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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 05/05/2020 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 069, 2020, DESIGNATAgenda Item 9 Item # 9 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. 069, 2020, Designating the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property, 201 East Elizabeth 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 Horsley/Delta Zeta Property, 201 East Elizabeth Street, as a Fort Collins Landmark. The owner of this property, Stephanie Walter, is initiating this request. The property is eligible for recognition as a Landmark due to its significance to Fort Collins under Designation Standards 1. Events, and 3. Design/Construction and its historic integrity. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. BACKGROUND / DISCUSSION The Horsley/Delta Zeta Property at 201 East Elizabeth is significant under both Standard 1 and Standard 3 for its historical and architectural importance. The property is a significant reflection of mid-twentieth century university fraternity and sorority life in Fort Collins, specifically as a well-preserved example of a residential property east of campus purchased by a sorority in 1945 and adapted for use as a sorority house. The property is also an excellent instance of a comparatively rare surviving example of Tudor Revival architecture in Fort Collins. Although the property has evolved over time, it has strong integrity to its historic use as a sorority house and retains its character-defining features as a Tudor-Revival style residence. 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 9 Item # 9 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) unanimously adopted a motion to recommend that City Council designate the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property as a Fort Collins Landmark in accordance with Municipal Code Chapter 14, based on the property’s significance under Standard 1, Events and 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 Application, with photos (PDF) 3. Photos (PDF) 4. Landmark Preservation Commission Resolution No. 1, 2020 (PDF) Garfield St Mathews St E Elizabeth St Remington St 201 E. Elizabeth St. © 1 inch = 113 feet Site ATTACHMENT 1 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 Fort Collins Landmark Designation LOCATION INFORMATION Address: 201 East Elizabeth Street Legal Description: Lot 2 and North 20 feet of Lot 3, Block 5, Crafts Re-subdivision, Fort Collins Property Name (historic and/or common): Horsley/Delta Zeta Property OWNER INFORMATION Name: 201 East Elizabeth Street, LLC, C/O Stephanie Walter Phone: (303) 233-2288 Email: swalter@farmersagent.com Mailing Address: 10025 W. 23rd Ave., Lakewood, CO 80215-1407 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: Reyana Jones Address: 281 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524 Phone: (970) 416-4250 Email: preservation@fcgov.com DATE: December 19, 2019 ATTACHMENT 2 Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 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 house, constructed in 1926 (parcel no. 9713309002). 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. The Horsley/Delta Zeta Property at 201 E. Elizabeth St. is significant under Standard 1, Events, for its association with midcentury university fraternity and sorority life in Fort Collins. In the early to mid-twentieth century, the chapter house became solidified as a central component of the social functioning of Greek organizations across America. Because of their historical and classical associations, chapter houses in Revival styles, like Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, or the Tudor-revival style of the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property, were popular among sorority and fraternity houses during this period. In the early to mid-twentieth century, some fraternities and sororities in Fort Collins were able to construct dedicated chapter houses, like the Delta Delta Delta sorority at 1504 Remington St., but many others could not. Instead, some Greek societies opted to purchase already-existing mansions and convert them into chapter houses. The Delta Zeta sorority purchased this property in 1945 and moved in for the 1946-47 school year. The Delta Zetas experienced peak membership in this chapter house toward the end of the 1950s. Around the time the Delta Zetas moved into this house, many other fraternities and sororities moved to the same area just east of campus, such as the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity at 200 E. Plum St. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 This house was used by two other Greek organizations, a use that continues today. The Triangle Fraternity, focused on engineering, architecture, and science, occupied the house from 1979-2006. Phi Kappa Tau, a fraternity that emphasizes “brotherhood, learning, and ethical leadership,”1 has occupied the house since 2015. 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. 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. The Horsley/Delta Zeta Property is also significant under Standard 3, Design/Construction, as an excellent example of Tudor-revival Style architecture, a relatively uncommon style in Fort Collins. The 1925 house features a steeply-pitched roof with tile shingles, half-timbering in the upper story, and additional exterior texture from brick in the first story, all character-defining features of the Tudor-revival Style. This house has asymmetrical massing, accentuated by the projecting brick vestibule on the west elevation, and predominantly narrow windows, also indicative of the Tudor-revival Style. Additionally, architect Lester L. Jones designed this building, one of only four architects working in Fort Collins in the early 1920s. Jones’s designs included the Armstrong Hotel and the Masonic Temple in Johnstown, among others, and he was described as an “important figure associated with the International Style in pre-war Denver,”2 according to Casper Hegner, another pre-war Denver architect. This property is one of a small number of Jones’s known residential designs in Fort Collins. Standard 4: Information Potential This property has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. 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 1 “Fraternity,” Phi Kappa Tau, https://www.phikappatau.org/about/fraternity. 2 Tamsen Kiehnhoff, interview with Casper Hegner, April 10, 1990, paraphrased in the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Denver Public Library by Rodd Wheaton and Michael Paglia, June 19, 1990. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 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 Horsley/Delta Zeta Property has not been moved. Standard 2: Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan space, structure and style of a resource. The exterior design of the house on the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property has changed very little since its 1926 construction. In 1951, the Delta Zeta sorority had five basement windows enlarged and a fire ladder installed as part of a renovation project,3 and in 1978, then-owner A. M. “Sandy” Oskamp had basement windows replaced with egress windows.4 At one time, the front door accentuated the medieval character of the Tudor Revival house and had large metal straps, but the design of the front door and its sidelights was changed within the last five years. The section of wall with half-timbering on the first story of the east elevation, including the multi-light windows and door, porch, and nearby basement stairway, may or may not be original to the house. There are no building permits for it, but these elements do not appear on tax assessor sketches of the property from 1948 or 1968 or on the 1925/43 Sanborn map.5 They are, however, obscured from the sidewalk and street by a fence. 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’s setting has remained consistent. It is still surrounded by other residential properties, many of which were constructed in the same era. The neighborhood retains its historic character for these reasons, and this property contributes to that character. Furthermore, this property is across the street from two other houses used as “annexes” for the Delta Zeta sorority members (202 E. Elizabeth St. and 1011 Remington St.), according to former Delta Zeta Norma L. Andersen.6 Standard 4: Materials are the physical elements that form a resource. This house still has many of its historic materials. For instance, all of the windows on the first and upper stories appear to be historic wood casement windows, and the south elevation door also appears historic, as does the basement door. In addition to the house’s primary material, brick, the curved stone path and stone details on both the 3 Building Permit #12360, 1002 Remington St., Delta Zeta Sorority, July 17, 1951, Building Permit Collection, Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration Between the FCMoD and the PRPLD, http://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. 4 Building Permit #60334, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Sandy Oskamp, February 16, 1978, City of Fort Collins Public Records Database, http://citydocs.fcgov.com/. 5 “Lots 2 and N 20 Ft Lot 3, Blk 5, Crafts Resub,” Tax Assessor Records 1948 and 1968, Tax Assessor Card Collection, Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins, CO. 6 Carl McWilliams, “Residential Building at 201 E. Elizabeth Street: Delta Zeta Sorority, Triangle Fraternity,” April 16, 2015, Digital Property File Collection, City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Services, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Building, Fort Collins, CO. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 front porch and south elevation porch have been retained. The half-timbering in the upper half-story as well as the prominent brick chimneys are also unchanged. Although the house has undergone several re-roofings, the roof material is still semi-cylindrical tile. The most significant loss of materials on this property was the 1978 demolition of the brick garage on the east side of the lot, which was built in 1926; there are no known historic photos of this garage. There is now a parking lot in its place. Most of the house’s material loss impacted basement windows and doors. Some of the basement windows on the east elevation were filled in with masonry at an unknown date. Several of the other basement windows, like those on the north and south elevations, were replaced with sliders, some in 1951, and some again in 1978. A 1997 survey done by Jason Marmor describes the front door as having “brass or bronze straps extending from [its] hinges, accentuating [the] medieval appearance;”7 based on Google Street View imagery, this door and its sidelights were replaced between 2014 and 2016. 