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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 09/16/2014 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 127, 2014, DESIGNATAgenda Item 10 Item # 10 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY September 16, 2014 City Council STAFF Josh Weinberg, City Planner SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 127, 2014, Designating the Juan and Mary Barraza Property, 412 Wood Street, Fort Collins, Colorado, as a Fort Collins Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the City Code. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The owner of the property, Mary Barraza, is initiating this request for Fort Collins Landmark designation of the Juan and Mary Barraza Property at 412 Wood Street. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The property at 412 Wood 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. The simplicity of style and form, along with its modest size, contribute to the significance of this building and provides insight into the values and means of the building’s occupants. In 1877, the Colorado Central Railroad arrived in Fort Collins and helped to spur the city’s growth, fostering new industries like sugar beet farming and stone quarrying. During the 1960s, many members of one family that resided in this home were employed by the Great Western Sugar Factory. These were typical of the hard working people of Fort Collins who operated many aspects of the city’s daily commerce. 412 Wood Street is a typical home in which these workers lived- modest, unpretentious, and made to last. This house certainly illustrates the values and lifestyle of the people who occupied the dwelling for over a century. Also, this building is significant to Fort Collins as a simple vernacular version of Classic Cottage architecture. Essentially a single-story version of the Foursquare architectural style, Classic Cottages were popular between about 1910 and 1930 and were mostly used in residential architecture. FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC IMPACTS Recognition of 412 Wood Street as a Fort Collins Landmark enables its owners to qualify for federal, state and local financial incentive programs available only to designated properties. Additionally, based upon research conducted by Clarion Associates, the property would see an increase in value following designation. Clarion Associates attributed this increase to the fact that future owners also qualify for the financial incentives; the perception that designated properties are better maintained; the appeal of owning a recognized historic landmark; and the assurance of predictability that design review offers. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION The Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. At a public hearing held on August 13, 2014, the Landmark Preservation Commission voted to recommend Agenda Item 10 Item # 10 Page 2 designation of this property under Designation Standards (A) and (C), for its association with significant events in Fort Collins history and its architectural significance to the city. ATTACHMENTS 1. Location Map (PDF) 2. Designation Application (PDF) 3. Owner Agreement (PDF) 4. LPC Staff Report (PDF) 5. Photographs (PDF) 6. LPC Resolution (PDF) Elm St Wood St Park St Maple St N Grant Ave Sycamore St Elm Ct Griffin Pl Park St Cherry St © 412 Wood Street 1 inch = 200 feet Site ATTACHMENT 1 Revised 08-2014 Page 1 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION: Address: 412 North Wood Street, Fort Collins, Colorado Legal Description: Lot 21, Block 294, West Side Addition, Fort Collins Property Name (historic and/or common): The Juan and Mary Barraza Property OWNER INFORMATION: Name: Mary L. Barraza Phone: Email: barl8225@gmail.com Address: 412 North Wood Street, 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: Jason O’Brien and Mitchell Schaefer, Historic Preservation Interns Address: P.O. Box 580, Fort Collins, CO 80522 Phone: 970-416-2283 Email: mschaefer@fcgov.com Relationship to Owner: None DATE: Original prepared June 12, 2013. Revised June 11, 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 ATTACHMENT 2 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 one hipped-box Classic Cottage and no additional structures. 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. Properties may be determined to be significant if they are associated with events that have made a recognizable contribution to the broad patterns of the history of the community, State or Nation. A property can be associated with either (or both) of 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. Properties may be determined to be significant if they are 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. Properties may be determined to be significant if they embody the identifiable characteristics of a type, period or method of construction; represent the work of a craftsman or architect whose work is distinguishable from others by its characteristic style and quality; possess high artistic values or design concepts; or are part of a recognizable and distinguishable group of properties. Standard D: Information potential. Properties may be determined to be significant if they have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. 