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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/15/2018 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 068, 2018, DESIGNATAgenda Item 9 Item # 9 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 15, 2018 City Council STAFF Karen McWilliams, Historic Preservation Planner Brad Yatabe, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 068, 2018, Designating the McMillan-Patterson Property, 121 North Grant Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado, as a Fort Collins Landmark Pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This item is to consider the request for landmark designation for the McMillen-Patterson Property, 121 North Grant Avenue, an excellent example of an Eastlake-style home from the late 1880s. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The McMillen-Patterson Property is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standard A for its association with the creation of the Loomis Addition, as the first known show home in Fort Collins, and as the only known home to be given away in a drawing. The Property is significant under Standard C for its distinctive and outstanding representation of the Eastlake style, a popular Victorian-era variation of the Queen Anne style. The home is one of the oldest remaining homes in the Loomis Addition which was developed by and named for Abner Loomis. The home was built between June 1887 and May 1888 as a show home to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition. Those that purchased lots were entered into the drawing for a chance to win the home. This is also the earliest documented pattern-book home in Fort Collins. 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. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION At its April 18, 2018, regular hearing, the Landmark Preservation Commission unanimously adopted a resolution recommending adoption of an ordinance by Council for landmark designation. PUBLIC OUTREACH The Landmark Preservation Commission held a public hearing on this item at its April 18, 2018, meeting. Agenda Item 9 Item # 9 Page 2 ATTACHMENTS 1. Location Map (PDF) 2. Landmark Nomination Form (PDF) 3. Staff Report to LPC (PDF) 4. Staff Presentation to LPC, with photos (PDF) 5. Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution 1, 2018 (PDF) N Grant Ave N Washington Ave Bungalow Ct S Grant Ave S Washington Ave W Mountain Ave © 121 N Grant SITE 1 inch = 85 feet ATTACHMENT 1 Revised 08-2014 Page 1 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION: Address: 121 N. Grant Ave., Fort Collins. CO Legal Description: N 48 ft of Lot 16, Block 291, Loomis Addition. Fort Collins Property Name (historic and/or common): McMillen-Patterson House OWNER INFORMATION: Name: Susan Hoskinson Company/Organization (if applicable): Phone: 970 484-7137 Email: susanhoskinson1@gmail.com Mailing Address: 121 N. Grant Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 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: Mary Humstone, Principal, Humstone Consulting Address: 4420 Bingham Hill Rd, Fort Collins, CO 80521 Phone: 970 420-5275 Email: humstone@gmail.com Relationship to Owner: contractor Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 DATE: March 20, 2018 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 is .21 acres in size and consists of a single- family residence and a detached garage. SIGNIFICANCE and INTEGRITY Properties are eligible for designation if they possess both significance and exterior 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. 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. 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. Exterior Integrity 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. Standard A: Location. This property is located where it was originally constructed or where an historic event occurred. Standard B: Design. This property retains a combination of elements that create its historic form, plan space, structure, and style. Standard C: 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. Standard D: Materials. This property retains much of the historic physical elements that originally formed the property. Standard E: 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. Standard F: 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. Standard G: 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. Revised 08-2014 Page 3 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY The McMillen-Patterson House is significant under Standard A and Standard C. This residence was built as a show home to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition, and is one of the oldest remaining houses in one of the earliest subdivisions (1887) in Fort Collins. The Loomis Addition was developed by and named after Abner Loomis, one of Fort Collins’ early and prominent developers and businessmen. The first occupants of the house were Arthur H. (Billy) and Alice Patterson. Arthur was closely identified with the early history and growth of Fort Collins. He owned and operated a livery and freighting business on Jefferson Street and donated 80 acres of land for the Agricultural College (CSU). He served as alderman for the city, helped build the town ditch that ran through the Loomis Addition, and planted trees along College Avenue, the main street of the community. The house went through multiple owners before being purchased in 1967 by Donald L. and Susan L. McMillen. Susan (now Hoskinson) has owned and lived in the house ever since. In spite of multiple owners and the changes in living standards and conveniences in the 130 years since the house was built, the property still retains its historic character and architectural features and represents the full history of the Loomis Addition. Under Standard C, this property embodies the identifiable characteristics of the Eastlake style, a popular Victorian-era variation of the Queen Anne style, in which the decorative elements are flattened out so as to appear more angular and machine made. Features of the Eastlake style include repetitive, machine-made decorations in bead and belt-like patterns, as well incised decorative elements especially in the gable ends. Eastlake houses also have