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Home My WebLink AboutSupporting Documentation - Historic Preservation - 09/12/2025 Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.224.6078 preservation@fcgov.com fcgov.com/historicpreservation Historic Preservation Services OFFICIAL DETERMINATION: FORT COLLINS LANDMARK ELIGIBILITY Resource Number: B3360 (City) Historic Building Name: Timnath Interstate Texaco/Harmony Road Texaco Property Address: 4325 E. Harmony Rd Determination: NOT ELIGIBLE Issued: September 12, 2025 Expiration: September 12, 2030 Solo Sailor LLC 3685 Sturgis Road Rapid City, SD 57702-0321 Dear Property Owner: This letter provides you with confirmation that your property has been evaluated for Fort Collins landmark eligibility, following the requirements in Chapter 14, Article II of the Fort Collins Municipal Code, and has been found Not Eligible for landmark designation. An intensive-level Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Form was completed by a third-party historic preservation consultant. This form serves as the basis for staff’s evaluation of the property’s historic and/or architectural significance and its integrity, both of which are required for landmark eligibility as per Article II, Section 14-22. Staff has made the following findings regarding the information and evaluation of significance, integrity, and landmark eligibility provided by the consultant in the attached form. Significance Consultant’s evaluation: The Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco at 4305 E. Harmony Road does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion A or Criterion 1 for its association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of history due to a lack of integrity. Constructed in 1971 at the I-25 and E. Harmony Road interchange, the service station is historically associated with the response to construction of the nation’s interstate highway system, specifically the completion of I-25 through Colorado in 1969, which encouraged the development of transportation-related businesses at the new interstate’s intersections with Harmony Road (State Highway 68) and State Highway 14, both important Fort Collins-area east/west arterial roads. However, due to extensive alterations after the period of significance (1971-1975) the service station does not retain sufficient integrity to convey its association with this trend in local Transportation history. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion B or Criterion 2 for its association with individuals whose past activities are significant within the local, state or national context. Research did not reveal any individuals associated with the service station that played a demonstrably outstanding role in local history. The Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco does not appear to be individually eligible under National Register Criterion C or Fort Collins Criteria 3 in the area of Architecture. Designed and built by undetermined individuals, the service station was extensively remodeled at least twice after its initial construction and does not retain sufficient integrity to convey its significance as a Modern service station built in 1971. An archeological investigation of the property was not undertaken; however, no evidence was found suggesting the property could be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion D or Criterion 4 for its archeological significance. Staff agrees with the consultant’s conclusions regarding the property’s significance under all four Standards based on the following findings. • The property’s statement of significance is supported by a discussion of historical context and a comparative analysis that is appropriate for the property. Relevant context reports and comparative examples have been referenced and cited. • Each significance criterion is addressed in the statement of significance, even if not applicable. • For eligible properties, a period of significance is provided and justified based on the available records. Integrity Consultant’s evaluation: Remodeled at least twice since that time, the gas station was subsequently operated under the Phillips, Shell, and Sinclair brands. In the 1980s, the entrances to the station’s two service bays, important character-defining features of the service station type, were enclosed as business operations shifted from the service station model to the convenience store model. The most recent remodeling, undertaken in 2017, included construction of a new front façade, further eroding the station’s integrity. Due to the cumulative effect of the extensive alterations undertaken outside the service station’s period of significance, the site no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey its historic associations with important events or trends in local Transportation history, or its significance in the area of Architecture as a Modern service station built in 1971. Staff agrees with the consultant’s conclusions regarding the property’s integrity based on the following findings. • Essential physical features are identified in the integrity analysis and related to period of significance. • Discussion of integrity relates to the property’s most relevant aspects of integrity per its significance. • Discussion of integrity focuses on the property’s essential physical features, and relates to period of significance. • Discussion and conclusion responds directly to previous conclusions and assessments of the property, whether in opposition or in agreement. Statement of Eligibility: Staff concludes that the Timnath Interstate Texaco/Harmony Road Texaco at 4325 E. Harmony Road is not eligible for designation as a Fort Collins Landmark and is not an historic resource as defined in Municipal Code 14-3, or for the purposes of applying Land Use Code 5.8.1. Per Article II, Section 14-23 of the code, any determination made by staff regarding eligibility may be appealed to the Commission by the applicant, any resident of the City, or owner of property in the City. Such appeal shall be set forth in writing and filed with the Director within fourteen (14) days of the date of the staff's determination. If you have any questions regarding this determination, or if I may be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. I may be reached at jbertolini@fcgov.com, or 970-416-4250. Sincerely, Jim Bertolini Senior Historic Preservation Planner Attachment: Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Architectural Inventory Form 1403, dated August 2025. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 1 Rev. 9/98 COLORADO CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY Architectural Inventory Form (OAHP use only) Date Initials Determined Eligible- NR Determined Not Eligible- NR Determined Eligible- SR Determined Not Eligible- SR Need Data Contributes to eligible NR District Noncontributing to eligible NR District Field Evaluation of Fort Collins Landmark Eligibility ☐ Individually Eligible ☐ Contributing to District ☒ Not Eligible ☐ Likely Eligible for State/National Register General Recommendations: This is the first recording of the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco service station constructed for Texaco Inc. in 1971 at 4325 E. Harmony Road and its associated non- historic resources, all of which were built or installed after 1984. The property is recommended not eligible for individual listing in the National or Fort Collins Register due to insufficient integrity to its period of significance, which extends from 1971, when the service station first opened, to 1975, fifty years in the past per Fort Collins and National Register guidelines. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 2 The parcel addressed as 4325 E. Harmony Road was historically part of a 320-acre sheep farm developed by Charles and Inez Sherred in 1919 and later operated as a 160-acre dairy farm by Robert and Bernice Weitzel. The service station site remained cultivated farmland until 1971 when Texaco Inc. acquired a rezoned 1.01-acre portion of the farm near the E. Harmony Road and I-25 interchange and the Timnath Interstate Texaco was constructed. Remodeled at least twice since that time, the gas station was subsequently operated under the Phillips, Shell, and Sinclair brands. In the 1980s, the entrances to the station’s two service bays, important character-defining features of the service station type, were enclosed as business operations shifted from the service station model to the convenience store model. The most recent remodeling, undertaken in 2017, included construction of a new front façade, further eroding the station’s integrity. Due to the cumulative effect of the extensive alterations undertaken outside the service station’s period of significance, the site no longer retains sufficient integrity to convey its historic associations with important events or trends in local Transportation history, or its significance in the area of Architecture as a Modern service station built in 1971. Research did not reveal any individuals associated with the station whose past activities are outstanding within the local context, and given the extensive ground disturbance that has occurred over time, it is unlikely that the property contains significant archaeological deposits. I. Identification 1. Resource number: B3560 (City) 2. Temporary resource number: 4325 3. County: Larimer 4. City: Fort Collins 5. Historic building name: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco 6. Current building name: Sinclair Gas Station 7. Building address: 4325 E. Harmony Road, Fort Collins, CO 80528 8. Owner name and address: Solo Sailor LLC, 3685 Sturgis Road, Rapid City, SD 57702-0321 II. Geographic Information 9. P.M. 6th Township 6N Range 68W N ½ of NW ¼ of Section 3 10. UTM reference: Zone 13; 500378 mE 4485772 mN 11. USGS quad name: Fort Collins Year: 1984 Map scale: 7.5' ☒ 15' ☐ Attach photo copy of appropriate map section. 12. Lot(s): N/A Block: N/A Addition/Subdivision: N/A Year of Addition/Subdivision: N/A 13. Boundary Description and Justification: The boundary encompasses the 1.01-acre legal parcel addressed as 4325 E. Harmony Road, acquired by Texaco Inc. in 1971. The boundary encompasses the historic service station built on the parcel for Texaco Inc. in 1971, as well as non- historic resources built after 1984. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 3 III. Architectural Description 14. Building plan (footprint, shape): Rectangular 15. Dimensions in feet: Length 27’ x Width 37’ 16. Number of stories: 1 17. Primary external wall material(s): Concrete Block, Stucco 18. Roof configuration: Side Gable 19. Primary external roof material: Composition Shingle 20. Special features: Gas Pumps, Gas Pump Canopy, Freestanding Signs (2), Sinclair DINO Statue 21. General architectural description: The 37’ wide x 27’ deep, rectangular-plan, 1-story service station stands on a concrete foundation facing north toward E. Harmony Road and the on-ramp to I-25. Constructed of concrete blocks set in a stacked pattern with board-and-batten siding at the gable ends, the building received a new stucco front façade with shaped parapet in 2017. The original side-gable composition shingle roof has deeply overhanging eaves on the east, west, and south sides. The eaves are angled at the gable ends, growing deeper as they reach the roof peak. When first built, the station included a small storefront space with two restrooms at the station’s northeast corner and two service bays to the west. Entrances to the service bays were enclosed in the 1980s and the storefront space expanded as business operations evolved from gas station/service station to gas station/convenience store. North (Front) Side: An approximately 10” thick stucco façade with shaped parapet was applied over the existing façade in 2017. The brick cladding originally installed at the base of the north wall remains exposed below the projecting stucco façade. The original aluminum storefront remains intact at the east side of the wall. To the west, the stucco façade features two arched openings that correspond to the gas station’s original service bay entrances, infilled in the 1980s. The infill walls are clad with non-historic vertical siding. Each bay holds a non-historic wood-framed picture window. West Side: Mechanical equipment sits near the center of the east wall. To the north is a small, ca. 2000, rectangular-plan, T1-11-clad, front-gable addition. South Side: A ca. 1990s, rectangular-plan, shed-roof addition sits at the west end of the wall, which is unfenestrated. The addition’s walls are clad with ribbed metal panels. The roof is standing-seam metal. Chain-link fencing encloses a small area east of the addition. East side: Mechanical equipment sits at the center of the west wall. To the north is a flush pedestrian door topped by a transom. North of the door, a metal 1-by-1 slider window with a shared concrete sill sits near the top of the wall. The wall below the sill is covered by painted plywood panels. 22. Architectural style/building type: Modern Movements 23. Landscaping or special setting features: The area surrounding the gas station is paved with asphalt and concrete. The roughly eastern third of the parcel is mowed grass with concrete flatwork marking the access point to underground gas tanks. Cars Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 4 access the property from the E. Harmony Road frontage road via two driveways. A small area between the two driveways is edged with stone cobbles and planted with low shrubs and plants surrounding a single larger shrub. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: Gas Pump Canopy and Pumps, 1990, non-contributing The gas pumps at the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco were not protected by a canopy when the gas station was first built in 1971. Larimer County building permit records suggest the existing 50’ x 50’ square-plan gas pump canopy was constructed in 1990. The flat roof is supported by steel columns rising from concrete platforms at the canopy’s corners. Each platform supports a non-historic double-sided, non-historic, Sinclair-branded gas pump protected by concrete bollards. Square light fixtures in the canopy ceiling illuminate the pump area below. Sinclair branded signage wraps around the edge of the canopy roof. Outbuilding, ca. 2000s, non-contributing A roughly 8’ wide x 20’ deep rectangular-plan, one-story, wood-frame outbuilding stands facing west approximately 60’ east of the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco building. The shed’s walls are clad with T1-11 siding. The front-gable composition-shingle roof has overhanging eaves on the east and west sides. A flush pedestrian door sits on the east side; flush metal double doors are found on the west side. High-Rise Sign, 1993, non-contributing The roughly 20’ wide high-rise sign stands north of the outbuilding, approximately 60’ east of the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco building. Designed to be visible from I-25, the tall sign replaced the original high-rise Texaco sign installed in 1971. The metal structure is topped by a Sinclair-branded illuminated box sign with digital gas price display. Pylon Sign, 1993, non-contributing A roughly 5’ wide pylon sign stands within the landscaped area north of the gas pump canopy. The metal structure holds a Sinclair-branded illuminated box sign and digital gas price display. Sinclair DINO Statue, ca. 2017, non-contributing A statue of DINO, Sinclair’s trademarked dinosaur mascot, stands within the planted area at the entrance to the gas station. The statue was installed ca. 2017 when the gas station was rebranded. IV. Architectural History 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1971 Source of information: Larimer County Deed Records, 209 Realty Investors to Texaco Inc., February 4, 1971, Book 1452/645; Larimer County Assessor Commercial Property Record Card. 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: N/A Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 5 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: N/A 28. Original owner: Texaco Inc. Source of information: Larimer County Deed Records, 209 Realty Investors to Texaco Inc., February 4, 1971, Book 1452/645. 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): In the 1960s, the land on which the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco sits was part of a 160-acre dairy farm operated Robert and Bernice Weitzel. Texaco Inc. acquired a 1.01-acre parcel of re- zoned agricultural land in February 1971 and completed construction of the Timnath Interstate Texaco service station—later the Harmony Interstate Texaco and in 1975 known as the Harmony Road Texaco— by the following August. A Texaco high-rise sign and hexagonal Texaco pole sign were installed at this time. Both followed standard Texaco designs. The service station building, however, did not follow standard Texaco designs in use at this time. Larimer County Building Permit Records suggest that the entrances to the service bay were infilled and the rear addition constructed around 1987. Aerial photographs and Larimer County Building Permit Records indicate the existing canopy was constructed over the gas pump area in 1990. The existing high-rise and pylon signs were installed in 1993 and the original historic signage removed around this time. In 2006, the gas station, now operated under the Shell brand, closed for three weeks to “undergo reconstruction;” however, no building permits issued during this time were located during research. Around this time, a Shell-branded parapet, presumably metal-framed, was added to the station building. The parapet encircled the original side-gable roof, giving the impression that the building was flat-roofed. In 2017, the station received a new stucco façade with shaped-parapet and began operating under the Sinclair brand. Existing signage was replaced and a trademark DINO the dinosaur statue installed on the grounds at this time. 30. Original location ☒ Moved ☐ Date of move(s): n/a V. Historical Associations 31. Original use(s): COMMERCE/TRADE/gas station 32. Intermediate use(s): n/a 33. Current use(s): COMMERCE/TRADE/gas station 34. Site type(s): Commercial 35. Historical background: In the 1960s, the land on which the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco sits was part of a 160-acre farm acquired by Robert and Bernice Weitzel in 1945. The agricultural land was originally owned by wealthy Boulder banker and entrepreneur Charles G. Buckingham and sold to Timnath-area merchant, farmer, and cheese factory manager Charles R. Sherred and wife Inez in 1919. Shortly afterward, the Sherred family built the Craftsman-style farmhouse at 4305 E. Harmony Road and a complex of farm Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 6 buildings on the previously undeveloped agricultural parcel. In February 1927, the Sherred family traded their 160-acre farm for the 640-acre Cradock Ranch near Livermore owned by cattleman Fred C. Kluver. Fred and Alice Kluver raised sheep at the E. Harmony Road farm before moving to Fort Collins in 1937 and renting the property to Harry and Esther Deines. The Deines family operated the farm until 1943, when the Kluvers sold the property to Wiggins farmers Frank A. Richter Jr. and wife Anna Gene (Allred) Richter. The Richter family owned the farm briefly, auctioning off their machinery, livestock, and feed in November 1945 and selling the farm to Robert Weitzel that December. Born in Timnath to German-Russian immigrant farmers Conrad and Nettie (Lebsack) Weitzel, Robert Weitzel (1914-2003) farmed, fed cattle, and raised dairy cows in the Timnath area for 29 years. During his lifetime, he was a member of the Colorado Cattle Feeders, Colorado Farm Bureau, Elks, International Order of Odd Fellows, Timnath School Board, and a director of the Fort Collins Milk Producers Association and Boxelder Ditch Company. In 1938, he married Bernice Stewart (1911-1976) and the couple raised three children—Dennis, Constance, and Virginia. The Weitzel family conducted a dairy operation on the 160-acre farm they acquired from the Richters and Bernice taught school. In 1962, they auctioned off their 84 head of Holstein dairy cattle and presumably retired from active farming. They continued to live on the farm at 4305 E. Harmony Road, celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary there in 1963. In 1946, Robert Weitzel began selling portions of the farm to Colorado’s State Highway Department to facilitate expansion of State Highway 185, which ran north/south along the eastern border of their farm. Established in the 1930s, State Highway 185 connected Denver to Fort Collins and was expanded north to the Wyoming border in the mid-1940s. By 1954, it was part of U.S. 87. After President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid to Highways Act authorizing the interstate highway system in June 1956, work began on the Colorado section of I-25 stretching north/south along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains from Wyoming to New Mexico. In the Fort Collins area, the new interstate highway followed the alignment of State Highway 185/U.S. 87. In 1965, construction of 1-25 was completed between U.S. 34 in Loveland north to Harmony Road (State Highway 68) in Fort Collins and by 1968 the highway reached north to Wellington. The Weitzel family’s farm now sat at the southwest corner of an important transportation nexus in Fort Collins, the intersection of I-25 and E. Harmony Road. Recognizing an opportunity to capitalize on completion of the new interstate, Robert Weitzel applied to have a roughly 1-acre portion of the farm near the intersection of I-25 and E. Harmony Road rezoned for commercial development. The application was approved in October 1968 and shortly after Weitzel sold the parcel to Peter J. Prato, who immediately sold the land to 209 Realty Investors. The land was subsequently sold to Texaco in February 1971 and the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco service station at 4325 E. Harmony Road built by the following August. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 7 In 1970, Weitzel’s application to rezone a second roughly 1-acre parcel west of the Texaco parcel was approved with the intention to facilitate construction of an American Oil Company service station. The land was sold to the American Oil Company but the planned service station never built. In 1971, Robert Weitzel sold the farm headquarters and the vast majority of remaining farmland to a real estate developer. (A thin 0.13-acre parcel between the two petroleum company properties remained under Weitzel’s ownership until 1989 when it was sold to the owners of 4325 E. Harmony Road at that time.) Founded by Joseph S. Cullinan and a group of investors in 1902 after discovery of the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, the Texas Company (commonly known as Texaco and officially renamed Texaco in 1959) adopted its trademark five-pointed red star logo in 1903 and opened its first filling station in Brooklyn, New York, in 1911. Texaco established more than 50 stations by 1916 and grew exponentially as the automobile industry swiftly expanded. Beginning in 1918, Texaco introduced standardized designs for its gas stations, developing regional variations of the house with canopy gas station type. Characterized by a small, house-like building with an attached canopy covering the fuel pumps, the house with canopy was the most common filling station type built in the U.S. during the 1910s and 1920s. In the 1930s, Texaco hired Walter Dowin Teague, one of the country’s leading industrial designers, to modernized its gas station designs. Teague prepared five variations of a Moderne-influenced, rectangular-plan, flat-roof gas station clad white porcelain enameled steel panels. The stations featured integrated service bays and, in some versions, detached or attached canopies sheltering the pumps. Teague also designed the company’s distinctive “banjo” sign—a large round sign featuring the red star logo set atop a tapered rectangular column. Described today as the oblong box gas station type, Teague’s service station designs inspired imitation and quickly became ubiquitous across the nation. After utilizing Teague’s designs for decades, Texaco introduced updated versions with Modern influences in the 1950s and a completely new service station design—the Matawan design—in 1964. A clear departure from Teague’s shiny white Moderne inspired stations, the Matawan type featured fieldstone veneer siding, a distinctive green mansard roof, and service bay entrances on the side of the building as opposed to the front. Texaco developed new signage as well, replacing the red star “banjo” sign with a hexagonal sign emblazoned with the company’s name. The Matawan design remained in use by Texaco through 1996, with examples built in Fort Collins, but was not employed when the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco at 4325 E. Harmony Road was constructed in 1971. When first built, the E. Harmony Road station maintained the rectangular footprint and floorplan typical of a traditional oblong box gas station with two service bays, but incorporated Modern details—walls of concrete block set in stacked pattern, brick skirting at the front façade, and a side gable roof with angled eaves. On-site signage followed standard Texaco designs—a freestanding hexagonal Texaco sign atop a tapered rectangular column and a high-rise sign designed to be visible to cars traveling along I-25 from a long distance. The high-rise sign featured three support columns and individual letters spelling out T-E-X-A-C-O. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 8 Originally known as the Timnath Interstate Texaco and by 1973 the Harmony Interstate Texaco, the service station was referred to as the Harmony Road Texaco by 1975. That year, a Texaco advertisement in the Fort Collins Coloradoan encouraged car owners to visit a Texaco service station for a 25-item “bumper-to-bumper Spring Safe-T Checkup” and listed the Harmony Road Texaco as one of the stations where such service was available. In addition to vehicle service, the station offered public restrooms, vending machines, and after 1976, 3.2% beer. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Harry and Melba Wetzler operated the service station on E. Harmony Road. Born in Fort Collins, Harry Fred Wetzler (1926-1980) served in the military during World War II before marrying Loveland-born Melba Rose Partridge (1927-1999) in 1946. Harry Wetzler was self-employed as a bricklayer and the couple raised son Jerry and daughter Rhonda on S. Shields Street in Fort Collins. By 1977, the Harmony Texaco, as it was then known, offered typical convenience store items for sale— cigarettes, mugs, gum, sunglasses, candy, beef jerky, etc.—and continued to service vehicles. The Wetlzers operated the service station through 1981. In 1982, the property changed ownership and the station became JIF Food Store #2, a convenience store operated by Charles and Marie Harroun through 1985. The new owners do not appear to have offered vehicle service, and it is possible that the service station bays were enclosed during this time, or perhaps in 1987 as Larimer County building permit records suggest but do not confirm. By 1986, the station operated as the Interstate Phillips 66 gas station and GGG #7 convenience store. In 1990, the property changed ownership and afterward operated as the Convenience Plus #7 convenience store selling Texaco gasoline. The existing canopy sheltering the gas pumps appears to have been completed around the time of the sale. In 2002, four Convenience Plus stores in Fort Collins, including Convenience Plus #7 at 4325 E. Harmony Road, were acquired by Jacksons Food Stores, an Idaho-based convenience store chain that operated more than 107 Texaco and Shell convenience stores in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. By 2006, the gas station/convenience store was operating under the Shell brand and did so until 2017 when the property was sold to the current owners, Solo Sailor LLC. In 2017, a major remodeling was undertaken that included the addition of a new front façade and rebranding as a Sinclair gas station. The gas station/convenience store continues to operate under the Sinclair and Big D brands today. 