Oliver and Lucy Bonnell Gothic Arch Roofed Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Oliver and Lucy Bonnell Gothic Arch Roofed Barn in Park County, Montana, or simply the Bonnell Barn, is a Gothic-arch barn which was built in 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Oliver and Lucy Bonnell Gothic Arch Roofed Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bonnell, Oliver and Lucy, Gothic Arch Roofed Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 247 Shields River Road E, Clyde Park, 59047
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Census division. Shields Valley
National Register reference number. 04000978 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oliver and Lucy Bonnell Gothic Arch Roofed Barn: 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Francis Property	Calcium	Prospect
Unnamed Calcite	Calcium	Occurrence
Unnamed Calcite	Calcium	Occurrence
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence	Calcium	Occurrence
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence	Calcium	Occurrence
Unnamed Calcium	Calcium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clyde Park, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Flood	Clyde Park	$130,000	County officials reported significant flooding across Park County, especially along the foothill locations and on the Shields River in the northern part of the county. The Shields River and its tributaries experienced significant flooding with adjacent low lying areas under water. Some of the creeks that were impacted by high water included Mission, Billman, and Fleshman Creeks. County officials also reported that several roads were closed, damaged and eventually washed out by high water. During the height of the event, the Department of Transportation closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 at Springdale due to water over the road from Peterson Creek.\|Damage estimates were based on FEMA reports and Individual Assistance approvals.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyde Park	-	Strong wind gusts ripped tents from their moorings, as well as broke tree branches and tore the tops off some trees.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyde Park	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph on the north side of Clyde Park.
June 2010	Hail	Clyde Park	-	Broken windows were reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyde Park	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph was measured 5 miles south of Clyde Park.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyde Park	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph were reported in Clyde Park. Some small tree limbs were reported down along with some scattered power outages.
July 2019	Hail	Clyde Park	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Clyde Park	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Clyde Park	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Clyde Park	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Clyde Park	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyde Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Convict Grade Historic District	4.9 miles	2015
Convict Grade Historic District	5.9 miles	2015
Ebert Ranch	6.4 miles	1979
Chicken Creek Farmstead Historic District	7.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000978 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 35 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.