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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 03/18/2008 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 039, 2008, DESIGNAT ITEM NUMBER: 20 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY DATE: March 18, 2008 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Karen McWilliams SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 039, 2008, Designating the Bradley House, 1609 Remington, as a Fort Collins Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommend adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. At a public hearing held on January 23, 2008, the Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously to recommend designation of this property, under Designation Standard Three. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Bradley House is eligible for recognition as a Fort Collins Landmark under Standard Three. Constructed in 1926 by Isaac C. and Frankie M. Bradley, the house embodies many distinctive characteristics of the Craftsman Bungalow architectural style of the early twentieth century. This property contains a historic dwelling and a recently constructed garage. The garage does not contribute to the significance of the property, and is not a part of the landmark application. BACKGROUND The origins of the Craftsman Bungalow can be traced to the American and English Arts and Crafts Movements of the 1880s and 1890s. While England was embracing this new modest and practical building type, Americans also began to adopt the building type and the principles behind it. The Arts and Crafts movement was an explicit attack on the blatant materialism of the Victorian era. The movement emphasized modest,efficient buildings constructed of local materials made to blend relatively seamlessly with their surroundings. The Craftsman Bungalow style was a derivative of this movement. Bungalows made their first appearance in the United States on the eastern seacoast. Initially they were popular as inexpensive summer cottages. However, it was not long before this building form found a home on the west coast, principally in Southern California. American Arts and Crafts as expressed in the Bungalow form and the Craftsman style spread throughout the U.S. during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The most prominent advocate for this movement in America was Gustav Stickley(1858-1942). Stickley was an architect and furniture designer as well as the publisher of a monthly magazine called The Craftsman. Stickley's ideas would become the guidelines for American Bungalows of all forms including the Craftsman style. The buildings were to be modest in size and scale,holding true to the earlier Arts and Crafts notion of Humanism versus blatant materialism. Typically the buildings were to be wood March 18, 2008 -2- Item No. 20 framed and one to one-and-a-half-stories tall. However,some Craftsman Bungalows were originally constructed as two stories. The second story,or half story,was usually contained directly under the roof which maximized living space but left little or no attic space. The buildings were to emphasize their horizontal elements and remain grounded with low pitched roofs and wide rectangular or square footprints. Wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and deep roof overhangs further contributed to the illusion of a wide,grounded,and horizontal building. More often then not a large front porch was included. Typically the exterior walls and gable ends were composed of different materials to add contrast and visually break up the otherwise simple structure. The most commonly used materials for this purpose were stucco,horizontal lap siding,or shingles. As a further holdover from the early Arts and Crafts movement,Craftsman buildings were to be composed of regional materials matching the colors and tones of the surrounding environment. With all or most of these features included, the final result was to be a building which "stressed comfort and utility...and a lack of pretension."(Colorado's Historic Architecture, pg 40) Just as the rest of the country chose to embrace this form and style, Fort Collins was no exception, and the city boasts many buildings of this type. The Craftsman Bungalow located at 1609 Remington holds true to many of Stickely's above mentioned criteria. Its moderately pitched roof, wide eaves and overhangs, and exposed rafter tails serve as excellent intact examples of Craftsman Bungalow architecture as derived from the Arts and Crafts Movement. The use of horizontal lap siding on the exterior walls and horizontal clapboard siding on the gable ends are typical of the Craftsman style's use of contrasting materials to break up the structure for the viewer. The building's modest one-story height and rectangular, horizontally grounded nature, combined with its use of dark browns and whites, tie the building to the earth and allow it to blend with the surrounding landscape. As Stickley explained, the Craftsman Bungalow is "a house reduced to its simplest form, which never fails to harmonize with its surroundings because its low broad proportions and absolute lack of ornament give it a character so natural and unaffected that it seems to sing into a blend with any landscape." The modest home at 1609 Remington is just such a building and should be formally recognized as historically significant. (Cigliano, 12) According to the Larimer County Property Tax Assessor, the house at 1609 Remington was constructed in 1926 by Isaac C.and Frankie M.Bradley. Isaac worked for the Fort Collins Express- Courier newspaper as a printer. In 1927,the home was sold to Harold and Marie Leath. Harold also worked for the Express-Courier, as a Linotype machine operator. In the printing industry, the Linotype machine(pronounced"Line-0-Type") uses a keyboard consisting of 91 keys to create an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line of type. The Linotype allowed for much faster typesetting and composition than the method developed by Gutenberg, which required composers to assemble one pre-cast metal letter, punctuation mark, or space at a time. The Linotype machine revolutionized printing throughout the world, with its greatest impact being felt in newspaper publishing. Marie and Harold Leath lived in the home for six years. In 1933, during the depths of the depression,they sold the house to Walter and Helen Tatum. Walter worked as the principal of Fort Collins High School. Sometime in the mid-to-late 1930s,Daisy A. Wall purchased the home. She used it as a rental until 1954, when it became her primary residence. City directories fail to show who owned the home after Wall, but it appears the home was soon thereafter converted into a rooming house for Colorado State University students. In May 2004, then-owner W. W. Ferguson sold the home to the property's current owner, Timothy Sharkey, who is seeking landmark designation. March 18, 2008 -3- Item No. 20 ATTACHMENTS 1. Historic Landmark Designation Nomination form. 2. Staff Report, January 23, 2008. 3. Resolution 2, 2008, of the Landmark Preservation Commission recommending Landmark Designation of the Bradley House, 1609 Remington Street. 4. Photos of property. ATTACHMENT 1 Community Planning and Environmental Services City Planning and Community Development Historic Preservation Office 6iA PO Box 580 Fort Collins,CO 80522-0580 970-221-6376 City of Fort Collins Historic Landmark Designation Nomination Form DATE: 11/14/07 LOCATION INFORMATION: Address: 1609 REMINGTON STREET, FORT COLLINS, CO, 80525 Legal Description: LOT 15, BLK 1, I. C. BRADLEY, FTC Property Name (historic and/or common): THE BRADLEY HOUSE OWNER INFORMATION: Name: TIMOTHY M SHARKEY Phone: (970) 988-8224 Address: 1609 REMINGTON STREET CLASSIFICATION Category Ownership Status Present Use Existing Designation XX Building ❑ Public XX Occupied ❑ Commercial ❑ National Register ❑ Structure XX Private ❑ Unoccupied ❑ Educational ❑ State Register ❑ Site ❑ Religious ❑ Object XX Residential ❑ District ❑ Entertainment ❑ Government ❑ Other FORM PREPARED BY: Name and Title: JOHN FERGUSON, PRESERVATION INTERN Address: City of Fort Collins Advance Planning Department, P.O. Box 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 Phone: 970-224-6078 Relationship to Owner: None Revised 09-2004 Page 1 TYPE OF DESIGNATION and BOUNDARIES XX 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 contains the historic residence and a new, non-contributing detached garage. SIGNIFICANCE Properties that possess exterior integrity are eligible for designation as Fort Collins Landmarks or Fort Collins Landmark Districts if they meet one (1) or more of the following standards for designation: ❑ Standard 1: The property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; ❑ Standard 2: The property is associated with the lives of persons significant in history; X Standard 3: The property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; ❑ Standard 4: The property has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (Please describe why the property is significant, relative to the Standard(s) above.) The house located at 1609 Remington is eligible for recognition as a Fort Collins landmark under Standard Number Three. The property embodies many distinctive characteristics of the Craftsman Bungalow architectural style of the early twentieth century. HISTORICAL INFORMATION The origins of the Craftsman Bungalow can be traced to the American and English Arts and Crafts Movements of the 1880s and 1890s. While England was embracing this new modest and practical building type, Americans also began to adopt the building type and the principles behind it. The Arts and Crafts movement was an explicit attack on the blatant materialism of the Victorian era. The movement emphasized modest, efficient buildings constructed of local materials made to blend relatively seamlessly with their surroundings. The Craftsman Bungalow style was derivative of this movement. Bungalows made their first appearance in the United States on the eastern seacoast. Initially they were popular as inexpensive summer cottages. However, it was not long before this building form found a home on the west coast; principally Southern California. Revised 09-2004 Page 2 American Arts and Crafts as expressed in the Bungalow form and the Craftsman style eventually spread throughout the U.S. during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The most prominent advocate for this movement in America was Gustav Stickley (1858-1942). Stickley was an architect and furniture designer as well as the publisher of a monthly magazine called The Craftsman. Stickley's ideas would become the guidelines for American Bungalows of all forms including the Craftsman style. The buildings were to be modest in size and scale, holding true to the earlier Arts and Crafts notion of Humanism versus blatant materialism. Typically the buildings