36. Sources of information: “Alice Kluver,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 19, 1974. “Bernice Weitzel,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 6, 1976. “Boxelder Ditch Firm Picks 1948 Directors,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, February 15, 1948. “Commissioners Approve Two Liquor Licenses,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, November 12, 1976. “Conrad Weitzel of Timnath Dies,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, June 7, 1956. “Controversial Request Deadlocks Commission,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, October 10, 1968. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. 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Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 10 “Timnath News,” Windsor Beacon, November 10, 1949. “Timnath Pair Wed 25 Years,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, June 23, 1963. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 29, 1948. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 6, 1963. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Courier, March 26, 1919. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Courier, May 20, 1920. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express, March 27, 1913. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, November 14, 1943. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Weekly Express, June 11, 1914. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Weekly Express, September 24, 1914. “Timnath’s New Department Store” Advertisement, The Poudre Valley, May 29, 1913. “Vote Total Light in Six High School Area Elections,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 7, 1957. “Weitzel Re-elected by Cattlefeeders,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 5, 1968. “What People are Doing,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, September 14, 1937. “Youth Arrested in Theft Case,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, October 30, 1975. Austin Auctions Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 17, 1962. Austin Sales Service Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, November 23, 1945. Boulder Public Library, Carnegie Library for Local History, https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/. Colorado County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006, accessed via Ancestry.com. Colorado Department of Transportation, “Interstate 25 History,” https://www.codot.gov/about/CDOTHistory/50th-anniversary/interstate-25. Convenience Plus Employment Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, December 2, 2012. C.R. Sherred Advertisement. The Poudre Valley, March 27, 1913, 10. Ernest, Doug. Gasoline Stations in Fort Collins, 1920-1960: History and Architecture. Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, May 2019. Fort Collins City Directories, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. History Colorado, “Oblong Gas Station,” https://www.historycolorado.org/oblong-box-gas-station. Jacksons Employment Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, September 29, 2002. Jones, W. Dwayne, A Field Guide to Gas Stations in Texas. Texas Department of Transportation, Historical Studies Report No. 2003-03, October 2003. Larimer County Assessor Records. Larimer County Building Permit Records. Larimer County Deed Records. Robert Weitzel to Peter Prato, December 3, 1968, Book 1399/331. Peter Prato to 209 Realty Investors, December 3, 1968, Book 1399/976. 209 Realty Investors to Texaco Inc., February 4, 1971, Book 1452/645. Texaco Inc to Philadelphia National Bank January 19, 1982, Book 2156/1001. Philadelphia National Bank to Dennis and Janet Weitzel, January 18, 1982, Book 2156/1004. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 11 Dennis and Janet Weitzel to Dare Co., February 26th, 1982, Book 2156/1008. Dare Co. to Ram Petroleum Co., January 10, 1990, Reception #19900002810. Ram Petroleum Co. to Conoco Inc., January 11, 1990, Reception #19900002811. Conoco Inc. to 14th & Taft Group, et al., January 15, 1990, Reception #19900002820. 14th & Taft Group, et al. to VRM Partners, April 9, 1990, Reception #19900028004. VRM Partners to Convenience Plus Partners Ltd., July 23, 1993, Reception #19930054709. Convenience Plus Partners Ltd. To Ventex LLC, July 24, 1996, Reception #19960054391. Ventex LLC to Equilon Enterprises LLC, January 31, 2006, Reception #20060008729. Equilon Enterprises LLC to ROF Properties LLC, January 31, 2006, Reception #20060008730. ROF Properties LLC to Solo Sailor LLC, February 7, 2017, Reception #20060008730. Larimer County Independent, March 6, 1879. Salek, Matthew. “The Highways of Colorado,” https://www.mesalek.com/colo/. Texaco Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, October 12, 1971. Texaco Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, March 31, 1975. Unger, Amy. Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Architectural Inventory Form, Sherred Farmhouse, 4305 E. Harmony Road, 5LR.11388, September 2025. On file with City of Fort Collins. U.S. Census Records, accessed via Ancestry.com. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2020, accessed via Ancestry.com. U.S. to Charles G. Buckingham, Cash Entry Patent, April 1, 1892, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, Document #15737. VI. Significance 37. Local landmark designation: Yes ☐ No ☒ Date of designation: Designating authority: 38. Applicable Eligibility Criteria: Register Register ☐ A. ☐ 1. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of our history; ☐ B. ☐ 2. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; ☐ C. ☐ 3. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose ☐ D. ☐ 4. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. ☐ Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) ☒ Does not meet any of the above criteria Needs additional research under standards: ☐ A/1 ☐ B/2 ☐ C/3 ☐ D/4 39. Area(s) of significance: Transportation, Architecture 40. Period of significance: 1971-1975 (Transportation), 1971 (Architecture) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 12 41. Level of significance: National ☐ State ☐ Local ☒ 42. Statement of significance: The Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco at 4305 E. Harmony Road does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion A or Criterion 1 for its association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of history due to a lack of integrity. Constructed in 1971 at the I-25 and E. Harmony Road interchange, the service station is historically associated with the response to construction of the nation’s interstate highway system, specifically the completion of I-25 through Colorado in 1969, which encouraged the development of transportation-related businesses at the new interstate’s intersections with Harmony Road (State Highway 68) and State Highway 14, both important Fort Collins-area east/west arterial roads. However, due to extensive alterations after the period of significance (1971-1975) the service station does not retain sufficient integrity to convey its association with this trend in local Transportation history. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion B or Criterion 2 for its association with individuals whose past activities are significant within the local, state or national context. Research did not reveal any individuals associated with the service station that played a demonstrably outstanding role in local history. The Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco does not appear to be individually eligible under National Register Criterion C or Fort Collins Criteria 3 in the area of Architecture. Designed and built by undetermined individuals, the service station was extensively remodeled at least twice after its initial construction and does not retain sufficient integrity to convey its significance as a Modern service station built in 1971. An archeological investigation of the property was not undertaken; however, no evidence was found suggesting the property could be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion D or Criterion 4 for its archeological significance. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: Beginning in the 1980s, the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco underwent a series of alterations that significantly reduced the station’s historic integrity. The building’s integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association were negatively impacted in the 1980s when the entrance doors to the station’s two service bays, important character-defining features of the service station type, were removed and the openings infilled as business operations shifted from the service station model to the convenience store model. Construction of a shed-roof addition at the building’s rear (south) side in the 1990s, further erased the station’s history as a gas station offering automotive service. Erection of the large rectangular gas pump canopy in 1990 in front of the station, and removal of the historic hexagonal Texaco pole sign and Texaco high-rise sign installed in 1971, reduced the building’s integrity of setting. Construction of a new stucco front façade with shaped parapet in 2017 represented a major reduction in integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. As a cumulative result of the alterations taking place from the 1980s forward, the station currently exhibits low integrity of Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 13 setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. The property is no longer readily recognizable as the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco constructed for Texaco in 1971 and therefore unable to convey its historical association with transportation trends during that period or its architectural significance as a 1971 service station with Modern details. VII. National and Fort Collins Register Eligibility Assessment 44. Eligibility field assessment: National: Eligible ☐ Not Eligible ☒ Need Data ☐ Fort Collins: Eligible ☐ Not Eligible ☒ Need Data ☐ 45. Is there district potential? Yes ☐ No ☒ Discuss: If there is district potential, is this building: Contributing ☐ Non-contributing ☐ 46. If the building is in existing district, is it: Contributing ☐ Noncontributing ☐ VIII. Recording Information 47. Photograph numbers: 4325 E Harmony_01 - 4325 E Harmony_11 Digital images filed at: City of Fort Collins 48. Report title: N/A 49. Date(s): August-September 2025 50. Recorder(s): Amy Unger 51. Organization: Pine Street Preservation 52. Address: PO Box 424, Alma CO 80420 53. Phone number(s): 210-347-5558 NOTE: Please include a sketch map, a photocopy of the USGS quad map indicating resource location, and photographs. History Colorado - Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 866-3395 Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 14 Site Photos and Maps Map: USGS Topo Map Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 15 Map 1: Larimer County Assessor Parcel Map Map 2: Sketch map. April 2025 aerial image. Original 1971 parcel boundary in red. Gas Pump Canopy, 1990 Underground Gas Tank Access Harmony Road Texaco, 1971 Outbuilding, ca. 2000s High Rise Sign, 1993 Pylon Sign, 1993 Sinclair Dinosaur Statue, ca. 2017 Sherred Farmhouse, 1919 (later owned by Robert and Bernice Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 16 Photo 1: North and west sides of gas station complex. Camera facing southeast. Photo 2: North and east sides of gas station complex. Camera facing southwest. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 17 Photo 3: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco. North side. Camera facing south. Photo 4: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco. North and west sides. Camera facing southeast. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 18 Photo 5: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco. West and south sides. Camera facing northeast. Photo 6: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco. South and east sides. Camera facing northwest. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 19 Photo 7: Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco. East and north sides. Camera facing southwest. Photo 8: Gas pump canopy and gas pumps. West and south sides, Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco at right. Camera facing northeast. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 20 Photo 9: Outbuilding. West and south sides. Camera facing northeast. Photo 10: High Rise Sign. Camera facing northeast. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 21 Photo 11: Landscaped area north of canopy. Sinclair dinosaur statue at left and west side of pylon sign at right. Camera facing east. Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 22 Historic Figures Figure 1: Farm operated by Robert and Bernice Weitzel at Northwest ¼ of Section 3, Township 6 North, Range 68 West in 1969l. Approximate future location of Harmony Road Texaco indicated by red dot. (Historic Aerials) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 23 Figure 2: 1960 Colorado state highway map showing alignment of State Highway 185/U.S. 87 east of Fort Collins. (Colorado State Publications Library) Figure 3: 1969 Colorado state highway map showing completed I-25 alignment east of Fort Collins. (Colorado State Publications Library) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 24 Figure 4: Harmony Road Texaco during grand opening in August 1971. (Larimer County Tax Assessor Records/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Figure 5: Aerial image of Harmony Road Texaco in 1971. Note lack of gas pump canopy. (Historic Aerials) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 25 Figure 6: Floorplan as built with two service bays in 1971. (Larimer County Assessor Commercial Property Record Card/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 26 Figure 7: September 1971 Texaco advertisement. (Fort Collins Coloradoan) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 27 Figure 8: Property in October 1999, original 1971 parcel boundary indicated in red. (Google Earth) Figure 9: Harmony Road Texaco in September 2011 as remodeled and rebranded as a Shell station. Note installation of a parapet, which was subsequently removed when a new front façade was constructed in 2017. (Google Street View) Gas Pump Canopy, 1990 Harmony Road Texaco, 1971 High Rise Sign, 1993 Outbuilding, ca. 2000s Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 28 Figure 10: Texaco house with canopy type filling station, ca. 1920s. (www.texaco.com) Figure 11: Texaco oblong box service station and “banjo” sign ca. 1940s. (https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/801992646135067242) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 29 Figure 12: Texaco gas and service station constructed ca. 1960 at 3808 E. Mulberry Street in Fort Collins (no longer extant). The station represents a version of the oblong box Texaco station introduced in the 1950s. (Larimer County Assessor/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Figure 13: Matawan type Texaco station, built in 1967 at 1204 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins (no longer extant). (Larimer County Assessor/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: B3560 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4325 Address: 4325 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 30 Figure 14: Matawan type Texaco station with hexagonal sign introduced ca. 1964. (www.texaco.com) Figure 15: 1950s-era single-bay oblong box Texaco station in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, 1963 photograph. Standard Texaco three-column high-rise sign at left. (Facebook/On The Road in Pennsylvania) Community Development & Neighborhood Services 281 North College Avenue P.O. Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522.0580 970.224.6078 preservation@fcgov.com fcgov.com/historicpreservation Historic Preservation Services OFFICIAL DETERMINATION: FORT COLLINS LANDMARK ELIGIBILITY Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Historic Building Name: Sherred Farmhouse Property Address: 4305 E. Harmony Rd Determination: NOT ELIGIBLE Issued: September 12, 2025 Expiration: September 12, 2030 Serfer Land Ventures LLC 6776 County Road 74 Windsor, CO 80550 Dear Property Owner: This letter provides you with confirmation that your property has been evaluated for Fort Collins landmark eligibility, following the requirements in Chapter 14, Article II of the Fort Collins Municipal Code, and has been found Not Eligible for landmark designation. An intensive-level Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Form was completed by a third-party historic preservation consultant. This form serves as the basis for staff’s evaluation of the property’s historic and/or architectural significance and its integrity, both of which are required for landmark eligibility as per Article II, Section 14-22. Staff has made the following findings regarding the information and evaluation of significance, integrity, and landmark eligibility provided by the consultant in the attached form. Significance Consultant’s evaluation: The property addressed as 4305 and 4315 E. Harmony Road containing the historic 1919 Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion A or Criterion 1 for its association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of history. As an isolated farmhouse divorced from its historical agricultural setting and associated farm buildings, the Sherred Farmhouse is unable to effectively convey its association with historic trends related to sheep raising and dairy farming in the greater Fort Collins area between 1919 and 1971…. … The property does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion B or Criterion 2 for its association with individuals whose past activities are significant within the local, state or national context. Based on the research conducted, neither Charles and Inez Sherred nor subsequent owner/occupants of the farmhouse played a demonstrably outstanding role in local history…. … The 1919 Craftsman-style Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be individually eligible under National Register Criterion C or Fort Collins Criteria 3 in the area of Architecture. Designed and built by undetermined individuals, the home does not appear to be the work of a master architect or builder, does not include features of high artistic value, and lacks the high integrity necessary to be considered an outstanding example of a ca. 1920s Craftsman-style bungalow within the context of early-twentieth century rural farmhouse architecture in the Fort Collins urban growth area. Altered in 1950 and more extensively in the 1990s, these changes significantly reduced the farmhouse’s integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling and included recladding of the house with vinyl siding; the introduction of picture windows at the front façade and west side; multiple changes to the original size, type, and pattern of windows on the west side; and the construction of a large west-facing commercial rear addition, which now serves as the primary entry point… …An archeological investigation of the property was not undertaken; however, no evidence was found suggesting the property could be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion D or Criterion 4 for its archeological significance. Staff agrees with the consultant’s conclusions regarding the property’s significance under all four Standards based on the following findings. • The property’s statement of significance is supported by a discussion of historical context and a comparative analysis that is appropriate for the property. Relevant context reports and comparative examples have been referenced and cited. • Each significance criterion is addressed in the statement of significance, even if not applicable. • For eligible properties, a period of significance is provided and justified based on the available records. Integrity Consultant’s evaluation: Active farming of the property ceased by 1971 and the farm was subdivided into various parcels and redeveloped for commercial business ventures, with the farmhouse converted to office use and expanded by a commercial rear addition in the 1990s. As an isolated farmhouse altered in the 1990s and divorced from its historical agricultural setting and associated farm buildings, the Sherred Farmhouse does not retain sufficient integrity to effectively convey its association with historic trends related to sheep raising or dairy farming in the greater Fort Collins area during its period of significance for Agriculture when extends from 1919 to 1971. Designed and built by unknown individuals in 1919 and remodeled in 1950 and the 1990s, the Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be the work of a master architect or builder, does not include features of high artistic value, and lacks the high integrity necessary to be considered an important example of a Craftsman-style bungalow within the context of early-twentieth century rural farmhouse architecture in the Fort Collins urban growth area. Staff agrees with the consultant’s conclusions regarding the property’s integrity based on the following findings. • Essential physical features are identified in the integrity analysis and related to period of significance. • Discussion of integrity relates to the property’s most relevant aspects of integrity per its significance. • Discussion of integrity focuses on the property’s essential physical features, and relates to period of significance. • Discussion and conclusion responds directly to previous conclusions and assessments of the property, whether in opposition or in agreement. Statement of Eligibility: Staff concludes that the Sherred Farmhouse at 4305 E. Harmony Road is not eligible for designation as a Fort Collins Landmark and is not an historic resource as defined in Municipal Code 14-3, or for the purposes of applying Land Use Code 5.8.1. Per Article II, Section 14-23 of the code, any determination made by staff regarding eligibility may be appealed to the Commission by the applicant, any resident of the City, or owner of property in the City. Such appeal shall be set forth in writing and filed with the Director within fourteen (14) days of the date of the staff's determination. If you have any questions regarding this determination, or if I may be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. I may be reached at jbertolini@fcgov.com, or 970-416-4250. Sincerely, Jim Bertolini Senior Historic Preservation Planner Attachment: Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Architectural Inventory Form 1403, dated August 2025. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 1 Rev. 9/98 COLORADO CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY Architectural Inventory Form (OAHP use only) Date Initials Determined Eligible- NR Determined Not Eligible- NR Determined Eligible- SR Determined Not Eligible- SR Need Data Contributes to eligible NR District Noncontributing to eligible NR District Field Evaluation of Fort Collins Landmark Eligibility ☐ Individually Eligible ☐ Contributing to District ☒ Not Eligible ☐ Likely Eligible for State/National Register General Recommendations: This is the second recording of the farmhouse at 4305 E. Harmony Road, constructed for Charles and Inez Sherred in 1919. In 2006-2007, the Craftsman-style farmhouse was surveyed by Hermsen Consultants on behalf of the Colorado Department of Transportation as part of the North I-25 Environmental Impact Study Historic Resources Survey and found officially non-eligible for the National Register by History Colorado’s Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. This evaluation confirms the earlier finding and recommends the property as not eligible for individual listing in the Fort Collins Register due to insufficient integrity to its periods of significance. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 2 The 15.94-acre legal parcel on which the Sherred Farmhouse stands was historically part of a 320-acre sheep farm established by Charles and Inez Sherred in 1919 and later operated as a 160-acre dairy farm by Robert and Bernice Weitzel. Active farming of the property ceased by 1971 and the farm was subdivided into various parcels and redeveloped for commercial business ventures, with the farmhouse converted to office use and expanded by a commercial rear addition in the 1990s. As an isolated farmhouse altered in the 1990s and divorced from its historical agricultural setting and associated farm buildings, the Sherred Farmhouse does not retain sufficient integrity to effectively convey its association with historic trends related to sheep raising or dairy farming in the greater Fort Collins area during its period of significance for Agriculture when extends from 1919 to 1971. Designed and built by unknown individuals in 1919 and remodeled in 1950 and the 1990s, the Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be the work of a master architect or builder, does not include features of high artistic value, and lacks the high integrity necessary to be considered an important example of a Craftsman- style bungalow within the context of early-twentieth century rural farmhouse architecture in the Fort Collins urban growth area. Research did not reveal any individuals associated with the property whose past activities are outstanding within the local context, and given the extensive ground disturbance that has occurred over time, it is unlikely that the property contains significant archaeological deposits. I. Identification 1. Resource number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) 2. Temporary resource number: 4305 3. County: Larimer 4. City: Fort Collins 5. Historic building name: Sherred Farmhouse 6. Current building name: Precision Landscape and Maintenance 7. Building address: 4305 E. Harmony Road, Fort Collins, CO 80528 8. Owner name and address: Serfer Land Ventures LLC, 6776 County Road 74, Windsor, CO 80550 II. Geographic Information 9. P.M. 6th Township 6N Range 68W N ½ of NW ¼ of Section 3 10. UTM reference: Zone 13; 500396 mE 4485671 mN 11. USGS quad name: Fort Collins Year: 1984 Map scale: 7.5' ☒ 15' ☐ Attach photo copy of appropriate map section. 12. Lot(s): N/A Block: N/A Addition/Subdivision: N/A Year of Addition/Subdivision: N/A 13. Boundary Description and Justification: The boundary encompasses the 15.94-acre legal parcel addressed as 4305 and 4315 E. Harmony Road, historically part of a 320-acre sheep farm developed by Charles and Inez Sherred beginning in 1919. The Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 3 boundary encompasses the historic Craftsman-style farmhouse built for Charles and Inez Sherred in 1919, as well as one relocated historic resource and seven non-historic resources. III. Architectural Description 14. Building plan (footprint, shape): Rectangular 15. Dimensions in feet: Length 58’ x Width 32’ 16. Number of stories: 1-½ 17. Primary external wall material(s): Vinyl, Brick 18. Roof configuration: Cross Gable 19. Primary external roof material: Composition Shingle 20. Special features: Porch, overhanging eaves, decorative eaves braces. 21. General architectural description: The 32’ wide x 58’ deep, rectangular-plan, wood-frame, Craftsman-style, 1-½ story farmhouse with full basement stands on a concrete foundation facing north toward E. Harmony Road near the northwest corner of the nearly 16-acre parcel. The foundation is clad with textured concrete and the walls clad with non-historic lapped vinyl siding. The cross-gable composition shingle roof has deeply overhanging eaves, historic wood eave braces, and soffits clad with non-historic vinyl. A red brick exterior chimney pierces the deeply overhanging eave near the northwest corner of the house. A secondary red brick chimney rises from the south roof slope. A historic front-gable dormer with 3-light wood window sits south of the secondary chimney. The home’s windows are a mix of original 5-over-1, 3-over-1, and 3-light wood windows; and single-light picture, 1-over-1, 1-by-1 slider, and casement replacement windows. Replacement windows are mix of wood, metal, and vinyl. Most historic windows are covered by non- historic storm windows. The south (rear) side of the house is connected to a 1996 rectangular-plan, 1- story, wood-frame, front-gable commercial addition by a wood-frame, gable-roof hyphen. Described as a manufactured unit in Larimer County permit records, the addition faces west and now serves as the building’s primary entrance. North (Front) Side: Nearly symmetrical in design, the north side features a full-width front-gable porch with red brick knee walls and red brick piers supporting vinyl-clad square posts. Above the posts, the architrave is clad with non-historic vinyl siding. The knee walls and piers feature smooth concrete caps. Concrete steps lead to the porch interior. The porch floor is concrete. The porch ceiling is clad with non- historic vinyl. The gable face is clad with non-historic lapped vinyl siding and holds a pair of historic 3- over-1 wood windows. The porch shelters a central, historic, 3-light Craftsman-style wood entry door. A pair of historic 5-over-1 wood windows sit east of the door. A single-light picture windows established in 1950 sits west of the door. West Side: On the first floor, the chimney is flanked by small historic window openings infilled with glass block presumably in 1950. To the south, a three-part, non-historic wood window assembly consisting of a picture window flanked by casement windows sits off-center to the south. Further south is a pair of non- Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 4 historic wood casement windows and a smaller three-part, non-historic wood window assembly consisting of a picture window flanked by casement windows. A non-historic fiberglass two-light side entry door sits at the southwest corner of the historic farmhouse. A pair of 1-over-1 windows sits at the gable peak. The 1-over-1 windows may be replacements, but this could not be confirmed. A non-historic vent sits to the south. Two historic 3-light wood windows with metal window wells are found at the basement level. South of the side entry door is the west side of the non-historic, gable-roof, T1-11-clad hyphen connecting the house to the non-historic commercial addition. The west side of the hyphen holds a pair of non-historic casement windows. Non-historic wood stairs and a wood accessibility ramp with wood railings provides access to the entrance. The rectangular-plan, T1-11-clad commercial addition faces west. Described as a manufactured building, its low-slope front-gable roof is covered with composition shingles and has minimal eaves. The addition’s north wall holds a 1-by-1 metal or vinyl slider window. The addition’s west side features two shallow alcoves. The north alcove holds a 1-by-1 metal or vinyl slider window. The south alcove holds aluminum commercial double doors. A small square hinged shutter sits between the two alcoves. Wood beams supported by wood braces extend from the wall at ceiling height. A large deck with horizontal metal pipe railings wraps around the west and south sides of the addition. South Side: The south side of the non-historic commercial addition features a secondary entrance within a shallow alcove. The alcove holds aluminum commercial double doors and a single-light window to the east. Wood beams supported by wood braces extend from the wall at ceiling height at the east and west edges of the alcove. 1-by-1 metal or vinyl slider windows are found east and west of the alcove. East side: The east side comprises the east and north wall of the non-historic commercial addition, the east wall of the non-historic hyphen, and the south and east walls of the historic house. The east wall of the commercial addition holds aluminum commercial double doors to the south and 1-by-1 metal or vinyl slider windows to the north. A wide staircase of the same design as the wraparound deck provides access to the entry doors. The north wall of the commercial addition holds a 1-by-1 metal or vinyl slider window. The east wall of the hyphen is unfenestrated. Curved concrete steps sit within a shallow concrete depression where the hyphen meets the south wall of the historic house. The steps are partially covered by the non-historic hyphen and presumably replaced the farmhouse’s historic concrete steps in the 1990s. Within the concrete depression, a flush wood door sits east of the steps and leads to home’s full basement. Three-light historic wood windows are grouped east and west of the door. The eastern band of windows wraps around the southeast corner of the house. The home’s east side holds a pair of historic 3- over-1 wood windows near the southeast corner, a central 3-over-1 wood window flanked by two 3-light wood awning windows, and a 3-over-1 wood window near the northeast corner. A pair of 1-over-1 windows sits at the gable peak. The 1-over-1 windows may be replacements. Two historic 3-light wood awning windows within metal window wells are found at the basement level. 22. Architectural style/building type: Craftsman Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 5 23. Landscaping or special setting features: The 15.94-acre parcel addressed as 4305 and 4315 E. Harmony Road encompasses the 1919 Craftsman-style farmhouse and its non-historic commercial addition, which together function as the headquarters of a professional landscaping business, and the company’s operational buildings and grounds. White PVC post-and-rail fencing defines the parcel boundary and is used elsewhere on the grounds. The property is accessed from the north via the frontage road running east-west along the south edge of E. Harmony Road. I-25 runs north/south directly east of the parcel, undeveloped land and retaining ponds sit to the south and southwest. Bordered to the north by the E. Harmony frontage road, the U-shaped property wraps around three parcels under separate ownership—a currently vacant parcel and two parcels containing the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco built in 1971 at 4325 E. Harmony Road and now a Sinclair gas station and convenience store. Mature deciduous and conifer trees, ornamental trees and shrubs, and a professionally landscaped garden area screen the historic farmhouse from the frontage road along E. Harmony Road to the north and a vacant parcel to the east. The garden was installed in the 2000s, presumably by Harmony Gardens, the nursey and landscape company that occupied the property at that time. Concrete steps flanked by wagon wheels provide access to the garden from the public sidewalk along the E. Harmony frontage road. The garden includes non-historic red brick walkways leading to a non-historic semi-circular red brick patio, a non-historic round flagstone patio with non-historic PVC gazebo, a non-historic round flagstone patio with picnic table, a flagpole set in a circular concrete pad (possibly historic), a non-historic rock garden (possibly a dormant water feature), and non-historic gravel and concrete walkways. A gravel walkway extends along the east side of the house. A concrete bench with the Harmony Gardens name and logo sits near the southeast corner of the farmhouse. A non-historic concrete walkway leads from the north (front) side of the farmhouse to the non-historic commercial addition. Mature deciduous trees stand between the farmhouse and an asphalt parking lot. The grounds west of the non-historic commercial addition are hardscaped with gravel, boulders, and decorative concrete walkways. An asphalt track extends south from the parking lot to a secondary asphalt lot and into the site’s operational area. The operational area is divided into zones serving various functions including the storage of hardscape materials, landscaping equipment, vehicles, trees and plants, and landscape maintenance debris. A circulation network of gravel and dirt tracks connects the various zones, buildings, and structures within this area. With the exception of a few small trees, shrubs, and volunteer plants, the grounds within the operational zone are generally barren, with large areas of bare dirt and gravel. 24. Associated buildings, features, or objects: Machine Shed, built ca. 1960s, relocated ca. 1993, non-contributing The roughly 32’ wide x 75’ deep rectangular-plan, one-story, wood-frame Machine Shed stands facing Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 6 east approximately 300’ south-southwest of the Sherred Farmhouse. Larimer County Assessor records, the building’s materials, and aerial photographs suggest it was constructed northwest of the 1919 farmhouse at the south edge of E. Harmony Road ca. 1960s and relocated to its present location between 1984 and 1999. The shed sits on a concrete pad. Its walls are clad with corrugated metal siding, with small square areas of translucent corrugated fiberglass serving as windows on the south side. The front- gable corrugated metal roof has overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and non-historic gutters. A large, non-historic, metal overhead garage door is found on the east side; a non-historic paneled fiberglass pedestrian door sits directly to the north. A smaller garage door opening is found on the west side. The opening holds a non-historic metal overhead garage door. Hardware remnants indicate that a sliding door previously covered the opening. Three shipping containers sit against the shed’s south wall. Equipment Shed, ca. 1993, non-contributing The roughly 50’ wide x 75’ deep rectangular-plan, one-story, Equipment Shed stands facing north approximately 200’ south-southwest of the Sherred Farmhouse. The building’s walls are clad with metal panels with translucent corrugated fiberglass panels at the gable ends. Fiberglass french doors provide access from the north side. Three large overhead metal garage doors sit on the south side. Flush steel security doors are found on the west and south sides. Small 1-by-1 slider windows sit on the west, south, and east sides. Shade Structure, ca. 2011, non-contributing A roughly 40’ wide x 100’ deep rectangular-plan, metal-frame, Shade Structure stands approximately 195’ south-southwest of the Sherred Farmhouse. The metal structure is exposed. The roof structure is flat with a central north-south gable. The floor is paved concrete and gravel. Utility shed, ca. 2012, non-contributing A roughly 8’ wide x 12’ deep rectangular-plan, one-story, wood-frame, gambrel-roof prefabricated Utility Shed stands facing south approximately 320’ southwest of the Sherred Farmhouse. Greenhouse 1, ca. 2009, non-contributing The roughly 35’ wide x 95’ deep hoop-type Greenhouse 1 sits facing west approximately 375’ southeast of the Equipment Shed. The greenhouse’s semi-circular metal-frame is covered with plastic sheathing with rigid plastic panels at the east and west ends. Metal garage doors are found at both ends. A pedestrian door sits on the west side. Greenhouse 2, ca. 2022, non-contributing The roughly 20’ wide x 40’ deep hoop-type Greenhouse 2 sits facing west directly south of Greenhouse 1. The greenhouse’s semi-circular metal-frame is exposed. Vertical wood siding and large wood-plank doors are found at the east and west ends. Communications Tower Site, 1996, non-contributing A communications tower site occupies a roughly 50’ x 30’ area at the northeast corner of the property. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 7 First established in 1996, the site has been modified over time, with a new 80’ tower installed in 2000. The site is surrounded by a wood privacy fence and includes the tower and other mechanical equipment. IV. Architectural History 25. Date of Construction: Estimate: Actual: 1919 Source of information: Larimer County Deed Records, Charles G. Buckingham to Charles R. Sherred, May 5, 1919, Book 392/412; “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, March 20, 1919, 5-6; “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, October 2, 1919. 26. Architect: Unknown Source of information: N/A 27. Builder/Contractor: Unknown Source of information: N/A 28. Original owner: Charles and Inez Sherred Source of information: Larimer County Deed Records, Charles G. Buckingham to Charles R. Sherred, May 5, 1919, Book 392/412. 29. Construction history (include description and dates of major additions, alterations, or demolitions): The nearly 16-acre parcel on which the Sherred Farmhouse sits was originally part of a 320-acre parcel of unimproved agricultural land. In 1919, owner Charles G. Buckingham sold the land to Charles and Inez Sherred who constructed a farm headquarters at the parcel’s northern boundary. The historic headquarters included the existing Craftsman-style farmhouse, completed in 1919, and a cluster of livestock pens, barns, sheds, a granary, and a two-car garage constructed directly west of the house before March 1920. Larimer County Assessor records indicate that a 34’ x 14’ rectangular-plan, side- gable, wood-frame dwelling was added southwest of the main farmhouse ca. 1925 and a 24’ x 42’ rectangular-plan, front-gable, wood-frame dwelling and associated outbuilding added east of the main farmhouse ca. 1935. In 1950, owners Robert and Bernice Weitzel remodeled the 1919 Craftsman-style farmhouse, adding picture windows to the front (north) and west sides. The existing glass block windows flanking the brick chimney are documented in a 1950 Larimer County Assessor photograph of the farmhouse and were likely installed during the remodel, given that glass block windows are atypical in Craftsman-style residences constructed ca. 1920. By 1969, some farm buildings had been removed and a rectangular-plan, gable-roof, machine shed constructed by the Weitzel family directly northwest of the Sherred Farmhouse. With the exception of the Sherred Farmhouse and possibly the ca. 1960s machine shed, aerial photographs indicate that all of the outbuildings, secondary residences, fences, pens, and other features associated with the farming ventures operated by Charles and Inez Sherred and subsequent owners and tenants were removed in the 1980s and 1990s. The machine shed constructed by the Weitzel family ca. 1960s appears to have been relocated southwest of the Sherred Farmhouse when the property was adapted for commercial use by Connell Resources in the early 1990s. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 8 In 1992-1993, the Sherred Farmhouse was remodeled to house commercial operations associated with Connell Resources and a 1,010-square-foot commercial addition subsequently built at the home’s southwest corner in 1996. Addressed as 4315 E. Harmony Road, Larimer County permit records describe the addition as a “manufactured unit.” Alterations to the Sherred Farmhouse included the installation of vinyl siding, vinyl soffits, and a vinyl front porch ceiling. The front porch’s wood posts were also clad with vinyl. The picture window installed at the front (north) side in 1950 appears to have been replaced with a metal picture window. The picture window installed at the west side in 1950 was replaced by a single-light wood window flanked by wood casement windows. A pair of 3-over-1 wood windows to the south (matching the existing original windows on the east side) were replaced by a pair of smaller casement windows. The 1-over-1 windows at the upper-story also appear to be replacements. The 1996 commercial addition was attached to the Sherred Farmhouse’s historic enclosed porch via a hyphen at the southwest corner. A group of three original 3-light wood windows on the porch’s west side were replaced by a single-light wood window flanked by casement windows. New semi-circular concrete steps leading to the enclosed porch were installed ca. 1992-1993 before the addition was constructed and remain partially visible on the west side. 30. Original location ☒ (Sherred Farmhouse) Moved ☒ (Machine Shed) Date of move(s): ca. 1993 V. Historical Associations 31. Original use(s): DOMESTIC/single dwelling 32. Intermediate use(s): n/a 33. Current use(s): COMMERCE/TRADE 34. Site type(s): Farmhouse 35. Historical background: In 1892, Charles G. Buckingham officially received patent to 40 acres of federal land encompassing the Southwest ¼ of the Northwest ¼ of Section 3 in Township 6 North, Range 68 West, via cash entry sale. Born in Van Wert, Ohio, Charles G. Buckingham (1846-1940) briefly attended Kenyon College before joining the First National Bank of Van Wert. In 1870, he relocated to Colorado with Dr. Charles Emerson to join the Union Colony at Greeley, where he established the banking firm of Emerson, West, and Buckingham with Emerson and fellow colony member Henry T. West. Four years later, Buckingham relocated to Boulder, founding the Buckingham Brothers’ bank with his younger brother Walter. In 1877, the bank became the National State Bank and Buckingham served as its president for next 66 years. In addition to his banking endeavors, Buckingham invested in mines, farmland, and other businesses, becoming one of the wealthiest men in northern Colorado. Well-known for his philanthropy, Buckingham funded the library at the University of Colorado, which was renamed Buckingham Library in 1877. By 1914, Buckingham expanded his holdings approximately 0.80 miles southwest of Timnath to include an additional 280 acres. He now owned the entire west half of Section 3 in Township 6 North, Range 68 Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 9 West and leased the agricultural land to area farmers. In 1919, Buckingham sold his 320-acre farm property to Timnath-area merchant, farmer, and cheese factory manager Charles R. Sherred. Born in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, Charles Rea Sherred (1874-1952) married Inez May Hoyt (1875-1960) in 1894. The couple started a family in northwestern Pennsylvania, welcoming daughter Vera and son Ambrose in 1896 and 1898, respectively. Charles worked as a cheese maker in Pennsylvania and in 1909 the family moved to Denver where Charles opened a creamery. Moving to Timnath in 1913, the Sherred family took over the Hunter general store. Inez was appointed Timnath postmistress in 1914 and, in addition to his general store duties, Charles managed a Windsor cheese factory part-time. In 1917 the family purchased the Samuel Mathiesen farm in Section 10, Township 6 North, Range 68 West. After the Sherred family arranged to sell the Mathiesen farm and acquire the 320-acre parcel of cropland from Buckingham in 1919, The Poudre Valley announced, “It is rumored that Mr. Sherred plans to build a new house, barn, garage and other building and improve the place in a substantial way.” This was indeed the case and in March 1919 construction on a new barn was underway. By July, work had begun on a new one-and-half-story Craftsman-style house. By October the Sherred family moved into their “beautiful new farm bungalow.” Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement and the work of California architects Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, the Craftsman style bungalow emerged in the early twentieth century. Encouraged by trade publications, pattern books, and kit home manufacturers the style quickly gained widespread popularity, becoming the dominant choice for smaller homes across the U.S. Between 1900 and 1940 Craftsman style bungalows were built in most cities and towns in Colorado with numerous examples constructed in Fort Collins’ urban neighborhoods. As Carl and Karen McWilliams point out in Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994, a historic context and survey report prepared in 1995, rural houses typically reflected building trends that were in vogue at the time of their construction and during this period, many Craftsman style bungalows were built to serve as the main residence on Larimer County farms and ranches. For all intents and purposes, Craftsman-style farmhouses and Craftsman-style urban residences shared the same character-defining features, differing only in their setting, with farmhouses typically constructed as part of a complex of farm buildings including barns, sheds, pens, and other agriculture-related resources, and urban residences typically built on small lots along linear streets within formally platted neighborhoods. Most often one or one-and-one-half stories in height, the typical Craftsman bungalow featured wood clapboard or masonry walls, a low-pitched gabled roof, deeply overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails and decorative braces, grouped windows, multi-light sashes over single light sashes, dormers, a prominent stone or brick chimney, and a broad front porch with substantial roof supports, often battered. Porch detailing varied and often distinguish more common examples from more architecturally distinctive homes. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 10 In March 1920, The Poudre Valley reported on the improvements at the Sherred farm. A visiting reporter found the buildings “placed and arranged according to their own plans and ideas of how a conveniently arranged home and outbuildings ought to be…undertaking erection of these all at once gave them advantages which do not always accompany the acquisition of property in need of improvements which often have to be made by adding to or remodeling old structures.” The home’s interior was consistent with Craftsman style bungalows built throughout the U.S. in the late 1910s and 1920s: The home is constructed on the bungalow plan, with full basement and eight rooms including bath room, and two rooms upstairs which were not in the original plans but were utilized out of what would otherwise been wasted space. The arrangement throughout is pleasing and convenient. Built-in book-cases, buffets, cup-boards and kitchen conveniences all combine to make the house attractive and comfortable as well as most convenient in every way. Large, roomy closets, sleeping porches and commodious, airy bed-rooms carry out the general idea. Outbuildings were clustered west of the house and included barns, sheds, a granary, and a two-car garage. The Sherred family raised sheep and the feeding pens were placed to facilitate inspection from the house. Like many rural farm women, Inez Sherred occasionally hosted club meetings and other events at the family home. Shortly before Ambrose Sherred’s wedding to Elizabeth Mallot in April 1920, Charles granted his son a one-half interest in the farm. Two years later, Charles and Ambrose sold the southern 160 acres of their farm to Lloyd Watson. They continued farming the north 160 acres (the Northwest ¼ of Section 3), which contained the farm headquarters. In February 1927, the Sherred family traded their 160-acre farm for the 640-acre Cradock Ranch near Livermore owned by cattleman Fred C. Kluver. Born in Fort Collins to prominent businessman August C. Kluver and Mary (Cronwell) Kluver, Fred C. Kluver (1885-1972) operated the Diamond Peak Ranch in Larimer County before taking over the Cradock Ranch and marrying Alice Mary Walters (1887-1974) in 1911. The couple welcomed their only child, daughter Viola, the following year. During his lifetime, Kluver served as a director of the First National Bank for 42 years and as a director of the Water Supply & Storage Company. He was elected president of the Jackson Ditch Company and was a member of the Masons, Rotary Club, and the Weld County Protective Association, an insurance organization for farmers. Fred and Alice Kluver raised sheep at the Sherred farm and entertained at the farmhouse, hosting occasional club meetings and other gatherings. Tenants Elmer and Iona Foster and their children also lived on site, likely at one of two rectangular-plan wood-frame houses built on the farm ca. 1925 and ca. 1935 (both no longer extant). In 1937, the Kluvers moved to 331 S. Howes Street in Fort Collins (no longer extant) and rented their farm to Harry and Esther Deines. The Foster family also relocated off the farm that year. The Deines family operated the 160-acre farm until 1943, when the farm was sold to Wiggins farmers Frank A. Richter Jr. and wife Anna Gene (Allred) Richter. The Richter family owned the Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 11 farm briefly, auctioning off their machinery, livestock, and feed in November 1945 and selling the farm to Robert Weitzel that December. Born in Timnath to German-Russian immigrant farmers Conrad and Nettie (Lebsack) Weitzel, Robert Weitzel (1914-2003) farmed, fed cattle, and raised dairy cows in the Timnath area for 29 years. During his lifetime, he was a member of the Colorado Cattle Feeders, Colorado Farm Bureau, Elks, International Order of Odd Fellows, Timnath School Board, and a director of the Fort Collins Milk Producers Association and the Boxelder Ditch Company. In 1938, he married Bernice Stewart (1911-1976) and the couple raised three children—Dennis, Constance, and Virginia. The Weitzel family conducted a dairy operation on the 160-acre farm they acquired from the Richters. Bernice was a schoolteacher and, like other women before her, occasionally hosted meetings and gatherings at the house. In 1950, Robert and Bernice Weitzel remodeled the 1919 Craftsman-style farmhouse, adding picture windows to the north and west side and other contemporary modifications. In 1962, they auctioned off their 84 head of Holstein dairy cattle and presumably retired from active farming. They continued to live on the farm at 4305 E. Harmony Road, celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary there in 1963. Beginning in 1946, Robert Weitzel began selling portions of the farm to Colorado’s State Highway Department to facilitate expansion of State Highway 185, now I-25. In October 1968, Robert Weitzel’s application to rezone a portion of the farm for commercial use was approved. Shortly after the decision, he sold an approximately 1-acre parcel to Peter J. Prato, who immediately sold the land to 209 Realty Investors. The land was subsequently sold to Texaco Inc. and the Timnath Interstate Texaco-Harmony Road Texaco service station at 4325 E. Harmony Road constructed by August 1971. The Weitzels further divested themselves of their farmland by selling an approximately 0.85-acre parcel directly east of the main farmhouse containing the ca. 1935 secondary residence to the American Oil Company in September 1970. In 1971, Weitzel sold the farm headquarters and the vast majority of remaining farmland to Jack Mason. Mason immediately sold the roughly 140-acre to Harmony Road I-25 Investment Group. (A thin 0.13-acre parcel west of the service station remained under Weitzel ownership until 1989 when it was sold to the owners of the station at that time.) In 1979, Harmony Road I-25 Investment Group subdivided the parcel, selling a roughly 37-acre parcel containing the 1919 farmhouse and a ca. 1960s mechanical shed to John R. and Leona Stute, owners of Stute Construction Co., which specialized in horizontal boring and tunneling construction. The Stutes mined sand and gravel at the Harmony Road site and did not live on the property. In 1989, the Stutes transferred ownership of the parcel to First Interstate Bank of Fort Collins and in 1991 the bank sold the property to Connell Resources Inc. Founded as Loveland Excavating Company in 1946, the infrastructure construction business became Connell Resources Inc. in 1982. The company mined sand and gravel at the E. Harmony Road property and remodeled the 1919 Craftsman-style farmhouse for use as an office in 1993. A ca. 1960s machine shed standing directly west of the house was relocated approximately 275’ southwest of the house around this time. In 1996, a 1,010-square-foot manufactured building addressed as 4315 E. Harmony Road was Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 12 attached to the southwest corner of the historic house. Beginning around 1997, Harmony Gardens, a newly-formed nursery and landscaping supplies business Harmony Gardens appears to have occupied the adjacent parcel that Robert and Bernice Weitzel sold to American Oil in 1970 (the ca. 1935 wood- frame house was removed or relocated off the property around this time). Over time, Harmony Gardens expanded to occupy the eastern portion of the Connell Resource parcel. In 2007, Connell Resources sold its property on E. Harmony Road to Serfer Land Ventures, a company established by Todd Seufer, owner of Harmony Gardens. The following year, Serfer Land Ventures sold roughly 21 acres at the south end of the parcel to real estate developer Jay Stoner, who intended to create a large multi-use development at the northwest intersection of E. Harmony Road and I-25. Harmony Gardens continued to occupy the remaining nearly 16-acre parcel, which contained the Sherred Farmhouse, as well as the land sold to Stoner, operating a successful commercial business at the E. Harmony Road site and a second location in Brighton. In 2017, SiteOne Landscape Supply, a national wholesale distributor of landscape supplies, acquired Harmony Gardens and in 2019-2020 the business relocated its Fort Collins operation to a new facility at 6166 County Road 74 in Windsor. Serfer Land Ventures continues to own the nearly 16-acre parcel containing the Sherred Farmhouse, which is now occupied by Precision Landscape and Maintenance. 36. 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Sherred,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, September 9, 1952. “Easter Wedding,” Fort Collins Morning Express, April 20, 1911. “Farmers Will Organize An Insurance Company,” Greeley Tribune, December 2, 1909. “Fred C. Kluver,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 24, 1972. “Friends Visit Weitzels with Housewarming Gift,” Windsor Beacon, April 27, 1950. “H-D Club to See Travel Slides Today,” Windsor Beacon, December 7, 1950. “Map of the Irrigated Farms North of Denver: Tributary to the Factories of the Great Western Sugar Company,” 1914. Fort Collins History Connection, #LC00110, https://fchc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/hm/id/1905/rec/20. “Milk Producers Elect Directors,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, February 3, 1948. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 13 “Mrs. Kluver Entertains Timnath Club Members,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, October 29, 1937. “Mrs. Sherred, 84, Called by Death,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 8, 1961. “Rancher Says He Was Swindled of $35,000,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, September 30, 1945. “Real Estate Transfers,” Fort Collins Courier, April 30, 1891. “Richters to Celebrate Half Century,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, June 13, 1971. “Sherred Farm Improvements Well Planned,” The Poudre Valley, March 18, 1920. “Sherreds to Move to Ranch at Livermore,” The Poudre Valley, January 13, 1927. “Stoner Eyes Live/Work/Play Development on Harmony,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, August 14, 2007, 7-8. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, July 24, 1919, 6. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, March 20, 1919, 5-6. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, March 27, 1919, 5. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, March 4, 1920, 5. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, May 6, 1920, 10. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, November 6, 1919, 5. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, October 2, 1919, 5. “Timnath Department of the Poudre Valley,” The Poudre Valley, October 20, 1927. “Timnath Family Moves to Fort Collins Tract,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, October 3, 1937. “Timnath News,” Windsor Beacon, November 10, 1949. “Timnath Pair Wed 25 Years,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, June 23, 1963. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 29, 1948. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 6, 1963. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Courier, March 26, 1919. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Courier, May 20, 1920. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express, March 27, 1913. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, November 14, 1943. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Weekly Express, June 11, 1914. “Timnath,” Fort Collins Weekly Express, September 24, 1914. “Timnath’s New Department Store” Advertisement, The Poudre Valley, May 29, 1913 “Vote Total Light in Six High School Area Elections,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 7, 1957. “Weitzel Re-elected by Cattlefeeders,” Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 5, 1968. “What People are Doing,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, September 14, 1937. Austin Auctions Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, January 17, 1962. Austin Sales Service Advertisement, Fort Collins Coloradoan, November 23, 1945. Boulder Public Library, Carnegie Library for Local History, https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/. Colorado County Marriage Records and State Index, 1862-2006, accessed via Ancestry.com. Colorado Secretary of State Business Entity Search. Connell Resources, “About Us,” https://connellresources.com/about/. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 14 C.R. Sherred Advertisement. The Poudre Valley, March 27, 1913, 10. Fort Collins City Directories, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery. Larimer County Building Permit Records. Larimer County Assessor Records. Larimer County Deed Records. Charles G. Buckingham to Charles R. Sherred, May 5, 1919, Book 392/412. Charles R. Sherred to Ambrose A. Sherred, April 12, 1920, Book 402/269. Charles R. and Ambrose A. Sherred to Lloyd Watson, April 25, 1922, Book 440/513. Charles R. and Ambrose A. Sherred to Fred C. Kluver, January 11, 1927, Book 511/590. Frank A. Richter Jr. and Anna Gene Richter to Robert Weitzel, December 3, 1945, Book 800/155. Robert Weitzel to State Highway Department, September 10, 1946, Book 824/137. Robert Weitzel to Department of Highways, October 1, 1963, Book 1226/185. Robert Weitzel to Jack Mason, November 1, 1971, Book 1481/941. Robert Weitzel to American Oil Company, September 8, 1970, Book 1441/226. Robert Weitzel to Peter J. Prato, December 3, 1968, Book 1399/331. Jack Mason to Harmony Road I-25 Investment Group, November 2, 1971, Book 1482/664. Harmony Road I-25 Investment Group to H.W. Rogers & Assoc., May 15, 1979, Book 1953/725. Harmony Road I-25 Investment Group to John R. & Leona Stute, May 15, 1979, Book 1953/730. John R. & Leona Stute to Stute Construction Co. Inc., January 30, 1985, Reception #19850004955. John R. & Leona Stute to First Interstate Bank, July 26, 1989, Reception #19890033075. Robert Weitzel to Dare Co., July 24, 1989, Reception #19890033148. First Interstate Bank to Connell Resources Inc., May 24, 1991, Reception #19910023869. Connell Resources Inc. to Serfer Land Ventures, February 2, 2007, Reception #20070009315. Larimer County Independent, March 6, 1879. McAlester, Virginia Savage. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. McWilliams, Carl and Karen McWilliams, Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994, March 1995. Mrs. E. A. Russell, “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, August 1, 1928. Mrs. E. A. Russell, “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, August 1, 1928. Mrs. E. A. Russell, “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, May 14, 1930. Mrs. E. A. Russell, “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, November 12, 1931. Mrs. E. A. Russell, “Timnath,” Fort Collins Express-Courier, September 18, 1928. Pennsylvania Marriages, 1852-1968, accessed via Ancestry.com. SiteOne, “Harmony Gardens Joins Forces with SiteOne Landscape Supply,” October 17, 2017, https://investors.siteone.com/news-releases/2017/10-17-2017-215344483. Twitty, Eric. Amendment to Metal Mining and Tourist Era Resources of Boulder County Multiple Property Listing, 2007. U.S. Census Records, accessed via Ancestry.com. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 15 U.S. to Charles G. Buckingham, Cash Entry Patent, April 1, 1892, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, Document #15737. University of Colorado Boulder, “History of the University Libraries,” https://libraries.colorado.edu/about/history. VI. Significance 37. Local landmark designation: Yes ☐ No ☒ Date of designation: Designating authority: 38. Applicable Eligibility Criteria: Register Register ☐ A. ☐ 1. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of our history; ☐ B. ☐ 2. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; ☐ C. ☐ 3. Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or ☐ D. ☐ 4. Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory. ☐ Qualifies under Criteria Considerations A through G (see Manual) ☒ Does not meet any of the above criteria Needs additional research under standards: ☐ A/1 ☐ B/2 ☐ C/3 ☐ D/4 39. Area(s) of significance: Agricultural, Architecture 40. Period of significance: 1919-1971 (Agriculture), 1919 (Architecture) 41. Level of significance: National ☐ State ☐ Local ☒ 42. Statement of significance: The area along E. Harmony Road was included in a survey of historic farm properties conducted during preparation of Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994, a historic context and survey report prepared by Carl and Karen McWilliams in 1995; however, the Sherred Farmhouse was not included in the survey, perhaps because it was not readily recognizable as a former farm residence or simply overlooked. The property addressed as 4305 and 4315 E. Harmony Road containing the historic 1919 Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion A or Criterion 1 for its association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of history. As an isolated farmhouse divorced from its historical agricultural setting and associated farm buildings, the Sherred Farmhouse is unable to effectively convey its association with historic trends related to sheep raising and dairy farming in the greater Fort Collins area between 1919 and 1971. As noted in Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994, an isolated farmhouse’s integrity of setting, feeling, and association is greatly enhanced by the presence of other Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 16 associated agricultural building types and “to qualify for eligibility, resources that were elements of farms or ranches, should ideally retain some semblance of a rural setting.” Originally part of a 320-acre sheep farm established by Charles and Inez Sherred in 1919-1920 and later operated as a 160-acre dairy farm by Robert and Bernice Weitzel, active farming of the property ceased by 1971. In the 1980s and 1990s, what is believed to be a machine shed erected on the property ca. 1960s was relocated within the property and all other historic outbuildings, secondary residences, fences, pens, and other features associated with the farming ventures operated by the Sherred family and subsequent owners and tenants removed from the property. The agricultural land surrounding the farmhouse was afterward mined for gravel and later occupied by a commercial nursey and landscape supply company, which significantly changed the character of the landscape and effectively erased the farmhouse’s historic setting, thus comprising the property’s ability to convey a sense of how farms in the Timnath area operated and evolved from the early twentieth century through the 1960s. The property does not appear to be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion B or Criterion 2 for its association with individuals whose past activities are significant within the local, state or national context. Based on the research conducted, neither Charles and Inez Sherred nor subsequent owner/occupants of the farmhouse played a demonstrably outstanding role in local history. The 1919 Craftsman-style Sherred Farmhouse does not appear to be individually eligible under National Register Criterion C or Fort Collins Criteria 3 in the area of Architecture. Designed and built by undetermined individuals, the home does not appear to be the work of a master architect or builder, does not include features of high artistic value, and lacks the high integrity necessary to be considered an outstanding example of a ca. 1920s Craftsman-style bungalow within the context of early-twentieth century rural farmhouse architecture in the Fort Collins urban growth area. Altered in 1950 and more extensively in the 1990s, these changes significantly reduced the farmhouse’s integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling and included recladding of the house with vinyl siding; the introduction of picture windows at the front façade and west side; multiple changes to the original size, type, and pattern of windows on the west side; and the construction of a large west-facing commercial rear addition, which now serves as the primary entry point. The addition is clearly commercial in character, with multiple sets of aluminum storefront double doors and other incompatible materials consistent with those used in late-twentieth century manufactured commercial buildings, such as T1-11 siding, and a large contemporary wraparound deck. An asphalt parking lot built directly west of the farmhouse and its addition emphasize the property’s commercial feeling. In Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994, the authors note that the re-cladding of farmhouses with non-historic materials such as aluminum (and presumably vinyl), is likely to negatively impact its eligibility, as are changes to window size, type, and pattern. Furthermore, the context states: “Houses with large non- original fixed-pane (“picture’) windows, particularly on the façade, should not be considered eligible.” Agriculture in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area: 1862-1994 identified 13 Craftsman bungalow farm residences within a survey area extending west from 1-25 to roughly Overland Trail and south from Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 17 Douglas Road to County Road 32. The survey area included E. Harmony Road west of I-25, but does not mention the Sherred Farmhouse. The Jessup Farmhouse at 2600 Timberline Road (5LR.1808, now addressed as 2902 Rigden Parkway) was singled out as an outstanding example of a Craftsman-style farmhouse, and two additional farmhouses, 709 N. Taft Hill Road and 1217 N. County Road 9E (1217 N. Timberline Road), are also excellent examples of Craftsman-style farm residences, exhibiting distinctive architectural details and excellent integrity. The Sherred Farmhouse is a less distinctive example of Craftsman-style residential architecture than the aforementioned examples and does not exhibit a comparably high level of integrity due to alterations made in 1950 and in the 1990s and the nearly complete loss of its historic setting. The outbuildings on the property do not contribute to the architectural significance of the Sherred Farmhouse and are not individually eligible under National Register Criterion C or Fort Collins Criteria 3. What is believed to be a ca. 1960s machine shed built by the Weitzel family and relocated within the property ca. 1993 no longer retains integrity of location, and its original doors—key character defining features—have been replaced. A relatively non-descript utilitarian building, the machine shed does not appear to be historically or architecturally significant. All other outbuildings on the property were constructed less than 50 years ago and are not exceptionally significant. An archeological investigation of the property was not undertaken; however, no evidence was found suggesting the property could be individually eligible for the National or Fort Collins Register under Criterion D or Criterion 4 for its archeological significance. 43. Assessment of historic physical integrity related to significance: The Sherred Farmhouse lacks sufficient integrity to convey its historical significance in the area of Agriculture for its association with farming trends in the Timnath area from 1919 through 1971. The farmhouse has not been moved and retains integrity of location; however, removal of all but one of the associated farm buildings and redevelopment of the surrounding agricultural land significantly compromised its integrity of setting, feeling, and association, aspects of integrity critical to expressing its significance in this area. The one surviving building believed to have been associated with the farm, a utilitarian machine shed, does not clearly read as a farm building and was relocated after farm operations ceased. Divorced from its original agriculture context, the Sherred Farmhouse no longer conveys a sense of how farms in the Timnath area operated and evolved from the early twentieth century through 1971. The Sherred Farmhouse lacks sufficient integrity to convey its architectural significance in the area of Architecture as a distinctive example of an early-twentieth century Craftsman-style farmhouse. Alterations to the farmhouse have significantly reduced its integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling, aspects of integrity critical to expressing its significance in this area. The installation of vinyl cladding diminished the home’s ability to authentically convey the materials and construction techniques utilized when the home was built in 1919; altered the original architectural details at the original window openings, soffits, and front porch; masked the original porch post design and altered the profile of eave supports and window casings; and eroded the home’s historic feeling. Installation of picture windows at the front and Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 18 west sides and additional changes to the original window type and fenestration pattern at the west side further reduced the building’s integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and feeling. Though it connects to the house in a relatively light manner, the large commercial addition at the home’s south (rear) side significantly altered the home’s original footprint, incorporated incompatible materials such as aluminum storefront doors and T1-11 siding, reoriented the building to the west, and introduced a commercial feeling to the property. Though often less critical to architectural significance, alterations to the farmhouse’s historic setting have eroded its integrity of feeling and the home’s association with farmhouse architecture. The residential landscape at the front of the house dates to the 2000s, presumably installed by the nursery and landscape supply business that occupied the property at the time, and has the feeling of a demonstration area as opposed to a typical farmhouse front yard. The aforementioned removal of farm buildings and redevelopment of the surrounding agricultural land largely erased the building’s farmhouse feeling and masks its association with local trends in rural farmhouse architecture during the early twentieth century. Due to cumulative effects of alterations to the farmhouse and its setting, it no longer represents a distinctive and authentic example of a Craftsman-style farmhouse built in the rural area surrounding Fort Collins during the early-twentieth century. VII. National and Fort Collins Register Eligibility Assessment 44. Eligibility field assessment: National: Eligible ☐ Not Eligible ☒ Need Data ☐ Fort Collins: Eligible ☐ Not Eligible ☒ Need Data ☐ 45. Is there district potential? Yes ☐ No ☒ Discuss: If there is district potential, is this building: Contributing ☐ Non-contributing ☐ 46. If the building is in existing district, is it: Contributing ☐ Noncontributing ☐ VIII. Recording Information 47. Photograph numbers: 4305 E Harmony_01 - 4305 E Harmony_22 Digital images filed at: City of Fort Collins 48. Report title: N/A 49. Date(s): August 2025 50. Recorder(s): Amy Unger 51. Organization: Pine Street Preservation 52. Address: PO Box 424, Alma CO 80420 53. Phone number(s): 210-347-5558 Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 19 NOTE: Please include a sketch map, a photocopy of the USGS quad map indicating resource location, and photographs. History Colorado - Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 866-3395 Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 20 Site Photos and Maps Map: USGS Topo Map Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 21 Map 1: Larimer County Assessor Parcel Map Map 2: Sketch map. April 2025 aerial image. Current parcel boundary in red. Machine Shed, ca. 1960s, relocated ca. 1993 Utility Shed, ca. 2012 Sherred Farmhouse, 1919 Commercial Addition, 1996 Greenhouse 2, ca. 2022 Shade Structure, Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 22 Photo 1: Sherred Farmhouse. North and east sides. Camera facing southwest. Photo 2: Sherred Farmhouse. North side. Camera facing south. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 23 Photo 3: Sherred Farmhouse. West side. Camera facing east. Photo 4: Non-historic commercial addition to Sherred Farmhouse. North and west sides. Camera facing southeast. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 24 Photo 5: Non-historic commercial addition to Sherred Farmhouse. West and south sides. Camera facing northeast. Photo 6: Non-historic commercial addition to Sherred Farmhouse. South and east sides. Camera facing northwest. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 25 Photo 7: West side of non-historic hyphen and south side of Sherred Farmhouse. Non-historic commercial addition at left. Camera facing northwest. Photo 8: Sherred Farmhouse, south and east sides. Camera facing northwest. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 26 Photo 9: Sherred Farmhouse, east side. Camera facing west. Photo 10: Equipment Shed. South and east sides. Camera facing northwest. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 27 Photo 11: Shade Structure. North and west sides, Equipment Shed at left, Machine Shed at right. Camera facing southeast. Photo 12: Machine Shed. East and north sides. Camera facing southwest. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 28 Photo 13: Machine Shed. South side. Camera facing north. Photo 14: Greenhouse 1 and 2. West and south sides. Camera facing northeast. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 29 Photo 15: Utility Shed. West and south sides, Shade Structure in background. Camera facing northeast. Photo 16: Telecommunications Tower Site. Camera facing northeast. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 30 Photo 17: Walkway to Sherred Farmhouse. Camera facing south. Photo 18: Landscaping north of Sherred Farmhouse. Camera facing northwest. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 31 Photo 19: Gazebo and flagpole north of Sherred Farmhouse. Camera facing northeast. Photo 20: Picnic area north of Sherred Farmhouse. Camera facing northeast. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 32 Photo 21: Road at west edge of property. Camera facing north. Photo 22: Vinyl fence at north property line, plant storage area and landscaping maintenance debris storage area. Camera facing south. Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 33 Historic Figures Figure 1: Detail from Map of the Irrigated Farms North of Denver: Tributary to the Factories of the Great Western Sugar Company, 1914. Parcel location indicated by red circle. (Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 34 Figure 2: Sherred Farmhouse in 1950. (Larimer County Tax Assessor Records/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 35 Figure 3: Farm buildings in 1950. Demolished ca. 1984-1999. (Larimer County Tax Assessor Records/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Figure 4: Secondary residence built southwest of Sherred Farmhouse ca. 1925. Photographed in 1950. Demolished ca. 1984-1999. (Larimer County Tax Assessor Records/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 36 Figure 5: Secondary residence built east of Sherred Farmhouse ca. 1935. Photographed in 1950. Demolished ca. 1984-1999. (Larimer County Tax Assessor Records/Fort Collins Museum of Discovery) Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 37 Figure 6: Northwest ¼ of Section 3, Township 6 North, Range 68 West in 1969 when under the ownership of Robert and Bernice Weitzel. (Historic Aerials) Sherred Farmhouse Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 38 Figure 7: Farm headquarters in 1969, when occupied by Weitzel family. Boundary of parcel acquired by John R. and Leona Stute in 1979 and sold to Connell Resources in 1991 indicated by dashed line. Figure 8: Property in October 1999 when occupied by Connell Resources, current parcel boundary indicated in red. (Google Earth) Machine Shed, ca. 1960s Secondary Residence, ca. 1925 Farm Buildings Sherred Farmhouse, 1919 Secondary Residence and associated outbuilding, ca. 1935 Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 39 Figure 9: Property in July 2019 when fully occupied by Harmony Gardens, current parcel boundary in red. (Google Earth) Figure 10: West side of farmhouse and addition and parking area in September 2021. The commercial addition constructed in 1996 now serves as the main entry point into the building. (Google Street View) Resource Number: 5LR.11388 (State); B3359 (City) Temporary Resource Number: 4305 Address: 4305 E. Harmony, Fort Collins, CO 40 Comparative Craftsman Farmhouses in the Fort Collins Urban Growth Area LEFT: The Jessup Farmhouse (5LR.1808), historically part of the Henry Jessup-Calvin Johnson Farm at 2600 S. Timberline Road (now addressed as 2902 Rigden Parkway), west and south sides. RIGHT: North and east sides. Efforts were made to maintain the Jessup Farmhouse’s agricultural setting and feeling when it was incorporated into the Rigden Farm development in the 2000s. The farmhouse retains excellent integrity with no additions and exhibits distinctive architectural details including an impressive brick front porch. No alterations have been made to house since it was identified as an outstanding example of a Craftsman bungalow farmhouse in 1995. The Craftsman-style farmhouse at 1217 N. Timberline Road retains its historic agricultural setting and one of its associated farm buildings. The farmhouse retains excellent integrity with no non-historic additions and is distinctive for its stucco walls with wood shingle details and quintessential Craftsman-style wood-frame front porch with battered posts. LEFT: The Craftsman-style farmhouse at 709 N. Taft Hill Road, east (front) side. RIGHT: West (rear) and south sides. The farmhouse retains less of its historic agricultural setting than the above properties; however, it exhibits excellent integrity with no known additions and distinctive architectural details including an impressive stone front porch.