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The table is the product. A Polk / city directory street index for 1316 Bozeman (sometimes “Bozeman St.”) year by year. This pass did not get a page image of that line. The run exists. Here is where it lives and what we can already fill from other primaries.


Occupant table (only what is cited)

Year / windowOccupant at 1316 (or this warehouse)SourceStatus
before 1883NP not yet in HelenaNo warehouse on this addition
1884Kleinschmidt & Co. merchandise warehouse on Block 25 / Bozeman (Sanborn). Directory lists the store on Main St, not a “1316 Bozeman” line.Sanborn 1884 Sheet 9 (03_SANBORN.md); Staring, Helena directory, 1884, IA GR_3950 (OCR searched 2026-08-26: no “1316 Bozeman”; Kleinschmidt Bros & Co. = w s Main bet Edwards & Price)VERIFIED occupant via map. Address number NULL in 1884 directory.
1885–1934unknown until Polk / later SanbornsSee 03_SANBORN.mdNULL — 1892 and 1930 sheets will fill this
1935–1936Nash-Finch wholesale grocery warehouse; Christie Transfer & Storage managingHelena As She Was 2020-08-29 (held); Helena Independent 1935-10-19, 10-22, 10-31, 11-12VERIFIED occupancy. Address lock = 2020 caption; 1935 papers name the company, not the house number.
1937–1948not readHelena Polk, MTHS / FamilySearchNULL — this is the gap between Nash-Finch and Capital Transfer
1949–2026-07-01Capital Transfer & Storage (Horne family)Company own site / KTVH 2026; Horne: grandfather + father founded 1949; John full-time 1971, brother 1974VERIFIED as the operating company. Not yet proven from a 1949 directory line that they sat at 1316 the first year — only that they sat there for the modern life of the firm and closed there.
2007-11-14 →Capital Transfer & Storage LLC (C176736), agent John L. Horne, 1316 BozemanMT SOS (prior brief)Corporate wrapper, not a new occupant
1995-05-26 →Record parties Dorothy M. Horne + Capital Transfer on this legal (mortgage)EagleWeb #533388Owner/borrower family + company; not a city directory line
2007-12-31 →Record owner JOHN L. HORNE (from Dorothy M. Horne estate)EagleWeb #3141282; iTaxFamily succession, same operation
after 2026-07-01vacant / Joshua Tree pendingDiane packetNot a historic occupant

Where the directories actually are

YearHoldingAccess
1884 StaringInternet Archive / NewberryFree, OCR: https://archive.org/details/GR_3950
1922 PolkFamilySearch Digital Library, id 806305Available online https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/642475-helena-lewis-and-clark-co-montana-city-directory-also-a-buyers-guide-and-a-complete-classified-business-directory-1922not paged this pass (login wall). This is the cheapest next hit: look up Nash-Finch + Bozeman street index.
1960 PolkFamilySearch id 1236555Library-only (copyright)
1961 PolkFamilySearch id 359213Search-only
1904–1923 Polk (central MT, not Helena)Montana History PortalWrong cities — ignore
Full Helena Polk runMontana Historical Society + Lewis & Clark LibraryWalk the street index for Bozeman every other year 1910–1955. That fills 1937–1948.

Internet Archive advanced search for the exact string "1316 Bozeman" Helena returned zero digitized books this pass.


How to fill a year in 20 minutes at MTHS

  1. Take Polk for 1915, 1922, 1929, 1935, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1955.
  2. Street directory → Bozeman1316.
  3. Cross-check classified “Wholesale Grocers” / “Transfer” / “Warehouses.”
  4. Photograph the page (phone is enough). File under this folder as dir-YYYY.jpg.

Until those pages are photographed, do not invent a year-by-year list. The locked occupants are Kleinschmidt & Co. (1884, Sanborn), Nash-Finch / Christie (1935), and Capital Transfer (1949–2026).