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Special Meeting
June 24, 2015
5:30 PM
CALL SPECIAL MEETING TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA
DISCUSSION AGENDA
1. 714 WEST MOUNTAIN AVENUE FORT COLLINS LANDMARK DESIGNATION - CONTINUATION
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Thode House located at
714 West Mountain Avenue. The property has significance to Fort Collins
under Landmark Preservation Standard C. This is the continuation of the
discussion that was tabled at the Commission’s June 10th Regular Meeting.
The Commission’s comments from that meeting have been addressed in the
revised Landmark Designation application.
APPLICANT: Henry P. Thode III
OTHER BUSINESS
ADJOURNMENT
Landmark
Preservation
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STAFF REPORT June 24, 2015
Landmark Preservation Commission
PROJECT NAME
714 WEST MOUNTAIN AVENUE FORT COLLINS LANDMARK DESIGNATION - CONTINUATION
STAFF
Josh Weinberg, City Planner
PROJECT INFORMATION
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Thode House located at
714 West Mountain Avenue. The property has significance to Fort Collins
under Landmark Preservation Standard C. This is the continuation of the
discussion that was tabled at the Commission’s June 10th Regular Meeting.
The Commission’s comments from that meeting have been addressed in the
revised Landmark Designation application.
APPLICANT: Henry P. Thode III
OWNER: Henry P. Thode III
RECOMMENDATION: Staff finds that the Ault/Thode House qualifies for Landmark designation
under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standard C. If the Landmark
Preservation Commission determines that the property is eligible under this
standard, then the Commission may pass a resolution recommending City
Council pass an ordinance designating the Ault/Thode House at 714 West
Mountain Avenue as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code
Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Ault/Thode House at 714 West Mountain Avenue is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation
Standard C, as a well preserved example of a Foursquare dwelling with Classical Revival detailing. The building
retains preponderance of all seven aspects of integrity, A through G.
With somewhat limited representation in Fort Collins, Foursquare dwellings were widely constructed throughout
much of Colorado after 1900. Foursquare dwellings are easily recognizable for their square plans, two-story height,
overall simplicity, and adaptability to a variety of contemporary stylistic treatments. According to History Colorado’s
Guide to Historic Architecture and Engineering: “The typical Foursquare is a two-story hipped roof structure with
central dormer, minimal decoration, broad overhanging eaves with brackets or modillions, classical frieze with
dentils, and a porch, usually full-width with a hipped roof supported by Doric or Tuscan columns or by square
posts. Occasionally, a Foursquare will feature a shaped gable or will be considerably larger with more elaborate
ornamentation. In each case, the basic square plan is predominant.”
Nearly all of these architectural features are represented in the building at 714 West Mountain Avenue, including
the two-story square plan, full-width front porch with square columns and pedimented dormer, and hipped roof with
decorative brackets in open eaves.
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ATTACHMENTS
1. 714 W Mountain Ave_REV (DOC)
2. 714_W_Mountain (PDF)
3. 714 W Mountain Pictures (DOCX)
4. 714 W Mountain Garage Pictures (DOCX)
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Fort Collins Landmark Designation
LOCATION INFORMATION:
Address: 714 West Mountain Avenue
Legal Description: Lot 33, Block 281, Loomis Amended, City of Fort Collins
Property Name (historic and/or common): The Ault/Thode Property
OWNER INFORMATION:
Name: Henry Thode III
Phone: 970-635-9972
Email: pairadox01@gmail.com
Address: P.O. Box 7235, Loveland, CO, 80537
CLASSIFICATION
Category Ownership Status Present Use Existing
Designation
Building Public Occupied Commercial Nat’l Register
Structure Private Unoccupied Educational State Register
Site Religious
Object Residential
District Entertainment
Government
Other
FORM PREPARED BY:
Name and Title: Cassandra Bumgarner, Historic Preservation Planning Intern
Address: City of Fort Collins, Historic Preservation Department, P.O. Box 580, Fort Collins,
CO 80522
Phone: 828-499-1235
Email: cbumgarner@fcgov.com
Relationship to Owner: None.
DATE: May 27, 2015
Planning, Development & Transportation Services
Community Development & Neighborhood Services
281 North College Avenue
P.O. Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580
970.416.274
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970.224.613
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TYPE OF DESIGNATION and BOUNDARIES
Individual Landmark Property Landmark District
Explanation of Boundaries:
The boundaries of the property being designated as a Fort Collins Landmark correspond to the
legal description of the property, above.
