{"id":162,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-08-12 00:51:12","latitude":45.192531956929002490142011083662509918212890625,"longitude":-109.2487757104900083504617214202880859375,"title":"Roysdon House","subtitle":"Hi-Bug Historic District","fullsize":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/a10b4c54b61ed17a776e669474bf7eea.jpg","address":"517 Hauser Avenue North, Red Lodge, Montana","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Montana National Register Sign Program"],"description":"Real estate speculation abounded after the Northern Pacific Railroad constructed a branch line to Red Lodge to take advantage of the area&#039;s rich coal deposits. In 1891 Nathan Smethurst purchased this lot for $36, selling it for a profit the same day. The lot sold again in 1896, and a fourth time in 1899, this time to Andrew Chapman, who constructed this one-and-one-half-story duplex as an investment property. Two front dormers and a full-length front porch distinguish the façade of the hipped roofed residence. The current porch was added in the extensive renovation completed in 2009.  Builders placed the kitchens at the back of the house under a separate, single-story roof, a common nineteenth-century practice to minimize fire risk. Bucket brigades could more easily reach a one-story roof, perhaps saving the main house in case of a kitchen fire. Morris and Keziah Roysdon purchased the home in 1909, only a year before Keziah died, leaving eight children between the ages of five and twenty. The owner of a livery stable and then a lumberyard, Morris lived here until 1931.<br />","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"Private","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/5ff6bfd7-37b4-41ed-a5b3-e52f26f0d5a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about the Hi-Bug Historic District</a>","<a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/df68c3c8-b71d-4f93-b2ad-e271ac5c6e00/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See photos of the Hi-Bug Historic District</a>"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/a10b4c54b61ed17a776e669474bf7eea.jpg":{"id":5123,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Roysdon House, Red Lodge, MT","description":"View of facade | iPhone 8 image capture, jpeg | June 2021 | Martha Kohl, photographer","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/a10b4c54b61ed17a776e669474bf7eea.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/fullsize/4f6f14c43dc542a593e421c750351531.jpg":{"id":2966,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Roysdon House","description":"Roysdon House (PAc 91-51 Red Lodge/Hi-Bug HD R02 F33). Front view of the house, facing west on Hauser Avenue North. B&amp;W. | Montana State Historic Preservation Office from the Photograph Archives at the Montana Historical Society | July/Aug. 1985 | Photographer unidentified","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/4f6f14c43dc542a593e421c750351531.jpg"},"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/original/12efc8c466240a3673b3b9edccdfc54c.pdf":{"id":6770,"mime-type":"application/pdf","title":"Hi Bug Historic District","description":"Nomination Documentation. This document is an accessible remediation of the original 1986 scanned nomination form. | <a href=\"https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/5ff6bfd7-37b4-41ed-a5b3-e52f26f0d5a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Original NPS Hi Bug Historic District nomination</a> | 2026 | Montana Historical Society","thumbnail":"https://mail.historicmt.org/files/square_thumbnails/12efc8c466240a3673b3b9edccdfc54c.jpg"}}}