HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 11/16/1999 - SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE NO.163, 1999, DESIGNAT AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 11
DATE: November 16, 1999
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL STAFF:
Karen McWilliams
SUBJECT:
Second Reading of Ordinance No. 163, 1999, Designating the Arthur and Lillian Andrew House,
Bam and Garage, 515-515'/z South Meldrum Street, Fort Collins, Colorado,as Historic Landmarks
Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on Second Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The owners of the property, Thomas T. and Diane M. Tucker, are initiating this request for Local
Landmark designation for the Arthur and Lillian Andrew House,Bam and Garage,515-515'/z South
Meldrum Street. The buildings are significant as representative examples of vernacular residential
architecture typical of the turn of the century. Ordinance No. 163. 1999 was unanimously adopted
on First Reading on November 2, 1999.
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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 17
DATE: November 2, 1999
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL
STAFF: Karen McWilliams
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 163, 1999,Designating the Arthur and Lillian Andrew House,Barn
and Garage, 515-515Yz South Meldrum Street, Fort Collins, Colorado, as Historic Landmarks €
Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption ofthe Ordinance on First,Reading.. .At a public hearing held on October
13, 1999,the Landmark Preser vation•Co nmtssion_unanimously recommended designation of this
property as a local landmark for its architectural importance.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The owners of the property, Thomas T. and Diane M. Tucker, are initiating this request for Local
Landmark designation for the Arthur and Lillian Andrew House,Bam and Garage,515-515'/z South
Meldrum Street. The buildings are significant as representative examples of vernacular residential
architecture typical of the turn oTthe century.lip _.t
The wood frame home,built in4 898,features a hipped roof with a projecting pent gable. Character
defining elements include the use of decorative shingles,paired lights in the gable end, and leaded
glass in the upper window sashes on the facade. The screened front porch was built with wooden
half walls topped by Doric columns supporting the hipped porch roof The porch roof also features
applied rafter tails. A square bay window,with hipped roof,projects from the south elevation. A
two-story addition to the rear of the house was constructed sometime in the 1950s. Because the
addition is set in from the main house, and because of the narrow lot and closely spaced buildings
on both sides, the addition is not visible from the street.
A single car garage, with cinder«block foundation;-sits,to theTear of the house. Features include a
gable roof, wider, six-inch wood dropped siding, and exposed rafter ends. An early hipped roof
addition on the west elevation`aextended the rear3of the garage, and a metal stovepipe juts above the
roof of this addition. The garage door is a non-original overhead car door.
The two-story bam or carriage house,despite its early(c. 1930s)conversion into a dwelling,retains
a great deal of integrity. Significant features include the original narrow horizontal lap wood siding,
vertical divided light wood windows, and a sliding bam door. Alterations to the structure include
a bay window,added in the 1930s when the bam was remodeled,and the probable enclosure of the
east side. Windows are predominately four-light hoppers. The roof is a gable over the two-story
section, with an intersecting shed roof sloping down to a single story on the east side.
City directories list the earliest owners of this property as Arthur L. and Lillian (Lilly) B. Andrew.
The family made 515 South Meldrum their home for more than forty years,from c.1900 through the
early 1940s. Arthur Andrew worked as a contractor and house mover. The family had five children,
Margaret, Albert.Marie,Dale and Ross.