delicate spindlework detailing on porch balustrades and/or valances, and cut-away corner windows, in which the window itself sits at a 45-degree angle to the walls, and the wall area above is decorated with scroll-sawn wood. The McMillen-Patterson House is one of the few remaining Eastlake-style houses in Fort Collins, and the only Eastlake-style house in the Loomis Addition. The house exhibits typical Eastlake details in its boxy and cut-away bays, and repetitive decorative wood patterns, especially in the gable ends. The house was designed by the architectural firm of Gould and Angell of Providence, Rhode Island, and is the earliest documented pattern-book house in Fort Collins. Although several Gould and Angell-designed houses exist in Providence, Rhode Island, this is the only known Gould and Angell building in Fort Collins. This property retains all seven aspects of integrity. The house retains its original location and setting on a block that has not been impacted by new construction. The house retains original materials and workmanship. The two additions (1948 and 1978) are located at the rear of the building and match the original house in terms of roof height and form, as well as materials and details, and therefore do not diminish integrity of architectural design. The house retains the feeling and association of the late 1880s when the Loomis Addition was platted. Revised 08-2014 Page 4 HISTORICAL INFORMATION The house at 121 North Grant Avenue was the first house built after the Loomis Addition was platted in 1887. It was constructed between June 1887 and May 1888. The house was built and advertised as a show home to be given away in a raffle, in order to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition. Those purchasing lots (offered for $75 and up) were eligible for a chance to win the home. Denver real estate broker George G. Darrow, agent for owner and developer Abner Loomis, received a building permit in 1887. The builder was Herman W. Schroeder, who is listed in the abstract as having a mechanic’s lien on the home for a few months. His name was scrawled in black paint on a rough board tacked above the kitchen door.1 The house as it was advertised and later built was featured in the 1881 edition of William Comstock’s Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details,” Plate 73. The design was credited to Gould and Angell, architects from Providence, Rhode Island. The house and lot were valued at $3000. When 200 lots had been sold, Darrow held a drawing in the old Fort Collins Opera House. The house was won by J.M. Fillebrown of Geneva, Nebraska, on Friday, May 11, 1888. Fillebrown sold the house to Alice Patterson (wife of Arthur H. “Billy”) on August 10, 1888, for $1200. Arthur died in 1892, but the Patterson family continued to own the house until 1900. Arthur had been a close friend of William H. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. The two of them traveled to New Mexico together at the ages of 18 (Billy) and 16 (Buffalo Bill) in January 1862 to deliver supplies from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Colonel John Chivington’s command, which fought the decisive battle at Apache Canyon resulting in the defeat of the Confederate army under General Sibley. Patterson headed north from there to Colorado where he established a livery and freighting business in Fort Collins by 1866. Cody returned to Leavenworth where he and Patterson had met. The two remained in contact afterward and Cody occasionally visited Patterson in Fort Collins during the late 19 th century. The Fort Collins Express of December 10, 1892 notes that, “Hon W.F. Cody, otherwise known as ‘Buffalo Bill’ is in our city on a brief visit with Wm. Patterson.” Patterson died the following month, and his obituary also mentions the final visit from Cody. Patterson married Alice Watrous in December, 1873. They lived at 211 Myrtle Street and then built a home in November 1879 on Remington Street south of the Remington school building on the corner of Remington and Olive. Patterson donated 80 of the 240 acres that were given to the State of Colorado to form the nucleus of the Colorado State University campus. 121 N. Grant has had many owners. Robert M. Ferguson, the secretary at Collins Cash Clothing, purchased the house from the Patterson family in 1900. From 1914 to 1924 there were 5 owners: Clyde and Addie Brown owned both lots 16 and 17 from 1914 to 1919. The lots were then sold separately, lot 16 where the house is located was sold to Nellie A. Matteson in 1919. Kathryn Marshall was the owner from 1920 to1921, G.F. Wiard in 1921 and Mary Alice Aanes from 1921 to1924. J.F. and Myrtle Kinney owned the home from 1924 to 1945 and sold it to C. G. Snelling in 1945. Myrtle also conveyed 1 This was found by the owner during interior renovation work in 2016. H.W. Schroeder is listed as builder of this house in a Fort Collins Courier article, June 23, 1887, page 1. Revised 08-2014 Page 5 the south two feet of lot 16 by warranty deed to Emma Clammer of 119 N. Grant on November 9, 1945. Edward M. Holst, Jr. and his wife Vivian purchased the home in 1946 and sold it to Emma P. Clammer in 1954. An addition was made to the house sometime before 1948. There is no building permit for this addition, but it is shown on the 1948 Tax Assessor record. Martha Mae Trupp purchased the home in 1956 and sold it to Edith Trupp the following year. The next owners, Harold and Sarah Hicks, purchased it in 1965, but went bankrupt in 1966. Donald L. “Don” and Susan L. McMillen purchased the home from Fort Collins Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1967. They started a local weekly newspaper, the Triangle Review, in May 1973. They became very active in documenting the history of Fort Collins through their newspaper and Susan (now Hoskinson) has been a leader in preserving Fort Collins’ history. Susan sold the newspaper in 1983 and it continued to be published until 1995. Susan still resides in the home today. When the McMillens purchased the property in 1967, they undertook major interior remodeling, as the house was uninhabitable. They added another 500 sq. ft. to the existing 1000 sq. ft. in 1978. The two-story addition was faced with bricks that the McMillens salvaged from a demolished gas station at North College Avenue and Jefferson Street in Fort Collins. The house’s brick exterior was painted white when the McMillens bought it. The original brick is very soft, and it had deteriorated in a number of places. They discussed removing the paint but concluded that the process would do a great deal of damage. Susan selected the current paint colors based on a color palette from the era when the house was built: brick color on the brick itself, sage green on the decorative shingles, and brown trim. Revised 08-2014 Page 6 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: 1887; c. 1948; 1978 Architect/Builder: Gould and Angell (pattern book), architects; Herman Schroeder, Builder Building Materials: Brick, wood, sandstone Architectural Style: Eastlake Description: Original House: (18’ x 37’)This one-and-a-half-story, Eastlake-style brick dwelling has an asymmetrical east-facing façade with two bays. The brick is laid in stretcher bond. The original brick had been painted white prior to 1967; it is now painted to match the color of the original brick. The foundation is cut stone coursed with one row of rock-faced sandstone and one row of sandstone with bush-hammered detailing. There is an unfinished basement below grade. The steeply pitched, cross-gabled roof is sheathed with wood shingles and has metal ridge caps that terminate with ball finials at each of the gable ends. Windows are 1-over-1 double-hung or small stationary sash and have brick flat-arch tops with radiating voussoirs and sandstone lugsills with bush-hammered detailing unless otherwise noted. The house has a complex roofline consisting of a total of six gable ends, two east-west and four north-south. The three main gables of the original part of the house are all similar in design, and terminate in a fish-scale shingled “skirt” which forms a slight overhang above the first story. The main portion of the facade under the front-facing gable has a central, squared off bay window on the first story with two separate 1-over-1 double-hung windows. A single stone lug sill extends the length of the bay. The front gable has vergeboards which terminate in wood returns carved in a shell pattern. A set of three 1-over-1 double-hung windows with decorative wood surrounds and a center ogee over each window is centered in the gable end. Below the windows is a wood balconet with a finial at each end. Above the windows is Eastlake detailing consisting of fish-scale shingles surrounding a central rectangular frame with eight square medallions, and a row of wood dentils at the base. Staggered rectangular shingles sheath the lower half of the gable end with a round wood molding marking the transition from the wall to the “skirt.” In the southeast corner of the façade is a semi-enclosed, one-story porch slightly set back from the projecting front bay of the house and sheltered by an extension of the main gable roof. The east-facing porch entry is arched and supported by square brick columns with corbelled capitals. A similar arched opening, about three-quarter length with a stone lug sill, is on the south side of the porch. Below the sill is a staggered brick decorative design. The arches are elliptical with radiating voussoirs, and have decorative wrought- iron semi-elliptical inserts. Above the front arch the roof forms a pediment, which contains a decorative wood panel topped by a sunburst motif. The porch deck is redwood and the steps are sandstone. The original front door is oak with one rectangular wood panel above a large glass pane and four square wood panels below. There is also a wood storm door. The south elevation of the original house has a three-sided cutaway bay topped by an overhanging front-gable roof. There is a small stationary-sash window in the center bay, a matching opening in-filled with staggered brickwork in the west bay, and a double-hung window in the east bay. To each side of the bay is a small stationary window. The south- facing gable end has most of the same features as the front gable. The vergeboards have a decorative bulls eye design at each end. The surface of the gable end is sheathed with Revised 08-2014 Page 7 seven rows of hexagonal shingles with a wood entablature and a row of wood dentils below. Below the dentils are two small, double-hung windows with decorative wood surrounds, separated by a set of 15 wood medallions. Under the windows is a rounded sill molding topping staggered rectangular shingles which wrap around the sides of the gable. The terminating skirt projects over the cutaway bay below and is supported by two decorative corner brackets. Continuing west on the south elevation there is a five-panel wood door with one glass light. The original plan (as shown in Comstock’s pattern book) shows a small window where the door is, and a brick voussoir several inches above the door indicates that there might have originally been a window in this location. A short row of slightly protruding bricks extends from near the top of the door frame west to what would have been the back corner of the original house. A similar protruding brick course extends lower down from the east side of the door to the lug sill under the stationary window, and on to the western edge of the bay. A wood deck, completed in 2017, runs from the south-elevation door to the rear of the house. Steps access the deck at the location of the door. A wooden privacy fence located west of the canted bay screens the deck from public view. The north elevation has a slightly projecting squared-off bay on the first story with two double-hung windows. A single double-hung window is located to the west on the bay on the first story. The north-facing gable above the bay has most of the same features as the south gable. The vergeboards have a decorative bulls eye design on each end, with a decorative wood shell design at the apex. The top of the gable end is sheathed with five rows of hexagonal shingles. Below is a wood entablature which tops a pair of double- hung windows with wood surrounds. The remainder of the wall is sheathed with staggered rectangular shingles. A brick chimney with a corbelled top rises from the east slope of the gable. Additions: The first addition to the