The Merrill Avenue Historic District in
Glendive, Montana
Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College. Glendive was established by the Northern Pacific Railway when they built the transcontinental railroad across the northern ...
is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
which was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1988. The district includes 28
contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
and a contributing site on . It includes
Classical Revival
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...
,
Late Gothic Revival, and
Italianate
The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...
architecture.
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History
The district includes several works by architect Brynjulf Rivenes
Brynjulf Rivenes (July 4, 1874 – December 21, 1929), generally known as B. Rivenes, was a Norwegian-American architect practicing in Miles City, a city in sparsely settled eastern Montana.
Biography
Rivenes was born in Norway in 1874, an ...
:
*Glendive City Hall, 300 S Merrill Avenue (1914)
*Douglas & Mead Building, 119-121 N Merrill Avenue (1915 remodeling),[
*Krug Building, 202 South Merrill Avenue (ca. 1908)
*Rivenes-Wester Building, 206 South Merrill Avenue (1905) ][
The district's buildings were associated with a number of notable residents including Charles Krug, Henry Dion, J. H. Miskimen, Frank Kinney, A. S. Foss, Henry Douglas, David Mead, G. D. Hollecker, W. F. Jordan, C. A. Thurston, and Thomas Hogan.][
]
Gallery
File:GlendiveMT_CityHall.jpg, Glendive City Hall
File:Glendive_Depot,_May_4_2022_w.jpg, Glendive Depot
Glendive Depot is an office building and former train station in Glendive, Montana. The Northern Pacific Railway established the town in 1881 and opened the first depot in 1882. The present depot building was built in 1922 and is part of the ...
File:GlendiveMT DowntownHD.jpg, Properties on Merrill Avenue at Bell Street
File:GlendiveMT DowntownHD2.jpg, Properties on Merrill Avenue at Towne Street
References
Other sources
Guide to Historic Glendive''
(Montana Historical Society. 1998)
External links
Montana Main Street Program
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Italianate architecture in Montana
Neoclassical architecture in Montana
Gothic Revival architecture in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Dawson County, Montana
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