were to be wood framed and one to one-and-a-half-stories tall. However, some Craftsman Bungalows were originally constructed as two stories. The second story, or half story, was usually contained directly under the roof which maximized living space but left little or no attic space. The buildings were to emphasize their horizontal elements and remain grounded with low pitched roofs and wide rectangular or square footprints. Wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and deep roof overhangs further contributed to the illusion of a wide, grounded, and horizontal building. More often then not a large front porch was included. Typically the exterior walls and gable ends were composed of different materials to add contrast and visually break up the otherwise simple structure. The most commonly used materials for this purpose were stucco, horizontal lap siding, or shingles. As a further holdover from the early Arts and Crafts movement, Craftsman buildings were to be composed of regional materials matching the colors and tones of the surrounding environment. With all or most of these features included, the final result was to be a building which "stressed comfort and utility...and a lack of pretension."(Colorado's Historic Architecture, pg 40) Just as the rest of the country chose to embrace this form and style, Fort Collins was no exception and the city boasts many buildings of this type. The Craftsman Bungalow located at 1609 Remington holds true to many of Stickely's above mentioned criteria. Its moderately pitched roof, wide eaves and overhangs, and exposed rafter tails serve as excellent intact examples of Craftsman Bungalow architecture as derived from the Arts and Crafts Movement. The use of horizontal lap siding on the exterior walls and horizontal clapboard siding on the gable ends are typical of the Craftsman style's use of contrasting materials to break up the structure for the viewer. The building's modest one-story height and rectangular, horizontally grounded nature, combined with its use of dark browns and whites, tie the building to the earth and allow it to blend with the surrounding landscape. As Stickley explained, the Craftsman Bungalow is "a house reduced to its simplest form, which never fails to harmonize with its surroundings because its low broad proportions and absolute lack of ornament give it a character so natural and unaffected that it seems to sing into a blend with any landscape." The modest home at 1609 Remington is just such a building and should be formally recognized as historically significant. (Cigliano, 12) According to the Larimer County Property Tax Assessor, the house at 1609 Remington was constructed in 1926 by Isaac C. and Frankie M. Bradley. Isaac worked for the Fort Collins Express-Courier newspaper as a printer. The next year, in 1927, the home was sold to Harold and Marie Leath. Harold also worked for the Express-Courier as a linotype machine operator. In the printing industry, the Linotype machine, pronounced "Line-0-Type," uses a keyboard consisting of 91 keys to create an entire line of metal type at once, hence a line of type. The Linotype allowed much faster typesetting and composition than the handset Revised 09-2004 Page 3 composition method developed by Gutenburg, which requires composers to assemble one pre-cast metal letter, punctuation mark, or space, at a time. The Linotype machine revolutionized printing throughout the world, with its first, greatest impact being in newspaper publishing, for one Linotype operator can now compose several pages of straight matter in a single day. Marie and Harold lived in the home for around six years. In 1933, during the hight of the depression, they sold the house to Walter and Helen Tatum. Walter worked as the principle of Fort Collins High school. Sometime in the mid-to-late 30s Daisy A. Wall purchased the home and uned it as a rental until 1954 when it became her primary residence. City directories fail to show who owned the home after Wall, but it appears that the home was soon thereafter converted into a rooming house for Colorado State University students. In May of 2004 W. W. Ferguson sold the home to Timothy Sharkey and Elizabeth Slatt, the current owners seeking Landmark Designation. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: 1926 Architect/Builder: UNKNOWN Building Materials: Concrete foundation, wood framed. Architectural Style: Bungalow Description: The house located at 1609 Remington was, according to the Larimer County Assessor, built in 1926. It is a one-story, wood framed, front-gabled building built on a concrete foundation. The roof is covered with non-historic composition shingles and appears to be at a relatively shallow pitch. The front and rear eaves, as well as the side overhangs, protrude roughly two feet beyond the exterior walls of the building, and rafter tails are exposed on the north and south ends. Furthermore, prominently featured on the north side of the house directly over the front door is a small front gabled porch cover. The gable ends on the east and west sides of the building are both sided with horizontal lap siding (likely cedar). The west gable end displays three single-hung windows. The east gable end displays four single-hung windows of equal size, flanking the front porch. The exterior walls of the house are covered with white wood siding. This siding extends around the whole of the building's exterior. The house rests on a concrete foundation and is accessed in the front by a concrete staircase flanked by iron handrails. A small addition, it appears to be a sun room, has been added to the west side of the house. The property also contains a small detached garage of recent vintage, which is considered a non- contributing structure. REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed) Cigliano, Jan. Bungalow. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 1998 Colorado Historical Society: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. A Guide to Colorado's Historic Architecture and Engineering. (2003 Colorado Historical Society). Fort Collins City Directories (1940 -2005). Larimer County Assessor's Office, Residential Property Information Local History Archive Contexts World War I Urban Growth, 1919-1941, City of Fort Collins, Colorado. <http://history.fcgov.com/local historv/Topics/contexts/oost.htm Revised 09-2004 Page 4 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: 1. Preparation of plans for the reconstruction or alteration of the exterior of improvements on the property; 2. Preparation of plans for the construction, alteration, relocation or demolition of improvements on the property. DATED this �� day of—b—L/-� _ 200-Z. Owner me- not _Jr Sign e State of/ l�X C- / )ss. County of (`4� Subscribed and sworn before me this. day of-rlllrni, , 200-a—, by 1 in Ay m - 5h6(&ed Witness my hand and offic' I eal. My ommiss' n expires N ary Pub c LINE2_-`/S€` 'j`]I y'. .1ON FXPIPES APR.5 R010 Revised 09-2004 Page 7 ATTACHMENT 2 ' City Planning& Community Development 281 N College Av PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522-0580 City of Fort Collins 970.221.6376 970.224.6111 fax 970.224.6002 TDD ,:- fcgov.com/cityplanning LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION January 23, 2008 STAFF REPORT REQUEST: Fort Collins Landmark Designation of 1609 Remington Street, Fort Collins, Colorado STAFF CONTACT: Karen McWilliams, Historic Preservation Planner; John Ferguson, Historic Preservation Intern APPLICANTS: Timothy M. Sharkey, Owner BACKGROUND: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Fort Collins Landmark designation of the Bradley House, 1609 Remington Street. The building has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Preservation Standard (3). The house embodies many distinctive characteristics of the Craftsman architectural style of the early twentieth century. The origins of the Craftsman Bungalow can be traced to the American and English Arts and Crafts Movements of the 1880s and 1890s. The movement emphasized modest, efficient buildings constructed of local materials made to blend relatively seamlessly with their surroundings. The most prominent advocate for this movement in America was Gustav Stickley, an architect and furniture designer as well as the publisher of a monthly magazine called The Craftsman. Stickley's ideas would become the guidelines for American Bungalows of all forms, including the Craftsman style. These buildings were to be modest in size and scale, holding true to the Arts and Crafts notion of Humanism versus blatant materialism. Typically the buildings were to be wood framed and one to one-and-a-half-stories tall. The buildings were to emphasize their horizontal elements, and remain grounded with low pitched roofs and wide rectangular or square footprints. Wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and deep roof overhangs further contributed to the illusion of a wide, grounded, and horizontal building. More often then not a large front porch was included. Typically the exterior walls and gable ends were composed of different materials to add contrast and visually break up the otherwise simple structure. The most commonly used materials for this purpose were stucco, horizontal lap siding, or shingles. With all or most of these features included,the final result was to be a building which"stressed comfort and utility...and a lack of pretension." The Bradley House at 1609 Remington holds true to many of Stickely's above mentioned criteria. Its moderately pitched roof, wide eaves and overhangs, and exposed rafter tails serve as excellent intact elements of Craftsman Bungalow architecture. The use of horizontal lap siding on the exterior walls and horizontal clapboard siding on the gable ends are typical of the Craftsman style's use of contrasting materials to break up the structure for the viewer. The building's modest one-story height and rectangular, horizontally grounded nature, combined with its use of dark browns and whites, tie the building to the earth and allow it to blend with the surrounding landscape. The gable ends on the east and west sides of the building are both sided with horizontal lap wood siding, likely cedar. The fagade displays two pairs of 5-over-1 single- hung windows of equal size, flanking the front porch. The west gable end displays three 1-over l single-hung windows. The exterior walls of the house are covered with non-original white wood siding. The house rests on a concrete foundation and is accessed in the front by a concrete four- step staircase, flanked by iron handrails. Prominently featured directly over the front door is a small front gabled porch cover over a half-rounded arch, supported by knee bracing. A small non-historic "sun porch" addition has been added to the west side of the house. The property also contains a small detached garage of recent vintage, which is considered a non-contributing structure. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approving the request for Landmark Designation of the Bradley House, 1609 Remington Street, under Standard(3) for its representation of the Craftsman architectural style. where renewal is a way of life ATTACHMENT City Of Cam Community yp S Communay Development 281 ege Avenue Fort Collins gPO Fort 0.22 63 6C�080522-0580 kgov- ofr tt-lax Icgov.eoMdtyplanning RESOLUTION 2,2008 OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION RECOMMENDING LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THE BRADLEY HOUSE 1609 REMINGTON STREET,FORT COLLINS, COLORADO WHEREAS, it is a matter of public policy that the protection, enhancement and perpetuation of sites, structures, objects, and districts of historical, architectural, or geographic significance, located within the city, are a public necessity and are required in the interest of the prosperity, civic pride and general welfare of the people; and WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the City Council that the economic, cultural and aesthetic standing of this city cannot be maintained or enhanced by disregarding the historical, architectural and geographical heritage of the city and by ignoring the destruction or defacement of such cultural assets; and WHEREAS, the Bradley House has individual significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Standard(3), for its Craftsman architecture;and WHEREAS, the Landmark Preservation Commission has determined that the Bradley House meets the criteria of a landmark as set forth in Section 14-5 of the code and is eligible for designation as a Fort Collins Landmark; and WHEREAS, the owner of the property, Timothy Sharkey, has consented to such landmark designation. NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Landmark Preservation Commission of the City of Fort Collins as follows: Section 1. That the property known as the Bradley House and the adjacent lands upon which the historical resource is located, in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: Lot 15, Block 1, I.C. Bradley Addition, Fort Collins also known as 1609 Remington Street be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Chapter 14 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins. where renewal is a way of life Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution No. 2, 2008 Bradley House, 1609 Remington Street Page 2 Section 2. That the criteria contained in Section 14-48 of the City Code will serve as the standards by which alterations, additions and other changes to buildings and structures located upon the above described property will be reviewed for compliance with Chapter 14, Article III, of the Code of the City of Fort Collins. 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ORDINANCE NO. 039, 2008 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE BRADLEY HOUSE, 1609 REMINGTON STREET, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, AS A FORT COLLINS LANDMARK PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 14 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS WHEREAS,pursuant to Section 14-2 of the City Code,the City Council has established a public policy encouraging the protection, enhancement and perpetuation of landmarks within the City; and WHEREAS,by Resolution dated January 23,2008,the Landmark Preservation Commission (the "Commission") has determined that the Bradley House has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Designation Standard (3), because it represents the Craftsman Bungalow architectural style in Fort Collins; and WHEREAS,the Commission has further determined that said property meets the criteria of a landmark as set forth in Section 14-5 of the Code and is eligible for designation as a landmark,and has recommended to the City Council that said property be designated by the City Council as a landmark; and WHEREAS,the owners of the property have consented to such landmark designation; and WHEREAS, such landmark designation will preserve the property's significance to the community; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the recommendation of the Commission and desires to approve such recommendation and designate said property as a landmark. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the property known as the Bradley House, and the adjacent lands upon which the historical resource is located, in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: LOT 15, BLOCK 1, I. C. BRADLEY ADDITION, FORT COLLINS be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Chapter 14 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins. In addition to the historic dwelling, the property contains a non-historic garage building. This garage does not contribute to the significance of the property, and is not a part of these designation proceedings. Section 2. That the criteria in Section 14-48 of the Municipal Code will serve as the standards by which alterations, additions and other changes to the buildings and structures located upon the above described property will be reviewed for compliance with Chapter 14,Article III,of the Code of the City of Fort Collins Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 18th day of March, A.D. 2008, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 st day of April, A.D. 2008. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 1st day of April, A.D. 2008. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk