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Accessed 2026-08-26 unless a prior-packet date is given. No invented citations.

A. Primary — newspapers

  1. Helena Independent, 19 Oct 1935 — “HEAVY DAMAGE IN SIXTH WARD…” Nash Finch office; Christie warehouse.
  2. Helena Independent, 20 Oct 1935 — Christie liquor house west of NP depot; NP yards.
  3. Helena Independent, 22 Oct 1935 — Shope / Roland, Nash-Finch employees in the office.
  4. Helena Independent, 31 Oct 1935 — Building permits: Nash-Finch stone warehouse, end walls + roof, $900.
  5. Helena Independent, 1 Nov 1935 — Christie of Butte at Logan & 13th (different building).
  6. Helena Independent, 12 Nov 1935 — Nash-Finch warehouse “nearly restored.”

Carrier for 1–6 this pass: University of Utah Seismograph Stations, 1935 Helena, MT (series) – News Articles PDF, https://quake.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1935-Helena-MT-series-News-Articles.pdf

Original pages: still to pull at MTHS / Chronicling America.

  1. Helena Weekly Herald, Jan 1884 — NP Addition building boom (as quoted in the NRHP form, not re-read as a page image this pass).

B. Primary — government / land / tax

  1. Lewis & Clark County iTax, taxid 2852, https://itax.tylertech.com/LewisAndClarkMT/detail.aspx?taxid=2852 — owner, legal, deed M37/7167 #3141282, TIF flag. Updated on card 2026-08-25.
  2. iTax taxid 25120 — 1315 Bozeman, other Horne lot.
  3. EagleWeb guest legal search, 2026-08-26 — Subdivision 488 NP ADDN, Lot 1, Block 25: 13 instruments, oldest 1995-05-26 #533388; deed #3141282 = Dorothy M. Horne estate → John L. Horne. Nash Finch grantor = 0. Images not retrieved (subscription). https://eagle-web.lccountymt.gov/recorder/web/loginPOST.jsp?guest=true · About: https://eagle-web.lccountymt.gov/recorder/web/about.jsp
  4. Lewis & Clark County Records Dept. page — fees, subscription phone 406-447-8337, https://www.lccountymt.gov/Government/Clerk-and-Recorder-Treasurer/Clerk-and-Recorder-Records-Dept
  5. BLM GLO search, https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx — patent image not captured this pass.
  6. Northern Pacific land grant, 13 Stat. 365 (2 July 1864); MNHS guide https://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01020/pdf/m0446.pdf
  7. NPS / NRHP nomination, Helena Railroad Depot Historic District, NRIS 03001330, listed 15 Dec 2004.

C. Primary — maps & photographs

  1. Sanborn Map & Publishing Co., Helena November 1884, 9 sheets, LOC sanborn05017_001. Sheet 9 READ — Block 25 Kleinschmidt stone warehouse 76×200. Wikimedia PD category + file …001-9.jpg.
  2. Sanborn Map Company, Helena 1892, LOC sanborn05017_004, https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05017_004/ — not sheet-read.

16b. Sanborn Map Company, Helena 1930, LOC sanborn05017_005, https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05017_005/ — not sheet-read.

  1. Yale 1930 atlas with corrections through 1950, https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/16352365
  2. American Publishing Co., 1890 perspective map of Helena, LOC https://www.loc.gov/item/75690567/
  3. MTHS / Montana History Portal, PAc 2015-23.19 / p0008392, 19 Oct 1935 liquor-warehouse + Christie truck, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/89318

D. Institutional / archival

  1. Helena Abstract & Title Co. records, 1864–1973, MTHS MC 421, Archives West https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv990874

20b. Jon Axline, Caird Engineering Works (24LC2205) CRS, 13 May 2014 — Wilkinson May 1871 / NP Addition 1883 / T10N R3W Sec 29. http://helenahistory.org/Caird-Cultural_Resource_Survey_and_Assessment.pdf

  1. UND Elwyn B. Robinson Special Collections, Nash Finch Company Records (acquired 1992-01-10) — Diane extract.
  2. Kennon Baird, “State Liquor Warehouse,” Helena As She Was, http://helenahistory.org/state-liquor-warehouse.html
  3. Helena As She Was @HelenaHistory, 29 Aug 2020 — 1316 Bozeman / Nash-Finch / Christie caption (Diane held Word file).
  4. George B. Staring, Helena directory, 1884, Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/GR_3950
  5. R.L. Polk, Helena 1922, FamilySearch 806305 (online, not paged this pass).

E. Corporate / recent journalism

  1. Montana SOS live 2026-08-26 — Capital Transfer & Storage LLC C176736 (Active-Good Standing, 14 Nov 2007, RA John L Horne, 1316 Bozeman); ABN A067141 (21 May 1998, Inactive-Cancelled); Union Mercantile D000745 (3 Sept 1888, Bizapedia). https://biz.sosmt.gov/search/business
  2. KTVH, “Capital Transfer and Storage closes after 76 years,” https://www.ktvh.com/news/capital-transfer-and-storage-closes-after-76-years
  3. KTVH, “History of the 1935 Earthquake,” https://www.ktvh.com/1935-earthquake-history
  4. capitaltransfer.net / Prism / Racklify — Horne family operating history (secondary, consistent).

F. Already held (this project — do not re-derive)

  1. planning/diane-helena-warehouse/RESEARCH_BRIEF.md
  2. planning/diane-helena-warehouse/application/PROPERTY_RECORD_VERIFIED.md
  3. Desktop JOSHUA TREE/Diane Historic Home/ Word files (Nash-Finch, earthquake caption, Capital Transfer, Union Mercantile, Kleinschmidt, JTC application).

G. Consulted, no hit or not usable for this address