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. For designation as Fort Collins Landmarks or Fort Collins Landmark Districts properties must meet one (1) or more of the following standards: Standard A: Location is the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred. Standard B: Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan space, structure and style of a property. Standard C: Setting is the physical environment of a historic property. Whereas location refers to the specific place where a property was built or an event occurred, setting refers to the character of the place. It involves how, not just where, the property is situated and its relationship to the surrounding features and open space. Standard D: Materials are the physical elements that form a historic property. Standard E: Workmanship is the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any given period in history or prehistory. It is the evidence of artisans' labor and skill in constructing or altering a building, structure or site. Standard F: Feeling is a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period or time. It results from the presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the property's historic character. Standard G: Association is the direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic property. A property 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. Revised 08-2014 Page 4 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY The property at 412 Wood 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. The simplicity of style and form, along with its modest size, contribute to the significance of this building and provides insight into the values and means of the building’s occupants. In 1877 the Colorado Central Railroad arrived in Fort Collins and helped to spur the city’s growth, fostering new industries like sugar beet farming and stone quarrying.1 These emerging businesses relied heavily on support trades and labor. The men, women, and children who resided at 412 North Wood Street therefore characterize the difficulties faced by the American proletariat class in the early twentieth century. They worked in Fort Collins as mechanics, laborers, small business owners, greenhouse workers, and maintenance employees. Additionally, between its construction in about 1908 and 1920, this home only housed renters; no evidence suggests the actual owner lived on site prior to 1920. When owners of the home began to live in the structure they too struggled financially and worked primarily in blue collar jobs in and around Fort Collins. During the 1960s many members of one family that resided in this home were employed by the Great Western Sugar Factory. These were typical of the hard working people of Fort Collins who operated many aspects of the city’s daily commerce. 412 Wood Street is a typical home in which these workers lived—modest, unpretentious, and made-to-last. This house certainly illustrates the values and lifestyle of the people who occupied the dwelling for over a century. This building is significant to Fort Collins as a simple vernacular version of Classic Cottage architecture. Essentially a single-story version of the Foursquare architectural style, Classic Cottages were popular between about 1910 and 1930 and were mostly used in residential architecture. Character defining features of this type of architecture typically include a hipped roof over a single story square form and prominent dormer, boxed eaves, open front porch, and minimal detailing. While the residence at 412 North Wood Street lacks the central dormer element commonly seen on Classic Cottages, its square footprint, hipped roof with boxed eaves, and open porch with simple Victorian detailing are indicative of the style. Aside from a small and early addition to the rear of the building, it is relatively unchanged from the time of its original construction, and thus retains a preponderance of the seven aspects of integrity. 1 Evadene Burris Swanson, Fort Collins Yesterdays (Fort Collins, Colorado: George and Hildegarde Morgan, 1975), 50. Revised 08-2014 Page 5 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Documentary records can account for the history of the land on which 412 Wood Street now sits as far back as the months immediately following the American Civil War. The Abstract of Title for Lot twenty one (21) Block two hundred ninety four (294) subdivision of West Side Addition to Fort Collins, Colorado shows that the northwest corner of Section 11, Township 7, and Range 69 was first granted by the United States Federal Government to Joseph Mason in August 1865.2 Mason, an early settler of the area, was a prominent land-owner, politician, and businessman in the 1860s.3 The land on which the building at 412 Wood Street now rests has, over time, been sold and divided by a range of prominent Fort Collins citizens, including: George T. Sykes, Norman H. Meldrum, Franklin C. Avery, and Ella B. Yount, among others. On October 2, 1881, Franklin C. Avery and Ella B. Yount granted the East ½ of the Northwest ¼ of Section 11, Township 7, Range 69, consisting of Blocks 272–276, 283–286, and 292–296 to the West Side Addition to the City of Fort Collins.4 Until 1908, the Abstract of Title seems to indicate Lot 21, Block 294 remained relatively undeveloped, though ownership of the property did change hands several times, often back into the possession of previous owners. In December 1907, John J. Thornton acquired ownership of Lot 21, Block 294 from Larimer County.5 The earliest residents of 412 Wood Street all rented the dwelling and none lived on the property for more than two years. Though the Larimer County Assessor lists the building’s construction date as 1916, it seems to have been built sometime before 1908, when Frank G. Cantonwine and his family occupied the residence for at least a year.6 Between 1909 and 1910, the site remained vacant, but by 1911, Silas M. Allen, a day laborer, rented the residence with his wife Mary and their daughter Audrey.7 Then A. C. and Gertrude Russell resided in the rental from 1913 to 1914.8 Walter M. Harris, a laborer, and his wife Della moved onto the property either before or during 1917, and seemingly remained through 1918.9 Tragedy, however, struck the Harris family while living on Wood Street; two of their young daughters died of pneumonia and in an auto accident in 1918.10 The following year Joseph Shipp and his wife Emma rented the property with their family, but census records indicate that by 1920 they had moved to a different, nearby rental. None of the five families who resided at 412 Wood Street between 1908 and 1920 actually owned the property; they were all renters. Following John Thornton’s purchase of the property in 1907, ownership of the land changed hands over a dozen times and until 1920, the owner of this specific property never lived on the premises. Edwin Walden Edie and his family were the first residents of the property to remain for more than a couple of years and were the first owners to actually live on site. Only the current owner as of June 11, 2014, has resided at or owned the property longer than the Edie family. The Abstract of Title indicates that Edwin Edie purchased Lot 21, Block 294 in October 1920, from E. D. Bullard, who had purchased the lot only six months earlier.11 Edie worked as a florist, driver, and foreman for the local Espelin Floral Co. for at least thirty years, the entire time he lived at 412 Wood Street. Georgette Edie, passed away in 1934 leaving her husband a widower, but it seems he remarried, 2 Conveyance No. 1, Abstract of Title to Lot twenty one (21), Block two hundred ninety four (294) Subdivision of West Side Addition to Fort Collins, Colorado. (part of N.W.1/4 of Section 11-7-69), prepared by The Security Abstract and Investment Company, Larimer County, Colorado, now located at the City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. 3 Swanson, Fort Collins Yesterdays, 9-10. 4 Conveyance No. 19, Abstract of Title. 5 Conveyance No. 92, Abstract of Title. 6 Community Service Collaborative, Holy Family Neighborhood: Architecture and Building Survey Part III, (Fort Collins: Planning and Development Department, 1983), City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Office, 412 Wood St; Fort Collins City Directory, 1908, Volume V (Fort Collins, Colorado: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company, 1908), 29, 195; Larimer County Assessor Property Information Tax Year 2014, 412 Wood Street, Fort Collins, Colorado, accessed June 3, 2014, http://www.larimer.org/assessor/query/Detail.cfm?PropertyTypeVar=Residential&BuildingIDVar=001&NumVar=R0027782&direct=1. 7 Fort Collins City Directory, 1909–1910, Volume VI (Fort Collins, Colorado: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company, 1910), 200; Fort Collins City Directory, 1910–1911, Volume VII (Fort Collins, Colorado: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company, 1911), 10, 147. 1910 U.S. Census, “Silas Allen,” hertiagequestonline.com (accessed September 19, 2013). 8 Larimer County Directory, 1913–1914, Volume VIII (Fort Collins, Colorado: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company, 1914), 78, 152. 9 Courier’s Larimer County Directory 1917 (Colorado Springs, Colorado: R. L. Polk Directory Co., 1917), 48, 99. 10 “Mr. and Mrs. Harris Lose Baby Daughter,” Fort Collins Weekly Courier, March 1, 1918. 11 Conveyance No. 119 and Conveyance No. 122, Abstract of Title. Revised 08-2014 Page 6 to a woman named Irene, by 1948.12 Edie retained ownership of the property until his death on July 27, 1951.13 Thereafter Edie’s son James inherited the property. Between 1951 and 1969 ownership of 412 Wood Street changed hands seven times and, excepting only one instance, all owners lived on site. Furthermore, nearly all of the owners and tenants of the property during the 1950s and 1960s belonged to the working class. Following Edwin Edie’s death in 1951, his son, James, sold the property to Alexander and Katherine Heckman on August 11, 1951 for the sum of $3,250.00.14 The Heckmans retained ownership until April 1952 when they sold the house to Woodrow P. and Irene K. Colwell through a Warranty Deed.15 Woodrow Colwell worked in several blue-collar jobs such as mechanic and, later, a surveyor for the U.S. government.16 In September 1956 the Colwell’s sold their home to Hugo and Elizabeth Schwarz.17 It seems Hugo Schwarz worked in the food business. At one point he