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'_- - HISTORIC NAME Dokken Funeral Some °�-
ADDRESS: I13 S. Willson, Bozeman - -
- ',_LEGAL BOUNDARY: Alderson's Addition,
$Ik B, part lot 4,
=�all lots 5-6, part 7
OWNER'S NAME: Rexal R. and Verlene Troth
OWNER ADDRESS: 520 North 10th, Bozeman
SPECIFIC DATE: 1936
- _ARCHITECT: . Fred F. Willson
BUILDER: H.J. Hamill
ORIGINAL OWNER: H.H.-Dokken
ORIGINAL USE: -
PRESENT USE: Funeral Service/storage -
UTM REFERENCE: 12/497000/5058090
ACREAGE: 71ess than one
U.S.G.S. QUAD: Bozeman, 1953 _
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
- Applicable Criteria: C -
-Number of Contributing Properties: 1 -
Built for the leading early 20th century funeral home business in Bozeman, this fine
example of the Neo-Gothic Revival style is indicative of the diversity of the work of Fred
F. Willson, Bozeman's prolific local architect of the early 20th century. Like many
*significant buildings of the period, this one is the result of collaboration between
Willson and local contractor Henry J. Hamill.
The Dokken-Nelson Funeral Home was started in a section of the large, 1-story commercial
block at the northwest corner of S. Tracy and W. Babcock. Hermann Dokken continued the
business,moving it to this building upon 'its completion in 1936. The business still
operates here today. -
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
This one-story commercial building has a rectangular plan with a projecting entry bay with
an oval-transomed front entrance.- The entrance is recessed and the cut limestone
architecture is detailed with a carved, relief limestone surround. The facade is
symmetrical and consists of the front entry and casement and fixed windows with leaded
glass and wooden sashes. Limestone surrounds the doors and windows. Interpretation of
__-English Medieval architecture with turreted coping and simulated buttresses adorn the front
facade. The windows are pairs of single light casements or three-Part casements with
small, leaded glass lights and leaded glass transoms above. The brick construction is of
running bond pattern with a header course every seven courses. It rests on a concrete
..-- foundation, and has a flat built-up roof.
The Willson Job lists notes that plans for alteration to the entrance of the Dokken Funeral
Home were drawn up in 1953. It is questionable what these alterations might have involved
or if they were ever executed, for the entrance vestibule appears to be in complete
compatibility with the original building. There is a garage attached to the side on the
north, which was constructed in recent years of red brick and is considered to be a non--
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_4'contributing addition. The north end of the block has been cleared of other buildings that
'Nonce existed, and the lot has been paved for parking, which serves to lend this rather
.=- diminutive building greater visual impact. -
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Joe Dhlrich, Bozeman, MI, interview, January 20, 1986
Fred Willson Job List: 1936, Job #3605 "Mortuary-Hermann Dokken;
7 . 1938, Job #3814 "Perspective of Mortuary-H. Dokken;
1953, Job #5324 "Alteration to Entrance Dokken Funeral
Home. " -
FORM PREPARED BY: James R. McDonald, P.C. (1983-84) ; Matthew Cohen (1985-86 revision) ;
Patricia Sick (1987 revision) , State Historic Preservation Office, 225 No. Roberts, Helena,
Montana 59620 (406) 444-7715 _
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