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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/05/2020 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 068, 2020, DESIGNATAgenda Item 8 Item # 8 Page 1 AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY May 5, 2020 City Council STAFF Jim Bertolini, Historic Preservation Planner Karen McWilliams, Historic Preservation Planner Brad Yatabe, Legal SUBJECT First Reading of Ordinance No. 068, 2020, Designating the Brown-Gooding Property, 425 Mathews Street, 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 a quasi-judicial matter and if it is considered on the discussion agenda, it will be considered in accordance with Section 1(f) of the Council’s Rules of Meeting Procedures adopted in Resolution 2019-064. This item is coming to Council because it meets Priority 6: Items that relate to funding, operation and business activities that the City must continue despite the current crisis. This property owner has a pending Landmark Rehabilitation Loan for which funds have been requested and obligated but cannot be released without the Landmark designation in place. Delay of this first reading and subsequent second reading would delay construction activity at the property. The purpose of this item is to designate the Brown Gooding Property located at 425 Mathews Street as a Fort Collins Landmark. The owners of this property, Sarah Breseke and Wouter Montfrooij, are initiating this request. The single-family residence and garage are eligible for recognition as a Landmark due to their significance to Fort Collins under Designation Standard 3, Design/Construction and their historic integrity. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The Brown-Gooding Property is an excellent example of brick “Free Classic” Queen Anne architecture in Fort Collins, featuring a prominent curved front porch with a central, Classically-styled dormer above. The home is also among the most prominent surviving examples of the work of master craftsman Herman Schroeder, a significant builder and carpenter who arrived in Fort Collins in 1878 and constructed or worked on buildings of all types, mostly in downtown or to its south and east. Late-Victorian styling, red brick walls, and ornate wood detailing especially on porches, were indicative of Schroeder’s work in the community. The property at 425 Mathews is among the most significant and best preserved of his residential projects. 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 will likely see an increase in value following designation. Clarion Associates Agenda Item 8 Item # 8 Page 2 attributed this increase to the fact that current and future owners qualify for financial incentives; the appeal of owning a recognized historic landmark; and the assurance of predictability that design review offers. BOARD / COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION At its January 15, 2020 meeting, the Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) adopted a motion on a vote of 7-0 (1 recusal) to recommend that City Council designate the Brown-Gooding Property as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Municipal Code Chapter 14, based on the property’s significance under Standard 3, Design/Construction and its exterior integrity based upon all seven aspects of integrity. PUBLIC OUTREACH Public outreach was limited to interaction with the property owner and presentation/approval at a regular session of the Landmark Preservation Commission. ATTACHMENTS 1. Location map (PDF) 2. Landmark Designation Application (PDF) 3. Photos (PDF) 4. Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution No. 2, 2020 (PDF) MATHEWS ST REMINGTON ST E MAGNOLIA ST E MULBERRY ST 425 Mathews Location Map 0 10203040 Meters Scale 1:800 © 425 Mathews ATTACHMENT 1 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 1 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION Address: 425 Mathews Street Legal Description: Block 134, Lot 2 of the 1873 Fort Collins Plat Property Name (historic and/or common): Brown-Gooding Property OWNER INFORMATION Name: Sarah Breseke & Wouter Montfrooij Company/Organization (if applicable): N/A Phone: 573-639-0112 Email: montfrooijw@missouri.edu, sbreseke@gmail.com Mailing Address: 425 Mathews St, Fort Collins, CO, 80524 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: Jim Bertolini, Historic Preservation Planner Address: 281 N. College Ave Phone: 970-416-4250 Email: jbertolini@fcgov.com Relationship to Owner: Staff – Historic Preservation Services Division DATE: December 31, 2019 ATTACHMENT 2 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 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 (hereinafter the “Property”) consists of the historic residential building (1903), its historic-age garage off the rear alley (c.1912), and the surrounding landscape, currently encompassed by parcel no. 9712331002. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE and 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. For designation as Fort Collins Landmarks or Fort Collins Landmark Districts properties must meet one (1) or more of the following standards set forth in Fort Collins Municipal Code Section 14-22(a): Standard 1: 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: a) A specific event marking an important moment in Fort Collins prehistory or history; and/or b) A pattern of events or a historic trend that made a recognizable contribution to the development of the community, State or Nation. N/A Standard 2: 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. N/A Standard 3: 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. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 3 The Brown-Gooding Property is an excellent example of brick “Free Classic” Queen Anne architecture in Fort Collins, featuring a prominent curved front porch with a central, Classically-styled dormer above and Doric porch columns. The home is also among the most prominent surviving examples of the work of master craftsman Herman Schroeder, a significant builder and carpenter who arrived in Fort Collins in 1878 and constructed or worked on buildings of all types, most in downtown or to its south and east. Late- Victorian styling, red brick walls, and ornate wood detailing especially on porches, were indicative of Schroeder’s work in the community. The property at 425 Mathews is among the most significant and best preserved of his residential projects. Standard 4: Information Potential This property has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. N/A Integrity is the ability of a site, structure, object or district to be able to convey its significance. The integrity of a resource is based on the degree to which it retains all or some of seven (7) aspects or qualities set forth in Fort Collins Municipal Code Section 14-22(b): 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 1: Location is the place where the resource was constructed or the place where the historic or prehistoric event occurred. The home has not been moved since its initial construction. Standard 2: Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan space, structure and style of a resource. The property retains strong integrity of overall design, including its red brick exterior, Classical features such as the rounded porch with Doric columns and the gable end, Victorian-style flared eaves. Standard 3: Setting is the physical environment of a resource. Setting refers to the character of the place; it involves how, not just where, the resource is situated and its relationship to the surrounding features and open space. The property retains strong integrity of setting in a residential area southeast of downtown Fort Collins. Historic landscape elements such as mature tree cover, a setback from the street, and a generally residential landscape surrounding the building are retained. Most of the homes built around 425 Mathews in the early 1900s remain and retain good integrity themselves. The primary loss of integrity to the historic setting have been related to redevelopment of the Mulberry Avenue corridor. The road is now a primary arterial, adding road noise to what was once a quieter residential street, and leading to the demolition of the frame E.J. Gregory House, another Schroeder building Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 4 that neighbored the property to the south at 429 Mathews. It was replaced by the current commercial building in 1977. Standard 4: Materials are the physical elements that form a resource. The property retains excellent integrity of materials. The historic stone and brick masonry is retained and in generally good condition, as well as the historic wood windows and wood front porch. While the original wood shingle roof has since been replaced with various iterations of asphalt, the building’s exterior, and that of its garage in the rear, appear generally unaltered. Standard 5: 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. The property retains strong integrity of workmanship, especially to Herman Schroeder’s building technique. The combination of detailed carpentry adorning simple masonry is intact, and the detailing of wood porch pillars and the curved porch roof and footprint is retained, all character-defining aspects of Schroeder’s work. Standard 6: Feeling is a resource’s expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular time. It results from the presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the resource's historic or prehistoric character. The property has strong integrity of historic feeling. Aside from modest changes to the integrity of setting, the property’s overall character retains the sense of the building as an early-twentieth century residence in a neighborhood adjacent to a commercial downtown. Standard 7: Association is the direct link between an important event or person and a historic or prehistoric resource. A resource 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. The property has strong integrity of association due to its strong integrity of design, workmanship, and materials. Primarily significant as an indicative work of Herman Schroeder, his craftsmanship is still evident and easily recognizable, making the connection between the building’s current condition and its construction in 1903 apparent. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 5 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Herman W. Schroeder constructed the Brown-Gooding House in 1903 for Clyde H. and Addie Brown. Clyde Brown was one of three sons of early Fort Collins resident James A. Brown who arrived in 1868 and worked as a wagonmaker, farmer, and cattle rancher. The vacant property on which 425 Mathews would be built changed hands several times over the late-1800s as part of the land speculation typical of the period. In 1902, James Brown appears to have purchased the property and transferred it to his son the following year to allow for the construction of the current home. The period of significance for the property is 1903, although the c.1912 carriage house is also a contributing element as an unusual example of a common addition to the back yards and rear alleys of buildings throughout the neighborhood.0F 1 The home stands as a strong example of Free Classic Queen Anne architecture in Fort Collins. The Queen Anne style was part of the assortment of house styles common in the late-Victorian era in the 1870s through the 1900s. It was defined by asymmetrical massing, varied textures, and on higher-style examples, intricate detailing in carpentry, shingles, and brickwork. Among the more common variations of the Queen Ann, especially in the 1890s and 1900s, was the Free Classic. A precursor to the more formal Classical Revival buildings that would become popular in the 1900s- 1920s, the Free Classic Queen Ann and added certain Classical features to it, often in a front or wrap-around porch. While these homes retained their asymmetrical massing and other Queen Anne features, they adopted modest Classical detailing as well, specifically Classical columns on the porch, dentil molding along the eaves, and sometimes prominent stone sills and lintels. The property at 425 Mathews is an extremely well-preserved example of this style in Fort Collins, exhibiting a rare, rounded front porch along with the other defining features of this style. It stands as an excellent example of a period home built for a middle class Fort Collins family. Clyde was a graduate of Fort Collins High School and attended Colorado State Agricultural College (now Colorado State University). He was a partner in the Mathews and Brown meat cutting and packing firm in the Miller Block on Linden Street (southwest corner of Linden & Walnut). Clyde and Addie lived in this residence until 1909 when they moved to Laramie, Wyoming for several years. In 1912, they returned to Fort Collins but took up residence at 1220 W. Mountain before moving to a home at 526 S. Howes, a brick Victorian-style residence that remains on that location. Brown worked for the Great Western Sugar Company and maintained a cattle ranching operation, the Brown Acres Ranch, in Poudre Canyon for many years and was a member of the Indian Relic Hobby Club. Among the organization’s first projects was utilizing the Works Progress Administration to relocate the Antoine Janus cabin from Laporte to Fort Collins Later in 1941, Clyde Brown became the first curator of the Fort Collins Museum built in northeast Lincoln Park 1 Ansel Watrous, History of Larimer County, Colorado, (Fort Collins, CO: The Courier Printing & Publishing Company, 1911), p367; 425 Mathews, research and survey folder (including title search), Historic Preservation Services, Community Development & Neighborhood Services, City of Fort Collins (hereafter, HPS-CDNS), 281 N. College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO; “Fort Collins, Colorado,” Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, 1901, 1906, 1909, 1917, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/?q=fort+collins+colorado, accessed December 23, 2019; Fort Collins City Directory, 1903, 425 Mathews, HPS-CDNS; from Fort Collins History Connection, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery (hereafter FCMOD), https://history.fcgov.com/, accessed December 24, 2019. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 6 (now Library Park, roughly in the location of the current public library), serving in that position until 1960. The institution that Brown helped found eventually relocated to the former Fort Collins Library building on the west side of Library Park before recently relocating to North College Avenue and rebranding as the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery.1F 2 Mr. Brown is a notable figure in Fort Collins’ social and educational history and intact properties related to his significance work in Fort Collins would likely be eligible for Landmark designation under Standard 2. However, the 425 Mathews property is not appropriately related to his importance to Fort Collins history to qualify under that criteria. The property best associated with that significance, the Fort Collins Museum building (1940), was demolished to make way for the Fort Collins Public Library, built in 1976. The next most appropriate property is the residence where the Brown family spent the majority of their time in Fort Collins, including while Clyde Brown worked as curator, which is at 506 S. Howes. The home at that address has strong historic integrity and may be eligible for Landmark designation.2F 3 The Work of Herman W. Schroeder Herman W. Schroeder, the builder of 425 Mathews, was among Fort Collins’ most prominent residential builders during Fort Collins’ early development booms in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Schroeder was born in 1855 on Doty Island in Wisconsin and moved to Fort Collins in 1878. Prior to the move, he had trained as a carpenter and joiner, which became his livelihood after the move. Schroeder’s most prominent buildings are often recognizable as he tended to construct late-Victorian style masonry buildings with multiple gables, prominent stylistic carpentry such as rounded porches, flared eaves, verge-boards, and decorative shingling in gable ends.3F 4 The Fort Collins Courier and building permit records from the early 1900s provide several detailed snapshots of Schroeder’s building career in Fort Collins. Although he completed some commercial and institutional projects, such as lumber yard warehouses and the Fort Collins Hospital at 300 Mathews, he was most accomplished for residential construction in the neighborhoods south and east of downtown. Many of his projects in and near the commercial downtown have since been demolished or redeveloped, while most of his intact work is generally within the Laurel School Historic District. Between 1884 and 1925, Schroeder appears frequently as the builder for homes throughout the neighborhood, sometimes working with architects on larger projects for wealthier families, sometimes designing homes himself. He was also elected the City’s first building inspector under a new ordinance passed in early 1907 to enforce basic building and fire codes.4F 5 2 Fort Collins City Directory, 1909-1910, FCMOD. 3 Larimer County City Directory, 1913-1914, p18, and 1917, p30, and Fort Collins City Directory, 1940, p13, FCMOD. 4 Watrous, 418-419. 5 Fort Collins Courier, March 27, 1907, p4, through Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/, accessed December 23, 2019. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 7 Of the documented Herman Schroeder projects in Fort Collins, most are late Victorian in style, usually brick Queen Anne-style cottages with Classical features incorporated into prominent front porches, sometimes added after construction. However, as a carpenter and joiner, some of Schroeder’s projects include frame cottages, although with similar design and features. Later in his career, by the 1920s, Schroeder completed a few projects in the contemporary Arts-and- Crafts styles. Below is a list of surviving buildings attributed to Mr. Schroeder that are good reflections of his work (Note: other surviving examples meeting this criteria may still survive, but may not have been confirmed as Schroeder buildings at the time of this nomination): Known Projects of Herman W. Schroeder, Builder5F 6 Date Project Name Location & Details Type of work 1893 Frank Avery House addition Builder & carpentry 1900 421 Mathews 421 Mathews, 6-room cottage adjoining Schroeder’s own building Builder/owner 1900 608 Remington Builder 1902 Schroeder Residence 419 S. Mathews, 6-room brick cottage (Landmarked) Builder (owner & resident) 1902 S.B. Purdy residence 216 Remington, 6-room brick home (curved porch) Builder 1902 John C. Thompson residence 602 S. Peterson, 5-room brick home Builder 1903 Schroeder House – porch addition 419 Mathews, Addition to Schroeder’s personal residence Builder (owner & resident) 1903 Brown House (this property) 425 Mathews Builder 1903 Nelson House 313 E. Magnolia Builder 1904 Sperr House 633 Mathews; rounded porch Builder 1905 Mrs. Joseph Murray residence 629 S. Howes, 8-room brick Builder (w/ Lunn) 6 Fort Collins Courier, “Local News,”, August 7, 1884, p5, and “Some Good Houses,” August 31, 1893, p1, November 11, 1897, p1, and July 14, 1898, p1, and The Weekly Courier, “City and Country,” September 28, 1899, p3, and “Opens Well,” February 8, 1900, p6, and “Fort Collins’ Splendid Building Record,” January 2, 1902, p3, and “A Handsome Home,” November 12, 1902, p7, and January 14, 1903, and “New Homes for New People,” January 4, 1905, p1, and January 11, 1905, p6, and “City and Country,” January 18, 1905, p6, and November 29, 1905, p7, and December 27, 1905, p1, and “Fort Collins’ Handsome and Well Equipped Hospital,” November 21, 1906, p7, through Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/, accessed December 23, 2019; Building permit records, FCMOD, accessed December 24, 2019. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 8 Known Projects of Herman W. Schroeder, Builder5F 6 Date Project Name Location & Details Type of work 1905 Joseph Kahn residence corner of Matthews and Myrtle, brick (unsure of which building; all 4 are brick in 1906) Builder 1905 James B. Arthur estate 328-334 E. Mulberry, 8- room residence Builder, Albert Bryan (architect) 1906 Fort Collins Hospital 301 E. Magnolia Builder 1920 1-story Craftsman 701 Mathews Builder 1925 2-story Craftsman 730 Mathews Builder Residents of 425 Mathews Despite the significance of Clyde and Addie Brown to Fort Collins’ social and business history, their time at 425 Mathews was short-lived. In 1909, the Browns departed for Wyoming but retained ownership of the home, renting it to Harry W. and Grace Hooper. Harry Hooper was a superintendent at the Great Western Sugar Company plant northeast of the city. However, in 1913, the Hoopers left and the Browns sold the property to Dr. Bert A. Gooding and his wife May. Dr. Gooding operated a medical practice out of the home for several years, later moving his practice to the Physicians Building at 125-127 S. College Avenue along with six other medical professionals. Gooding practiced medicine in Fort Collins for 17 years until his death in October 1923 of a brain hemorrhage caused by apoplexy. During that time, Gooding was involved with several organizations in the community, including the board that pushed for the Poudre canyon road that became Colorado Route 14.6F 7 Based on available research, while Gooding appears to have been involved in many facets of Fort Collins’ development and public life in the 1910s and 1920s, he does not appear to rise to the level needed to recognize the home for his contributions. As a medical professional, he was one of several working in Fort Collins at the time, and he managed much of his day-to-day practice either at the Fort Collins Hospital at 301 E. Magnolia Street or the Physician’s Building at 127 S. College Avenue. Further research into Gooding’s contributions to social organizations and recreational tourism may change this assertion. The Gooding family retained the home for many years after, passing it to Edna (Gooding) O’Neill and her husband Frank in 1925. It appears that the estate fell into financial trouble as in 1925, Edna O’Neill established a Deed of Trust with Christine Jensen, who eventually filed a suit in 1932 for the sum of $2,562.05, presumably a lien as a result of a loan Ms. Jensen had provided to the O’Niells. The following year, the property was listed as vacant, but Ms. Jensen purchased the property through public auction as her residence, later selling it to Mabel F. Smith in 1937, the 7 Larimer County Directory, 1913-1914, 1917, 1919, FCMOD; “Dr. Bert A. Gooding Dies Thursday from Apoplexy,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, October 11, 1923, p1, from www.coloradoan.com, accessed December 24, 2019. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 9 latter being a widow of Lester Smith who had served in the U.S. Air Force, in 1937. Smith appears to have either rented the property or taken on boarders, as several other occupants appear in city directories during that time. In 1940, Raymond E. Dunlap, a truck driver for Poudre Valley Bottling Works resided at the house. In 1962, Mabel Smith sold the property to Dorothy Sess, although she continued to reside at the property along with other boarders until her death in 1971. In 1962, a student named Donald Atkinson resided at the address with Ms. Smith. Ms. Sess held the property until 1976 before selling it to Scavo-Doughterty Building, Inc.. During that time, Ms. Sess also appears to have rented the property. That company, which is currently housed in the office building just south of 425 Mathews, held the property as a rental under varying names including T J Investments until Sarah Breseke and Wouter Montfrooij purchased it in 2019.7F 8 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: 1903 Architect/Builder: Herman W. Schroeder Building Materials: Wood, brick, stone, concrete Architectural Style: Queen Anne (Free Classic) Description: Constructed in 1903 by Herman W. Schroeder, the building is a roughly rectangular brick, Free Classic Queen Anne style residence of one-and-one-half stories. The building has a hipped, asphalt composition shingle roof with flared, boxed eaves and a frieze with simple detailing and decorative dentil molding. The walls are red brick laid in a running bond (suggesting spacing and metal ties between the wythes to provide stability). The building sits on a rough square-cut, ashlar stone foundation. It has three dormers, including a central front gable dormer with a double-pitch gable roof, and two side dormers with hipped roofs, flared eaves, and single-sash windows. It has a prominent, rounded wood porch with matching eaves and dentil molding, solid wood panel half walls, and eight Doric columns bracing the round roof. All windows are wood of varying configurations, most of which have rough-cut stone lintels and sills. The façade of the building faces east onto Mathews Street and contains both a prominent, double-pitch, Classical-style dormer as well as the prominent, rounded porch. The porch includes Classical detailing to match the rest of the house at the eave line, as well as four Doric columns on either side of the central entry and stoop. The porch has wood tongue-and-groove decking and beadboard ceilings. The central wood panel door is centered in a projected entry hall that extends from the wall plane by approximately six feet. The door has a vertical three-light configuration with long, single-light sidelights flanking on either side. On either side of the east entry, on the north and south walls of the projection are long one- over-one wood sash windows with rough cut stone lintels and sills. Flanking the projection on either side are large cottage-style wood windows. Along the porch half-wall, there is simple wood paneling. Below the deck, flat wood boards cover the porch foundation, which consists of pilings over a poured concrete perimeter wall foundation. A slab stone walkway extends from the sidewalk, including two steps to 8 425 Mathews, research and survey folder (including title search), HPS-CDNS; Larimer County Directory, 1925, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1936, 1938, and Fort Collins City Directory, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1969, FCMOD; “Real Estate Transfers,” April 22, 1962, p4, and “Obituaries – Mabel Smith,” March 5, 1971, p3, Fort Collins Coloradoan. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 10 meet the rise from sidewalk to stoop. The porch has a concrete three-stair stoop with modern metal railings. There is a brick chimney covered in concrete stucco on the roof slope. The north elevation is fairly simple, broken by a pair of wood sash one-over-one windows near the front (northeast) corner, along with a single matching window toward the rear, both with rough-cut stone lintels and sills. Near the center of the elevation interrupting the stone foundation is a wood basement window with an arched brick lintel, but it is boarded over. Breaking the roof above the eave is a small hipped-roof dormer with flared eaves, wood shingle siding, and dentil molding matching the rest of the house. The dormer has a small cottage-style window on its northern face. The south elevation includes a dormer matching that on the north elevation. It has a rounded bay window with three wood, one-over-one sash windows matching those elsewhere on the house. Along the foundation of the bay, three small wood windows interrupt the foundation, but are currently boarded over. The roof remains flat over the bay. Farther west along the wall is a single, shorter one- over-one wood sash window. Near the rear (southwest) corner is a paired window of matching the others on the house. There is an entrance into the basement, with a concrete block wall with concrete stucco extending several feet away from the house wall in an ell configuration to shelter the staircase. The rear (west) elevation facing the alley is defined by a gable dormer breaking the eave-line with a large, cottage-style wood window on the upper floor. On the first floor, two one-over-one wood sash windows of different sizes break the wall plane, with matching stone lintels and sills. Near the elevation’s southwest corner is a frame mud porch on a poured concrete foundation, likely added after the construction of the home by 1906 (the addition appears on a Sanborn insurance map from that year).8F 9 The mud porch has a hipped roof and corrugated metal siding. It has a simple panel door with large single-light on its west elevation, with a three-step concrete stoop. Windows in the mud room addition are all wood two-by-two casements, with a set of two on the addition’s south elevation, and a set of three on the west elevation. Just north of the addition is a coal chute faced with rough-cut stone. There is a red brick chimney on the main roof slope above the addition. At the rear of the lot along the alley is a two-bay, single-story carriage house constructed c.1912 by the Gooding family.9F 10 It has concrete walls, a hipped roof with exposed rafters, and large, vertical board swinging carriage doors. Both doors included a fixed, wood, two-by-three window but both have been boarded over. There is a large poured concrete pad in front of the doors, and no windows on other elevations. A different set of frame sheds appears on the property on the 1906 Sanborn but they were demolished and replaced with the carriage house by 1917. Carriage houses like these were common additions during the 1910s and 1920s for middle class families that could afford automobiles. In most cases, like this one, the carriage house or garage was constructed at the rear of the lot to provide alley access, and was comparatively small, housing only 1-2 vehicles. While occasionally, garages had stylistic connections to the primary residence, in most cases they were simple frame or masonry structures that 9 Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, “Fort Collins,” 1906, p12, through the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/?q=fort+collins+colorado, accessed December 23, 2019. 10 Survey records suggest c.1912 construction but the first primary source to mention the carriage house is the 1917 Sanborn for the area, which shows the carriage house with concrete construction and wood doors. Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, 1917, p15. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 11 were constructed for economy rather than aesthetic value. The garage at 425 Mathews is a contributing accessory structure to the primary historic property. The setting surrounding the residence at 425 Mathews reflects the evolution of this residential neighborhood since its initial construction in the 1890s and 1900s. On the property itself, an old-growth elm (Ulmus sp.) rests in the front yard while a tall Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) sits near the northwest corner of the main house. Mathews Street is lined with mature trees, mostly elms with some cottonwoods (Populus deltoides), with regular setbacks for buildings and mostly planted grass comprising front and rear lawns. Some redevelopment has taken place in the neighborhood due to its proximity to Mulberry Street, an arterial road, directly to the south. The E.J. Gregory House, another Herman Schroeder-constructed building at 429 Mathews, was demolished in the 1970s to make way for the current office building that fronts Mulberry Street, constructed in 1977.10F 11 List of Alterations to Building11F 12 • c.1906 – construction of mud room onto rear of house • c.1912 – Construction of concrete garage • 1927 – Painting wood trim and other features (Cleland Bull, contractor)12F 13 • 1937 – Work on “archways.”13F 14 • 1948 – Reshingled roof.14F 15 • 1954 – Replacement of roof with rolled asphalt.15F 16 • Unknown dates – addition of stucco to some masonry features, including basement stair and front brick chimney; construction of rear mud room/porch. 11 Larimer County Assessor, Parcel Number 9712331001, https://www.larimer.org/assessor/search#/detail/R0046493/building, accessed December 23, 2019. 12 Building permit records, FCMOD. 13 Permit no. 4648, March 27, 1927, Building permit records, FCMOD. 14 Permit no. 4648, March 27, 1937, Building permit records, FCMOD. 15 Permit no. 10429, April 8, 1948, Building permit records, FCMOD. 16 Permit no. 13848, August 16, 1954, Building permit records, FCMOD. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 12 REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION Building Permit Collection. Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration between FCMoD and PRPLD. https://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. City Directory Collection. Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. Fort Collins, CO. City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Services. Building Permit Collection. Community Development and Neighborhood Services Building. Fort Collins, CO. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Colorado State Library. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org Fort Collins Coloradoan. Online archives. https://coloradoan.newspapers.com/ Landmark Web Official Records Search. Larimer County Clerk and Recorder. https://records.larimer.org/LandmarkWeb/Home/Index. Sanborn Maps Collection, Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn- maps/?q=fort+collins+colorado Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. Tax Assessor Card Collection. Fort Collins, CO. ———. Historical Image and Postcard Collection. Fort Collins, CO. Watrous, Ansel. History of Larimer County. Fort Collins: The Courier Printing and Publishing Company, 1911. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 13 MAPS and PHOTOGRAPHS Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 14 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 15 Figure 1: 1901 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, showing vacant property (p7). Figure 2: 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, showing completed house and original sheds (p15). Future site of Brown-Gooding Property Brown-Gooding Property Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 16 Figure 3: 1917 Sanborn Fire Insurance map, showing completed auto garage at rear of property (p15). Image 1: East façade, looking west across Mathews Street (December 23, 2019). Brown-Gooding Property Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 17 Image 2: East façade, looking west (December 23, 2019). Image 3: East façade and south elevation, looking west showing side basement entry and curved bay window (December 23, 2019). Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 18 Image 4: North elevation, looking southwest (December 23, 2019). Image 5: Rear (west) elevation, looking east and showing rear mud porch addition (December 23, 2019). Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 19 Image 6: Bay window and south elevation, looking west (January 13, 2020). Image 7: Basement stair and masonry wall w/ concrete reinforcement (January 13, 2020). Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 20 Image 8: Garage and rear yard, looking northwest (January 13, 2020). Image 9: Garage south elevation with parking pad, looking northeast (December 23, 2019). Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 21 Image 10: Garage north and west elevations, looking southeast (December 23, 2019). Image 11: Properties neighboring to the north, both constructed by Herman Schroeder. On the left is 421 Mathews, and on the right is 419 Mathews, Schroeder’s personal residence and a Fort Collins Landmark (December 23, 2019). Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 22 Image 12: Rear portion of the south elevation, showing the pair and single windows on the elevation behind the curved bay window (December 23, 2019). Image 13: Close-up image of windows on south elevation (in image 12), looking north (January 13, 2020). 1 Application for Fort Collins Landmark Designation – 425 Mathews Street – Brown-Gooding Property ATTACHMENT 3 2 425 Mathews – Brown-Gooding Property Clyde Brown, c.1951, Fort Collins History Museum (Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Herman W. Schroeder (Watrous, 1911) 421 Mathews (Schroeder project), and right, the Herman Schroeder House (built by and for Herman Schroeder). Typical examples of his late- Victorian style, including the curved porch on the right. 3 425 Mathews – Brown-Gooding Property East façade of 425 Mathews, showing unique curved Free Classic East façade and south elevation showing curved bay window. porch. • Construction: • Brown-Gooding Property, 1903 • Garage, c.1912 • Standards of Significance: • 3 (Design/Construction) • Exterior Integrity: Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association 4 425 Mathews – Brown-Gooding Property ATTACHMENT 4 -1- ORDINANCE NO. 068, 2020 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE BROWN-GOODING PROPERTY, 425 MATHEWS 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 City Code Section 14-1, 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 January 15, 2020, the Landmark Preservation Commission (the “Commission”) determined that the Brown-Gooding Property, 425 Mathews Street, in Fort Collins, as more specifically described in the legal description below (the “Property”), is eligible for landmark designation pursuant to City Code Chapter 14, Article II, for the property’s high degree of all seven standards of integrity under City Code Section 14- 22(b)(1-7), and for the property’s significance to Fort Collins under Standard of Significance 3, Design/Construction, contained in City Code Section 14-22(a)(1) and 14-22(a)(3); and WHEREAS, the Commission further determined that designation of the Property will advance the policies and purposes set forth in City Code Sections 14-1 and 14-2 in a manner and extent sufficient to justify designation; and WHEREAS, the Commission recommends that the City Council designate the Property as a Fort Collins 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- Lot 2, Block 134, Fort Collins; also known by street and number as 425 Mathews Street, City of Fort Collins, County of Larimer, State of Colorado be designated as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with City Code Chapter 14. 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 IV, as currently enacted or hereafter amended. Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 5th day of May, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 19th day of May, A.D. 2020. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading on the 19th day of May, A.D. 2020. __________________________________ Mayor ATTEST: _______________________________ City Clerk