SIGNIFICANCE
Properties are eligible for designation if they possess significance, which is the importance of a
site, structure, object or district to the history, architecture, archeology, engineering or culture of
our community, State or Nation. For designation as Fort Collins Landmarks or Fort Collins
Landmark Districts properties must meet one (1) or more of the following standards:
Standard A: Events. This property is associated with events that have made a recognizable
contribution to the broad patterns of the history of the community, State or Nation. It is associated
with either (or both) of these two (2) types of events:
1. A specific event marking an important moment in Fort Collins prehistory or history;
and/or
2. A pattern of events or a historic trend that made a recognizable contribution to the
development of the community, State or Nation.
Standard B: Persons/Groups. This property is associated with the lives of persons or groups of
persons recognizable in the history of the community, State or Nation whose specific contributions
to that history can be identified and documented.
Standard C: Design/Construction. This property embodies the identifiable characteristics of a
type, period or method of construction; represents the work of a craftsman or architect whose
work is distinguishable from others by its characteristic style and quality; possesses high artistic
values or design concepts; or is part of a recognizable and distinguishable group of properties.
Standard D: Information potential. This property has yielded, or may be likely to yield,
information important in prehistory or history.
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EXTERIOR INTEGRITY
Properties are eligible for designation if they possess exterior integrity, which is the ability of a
site, structure, object or district to be able to convey its significance. The exterior integrity of a
resource is based on the degree to which it retains all or some of seven (7) aspects or qualities:
location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. All seven qualities do
not need to be present for a site, structure, object or district to be eligible as long as the overall
sense of past time and place is evident.
Standard A: Location. This property is located where it was originally constructed or where an
historic event occurred.
Standard B: Design. This property retains a combination of elements that create its historic
form, plan space, structure, and style.
Standard C: Setting. This property retains a character and relationship with its surroundings
that reflect how and where it was originally situated in relation to its surrounding features and
open space.
Standard D: Materials. This property retains much of the historic physical elements that
originally formed the property.
Standard E: Workmanship. This property possesses evidence of the crafts of a particular
culture or people during any given period in history or prehistory. This consists of evidence of
artisans' labor and skill in constructing or altering the building, structure or site.
Standard F: Feeling. This property expresses the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular
period or time. This results from the presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the
property's historic character.
Standard G: Association. This property retains an association, or serves as a direct link to, an
important historic event or person. It retains association if it is the place where the event or activity
occurred and is sufficiently intact to convey that relationship to an observer. Like feeling,
association requires the presence of physical features that convey a property's historic character.
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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY
(Please describe why the property is significant, relative to the Standard(s) above, and
how it possesses exterior integrity.)
The Ault/Thode Property at 714 West Mountain Avenue is significant under Fort Collins
Landmark Designation Standard C, as a well preserved example of a Foursquare
dwelling with Classical Revival detailing. The building retains preponderance of all seven
aspects of integrity, A through G.
With somewhat limited representation in Fort Collins, Foursquare dwellings were widely
constructed throughout much of Colorado after 1900. Foursquare dwellings are easily
recognizable for their square plans, two-story height, overall simplicity, and adaptability to
a variety of contemporary stylistic treatments. According to History Colorado’s Guide to
Historic Architecture and Engineering: “The typical Foursquare is a two-story hipped roof
structure with central dormer, minimal decoration, broad overhanging eaves with brackets
or modillions, classical frieze with dentils, and a porch, usually full-width with a hipped
roof supported by Doric or Tuscan columns or by square posts. Occasionally, a
Foursquare will feature a shaped gable or will be considerably larger with more elaborate
ornamentation. In each case, the basic square plan is predominant.”
Nearly all of these architectural features are represented in the building at 714 West
Mountain Avenue, including the two-story square plan, full-width front porch with square
columns and pedimented dormer, and hipped roof with decorative brackets in open
eaves.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
(Please include city directory research and/or a title search if the property is important for
its association with a significant person.)
On February 13, 1907, writers of the Fort Collins Courier celebrated the completion of
Thomas E. Giller’s home, a Colorado and Southern agent, as “another of the substantial
improvements being made on that pretty avenue.”1 Interestingly, the year prior to the
completion of Giller’s home, JM Morrison owned the property at 714 West Mountain
Avenue. Fort Collins City Directories indicate that Morrison was a carpenter and lived
next-door at 718 West Mountain Avenue. Therefore, it is possible that Morrison
constructed the residence at 714 West Mountain Avenue and sold it to Giller. Giller’s
home had elements of the contemporarily modern and influential Classical Revival
stylistic elements in the popular Foursquare form.
The Giller family lived in the home for a couple of years until Alexander Ault purchased
the home in 1909 and lived there with his wife Aida and family. Alexander was involved in
agricultural business in the area, acquiring some notoriety for himself in the community
through purchasing a substantial amount of wheat from farmers during a difficult
economic time. The town of Ault, east of Fort Collins, was named after Alexander during
the first few years of the twentieth century. Taken from the “Ault Advertiser,” on July 10,
1907, The Fort Collins Weekly Courier reported Ault as stating:
“The place was named for me without any solicitation on my part, as I had
considerable land here and bought all the wheat from farmers when there was only a
wagon scale and switch and I had to go a mile and a half for meals and lodgings. I
loaded 100 cars of wheat from there from the 15th of August to the 1st of November, in
the year 1905, but I can now see where I made a great mistake in not staying there a
few years longer.”
The property sold to Fred W. Stover, a former Fort Collins Mayor, in 1924 from the
Alexander Ault estate through and Administrators deed, and was then transferred back to
Nelle Ault in 1927. Edson Ault, along with Winton and Nelle Ault, occupied the residence
during the time of Stover’s ownership, according to City Directories. Winton was the son
of Alexander and lived in his childhood home for 17 years. After the Aults left in 1944, the
house was occupied by five different owners over the course of ten years. The owners in
order are Paul L. Henry, Edward W. and Roberta H. Withrow, Otis T. and Josephine E.
Massey, W. L. and Elsie S. Sybert, and Dr. J. Frank and Lee Hurdle. When W. L. Sybert
owned the home, he remodeled the second floor to “move present bathroom to new
location over kitchen. Build new fireplace and chimney.”2
In 1955, Dr. Henry P. Thode Jr. and his wife Mary A. purchased the home. During
Thode’s career he partnered with Dr. Frank A. Betts as general family physicians.3 Thode
was the second from Poudre Valley Hospital’s family practice residency program. From
1955 until 2014, he owned the home. In 2014, the home passed on to his son, Henry P.
Thode III. Today the home is used as a single family residence.
1 “Local and Personal,” Fort Collins Courier, February 13, 1907, 13.
2 Building Permit No. 12624, City of Fort Collins, April 1, 1952, accessed at
http://history.fcgov.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/bp&CISOPTR=13786&CISOBOX=1&REC=1.
3 Fort Collins City Directory, 1956, (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1956), 19. Accessed May 18, 2015.
http://history.fcgov.com/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/cid&CISOPTR=26694&CISOSHOW=26495&REC=1.
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ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION
Construction Date: February, 1907
Architect/Builder: Unknown
Building Materials: Sandstone, wood, and stone.
Architectural Style: Foursquare with Classical Revival elements
Description:
The residence at 714 West Mountain Avenue is constructed in the Foursquare form with a
rectangular plan that sits on a narrow, deep lot. The two-story building is clad in horizontal
lap siding and covered by an asphalt shingled, flared hipped roof. The roof contains a
central flared hipped dormer with centrally placed diamond patterned window. The
structure has prominent, overhanging eaves, symmetrical façade, formal porch entry, and
sandstone foundation.
The symmetrical façade (southern elevation) features a central, fixed window on the
second floor, flanked by two one-over-one fixed windows. The top pane in each features
a diamond-shaped design similar to that on the dormer. The front porch is enclosed with
visible massive square posts. The enclosure is also symmetrical, with the door flanked by
a set of two-over-two panes of glass. The porch entry is covered with a pediment and is
flanked by two additional massive square posts.
On the second story of the western elevation, there is central, fixed pane window flanked
by two one-over-one sash windows. The first story of the elevation has a single and pair
of one-over-one sash windows. Toward the southwest of the elevation, there is irregular
massing with the second story not being full width and the first story having a shed roof.
On the secondary story, there is another single pane, fixed window. The first floor has two
doors, one with three steps leading up to it and the other level with the ground. Both
doors are paneled.
The southern elevation features three one-over-one sash windows and a casement
window on the first floor.
The eastern elevation has five one-over-one sash windows and two fixed, single pane
windows. This elevation is not symmetrical. There is another door on this elevation with a
small awning.
It appears the central one-story element protruding from the building’s rear (northern)
elevation is original, as its eave detailing, siding and foundation material are consistent
with the main building. There is a second-story addition over this element, along with a
shed-roofed one-story addition to the east. No construction information is available for
either addition. The additions do not appear to compromise any of the seven aspects of
integrity related to the building.
There is what appears to be a historic carriage house on the northeast portion of the lot.
The building has open eaves with exposed structural elements and is clad in wooden
shingles. The building is 1½ stories with a front-gabled roof and nearly full-width set of
doors that open out on the southern elevation. A carport element extends from the front,
southern elevation. According to building permit records, this was constructed in 1986
and appears to be attached to the building by a ledger board. The eastern elevation of the
building is void of openings, while the western elevation contains two nine-light square
windows and an awning feature on its southern end. The rear, or northern elevation,
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contains a single bay access opening, which is currently covered in wood shingles, in
addition to an opening into the second level loft area of the building that is also covered in
wood shingles. According to historic Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, the carriage house
building was extent as early as 1909. Neither the house, nor the carriage house, is
depicted in the 1906 Sanborn map. According to the current property owner, whose family
has owned the property since 1955, the carriage house has been clad in wooden shingles
for as long as he can remember.
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REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed)
City of Fort Collins city directories, 1907–2014, City of Fort Collins, Historic Preservation
Department, Fort Collins, Colorado.
City of Fort Collins building permits, Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins,
Colorado.
Fort Collins Courier, “Early Ault,” July 10, 1907
Fort Collins Courier, “Local and Personal,” February 13, 1907
History Colorado Guide to Historic Architecture and Engineering:
http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/foursquare
Larimer County Tax Assessor Records.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1906-1948.
“Sugar Beets, Streetcar Suburbs, and the City Beautiful, 1900-1919.” History Connection.
Accessed May 11, 2015. http://history.fcgov.com/archive/contexts/sugar.php.
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AGREEMENT
The undersigned owner(s) hereby agrees that the property described herein be considered for
local historic landmark designation, pursuant to the Fort Collins Landmark Preservation
Ordinance, Chapter 14 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins.
I understand that upon designation, I or my successors will be requested to notify the Secretary of
the Landmark Preservation Commission at the City of Fort Collins prior to the occurrence of any
of the following:
Preparation of plans for reconstruction or alteration of the exterior of the improvements on the
property, or;
Preparation of plans for construction of, addition to, or demolition of improvements on the property
DATED this __________________ day of _______________________________, 201___.
_____________________________________________________
Owner Name (please print)
_____________________________________________________
Owner Signature
State of ___________________________)
)ss.
County of __________________________)
Subscribed and sworn before me this _________ day of ___________________, 201____,
by _____________________________________________________________________.
Witness my hand and official seal. My commission expires _________________________.
_____________________________________________________
Notary
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714 West Mountain Avenue - Fort Collins Landmark Designation
714 W. Mountain Avenue South Elevation
714 W. Mountain Avenue Southeast Elevation
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714 W. Mountain Avenue East Elevation
714 W. Mountain Ave. Southwest Elevation
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714 W. Mountain Avenue Northeast Elevation
714 W. Mountain Ave. North Elevation
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714 W. Mountain Ave. North Elevation
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714 West Mountain Avenue – Garage – Southern Elevation
714 West Mountain Avenue – Garage – Southern Elevation
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714 West Mountain Avenue – Garage – Southern Elevation
Back of the garage (north) close up
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Rear of the garage (north) close up
Rear of garage (north)
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Front of garage (south) close up
Side of garage (west)
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Side of garage (west) close up of window
Front of garage (south) close up of door
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714 W. Mountain – Garage
Overhanging eave on front half of the West side of garage (Southwest corner)
Front left corner of garage (Southwest corner) where the cover attaches to the garage
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Front left corner of garage (Southwest corner) where the cover attaches to the garage taken
from the West side of garage
Underneath of the overhanging eave on Southwest corner of garage
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Front of garage, underside of cover (Left/West half)
Front of garage, underside of cover (center)
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Front of garage, underside of cover (Right/East half)
Inside garage looking out
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Stairs in back of garage leading to upstairs loft (was not able to go upstairs)
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Northwest corner of garage
Back (North) side of garage
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Back (North side) of garage. This looks like it was originally a door, but was closed off at some
point, there is a picture of this from the outside as well in the previous pictures taken.
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Front left corner of garage (Southeast corner)
Closer picture of window and how it opens on West side of garage
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East side of garage
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