may have owned and operated a restaurant, but was later listed as the manager of a “Snack Bar.”18 In August 1959, Hugo and Elizabeth sold the property to two couples: H. M. and Leitha B. Kraxberger, and Vernon H. and Vera B. Gutscher. Each individual couple entered the agreement with the understanding that they would possess an “undivided one-half interest as joint tenants.”19 The Kraxbergers and Gutschers, however, owned the property only briefly and sold it in June 1960 to Victor E. and M. Roselyn Nordloh.20 Victor worked as a carpenter to care for his wife and four children during the time that they lived on Wood Street.21 Though the Nordlohs retained ownership of the property until May 1963, they may not have lived on the premises in 1962 or 1963; city directories for those years list the property as vacant.22 In mid-1963, a Quit Claim Deed was issued, granting the property to Magdelena Arellano. Originally of Antonito, Colorado, a small town in the San Luis Valley, Arellano and her family moved to Fort Collins in 1922 when she was fifteen. The Great Western Sugar Factory recruited the Arellano family to work in the nearby beet fields and paid for the family’s rail transport to Fort Collins. After their arrival in northern Colorado, the Arellanos lived “in a shack ‘en el rancho’” as they harvested the vegetables.23 Magdelena later noted that in 1923 her family received eighteen dollars an acre while working in the Fort Collins factory district.24 Interestingly, Magdelena Arellano did not live on Wood Street, despite her ownership of the property. Instead, Magdelena lived at 220 North Grant with her husband, Filigonio Arellano, and their two children, Lupe and Rebecca. Ernest Arellano, likely a relative of Magdelena, and his wife Bernadine lived at the Wood Street residence with their five children. The city directory further indicates that between 1964 and 1968, Magdelena, Filigonio, Ernest, and Bernadine all worked in blue-collar jobs in or around Fort Collins.25 In 1966, Carol A. Arellano, a high school student and likely another relative, moved in with the Arellano family on Wood Street.26 In June 1969, Madgelena Arellano sold the property at 412 Wood Street to Juan Barraza.27 Barraza, however, did not move into the residence on Wood Street until 1974. City Directories list Delphine Ferguson as the occupant during the early 1970s. Delphine, a single mother of two, worked as an assembler for the Aqua-Tec Corporation’s manufacturing plant located on 1730 E. 12 Polk’s Fort Collins City Directory, 1948 (Omaha, Nebraska: R. L. Polk & Co., 1948), 91, 372. 13 City of Fort Collins, Online Map Applications, Cemetery Maps, “Edwin Edie,” http://www.fcgov.com/gis/maps.php 14 Entry No. 128, Abstract of Title. 15 Entry No. 130, Abstract of Title. 16 Fort Collins City Directory, 1952 (Colorado Springs, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1952), 76, 314; Fort Collins City Directory, 1956 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1956), 62, 317. 17 Entry No. 133, Abstract of Title. 18 Fort Collins City Directory, 1957 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1957), 287, 408; Fort Collins City Directory, 1959 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1959), 327, 448. 19 Entry No. 140, Abstract of Title. 20 Entry No. 145, Abstract of Title. 21 Fort Collins City Directory, 1960 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1960), 294, 475. 22 Entry No. 146, Abstract of Title; Fort Collins City Directory, 1962 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1962); Fort Collins City Directory, 1963 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1963). 23 Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing, ed. Steve Grinstead and Ben Fogelberg (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004), 277. 24 Western Voices, 282. 25 Fort Collins City Directory, 1964 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1964), 113; Fort Collins City Directory, 1966 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1966), 211; Fort Collins City Directory, 1968 (Loveland, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Directory Co., 1968), 244. 26 Fort Collins City Directory, 1966, 211. 27 Entry No. 150, Abstract of Title. Revised 08-2014 Page 7 Prospect.28 Delphine was one of hundreds in the area employed by Aqua-Tec Corp. Founded in 1962, Aqua-Tec helped to increase industrial employment levels in Fort Collins from 1,068 in 1960 to 3,411 by 1969.29 In the late 1960s the Los Angeles-based Teledyne acquired Aqua-Tec Corp. and changed its name to Teledyne Water Pik in 1975.30 The Fergusons lived on Wood Street for only a few years. In 1973 the residence was left unlisted in the city directory, likely due to vacancy.31 In 1974 the local telephone directory indicates that Barraza and his wife Mary had taken up residence at the Wood Street property.32 In 1978, a Certificate of Occupancy was issued for a “Type-V Remodel” which was noted as a repair for a City rehabilitation project that was valued at $6,000, though the work done was not specified.33 Juan Barraza was originally from Crystal City, Texas, where he was born in 1946. He married Mary L. Parraz in 1968, one year before he purchased the property on Wood Street. Juan worked extensively in maintenance on Colorado State University’s campus until his death on July 8, 2009.34 After his passing, ownership of the property went to his wife Mary L. Barraza in 2012. Mary Barraza retains ownership of the property to this today and requests the site be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark. 28 Fort Collins Colorado 1969 City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1969), 204, 427; Fort Collins Colorado 1970 City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1970), 472, N/A; Johnson’s 1971 Fort Collins, Colorado City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1971), 504, N/A; Johnson’s 1972 Fort Collins, Colorado City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), 458, N/A; Johnson’s 1973 Fort Collins, Colorado City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1973). 29 Cindy Harris and Adam Thomas, “Fort Collins E-X-P-A-N-D-S” The City’s Postwar Development 1945-1969 (Denver: HISTORITECTURE, L.L.C., 2011), 66. 30 “Water Pik Technologies, Inc.” Encyclopedia.com, posted 2007, accessed June 11, 2014, http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3479900101.html; “Water Pik Technologies, Inc. History,” FundingUniverse.com, accessed June 11, 2014, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/water-pik- technologies-inc-history/; Water Pik, Inc. became a separate publicly traded company in 1999. See “Allegheny Teledyne Sets Record Date and Distribution Date for Spin-Offs,” Teledyne Technologies, accessed June 11, 2014, http://www.teledyne.com/news/date.asp. 31 Johnson’s 1973 Fort Collins, Colorado City Directory (Loveland, Colorado: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1973). 32 Fort Collins, Livermore, Red Feather Lakes Telephone Directory, Area Code 303, December 1974 (Mountain Bell, 1974), 14. 33 Certificate of Occupancy, Building Permit No. 48749, City of Fort Collins, January 18, 1978. 34 Today @ Colorado State, “Juan L Barraza, Sr, 63, a maintenance employee, died July 8 at home,” Colorado State University, http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=1812 (accessed 8/7/2013). Revised 08-2014 Page 8 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: Circa 1908 Architect/Builder: N/A Building Materials: Wood, Stone Architectural Style: Classic Cottage Description: The Juan and Mary Barraza Property on 412 Wood Street is a simple vernacular expression of the Classic Cottage style with some Victorian detailing. It is a one story home with an irregular footprint dominated by a square central massing and a rectangular portion extending from the southeast of the rear elevation. The property rests on a rough-faced, irregular course sandstone foundation with pieces of varying sizes. Additionally the walls are mainly horizontal clapboard siding with vertical wood corner boards. The central massing of the property is topped with a steeply pitched truncated hip while the extension has two discernible parts, one being covered with a gable roof, while the other corner portion filling in the southeast section has a smaller low pitched hip. The roof has overhanging eaves and the roof-wall juncture is marked by a prominent yet modest entablature with large boxed cornices. The primary, west elevation, has a partial-width open porch that sits slightly offset to the south of the elevation. The base of the porch is low to the ground and made of poured concrete block. There are two turned spindle posts which support a shed roof covering the porch. The elevation behind the porch has had the ground raised to cover the stone foundation. Moving south from the north end of the elevation there is a window situated right before the porch. This window has an aluminum storm window covering a 1/1 light wood sash window with wide wood surrounds. Continuing south under the porch is the main entrance which has a multi-light storm door with wood surrounds. South of the entrance is another widow under the porch the same as the previous window. On the western end of the south elevation is a 1/1 light wood sash window with wood surrounds as well as a wood sill and lintel. To the east on the elevation is a window of the same style. Just to the east of this window is a vertical corner board which creates a separation from this length of the elevation and the portion of this elevation that is lower than the rest and covered with the smaller hipped roof. Additionally, this portion does not have the prominent entablature with boxed cornice. Going east from the corner board is a small window high on the elevation. It is a 1/1 light wood sash window with wood surrounds and covered with a storm window. It also has a wood sill that extends beyond the window to the east, and at the end of which a wood board runs up to the height of the window. To the east of the window there is a section which was once an open porch but sometimes is enclosed. The enclosed section starts with an aluminum storm door with a short and narrow 1/1 light fixed window on its east side. The exterior siding past the door and under the window is different than the rest of the property and is made up of very thin vertical boards that continue on to the enclosure on the east elevation. The north elevation of the property is unadorned with no windows or features excepting