house (18’ x 11’) was added before 1948, according to the tax assessor record; there is no building permit record. The one-story, brick addition was added to the rear (west) wall of the house. It has a rock-faced stone foundation and originally had a slightly sloping flat roof. There were no windows on the south or north elevations. There were two large windows on the west elevation that opened onto a 7’ x 16’ wood-frame back porch. In 1978, the current owner remodeled the first addition, removed the back porch, and added a second 10.5’-long addition to the west. The remodeling/addition project was designed by Dave Dobkins, son-in-law of architect William Robb. The first addition was expanded with the construction of another cross-gabled, skirted roof which extended to the west end of the original main (east-west) gable. Each of the south and north elevation gable ends in the addition has two double-hung windows with eight rows of hexagonal shingles above the window and rows of staggered rectangular shingles below, terminating in a wood molding and skirt, matching those of the original gables. The windows have plain wood surrounds. On the first story, two windows with plain wood surrounds were added on both the south and north elevations. On the north elevation, a small double-hung basement window (1978-79) is inside a stone-lined window well. Basement windows on the south elevation are not visible due to the deck. This second addition, which replaced the 7’ x 16’ back porch, is frame construction faced with brick, a concrete foundation, and a gable roof. The bricks were salvaged by the owners from a gas station that was being demolished at the corner of Jefferson Street and College Avenue in Fort Collins. On the main story of the west elevation are four double-hung windows with brick sills and a five-panel wood door (1978) with one light and Revised 08-2014 Page 8 a wood storm door (2014). A pair of double-hung windows with plain wood surrounds is centered in the gable end. There are seven rows of hexagonal shingles above the windows and staggered rectangular shingles on the lower part of the gable end terminating in a wood molding and skirt. The south elevation of the addition has a brick and wood-shingled exterior chimney. A wide wood deck with a wood railing on its north and south sides extends from the west wall of the house and wraps around the rear portion of the south elevation. The house is set back on the lot behind a wide front lawn. A concrete walkway leads from the street to the front porch, and around the south side of the house back to the garage and alley. A tall cedar fence encircles the backyard, from just west of the bay windows of the original house. A flagstone walk leads from the gate on the north side of the house to the back deck. Garage (1990; non-contributing): A 26’ x 20’, one-and-a-half-story, one-car garage was built to the west of the house in 1990 to replace an older garage built in 1924 and demolished in the early 1980s. The rectangular garage has wood lap siding and an asphalt shingled roof with metal ridge cap with ball finials matching those of the house. The roof has an intersecting central gable on the east elevation. The east elevation is symmetrical, with a central 4-panel wood door with a single upper light flanked by pairs of double-hung windows. A small double-hung window is centered in the gable end. The north elevation has one double-hung window on the upper story and the south elevation has a double-hung window on both stories. The west elevation has a single garage door offset to the south. Revised 08-2014 Page 9 REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION (attach a separate sheet if needed) Abstract of Title, 121 N. Grant. Comstock, Wm. T. Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Detail. Reprint of Modern Architectural Designs and Details, William T. Comstock, Architectural Publisher, New York, 1881. Dover Publications, 2005. Plate 73. Fort Collins Courier, June 23, 1887, page 1. Fort Collins Express, January 7,1888, page 1; December 10, 1892, page 6. Hoskinson, Susan. Interviews. November, 2016 and March, 2018. Humstone, et al: Loomis Addition Historic Context, prepared for the City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Program, 2015. Humstone Consulting. Colorado Cultural Resource Survey, Architectural Inventory Form for 121 N. Grant Avenue, 2017. Swanson, Evadene. Fort Collins Yesterdays. 1975. Page 216; Watrous, Ansel. History of Larimer County. 1911. Page 411. Revised 08-2014 Page 12 SKETCH MAP AGREEMENT The undersigned own·er(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 \C\4-'�\ day of_-'-µ_0-_X'_l_....... t \ ______ , 201 <i. . �r r--fu Name s � (please o<f print) es le I t'hs o f\J ;i:Gthner 1� Signature ?lf2ilnd81 / State of Cc k.,-w.0c )ss. County of -�-L_Y'_l_i_l\t.Q__I' _____ ) Subscribed and sworn before me this \°1 yl-\ day of_��\_�, Ci�c_l _L__i l __ , 201_.b_, Witness my hand and official seal. My commission expires __ 4--'-·--'-[-'-r -'--i__,_\-=2--c-",�Z-D·"--=---- J Notary Revised 08-2014 JILL M SCHAAKE NOTARY PUBLIC S1ATE OF COLORADO NOTARY D 2DOll4020548 MV COMMISSION EXPIRESAPRIL 18, 2020 Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 1 STAFF REPORT April 18, 2018 Landmark Preservation Commission PROJECT NAME MCMILLEN-PATTERSON PROPERTY 121 NORTH GRANT - APPLICATION FOR FORT COLLINS LANDMARK DESIGNATION STAFF Cassandra Bumgarner, Historic Preservation Planner PROJECT INFORMATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This item is to consider the request for a recommendation to City Council regarding landmark designation for the McMillen-Patterson Property, an excellent example of an Eastlake-style home from the late 1880s. APPLICANT: Susan Hoskinson, Owner RECOMMENDATION: Approval EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BACKGROUND The McMillen-Patterson Property is significant under Fort Collins Landmark Designation Standard A, for its association with the creation of the Loomis Addition as a show home to be given away in a drawing, and Standard C, for its distinctive Eastlake style, a popular Victorian-era variation of the Queen Anne style. The home is one of the oldest remaining homes in the Loomis Addition, which was developed by and named for Abner Loomis. The home was built between June 1887 and May 1888 as a show home to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition. Those that purchased lots were entered into the drawing for a chance to win the home. This is also the earliest documented pattern-book home in Fort Collins. The current owner of this property, Susan Hoskinson, has submitted an application requesting consideration for Fort Collins local landmark designation. COMMISSION ACTION Chapter 14, Article II of the Municipal Code, “Designation Procedures,” provides the process and standards for designation of a property as a Fort Collins Landmark. The Commission shall adopt a motion providing a recommendation on eligibility to City Council. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and EXTERIOR INTEGRITY The McMillen-Patterson Property is significant under Standard A and Standard C. This residence was built as a show home to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition, and is one of the oldest remaining houses in one of the earliest subdivisions (1887) in Fort Collins. The Loomis Addition was developed by and named after Abner Loomis, one of Fort Collins’ early and prominent developers and businessmen. The first occupants of the house were Arthur H. (Billy) and Alice Patterson. Arthur was closely identified with the early history and growth of Fort ATTACHMENT 3 Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 2 Collins. He owned and operated a livery and freighting business on Jefferson Street and donated 80 acres of land for the Agricultural College (CSU). He served as alderman for the city, helped build the town ditch that ran through the Loomis Addition, and planted trees along College Avenue, the main street of the community. The house went through multiple owners before being purchased in 1967 by Donald L. and Susan L. McMillen. Susan (now Hoskinson) has owned and lived in the house ever since. In spite of multiple owners and the changes in living standards and conveniences in the 130 years since the house was built, the property still retains its historic character and architectural features and represents the full history of the Loomis Addition. Under Standard C, this property embodies the identifiable characteristics of the Eastlake style, a popular Victorian- era variation of the Queen Anne style, in which the decorative elements are flattened out so as to appear more angular and machine made. Features of the Eastlake style include repetitive, machine-made decorations in bead and belt-like patterns, as well incised decorative elements especially in the gable ends. Eastlake houses also have delicate spindlework detailing on porch balustrades and/or valances, and cut-away corner windows, in which the window itself sits at a 45-degree angle to the walls, and the wall area above is decorated with scroll-sawn wood. The McMillen-Patterson Property is one of the few remaining Eastlake-style houses in Fort Collins, and the only Eastlake-style house in the Loomis Addition. The house exhibits typical Eastlake details in its boxy and cut-away bays, and repetitive decorative wood patterns, especially in the gable ends. The house was designed by the architectural firm of Gould and Angell of Providence, Rhode Island, and is the earliest documented pattern-book house in Fort Collins. Although several Gould and Angell-designed houses exist in Providence, Rhode Island, this is the only known Gould and Angell building in Fort Collins. The property retains a preponderance of exterior integrity, as follows: Standard A: Location. Integrity of location is present, as the residence is still in its original location. Standard B: Design. Integrity of design is defined as "the combination of elements that create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of a property." The building retains integrity of design, as the residence’s original form, massing, scale, and proportion are wholly discernible. The two additions on the residence, 1948 and 1978, are located at the rear of the home. Standard C: Setting. The integrity of setting is present, as the building’s residential setting in a residential block remains. Standard D: Materials. This building retains good integrity of materials, as much of the historic physical elements that originally formed the building remain. The brick on the home has been painted at least since 1967 and the current owners discussed removing the paint, but concluded it would damage the brick too much. Standard E: Workmanship. This building retains good evidence of the workmanship from the original pattern-book design of Gould and Angell and builder Herman Schroeder. This consists of evidence of the artisans' labor and skill in constructing the building. Standard F: Feeling. Integrity of feeling is defined as "a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time." The home’s physical characteristics and its environment evoke strong feelings relating to the period of construction. Standard G: Association. Integrity of association is defined as the direct link between an important historic event and a historic property. Through its physical characteristics, the property is able to convey its strong association with the late 1880s in Fort Collins. HISTORICAL INFORMATION The house at 121 North Grant Avenue was the first house built after the Loomis Addition was platted in 1887. It was constructed between June 1887 and May 1888. The house was built and advertised as a show home to be given away in a drawing, in order to entice people to buy lots in the Loomis Addition. Those purchasing lots (offered for $75 and up) were eligible for a chance to win the home. Denver real estate broker George G. Darrow, agent for owner and developer Abner Loomis, received a building permit in 1887. The builder was Herman W. Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 3 Schroeder, who is listed in the abstract as having a mechanic’s lien on the home for a few months. His name was scrawled in black paint on a rough board tacked above the kitchen door. This was found by the owner during interior renovation work in 2016. H.W. Schroeder is listed as builder of this house in a Fort Collins Courier article, June 23, 1887, page 1. The house as it was advertised and later built was featured in the 1881 edition of William Comstock’s Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details,” Plate 73. The design was credited to Gould and Angell, architects from Providence, Rhode Island. The house and lot were valued at $3000. When 200 lots had been sold, Darrow held a drawing in the old Fort Collins Opera House. The house was won by J.M. Fillebrown of Geneva, Nebraska, on Friday, May 11, 1888. Fillebrown sold the house to Alice Patterson (wife of Arthur H. “Billy”) on August 10, 1888, for $1200. Arthur died in 1892, but the Patterson family continued to own the house until 1900. Arthur had been a close friend of William H. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. The two of them traveled to New Mexico together at the ages of 18 (Billy) and 16 (Buffalo Bill) in January 1862 to deliver supplies from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Colonel John Chivington’s command, which fought the decisive battle at Apache Canyon resulting in the defeat of the Confederate army under General Sibley. Patterson headed north from there to Colorado where he established a livery and freighting business in Fort Collins by 1866. Cody returned to Leavenworth where he and Patterson had met. The two remained in contact afterward and Cody occasionally visited Patterson in Fort Collins during the late 19th century. The Fort Collins Express of December 10, 1892 notes that, “Hon W.F. Cody, otherwise known as ‘Buffalo Bill’ is in our city on a brief visit with Wm. Patterson.” Patterson died the following month, and his obituary also mentions the final visit from Cody. Patterson married Alice Watrous in December 1873. They lived at 211 Myrtle Street and then built a home in November 1879 on Remington Street south of the Remington school building on the corner of Remington and Olive. Patterson donated 80 of the 240 acres that were given to the State of Colorado to form the nucleus of the Colorado State University campus. 121 N. Grant has had many owners. Robert M. Ferguson, the secretary at Collins Cash Clothing, purchased the house from the Patterson family in 1900. From 1914 to 1924 there were 5 owners: Clyde and Addie Brown owned both lots 16 and 17 from 1914 to 1919. The lots were then sold separately, lot 16 where the house is located was sold to Nellie A. Matteson in 1919. Kathryn Marshall was the owner from 1920 to1921, G.F. Wiard in 1921 and Mary Alice Aanes from 1921 to1924. J.F. and Myrtle Kinney owned the home from 1924 to 1945 and sold it to C. G. Snelling in 1945. Myrtle also conveyed the south two feet of lot 16 by warranty deed to Emma Clammer of 119 N. Grant on November 9, 1945. Edward M. Holst, Jr. and his wife Vivian purchased the home in 1946 and sold it to Emma P. Clammer in 1954. An addition was made to the house sometime before 1948. There is no building permit for this addition, but it is shown on the 1948 Tax Assessor record. Martha Mae Trupp purchased the home in 1956 and sold it to Edith Trupp the following year. The next owners, Harold and Sarah Hicks, purchased it in 1965, but went bankrupt in 1966. Donald L. “Don” and Susan L. McMillen purchased the home from Fort Collins Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1967. They started a local weekly newspaper, the Triangle Review, in May 1973. They became very active in documenting the history of Fort Collins through their newspaper and Susan (now Hoskinson) has been a leader in preserving Fort Collins’ history. Susan sold the newspaper in 1983 and it continued to be published until 1995. Susan still resides in the home today. When the McMillens purchased the property in 1967, they undertook major interior remodeling, as the house was uninhabitable. They added another 500 sq. ft. to the existing 1000 sq. ft. in 1978. The two-story addition was faced with bricks that the McMillens salvaged from a demolished gas station at North College Avenue and Jefferson Street in Fort Collins. The house’s brick exterior was painted white when the McMillens bought it. The original brick is very soft, and it had deteriorated in a number of places. They discussed removing the paint but concluded that the process would do a great deal of damage. Susan selected the current paint colors based on a color palette from the era when the house was built: brick color on the brick itself, sage green on the decorative shingles, and brown trim. Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 4 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: 1887; c. 1948; 1978 Architect/Builder: Gould and Angell (pattern book), architects; Herman Schroeder, Builder Building Materials: Brick, wood, sandstone Architectural Style: Eastlake Description: Original House: (18’ x 37’)This one-and-a-half-story, Eastlake-style brick dwelling has an asymmetrical east-facing façade with two bays. The brick is laid in stretcher bond. The original brick had been painted white prior to 1967; it is now painted to match the color of the original brick. The foundation is cut stone coursed with one row of rock- faced sandstone and one row of sandstone with bush-hammered detailing. There is an unfinished basement below grade. The steeply pitched, cross-gabled roof is sheathed with wood shingles and has metal ridge caps that terminate with ball finials at each of the gable ends. Windows are 1-over-1 double-hung or small stationary sash and have brick flat-arch tops with radiating voussoirs and sandstone lugsills with bush-hammered detailing unless otherwise noted. The house has a complex roofline consisting of a total of six gable ends, two east-west and four north-south. The three main gables of the original part of the house are all similar in design, and terminate in a fish- scale shingled “skirt” which forms a slight overhang above the first story. The main portion of the facade under the front-facing gable has a central, squared off bay window on the first story with two separate 1-over-1 double-hung windows. A single stone lug sill extends the length of the bay. The front gable has vergeboards which terminate in wood returns carved in a shell pattern. A set of three 1-over-1 double- hung windows with decorative wood surrounds and a center ogee over each window is centered in