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 Horsley/Delta Zeta Property retains integrity of its historic workmanship. Architectural details indicating the workmanship of the original builder include the flared roofline on the west elevation’s gable, the decorative half-timbering in the upper story, and the brickwork on the three prominent chimneys, window sills and lintels, and east elevation bay. The bricks that make up the house themselves are artfully irregular and multi-toned as well. 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. This house continues to feel like an early-twentieth century residence in a neighborhood adjacent to a major university. On an oversized corner lot, it was designed as an impressive mansion for a well-to-do Fort Collins farmer and ranchman, Leslie Horsley, and his family, and this feeling of grandeur remains. 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. This property’s association with sorority and fraternity history in Fort Collins is well preserved because of its continued use by a fraternity. The house currently serves as a chapter house for Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, as it did for the Triangle Fraternity and Delta Zeta sorority before them. In addition to the house’s proximity to Colorado State 7 Jason Marmor, City of Fort Collins Architectural Property Reconnaissance Survey Form: Eastside Neighborhood Survey Project, 201 E. Elizabeth (Triangle Fraternity), Property File Collection, City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Services, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Building, Fort Collins, CO. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 University, the parking lot to the house’s east side is a modern allusion to this historic and current use. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 HISTORICAL INFORMATION Early History Frank Ralph Leslie Horsley emigrated from the United Kingdom to America in the late nineteenth century. He came from a line of men in his aristocratic, English family who had held notable governmental, clerical, and military positions. For example, Leslie’s grandfather, John Horsley, was judge for the English government in India; his great-great-uncle, Samuel Horsley, was Bishop of Worcester, Dean of Westminster, and the last bishop to wear a wig; Leslie’s father was a military general in India and one of only three in his regiment to survive the Indian Mutiny. Leslie himself was raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent several years studying agriculture and honing his farming skills before coming to America. In 1892, he moved to Livermore, Colorado and bought the 400-acre Landes farm, then the Chase place, then another 160 acres, consolidating for himself an 800-acre farm and ranch. He raised large herds of cattle, including Herefords and Shorthorns. Just two years after coming to Livermore, he married Cora A. Saxton. They had three daughters: Dorothy, Francis, and Esther.8 By 1906, the Horsleys had decided to move to Fort Collins. Leslie sold his extensive farm holdings in Livermore to Major Moore, and the family moved into a house on East Laurel Street. Leslie purchased land near town to farm. In 1907, a significant natural gas flow was discovered on his farm property, sparking excitement around the possibility of using the cheap fuel for manufacturing and other commercial endeavors; however, the much-anticipated “lake” of gas was not found on the Horsley Farm. While Leslie continued his farming and ranching work nearer to his Fort Collins home, Cora Horsley became an active member of the community. She was elected secretary of the school board and was president of the South Side club, a women’s organization. Fittingly, during a 1910 debate, she argued the disadvantages of country life. 9 In 1925, Leslie and Cora Horsley purchased Lot 2 and part of Lot 3, Block 5, in the Crafts Re- Subdivision of the Lake Park Addition from Viola R. Flower. On the title, an understanding is written dictating the direction in which any house built on the lot would face depending on its situation on the lot. If the house were further west, it would face Remington Street, and if the house were further east, it would face Elizabeth Street.10 The house the Horsleys built in 1926 did 8 Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity, Colorado: Containing Portraits and Biographies of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United State (Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1898), 1129; “Marriage Licenses,” Fort Collins Courier, June 7, 1894; 1910 United States Federal Census, Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7884&h=187282960&ssrc=pt&tid=1942031&pid=6005731763&usePUB=true. 9 “Livermore,” Weekly Courier, February 28, 1906; “Today’s News,” Weekly Courier, April 11, 1906; “Today’s News,” Fort Collins Courier, May 8, 1907; “Real Estate Transfers,” Fort Collinsn Courier, May 22, 1907; “Real Estate Transfers,” Fort Collins Courier, May 29, 1907; “Natural Gas Is Discovered on Horsley Farm,” Fort Collins Courier, August 28, 1907; “Gas Prospects to Be Developed,” Fort Collins Courier, September 18, 1907; “South Side District No. 10,” Weekly Courier, May 5, 1909; “South Side Items,” Weekly Courier, August 11, 1909; “South Side District No. 10,” Weekly Courier, January 27, 1910. 10 Warranty Deed, Viola R. Flower to Leslie and Cora Horsley, September 18, 1925, Book 514, Page 101, Title Books Collection, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder, Fort Collins, CO. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 neither of those things, the front door facing northwest instead. According to the Fort Collins Express-Courier, their new $12,000 residence was considered “one of the best houses erected in Fort Collins the past year, and only another indication that the city [was] going right ahead.”11 Leslie Horsley had his brick garage built in 1926.12 The Horsleys commissioned architect Lester L. Jones to draw the plans for the house.13 L.L. Jones was one of only four architects working in Fort Collins in the early 1920s. Jones’s designs included the Armstrong Hotel in downtown Fort Collins, the Masonic Temple in Johnstown, and the Adams County Courthouse addition that nearly doubled the size of the building.14 Another notable local example of Jones’s work was his Arte Moderne design of the house at 1102 Laporte Ave., which he drew for F.L. “Roy” Toliver; this was “perhaps the only residence of this style in the city.”15 Jones started his career in Fort Collins, where he met architect Richard O. Parry, who he would partner with frequently throughout his career. By the late 1920s, Jones had moved his practice to Denver, as had Parry.16 Jones was described as an “important figure associated with the International Style in pre-war Denver,”17 by Casper Hegner, another pre-war Denver architect. Addressed originally as 1002 Remington St., this property was home to the Horsleys for many years. The family sold their house to Delta Zeta Sorority in 1945, and the Delta Zetas first occupied the house for the 1946-47 schoolyear and continued to use it as their primary chapter house through 1959. The sorority also had two “annexes” nearby this corner location, where additional members of the Delta Zetas lived: one at 202 E. Elizabeth St., directly to the north, and one at 1011 Remington St., one house down across the street.18 According to their website, the Delta Zetas were founded as a social sorority at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1902. Six women founded the sorority and set it up for success, despite the challenges they faced “on a male dominated-campus, as women had just been given full status as students.”19 The sorority identifies its purpose as creating “lasting friendship” and embracing “social responsibility,” among other aims.20 11 “Leslie Horsley to Build Fine New Residence,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, November 22, 1925. 12 Building Permit #1400, 1002 Remington St., Leslie Horsley, May 13, 1926, Building Permit Collection, Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration Between the FCMoD and the PRPLD, http://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. 13 Ibid. 14 Patricia Reither, “Colorado State Register of Historic Properties Nomination Form: Adams County Courthouse,” May 1, 2006, https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2017/5AM92.pdf. 15 “Fort Collins History and Architecture: Post World War I Urban Growth, 1919-1941,” Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration between FCMoD and PRPLD, https://history.fcgov.com/contexts/post.php. 16 Reither. 17 Kiehnhoff, interview with Hegner. 18 Norma L. Anderson, interview paraphrased in Carl McWilliams, “Residential Building at 201 E. Elizabeth Street: Delta Zeta Sorority, Triangle Fraternity,” April 16, 2015, Digital Property File Collection, City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Services, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Building, Fort Collins, CO. 19 “History,” Delta Zeta Organization, http://www.deltazeta.org/about-us/history/. 20 “Our Purpose,” Delta Zeta Organization, http://www.deltazeta.org/about-us/our-purpose/. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 Sororities and Fraternities Fraternities emerged on American college campuses in the early nineteenth century as the social counterpart to academically focused literary societies. The Greek-letter names of these societies were meant to evoke the prestige and distinction of learning Greek language and to represent the first letters of secret mottos, which were written in Greek. The term “sorority” was first used by Gamma Phi Beta in 1882; female Greek organizations were originally called women’s fraternities (frater means “brother” and soror means “sister” in Latin). Fraternities and sororities met regularly and hosted social events for members. By the 1890s, many Greek letter organizations began owning chapter houses where their members could live. The chapter house soon became a central component of Greek life. Between 1920 and 1929, the number of fraternity houses in the US more than doubled from 774 to 1,874. Between World War II and the 1960s, fraternity and sorority membership remained strong, and these organizations began to confront their membership policies, which could sometimes be elitist and exclusive.21 Around the time of the Vietnam War, membership in Greek organizations sank sharply because students viewed them as an “establishment idea… [that] was part of their parents’ generation,” but membership rose once more by the end of the 1970s and continues to be strong.22 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Colorado Agricultural College (Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts/Colorado State University), campus administration grappled with whether or not to support student participation in Greek letter societies. One of the benefits of student involvement in fraternities was that students could live in chapter houses located near campus. At the time, CAC had no student housing; the only dormitory was demolished in 1893, and others would not be built until the 1930s. Fraternities could fill that room-and-board void. Greek letter societies could also support the social development of students, while the university nurtured them academically. Conversely, the inherent exclusivity and selectivity of fraternities seemed philosophically opposed to the principles of a land-grant university.23 And inevitably, some students would be left out of the fraternities or sororities and still lack housing. Author and local historian Barbara Fleming associates Charles Lory, a university president in 1909, with the emergence of Greek letter organizations at CAC; Lory had himself belonged to a fraternity in college, and so supported their advancement.24 21 Michael A. Grandillo, “Social Fraternities and Sororities: History, Characteristics of Fraternities and Sororities, Reforms and Renewal,” Education Encyclopedia, State University, https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2429/Social-Fraternities-Sororities.html. 22 Linda Perry, Kappa Delta President, Quoted in “There’s a Greek Success Story at CSU” by Judy Puckett, Coloradoan, September 14, 1977, CSU Fraternities and Sororities Vertical File, Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins, CO. 23 Land-grant universities were given benefits and funds by the federal government under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890; the federal government gave states land specifically to establish these universities. The intention was to address some of the structural change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, so the schools established as land- grant universities focused on agriculture, engineering, and science rather than just “classical” education and liberal arts; this transformed the diversity of the classes of people who attended college. 24 Barbara Fleming, “Early Greek Life at CSU,” Coloradoan, March 29, 2015, https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2015/03/30/early-greek-life-colorado-state-university-fort-collins/70642792/. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 Fraternity and sorority membership remained strong in Fort Collins even through the Great Depression and World War II. Membership in Delta Zeta sorority, for example, more than tripled between 1948 and 1958 from 15 to 55.25 Perhaps anticipating this growth, Delta Zeta sorority purchased the mansion-like home at 1002 Remington St. from the Horsleys in 1945. In 1951, the Delta Zetas remodeled the interior of the house and also had five of the basement windows enlarged.26 The sorority sold the house to Beta Sigma of Delta Zeta Building Corporation 1957, which seems to have been a simple administrative change in title holder name (Beta Sigma was the name of the CSU chapter of Delta Zeta), and continued to use the property until 1959, when it was sold to Edmund F. Schulz, a teacher and researcher at CSU, and his wife, Violet E. Schulz. This sale included all of the rugs, mirrors, drapes, and other trappings of the house not specifically owned by individual sorority members or the house mother, according to the deed.27 Later History Schulz sold the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property to Victor W. and Elizabeth F. Sothers in 1963; in addition to using the house as a residence, Victor used it as his professional photography studio, and Elizabeth worked as the receptionist for the business.28 It was between 1966 and 1968 that the address changed from 1002 Remington St. to 201 E. Elizabeth St., according to City Directories.29 Then, in 1977, the Sotherses sold to Alexander M. “Sandy” Oskamp for $80,000. Oskamp worked in real estate. He had some of the house’s windows in the basement replaced with egress windows in 1978, and he also had the garage torn down and a parking lot put in its place in addition to some landscaping.30 In May of the same year, Oskamp received a Certificate of Occupancy for the property, officially changing it from a single family residence to a fraternity/boarding house.31 Soon after, he made an agreement with the Triangle Fraternity of Colorado State University for them to purchase the property at 201 E. Elizabeth St. on installment. The title officially transferred to them in 1982.32 25 McWilliams. 26 Building Permit #12360, 1002 Remington St., Delta Zeta Sorority, July 17, 1951, Building Permit Collection, Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration Between the FCMoD and the PRPLD, http://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. 27 Warranty Deed, Beta Sigma of Delta Zeta Building Corporation to Edmund Schulz, et al., November 4, 1959, Book 1102, Page 337, Title Books Collection, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder, Fort Collins, CO. 28 1963-77 City Directories, City Directory Collection, Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fort Collins, CO. 29 Ibid. 30 Building Permit #60334, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Sandy Oskamp, February 16, 1978, City of Fort Collins Public Records Database, http://citydocs.fcgov.com/.; Building Permit #60892, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Sandy Oskamp, April 20, 1978, City of Fort Collins Public Records Database, http://citydocs.fcgov.com/. 31 Certificate of Occupancy, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Sandy (A.M.) Oskamp, City of Fort Collins Public Records Database, http://citydocs.fcgov.com/.http://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. 32 Agreement, A.M. Oskamp, Jr. and Triangle Fraternity of Colorado State University, Inc., July 12, 1978, Larimer County Official Records Search, Larimer County, https://records.larimer.org/landmarkweb; Warranty Deed, A.M. Oskamp, Jr. to Triangle Fraternity of Colorado State University, Inc., September 15, 1982, Larimer County Official Records Search, Larimer County, https://records.larimer.org/landmarkweb. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 The Triangle Fraternity, according to their mission statement, focuses on engineering, architecture, and science.33 Like the Delta Zetas before them, the Triangle Fraternity purchased the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property at a time when membership was swinging upward. Between 1979 and 1985, their membership more than doubled from 13 to 27. The mid-eighties seem to be the peak of their membership.34 The Triangle Fraternity is still an active fraternity at CSU today. In 2006, Triangle Fraternity sold the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property to the Dennis Dowswell Living Trust for $500,000. Dowswell had planned to turn the property into a bed-and-breakfast, but that idea did not come to fruition. He instead chose to keep the property as a fraternity house rather than applying for another change of use permit.35 However, the property was not actually used as a fraternity house for a number of years under Dowswell’s ownership, creating a controversy in the neighborhood upon the 2015 sale of the property to Paul Milewski and Julie Rickett, who intended to rent the house to Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Re-establishing the use of the property as a fraternity house required action from the City and its government boards.36 Neighborhood residents pushed back against the proposal in correspondence with the City and at public meetings, citing concerns about insufficient parking for a fraternity and noise in the neighborhood.37 With stipulations limiting occupancy and the size of fraternity meetings, Community Development and Neighborhood Services Director Laurie Kadrich approved fraternity use for 201 E. Elizabeth St. on April 15, 2015. Neighbors continued to express dissatisfaction. In the end, the issue went up to City Council for a decision. Council unanimously agreed that the house at 201 E. Elizabeth St. could be used as fraternity.38 Milewski and Rickett proceeded to rent the property to Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, an all-male Greek organization centered on “brotherhood, learning, and ethical leadership.”39 In 2017, Milewski and Rickett sold to Saddle Up Partners, LLC for $688,000, and in 2018, the property was sold to its current owner, 201 East Elizabeth Street, LLC, for $1,445,000.40 The Phi Kappa Tau fraternity still uses the Horsley/Delta Zeta Property as their chapter house. 33 Triangle Fraternity, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Colorado State University, https://fsl.colostate.edu/chapters/triangle/. 34 McWilliams. 35 Pat Ferrier, “Frat House Mired in Uncertainty,” Coloradoan, March 17, 2015. 36 Ibid., “Board Delays Hearing on Frat House,” Coloradoan, March 12, 2015. 37 Ibid., “More Scrutiny for Elizabeth Frat Plan,” Coloradoan, March 27, 2015. 38 Adrian Garcia, “Fraternity House OK’d by FoCO Council,” Coloradoan, July 21, 2015. 39 “Fraternity,” Phi Kappa Tau, https://www.phikappatau.org/about/fraternity. 40 Warranty Deed, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Paul Milewski and Julie Rickett to Saddle Up Partners, LLC, October 12, 2017, Larimer County Official Records Search, Larimer County, https://records.larimer.org/landmarkweb; Warranty Deed, 201 E. Elizabeth St., Saddle Up Partners, LLC to 201 East Elizabeth Street, LLC, December 6, 2018, Larimer County Official Records Search, Larimer County, https://records.larimer.org/landmarkweb. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION Construction Date: 1926 Architect/Builder: Lester L. Jones Building Materials: Brick, Concrete Architectural Style: Tudor Revival Description: This one-and-a-half-story Tudor-revival house is on the south-east corner of Remington Street and Elizabeth Street, within the boundaries of the Laurel School Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The east side of the property is filled with a parking lot that serves the home’s residents, its current use being a fraternity chapter house. It has two perpendicular gabled wings, a projecting enclosed vestibule, and a northwest-facing front porch at the juncture of the two wings that makes the house sit at an angle on the lot. The foundation is concrete, and the wall materials are brick with half-timbering in stucco in the upper half-story. The brick is textured and deliberately inconsistent in color, and this material is separated from the half- timbered section by a row of soldier-coursed bricks and a wood belt course. The roof is clad in semi-cylindrical tiles in an earth-tone. This house also has three brick chimneys. Unless otherwise noted, all window frames are painted a deep red, and all windows have a lintel of soldier-coursed bricks and a projected brick sill with headers facing out. It appears that all the windows excluding basement windows are casements, unless otherwise noted. A winding stone path leads from the north-west corner of the lot to the un-covered front porch that is flanked by two trees. The surfaces of the brick porch are topped with stone, including five steps. This porch serves the front door, which is set in a flat-roofed, brick entry projecting from the intersection of the two wings of the house. Squares are removed from the upper corners of this structure, creating the appearance of a small parapet. This upper edge is emphasized by soldier-coursed bricks. Soldier-coursed bricks are also used below the house number in the upper-middle section of this structure and for the lintel of the door. This door and its sidelights are modern, replaced sometime between 2014 and 2016, based on Google Street View imagery. The red door has one curved light in its upper section and two narrow, half-height sidelights, all of which have geometric, leaded glass patterning. There is an iron mail slot to the right of the door as well as a small, brass-colored lamp. To the left of this entry is the west side of the house’s north wing. On the first story of this elevation, there is a wood triple window with wood-framed screens. On the roof of this elevation is an inverted dormer with a pair of casement windows. To the right of this entry is the north side of the west wing. The first story of this elevation has a triple window and wood-framed screens just like its counterpart on the other north wing. On the upper level, there is a wood, paired casement window that extends just above the roofline and past the wood belt course just below the stuccoed area. There is another window of this type and orientation near the juncture with the north wing. The west elevation of the west wing has a flared roofline on the south side of its gable. There is also a brick chimney on this elevation. In the upper story, set to the left of the chimney, there is a Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 pair of wood casement windows. This elevation is dominated by a one-story, flat-roofed brick vestibule. Like the entry vestibule between the two wings, this vestibule’s roof has a parapet topped with soldier-coursed bricks. It has small sections taken out of it for drainage. The west elevation of this vestibule has a set of quintupled, wood windows with wood-framed screens that has a lintel and sill like those on the rest of the building. The north elevation of this vestibule has a wood triple window with wood-framed screens. The south elevation of this vestibule has a historic wood door with many lights flanked by 2/3 height fixed sidelights, all topped with a lintel of soldier-coursed bricks. This door is approached by a brick porch and six steps topped with stone, much like the main entrance. Because the roofline of the west wing is flared to the south, the south elevation of this wing is one-story in height and all brick. In this west-most portion of the house’s south elevation, there is a wood triple window with two of three wood-framed screens. Below this window is a modern, vinyl, basement slider window. There is also a wood paired window to the right of this triple window. The south elevation of the house features the gabled end of the north wing as well. Another chimney runs down this part of the south elevation. In the upper story, there is a wood triple window that extends just slightly into the brick portion of the wall past the wood belt course. In the lower brick portion, there are two pairs of wood casement windows, each missing one screen. There is another modern basement window on this side of the south elevation. There is no half-timbering on the east elevation. There is another chimney on this elevation that emerges at the roofline near the center of the elevation. There is a basement stairway toward the south side of this elevation that has a stone wall. Along this stairway, there is a narrow, wood, paired awning window. The door at the bottom of the stair appears historic and has a square, four-light window in its upper half. There is a light fixture attached to the ceiling of this basement entry. The ceiling of this basement entry is made of concrete and connects to a porch made of stone and topped with concrete. This porch is approached by three concrete steps. All of this concrete is painted red. This porch has a combination of posts and rails of different materials. The stair has one handrail to the right made of wood. There are some posts for the porch made of wood, but there is also a decorative metal post and partial metal balustrade. The porch posts support a wood roof covered with a cloth awning that stretches across much of the elevation’s south side. Partially beneath this awning toward the south side of the east elevation, there is a tripled, wood casement window. To its right, fully beneath the awning, is a paired, wood casement window. The right of this paired window, also beneath the awning, part of the wall is stucco and half- timbering rather than brick; soldier-coursed bricks run across this entire section. On the left side of this stuccoed section is a wood triple window with wood storms that each has three horizontal lights. On the right is a modern door, painted red like the rest of the doors on the house. To the north of this awning-covered section is a single wood casement window. To its right is a three-sided bay. Where the walls of the bay intersect, the bricks interlace only slightly, creating negative spaces in almost a checkerboard pattern. The south side of the bay has a single, wood Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 casement window with a wood-framed screen. The east side of the bay has a paired, wood casement window with one wood-framed screen. The north side of the bay has another single, wood casement window with a wood-framed screen. Also on the east elevation, there are three evenly-spaced inverted dormers, each with a pair of casement windows. There are three basement window openings on this elevation that have been filled in with masonry. There is also a small masonry feature against this elevation’s wall near the basement stairway opening that appears damaged and is of an unknown use. The north elevation features the other gabled end of the north wing. There are two basement windows on this elevation that have been replaced with modern sliders. These windows are likely less wide, but taller than the original windows, given the excavated appearance of the earth around them and the concrete around the new windows. They do, however, retain their soldier- coursed brick lintels. Above each of these basement windows is a tripled, wood casement window. The east window is shorter than the west window, but their lintels are aligned. Centered below the gable is a quadrupled, wood casement window that, like the other upper-story windows on this house, extends just slightly into the brick portion of the wall past the wood belt course. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 REFERENCE LIST or SOURCES of INFORMATION Building Permit Collection. 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Delta Zeta Organization. http://www.deltazeta.org/about-us/history/. Pat Ferrier. “Frat House Mired in Uncertainty,” Coloradoan. March 17, 2015. ———. “Board Delays Hearing on Frat House.” Coloradoan, March 12, 2015. ———. “More Scrutiny for Elizabeth Frat Plan.” Coloradoan, March 27, 2015. Fleming, Barbara. “Early Greek Life at CSU.” Coloradoan, March 29, 2015. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2015/03/30/early-greek-life-colorado-state- university-fort-collins/70642792/. Fort Collins History Connection: An Online Collaboration Between the FCMoD and the PRPLD. Building Permit Collection. http://history.fcgov.com/collections/building-permits. ———. “Fort Collins History and Architecture: Post World War I Urban Growth, 1919-1941.” https://history.fcgov.com/contexts/post.php. “Fraternity.” Phi Kappa Tau. https://www.phikappatau.org/about/fraternity. Garcia, Adrian. “Fraternity House OK’d by FoCO Council.” Coloradoan. July 21, 2015. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 Grandillo, Michael A. “Social Fraternities and Sororities: History, Characteristics of Fraternities and Sororities, Reforms and Renewal.” Education Encyclopedia. State University. https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2429/Social-Fraternities-Sororities.html. Kiehnhoff, Tamsen. Interview with Casper Hegner. April 10, 1990. Paraphrased in the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Denver Public Library by Rodd Wheaton and Michael Paglia. June 19, 1990. Local History Archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. Tax Assessor Card Collection. Museum of Discovery. Fort Collins, CO. ———. CSU Fraternities and Sororities Vertical File. Museum of Discovery. Fort Collins, CO. ———. City Directories Collection. Museum of Discovery. Fort Collins, CO. McWilliams, Carl. “Residential Building at 201 E. Elizabeth Street: Delta Zeta Sorority, Triangle Fraternity.” April 16, 2015. Digital Property File Collection. City of Fort Collins Historic Preservation Services. Community Development and Neighborhood Services Building. Fort Collins, CO. Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity, Colorado: Containing Portraits and Biographies of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United State. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1898. Reither, Patricia. “Colorado State Register of Historic Properties Nomination Form: Adams County Courthouse.” May 1, 2006. https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2017/5AM92.pdf. Title Books Collection. Larimer County Clerk and Recorder. Fort Collins, CO. Triangle Fraternity. Fraternity and Sorority Life. Colorado State University. https://fsl.colostate.edu/chapters/triangle/. United States Federal Census Records, Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7884&h=187282960&ssrc=pt&tid=1942031&pid=6005731763 &usePUB=true. Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 MAPS and PHOTOGRAPHS Map 1: Location Map Map 2: Aerial Map Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 Map 3: 1925-43 Sanborn Map (Poudre Libraries and Proquest Collection) Planning, Development & Transportation Services Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. 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Elizabeth St. – Horsley/Delta Zeta Property City Council, April 7, 2020 ATTACHMENT 3 Standard 1: Events- Sorority and Fraternity History 2 201 E. Elizabeth St. – Horsley/Delta Zeta Property Above and Right: From the 1950 Silver Spruce yearbook Triangle Fraternity Crest Phi Kappa Tau Crest Standard 3: Tudor Revival Architecture 3 201 E. Elizabeth St. – Horsley/Delta Zeta Property 1968 Tax Assessor Photo (Local History Archive) • Construction: 1926 • Standard 1: Events • Association with university sorority and fraternity history • Standard 3: Design/Construction • Tudor Revival Style, Architect Lester L. Jones • Exterior Integrity: Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association 4 201 E. Elizabeth St. – Horsley/Delta Zeta Property ATTACHMENT 4 -1- ORDINANCE NO. 069, 2020 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS DESIGNATING THE HORSLEY/DELTA ZETA PROPERTY, 201 EAST ELIZABETH 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 Horsley/Delta Zeta Property, 201 East Elizabeth 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 Standards of Significance 1, Events, and 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. -2- Section 2. That the Property located in the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, described as follows, to wit: Lot 2 and North 20 feet of Lot 3, Block 5, Crafts Re-subdivision; also known by street and number as 201 East Elizabeth 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