HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 03/21/2000 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 25, 2000, DESIGNAT AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 10
DATE: March 21, 2000
. FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF: Karen McWilliams
SUBJECT :
Second Reading of Ordinance No.25,2000,Designating the Sondburg House,Garage,and Chicken
Coop, 237 West Street, as a Historic Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The owner of the property,John LitscheM is initiating this request for Local Landmark designation
for the Sondburg House,Garage,and Chicken Coop. The house and garage are significant for their
architectural importance to Fort Collins as locally raze examples of residential Art Moderne
architecture. The chicken coop has architectural importance for its representation of the property's
early history. This Ordinance was unanimously adopted on First Reading on March 7, 2000.
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 16
DATE: March 7, 2000
• FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF:
Karen McWilliams
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 25, 2000, Designating the Sondburg House, Garage, and Chicken
Coop, 237 West Street, as a Historic Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code.
RECOMMENDATION: �;�' -.2
Staff recommends adoption ofY&►e Ordince ortirstReadmg. t a public hearing held on February
9, 2000, the Landmark Preserves t—tommtsstonunatvmousl} recommended designation of this
property as a local landmark for its architectural importance to Fort Collins.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The owner of the property,John Litschert,is initiating this request for Local Landmark designation
for the Sondburg House, Garage Ehi o h&We , arage are significant for their
architectural importance to Co �ps as 1 cally e' es of residential Art Modeme
. architecture. The chicken coo arckt�tec wnpQ�ance fo``'ts representation of the property's
earl history.
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History-This stucco over wood frame house features many design elements associated with the Art
Moderne architectural style. Hallmarks of the style include smooth, unornamented wall surfaces,
usually of stucco, flat roofs with a small ledge or coping at the roofline, curved walls and corners,
an emphasis on horizontality, and comer windows, often with steel frames. Alterations to the
building are minor,and include the addition of a concrete porch extending from the front door to the
southeast comer of the house,added sometime in the early to mid 1960s. All but two of the original
windows have been replaced. Th arage, so of stucco,Mears to have been constructed at the
same time as the house, and i . Hati 1 al ,ed It i 'ro�the period of significance, and
contributes to the architec po of jp A { od chicken coop is located at the
rear of the property. It preda their 'ling Viand app s to have been constructed in the
1920s.
A building permit was issued on March 20, 1946,to N. A. Shultz for the construction of a$5,000
single family house,replacing an earlier residence on the site. The first owners of this home were
Arthur and Opal Sondburg. The Sondburg family moved from Kansas to Fort Collins in 1947,
purchasing the property at that time.
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