the gable end. Below the windows is a wood balconet with a finial at each end. Above the windows is Eastlake detailing consisting of fish-scale shingles surrounding a central rectangular frame with eight square medallions, and a row of wood dentils at the base. Staggered rectangular shingles sheath the lower half of the gable end with a round wood molding marking the transition from the wall to the “skirt.” In the southeast corner of the façade is a semi-enclosed, one-story porch slightly set back from the projecting front bay of the house and sheltered by an extension of the main gable roof. The east-facing porch entry is arched and supported by square brick columns with corbelled capitals. A similar arched opening, about three-quarter length with a stone lug sill, is on the south side of the porch. Below the sill is a staggered brick decorative design. The arches are elliptical with radiating voussoirs, and have decorative wrought-iron semi-elliptical inserts. Above the front arch the roof forms a pediment, which contains a decorative wood panel topped by a sunburst motif. The porch deck is redwood and the steps are sandstone. The original front door is oak with one rectangular wood panel above a large glass pane and four square wood panels below. There is also a wood storm door. The south elevation of the original house has a three-sided cutaway bay topped by an overhanging front-gable roof. There is a small stationary-sash window in the center bay, a matching opening in-filled with staggered brickwork in the west bay, and a double-hung window in the east bay. To each side of the bay is a small stationary window. The south-facing gable end has most of the same features as the front gable. The vergeboards have a decorative bulls eye design at each end. The surface of the gable end is sheathed with seven rows of hexagonal shingles with a wood entablature and a row of wood dentils below. Below the dentils are two small, double-hung windows with decorative wood surrounds, separated by a set of 15 wood medallions. Under the windows is a rounded sill molding topping staggered rectangular shingles which wrap around the sides of the gable. The terminating skirt projects over the cutaway bay below and is supported by two decorative corner brackets. Continuing west on the south elevation there is a five-panel wood door with one glass light. The original plan (as shown in Comstock’s pattern book) shows a small window where the door is, and a brick voussoir several inches above the door indicates that there might have originally been a window in this location. A short row of slightly protruding bricks extends from near the top of the door frame west to what would have been the back corner of the original house. A similar protruding brick course extends lower down from the east side of the door to the lug sill under the stationary window, and on to the western edge of the bay. A wood deck, completed in 2017, runs from the south-elevation door to the rear of the house. Steps access the deck at the location of the door. A wooden privacy fence located west of the canted bay screens the deck from public view. Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 5 The north elevation has a slightly projecting squared-off bay on the first story with two double-hung windows. A single double-hung window is located to the west on the bay on the first story. The north-facing gable above the bay has most of the same features as the south gable. The vergeboards have a decorative bulls eye design on each end, with a decorative wood shell design at the apex. The top of the gable end is sheathed with five rows of hexagonal shingles. Below is a wood entablature which tops a pair of double-hung windows with wood surrounds. The remainder of the wall is sheathed with staggered rectangular shingles. A brick chimney with a corbelled top rises from the east slope of the gable. Additions: The first addition to the house (18’ x 11’) was added before 1948, according to the tax assessor record; there is no building permit record. The one-story, brick addition was added to the rear (west) wall of the house. It has a rock-faced stone foundation and originally had a slightly sloping flat roof. There were no windows on the south or north elevations. There were two large windows on the west elevation that opened onto a 7’ x 16’ wood- frame back porch. In 1978, the current owner remodeled the first addition, removed the back porch, and added a second 10.5’-long addition to the west. The remodeling/addition project was designed by Dave Dobkins, son-in-law of architect William Robb. The first addition was expanded with the construction of another cross-gabled, skirted roof which extended to the west end of the original main (east-west) gable. Each of the south and north elevation gable ends in the addition has two double-hung windows with eight rows of hexagonal shingles above the window and rows of staggered rectangular shingles below, terminating in a wood molding and skirt, matching those of the original gables. The windows have plain wood surrounds. On the first story, two windows with plain wood surrounds were added on both the south and north elevations. On the north elevation, a small double-hung basement window (1978-79) is inside a stone-lined window well. Basement windows on the south elevation are not visible due to the deck. This second addition, which replaced the 7’ x 16’ back porch, is frame construction faced with brick, a concrete foundation, and a gable roof. The bricks were salvaged by the owners from a gas station that was being demolished at the corner of Jefferson Street and College Avenue in Fort Collins. On the main story of the west elevation are four double-hung windows with brick sills and a five-panel wood door (1978) with one light and a wood storm door (2014). A pair of double-hung windows with plain wood surrounds is centered in the gable end. There are seven rows of hexagonal shingles above the windows and staggered rectangular shingles on the lower part of the gable end terminating in a wood molding and skirt. The south elevation of the addition has a brick and wood-shingled exterior chimney. A wide wood deck with a wood railing on its north and south sides extends from the west wall of the house and wraps around the rear portion of the south elevation. The house is set back on the lot behind a wide front lawn. A concrete walkway leads from the street to the front porch, and around the south side of the house back to the garage and alley. A tall cedar fence encircles the backyard, from just west of the bay windows of the original house. A flagstone walk leads from the gate on the north side of the house to the back deck. Garage (1990; non-contributing): A 26’ x 20’, one-and-a-half-story, one-car garage was built to the west of the house in 1990 to replace an older garage built in 1924 and demolished in the early 1980s. The rectangular garage has wood lap siding and an asphalt shingled roof with metal ridge cap with ball finials matching those of the house. The roof has an intersecting central gable on the east elevation. The east elevation is symmetrical, with a central 4-panel wood door with a single upper light flanked by pairs of double-hung windows. A small double-hung window is centered in the gable end. The north elevation has one double-hung window on the upper story and the south elevation has a double-hung window on both stories. The west elevation has a single garage door offset to the south. STAFF EVALUATION Staff finds that the McMillen-Patterson Property qualifies for Fort Collins Landmark designation under Designation Standards A and C as an excellent example of an Eastlake style residence associated with the development of the Loomis Addition with a preponderance of exterior integrity. The dwelling continues to uphold all seven aspects of integrity. Agenda Item 4 Item # 4 Page 6 SAMPLE MOTIONS If the Commission finds that the McMillen-Patterson Property meets one or more of the criteria for Fort Collins landmark designation, the Commission shall adopt the following motion: That the Landmark Preservation Commission pass a resolution recommending that City Council designate the McMillen-Patterson Property as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Municipal Code Chapter 14, based on the property’s significance under Standards A and C for its history as a in the development of the Loomis Addition and design as an Eastlake style residence, and its preponderance of exterior integrity. If the Commission finds that the McMillen-Patterson Property does not meet the criteria for landmark designation, it shall adopt a motion to this effect, and state its reasoning. ATTACHMENTS 1. Landmark Designation Application (PDF) 2. Location Map (PDF) 3. Staff Presentation (PDF) 1 Application for Fort Collins Landmark Designation – McMillen-Patterson Property Cassandra Bumgarner, Historic Preservation Planner Landmark Preservation Commission 04.18.2018 ATTACHMENT 4 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property 2 Façade, East Elevation 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property Façade, East Elevation details 3 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property South Elevation 4 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property South Elevation 5 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property West Elevation North Elevation 6 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property North Elevation 7 121 N Grant – McMillen-Patterson Property 8 Garage, non-contributing McMillen-Patterson Property • Constructed in 1887 • Standard A: Events – one of earliest in Loomis Addition, built and advertised as shown home to be given away in a drawing • Standard C: Design/Construction – Eastlake Style, pattern home • Exterior Integrity: Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association 9 Location and Context 10 Role of the Landmark Preservation Commission Chapter 14, Article II of the Municipal Code, “Designation Procedures:” • Determine if property meets the criteria of a Fort Collins landmark • Must possess both significance and exterior integrity • Context of the area surrounding the property shall be considered Sec. 14-22(a): If all owners consent in writing, and a majority of Commission approves: • Commission may adopt a resolution recommending to the City Council the designation 11 ATTACHMENT 5 -1- ORDINANCE NO. 068, 2018 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE MCMILLEN-PATTERSON PROPERTY, 121 NORTH GRANT 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 adopted on April 18, 2018, the Landmark Preservation Commission (the “Commission”) determined that the McMillan-Patterson Property at 121 North Grant Avenue in Fort Collins, as more specifically described in the legal description 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 A (Events) and Standard C (Design/Construction) as contained in Section 14-5(2) of the City Code; and WHEREAS, the Commission further determined that the Property meets the landmark criteria set forth in City Code Section 14-5, is eligible for designation as a landmark, and has recommended to the City Council that the Property be designated as a landmark; and WHEREAS, the owner of the Property has consented to such landmark designation, and desires to protect the Property; 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 follow such recommendation and designate the Property as a landmark; and WHEREAS, designation of the Property as a landmark is necessary for the prosperity, civic pride, and welfare of the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes and adopts the determinations and findings contained in the recitals set forth above. Section 2. That the Property located in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: -2- NORTH 48 FEET OF LOT 16, BLOCK 291, LOOMIS ADDITION CITY OF FORT COLLINS, COUNTY OF LARIMER, STATE OF COLORADO be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Chapter 14 of the City Code. Section 3. That 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, as currently enacted or hereafter amended. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 15th day of May, A.D. 2018, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of June, A.D. 2018. __________________________________ Mayor Pro Tem ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of June, A.D. 2018. __________________________________ Mayor Pro Tem ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk