May 1988), Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51341429/letha- bell, accessed December 17, 2019. 2004 George Emmett Foreman (9 Feb 1904 – 14 Apr 1980). Electronic document, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51223734/george-emmett-foreman, accessed December 17, 2019. Gallatin County Clerk & Recorder 1864-2019 Gallatin County Deeds. Gallatin County Clerk & Recorder, Bozeman, Montana. The Great Falls Tribune [Great Falls, Montana] 1949 “Deaths.” 18 September. Great Falls, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/238639717/?terms=Clara%2BBelles, accessed December 17, 2019. 1960 “Charles H. Bell, Bozeman Banker, C of C Head, Dies.” 13 January. Great Falls, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/239630391/?terms=Charles%2BBell, accessed December 17, 2019. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 6 Information Sources/Bibliography Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 James R. McDonald Architects 1983 516 W Lamme St. Montana Historical and Architectural Inventory Form. Document on-file with the City of Bozeman. Bozeman, MT. The Missoulian [Missoula, Montana] 1980 “George Foreman.” 16 April. Missoula, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/348751625/?terms=George%2BForeman, accessed December 17, 2019. 1994 “Juanita E. Foreman.” 28 January. Missoula, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/350641258/?terms=Juanita%2BForeman, accessed December 17, 2019. Montana State Library. Montana Cadastral records online, http://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral, accessed 2/26/2020. The Ravalli Republic [Hamilton, Montana] 1962 “Note 50 years of Marriage.” 12 September. Hamilton, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.newspapers.com/image/442857812/?clipping_id=38826754, accessed December 17, 2019. R. L. Polk & Co. 1941-2010 Polk’s Bozeman (Gallatin County, Mont.) City Directories. R.L. Polk & Co., Kansas City, Missouri. Renewable Technologies, Inc. [RTI] 2008 Bozeman Historic Resources Survey, revised ed. Prepared for Planning Department, City of Bozeman, Bozeman, Montana. Electronic document, https://www.bozeman.net/home/showdocument?id=5645, accessed 3/31/2020. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 7 Statement of Significance Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 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: Click here to enter text. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE This property was first recorded in 1984 by James R. McDonald Architects. At this time it was considered an “intrusive element within a potential historic district.” The original survey indicates that design and materials have changed since the original construction. 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 and has been determined to lack individual significance under Criterion A, B, C, and D. The site is associated with a person of local note, William Belless, who purchased the property in 1903 and resided there until the 1930s. He is notable as the first non-native child in the Alder Gulch mining camp. This association, however, is not sufficiently significant to merit individual eligibility. The site is not located within an existing historic district; however, it should be considered eligible/contributing to a potential district composed of similar structures observed in the vicinity. The site retains sufficient integrity to convey its historic association with the Civic Phase of Bozeman’s development, which saw growing variety and refinement of residential architectural styles (RTI 2008). Metcalf recommends further research be conducted regarding Bozeman’s Tracy’s 2nd Addition in order to evaluate district potential. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 8 Integrity Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 INTEGRITY (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, association) This site is in very good condition, overall. Few alterations to the residence or to the out building appear to have been made. The aspects of materials and workmanship have been affected by the replacement of two windows on the main façade of the residence and the application of modern siding, likely in the late mid-century. However, Metcalf finds the residence retains the aspects of location, setting, materials, workmanship, and association, sufficient to convey its historic character in reference to its style and period of construction. The outbuilding is in near original condition with all aspects retained. MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 9 Photographs Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 057. Oblique view southeast (Image # 1746, 10/18/2019. SLW). Feature # 1 Facing: SE Description: Property 057. Oblique view southwest (Image # 1749, 10/18/2019. SLW). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 10 Photographs Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 Feature # 1 Facing: N Description: Property 057. View of south elevation (Image # 1761, 10/18/2019. SLW). Feature # 2 Facing: NE Description: Property 057. Oblique view of detached garage (Image # 1763, 10/18/2019. SLW). MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 11 Site Map Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057 MONTANA HISTORIC PROPERTY RECORD PAGE 12 Topographic Map Property Name: 516 W LAMME ST Site Number: 057