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Photo, Print, Drawing Gottschalck Farmstead, 1400 Story Mill Road, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT Rugheimer Farm Vogel Farm

[ Drawings from Survey HABS MT-193  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS MT-193  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Gottschalck Farmstead, 1400 Story Mill Road, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT

Other Title

  • Rugheimer Farm Vogel Farm

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Gottschalck, Augustus
  • Gottschalck, Louisa
  • Cooper, Walter
  • Cooper, Mariam D.
  • Vogel, Rudolph
  • Bozeman Water Works Co.
  • Rugheimer, Hallie B.
  • Rugheimer, Peter M.
  • O'Neill, Maire, faculty sponsor
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter
  • Stranieri, Marcella, transmitter
  • Montana State University, School of Architecture, sponsor
  • Landon, Laura, delineator

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  farmhouses
  • -  farming
  • -  homesteading
  • -  frontier & pioneer life
  • -  log buildings
  • -  log cabins
  • -  log joints
  • -  barns
  • -  gambrel roofs
  • -  roof trusses
  • -  sheds
  • -  migration
  • -  hay
  • -  hay mows
  • -  Montana--Gallatin County--Bozeman

Latitude / Longitude

  • 45.708897,-111.014515

Notes

  • -  This project was undertaken as part of the Gallatin County Agricultural Survey by the School of Architecture at Montana State University, under the direction of Professor Maire O'Neill.
  • -  Significance: Extant buildings on the Gottschalck Farmstead illustrate a typical sequence of settlement in the Rockies, beginning during the frontier phase with small, speculative buildings roughly constructed of logs. As settlement progressed and markets were established, agricultural production became more profitable. Producers began to understand the limitations of the microclimate at high elevation and were able to reap more bountiful harvests and grow their herds. As families accumulated assets they developed a greater sense of permanence, and their new buildings were larger and more finely crafted. As more local sawmills were established during the 1880s and 1890s, milled lumber became more available, thought it was still costly. Journeyman carpenters settled the area bringing with them knowledge of light wood-frame construction and new forms of roof framing. After the turn of the century this enabled the construction of much larger buildings where the length of the plan was not constrained by the length of logs, and buildings of greater width also became possible. New hay handling technologies advertised by the midwestern dairy industry and brought in by rail in the late 1910s and 1920s demanded the adoption of roof framing that cleared the hay mow of vertical supports and large tie beams. Hence the arrival of both carpenters and publications that introduced forms of plank framing like the modified Shawver truss in the gambrel roof. Successful Gallatin Valley farms and ranches were an essential part of the economic momentum of the Montana Territory as it built its case for statehood. The earliest families and individuals involved with the Gottschalck farm illustrate the hardships of the settlement process particularly during Bozeman's village phase before the opening of the railroad. The difficulty and hazards of travel in reaching the area and the primitive nature of early living conditions contributed to the isolation of numerous single men. Some of the inhabitants of the Gottschalck farm illustrate a common early pattern of employment, first in mining, then in freighting to and from the mining camps, and later in growing produce and meat to supply the mining settlements.
  • -  Survey number: HABS MT-193
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1925 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1872 Initial Construction

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 1
  • Data Page(s): 32

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS MT-193

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • mt0740

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Augustus Gottschalck, Louisa Gottschalck, Walter Cooper, Mariam D Cooper, Rudolph Vogel, Bozeman Water Works Co, et al. Gottschalck Farmstead,Story Mill Road, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT. Montana Bozeman Gallatin County, 1933. translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mt0740/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Gottschalck, A., Gottschalck, L., Cooper, W., Cooper, M. D., Vogel, R. [...] Landon, L. (1933) Gottschalck Farmstead,Story Mill Road, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT. Montana Bozeman Gallatin County, 1933. McPartland, M. & Stranieri, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mt0740/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al. Gottschalck Farmstead,Story Mill Road, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT. trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mt0740/>.