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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/08/2014 - Landmark Preservation Commission - Agenda - Regular MeetingLandmark Preservation Commission Page 1 October 8, 2014 Ron Sladek, Chair Doug Ernest, Vice Chair City Council Chambers Maren Bzdek City Hall West Meg Dunn 300 Laporte Avenue Kristin Gensmer Fort Collins, Colorado Dave Lingle Pat Tvede Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14 Alexandra Wallace on the Comcast cable system Belinda Zink Laurie Kadrich Karen McWilliams Josh Weinberg Gino Campana Staff Liaison, CDNS Director Preservation Planner Preservation Planner Council Liaison The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Please call 221-6515 (TDD 224- 6001) for assistance. Regular Meeting October 8, 2014 Agenda  CALL TO ORDER  ROLL CALL  PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA  DISCUSSION AGENDA 1. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 REGULAR MEETING. The purpose of this item is to approve the minutes from the September 10, 2014 regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission. 2. 321 NORTH WHITCOMB LANDMARK DESIGNATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this item is to consider the application for Fort Collins Landmark designation of 321 North Whitcomb Street, the Garcia Property. APPLICANT: Kate Polk Landmark Preservation Commission City of Fort Collins Page 2 3. REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL - 633-633 S COLLEGE, MUSIC DISTRICT PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Development Proposal Final Comments regarding plans to create a Music District on this site. The plans propose to rehabilitate previously altered buildings. APPLICANT: DavisDavis Architects 4. FORT COLLINS LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THE AVERY DUPLEX AT 134-136 NORTH SHERWOOD STREET, FORT COLLINS PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Avery Duplex located at 134-136 North Sherwood Street. The property has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Preservation Standard C. APPLICANT: Charles Bacorn, Owner; Kevin Murray and Carl McWilliams, Contract Purchasers 5. OLD CREAMERY LABORATORY BUILDING (BUTTERFLY BUILDING) – 222 LAPORTE AVENUE PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Proposed Relocation of “Butterfly Building” at 222 Laporte APPLICANT: Brian Hergott, City of Fort Collins  OTHER BUSINESS  ADJOURNMENT Agenda Item 1 Item # 1 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY October 8, 2014 Landmark Preservation Commission STAFF Gretchen Schiager, Administrative Assistant SUBJECT CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 REGULAR MEETING. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this item is to approve the minutes from the September 10, 2014 regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission. ATTACHMENTS 1. DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (DOC) 1 Packet Pg. 3 Landmark Preservation Commission Page 1 September 10, 2014 Ron Sladek, Chair Doug Ernest, Vice Chair City Council Chambers Maren Bzdek City Hall West Meg Dunn 300 Laporte Avenue Kristin Gensmer Fort Collins, Colorado Dave Lingle Pat Tvede Cablecast on City Cable Channel 14 Alexandra Wallace on the Comcast cable system Belinda Zink Laurie Kadrich Karen McWilliams Josh Weinberg Gino Campana Staff Liaison, CDNS Director Preservation Planner Preservation Planner Council Liaison The City of Fort Collins will make reasonable accommodations for access to City services, programs, and activities and will make special communication arrangements for persons with disabilities. Please call 221-6515 (TDD 224- 6001) for assistance. Regular Meeting September 10, 2014 Minutes  CALL TO ORDER Chair Sladek called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m.  ROLL CALL PRESENT: Tvede, Gensmer, Zink, Lingle, Ernest, Bzdek, Dunn, Wallace, Sladek ABSENT: None STAFF PRESENT: McWilliams, Weinberg, Schiager  PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA None  DISCUSSION AGENDA 1. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE MAY 14, 2014 REGULAR MEETING. Landmark Preservation Commission 1.a Packet Pg. 4 Attachment: DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (2454 : Minutes of September 10, 2014) City of Fort Collins Page 2 The purpose of this item is to approve the minutes from the May 14, 2014 regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission. Mr. Ernest moved that the Landmark Preservation Commission approve the minutes of the May 14, 2014 regular meeting. Ms. Gensmer seconded. Motion passed 9-0. 2. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 13, 2014 REGULAR MEETING. The purpose of this item is to approve the minutes from the August 13, 2014 regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission. Mr. Ernest moved that the Landmark Preservation Commission accept the minutes of the regular meeting of August 13, 2014. Ms. Zink seconded. Motion passed 9-0. [Timestamp: 5:34 p.m.] 3. 220 REMINGTON STREET LANDMARK DESIGNATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this item is to consider the application for Fort Collins Landmark designation of 220 Remington Street, the Bode Property. APPLICANT: Colleen Scholz, Property Owner. Staff Report Mr. Weinberg presented the staff report. Applicant Presentation None Public Input None Commission Questions and Discussion Members discussed a discrepancy between the staff report and the application. The staff report stated there was no evidence of important associations with historic events, patterns of events, or important people, while the application does include documentation supporting such associations. Members inquired about the removal of the small shed, and how that would be accounted for in the designation process. Staff clarified that the removal of the shed, also called a garage, had already been approved in the demolition/alteration review process. Members discussed whether to exclude that in the motion, and how to word it. Commission Deliberation Ms. Tvede moved that the Landmark Preservation Commission recommend that City Council pass an ordinance designating the Bode-Scholz property at 220 Remington Street, Fort Collins, Colorado, as a Fort Collins Landmark, except for the closet, according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C. There was no second. Members discussed whether that level of detail was necessary for a designation. In response to a question from the Applicant, Members explained that whether or not the Commission excluded the closet would have no bearing on any potential National designation process. Ms. Tvede moved that the Landmark Preservation Commission recommend that City Council pass an ordinance designating the Bode-Scholz property at 220 Remington Street, Fort Collins, Colorado, as a Fort Collins Landmark, according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C. Ms. Zink seconded. A Member pointed out that in the 1948 photo of the property, it appeared there had once been a larger porch there, and that this should be included in the record, in case an owner may want to add a larger porch in the future. 1.a Packet Pg. 5 Attachment: DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (2454 : Minutes of September 10, 2014) City of Fort Collins Page 3 Mr. Lingle said he would be voting against this particular motion, for process reasons. While he is not against the designation, he said that he was not comfortable voting for it without the exclusion of the closet. The motion passed 8-1, with Mr. Lingle dissenting. [Timestamp: 5:55 p.m.] 4. 508 REMINGTON LANDMARK DESIGNATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this item is to request the Commission’s consideration of the Walker/MacDowell Property at 508 Remington Street, Fort Collins, Colorado for designation as a Fort Collins Landmark. APPLICANT: James L. MacDowell, III, Property Owner Staff Report Ms. McWilliams presented the staff report. Applicant Presentation None Public Input None Commission Questions and Discussion Members expressed interest in information about the architect and the original owner. Ms. McWilliams said they were doing the additional research now, and would potentially come back with an amended application with additional information. Members inquired about the timing of bringing this to the Commission before the title search and additional research was complete. The Applicant stated he would like to have the designation done before purchasing the property in order to understand the tax implications before purchase. The Applicant also expressed an interested in applying for a Landmark Rehabilitation Loan for storm windows. There was additional discussion about whether delaying the nomination would impact the loan application, which was difficult to predict due to the involvement of City Council. Several Members indicated they would like to go forward with the designation now, while they have the opportunity. Members discussed whether it was appropriate to include the name “Walker” in the property name, when that was not the original owner. They discussed the idea of naming a designated property after an historic figure. Staff pointed out that changing the name after the original designation would require going back to Council. There was a suggestion to use current owner’s name, but the Applicant said he preferred his name not be part of the designation. A suggestion to simply use the address was well-received by several Members. Mr. Sladek mentioned he would be voting no on this designation, preferring to wait for all the research to be completed. Commission Deliberation Mr. Ernest moved that the Landmark Preservation Commission recommend that City Council pass an ordinance designating the property at 508 Remington as a Fort Collins Landmark, according to City Code Chapter 14.5 under Designation Standard C. Ms. Tvede seconded. The motion passed 8-1, with Mr. Sladek dissenting. Chair Sladek thanked the Applicant, and mentioned he hoped to see some more information about the original owner down the road. The Applicant noted that he had found some bail bond receipts from 1930 in the attic, suggesting that someone who had lived there had been arrested, which Members found interesting. [Timestamp: 6:14 p.m.] 1.a Packet Pg. 6 Attachment: DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (2454 : Minutes of September 10, 2014) City of Fort Collins Page 4 5. 1306 WEST MOUNTAIN LANDMARK DESIGNATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This is a request for the Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the William and Violet Jackson/Robert Bailey Property at 1306 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado. APPLICANT: Robert Bailey, Owner Staff Report Ms. McWilliams presented the staff report. Ms. McWilliams also pointed out that the Applicant had requested that one of the garages be excluded from designation. Applicant Presentation Mr. Bailey provided the Commission with copies of an article he had written about the property, titled “The Sustainable Bungalow”, which was published in a 2011 edition of American Bungalow. He said he had lived in Old Town for 32 years and in his current home for 13 years. He highlighted several points from the article, and talked about the changes to the interior of the home over time. He noted that homes built during that period were small, sustainable, efficient, small, easy to heat and cool, and important to preserve. Public Input None Commission Questions and Discussion Ms. Dunn recused herself, since she knows the Applicant and has toured the home. Members asked for clarification about how the exclusion of the garage should be addressed in the motion. Ms. McWilliams said that it could be noted in the motion as a non-contributing portion of the property. Members discussed that the property could also be designated under Standard B, since William Jackson was a prominent newspaperman. A Member pointed out an error in the name used in the 4th sentence of the Historical Information section of the application. Chair Sladek asked Staff to convey his congratulations to the Intern who prepared the application, noting that it was beautifully written and nicely done. Members also requested that the brand name “Corning” be removed from the narrative about the roof being replaced with asphalt shingles in 2007. Commission Deliberation Ms. Tvede moved that Landmark Preservation Commission recommend that City Council pass an ordinance designating the William and Violet Jackson/Robert Bailey Property at 1306 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado as a Fort Collins Landmark, excluding the 1968 garage as non-contributing, according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C. Ms. Gensmer seconded. Mr. Ernest asked about including Standard B in the designation due to the significance of Mr. Jackson’s association with the newspaper. Ms. Tvede amended her motion to include Standard B. Ms. Gensmer renewed her second. The motion passed 9-0. Ms. Dunn returned to the meeting. [Timestamp: 6:34 p.m.] 6. 1312 SOUTH COLLEGE LANDMARK DESIGNATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Landmark Designation of the Schlichter/Akin/Smith House, 1312 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado. APPLICANT: Brad March, MaOlPh, LLC 1.a Packet Pg. 7 Attachment: DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (2454 : Minutes of September 10, 2014) City of Fort Collins Page 5 Staff Report Mr. Weinberg presented the staff report. Applicant Presentation Mr. March made one correction to the application provided, saying that L.C. Moore was the developer of the sub-division, but never lived on the site, while both the Evans and Smith families did reside there at one time. He also clarified that this is a contingent nomination, as they have not yet acquired the property, but the current owner has agreed to the nomination subject to their acquisition. Public Input None Commission Questions and Discussion Members commented that the write up on the house was beautiful and thorough, as prepared by the Applicant’s daughter. A Member asked why Smith was included in the name, and the Applicant detailed some history surrounding the past residents of the home, pointing out that the Smiths had the most lengthy ownership, from the 1960s to very recently. A member asked whether Standard A should be included. Members noted that the construction of sizeable homes represented a pattern of events, and the Applicant mentioned that the subdivision tells a social story. Another Member mentioned there was also an association with irrigation and water law. Commission Deliberation Ms. Tvede moved that Landmark Preservation Commission recommend that City Council pass an ordinance designating the Schlichter/Akin/Smith House at 1312 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado as a Fort Collins Landmark, according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standards A, B and C. Ms. Dunn seconded. The motion passed 9-0.  OTHER BUSINESS Mr. Lingle pointed out that the staff report for the 508 Remington designation indicated that the addition shown in the photo of the rear elevation does not detract from eligibility. However, if the process had been the other way around, and an Applicant wished to make that addition to a previously designated property, it would likely have a negative impact on continued eligibility. Mr. Lingle emphasized the importance of consistency in their reviews.  ADJOURNMENT Chair Sladek adjourned the meeting at 6:50 p.m. 1.a Packet Pg. 8 Attachment: DRAFT 2014 September 10 LPC Minutes (2454 : Minutes of September 10, 2014) Agenda Item 2 Item # 2 Page 1 STAFF REPORT October 8, 2014 Landmark Preservation Commission PROJECT NAME 321 NORTH WHITCOMB LANDMARK DESIGNATION STAFF Josh Weinberg, City Planner PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this item is to consider the application for Fort Collins Landmark designation of 321 North Whitcomb Street, the Garcia Property. APPLICANT: Kate Polk OWNER: Kate Polk RECOMMENDATION: Staff finds that the Garcia Property qualifies for Landmark designation under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standards A and C. If the Landmark Preservation Commission determines that the property is eligible under these standards, then the Commission may pass a resolution recommending City Council pass an ordinance designating the Garcia Property as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standards A and C. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The property at 321 North Whitcomb Street is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standards A and C for characterizing a pattern of events or a historic trend that made a recognizable contribution to the development of the Fort Collins community and for embodying distinctive characteristics of an architectural type and period. This structure’s form and style illustrate the convergence of early-twentieth century ideologies. Fish scale shingles and spindle posts were modest outward expressions common to the late-Victorian era. The small size and simple form of this home are indicative of modest living. Thus this home illustrates owners who had modest means, yet were conscious of at least some outward expressions. The home at 321 North Whitcomb also stands as a testament of the vitality of the Hispanic community in Fort Collins and represents the broad immigration patterns of the early twentieth century. Due to proximity to Holy Family Catholic Church-literally just a few yards down the road-this home and the neighborhood to which it belongs served for several decades as a haven for Hispanic immigrants to Fort Collins as they were often segregated from the larger community. A priest at Holy Family Church recommended to Alejandro Garcia that he move his family into this particular home after emigrating from Mexico very likely to be closer to the local congregation. Alejandro, his family, and neighbors worked in nearby mines, sugar beet fields, and in other manual labor positions. Therefore, this home is symbolic of the lifestyle and vitality of the Hispanic Fort Collins community that proved so vital to the economic growth of the city. Finally, this home’s exterior integrity remains largely intact. No later than the early 1920s a large addition was made to the rear of the home, but that addition has now stood as part of the original home for approximately ninety years and serves to further illustrate the needs of the home’s occupants. In the 1970s, that addition’s outer walls 2 Packet Pg. 9 Agenda Item 2 Item # 2 Page 2 were covered with drop board siding to match the rest of the home’s exterior. Other than a few more minor efforts to repair or maintain the structure, it remains largely unaltered from its original appearance. Coupled with its association with broad patterns of style and immigration in the early twentieth century, this home exhibits all seven aspects of exterior integrity. ATTACHMENTS 1. 321_whitcomb (PDF) 2. 321 N Whitcomb LPCstaffreport (DOC) 3. 321 Whitcomb Nomination (DOC) 4. 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (DOCX) 2 Packet Pg. 10 Fullana Elementary Lee Martinez Community Park Maple St N Loomis Ave N Whitcomb St N Sherwood St Sycamore St Cherry St 321 N Whitcomb 1 inch = 200 feet © Site 2.a Packet Pg. 11 Attachment: 321_whitcomb (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION October 8, 2014 STAFF REPORT REQUEST: Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Garcia Property at 321 North Whitcomb Street, Fort Collins, Colorado STAFF CONTACT: Josh Weinberg, Historic Preservation Planner APPLICANT: Kate Polk, Property Owner BACKGROUND: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Garcia Property located at 321 North Whitcomb Street. The property has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Preservation Standards A and C. The property at 321 North Whitcomb Street is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standards A and C for characterizing a pattern of events or a historic trend that made a recognizable contribution to the development of the Fort Collins community and for embodying distinctive characteristics of an architectural type and period. This structure’s form and style illustrate the convergence of early-twentieth century ideologies. Fish scale shingles and spindle posts were modest outward expressions common to the late-Victorian era. The small size and simple form of this home are indicative of modest living. Thus this home illustrates owners who had modest means, yet were conscious of at least some outward expressions. The home at 321 North Whitcomb also stands as a testament of the vitality of the Hispanic community in Fort Collins and represents the broad immigration patterns of the early twentieth century. Due to proximity to Holy Family Catholic Church—literally just a few yards down the road—this home and the neighborhood to which it belongs served for several decades as a haven for Hispanic immigrants to Fort Collins as they were often segregated from the larger community. A priest at Holy Family Church recommended to Alejandro Garcia that he move his family into this particular home after emigrating from Mexico very likely to be closer to the local congregation. Alejandro, his family, and neighbors worked in nearby mines, sugar beet fields, and in other manual labor positions. Therefore, this home is symbolic of the lifestyle and vitality of the Hispanic Fort Collins community that proved so vital to the economic growth of the city. Finally, this home’s exterior integrity remains largely intact. No later than the early 1920s a large addition was made to the rear of the home, but that addition has now stood as part of the original home for approximately ninety years and serves to further illustrate the needs of the home’s occupants. In the 1970s, that addition’s outer walls were covered with drop board siding to match the rest of the home’s exterior. Other than a few more minor efforts to repair or maintain the structure, it remains largely unaltered from its original appearance. Coupled with its association with broad patterns of style and immigration in the early twentieth century, this home exhibits all seven aspects of exterior integrity. Staff Analysis: Staff finds that the Garcia Property qualifies for Landmark designation under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standards A and C. If the Landmark Preservation Commission determines that the property is eligible under these standards, then the Commission may pass a resolution recommending City Council pass an ordinance designating the Garcia Property as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standards A and C. Planning, Development & Transportation Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 2.b Packet Pg. 12 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb LPCstaffreport (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 1 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION: Address: 321 North Whitcomb, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 Legal Description: Lot 9, Cotton’s Re-Sub, Block 273, West Side Addition, Fort Collins Property Name (historic and/or common): The Garcia Property OWNER INFORMATION: Name: Kate A. Polk Phone: 970-218-7812 Email: mbckap49@gmail.com Address: 321 North Whitcomb, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521 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: Mitchell Schaefer, Historic Preservation Intern Address: P.O. Box 580, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80522 Phone: 970-416-2283 Email: mschaefer@fcgov.com Relationship to Owner: None DATE: Prepared August 19, 2014. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.41 0 970.22 4- fax fcgov.c 2.c Packet Pg. 13 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 2 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. The property consists of . . . 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. 2.c Packet Pg. 14 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 3 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. 2.c Packet Pg. 15 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 4 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY The property at 321 North Whitcomb Street is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standards A and C for characterizing a pattern of events or a historic trend that made a recognizable contribution to the development of the Fort Collins community and for embodying distinctive characteristics of an architectural type and period. This structure’s form and style illustrate the convergence of early-twentieth century ideologies. Fish scale shingles and spindle posts were modest outward expressions common to the late- Victorian era. The small size and simple form of this home are indicative of modest living. Thus this home illustrates owners who had modest means, yet were conscious of at least some outward expressions. The home at 321 North Whitcomb also stands as a testament of the vitality of the Hispanic community in Fort Collins and represents the broad immigration patterns of the early twentieth century. Due to proximity to Holy Family Catholic Church—literally just a few yards down the road—this home and the neighborhood to which it belongs served for several decades as a haven for Hispanic immigrants to Fort Collins as they were often segregated from the larger community. A priest at Holy Family Church recommended to Alejandro Garcia that he move his family into this particular home after emigrating from Mexico very likely to be closer to the local congregation. Alejandro, his family, and neighbors worked in nearby mines, sugar beet fields, and in other manual labor positions. Therefore, this home is symbolic of the lifestyle and vitality of the Hispanic Fort Collins community that proved so vital to the economic growth of the city. Finally, this home’s exterior integrity remains largely intact. No later than the early 1920s a large addition was made to the rear of the home, but that addition has now stood as part of the original home for approximately ninety years and serves to further illustrate the needs of the home’s occupants. In the 1970s, that addition’s outer walls were covered with drop board siding to match the rest of the home’s exterior. Other than a few more minor efforts to repair or maintain the structure, it remains largely unaltered from its original appearance. Coupled with its association with broad patterns of style and immigration in the early twentieth century, this home exhibits all seven aspects of exterior integrity. 2.c Packet Pg. 16 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 5 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Historical records for the property at 321 North Whitcomb in Fort Collins exist as far back as the mid-nineteenth century. In 1865 Joseph Mason, one of the first European settlers of what is now Fort Collins, acquired the northwest quarter of Section 11, Township 7, Range 69 from the United States government.1 Over the next forty years several individuals owned this property including some prominent Fort Collins citizens like Norman H. Meldrum, A. K. and Ella B. Yount, and Franklin C. Avery.2 At some point during the late nineteenth century the eastern half of Joseph Mason’s original purchase became known as the West Side Addition to Fort Collins. In July 1887, it seems Theodore Kutcher subdivided Block 273 of the West Side Addition for the first time.3 Only five years later in 1892 Lizzie C. Emigh and John C. Baird purchased Block 273 apparently with the intent of re-subdividing it to create smaller lots than existed according to the 1887 subdivision plat.4 Finally, in 1907, Lillian E. Cotton re-subdivided the same block a second time, thus creating a third plat, that by which the neighborhood stands subdivided today.5 For the first decade of the existence, it seems that the owners of the property never actually resided in the home. In 1908, only a few months after Cotton’s re-subdivision work, Lot 9 of Block 273 very likely appeared in the city directory of Fort Collins for the first time as 317 North Whitcomb Street. Unfortunately, the contractor, architect, and exact date of construction remain unidentified at this time. In 1908, Glen Dement, an agent of the White Sewing Machine Company, lived there with his wife Lizzie.6 The Dements, however, seem to have only been renting the property. According to the Abstract of Title for the property George G. Gilbert is listed as the owner of the property for most of 1908.7 City directories between 1908 and 1919 reveal that four different couples and a single man, all of blue collar professions, lived at 317 North Whitcomb at different times, but no evidence suggests that those tenants actually owned the property. Then in 1919, Elsie Sawyer purchased Lot 9, Block 273 from Ella Peterson.8 City directories indicate that Frank Sawyer, a machinist and chief engineer, lived at 317 North Whitcomb with his wife Elsie between 1922 and about 1940, making them the first known owners to actually live in the home. In about 1940 the Sawyers moved just a few houses to the north to 321 North Whitcomb (Lot 11, Block 273) while the residence at 317 was listed as “vacant” in the city directory for that same year. During the time that the Sawyer’s owned the property at 317 North Whitcomb, religious activity in Fort Collins experienced an interesting evolution. Beginning in the late-1910s the Great Western Sugar Company began recruiting Hispanic workers from the American Southwest and northern Mexico to work in the sugar beet fields.9 Along with their hope for economic improvement, those immigrant workers brought with them a deep devotion to the Catholic faith. Unfortunately, they were met with little fellowship from the Catholic population already residing in Fort Collins. A daughter of an immigrant couple later wrote that when their family first arrived in the area, the local Catholic congregation “found it hard to integrate” the growing number of Mexican parishioners into its fold.10 As a result, in 1924 Father Joseph Pierre of Canada organized the first Spanish-speaking Catholic congregation in Fort Collins and purchased the vacant West Side Presbyterian Church (then located on the northwest corner of Cherry and Whitcomb, just down the street from the Sawyer’s home). In the spring of 1929, a new church was built (which is still located on its original location on the southeast corner of Cherry and Whitcomb), while the old 1 Conveyance No. 1, Abstract of Title; Watrous, History of Larimer County, Colorado, 320–21, 46. 2 Conveyances Nos. 7, 11, 17, Abstract of Title. 3 Conveyances Nos. 44, 45, and 99, Abstract of Title. 4 Conveyances Nos. 62 and 99, Abstract of Title. 5 Conveyances Nos. 82 and 99, Abstract of Title. 6 FC City Directory, 1908, 43, 194. 7 Conveyances Nos. 84, 87, 89, 90, 92, Abstract of Title. 8 Conveyance No. 95, Abstract of Title. 9 Revised 08-2014 Page 6 Presbyterian Church became a neighborhood school. The establishment of Holy Family Church drew several Hispanic families into the area who wished to be near the physical embodiment of their faith. In 1940, after Frank and Elsie Sawyer moved out of the home at 317 North Whitcomb they sold the property. Knowing that a home near his church had just been placed on the market Father Fullana, Father Pierre’s successor, recommended to one of his parishioners - Alejandro Garcia (also known as Alexander and Alex) - that he should purchase the home and move in with his family.11 During the early twentieth century Alejandro and Jovita Garcia immigrated to Fort Collins from an economically insecure Mexico. Alejandro worked for a time in the Ingleside mine, where he reportedly “lost three fingers during a routine dynamite explosion,” after which he found work in a sugar beet field near Prospect Road and Shields Street in Fort Collins.12 By 1930 their young family included seven children, two of which, Frances and Mary, later consecrated themselves as nuns of the Catholic faith. Delphine Garcia, one of Alejandro’s daughters, remembered that her father purchased the home at 317 North Whitcomb from Elsie Sawyer in 1942 and moved in that same year.13 The Abstract of Title reveals the sale was made final in February 1943.14 Delphine also remembered that Father Fullana helped her family stain the woodwork in their new home.15 Unfortunately, in the 1940s city residents of Fort Collins ostracized the neighborhood and labelled it “the bad part of town” seemingly due to the influx of Hispanic families like Alejandro, Jovita, and their children.16 Nevertheless, Father Fullana and at least four sisters of St. Joseph from Steven’s Point, Wisconsin, worked tirelessly to provide ecclesiastical guidance and financial assistance when possible, and even taught classes to residents of the Holy Family Neighborhood. About the same time that the Garcia family moved onto Whitcomb Street near the intersection with Cherry, it seems the three distinct subdivision plats of 1887, 1892, and 1907 may have caused some confusion about the precise locations of lots and homes on the 300 block of North Whitcomb. These problems, coupled with the desire to sell the lot, very likely contributed to Elsie Sawyer’s legal action in 1941 to declare her ownership of Lot 9, Block 273 in the Cotton Re- subdivision of the West Side Addition to Fort Collins. On July 7th of that year she successfully proved her ownership of that property before the District Court of Larimer County.17 The confusion concerning the lots on Block 273 seems to have even affected city employees issuing building permits. In 1945 Alejandro Garcia received two building permits to re-shingle the home located on Lot 7, Block 273 and to build a chicken house on that same lot, despite the fact that other documents indicate his clear ownership of Lot 9. The confusion may have stemmed in part from the construction of a new home on the 300 block of Whitcomb Street built after the Garcia family had moved onto the street. Sanborn Insurance Maps and Fort Collins city directories indicate that sometime in the early 1940s a new home was constructed in Lot 7, Block 273, just a few yards south of the Garcia family’s home. In January 1946 Ray Portner received a building permit to construct a “residence” precisely on that very lot.18 Since Portner’s building permit is corroborated by information included in Sanborn Maps and city directories, it seems unlikely that Alejandro Garcia would have been working on a structure in 1945 that did not yet exist. Knowing this confusion may have existed at the time helps explain why in 1948 the Fort Collins city directory listed two families, the Garcia and Gallegos families, as residents of 317 North Whitcomb, despite 11 Interviews with Delphine Garcia noted in “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University], by Mary Therese Anstey, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, December 1, 1994,” [4]. 12 “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University], by Mary Therese Anstey, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, December 1, 1994,” [3–4, 8–9]. 13 Interviews with Delphine Garcia noted in “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University], by Mary Therese Anstey, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, December 1, 1994,” [3], [5]. 14 Conveyance No. 102, Abstract of Title. 15 Interviews with Delphine Garcia noted in “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University], by Mary Therese Anstey, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, December 1, 1994,” [4]. Revised 08-2014 Page 7 the fact that both were identified as owners of the property.19 By 1950 it appears the error had been corrected and the city directory listed the Gallegos family as residents of 317 North Whitcomb while the Garcia family lived at 321 North Whitcomb.20 Sanborn maps of the period also bear evidence of this address change, which also affected the Holy Family Church and a small handful of homes on the same block. From that point on, the property located on Lot 9, Block 273 in Cotton’s re-subdivision of the West Side Addition to Fort Collins has been listed as 321 North Whitcomb Street. Members of the Garcia family lived in the home on Whitcomb Street for about sixty years between 1942 and 2001. After moving into their house on Whitcomb Alejandro worked as a plumber until his retirement in about 1951. Alejandro’s wife Jovita, a homemaker, expressed devotion throughout her life to the Catholic faith. During their time in Fort Collins she was a member of and participated in several Catholic-based organizations including the Altar & Rosary Society. In 1955 Alejandro passed away leaving Jovita sole owner of the property. Nearly three decades later in 1983, their daughter Delphine moved in to care for her aging mother and remained until Jovita’s death in 1988 at 93 years of age. Delphine continued to live at 321 North Whitcomb until 2001 when she sold the property to Tim and Nancy Hild. The following year Peter Scholz and Colleen Shick purchased the property and for a time seem to have operated their business “Scholz Industries” from within the home. In January 2009, Scholz sub-divided Lots 8 and 9 for the first time and sold the former to Ed and Jennifer Schneider.21 Two months later, in March of that same year, the Scholz sold Lot 9 to Kate Polk, who is now seeking Fort Collins Landmark designation of the property.22 Since about 1925 the home at 321 North Whitcomb Street has undergone a series of alterations focused primarily on maintaining the structure and ensuring that it retains its historic character. Sanborn Insurance Maps indicate that sometime prior to 1925 a large addition was made to the rear of the home that extended fourteen (14) feet from the original rear (west) elevation and four (4) feet from both of the north and south elevations.23 Though at the time this addition significantly altered the appearance of the rear elevation of the home, it has remained largely intact in its original form for almost ninety years. About the same time, in 1925, John A. Klamm may have constructed a detached wood-frame garage. Nearly two decades later, in 1941, Frank Sawyer received a building permit to repair the roof of the home.24 Four years later it seems Alejandro Garcia demolished what may have been Klamm’s garage in favor of a “chicken house” after having re-shingled the home just a few months earlier.25 It is possible that the earlier portion of the storage structure now located in the rear northwest corner of the lot may be Alejandro’s chicken house. In 1973 Jovita Garcia received a permit to install storm windows and to repair the front porch.26 Then during the 1970s and 1980s a city rehabilitation project helped her repair the roof on her home and match the siding of the pre-1925 addition to that of the rest of the house which was then and still is covered with drop, or weatherboard, siding. By 1989 the repairs to the rear addition and the roofing were complete and the city provided Delphine Garcia with a letter noting she had no further obligation to repay the rehabilitation grant.27 Photographs archived at the city Historic Preservation Department that were taken between 1994 and 1999 provide further evidence of some alterations to the property. After 1994 three principle changes were made by owners that are not documented in available city building permits: a door was added to the rear (west) elevation to provide an entrance from the back yard directly into the pre-1925 addition; a thin double-hung window located in the southern corner of the west elevation was widened to provide more light for the rear addition; and an addition was added to the east 19 FC City Directory, 1948, 110, 370. 20 FC City Directory, 1950, 90, 158. 21 Warranty Deed, January 29, 2009, Larimer County Public Search, accessed August 26, 2014, http://www.larimer.org/clerk/search/showdetails.aspx?CFN=20090005131&MultiLimitField=SendToAppraiser. 22 Warranty Deed, March 12, 2009, Larimer County Public Search, accessed August 26, 2014, http://www.larimer.org/clerk/search/showdetails.aspx?CFN=20090014842&MultiLimitField=SendToAppraiser. 23 Fort Collins, Larimer Co., Colorado, Dec. 1925 (New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1926), 9. 24 FC Building Permit No. 1123, June 13, 1925; FC Building Permit No. 6724, August 25, 1941 Revised 08-2014 Page 8 elevation of what may have been Alejandro Garcia’s chicken house. Prior to 1999 an open awning covered a cement slab entryway that facilitated an east-facing door to open toward Whitcomb Street. That awning may have been extant as far back as 1925 when the rear addition was completed, but no evidence exists to indicate exactly when it was constructed. After 1999 that awning was removed and now that door opens to an uncovered cement slab. Despite these alterations much of the home remains unaltered from its original circa 1908 shape and style. 2.c Packet Pg. 20 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 9 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: Circa 1908 Architect/Builder: N/A Building Materials: Wood-frame Home, Concrete Foundation Architectural Style: Hipped-Box Classic Cottage, Late-Victorian Details Description: This modest wood-framed one-story Hipped-box Classic Cottage reflects a style common throughout the State of Colorado and retains significant external integrity.28 It also bears several architectural details common to the late-Victorian era. A concrete foundation, which became common in residential construction during the late 19th century, supports the original home and the pre-1925 addition. The outer wall is covered with drop board siding, and the moderately pitched hipped-box roof is currently topped with asphalt shingles and includes boxed eaves with a moderate trim.29 The front façade (east elevation) includes a large gabled dormer and the rear (west) elevation was modified prior to 1925 to include a large addition that now houses the kitchen and other rooms. The front, east-facing elevation bears a large gabled dormer that is symmetrical with the hipped roof. The gabled dormer includes fish scale shingles and a single hopper window encased by a white wood-frame with slightly decorative lintel. Two storm windows, installed likely in 1973, sit symmetrically with the front façade, one on either side of the front entryway and are surrounded by simple wood frame that includes only minor decorative details. The front doorway is the only aspect of the front elevation that is not symmetrical with the home’s structure; instead it sits slightly to the left of center. The front, paneled door includes a large window and is surrounded by a thick white door casing with a slightly decorative crown. The partial, open front porch is covered by a partial hipped roof with very low pitch and is topped with asphalt shingles. It bears the same boxed eaves and moderate trim as the rest of the original home. The porch roof is supported by two spindle posts common in the late Victorian era which rest on the cement porch. One cement step leads from the sidewalk to the porch floor. Currently the front yard is surrounded by a white picket fence that was installed sometime after 1999.30 The north-facing side elevation bears three simple windows and continues the drop board siding common to the entire home. The two windows included on the original home structure are single- hung sash windows set in white wood frames with slightly protruding sills. They also include outer protective storm windows that may have been installed in 1973. The only north-facing light on the pre-1925 addition is a single pane window surrounded by very simple white framing and is protected by an additional storm window. Other than the drop board siding and the roof eaves and moderate trim, this elevation of the home bears no other prominent features. Since Lots 8 and 9 remained under the same ownership until 2009, previous owners adorned the southern elevation of the home more than the north because prior to that time it opened to a large yard that comprised Lot 8. As a result the windows and architectural features of the southern elevation are far more prominent than those on the north elevation. The south elevation of the home includes large single-hung windows protected by storm lights. The white wooden framing of these windows includes moderately ornate crowns to match the trim below the roof eaves and very simple sills to match those on the east and north elevations. The eastern most light is comprised of a single window while the western most light is comprised of two windows divided by a while mullion to match the wood framing. The pre-1925 addition to the west elevation of the home includes an east-facing entryway that opens to a cement porch now located on the south elevation of the original home. Photographs taken in the 1990s indicate that a shed-roofed porch 28 [Sarah J. Pearce with Merrill A. Wilson], Field Guide to Colorado’s Historic Architecture & Engineering (Colorado Historical Society, 2008). 29 Virginia Savage McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture (New York: Knopf, 2013), 36. 30 This is based on photographs from the time on file at the Historic Preservation Department, City of Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2.c Packet Pg. 21 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 10 once covered this cement area and may have been installed when the rear addition was built before 1925. It is unknown who or when that porch covering was removed. Now that east-facing door opens to a simple cement porch, includes a simple light and pet door, and is surrounded by a simple white casing with crown to match the window frames on the south elevation. The south elevation of the pre-1925 addition includes a large sliding sash window that was installed sometime after 1994, as evidenced in photographs of the time. This light is surrounded by a modest white-board frame. An air vent sits directly below the center portion of this window. As mentioned above, sometime prior to 1925 one of the owners (who exactly is unknown since building permits do not exist from this time period) constructed an addition to the rear or west- facing elevation of the home. Though this elevation is not part of the original construction of the home it has undergone some renovations, mostly minor, to match it to the historic character of the original structure. In the 1970s and 1980s Jovita Garcia received a rehabilitation grant from the City of Fort Collins to match the siding of this addition to the drop siding on the rest of the home. Plans of that time suggest the shed roof of the addition may have been slightly raised.31 Then sometime after 1994 a few alterations were made to the addition’s west elevation. The southern- most window that used to be a single- or double-hung window was altered to be a wider sliding sash window surrounded with a similar wood frame to match the sliding window on the addition’s south elevation. An entryway was installed to provide access from the rear of the home directly into the back yard. That door sits south of the center of the structure and is surrounded by a simple white casing. A thin sliding sash window is located immediately to the north of the entryway and once bore a small awning that has since been removed. This light is surrounded by a simple white wood frame with almost no decorative features. The final window of the home is located farther to the north on the west elevation of the addition and is a single-hung window surrounded by white wooden frame with simple. Like nearly all other lights on this home this one is protected by storm windows. A rough-cut stone pathway leads from the rear entryway to the alley and storage structure located in the northwest corner of Lot 9. The storage building located in the northwest corner of Lot 9 is comprised of two clearly distinct construction efforts. The original storage structure may have been Alejandro Garcia’s chicken house that he constructed in the 1940s. It is now the western half of the extant storage structure and bears the same drop board siding as the original home, a tin-covered shed roof, and exposed rafters that are blocked by a rain gutter. It has a simple sliding sash window on the south elevation surrounded by a simple white wooden frame. Photographs from 1994 indicate that sometime since then an addition was made to the storage structure that is equally as modest as the original storage shed. But it bears a simple tin roof with exposed rafters and wide shiplap joint siding. It bears no windows and the only entryway into the storage structure is found on the south elevation of the storage structure’s post-1994 addition. This double-door entryway is surrounded by simple white wood casing. Other than the distinct drop board and shiplap siding on the two portions of the storage structure, the building bears almost no decorative elements. 31 Repair plans, issued by Jovita Garcia, date unknown, Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2.c Packet Pg. 22 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 11 REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed) Abstract of Title to Lot 9, Block 273, Cotton’s Resub. of Subdivision of West Side Addition to Fort Collins. Fort Collins, Colorado: The Fort Collins Abstract Company, N/A. Aguayo, Jose. “Los Betabeleros (The Beetworkers).” In La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado, edited by Vincent C. de Baca, 105–109 (Denver: The Colorado Historical Society, 1998). Anstey, Mary Therese, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University],” December 1, 1994, on file at Historic Preservation Department, City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Fort Collins Building Permit permits and Inspection Records 1925–2009, available at City of Fort Collins Public Records website, http://citydocs.fcgov.com/, Fort Collins History Connection website, http://history.poudrelibraries.org/, and on file at Historic Preservation Department, City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Fort Collins City Directories, 1902–2013. Garcia, Jovita, and City of Fort Collins, Grant Rehabilitation Documentation, on file at Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. Garcia, Sister Mary, “My Weaving: Autobiography of Sister Mary Garcia, O.S.F.,” unpublished copy, 2006, Sister Mary Garcia Collection, Special Collections, Fort Collins Local Archive, SMG1. Larimer County tax and sale records, available at Larimer County Assessor Property Records Search website, http://www.larimer.org/assessor/query/search.cfm. McAlester, Virginia Savage. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture. New York: Knopf, 2013. [Pearce, Sarah J., with Merrill A. Wilson], Field Guide to Colorado’s Historic Architecture & Engineering. Colorado Historical Society, 2008. Photographs on file at Historic Preservation Department, 1994–2014, City of Fort Collins, Colorado. Sanborn Maps of Fort Collins, Larimer Co., Colorado, 1906–1925. Watrous, History of Larimer County, Colorado. 2.c Packet Pg. 23 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Revised 08-2014 Page 12 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 2.c Packet Pg. 24 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) 321 North Whitcomb, Fort Collins Landmark Designation Eastern Elevation (Entrance of House) Eastern Elevation with Neighboring Properties 2.d Packet Pg. 25 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Eastern and Southern Elevations Eastern and Northern Elevations 2.d Packet Pg. 26 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Southern Elevations 2.d Packet Pg. 27 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Western Elevation (Rear of House) Eastern Elevation of Out Building (Backyard) 2.d Packet Pg. 28 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Western and Southern Elevations Out Building (Alley Access) Western and Northern Elevations Out Building (Alley Access) 2.d Packet Pg. 29 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Eastern and Northern Elevation 2.d Packet Pg. 30 Attachment: 321 N Whitcomb_Photos (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Agenda Item 3 Item # 3 Page 1 STAFF REPORT October 8, 2014 Landmark Preservation Commission PROJECT NAME REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL - 633-633 S COLLEGE, MUSIC DISTRICT STAFF Karen McWilliams, Historic Preservation Planner PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Development Proposal Final Comments regarding plans to create a Music District on this site. The plans propose to rehabilitate previously altered buildings. APPLICANT: DavisDavis Architects OWNER: Bohemian Companies RECOMMENDATION: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Request: The applicant, DavisDavis Architects, is seeking comments from the Commission regarding plans the Bohemian Companies has to create a Music District on this site. The plans propose to rehabilitate previously altered buildings. Codes and Guidelines: In its consideration of the approval of plans that contain or are adjacent to designated or individually eligible properties, the Planning and Zoning Board shall consider the written recommendation of the Landmark Preservation Commission. For the proposed development at 633-639 South College Avenue, useful codes and guidelines include Chapter 14 of the City Code, especially the review criteria in Section 14-48(b) which also includes the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards; and the City’s Land Use Code, principally Section 3.4.7. These are included in your packet. Commission Action: This is a Development Proposal Review. If desired by the Commission, the applicants will present at later meetings; however, if the Commission feels that the level of detail submitted is sufficient, it may choose to move forward to provide a Final Recommendation to the Decision Maker. A Final Recommendation requires a vote of the Commission. ATTACHMENTS 1. The Music District LPC Hearing Packet (PDF) 3 Packet Pg. 31 Landmark Preservation Commission Hearing | October 8, 2014 Re: 633 – 639 South College Avenue Development Proposal | Bohemian Companies Design Background Summary Bohemian relishes the unique history and culture that make Fort Collins great, continually demonstrating a commitment to both our ever-thriving culture and the corresponding developments and longer term infrastructure that foster it. It is with this kind of careful consideration and these very deliberate and thoughtful efforts that we all help to feed our community’s distinctive success. The opportunity for the beautiful buildings at 633 and 639 South College Avenue to undergo an adaptive reuse is not taken lightly. There has been an enormous amount of consideration given to the feel and character of these structures. With that, there is a genuine interest in breathing a welcoming vitality back into them so they may shine again and contribute to the unmistakable character that continues to forge this remarkable community. The prospect of restoring more of a neighborhood feel to this significant location and the contribution it brings toward revitalizing the area is almost palpable. This is not lost on Bohemian and is woven into the Bohemian belief of doing what’s right. Please see below for some of the thoughts and consideration given to various design and aesthetic elements to keep with more of a period approach and the inherent warmth and character of the original houses. The scope of this adaptive reuse project is outlined with the areas of work defined in the narrative below. Each of these work areas is keyed to attached plans and photos. 1. Remove East facing arcade that attaches to façade of both houses and replace with porches similar to the original houses. Reason: Would prefer the two houses look like they are separate, unique houses that they once were, so that the neighborhood scale is restored. 2. Remove exterior metal stairs that were added when the two houses became one house, sometime after 1970’s. Reason: The stairs detract from the integrity of the original houses and are unnecessary to the project. 3. A. Repair and reuse as many intact original multi-pane windows as can be salvaged; up to 90% estimated. B. Replace the windows that have been filled with concrete block or are new “picture” window units with new multi-pane windows similar to the original character. C. Use new windows that are in scale and character with the original wood multi-pane casements, hoppers, and double-hung sashes. Reason: Preserves the scale and character of the original houses 4. Repair and reuse original exterior brick where possible. Reason: Preserves the scale and character of the original houses. 3.a Packet Pg. 32 Attachment: The Music District LPC Hearing Packet (2453 : Review of Development Proposal - 633-633 S College, Music District) Bohemian Companies | LPC Hearing Narrative Page 2 of 2! ! 5. Remove one of two non-functioning chimneys at rear West façade of the North house. Reason: Reuse of this building requires structural modifications that won’t support the weight of this chimney. The other chimney that is the viewable from the front, will remain, as well as two other chimneys on the South house. 6. New mechanical units will be placed on flat areas of the roofs of both houses and will be screened from view. Reason: Building needs upgraded mechanical system and the roof is the least disturbing to the site. 7. Return Carriage house belonging to the North House, to the appearance of a garage with new doors that are similar to original house. Reason: Returns the architectural relationship between the buildings to the original. 8. Remove 1,292 SF two story addition at the rear of the South house and replace with a new 1,431 SF one story addition and terrace that uses materials and windows that are similar to original house. Reason: Existing building addition was poorly constructed and has severely deteriorated in the last several years with badly sloping floors and sub-optimal ceiling heights. In addition, in the environmental report, it was found to have high levels of asbestos. 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The property has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Preservation Standard C. APPLICANT: Charles Bacorn, Owner; Kevin Murray and Carl McWilliams, Contract Purchasers OWNER: Charles Bacorn RECOMMENDATION: Staff finds that the Avery Duplex 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 Avery Duplex as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This duplex dwelling is architecturally significant because it is among Fort Collins’ very best examples of a vernacular Double Pen dwelling, featuring a symmetrical plan with twin entry porches. The dwelling accrues additional significance because it was constructed as a duplex, and is one of only a handful of historic duplexes existing in the city’s Eastside and Westside neighborhoods. Among those that do exist, this one displays a high standard of integrity. The dwelling is also architecturally notable for its architectural details, including horizontal drop siding on the façade, narrow double-hung sash windows, twin dormers, heavy long rectangular single slab sandstone porch steps, and twin hipped-roof entry porches with bead board ceilings. A rental throughout most of its history, the duplex dwelling has provided housing for numerous working class individuals and families through the years. 4 Packet Pg. 44 Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 2 ATTACHMENTS 1. 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (DOCX) 2. 134-136 N Sherwood (DOCX) 3. 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (DOCX) 4. 134-136 N Sherwood residents (DOC) 5. 134-136 N Sherwood 1968 photo (DOCX) 6. 134-136 N SherwoodSt_p.jpg (JPG) 4 Packet Pg. 45 Revised 08-2014 Page 1 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION: Address: 134-136 North Sherwood Street Legal Description: The South 23 feet of Lot 11 and the North 23 feet of Lot 12, Block 51, City of Fort Collins, County of Larimer, State of Colorado. Property Name (historic and/or common): The Avery Duplex Cottage OWNER INFORMATION: Name: Charles Bacorn, Owner; Kevin Murray and Carl McWilliams, Contract Purchasers Phone: 970-484-6966 (Murray); 970-493-5270 (McWilliams) Email: kevinsuz@wildmail.com; historians@frii.com Address: 117 South Whitcomb Street, 80521; 1607 Dogwood Court, 80525 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: Carl McWilliams, Contract Owner Address: 1607 Dogwood Court, Fort Collins, CO 80525 Phone: 970-493-5270 Email: historians@frii.com Relationship to Owner: Contract Purchaser DATE: October 4, 2014 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.41 0 970.22 4- fax fcgov.c 4.a Packet Pg. 46 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 2 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. The property consists of a circa 1899 side-by-side duplex residence and a historic one story garage with circa 1950 shed addition. 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. 4.a Packet Pg. 47 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 3 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. 4.a Packet Pg. 48 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 4 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.) This duplex dwelling is architecturally significant because it is among Fort Collins’ very best examples of a vernacular Double Pen dwelling, featuring a symmetrical plan with twin entry porches. The dwelling accrues additional significance because it was constructed as a duplex, and is one of only a handful of historic duplexes existing in the city’s Eastside and Westside neighborhoods. Among those that do exist, this one displays a high standard of integrity. The dwelling is also architecturally notable for its architectural details, including horizontal drop siding on the façade, narrow double-hung sash windows, twin dormers, heavy long rectangular single slab sandstone porch steps, and twin hipped-roof entry porches with bead board ceilings. A rental throughout most of its history, the duplex dwelling has provided housing for numerous working class individuals and families through the years. This property displays high level of integrity relative to the seven aspects of integrity: setting, location, design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. Integrity of Setting is defined as "the physical environment of a historic property." The residential neighborhood, along North Sherwood Street, where the property is located, is made up of late 19th century and early 20th century houses. The houses are sited on deep lots, uniformly set back from the street, with a wide strip of land between the curb and front sidewalk. There are no modern buildings or other modern features on this property. The existence of the historic garage/shed, a historic woven wire fence along the south property line, and the abundance of mature vegetation, provides the property with an exceptionally high quality of integrity of setting. Integrity of Location is defined as "the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred." The duplex dwelling and the garage/shed are both in the locations where they were originally constructed on this property. Integrity of Design is defined as "the combination of elements that create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of a property." The dwelling's basic form, massing, scale, and proportion are wholly discernible. An enclosed rear porch addition detracts minimally from the dwelling’s overall integrity of design. The basic form, massing, scale, and proportion of the garage/shed are also wholly discernible. Two shed-roofed extensions to the main gabled section of the garage/shed are not original; however, they are over fifty years of age. These two small extensions are also subservient to, and compatible with, the structure’s original construction. Integrity of Materials is defined as "the physical elements that were combined or deposited during a particular period of time and in a particular pattern or configuration to form a historic property." The original materials of which the dwelling and garage were constructed remain intact and highly visible. Integrity of Workmanship is defined as "the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any given period in history or prehistory." Because the dwelling and garage/shed were constructed as modest vernacular buildings, they do not display highly visible workmanship or craftsmanship that may be found, for example, in a high-style Queen Anne residence with an abundance of ornate details. This does not, however, mean that they are devoid of significant workmanship. The workmanship in these buildings is seen in subtle ways. It is seen in the overall quality of construction, in that horizontal members are level and vertical members are plumb, in the uniformity of related elements and features, and in the durability of the overall construction. The fact that the dwelling continues to exist and serve as a residence after more than eleven decades evidences a high level of workmanship. Integrity of Feeling is defined as "a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time." The property’s physical characteristics and its environment evoke strong feelings relating to what life was like in Fort Collins during the early decades of the 20th century. Integrity of Association is defined as "the direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic property." The property is associated with residential life in Fort Collins’ Westside neighborhood 4.a Packet Pg. 49 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 5 HISTORICAL INFORMATION A rental throughout most of its history, the duplex dwelling at 134-134 North Sherwood Street has provided housing for numerous working class individuals and families. Constructed circa 1899, the property was owned by both Franklin C. Avery and his brother, George P. Avery. Soon after completing a course in civil engineering, Franklin Avery joined the Union Colony and came to Colorado in 1870, where he assisted in surveying and platting the town of Greeley. He moved to Larimer County in the following year, and in 1872 surveyed the town of Fort Collins, establishing the new town with streets oriented to the compass, in contrast with the earlier established streets in Old Town, which were aligned with the river. Avery became one of Fort Collins’ leading citizens, and established the First National Bank. In addition to banking, he was heavily involved in real estate. Franklin’s brother, George Porter Avery came to Fort Collins in 1896, where he served as pastor of the First Methodist Church. Born in Ledyard, New York, he was educated at Cazenovia Seminary and Syracuse University. He was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1877, and served several churches in New York, and later, Chicago, before coming to Fort Collins. The first recorded occupants of the duplex dwelling were George L. Stiffler and his wife Jessie (134). Stiffler worked as a foreman for the Courier newspaper’s commercial rooms. Jessie also was employed in the Courier’s offices as a “comp.,” likely a composer. The north duplex (136) was occupied by Abram C. Middaugh and his wife Cora May. Mr. Middaugh operated a barber shop at 134 North College Avenue. The Middaughs had at least one child living with them, a daughter named Pearl. Residents changed frequently, and by 1904, the city directory lists W. H. and Ida M. Mullin at 134 and the McNeese family at 136. W. H. Mullin was secretary-treasurer of the Water Supply and Storage Company, then located at 120 South College Avenue. Charles McNeese was a blacksmith for J. Wessel’s shop, located at 217 North College Avenue. By 1908, McNeese owned the shop in partnership with Wiley S. Young. Living in the duplex with McNeese was his wife, Alice, and at least two children. Additional early residents demonstrated the duplex’s appeal to the working class. Occupants included a hostler (a locomotive engineer) who worked the C&S railway freight yard; a ranchman; Mrs. Fannie Lawson, a widow who supported herself through work as a seamstress; contractors and laborers; several employees of the Riverside Ice and Storage Company; and a manager for the F. W. Woolworth store. As the town grew, occupations changed, and this is reflected in the residents. By 1932, the duplex property was owned by N. O. Wymore, who in 1938 briefly occupied one of the units with his wife Lavinia. In 1933, Louis and Belva Koschalk were at 134, bakers for the Home Bakery, located at 609 South Mason Street. Interestingly, she is listed as a part owner of the business. Next door at 136 were Giles and LaVonne Alkire. Mr. Alkire was a grocer at 205 Linden. Also appearing in the 1930s and 1940s were gas station attendants and automotive mechanics, plumbers and electricians, and Billy Lyde, an inspector for the Retail Credit Co. In 1948, the first of many employees of Colorado A & M (now Colorado State University) appears. In the 1950s, the property was owned by Dalton W. Davis. For a period of at least twelve years, from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s, 134 was occupied by Frank and Hattie Rohrer. He was a salesman for Smith Sales, and associated with Goodwill Industries, which listed this as its address during his residency. In the 1970s and 1980s, the two units served as housing for a mix of college students and young working couples, including, in 1975, Sidney and Peggy Lunsford (134). He was a practical nurse at Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital. In the early 1980s, 136 was occupied by Arthur and Jaye Lundborg and their daughter, Caitlin. The Lundborgs were the owners of the property, which they sold to Charles Bacorn in May 1988. Born in 1946, Charlie Bacorn grew up on a 40-acre peach orchard in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia. He attended Hiram Scott College in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, were he graduated with a degree in psychology and sociology. He moved to Fort Collins circa 1973, where he worked at a variety of jobs including property management 4.a Packet Pg. 50 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 6 and as an electrical apprentice. He was employed by Wellington Pumps, an international firm that assisted developing countries with irrigation and water projects. While employed by the company, he worked overseas in Micronesia and the Middle East, and was briefly held hostage in Libya for 19 days. Upon returning to the United States in the 1980s, he returned to Fort Collins and used his skills to begin a solar energy company, Solar Services Company, founded in 1984. At the peak of the 1970s and 1980s solar boom, Fort Collins had upwards of 30 companies. When government supported tax credits ended in 1985, most of the businesses failed. Charlie, however, was determined to promote solar as a viable energy solution, and became known throughout all Fort Collins as Colorado Charlie. His firm installed solar collection systems on many Fort Collins homes, but its real success came in the large number (over 200) of houses in the foothills and prairie that are located far off the electrical grid that now receive their energy through the sun. Charlie Bacorn retired in 2014, and after 30 years, sold Solar Services. Construction History Larimer County Assessor records list 1900 as this duplex dwelling’s year of construction. Other sources indicate that date is accurate within approximately one year. On August 25, 1898, the property was sold by Franklin C. Avery to the Corbin and Black Lumber Company for $125.00, a price which suggests that the dwelling had not been built as of that date. On January 2, 1902, the Fort Collins Weekly Courier published an article titled “Fort Collins” Splendid Building Record,” which chronicled building construction during the previous year. The following item in the article pertains to this property: “Rev. Geo. P. Avery 134-136 N. Sherwood. Frame cottage remodeled; 12 rooms; cost $700. James Mellinger, contractor.” The property’s address of 134-136 N. Sherwood Street, appears in the (first available) 1902 Fort Collins city directory, corroborating the dwelling’s existence at that time. The dwelling is depicted on the March 1906 Sanborn Insurance map which is the first Sanborn map to show the 100 block of North Sherwood Street. Sanborn Insurance maps indicate that the main gabled section of the garage/shed was built in the years between 1925 and 1943. A building permit issued on October 31, 1950 reveals that the shed-roofed extension to that building’s north elevation was erected at that time. Other building permits on file for the property indicate that the house roof was re-shingled in 1936 and 1952, and that the garage/shed roof was re-shingled in 1952. Sanborn insurance maps also seem to indicate that historically the back porch was not enclosed; it was, however, enclosed when Charlie Bacorn purchased the property in 1988. Mr. Bacorn remodeled the rear enclosed porch subsequent to that date. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: c.1899 Architect/Builder: James Mellinger, Contractor Building Materials: Wood frame; stone foundation Architectural Style: Vernacular Double Pen dwelling Description: This property is located on the east side of the 100 block of North Sherwood Street. It is the third property south of Laporte Avenue and the ninth property north of Mountain Avenue. The property comprises an 8740 square foot lot which measures 46 feet N-S (across) by 190 feet E-W (deep). There are two buildings on the property, a 1½-story wood frame duplex dwelling and a 1-story wood frame garage/shed. The dwelling is set back approximately forty feet from the street, where there is a wide strip of land, with two oak trees, between the curb and front sidewalk. The front and back yards are heavily vegetated with mature, minimally-maintained, plants and fruit trees. The centerpiece in the front yard is a decades old trumpet vine which grows from a wooded trunk centered in front of the dwelling. From its trunk, the vine grows upward and 4.a Packet Pg. 51 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 7 outward spreading over and around a support structure of milled lumber. Beneath the overhanging vine and its support structure, there is a small brick patio with a wooden bench. Fruit trees in the backyard includes a golden delicious apple tree near the dwelling’s southeast corner, as well as several plum and cherry trees. Other plantings in the backyard include grape vines along the south fence, lilacs along the east (rear) fence, currants, blackberries, blueberries, rhubarb, bachelor buttons, and roses. Taking up nearly the entire width of the property, the duplex dwelling, overall, measures 40½ feet N-S (across) by 33½ feet E-W (deep). Included in these dimensions are the original 1½-story side-gabled (saltbox) dwelling, which measures 40½ feet N-S by 28½ feet E-W, and an enclosed shed-roofed rear porch addition, which measures 24 feet N-S by 5 feet E-W. The dwelling rests on a stone foundation, covered with concrete parging where it is exposed above grade. There is no basement other than a small cellar beneath the eastern (rear) part of the dwelling. The façade wall, facing toward Sherwood Street on the west elevation, is clad with painted white horizontal drop siding with painted brown wood trim boards. The south, north, and east elevation walls are clad with painted white horizontal lapped siding, also with painted brown wood trim boards. The main 1½-story dwelling is covered by a saltbox roof, covered with grey asphalt composition shingles on the shorter west-facing slope, and with metal roofing material on the longer east- facing slope. The roof eaves are boxed with painted white and brown wood trim. Two large gabled dormers overlook the façade on the west elevation, each with a 3/1 (ribbon style) double-hung sash window, with painted brown wood frames and surrounds, and with non-historic exterior metal storm windows. The façade is symmetrically arranged with two entry porches and four double- hung sash windows. The two porches are each approached by two heavy sandstone steps. The two porches each measure approximately 10 feet N-S by 5 feet E-W, and feature concrete bases, recycled material flooring, and hipped roofs supported by painted brown square wood posts. The porch ceilings are painted white bead board. Stained natural brown wood-paneled doors, each with one upper sash light, and each covered by a white metal storm door, enter the dwelling from the two porches. The north porch is flanked on each side by a 4/1 (ribbon-style) double-hung sash window. The south porch is flanked on each side by a 1/1 double-hung sash window. Windows on the north and south elevations are symmetrically arranged. The north elevation contains two 2/2 double-hung sash first story windows, and a set of paired 2/2 double-hung sash windows in the upper gable end. The south elevation contains two 1/1 double-hung sash first story windows, and a set of paired 4/4 double-hung sash windows in the upper gable ends. Windows on the west (façade), north, and south elevations all feature painted white or brown wood frames, painted brown wood surrounds with simple pediments, and non-historic exterior storm windows. The enclosed rear porch addition on the east elevation is supported by a low stone or concrete foundation, faced with red brick above grade. Its exterior walls are clad with painted white horizontal lapped wood siding, with painted brown corner boards. The addition is covered by a shed roof with metal roofing material. Three painted white wooden doors enter the addition’s east elevation. Two of these doors enter the rear of the dwelling’s main level, while the third door at the north end leads to a set of wooden stairs which descend to the cellar. The east wall of the addition also contains a small 12-light glass block window and a set of small, paired, single-light fixed- pane windows. The garage/shed is located near the north property line and approximately 28 feet west of the alley. This building, overall, measures 26 feet N-S by 24 feet E-W, and included in these dimensions are a main gabled section, with shed-roofed extensions to the north and west elevations. The walls rest on poured concrete perimeter foundation walls or piers, while the interior floor is dirt or gravel. The exterior walls are made of painted brown horizontal drop siding with corner boards. The gable and shed roof forms are covered with metal roofing material laid 4.a Packet Pg. 52 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Revised 08-2014 Page 8 over 1x wood decking and 2x wood rafters. The east elevation, facing the alley, contains two sets of painted brown wooden garage doors, side-hinged with metal strap hinges. A narrow vertical wood plank door, side-hinged with metal strap hinges, enters the south end of the gabled section from the backyard. The south elevation of the main gabled section contains a 4-light window with a painted white wood frame and painted brown wood surround. A similar window penetrates the south wall of the western shed-roofed extension. REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed) City of Fort Collins building permits, City of Fort Collins, Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado and online at Fort Collins History Connection, http://history.fcgov.com/. Fort Collins City Directories, 1902-1985, various publishers. Located at the City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado and the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Local History Archive, Fort Collins, Colorado. “Fort Collins” Splendid Building Record.” Fort Collins Weekly Courier, January 2, 1902 Larimer County Assessor records for 134-136 North Sherwood, http://www.larimer.org/assessor/query/search.cfm. McAlester, Virginia Savage. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, March 1906, September 1909, December 1917, December 1925, and October 1943, available at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery Local History Archive, Fort Collins, Colorado, and online at the Denver Public Library, http://denverlibrary.org/content/sanborn-maps Warranty Deed, May 20, 1988, Reception Number 88025068, Larimer County Assessor’s records. Watrous, Ansel. History of Larimer County, Colorado, 1911. Fort Collins: Courier Publishing & Printing Company, 1911. 4.a Packet Pg. 53 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood Landmark Designation (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North THE AVERY DUPLEX, 134-136 NORTH SHERWOOD STREET Western Elevation Western and Southern Elevations 4.b Packet Pg. 54 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, Fort Front Entry, Western Elevation Eastern Elevation 4.b Packet Pg. 55 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, Fort Garage, Eastern Elevation Garage, Western Elevation 4.b Packet Pg. 56 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, Fort 134-136 North Sherwood Street – Occupants The duplex property at 134 – 136 North Sherwood Street had seventy-three different residents in the years from 1901 to 2014. The number strongly suggests that the two dwellings were rentals, and, for the most part, the residents did not stay very long, and there are few incidents of children living in the houses. Only in the late 20 th and the 21 st century did residents stay more than a few years. Interestingly, the year 1929, when the stock market crash rocked the world, the houses were empty. Even the relatively poor, working class people who habitually occupied the spaces could not, apparently, afford to rent them. The earliest record for the house is a building permit taken out by Reverend George Porter Avery. He seemed to have had both houses and they were remodeled into 12 rooms. The Reverend Avery came to Fort Collins in 1896 and became the pastor of the First Methodist Church of Fort Collins. He had been born in Ledyard, NY and was educated at Cazenovia Seminary and at Syracuse University. He was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1877 and served in several churches in New York. He later was a pastor in Chicago before coming to Fort Collins. He and his second wife, Katherine, may have lived in the house for one year, but there is no evidence that they did so. Both are buried in Grandview Cemetery. 1902 - G. L Stiffer and wife Jessie were residents at 134 N Sherwood (134). He was a foreman at Courier commercial rooms. That same year, Abram C Middaugh and wife Cory May were residents at 136 N Sherwood (136). He was a barber at 134 N College Ave. 1903 and 1904 - W. H. and Ida M. Mullin occupied 134. He was secretary-treasurer of Water Supply and Storage Co at 120 S College. Charles and Alice McNeece and their daughter Alice were at 136. He was a blacksmith at Wessel’s Shop. 1908 - saw John and Birdie Owen at 134. He was a hostler (a locomotive engineer that worked the freight yard) at C&S Railway. David and Alpha Hendrickson were at 136. He was a ranchman. 1909-10 - had seamstress Mrs. Fannie Lawson, widow of William P. Lawson, at 134. She worked for Tyler Lowes Mercantile Co. Frank A and May Powers were at 136. He was a barber at G. H. McCarty. 1913-14 - had C. A. and wife R. H. Kiggins at 134. He was a contractor. Timothy and Jessie O’Malley were at 136. He was a laborer. 1917 - saw Edgar and Merle Haynes at 134. He was a driver for Union Delivery Co. Avery and Ethel Williams were at 136. He was a laborer. 1919 - had John and Clara Manke at 134. F. C. and Alma Duncan were at 136. He was a driver for Riverside Ice and Storage Co. on Laporte Ave. 1922 - Clyde R. and Retta Perkins were in 134. He was a clerk at Riverside Ice and Storage Co. on Laporte Ave. At 136 was Warren e and Mary Griffith. He was a manager at F. W. Woolworth Co. 1925 - saw Emmet P. and Leta Galusha at 134. He was a clerk at M. J. Good, a local grocer. 136 had Ralph and Katherine Pastor. He was a laborer. 1927 - had C. E. and Cynthia Sperry at 134 - he was a rancher. 136 had E. W. and Velma Taylor. He was a laborer. 1928 - Harold and Muriel Smith were at 134 – he was a laborer. At 136 lived L. E. and Lee Williamson and daughter Nena. He was a laborer. 4.c Packet Pg. 57 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood residents (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, 1929 – both houses were empty. 1931 – Frank and Sophia Cleary at 134. He was a farmer. 136 was empty. 1933 – Louis and Belva Koschalk were at 134. Both were bakers for Home Bakery at 609 S. Mason. She was a part owner of the bakery. At 136 were Giles N and LaVonne Alkire. He was a grocer at 205 Linden. 1936 – E. Guy and Lillian Morrow were at 134. He was the owner of a blacksmith shop at 235 Jefferson. 136 had A. Cranor Wolfe – no information about him was available. 1938 – N. O. and Lavinia Wymore were at 134. She was secretary-treasurer of Andrews Auto Co. At 136 were Richard E. and Evelyn McMullen. He was an attendant at Gaston Super Service Station at 318 N. College. 1940 – Arthur R. and Edith Lee were at 134 with their four children, Clair, Derrold, Jean, and Velma. He was a manager of the plumbing department of Lowell Moore hardware at 111- 115 N. College. At 136 were E. and Elizabeth Serck. He was an electrician for K C Electric, 140 W. Mountain. 1948 – Billy and Dehrabelle [sic] Lyde were at 134. He was an inspector for Retail Credit Co. 136 had E. Leonard and Shirley M. Payne. He was a student at Colorado A & M. 1950 – At 134 were Eugene R. and Alice McCoy. He was the assistant manager of General Credit Corporation. At 136 were Allen and Shirley Payne. He was a student at Colorado A & M. (See 1948) 1952 – Frank and Virginia Taylor were at 134. He was employed by Colorado A&M. 136 had W. Dalton and Bernice Davis, a retired couple. 1954 – At 134 were Frank and Hattie Rohrer, a retired couple. At 136 were G. M. and Merla Ward. He was a teacher at Colorado A&M. 1956 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer were at 134 as were Goodwill Industries. He was no longer ‘retired’ as he was employed as a salesman for Smith Sales Advertising Specialties. At 136 were Harold E. and Hedy Z. Wagner. He was a fire fighter for Fort Collins Fire Services. 1957 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer were still at 134, as was Goodwill Industries. He was still a salesman for Smith Sales. 136 had Hugh S. and Yvonne S. Mortimer. She was a teacher at CSU, he was a student. 1959 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer and Goodwill Industries were at 134. He was retired. At 136 were Mrs. Elizabeth B. Adkins, widow of Claud, and her daughter Betty, a clerk with F. W. Woolworth Co. 1960 – Again, Goodwill Industries and Frank and Hattie Rohrer were at 134. He was employed as a pick-up service for Goodwill. At 136 lived Mrs. Lopez. No information was available about her. 1962 to 1963 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer were at 134 (Goodwill had moved to 214 Pine). He was retired again. 136 had Thomas E. and Claudine McMillen. He was employed by City Power and Light Co. 1964 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer, he retired, still were at 134. 136 had become student housing. 1966 – Frank and Hattie Rohrer, he retired, were at 134 for the last time. They had lived at 134 since 1954, a total of 12 years. (Later, he lived on Myrtle Street and Hattie lived on Mathews.) 136 had William and Shirley Swartout and their three children. She was a practical nurse at Eventide Rest Home; he was an electrician. 1968 - 134 was student housing: 136 had August Brescia, a manager trainee at 7–11 convenience store. 4.c Packet Pg. 58 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood residents (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, 1969 – 134 had Ann and Loretta Taulman, both employed at Colorado State University (CSU). Keith Dempsey was at 136. He was a student at CSU. 1970 to 1971 – 134 had Robert W. and Patricia J. Foster. He was a salesman at Gambles, a hardware store, at 111 N. College. 136 had Charley Glantzer, a student at CSU. 1972 to 1973 – The Foster family was still at 134, but David A Carmody was a student living at 136. 1975 - Sidney and Peggy Lunsford were at 134. He was a practical nurse at Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital (PVMH). 136 had Deborah Carreras, a student, and her son, Damion. 1976 – There is no information about 134. Tina Tarter, a student, was at 136. 1979 – At 134 were two students: Bruce Adams and Tom Meredith. At 136 was B. C. Wedig about whom there is no information. 1981 – 134 had Dong Van Nguyen and three children, Tam, Giana, and Lam. 136 had no information. 1983 – No information about either house. 1985 – 134 had Josiah Perkins about whom there was no information. 136 had Arthur and Jaye Lundborg and their daughter Caitlin. They were owners of the house who sold it to Charles Bacorn. 1987 through 2014 – 134 has as owner/tenant Charles Bacorn and his Solar Services Company. Solar Industries is a privately held company that was founded in 1984. The following is only for 136 N. Sherwood 1988 – Thomas. Malone a self employed band person. 1990 – Deborah Radel-Otse, employed in parking management at CSU. 1991 to 1996 – no information 1997-1998 – Jim Romero – no information about him. 2001 to 2002 – Jeff Baughman – no information about him. 2004 to 2007 – David Smith – no information about him. 2008 to 2014 – Bill and Bob Mowry – no information about them. Owners of 134 – 136 N. Sherwood as evidenced by work permits 1901 –George P Avery had the frame cottage remodeled into 12 rooms. 1932 – N. O Wymore had the house reshingled and repairs made. Permit # 3193 1936 – N. O Wymore had the house reshingled. Permit #4178 1952 – D. W. Davis had the roof reshingled with wood. Permit # 12776 Owners of 134 – 136 N. Sherwood as evidenced by warranty deed 1988 – Arthur R. and Jaye C Lundborg of Ocean Bluff, Mass to Charles Bacorn of 134 – 136 N. Sherwood. 4.c Packet Pg. 59 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood residents (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, 134-136 N Sherwood 1968 4.d Packet Pg. 60 Attachment: 134-136 N Sherwood 1968 photo (2460 : Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Avery Duplex at 134-136 North Sherwood Street, 4.e Packet Pg. 61 Attachment: 134-136 N SherwoodSt_p.jpg (2460 : Agenda Item 5 Item # 5 Page 1 STAFF REPORT October 8, 2014 Landmark Preservation Commission PROJECT NAME OLD CREAMERY LABORATORY BUILDING (BUTTERFLY BUILDING) – 222 LAPORTE AVENUE STAFF Josh Weinberg, City Planner PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Proposed Relocation of “Butterfly Building” at 222 Laporte APPLICANT: Brian Hergott, City of Fort Collins OWNER: City of Fort Collins RECOMMENDATION: N/A EXECUTIVE SUMMARY September 30, 2014 Land Preservation Commission 281 N College Ave. Fort Collins, CO. 80522 RE: Old Creamery Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) - 222 LaPorte Avenue In follow up to our discussion at the LPC work session on September 24, 2014 we have refined our design to create what we hope can work for both the LPC and the City of Fort Collins. We completely support your efforts to maintain this historical building and we want to embrace this idea along with preserving a couple other City buildings (Old City Hall and Haisten Oil) as we continue to develop Block 32/42 Master plan. We like all developers have many request and constraints from the other entities involved with the project. To show our commitment we have taken another look at the historical report completed for the Creamery building to understand and address the important qualities noted. 5 Packet Pg. 62 Agenda Item 5 Item # 5 Page 2 Based on the Historical Preservation Analysis completed by Tatanka Historical Associates, Inc. on the Riverside Ice & Storage facilities dated August 6, 2009 it noted the Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) as being constructed in 1964 and noted its Googie Style Architecture and the prominent features being the V-shaped cantilevered roof, exposed beams, plated glass windows along with the use of concrete bricks for the building structure. The report also noted the importance of the building’s orientation with it being on a diagonal orientation rather than the standard north-south compass points. Our focus is to maintain these important features noted along with keeping this building on the southern edge of the block facing LaPorte Avenue and keeping the original building orientation. Our goal is to have this building provide a long term service to the community. We plan to relocate this building to a new location approximately 105 feet to the east of the current location and raise it up as would be needed or incur a significant cost for flood mitigation. We plan to have the Butterfly building moved back slightly from its current position, but closer to LaPorte than the new Utilities building. This will make the Butterfly building visible and more prominent as traffic is moving along LaPorte Avenue and will provide a focal point for the pedestrians using the north-south spine between Oak and Cherry Street. Relocating the Butterfly building will then allow us to comply with the current land use codes and have the new Utility building where it presents an urban street front. We have several challenges and request from different groups on this development project and we are trying to balance and give credence to each of them and work within our budget. We plan to incorporate some special landscaping and other site features to tie the Butterfly building into the sounding area and would entertain ideas as we go forward on how this could be accomplished. Brian Hergott Facilities Project Manager City of Fort Collins ATTACHMENTS 1. 10-08-14 LPC Meeting Narrative (DOCX) 2. BLOCK 32 BUTTERFLY BLDG PERSPECTIVE 10-6-14 (PDF) 3. 140930_VisionPlan_illustrative-updated (PDF) 5 Packet Pg. 63 Operation Services 300 LaPorte Ave, Building B PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.221.6610 970.221.6534 fcgov.com September 30, 2014 Land Preservation Commission 281 N College Ave. Fort Collins, CO. 80522 RE: Old Creamery Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) – 222 LaPorte Avenue In follow up to our discussion at the LPC work session on September 24, 2014 we have refined our design to create what we hope can work for both the LPC and the City of Fort Collins. We completely support your efforts to maintain this historical building and we want to embrace this idea along with preserving a couple other City buildings (Old City Hall and Haisten Oil) as we continue to develop Block 32/42 Master plan. We like all developers have many request and constraints from the other entities involved with the project. To show our commitment we have taken another look at the historical report completed for the Creamery building to understand and address the important qualities noted. Based on the Historical Preservation Analysis completed by Tatanka Historical Associates, Inc. on the Riverside Ice & Storage facilities dated August 6, 2009 it noted the Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) as being constructed in 1964 and noted its Googie Style Architecture and the prominent features being the V-shaped cantilevered roof, exposed beams, plated glass windows along with the use of concrete bricks for the building structure. The report also noted the importance of the building’s orientation with it being on a diagonal orientation rather than the standard north-south compass points. Our focus is to maintain these important features noted along with keeping this building on the southern edge of the block facing LaPorte Avenue and keeping the original building orientation. Our goal is to have this building provide a long term service to the community. We plan to relocate this building to a new location approximately 105 feet to the east of the current location and raise it up as would be needed or incur a significant cost for flood mitigation. We plan to have the Butterfly building moved back slightly from its current position, but closer to LaPorte than the new Utilities building. This will make the Butterfly building visible and more prominent as traffic is moving along LaPorte Avenue and will provide a focal point for the pedestrians using the north-south spine between Oak and Cherry Street. Relocating the Butterfly building will then allow us to comply with the current land use codes and have the new Utility building where it presents an urban street front. We have several challenges and request from different groups on this development project and we are trying to balance and give credence to each of them and work within our budget. We plan to incorporate some special landscaping and other site features to tie the Butterfly building into the sounding area and would entertain ideas as we go forward on how this could be accomplished. Brian Hergott Facilities Project Manager City of Fort Collins 5.a Packet Pg. 64 Attachment: 10-08-14 LPC Meeting Narrative (2459 : Old Creamery Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) – 222 LaPorte Avenue) 5.b Packet Pg. 65 Attachment: BLOCK 32 BUTTERFLY BLDG PERSPECTIVE 10-6-14 (2459 : Old Creamery Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) – 222 LaPorte City of Fort Collins September 30, 2014 5.c Packet Pg. 66 Attachment: 140930_VisionPlan_illustrative-updated (2459 : Old Creamery Laboratory Building (Butterfly Building) – 222 LaPorte Avenue) 25 FC Building Permit No. 8347, May 25, 1945; FC Building Permit No. 8586, September 15, 1945. 26 FC Building Permit No. 20531, August 23, 1973; FC Inspection Record, Building Permit No. 20531, May 28, 1974. 27 Jovita Garcia and City of Fort Collins, Grant Rehabilitation Documentation, Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. 2.c Packet Pg. 19 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) 16 Interviews with Delphine Garcia noted in “Survey Form and File on 321 North Whitcomb: A Class Assignment for HY500C Submitted to Professor John Albright, Department of History, [Colorado State University], by Mary Therese Anstey, Mary Williams, and Michelle Zupan, December 1, 1994,” [5]. 17 Conveyance No. 100, Abstract of Title. 18 FC Building Permit No. 8807, January 16, 1946. 2.c Packet Pg. 18 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation) Jose Aguayo, “Los Betabeleros (The Beetworkers),” in La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado, edited by Vincent C. de Baca, 105–109 (Denver: The Colorado Historical Society, 1998). 10 Sister Mary Garcia, “My Weaving: Autobiography of Sister Mary Garcia, O.S.F.,” unpublished copy, 2006, 7, Sister Mary Garcia Collection, Special Collections, Fort Collins Local Archive, SMG1. 2.c Packet Pg. 17 Attachment: 321 Whitcomb Nomination (2452 : 321 North Whitcomb Landmark Designation)