the sandstone foundation which is more visible on this elevation, as on the east elevation, and the entablature at the roof-wall juncture that runs the perimeter of the property. As this elevation moves east it recedes back to the extending rectangular portion of the property which is also unadorned on this elevation. The rear, east elevation begins on the south end with the enclosed former porch; at the base of which there appears to be a wooden entrance to a cellar. The exterior siding of this portion is the thin vertical boards. In the upper area of this portion is a large 6/6 wood sliding window with wood surrounds. On the end of the window moving north, the elevation extends slightly out with the extending rectangular portion. In this section, the sandstone foundation is much more visible. About half way up the elevation and slightly offset to the south is an aluminum two light sliding window with wide wood surrounds. The prominent character defining feature of this elevation is Revised 08-2014 Page 9 the gable roof with wide-overhanging eaves, boxed cornices, and eave returns. Under the peak of the gable roof is a small square louvered vent. Revised 08-2014 Page 10 REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed) Abstract of Title to Lot twenty one (21), Block two hundred ninety four (294) Subdivision of West Side Addition to Fort Collins, Colorado. (part of N.W.1/4 of Section 11-7-69), prepared by The Security Abstract and Investment Company, Larimer County, Colorado, now located at the City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. Field Guide to Colorado’s Historic Architecture and Engineering: Reformatted Edition. “Bungalow.” ed. Sarah J. Pearce. Denver: State Historical Society of Colorado, 2008. http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/OAHP/crforms_edumat/pdfs/1625Field.pdf City of Fort Collins Public Records. fcgov.com. GIS maps. “Miscellaneous Boundary Maps: Annexation Trends.” City of Fort Collins. fcgov.com. FCMaps. “Neighborhoods.” “Cemetery Maps.” Community Service Collaborative. Holy Family Neighborhood: Architecture and Building Survey Part III. (Fort Collins: Planning and Development Department, 1983). City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Office. 412 Wood St. Fort Collins City Directories (1908-2010). Fort Collins Public Library, Local History Archive (online). History Connection, including Building Records and Permits. http://history.poudrelibraries.org/ Harris, Cindy and Adam Thomas. “Fort Collins E-X-P-A-N-D-S” The City’s Postwar Development 1945- 1969. (Denver: HISTORITECTURE, L.L.C., 2011). Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Larimer County Tax Assessor Records McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Knopf, 2011. Swanson, Evadene Burris. Fort Collins Yesterday’s. Fort Collins: George and Hildegard Morgan, 1975. Today @ Colorado State. “Juan L Barraza, Sr, 63, a maintenance employee, died July 8 at home.” Colorado State University. http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=1812 (accessed 8/7/2013). U.S. Federal Census Records (1910, 1920, 1930, 1940) Various newspaper articles from Fort Collins Courier and Fort Collins Weekly Courier (1907-1923). Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing. ed. Steve Grinstead and Ben Fogelberg (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004). Revised 08-2014 Page 11 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 ATTACHMENT 3 LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION August 13, 2014 STAFF REPORT REQUEST: Fort Collins Landmark Designation of the Juan and Mary Barraza Property at 412 Wood Street, Fort Collins, Colorado STAFF CONTACT: Josh Weinberg, Historic Preservation Planner APPLICANT: Mary Barraza, Property Owner BACKGROUND: Staff is pleased to present for your consideration the Juan and Mary Barraza Property located at 412 Wood Street. The property has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Preservation Standard C. The property at 412 Wood Street is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standard C for embodying distinctive characteristics of an architectural type and period. Specifically, the building is significant to Fort Collins as a simple vernacular version of Classic Cottage architecture. Essentially a single-story version of the Foursquare architectural style, Classic Cottages were popular between about 1910 and 1930 and were mostly used in residential architecture. Character defining features of this type of architecture typically include a hipped roof over a single story square form and prominent dormer, boxed eaves, open front porch, and minimal detailing. While the residence at 412 North Wood Street lacks the central dormer element commonly seen on Classic Cottages, its square footprint, hipped roof with boxed eaves, and open porch with simple Victorian detailing are indicative of the style. Aside from a small and early addition to the rear of the building, it is relatively unchanged from the time of its original construction, and thus retains a preponderance of the seven aspects of integrity. The simplicity of style and form, along with its modest size, contribute to the significance of this building and provides insight into the values and means of the building’s occupants. In 1877 the Colorado Central Railroad arrived in Fort Collins and helped to spur the city’s growth, fostering new industries like sugar beet farming and stone quarrying. These emerging businesses relied heavily on support trades and labor. Since the early twentieth century, the men and women who lived at 412 Wood Street have worked in Fort Collins as mechanics, laborers, small business owners, greenhouse workers, and maintenance employees. They were typical of the hard working people of Fort Collins who operated many aspects of the city’s daily commerce. 412 Wood Street is a typical home in which these workers lived—modest, unpretentious, and made-to-last. This house certainly illustrates the values and lifestyle of the people who occupied the dwelling for over a century. Staff Analysis: Staff finds that the Barraza Property 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 Crane Property as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code Chapter 14 under Designation Standard C. Planning, Development & Transportation Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 ATTACHMENT 4 412 Wood Street, Fort Collins Landmark Designation Western Elevation Western and Southern Elevations ATTACHMENT 5 Eastern and Northern Elevations Eastern Elevation Eastern and Northern Elevations Close-up; Northeastern wall and foundation Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.416.2740 970.224.6134- fax fcgov.com Planning, Development & Transportation RESOLUTION 3, 2014 OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS LANDMARK PRESERVATION COMMISSION RECOMMENDING LANDMARK DESIGNATION OF THE JUAN AND MARY BARRAZA PROPERTY 412 WOOD 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 Juan and Mary Barraza has individual significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Standards A and C, as a simple vernacular version of Classic Cottage architecture and also its ability to provide insight into the values and means of the building’s occupants ; and WHEREAS, the Landmark Preservation Commission has determined that the property meets the criteria of a landmark as set forth in Section l4-5 of the code and is eligible for designation as a Fort Collins Landmark; and WHEREAS, the owner of the property, Mary Barraza, 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 l. That the property known as the Juan and Mary Barraza and the adjacent lands upon which the historical resources are located, in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: Lot 21, Block 294, West Side Addition, Fort Collins, County of Larimer, State of Colorado be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Chapter l4 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins ATTACHMENT 6 Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.416.2740 970.224.6134- fax fcgov.com Planning, Development & Transportation Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution No. 3, 2014 Juan and Mary Barraza Property, 412 Wood Street Page 2 Section 2. That the Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines for the treatment of historic properties 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. Passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Landmark Preservation Commission of the City of Fort Collins held this 13th day of August, A.D. 2014. ________________________________ Ron Sladek, Chair ATTEST: _______________________ Secretary/Staff - 1 - ORDINANCE NO. 127, 2014 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE JUAN AND MARY BARRAZA PROPERTY, 412 WOOD 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 August 13, 2014, the Landmark Preservation Commission (the "Commission") has determined that the Juan and Mary Barraza Property, located at 412 Wood Street, Fort Collins (the “Property”) and as more specifically described below, has significance to Fort Collins under Landmark Designation Standards A and C for association with significant events in Fort Collins history and its architectural significance to Fort Collins; and WHEREAS, the Commission has further determined that the 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 the Property be designated by the City Council as a landmark; and WHEREAS, the owner of the Property, Mary Barraza, has 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 the Property as a landmark. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the foregoing recitals are incorporated herein by the City Council as findings of fact. Section 2. That the Property known as the Juan and Mary Barraza Property, and the adjacent lands upon which the historical resources are located in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: Lot 21, Block 294, West Side Addition, City of Fort Collins, State of Colorado be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark according to City Code Chapter 14. - 2 - Section 3. That the criteria in Section 14-48 of the City 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 City Code. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 16th day of September, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 7th day of October, A.D. 2014. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 7th day of October, A.D. 2014. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk