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AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY April 21, 2015
City Council
STAFF
Karen McWilliams, Historic Preservation Planner
SUBJECT
First Reading of Ordinance No. 049, 2015, Designating the Holmes/Manges Property, 1202 LaPorte Avenue,
Fort Collins, Colorado, as a Fort Collins Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Code of the City of Fort
Collins.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The owner of this property, Sharon Manges, is initiating this request for Fort Collins Landmark designation of
the Holmes/Manges Property, 1202 Laporte Avenue. Built in 1905-06 by J. B. Kuhn, the red brick residence is
a nice example of early twentieth century Classic Cottage architecture. The historic wood frame garage, with
narrow horizontal drop siding, contributes to the architectural significance of the property.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION
The Fort Collins Weekly Courier reported in 1905 that Eugene Holmes had engaged J. B. Kuhn to construct an
eleven room brick residence on Laporte Avenue. The cost was $2,500. Holmes was an educator, and taught
for many years at the Remington School. Described by early historian Ansel Watrous as a “beautiful home on
Laporte Avenue,” the brick dwelling consists of a tall hipped roof with prominent pedimented gables on front
and side elevations. The hipped front porch roof has a small centered gable with returns and is supported by
classical wood columns. The main entry door is paneled with square glazing and is flanked by sash and
decorative transom windows with stone sills and lintels. A second hipped roof porch, with turned spindle
supports, is located on the eastern elevation. The historic two-bay garage features early cross braced garage.
A pair of horizontally-oriented 8 by 8 light windows is found on the western elevation. The building is clad in
narrow horizontal drop siding and covered by a front gabled roof with open eaves and exposed rafter tails.
Purchased by the Manges family in 1970, the Holmes/Manges Property qualifies for Landmark recognition
under Standard C, Design/Construction.
CITY FINANCIAL IMPACTS
Recognition of this property as a Fort Collins Landmark enables its owners to qualify for local financial
incentive programs available only to Landmark designated properties. Based upon research conducted by
Clarion Associates, the property should see an increase in value following designation. Clarion Associates
attributed this increase to the fact that future owners will 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 recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. At a
public hearing held on January 14, 2015, the Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously to
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recommend designation of this property under Designation Standard (C), for its architectural significance to
Fort Collins.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Location Map (PDF)
2. Landmark Nomination (PDF)
3. Owner Consent (PDF)
4. Photos (PDF)
5. Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution 2, 2015 (PDF)
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Fort Collins Landmark Designation
LOCATION INFORMATION:
Address: 1202 Laporte Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521
Legal Description: A part of the SE l/4 of the NE l/4 of Section 10, Township 7 North, Range
69 west of the 6th P.M., County of Larimer, state of Colorado, being more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at a point which is 444.16 feet East of Southwest corner of
the SE l/4 of the NE1/4 of said Section 10, thence West 84 feet, thence North 230 feet, thence
East 84 feet, thence South 230 feet to the point of beginning.
Property Name (historic and/or common): Holmes/Manges Property
OWNER INFORMATION:
Name: Sharon Manges
Email: sharonmanges@gmail.com
Address: 1202 Laporte Avenue, 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: Josh Weinberg, Historic Preservation Planner
Address: City of Fort Collins, Historic Preservation Division, 281 North College Avenue, Fort
Collins, CO 80522
Phone: 970-224-6206
Email: jweinberg@fcgov.com
Date Prepared: December 10, 2014.
Planning, Development & Transportation Services
Community Development & Neighborhood Services
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TYPE OF DESIGNATION and BOUNDARIES
Individual Landmark Property Landmark District
Explanation of Boundaries:
The boundaries of the property to be designated correspond to the legal description of the
property, above.
SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY
Properties are eligible for designation if they possess both significance and integrity. Significance
is the importance of a site, structure, object or district to the history, architecture, archeology,
engineering or culture of our community, State or Nation. Integrity is the ability of a site, structure,
object or district to be able to convey its significance.
Significance:
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.
Integrity:
Location. This property is located where it was originally constructed or where an historic
event occurred.
Design. This property retains a combination of elements that create its historic form, plan
space, structure, and style.
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.
Materials. This property retains much of the historic physical elements that originally formed
the property.
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.
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.
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.
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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The principal structure at 1202 Laporte Avenue is significant under Landmark Designation
Standard (C) as a well preserved representation of early twentieth century Classic Cottage
architecture in Fort Collins. Character-defining details of this architectural period include the
hipped roof with intersecting gables, nearly full-width covered front porch with classical column
supports, and tall narrow windows with stone sills and lintels. The building displays a moderate to
high degree of physical integrity. While it has undergone several alterations, they are primarily
located to the rear and do not detract from the building’s historic form or character-defining
elements. This structure retains sufficient integrity to convey its significance. The historic wood
frame garage, with narrow horizontal drop siding and contributes to the architectural significance
of this property.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Fort Collins Weekly Courier reported in 1905 that Eugene Holmes was building an eleven
room brick residence on Laporte Avenue. J.B. Kuhn was the builder of the $2,500.00 house.
Holmes was born in Michigan in 1845 and was a veteran of the Civil War. He married Jennie Kelly
of Hannibal, New York, where he taught school. After moving to Colorado and teaching in various
parts of the state, the Holmes’ settled in Fort Collins. Eugene taught in Fort Collins, including at
Remington School. Ansel Watrous reported that the Holmes’ had a “beautiful home on Laporte
Avenue.” By 1919, Henry H. Lowe, a salesman, lived in the residence with wife Lura. From 1922
through 1929 Peter and Eva Krug lived in the residence. Peter was a rancher and passed away in
1929. Following Pete’s death, Eva lived in the house with son Alvin, a painter, and daughter
Clara, a student. In the late 1930’s it appears that the by-then-married Clara and her Husband
Elmar Deines also lived in the house with Eva. Elmar worked as a clerk at the Town Pump, a
“beer parlor.” Both Elmar and Clara are buried in Grandview Cemetery; he died on January 20,
1938 and Eva on September 24, 1968. Paul and Grace Frey lived in the house from 1948 to
1952. Paul was a professor of Chemistry at Colorado A&M. Retirees, William and Opal Corbridge,
occupied the house for a span of fifteen years from 1945 through 1969. The Manges family
purchased the property in 1970 and continues to live there today. Sharon Manges is pursuing
Landmark designation for the property.
ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION
Construction Date: 1905-6
Architect/Builder: J.B. Kuhn, builder
Building Materials: Brick, stone foundation
Architectural Style: Classic Cottage hipped roof dwelling with intersecting gables
Description:
Oriented to the south, the Holmes/Manges home is set back approximately 50 feet from the
Laporte Avenue. A planted grass yard with mature landscaping surrounds the structure and an
earth and gravel drive isle flanks the eastern elevation of the property, leading back to a garage
building. Sandstone pavers lead from the driveway to the residence’s front porch and a wire fence
encloses the rear half of the yard. The brick dwelling rests on a stone foundation. It consists of a
tall hipped roof with prominent pedimented gables on front and side elevations. Eaves are
overhanging and enclosed. On the gable ends, brick walls extend without breaks to gables and
eaves return. The front elevation gable end contains a double-hung narrow window with rusticated
stone lintels and sills, while the side elevation dormers contain double hung windows. The hipped
front porch roof has a small centered gable with returns over the building’s primary entrance and
is supported by classical wood columns. The main entry door is paneled with square glazing and
is flanked by sash and decorative transom windows with stone sills and lintels. Northern, eastern,
and western elevations feature a combination of double hung and fixed windows. All appear to be
original wooden framed windows. There is a hipped roof porch on the eastern elevation with
turned spindle supports and a gabled, screened porch on the rear portion of the eastern elevation.
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There appear to be two additions to the dwelling: one dating from very early, which closely mimics
the materials and style of the original building, while another dates from 1971 and is clearly
distinctive. The earlier addition is brick and has a hipped roof and stone foundation. It is located to
the rear of the original building, slightly offset to the east. The side covered porch is situated in the
L-shape of the offset addition, which was likely added at the time of the early addition. The 1971
addition consists of two second level dormers over the northeast portion of the residence.
The property contains two outbuildings. The garage is located to the east of the residence. The
garage features historic cross braced garage doors on the south elevation assessing two
automotive bays. A pair of horizontally-orientated 8 by 8 light windows is found on the western
elevation. The building is clad in narrow horizontal drop siding and covered by a front gabled roof
with open eaves and exposed rafter tails. This garage contributes to the architectural significance
of the property. A small, modern storage shed, with gambrel roof, is tucked behind the garage to
the north, and does not contribute to the property’s significance.
REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION
Watrous, Ansel. History of Larimer County, Colorado, 1911. Centennial-Bicentennial Edition by
Miller Manor Publications. Fort Collins: Old Army Press, 1972. p. 281.
Fort Collins Weekly Courier, “Eugene Holmes Called to Eternal Rest,” November 20, 1914.
Larimer County Assessor Property Records.
Fort Collins City Directories, 1913-14 – 1971.
R. Laurie and Thomas Simmons, Front Range Research Associates, Inc. Colorado Architectural
Inventory Form, 1202 Laporte. January 1992.
ATTACHMENT 3
1202 Laporte Avenue Landmark Designation
Southern (Front) Elevation
Northern (Rear) Elevation
ATTACHMENT 4
Eastern Elevation Western Elevation
Garage, Western Elevation Garage, Northern and Western Elevations
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ORDINANCE NO. 049, 2015
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
DESIGNATING THE HOLMES/MANGES PROPERTY, 1202 LAPORTE AVENUE,
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 historic landmarks
within the City; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution dated January 14, 2015, the Landmark Preservation
Commission (the “Commission”) has determined that the Holmes/Manges Property located at
1202 Laporte Avenue in Fort Collins as more specifically described below (the “Property”) is
eligible for Landmark designation for its high degree of exterior integrity, and for its significance
to Fort Collins under Landmark Standard C (Design/Construction) as contained in Section 14-
5(2)(c) of the City Code; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has further determined that the Property meets the criteria
of a landmark as set forth in City Code Section 14-5 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 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 located in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County,
Colorado, described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point which is 444.16 feet East of Southwest corner of the SE l/4 of the
NE1/4 of said Section 10, thence West 84 feet, thence North 230 feet, thence East 84 feet,
thence South 230 feet to the point of beginning
be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Chapter 14 of the City Code.
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Section 3. That the criteria in City Code Section 14-48 as they may from time to time
be amended, will serve as the standards by which alterations, additions and other changes to the
buildings and structures located upon the Property will be reviewed for compliance with City
Code Chapter 14, Article III.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 21st day of
April, A.D. 2015, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of May, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of May, A.D. 2015.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk