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Home My WebLink About04-08-2004 Historic Preservation CommissionCity of Iowa City MEMORANDUM TO: Historic Preservation Commission FROM: Shelley McCafferty, Associate Planner DATE: April 1, 2004 RE: Selected April 8 agenda items For the purpose of improving the Commission's procedural due process, I have made a number of changes to the format of packet items. The agenda is separated into items that require consideration and a vote, items that need to be discussed at the meeting and information for review at your convenience. Secondly, I am now providing you with a brief staff report for each project. The last item on the report will be the staff recommendation which may be used as a motion, either verbatim or revised. Once the Historic Review Subcommittee is established, these reports will provide the recommendation of the subcommittee. Additionally, I have provided you with an outline of historic review procedures. Please review this outline and follow the recommendations. IOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004 Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 p.m. A. Call to Order B. Public discussion of anything not on the agenda C. Items for Consideration (vote required) 1. Historic Review a. COA for 617 Brown Street b. COA for 728 Dearborn Street 2. Elections: a. Chair and Vice -chair b. Historic Review Subcommittee 3. Northside National Register Nominations (Requires motion to recommend approval to the State Historical Society) a. Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) b. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District c. Jefferson Street Historic District 4. Minutes a. February 12, 2004 b. February 26, 2004 c. March 11, 2004 D. Items for Discussion 1. Historic review procedures 2. Historic Preservation Week 3. CLG Training with Kerry McGrath is tentatively scheduled for May 20, 5:30 p.m. 4. CNME for 633 S. Governor Street 5. CNME for 304 S. Summit Street E. Information/Publications 1. The Alliance Review; January/February 2004 2. Forum News; January/February 2004; Volume X, No. 3 Please review these items prior to the meeting. Staff Report April 8, 2004 Historic Review for 617 Brown Street District: Brown Street Historic District Classification: Contributing The primary structure on this property is an American Four -square House constructed in 1922. Sometime during the 1960s a dormer was added to the west side of the house. The roof form and shape of the dormer is distinctly different from the original roof design. It was sided using clapboard with a wide exposure, has vertical siding in the gable and paired double -hung windows. The applicant is requesting a certificate of appropriateness to replace the original siding and windows on the nonhistoric dormer with wood clapboard that has the same exposure as that used on the original house. The new windows will be wood double -hung windows of the same dimension as the original windows. Applicable Guidelines: Iowa City Guidelines for Historic Preservation 4.0 Iowa City Guidelines for Alterations 4.5 Siding • Replacing deteriorated sections of wood siding with new or salvaged wood siding that matches the historic wood siding. 4.7 Windows • Replacing badly deteriorated windows with new ones that match the type, size, sash width, trim, us of divided -lights, and overall appearance of the historic windows. Secretary of the Interior's Standards 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment. Staff Comments: This is a nonhistoric feature on a historically significant house. Although the Iowa City Guidelines do not specifically address this type of issue, the proposed alterations is not contrary to the guidelines. This alteration will not further detract from the historic character of the property or district; will not create a false historic character; and will be more compatible with the style and character of the house Recommendation: The application for a certificate of appropriateness for the alteration to 617 Brown Street to allow the residing and window replacement on the west, nonhistoric dormer as proposed by the applicant be approved. This application complies with the Iowa City Guidelines for Historic Preservation and Secretary of the Interior's Standards Application for Historic Review Application for alterations to the exterior of historic landmarks or properties located in a historic district or conservation district pursuant to Iowa City Code Section 14-4C. Applicant Information (Please check one person to contact for further information or reference) ❑ Owner....er-NT.....rt.L�C`S�N . ... . + Phone.......... ....... .�.P..................................... Address....6_f..7.......... l3...R.Q. W �........ 5Y ................. ....... ZOwlt ...... C.I.X.......................................... email .KP. it .. a_C ke r5c" giFn , cato, ................................I.I.................. ❑ Contractor...Y....A. .!Z.C.�L....... dA.K.c 0.. .e.�. Address............................................ _............................................ Phone.3..:.[......... q_.M......... e. 36.......................... emial ............. ❑ Consultant Address ........ ....................... Phone ........... email.......................................................... Application Requirements Attached are the following items: ❑ Site plan ❑ Floor plans ❑ Building elevations ❑ Photographs ❑ Product information ❑ Other ......................................... If the proposed project entails an addition, a new structure or a significant alteration to an existing structure, please submit a site plan, floor plans. building elevatons and photographs. Indicate all alterations and matererials on these plans. If the proposed project is a minor alteration to a structure, please provide drawings and photographs to sufficiently describe the scope of the project. Provide a written description of the proposed project on the back of this sheet. The HPC meets the second Thursday of each month. During the summer months, the HPC may also meet on the fourth Thursday. Applications are due by Wednesday the week prior to the meeting. Date submitted. Property Information Address of property .... 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Historic Designation ❑ This property is a local historic landmark OR ❑ This property is located in the: A, Brown Street Historic District ❑ College Green Historic District ❑ East College Historic District ❑ Longfellow Historic District ❑ Summit Street Historic District ❑ Woodlawn Historic District ❑ Clark Street Conservation District ❑ College Hill Conservation District ❑ Dearborn Street Conservation District ❑ Lucas -Governor Conservation District Within the district, this property is: ❑ Contributing ❑ Noncontributing Project Information This project consists of: ❑ Demolition of a building or portion of a building (ie. porch, chimney, decorative trim, baluster or similar) IK Alteration of an existing building (ie. siding, window replacement, skylights, window opening alterations, new decks, porch reconstruction, baluster repair or similar) ❑ Addition to an existing building ❑ Setback addition to an existing building (located in rear and offset 8" or more from side walls) ❑ Construction of new building ❑ Alteration of the site ❑ Repair of an existing structure that will not change its appearance. ❑ Other................................................................................... _........ 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Applicable guidelines and standards (staff use) Applicable Iowa City Guidelines (staff use) LJ Iowa City Historic Preservation Guidelines El Foundation U Windows Ll Iowa City Historic Preservation Guidelines with Exceptions El Masonry 0 Doors Q Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation L3 Design Standards for Multifamily Buildings Ul College Hill District Guidelines Ll Longfellow District Guidelines Other guidelines, standards or reference material recommeded by staff: U Wood U Gutters & downspouts U Roof L3 Chimney U Siding L3 Porch Ll Paint and color Ll Balusters & handrails Staff Report April 8, 2004 Historic Review for 738 Dearborn Street District: Dearborn Street Conservation District Classification: Contributing The primary structure is a gable -end Craftsman Bungalow that was constructed in 1924. The house is stuccoed with asbestos shingle in the gables. Although this house is classified as a contributing structure, the integrity of the house has been compromised by the addition of modern dormers and removal of the front porch columns. The applicant is requesting a certificate of appropriateness to allow the construction of an 8 foot by 10 foot kitchen addition on the back of the house. The large dormer on the back makes it difficult to construct gabled addition that is compatible with the historic house without creating significant roof drainage and ice damming problems. The applicant originally proposed an addition with a shed roof of a design similar to the modern dormers. Staff has been working with the applicant to determine if a gabled addition that would be more compatible with the historic portion of the house is possible. Due to the applicant's desire to have a second opinion on this issue and still have the application considered at the April 8 meeting, final drawings will be provided at or before the meeting. Applicable Guidelines: Iowa City Guidelines for Historic Preservation 5.0 Iowa City Guidelines for Additions (Refer to the Handbook for these guidelines) Secretary of the Interior's Standards 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment. Staff Comments: Please look at this property prior to the meeting. Due to the integrity issues of this property consider whether the integrity of the house has been sufficiently compromised that a shed roofed addition is acceptable. Recommendation: (Attached are elevations of staffs recommendation to the applicant. Recommendation to the HPC to be provided at or before the April 8 meeting.) 3g t'Qr-60rrs V k �Q s DWIGHT'S CARPENTRY Dwight Schumann 113 C Ave. (319) 656-2637 P.Q. Box 283 k"1004, IA 62247-0283 u r „ar "W '%. L- i=�; -� �� I. ,1. 1 "11 4;fAl m rh4er telow i i Coll 40 0"1,AeXA'A'7— - f pc� ��"/ �/--GUI �/� — �7.G �� /'ll6r/�7/1'f�/7c� T%6��, �a ;� ;� `- i � '4 1! NPS Form 10-900 (Oct, 1990) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form TW andi is Mr use In nominating or requohnng did adonations for lnbNbual propedles and InAntls. See lnl,W.cns In H toC..,l000 the M More) T.Vsda, aHroci M [aa Regiola n Form lNalbnal Register Bidder In 16N1. Complea each had by mardng Y'In the approl lale boy or ay endl the Intnrmalion reyueMad . r an Hem does not "N to the poI being documented. enter T Woar Tlut applicable' For Nnctlons. arcllXetlutel classAkallon, materials and areas of slgnVIcanceenter only calegorles and subcMegosle, hom the Ircnuclions, Place a0bllonal enlhes and nanalNo Items on continuation sheets INPS Form II}900a1. Usa a IypewMen v rd F,NcI , or cmmpuler, to c..plela al!hems. Name of Property historic name Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) other names/site number 2. Location street & number 500-800 Blocks of East Ronalds Street N/A L] not for publication city or town L] vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this [ x ] nomination L] request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property [ x ] meets [_] does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant [_] nationally [_] statewide (x ] locally. (L] see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying official/Title Date or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property L] meets L] does not meet the National Register criteria- (LI See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official/Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Keeper Date of Action L] entered in the National Register. L] See continuation sheet. Ll determined eligible for the National Register. L] See continuation sheet. [_] determined not eligible for the National Register. L] removed from the National Register. L] other, (explain:) Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Johnson County, IA County and State Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) jX] private L] public -local L] public -State [ ] public -Federal Category of Property (Check only one box) L] building(s) L] district L] site L] structure L] object Name of related multiple property listing Enter "NIA" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing 74 18 buildings sites structures objects 74 18 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 91 (see p.18 for corrected number count) 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings 7 Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories From instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne MID-19t' CENTURY/Greek Revival LATE-19th & Early 201" CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Prairie School foundation STONE/Limestone walls WOOD/Weatherboard WOOD/Shingle roof ASPHALT other see continuation sheet Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) ARCHITECTURE [X] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. L] B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [XXI C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. L] D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark'Y' in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: L] A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. L] B removed from its original location. L] C a birthplace or grave. L] D a cemetery. L] E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. [, F a commemorative property. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Period of Significance 1847-1954 Significant Dates Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation L] G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. Unknown Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the DropertV on one or more continuation sheets 9. Maior Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: L] preliminary determination of individual listing j_X j State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested L] Other State agency L) previously listed in the National Register [J Federal agency L] previously determined eligible by the National [X] Local government Register L] University L] designated a National Historic Landmark L] Other L] recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: L] recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Acreage of Property UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1j1L] [612121611191 [41611141916101 Zone Easting Northing 3 1 5 [612131013101 [41611131816101 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 2 j1j 5j [612131013101 Zone Easting 4 L1L5J [612121611101 i_I See continuation sheet Johnson County IA County and State [41611141916101 Northing [4161113181410] name/title Marlys A Svendsen Svendsen Tyler Inc organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date January, 2004 street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state W I zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number city or town state telephone listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). zip code ions to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 5 & 7 Page 1 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property 5. Classification: Related Multiple Property Listing (continued) "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS (as amended 2000) 7. Description: Architectural Classification (continued) LATE 19th & 20`h CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival Johnson County, IA County and State LATE 19' AND EARLY 20" CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman OTHER Description: Materials (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: STUCCO SYNTHETICS/Vinyl METAUAluminum roof: METAL/Tin United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property 7. Narrative Description: Page 2 Johnson County County and State The boundary of the Brown Street Historic District is being amended to include a section of Ronalds Street hereafter referred to as the "Ronalds Street extension" located southeast of the original district boundary. This new area included in the Brown Street Historic District extends for four blocks along East Ronalds Street from North Van Buren Street on the east to North Governor Street on the west. The Ronalds Street extension adjoins the former Brown Street Historic District along the alley between Brown and Ronalds streets — the northern boundary of the new area. The southern edge of the new area generally follows the alleys to the south of Ronalds Street. The Ronalds Street extension also includes properties facing the intersecting streets of North Johnson Street, North Dodge Street, and North Lucas Street between the alleys north and south of Ronalds Street. All of the Ronalds Street extension is contained within the Original Town Plat of the city of Iowa City laid out in 1839 when the town was established as the capital city of Iowa Territory. Like Brown Street, Ronalds Street was laid out with a standard 80-foot width with alleys measuring 20 feet and intersecting streets also measuring 80 feet. Adjacent blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet with eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the North Side residential blocks through the years included instances of subdividing lots into smaller building parcels with a handful of full size or combined lots retained for large residences. All of the streets in the Ronalds Street extension are paved in asphalt. Dodge and Governor streets serve as south and northbound one -ways, respectively, while other streets in the Ronalds Street extension function as local two-way streets. All streets in the Ronalds Street extension except Governor and Dodge streets carry two-way traffic with parking on alternating sides of the streets on a daily basis. The terrain of the Ronalds Street extension is generally level with a slight upward slope from south to north and a similar modest slope from west to east between Lucas and Governor streets at the east end of the Ronalds Street extension. Several lots contain modest slopes with stone retaining walls built for leveling purposes. Houses throughout the Ronalds Street extension are sited level with the street or on slight upgrades. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak, ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings within private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Ronalds Street extension are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features within the Ronalds Street extension and no city parks or playgrounds. The nearest city parks are Happy Hollow Park located a block north of the Ronalds Street extension between Lucas and Governor Streets within the original Brown Street Historic District and North Market Park located one and a half blocks south along Johnson Street. The historic building stock in the Ronalds Street extension includes single-family dwellings that generally date from the 1850s through the 1930s and secondary structures erected from the late 19th century through the 1940s. Approximately 48 percent of the buildings originally constructed as single-family houses (primary buildings) are architecturally or historically significant individually or key contributing structures. Another 46 percent qualify as contributing structures within the Ronalds Street extension but are not individually significant. A total of 4 primary buildings are non-contributing due to their date of construction or significant alterations. The Ronalds Street extension also contains 33 secondary buildings originally constructed as garages or barns. Of these, 58 percent are considered contributing and the remaining 42 percent have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or date of construction. The Ronalds Street extension exhibits a variety of late 19th and early 20t" century historic architectural styles including excellent examples of the Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses. Most houses in the Ronalds Street extension are examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City during that period. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Ronalds Street extension include the Side -Gabled Roof (both one - 'Email interview with Terry Robinson, Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City re: species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 3 Johnson County County and State story and two-story or 1-house forms), the Front Gable Roof, the Gabled Front and Wing, the American Four -Square, the Bungalow or Bungalow Cottage, and the Gambrel Roof Cottage. The residential blocks in the Ronalds Street extension are distinguished by a mix of densely spaced houses of all sizes constructed over a period of seven to eight decades. In most cases, the earliest houses were oriented towards Ronalds Street with infill houses built on rear, subdivided parcels facing the side streets in later years. A reflection of the organic development of the neighborhood is seen in the varied setback of buildings along the length of Ronalds Street. Building parcels are deep except for most corner lots where rear portions have been divided to provide housing sites facing onto the intersecting streets. Exceptions include three of the corner lots at the intersection of Lucas and Ronalds streets where rear sections are retained with the primary dwellings facing Ronalds Street. The pattern of building and the density of the Ronalds Street neighborhood are a result of the organic manner in which the area was developed and is discussed in greater detail in Section 8 below. Depictions of buildings in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City and Sanborn maps from various dates reveal the construction of earlier buildings on some lots and their replacement by larger, more substantial buildings as the decades passed. In several cases, frame dwellings were moved to nearby lots to make room for larger buildings. The practice of moving buildings was a long-standing tradition in Iowa City identified in the study of the Original Town Plat neighborhood. More than 10 percent of the primary buildings in the North Side neighborhood under study were moved to their current sites during the period 1904 — ca. 1935. The Ronalds Street extension's one, two and two -and -half -story houses are constructed of frame, brick, stone, and stucco with frame being the most popular. Wood cladding includes narrow and medium width clapboard or decorative shingles. Masonry materials include dressed and ashlar stone, rusticated concrete block (foundations), and locally manufactured brick. The earliest houses in the Ronalds Street extension were vernacular brick and stone houses with simple Greek Revival designs featuring side -gable forms, flat arches, and Flat -arched transoms above their entrances. These were followed by simplified Queen Anne Style houses built in popular vernacular forms such as the Front -Gable and Gabled Front and Wing. They featured asymmetrical fagades, decorative trim, and varied shingle detailing in house, porch, and dormer -gables. From 1900 through World War I, residents favored construction of American Four -Square houses to the virtual exclusion of all other forms. These houses were the first to introduce Craftsman Style, Colonial Revival, and Prairie School Style features. The 1920s and early 1930s saw the Craftsman Style continue its popularity but with the Front -Gable Roof nearly always the choice for house plan. These Craftsman houses typically used knee -braced brackets and exposed rafter tails along their eaves for simple ornamentation and nearly always used vertical upper light sash in windows. The styles and vernacular forms popular in the Ronalds Street extension are discussed in greater detail in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945" approved by the National Park Service in 2000. Some of the better examples of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms in the Ronalds Street extension are listed below. A complete list of contributing and non-contributing resources appears on pages 19-20. Residential Architectural Styles • Greek Revival: Barnes House, 614 N. Johnson St. (Photo #1, ca. 1847) Maria Welch House, 630 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #2, ca. 1860) • Queen Anne: Frank & Mary Lechty House, 719 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #3, ca. 1896) Selkirk-Palik House, 628 N. Lucas St. (Photo #4, ca. 1900) Frank & Frances Nesvacil House, 611 N. Johnson St. (ca. 1905) z"Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845—1945," Amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," National Register of Historic Places, 2000, pp. 49-50. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 4 Johnson County County and State Colonial Revival: Emil & Albia Miller House, 814 E. Ronalds (Photo #5, ca. 1909) Craftsman: Peter & Florence Prizler House, 715 N. Dodge St. (Photo #6, ca. 1927) Tobin Rental House, 621 N. Johnson St. (Photo #7, ca. 1925) Emil Rongner House, 628 N. Johnson St. (ca. 1925) Thomas & Agnes Carroll House, 608 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1928) Robert & Mabel Burger House, 620 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1925) Ulmer & Amelia Ries House, 620 N. Van Buren St. (ca. 1923) Prairie School: Eugene & Myrtle Hubbard House, 616 N. Johnson (ca. 1925) Vernacular House Forms Front -Gable: Charles & Mary Grissel House, 631 N. Dodge St. (ca. 1890) Herman Bonorden House, 530 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #8, ca. 1878) Anton & Vlasta Soucek House, 813 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1913) John Kadlec House, 830 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #15, ca. 1913) Gabled Front & Wing: Frank & Clara Rummelhart House, 510 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1902) Lux House, 619 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #9, ca. 1899) Joseph & Josephine Katzenmeyer House, 622 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #10, ca. 1905) • American Four -Square: [Note: most examples have Colonial Revival, Craftsman, or Prairie School attributes] Frank & Agnes Spevacek House, 714 N. Johnson St. (ca. 1915) Wilfred & Mary Cole House, 715 N. Johnson St. (Photo #11, ca. 1927) Joseph & Agnes Grimm House, 524 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1908) Leo & Mae Grimm House, 604 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #12, ca. 1913) George & Edith Hanley House, 618 E. Ronalds St. (ca. 1923) Carl & Rose Gaulocher House, 804 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #13, ca. 1908) Grace & Henry Urban House, 702 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #14, ca. 1918) Margaret Canon House, 714 N. Van Buren St. (ca. 1919) George & Sadie Pudil House, 716 N. Van Buren St. (ca. 1917) The condition of houses in the Ronalds Street extension ranges from fair to excellent. A substantial number of residences continue as single-family homes with subdivision into duplexes or apartments more common in the blocks at the west end of the Ronalds Street extension closer to the University of Iowa east campus. The most likely alteration to houses in the Ronalds Street extension is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. Approximately 22 percent of the primary buildings in the Ronalds Street extension have this alteration. Other changes include the removal, alteration, or enclosure of porches with screening or fixed walls, the modification or addition of entrances, and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. The wave of North Side apartment building construction that took place from the late 1960s through the 1970s saw only one building constructed in the Ronalds Street extension in 1972. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance: General: Page 5 Johnson County County and State The area included in the Ronalds Street extension of the amended Brown Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance under the category "Community Planning and Development." Residential development in the Ronalds Street extension is associated with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. As with the original Brown Street Historic District, population growth was encouraged by expansion of the State University of Iowa, SUI hospitals, and several local manufacturing concerns immediately before and after 1900. These trends were reflected in the residential growth of the Ronalds Street extension as well. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Ronalds Street extension represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to working class families. Unlike other sections of the North Side located further west, Ronalds Street became one of the sections of the North Side to play host to socially mobile Bohemian -American families, a group that grew as a result of continued immigration from Bohemia as well as settlement patterns in Johnson County. Under Criterion C the Ronalds Street extension is significant as a collection of representative examples of residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. Together the buildings in the Ronalds Street extension area add to the story of architectural design and vernacular building practices told in the balance of the Brown Street Historic District. The Ronalds Street extension displays variations of eight different American architectural styles and vernacular house forms. No properties within the Ronalds Street extension are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although a number of individual properties along Ronalds Street are associated with important local business and political leaders, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the Ronalds Street extension. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. The period of significance for the Brown Street Historic District previously was 1851 to 1929. With the addition of resources within the new section of Ronalds Street, the revised period of significance for the expanded district will be 1847 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest contributing resource in the expanded District and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for National Register eligibility. North Side Historical Survey Recommendations: The amended Brown Street Historic District that includes the Ronalds Street extension is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northern tiers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1981 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts — one commercial properties and one residential properties — were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the National Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1984 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: • Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) • Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase 1) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) _ Name of Property Page 6 Johnson County County and State Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase II) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase II MPD have been listed on the NRHP. In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Iowa City. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, architectural significance, and/or historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa City neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca. 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: Jefferson Street Historic District — This four -block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches; residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State University of Iowa Medical School and the University Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, religion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19t" and early 20th century institutional and residential building styles. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District — This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north -south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick -paved course of Linn Street and the north -south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa City's most important turn of the century architects, O.H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximity to employment generators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. Brown Street Historic District and Ronalds Street Extension — The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa City's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub -themes; its affiliation with the growth of the State University of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four -block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. • North Clinton Street Historic Street — This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa City's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition the houses are well -executed and well-preserved examples of the architectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 215t century, the area adjoins the State University of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternity houses and rooming houses. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 7 Johnson County County and State A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preserved, but scattered, collection of University of Iowa fraternity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian -American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street Extension included in this nomination, they include the Jefferson Street Historic District and the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. The Historical and Architectural Development of Ronalds Street: 3 Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Ronalds Street extension is located along an east -west stretch of Ronalds Street, which is located along the northern edge of the Original Town Plat adjoining East Brown Street. This plat, which appears on the following page with the Ronalds Street extension to the Brown Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and several reserves set aside by the territorial legislators for churches and a school. Two of the half -blocks containing church reserve lots were located along the north side of East Church Street abutting the Ronalds Street extension. In a separate private property transfer, Block 32 was acquired by the Bishop of the Dubuque Catholic Diocese in 1854 for the purpose of constructing a German-speaking Catholic church .4 Neither the church reserve nor Block 32 was used for their intended purpose, the construction of churches. In the case of Block 32, a plan in the 1870s to build a convent for the Sisters of St. Francis was also abandoned. One of the open space features in the Original Town Plat was located near the Ronalds Street extension — North Market Square — at the intersection of Johnson and Fairchild streets. North Market Square appears to have played a role in attracting Bohemian -American institutions to this section of the North Side and as a result, had an important impact on the Ronalds Street extension. This role is discussed in greater detail below. During Iowa City's early years, Ronalds Street suffered several misnomers at the hands of mapmakers and city directory compilers. These included "Reynolds Street" and "Donald Street" with the correct street name not consistently used until the end of the 191' century. This fact may be an indication of the street's relative unimportance early on. One of the earliest views of Ronalds Street is in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City that appears below with Ronalds Street mislabeled "Donald Street." The bird's eye view shows the presence of small dwellings scattered along Ronalds Street from Van Buren Street to Lucas Street in the Ronalds Street extension. Several blocks remained vacant serving as pastures or wood lots; they are devoid of buildings. The three oldest dwellings in the Ronalds Street extension — the Barnes House, the Welch House, and the Denneny House — are highlighted on a section of the bird's eye view map that appears below on page 9. The Barnes House at 614 N. Johnson Street (contributing, Photo #1) was constructed in ca. 1847 and is an example of a vernacular house form described by architectural historian Jan Nash in her study of folk housing in the northernmost blocks of the Original Town Plat as the "Hall -and -Parlor" form. This one-story example is typified by end gables, a central 3Portions of this section are taken from "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," listed in 2000. Additional material was taken from a second amendment to the MPS prepared in 1997 titled "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa, 1839 - ca. 1910" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The first two documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen and the third by Jan Olive Nash- 4 Property Abstract for South Half of Lot 5 in Block 32 belonging to Kevin and Helen Burford, examined October 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 8 Johnson County County and State chimney, and a floor plan that is two rooms wide and one room deep. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with dressed stone lintels for openings. The stone used here may have been quarried less than a mile away at an important quarry that was located along the Iowa River at the west ends of Ronalds and Church streets. It was labeled on the 1839 Original Town Plat map (see below) as simply "quarry" and designated as the "public quarry" on an 1854 map 5 Other quarries were located upstream along the river and what is now North Dubuque Street. There are at least a dozen houses of similar stone construction scattered throughout Iowa City including three North Side houses previously listed on the National Register — the Jacob Wentz House built in ca. 1850 at 219 N. Gilbert Street, the Henry C. Nicking House built in 1854 at 410 E. Market Street, and the Schindhelm-Drews House constructed in ca. 1855 at 410 North Lucas Street. Nash's study of folk housing describes the Maria Welch House at 630 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #2) as a "Side -Gable, Double -Pen" type. It is constructed of brick and has a side -gable form with a floor plan that is two rooms deep and presents its long side to the street. The house has previously been dated as early as 1858 and as late as 1875, but its appearance on the 1868 bird's eye view map suggests that it was in place sometime prior to the map's publication. Welch owned nearly the entire block at one time selling off individual lots during the pre and post -Civil War period. Nash attributes additional significance for the house to its innovative use of cavity brick wall construction for the front fagade. She also points out that the solid brick end walls are reminiscent of rowhouse residences in Boston and Philadelphia. Ronalds Street Extension on Map of Iowa City, 1839 t (from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) N United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) _ Johnson County Name of Property County and State from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 18686 Dodge Street, (from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) N Governor Military Road Street Ronalds Street, mislabeled ' Donald , � r � �''�„� t� 'L t „h.l. .+b � � ��'�. ,'.loos n'+aara ea r•#4 � "' .��, d; :� " House A. J 3 i Welch House _.� Barnes use Van Buren North Market, should Street be half -block east The use of masonry materials for this pair of early houses in the Ronalds Street extension likely reflects the availability of competent masonry workers during the town's early years. The continued presence of skilled stone masons and cutters after completion of the stone capitol (a total of 85 in 1856) encouraged a continuation of stone construction. A commensurate number of skilled brick makers and bricklayers (a total of 80 in 1856) combined with good sources of local clay to encourage the continued construction of brick dwellings, churches, and commercial buildings. One of these early brick yards was located a block north of the Ronalds Street extension within the original Brown Street Historic District between Lucas and Governor streets. The third folk house identified by Nash along Ronalds Street was the Lawrence Denneny House at 613 Ronalds Street (contributing). Built in ca. 1860 in the Gable Front and Wing form, this frame building is more typical of the early housing stock in the Ronalds Street extension. The original occupants of the house are unknown but by the early 1890s it was occupied by members of the Denneny family including Lawrence who was retired and Homer who worked for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad. Population figures for Iowa City as a whole and the Third Ward, which included East Ronalds Street, demonstrate periods of growth and decline in the North Side. A population table appears on page 11. Prior to 1870 Iowa City's population was recorded as a single, citywide number. Population stood at 1,250 in 1850 when the first residents were building homes in the North Side and by 1860 when the three houses just mentioned were likely in place, it had grown to 5,214. This quadrupling of population occurred despite the removal of the state capital to Des Moines. Positive factors outweighing this event were the establishment of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and the arrival of trackage for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad in the mid-1850s. Declines in population growth during the early 1860s reflected losses due to displacement caused by the Civil War. By 1870 census figures show Iowa City's population had recovered. This was the first year census records were recorded for the Third Ward, a section of the city that extended from North Linn Street on the west to east of Reno Street on the east and from Washington Street on the south to Brown Street on the north. In that year the city's overall population stood at 5,914 with 2,295 individuals residing in the Third Ward. The high figure for the 6Approximate boundaries of Ronalds Street extension outlined by dotted line. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 10 Johnson County County and State Third Ward likely reflects the large influx of Bohemian immigrants during the previous decade in conjunction with efforts of many young men to avoid military service in the Austro-Prussian War. Five years later in 1875 the city's population rose to 6,371 while numbers in the Third Ward declined slightly to 2,026. Population figures in the Third Ward continued to decline in succeeding decades with population dropping to 1,842 in 1885 and 1,475 in 1895. These figures contrast with changes in overall population figures in the city that showed increases in both 1885 and 1895 — 6,748 and 7,526 respectively. The decline in Third Ward population during the 1870s through the mid-1890s parallels a drop in surviving houses from the same years in the Ronalds Street extension. Only three survive from the 1870s, none from the 1880s, and one from the early 1890s. The most substantial of these was the Herman Bonorden House at 530 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo # 8). This large Front -Gable frame house was constructed in 1878 for Bonorden while he was serving as a trustee for the Third Ward on the City Council. Bonorden, a lawyer, was one of several elected officials to reside along E. Ronalds Street before and after the turn of the 20th century. During the 1890s the Third Ward remained the most "foreign" of any ward in Iowa City with 1,215 residents (82% of the Third Ward's total residents) claiming foreign -born parents in 1895. Most of these were Bohemian immigrants or children of immigrants who resided in the northeast section of the Original Town Plat and in several additions located to the east in a neighborhood that was known as "Goosetown." The cultural center for Goosetown's Bohemian -American residents eventually became centered around North Market Square, which was located at the intersection of N. Johnson and E. Fairchild streets just a block south of the Ronalds Street extension. The P Ward School (non -extant) attended by Bohemian -American students was located opposite the southwest corner of the square. The Cesko-Slovanska Podporujici Spolku (Czecho-Slovak Protective Society) Hall (NRHP) was built at 524 N. Johnson Street in 1899-1901. Two churches with ethnic affiliations were located south of the North Market Square. Zion Evangelical German Lutheran Church built its first building (non -extant) at Johnson and Bloomington streets in 1861 and St. Wenceslaus Bohemian Catholic Church was constructed at 630 E. Davenport Street in 1893. These cultural and social institutions near North Market Square tended to draw second and third generation German - Americans and Bohemian -Americans to the blocks west and north of the original Goosetown neighborhood. As a result, this group accounted for a number of the new houses built in the Ronalds Street extension from the 1890s through World War I. In 1900 citywide population stood at 7,987 reflecting a modest increase from a decade earlier. By 1910 when ward population figures are available once again, they show 1,599 people residing in the Third Ward and 10,091 in the city as a whole. Five years later in 1915 the ward's population rebounded to 1,914 while citywide figures totaled 12,033. The number of residents in the Third Ward fluctuated following World War I with 1,721 in 1920 and 1,870 in 1940. This is the last year that records are kept without including students at the State University of Iowa. Citywide population figures trended upward throughout this period with 11,267 in 1920, 15,340 in 1930, and 17,182 in 1940. Several factors likely led to this population increase within the ward. One was related to the growth of enrollment at the State University of Iowa during this period. In 1900 student enrollment stood at nearly 1,500 and by the end of the 1920s grew to more than 8,500. This period of University growth gave rise to parallel expansion in the central business district and nearby residential neighborhoods such as those in the North Side. It is more fully described in the historic contexts "Town and Gown Era (1899-1940)" and "University of Iowa (1855-1940)" in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS. Growth of SUI spurred residential development of several sorts in the Ronalds Street extension. Student housing had traditionally been accommodated in rented rooms in private homes, rooming houses, boarding houses, sorority houses, and fraternity houses within a few blocks of the east campus of the University. Sections of the North Side such as the west end of the Ronalds Street extension gradually played host to more junior faculty, SUI employees, and resident graduate students as enrollment experienced a nearly six -fold increase by 1930. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 11 Johnson County County and State A more significant change in housing in the Ronalds Street extension was the construction of new single-family dwellings on vacant lots or in place of earlier, smaller houses. Construction dates of surviving building stock show more than 40 houses erected between 1895 and 1930. Corner lots were frequently divided with smaller houses moved to the rear of a lot facing a side street and a more spacious house erected at the intersection. In other cases, small-scale real estate development efforts by neighborhood residents such as the Vacek family and the Nesvacil family resulted in new dwellings being erected for use as rental housing. Frank and Joseph Vacek built and either resided in or rented houses at 815 E. Ronalds Street, 823 E. Ronalds Street, and 629 N. Governor Street. Frank and Frances Nesvacil did the same for houses at 611 N. Johnson Street and 617 E. Ronalds Street. Other rental houses were built by members of the Tobin family, Lux family, and Cerny family. These houses frequently provided short term housing for married graduate students, faculty members, and SUI administrative support staff for SUI's growing physical plant. The result was a mixed neighborhood in terms of rental houses and owner -occupied houses. Social make-up was further mixed by the presence of households headed by SUI employees, downtown workers, shop owners, and professionals in every block. The first table below shows the numbers of surviving houses by decade based on research conducted during earlier surveys. Population figures in the second table for Iowa City and the Third Ward are taken from U.S. and Iowa State Census figures. Houses Built by Decade Decade T Number of Houses Pre-1860 1 1860-1869 2 1870-1879 3 1880-1889 0 1890-1899 7 1900-1909 13 1910-1919 16 1920-1929 14 1930-1939 1 1940-1949 0 1950-2000 2 TOTAL 59 Population for Iowa City & Third Ward Year Iowa City Third Ward 1850 1,250 - 1854 2,570 - 1860 5,214 - 1863 4,417 - 1865 5,417 - 1867 6,418 - 1869 6,583 - 1870 5,914 2.295 1873 6,454 2,026 1875 6,371 2,026 1880 7,123 - 1885 6,748 1,842 1890 7,016 1,755 1895 7,526 1475 1900 7,987 - 1905 8,497 1910 10,091 1 599 1915 12,033 1,914 1920 11,267 1,721 1930 15,340 - 1940 17,182 1 870 1950 27,212 2101 1960 33,443 - 1970 46,850 1980 50,508 1990 59,735 2000 62,220 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 12 Johnson County County and State Information from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources provides a sampling of the Ronalds Street residents, their occupations or professions, and business affiliations. Students are generally not represented in these figures because they were not the heads of households and, therefore, not listed in city directories. Nor were they usually responsible for construction of a house or its long-term occupation. Because this list generally represents the earliest resident associated with a property, it does not demonstrate the growing importance of employers such as the University of Iowa in later years. North Dodge Street 630 N. Dodge, Joseph Brum, cashier, Rock Island RR, ca. 1909 631 N. Dodge, Charles Grissel, teamster, ca. 1890 707 N. Dodge, Frank Mott, English professor, SUI, ca. 1926 715 N. Dodge, Peter Prizler, truck driver, Lenoch & Cilek Hardware Store, ca. 1927 North Johnson Street 611 N. Johnson, Frank Nesvacil, railway mail clerk, ca. 1905 616 N. Johnson, Eugene Hubbard, instructor, SUI Dental College, ca. 1925 628 N. Johnson, Emil Rongner, tailor and dry cleaner, ca. 1920 714 N. Johnson, Frank Spevacek, musician, ca. 1915 715 N. Johnson, Wilfred Cole, bookkeeper, Lenoch & Cilek Hardware Store, ca. 1927 North Lucas Street 628 N. Lucas, Selkirk-Palik House, Frank Selkirk, laundry worker, ca. 1900 713 N. Lucas, Frank Abbott, lather, ca. 1914 East Ronalds Street 510 E. Ronalds, Frank Rummelhart, grocer, ca. 1902 511 E. Ronalds, Edward John Schuppert, tinner for Schuppert & Koudelka, ca. 1912 515 E. Ronalds, John Schuppert, co-owner of Schuppert & Koudelka, 1930 516 E. Ronalds, James Mott, works Reichardt's, confectionery & fruits1904 518 E. Ronalds, Ludwig Bettag, clerk, Breece Bros., soft drinks, ca. 1909 524 E. Ronalds, Joseph Grimm, bookkeeper, Johnson Co. Savings Bank, ca. 1908 530 E. Ronalds, Herman Bonorden, lawyer, ca. 1878 604 E. Ronalds, Leo Grimm, letter carrier, ca. 1913 613 E. Ronalds, Lawrence Denneny, engineer, Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Rwy., ca. 1860 617 E. Ronalds, Frank Nesvacil, laborer, ca. 1918 620 E. Ronalds, Robert Burger, carpenter, ca. 1925 704 E. Ronalds, Edward Sulek, lawyer, ca. 1910 712 E. Ronalds, Ferd Goss, brick manufacturer, ca. 1908 713 E. Ronalds, Ida Kasper, widow, retired farmer, ca. 1896 719 E. Ronalds, Frank Lechty, laborer, SUI, ca. 1896 724 E. Ronalds, James Kriz, teamster and Joseph Kriz, merchant tailor 729 E. Ronalds, Joseph Bock, tinner, Maresh Brothers, ca. 1895 804 E. Ronalds, Carl & Rose Gaulocher, co-owner, Gaulocher Brick Yard, ca. 1908 809 E. Ronalds, Joseph Krofta, meat cutter, Messner & Koza Meat Market, ca. 1915 United States Department of the Interior . National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 13 _ Johnson County County and State 813 E. Ronalds, Anton Soucek, linotypist, Athens Press, ca. 1913 814 E. Ronalds, Emil Miller, co-owner, Emil Brothers Monuments, ca. 1909 820 E. Ronalds, Lee Windrem, baker, ca. 1912 823 E. Ronalds, Frank Vacek (Wacek), laborer & teamster, ca. 1895 830 E. Ronalds, John Kadlec, Johnson County Recorder, ca. 1913 North Van Buren Street 620 N. Van Buren, Ulmer Ries, clerk, Ries Iowa Book Store 622 N. Van Buren, Joseph Katzenmeyer, printer, Economy Advertising Co., ca. 1905 630 N. Van Buren, Maria Welch, real estate owner, ca. 1860 702 N. Van Buren, Drs. Grace & Henry Urban, osteopathic physicians, ca. 1918 714 N. Van Buren, Margaret Canon, child welfare nurse, SUI, ca. 1919 716 N. Van Buren, George Pudil, janitor, SUI Men's Gymnasium, ca_ 1917 Architectural Background and Significance Like other section of Iowa City's North Side, the houses constructed in the Ronalds Street extension of the Brown Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vernacular building forms that swept the country from the mid- 19`h century through the early-20th century. Styles that influenced the designs of building in the Ronalds Street extension include the Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School. As design trends in Iowa City had no hard and fast beginning and ending dates, it was common to find two or more styles incorporated into the same house. The Greek Revival was the first formal architectural style introduced to Iowa City when architect John Francis Rague designed Iowa's Territorial Capitol (NHL) in 1839. Construction was completed on the capitol by 1842 and dozens of private residences and commercial blocks in the Greek Revival Style were rendered in stone, brick and clapboard finishes during the next 25 years in Iowa City. Houses such as the Barnes House at 614 N. Johnson Street (contributing, Photo #1) and the Welch House at 630 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #2) employed simple Greek Revival elements such as flat stone window lintels and entrance transoms in their Side -Gable forms. As noted above, historical and architectural survey work completed in the Ronalds Street extension area has identified few surviving houses constructed during the three decades following the Civil War. This may be a result of a modest amount of building that took place during this time due to slow population growth. A more likely contributing factor is the wave of redevelopment in the neighborhood that took place after the turn of the 20th century that resulted in the replacement of earlier houses with newer ones. As a result, there is a dearth of houses built in styles popular during the post -Civil War period — Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, and early Queen Anne style houses — in the Ronalds Street extension. In their place are late Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses built in a wide range of vernacular forms. The late Queen Anne Style dwellings built along Ronalds Street were examples of the Gabled Front and Wing form with asymmetrical fagades and various combinations of roof shapes, wall dormers, and attic dormers. Defining features included ornamental bargeboards, decorative millwork, and fashionable verandas and porches. Examples of the less exuberant forms of the Queen Anne Style typical of the Ronalds Street neighborhood include the Frank and Mary Lechty House at 719 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #3) built in ca. 1896, the Selkirk-Palik House at 628 N. Lucas Street (contributing, Photo #4) constructed in ca. 1900, and the Frank and Frances Nesvacil House at 611 N. Johnson Street (contributing) built in ca. 1905. A variation of the late Queen Anne Style in the Ronalds Street extension incorporates more formal Neo-Classical ornamentation in fagades and porches. The result is a Colonial Revival Style design such as the house built in 1905 by Emil and Albia Miller located at 814 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #5). The most common architectural style adopted by homebuilders in the Ronalds Street extension was the Craftsman Style. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 14 Johnson County County and State This style grew out of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America and was strongly promoted by native Wisconsin architect and furniture designer Gustav Stickley in his magazine The Craftsman published between 1903 and 1916. The Craftsman Style was predisposed towards utilitarian forms and designs and experienced popularity in the Ronalds Street area as a result. The Craftsman Style developed a multiplicity of forms adaptable to both prominent mid -block lots and smaller sub- divided lots fronting on side streets. Approximately 20 Craftsman Style houses were built in the Ronalds Street extension during the years before and after World War I. The most clearly Craftsman Style houses in the Ronalds Street extension were built in the Front -Gable form. Constructed in one, one -and -half, and two-story sizes, the Front -Gable house form was distinguished by a moderate -pitched gable end oriented towards the street. In some examples the asymmetrically placed entrance porch would have a contiguous gable roof but in most cases, a broad gable roofed porch would span the front. Clapboard siding and square -cut shingles would frequently alternate between floors and exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee -brace brackets would line eaves. Windows would appear in pairs and groups of three with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double -hung windows in most cases. Six well-preserved examples survive in the Ronalds Street extension of the Craftsman Style Front -Gable form. All were built during the decade of the 1920s. The Ulmer and Amelia Ries House at 620 N. Van Buren St. (contributing) was built in ca. 1923. It is a very small one-story stucco -clad cottage with a contiguous gable for its offset entrance porch. Its windows contain a geometric pattern rather than the traditional vertical light configuration. A larger house more typical of the Craftsman Front -Gable houses found in the Ronalds Street extension is the Peter and Florence Prizler House at 715 N. Dodge St. (contributing, Photo #6). Built in ca. 1927 it incorporates most of the standard features of Craftsman Style houses in the Ronalds Street extension including exposed rafter tails, knee brace brackets for the side entrance, contrasting narrow clapboards and square -cut shingles for the siding, and vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double -hung windows. A third example with proportions similar to the Prizler House, is the house at 621 N. Johnson St. (contributing, Photo #7). Constructed in ca. 1925 by the Tobin family for rental purposes, it combines the extremely narrow 22-foot wide footprint of the Ries House with the full two-story height of the Prizler House. Its upper story shingles are laid in alternating narrow and wide bands giving the house a horizontal feeling and an illusion of greater width than similar sized houses in the Ronalds Street extension. Other Craftsman Front -Gable Houses in the Ronalds Street extension include the Emil Rongner House at 628 N. Johnson St. (contributing, ca. 1925), the Thomas and Agnes Carroll House at 608 E. Ronalds St. (contributing, ca. 1928), and the Robert and Mabel Burger House at 620 E. Ronalds St. (contributing, ca. 1925). The Craftsman Style influenced the look of another important vernacular house form found in the Ronalds Street extension — the American Four -Square. Nearly 20 such houses survive in the Ronalds Street extension having been built between ca. 1905 and ca. 1930. Common characteristics of this form include a two-story, three -bay front facade; a hipped roof of various pitch; hipped or gable roof dormer(s) on one or more fagades; porches across the entire front facade or off -set entrance porticos; asymmetrically placed entrance doors (common); cottage windows on the first floor (common); double - hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary fagades with either 1 /1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 configurations; and belt courses separating first and second floors. Four -Squares are distributed relatively evenly throughout the Ronalds Street extension. The earliest Four -Squares in the Ronalds Street extension are more likely to incorporate Colonial Revival Style features such as classical ornamentation, porch columns, entrances, window trim, and balustrades. The Craftsman Style appeared in Four -Squares built after World War I. The style's influence was evident in the popular vertical light configuration in the upper sash of double -hung windows, the use of alternating siding types on each level, and interior finishes that favored Arts and Crafts motifs. None of the houses in the Ronalds Street extension have been identified as the work of individual architects though it is possible that continued research on local architects might uncover a few commissions. Alternatively, homebuilders frequently turned to pattern books and design catalogues available from local lumber companies such as the William Musser Lumber Company, the Iowa Lumber Company and its successor the Ditmars & Ayers Company, or to local planing mills such as J.M. Sheets and Company. In such cases a single house plan with variations in ornamentation or floor plan United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property may have been used for multiple houses. Page 15 Johnson County County and State One such plan was for a modified Gabled Front and Wing design with a central hipped block. This design was used for three nearly identical houses in the Ronalds Street extension. They include the Lux House, a rental house built in ca. 1899 at 619 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #9); the Joseph and Josephine Katzenmeyer House built in ca. 1905 at 622 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #10); and the Edward and Stella Sulek House built in ca. 1910 at 704 E. Ronalds Street (contributing). The porches of the two most intact houses vary. The Lux House has a closed balustrade and paneled square columns for porch supports while the Katzenmeyer House has slender curved columns and turned spindles for its balustrade. The two also have reverse floor plans. Another example of the Gabled Front and Wing house form is the Frank and Clara Rummelhart House at 510 E. Ronalds Street (contributing) built in ca. 1902. Like the three Queen Anne Style houses discussed on page 13 —the Lechty House, the Selkirk-Palik House, and Nesvacil House —the size and location porch was a major design element. After the turn of the 20th century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut or "kit houses" such as those offered by a number of Midwest manufacturers. Kit houses included materials for the entire house with numbered parts and instruction booklets as well as shingles, paint, and nails. Among the companies offering homes in the Midwest were three Bay City, Michigan manufacturers — the Aladdin Company began in 1906 and offered 450 models between 1910 and 1940; Lewis Homes/Liberty Homes; and Sterling Homes/International Mill and Timber. Three Chicago firms included Sears Roebuck and Company, Montgomery Ward Company, and Harris Brothers. The best known of these was Sears, the nation's premier merchandiser at the turn of the 26h century. The company began offering house plans in 1895 and by 1908 had begun operations of a "Modern Homes" division that supplied building plans, materials, and kit houses that were shipped by rail around the United States. The first catalogue was limited to several dozen plans for medium size houses but by 1916 the first Sears kit -houses with numbered parts were available. Incomplete records make the total output of kit homes difficult to estimate, however, it is likely that by World War ll, Sears had sold more than 100,000 homes nationally. Soon after Aladdin and Sears began manufacturing homes, an Iowa company joined their ranks. Located just 60 miles east of Iowa City in Davenport, Iowa, the Gordon -Van Tine Company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 the company offered house plans and was among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre-cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon -Van Tine Company likely knew of the brisk market for residential construction in Iowa City during this period. One example of a Gordon -Van Tine Co. house has been tentatively identified within the Ronalds Street extension —the John Kadlec House at 830 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #15). The house was built in ca. 1913 for Kadlec who occupied the elected post of Johnson County Recorder at the time. The Gordon -Van Tine Plan No. 702 that appears on the following page matches that of the two-story frame house at the corner of Governor and Ronalds streets. It was built with a steeply pitched, intersecting gable roof plan, and a flat roofed porch spanning the front. Double -hung 1/1 windows were paired on the second floor. The most popular house form in the Ronalds Street extension — the American Four -Square — was also among the most popular designs offered by the Gordon -Van Tine Company. The company's 1923 catalogue included 18 separate plans in the Four -Square house form to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price," "A Big Square Home — Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two -Story Home," "An Every Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home — A Space and Money Saver," "A Substantial Seven Room House," and "A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms.,7 7117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon -Van Tine Co., Davenport, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 16 Johnson County County and State The American Four -Squares built in the Ronalds Street extension were typical of plans sold by the Gordon -Van Tine Company. They featured four rooms on the first floor usually including a large entrance hall with stairs to the second Floor, a "cased opening" (one featuring pillars, shelving or other trim) between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the 1923 catalogue were sized for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor; moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and one large house containing 1,100 square feet per floor. Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 7023 Gordon-VanTine Homes 43 n r� Space Saving Lines -More House for theMoney :raa�3— I vp Fill, SHK t � I 1 YfiMrll t2a 4 Y F hFi 1� �' �'. „ry i'2 m+tttd b¢ }ykWiR Ls,vr t 6n fN6MeC L I R 'A �'"j °° "`f.tnRe,.r YN•aro } te��tpwr ua 9d`�' l4k •tt�� i � �, t'" 1 iuf��SRt�hY.iWVf'fY anA wf Wrd WY t�r[x"ea in I ' 1�'hvke`m<mN+�^Nt h^menp2rvryalR+wS1�.a�FW ARv�PI MyaRq yMraen wilt �R t y(aSvef W1Q.Cff- Tu��tla 1Efi+u AMrt.L b211.A9� „k g:m.a•Tra"m'�+I°ii»i: P�anwt +n«ie� SbaC ;: , � � S 8 Ffenr P Yn4 rfo£maNlu' wc�t � U x .aw r as mxnm is u.m d av�ur ,red ai R�mR e 10 vm �°�d�s `�u'�fYctt>tiuh'y2�w tr. ual ua4Y,r� pwc kw. a+K wr f+ �. Sam zrt skau wr rcd a.2`ea`i tnlW m�iasFiraxty Xemi, - vrcp ail mrt w-s. mata+uf Ob tFtPr x.rtm NAbe n ac-� fa.a bnKRmSe� , t �N.eRh++R iRnH kY+e: men ✓!P.�«4�e � 1 �F� k RISILrI fMa Ft, �.t ado 1 "4$ ceY1i vticCaaz L . �..v scrim. xeuh��n.. t ta��N"ly i[irz+�al �f +e.I t sxa l [- 1, kor Ylarabibg, ileattng, Ltgbting ipr Tfils riome, Sates L. xt Pages of Cook Iowa, 1923), pp. 37, 52, 66, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 99. 8117 House Designs of the Twenties, p. 88. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 17 Johnson County County and State American Four -Squares built in the Ronalds Street extension ranged from narrow -front plans (22 to 24 feet wide) suitable for small mid -block lots to plans that were both wide and deep (26 to 31 feet wide) for full lot corner sites. Two nearby examples show how the same house form could be easily sized to fit lots with dramatically different dimensions. The Eugene and Myrtle Hubbard House at 616 N. Johnson Street (contributing) has a width of just 22 feet. Built in ca. 1925, it is an example of how design elements such as an extremely low-pitched hipped roof, the omission of an attic dormer, and the inclusion of a raised story -board between contrasting cladding on the first and second floors can give a house a wider, and therefore larger, appearance. These features also added a Prairie School Style feel to the house. The Hubbard House closely resembles the 22-foot wide "Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 555"9 and the "The Cornell," a Sears, Roebuck and Company house plan shown below that was specifically advertised for narrow lots. A half -block to the north, a more typically sized Four -Square with a 26-foot wide front fagade was built by Leo and Mae Grimm at 604 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #12) in ca. 1913. The large corner lot on which it sits gives the Grimm House an even more substantial presence. In this particular plan, the wider front fagade is largely taken up by additional windows (pairs on the upper level and a triple window on the lower level). Other corner lot Four -Squares include the William and Augusta Theobold House at 730 E. Ronalds Street (contributing) built in ca. 1910, the Carl and Rose Gaulocher House at 804 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #13) built in ca. 1908 and the Henry and Grace Urban House at 702 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #14) built in ca. 1918. Sears, Roebuck and Company House Plan, "The Cornell" 70 9[bid, p. 92. 10Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward Jandl, Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company (Washington, D.C.. The Preservation Press), 1986, p. 292. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources: Page 18 Johnson County County and State The Ronalds Street extension to the Brown Street Historic District contains a total of 92 buildings with 74 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 32 are key or individually significant (28 primary and 4 secondary). The balance of the Ronalds Street extension includes 4 non-contributing primary building and 14 non-contributing secondary buildings. No buildings in the extension area were previously listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The original Brown Street Historic District nomination identified 90 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (Brown Street itself), and 9 non-contributing buildings. This number count was in error, however, because it included only primary buildings and no garages or barns. As a part of amending the Brown Street Historic District to include the Ronalds Street extension, a revised evaluation of the buildings in the original district was completed using the extended period of significance for the Ronalds Street extension and a full count of primary and secondary buildings. This count indicates that there are 127 contributing primary and secondary buildings within the original boundary, 1 contributing structure within the original boundary, and 26 noncontributing buildings within the original boundary. The revised and combined number counts for the Brown Street Historic District with the boundary increased to include the Ronalds Street extension are as follows: a total of 246 resources with 1 contributing structure (Brown Street) and 245 buildings (primary and secondary) including 201 contributing buildings and 44 non-contributing buildings. Tables listing the contributing and non-contributing resources in the new Ronalds Street extension and the original Brown Street Historic District appear on pages 19-23. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Ronalds Street extension were developed using National Register Bulletin 16A: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994, 1997, and 1999-2000 listed below: "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," prepared 1999, listed NRHP 2000 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1997 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi -block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Ronalds Street extension meets these requirements. Buildings were evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing or 3) non- contributing. For single or multi -family buildings (including rooming houses and apartment buildings) to be designated as "key contributing," they are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportion, and roofline. Principal facades remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic siding has been installed it is considered acceptable if the width matches that of the original surfaces and few architectural features are compromised by its installation. Original porches are intact, windows remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi -family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase)___ Name of Property Page 19 Johnson County County and State acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. More permanent porch enclosures that are more than 50 years old are also considered acceptable. The majority of windows remains unchanged but if they are altered, the sizes of window openings conform to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant architectural detailing. Acceptable synthetic sidings include asbestos shingles, asphalt brick, aluminum, and vinyl. For secondary structures associated with residential buildings such as garages or barns, designation as "key contributing" requires the retention of original size, shape, proportion, and roofline. Original windows, siding, passage doors, and vehicle bay openings doors are also retained. Replacement of the vehicle bay door with a contemporary door is not acceptable for key status. "Contributing" secondary structures include garages and barns that are at least 50 years old but may have been altered through the addition of synthetic siding compatible to the original finish or replacement of garage doors. Location of vehicle and passage doors as well as windows is contributing secondary structures is consistent with the original building design. Residential buildings, both primary and secondary, designated as "non-contributing" include all resources built outside of the period of significance — 1847 to 1954, Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable are considered non-contributing. Examples of significant changes include major changes in roofline, incompatible porch enclosures of a non -reversible nature, and major additions or modifications of primary facades inconsistent with the proportion, rhythm, materials, and finish of the balance of the building. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings. National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A complete list of buildings in the Ronalds Street extension appears below. Buildings are separated into primary (single- family house or multi -family building) and secondary (barn or garage). If no box is checked under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage or barn is currently present. Ronalds Street Extension — Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources # STREET ORIGINAU LONG- - TERM OWNER s DATES I PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Key Non -Contributing SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Non -Contributing ARCH, STYLE - VERNACULAR FORM 630 N. Dodge Brum, Joseph & Mary ca. 1900 C C Gabled -Front & Win Queen Anne 631 N. Dodge Grissel, Charles & Mary ca. 1890 Key Front Gable 707 N. Dodge Mott, Frank ca. 1922 C C Am. Four -Square 715 N. Dodge Prizier, Peter & Florence ca. 1927 Key Craftsman 629 N. Governor Vacek Rental House ca. 1895 C Queen Anne 611 N. Johnson Nesvacil, Frank & Frances ca. 1905 Key Gabled -Front & Win Queen Anne 614 N. Johnson Baines House ca. 1847 Key NC Side -Gabled One Story/Greek Rev. 616 N. Johnson Hubbard, Eugene & Myrtle Moved ca. 1925 Key Am. Four-Square/Prairie United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 20 Johnson County County and State # STREET ORIGINALI LONG- TERM OWNER s DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Ke Non -Contributing SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - FORM 617 619 N. Johnson N. Johnson Unnamed house Kepler ,John & Emma ca- 19W ca. 1900 C C fContributingNon-ContributingVERNACULAR Am. Four -Square Pyramidal One Story/Queen Anne 621 N. Johnson Tobin rental house ca. 1925 Key C Craftsman/Front Gable 624 N. Johnson Platzer, Adelbert & So hrona ca. 1910 C C Front Gable 628 N. Johnson Ron ner, Emil ca. 1925 Key C CraftsmanlFront Gable 714 N. Johnson Spevacek, Frank & Agnes ca. 1915 Key NC Am. Four Square 715 N. Johnson Cole, Wilfred & Mary ca. 1927 Key C Am. Four Square 628 N. Lucas Selkirk-Palik House ca. 1900 K Queen Anne 713 N. Lucas Abbott, Frank & Mary ca. 1914 C Side -Gabled, One Sto 510 E. Ronalds Rummelhart, Frank & Clara ca. 1902 Key C Gabled Front & Wing 511 E. Ronalds Schuppert, Edward John & Opal ca. 1912, 1920 C Side -Gabled, One Story 515 E. Ronalds Schuppert, John 1930 C Colonial Revival] Gambrel Cottage 516 E. Ronalds Mott, James & Theresa 1904 C Gabled Front &Wing 518 E. Ronalds Bettag, Ludwig & Elizabeth ca. 1909 C Am. Four -Square 524 E. Ronalds Grimm, Joseph & Agnes ca. 1908 Key NC Am. Four -Square 527 E. Ronalds Unnamed Apt. Building 1972 NC Apt. Building 529 E. Ronalds Unnamed house ca. 1870 C Side -Gabled, Two Story 5W E. Ronalds Bonorden, Herman ca. 1878 Key NC Front -Gabled 604 E. Ronalds Grimm, Leo & Mae ca. 1913 Key Key Am. Four -Square 608 E. Ronalds Carroll, Thomas & Agnes ca. 1928 Key C Craftsman 610 E. Ronalds Mocha rental house ca. 1920 C C Gabled Front & Wing 613 E. Ronalds Denneny, Lawrence ca. 1860 C Gabled Front & Wing 617 E. Ronalds Nesvacil, Frank & Frances ca. 1918 C NC Side -Gabled, Two Story 4 House 618 E. Ronalds Hanley, George & Edith ca. 1923 Key C Am. Four -Square 619 E- Ronalds Lux House ca. 8899 Key Queen Anne 620 E. Ronalds Burger, Robert & Mabel ca. 1925 Key NC Craftsman 629 E. Ronalds Unnamed house Moved 1924 NC C No Style 630 E. Ronalds Unnamed house ca. 1955 NC Ranch 704 E. Ronalds Sulek, Edward & Stella ca. 1910 C NC Queen Anne 712 E. Ronalds Sibemagle-Goss House 1866/ca. 1915 NC NC No Style 713 E. Ronalds Kasper, Ida ca. 1896 C NC Gabled Front & Win Queen Anne 714 E. Ronalds Cerny rental house ca. 1915 C See 712 Front Gabled 719 E. Ronalds Lechty, Frank & Mary Novak ca. 1896 Key Key Gabled Front & Win Queen Anne 724 E. Ronalds Kr¢, James & Catherine ca. 1870 C NC Side -Gabled, One Story 729 E. Ronalds Bock, Joseph & Anna ca. 1910 C C Gabled Front & Wing 730 E. Ronalds Theobald, William & Augusta ca. 1895 C Am. Four -Square/ Colonial Revival United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Broom Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 21 Johnson County County and State # ' STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- TERM OWNER s DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Key Non -Contributing SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS Contnbuting Non -Contributing ARCH. STYLE - VERNACULAR FORM 804 E. Ronalds Gaulocher, Carl & Rose ca. 1900 Key Key Am. Four -Square/ Colonial Revival 809 E. Ronalds Krofta, Joseph & Anna ca. 1915 C NC Front Gabled 813 E. Ronalds Soucek, Anton & Vlasta ca. 1913 Key Front Gabled 814 E. Ronalds Miller, Emil & Albia ca. 1909 Key See 804 Colonial Revival 815 E. Ronalds Vacek rental house ca. 1900 C NC Front Gabled 820 E. Ronalds Windrem, Lee & Mayme ca. 1912 C Key Am. Four -Square 823 E. Ronalds Vacek (Wacek), Frank & Joseph ca. 1895 C NC Gabled Front & Wing 824 E. Ronalds Shimon, Mary ca. 1923 C NC Am. Four-Square/Prairie 830 E. Ronalds Kadlec, John ca. 1913 C Front -Gabled 620 N. Van Buren Ries, Ulmer & Amelia ca. 1923 Key C Craftsman 622 N. Van Buren Katzenmeyer, Joseph & I Josephine ca. 1905 Key C Queen Anne 630 1 N. Van Buren Welch, Maria ca. 1860 Key Side -Gabled, One Sto /Greek Rev. 702 N. Van Buren Urban, Grace & Henry ca. 1918 Key Am. Four -Square 714 N. Van Buren Canon, Margaret ca. 1919 Key C Am. Four -Square 716 N. Van Buren Pudil, George & Sadie ca. 1917 1 Key I Am. Four -Square Brown Street Historic District before Ronalds Street Extension — Contributing and Non -Contributing Resource Status # STREET DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS 215 E. Brown 1916 C C 222 E. Brown 19W C 228 E. Brown 19M C 304 E. Brown 1909 C N 311 E. Brown 1893 C 3141 E. Brown 1892 C N 315 E. Brown IB96 C 318 E. Brown 1905 C N 323 E. Brown 1890 C N 325 E. Brown 1896 C C 328 E. Brown 1892 C C 329 E. Brown 1851 C 401 E. Brown 1916 C N 4041 E. Brown 1916 C 407 E. Brown 1917 C C 409 E. Brown 1903 C C 414-418 E. Broom 1866 C N 415 E. Brown 18% C 417 E. Brown ca. 1896 C C 422 E. Brown 1916 C 427 E. Brown 1921 C 430 E. Brown 1913 C 431 E. Brown 1920 C C United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 22 Johnson County County and State # STREET DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS 502 E. Brown 1899 C 508 E. Brown 1882 C 509 E. Brown ca. 1895 C N 510 E. Brown 1938 C 514 E. Brown 1920 C C 519 E. Brown 1890 C N 520 E. Brown ca. 1905 1 C C 523 E. Brown 1902 C C 528 E. Brown ca.1887 C C 529 E.Brown 1893 C C 530 E. Brown 1901 C N 603 E. Brown 1910 C 609 E. Brown 1921 C 617 E. Brown 1915 C N 618 E. Brown 1922 C C 619 E. Brown 1914 C C 621 E. Brown 1922 C 629 E. 1922 C C 632 -Brown E. Brown 1912 C 707 E. Brown 1949 C 713 E_ Brown ca. 1912 C C 714 E. Brown 1922 C C 717 E. Brown ca. 1912 C C 721 E. Brown 1910 C C 727 E. Brown 190o C 728-730 E. Brown 1979 NC 801 E. Brown 1963 NC 811 E. Brown 1922 C N 815 E. Brown ca. 1925 C 827 E. Brown ca. 1916 C C (garage) N barn B31 E. Brown 1916 C 721 N. Linn 1924 C N 725 N. Linn 1891 C 729 N. Linn 1896 C C 730 N. Linn 1891 C 810 N. Linn 1899 C N 811 N. Linn 19W C 814 N. Linn 1922 C 815 N. Linn 1915 1 C 817 N. Linn 1582 C 818 N. Linn 1916 C 819 N. Linn 1922 C N (shared w/ 821 E. Brown 821 N. Linn 1912 C 11 Bella Vista Dr. ca. 1920 C 2 Bella Vista Dr. 1923 C 4 Bella Vista Dr. ca. 1921 C 5 Bella Vista Dr. 1924 C 6 Bella Vista Dr. 1912 C 8 Bella Vista Dr. 1922 C N 1or Bella Vista Dr. 1910 C C United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Summary: Page 23 Johnson County County and State # STREET DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS 12 Bella Vista Dr. 1911 C C 715 N. Gilbert ca.1900 C C 718 N. Gilbert 1891 C 817 N. Gilbert 1934 C 821 N. Gilbert 1901 C 8241 N. Gilbert 1924 C N. Gilbert ca. 1900 C N. Gilbert 1885/moved ca.1922 NC C k720 N. Van Buren 1913 C N. Van Buren 1922 C C N. Van Buren 1904 C N 730 N. Van Buren 1904 C C 800 N. Van Buren 1889 C N (garage) C barn 718 N.Johnson 1920 C 719 N.Johnson 1962 NC 810 N.Johnson 1918 C 815 N.Johnson 1918 C N 821 N.Johnson 1956 NC 825 N.Johnson 1925 C 8331 N.Johnson 1923 C C 834 N.Johnson 1854 C N 900 N.Johnson 1915 C 707 N. Dodge ca.1900 C 720 N.Dodge 1930 C 724 N. Dodge 1929 C 727 N.Dodge 1923 C C 8021 N. Dodge 1875 C 722 N. Lucas 1865 C N 727 N. Lucas 1875 C C 200 to 800 Blocks E. Brown Street C (Structure) In summary, the Ronalds Street extension is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential areas at the end of the 19t`' century and the beginning of the 20th century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. Ronalds Street's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Ronalds Street extension represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with business and professional leaders living next door to middle income and working class families. Individuals who resided in this neighborhood highlight several important themes in the city's United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 24 Johnson County County and State history in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Primary among these were the growing prosperity and social mobility of Iowa City's Bohemian -American community and the growth in importance of the State University of Iowa. The construction of new houses, the brisk rental of existing houses, and the infill construction pattern that produced an extremely dense residential district testify to the neighborhood's significance. Under Criterion C the Ronalds Street extension is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. From modest Bohemian cottages to pattern book houses and elaborate multi -story mansions, Ronalds Street reflected the architectural character and best residential building practices of the period. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Ronalds Street extension its distinct neighborhood identity and significance. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 25 Johnson County County and State 9. Major Bibliographical References: 117 House Designs ofthe Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1992. (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon - Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923). Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. [Publisher unknown] 1917. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa: The Huebinger Survey & Map Publishing Co., 1900. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: J. J. Novak, 1889. Aurner, Clarence Ray. Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2. Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912. Baxter, Elaine. Historic Structure Inventory, North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa. Institute of Urban and Regional Research, 1977. Bercovici, Konrad. On New Shores. New York: The Century Co., 1925. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897— 1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 —1930, November, 2003. The Census of Iowa for the years 1856, 1873, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895, 1905, 1915, and 1925 as printed by various State Printers. Census of the United States for 1850 to 2000. City Directories of Iowa City, Iowa. Multiple years. Combination Atlas and Map of Johnson County, Iowa. Geneva, Illinois: Thompson & Everts, 1870. Drury, John. This is Johnson County, Iowa. Chicago: The Loree Company, 1955. Ellis, Edwin Charles. "Certain Stylistic Trends in Architecture in Iowa City." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1947. Gebhard, David, and Gerald Mansheim. Buildings of Iowa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-264. Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870 — 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1862. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc., ca. 1973, 1883. Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. (New York: The Sanborn Map Company and the Sanborn and Perris Map Company, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 26 Johnson County County and State 1874, 1879, 1883, 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970). "Iowa City, Iowa", The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January 1898). Iowa City, Iowa, Souvenir and Annual for 1881-82. Iowa City, Iowa: Hoover, Kneedler & Faust, 1882. Iowa City and Her Business Men; Iowa's Most Enterprising City. Iowa City, Iowa: Moler's Printery, [Date Unknown]. Iowa City, Iowa, a City of Homes. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Commercial Club, 1914. Iowa Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration. Johnson County History. Iowa City, Iowa: Johnson County Superintendent of Schools, sponsor, 1941. Jacobsen, James. "North Side Neighborhood, Iowa City, Iowa". Draft National Register of Historic Places nomination prepared for Iowa City, Office of Planning and Program Development, Iowa City, Iowa, 1981. Keyes, Margaret N. Nineteenth Century Home Architecture in Iowa City. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1966. Lafore, Laurence Davis. American Classic. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1975. McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Magnuson, Linda Westcott. "Sheets and Company, an Iowa City Builder/Architect Firm, 1870-1905." Masters thesis, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1980. Mansheim, Gerald. Iowa City: An Illustrated History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company, 1989. Map of Iowa City, Iowa, with Description of Resources and Natural Resources and Advantages. Des Moines, Iowa: The Iowa Publishing Co., 1910. Nash, Jan Olive. "Survey and Evaluation of the Portion of the Original Town Plat of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa". (contains proposed MPDF amendment for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa") Draft report prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, April 1997. Petersen, William John. "Iowa City— Then and Now." The Palimpsest, Vol. 48, No. 2 (February 1967). Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa Counties, Iowa. Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893. Ruger, A. "Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa." Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1868. "Semi -Centennial Edition." Iowa City Republican, October 20, 1890. Shambaugh, Benjamin F. Iowa City: A Contribution to the Early History of Iowa. M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, Published by State Historical Society of Iowa, 1893. Shank, Wesley I. Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, Nevada, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Slonneger, Marybeth. Small But Ours. Iowa City, Iowa: By Hand Press, 1999. Stevenson, Katherine Cole and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1986. Page 27 Johnson County County and State Svendsen, Marlys. "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS." National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1992; listed in the National Register of Historic Places, 1994. Svendsen, Marlys. "Survey and Evaluation of the Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III)" and ''Architectural and Historical Resources of the Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III), 1855-194Y National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 2000; not submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Svendsen, Marlys. "Survey and Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phase II Area" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845—1945,° (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS") prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999; listed in the National Register of Historic Places, 2000. Weber, Irving. Irving Weber's Iowa City— Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1976, 1979; 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1990. United States Department of the interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Page 28 Johnson County County and State The amended section of the Ronalds Street Extension of the Brown Street Historic District within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Beginning in Block 33 of the Original Town Plat at the intersection of east side of North Van Buren Street and the south side of the alley; thence south along the east side of North Van Buren Street to the north side of the alley in Block 34; thence east approximately 260 feet to the rear property line of the house adjacent to the south side of the alley facing North Johnson Street (611 North Johnson Street); thence south along said line approximately 55 feet; thence west across North Johnson Street along the south property line of the house located on the north 55 feet of Lot 5 of Block 31 (614 North Johnson Street) to the west line of Lot 7; thence north to the north edge of the alley in Block 31; thence east to the west property line of the house in the south half of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 10 (621 North Governor Street); thence north along the west property line to the north property line of said house; thence east to the west side of North Governor Street; thence north along the west side of North Governor Street to the south side of the alley in Block 12; thence west along the south side of the alley through Block 12, Block 32, and Block 33 to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The extended boundary of the Brown Street Historic District has been increased to include a four block section of Ronalds Street that contains residential buildings of similar scale and materials with a common period of development to that of the original Brown Street Historic District. The north edge of the Ronalds Street extension is adjacent to the original Brown Street Historic District. The east boundary of the Ronalds Street extension is formed by a T-intersection along North Governor Street. Oakland Cemetery extends along the east side of Governor Street beyond the District. The areas to the south and west of the Ronalds Street extension consist of similar residential areas in terms of building type, material, scale, and age but without the high level of physical integrity found within the Ronalds Street extension and are therefore excluded. United States Department of the interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Photographs Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 29 Johnson County County and State Photograph Key for Brown Street Historic District - Ronalds Street Extension: (See Photo Map, page 31) Shelley McCafferty and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Barnes House, 614 N. Johnson Street, looking east 2. Maria Welch House, 630 N. Van Buren Street, looking east 3. Frank & Mary Lechty House, 719 E. Ronalds Street, looking south 4. Selkirk-Palik House, 628 N. Lucas Street, looking south southeast 5. Emil & Albia Miller House, 814 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 6. Peter & Florence Prizler House, 715 N. Dodge Street, looking northwest 7. Tobin Rental House, 621 N. Johnson Street, looking southwest 8. Herman Bonorden House, 530 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 9. Lux House, 619 E. Ronalds Street, looking south 10. Joseph & Josephine Katzenmeyer House, 622 N. Van Buren Street, looking east 11. Wilfred & Mary Cole House, 715 N. Johnson Street, looking west 12. Leo & Mae Grimm House, 604 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 13. Carl & Rose Gaulocher House, 804 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 14. Grace & Henry Urban House, 702 E. Ronalds Street, looking northeast 15. John Kadlec House, 830 E. Ronalds Street, looking northwest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 30 Johnson County County and State Property Owners within the Brown Street Historic District - Ronalds Street Extension # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYER(S) 630 N. Dodge Joan E. Burke & Adam Burke 280912th Ave.1f203 Rock Island IL 61201 631 N. Dodge David L. Tingwald 631 N. Dodge. St. Iowa City IA 52245 707 N. Dodge Craig A. Kletzdng & Jeanette S. Welch 707 N. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52245 715 N. Dodge Jennifer L. Glanville 715 N. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52245 629 N. Governor John T. Nothnagle III 629 N. Governor St. Iowa City IA 52245 611 N. Johnson Doris M. Houser 3580 Vista Park Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 614 N. Johnson Roger R. & Baerbel R. Anderson 1310 Cedar St. Iowa City IA 52245 616 N. Johnson Eugene F. & Erin K Fisher 3485 G Richard Cir. SW Iowa City IA 52240 617 N. Johnson Debra L. Kendall 2585 Bluffwood Ln. Iowa City IA 52245 619 N. Johnson Mark Alan Hofikamp PO Box 3284 Iowa City IA 52244 621 N. Johnson Timothy Walker 621 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 624 N. Johnson John H. & Joy L. Kerr 624 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 628 N. Johnson Loren E. & Terri R. Deetz 628 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 714 N. Johnson Jacquiline M. B. Briggs & Eric Gidal 714 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 7151 N. Johnson Ira John III & Elizabeth A. Rapson 715 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 628 N. Lucas John W. Palik 628 N. Lucas St. Iowa City IA 52245 713 N. Lucas Jeffrey S. & Carol A. Edberg 2041 Rochester Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 510 E. Ronalds Todd A. Dvorak & Margaret C. Klawder 510 Ronalds St. lovra City IA 52245 511 E. Ronalds Christopher E. & Amy L. Kahle 511 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 515 E. Ronalds Jay Nelson 811 Orchard St. Iowa City IA 52246 516 E. Ronalds James J. Dooley 516 Ronalds St. lowa City IA 52245 5181 E. Ronalds Mary E. Sid -Jackson 15 Wakefield Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 524 E. Ronalds Karl & Elizabeth Kahler 524 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 527 E. Ronalds James E. & Victoria L. Struzynski Olson 2446 260th St. Tiffin IA 52340 529 E. Ronalds James Reed Finney 5 NE 139th Ave. Portland OR 97230 530 E. Ronalds Laura GotkaMtz & Michel Gobat 530 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 604 E. Ronalds Kevin S. & Helen S. Burford 604 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 608 E. Ronalds Steven C. Bernhardt 27 Glendale Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 610 E. Ronalds Patricia A. Farrant & Winifred L. Farrant 1050 Woodlawn Ave. Iowa City IA 52245 613 E. Ronalds Donna O'Brien 613 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 617 E. Ronalds Margaret F. Bauserman 617 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 618 E. Ronalds Linda A. McGuire & Anne G. Burnside 618 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 619 E. Ronalds Ronald F. & Lydia Spagnolo et all 12232 S. 70th Ave. Palos Heights IL 60463 620 E. Ronalds Ryan A. & Jessica E. Maas 620 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 629 E. Ronalds Cory L. Raitt 629 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 630 E. Ronalds John D. & Mary M. Dougherty 718 Oakland Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 704 E. Ronalds Richard W. Finley 704 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 712 E. Ronalds Ryan C. Braun 712 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 7131 E. Ronalds Thomas M. & Pam Miller 112 33rd Ave. SW Cedar Rapids IA 52404 714 E. Ronalds James A. Cramer & Elizabeth Miller 714 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 719 E. Ronalds Richard M. & Barbara J. Feeney 2725 Linden Rd. Iowa City IA 52245 724 E. Ronalds Kent H. Gregg 1208 S. Gilbert Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 729 E. Ronalds Johanna Schoen & Elizabeth D. Heineman 729 Ronalds St. Imes City IA 52245 730 E. Ronalds Martha M. Ribble Milani 730 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 804 E. Ronalds Jack A. Klapper & Elizabeth F. Ford 804 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Name of Property Page 31 Johnson County County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYERS, 809 E. Ronalds James R. & Carty M. Netolicky 809 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 813 E. Ronalds Wilma D. IOnney 813 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 814 E. Ronalds Patti A. Marolf 223011th Ave. Marion IA 52302 815 E. Ronalds Lyneda A. Masana 530 Oakwood Dr. Hamilton OH 45013 820 E. Ronalds Steve Anderson & Julie Myers 820 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 1 52245 823 E. Ronalds Lucas R. Davisson 823 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 824 E. Ronalds Edwin P. & Dorothy Dlouhy 824 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 830 E. Ronalds Eric M. & Dalayne C. Williamson 830 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 620 N. Van Buren Joyce A. Daniels 622 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52240 622 N. Van Buren Joyce A. Daniels 622 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52240 630 N. Van Buren Wayne S. & Ruth E. Osborn 630 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 702 N. Van Buren Craig A. & Cynthia L. Abraham 2190 Hwy 6 NW Oxford IA 62322 714 N. Van Buren Julie C. & Chris W. Schmidt 4710 Sierra Vista Rd. Alamosa CO 81101 7161 N. Van Buren Michael T. & Kelley A. McLaughlin 614 Pine Ridge Rd. 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Linn Streets NIA L] not for publication city or town Iowa City N/A L] vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this Lx ] nomination [) request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property t xj meets Lj does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant L] nationally L] statewide Lx] locally. (Lj see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying officialMtle Date or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property L] meets [ ] does not meet the National Register criteria. (Lj See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying officialfTitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau certify that the property is: Signature entered in the National Register. [j See continuation sheet. L 1 determined eligible for the National Register. Lj See continuation sheet. L] determined not eligible for the National Register. L] removed from the National Register. Lj other, (explain:) the Keeper of Action Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, IA County and State Ownership of Property Category of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) L] private L] building(s) L] public -local [X] district L] public -State L] site L] public -Federal L] structure L] object Name of related multiple property listing Enter "N/K if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa umber of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing 111 27 buildings sites structures objects 111 28 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings COMMERCE/TRADE/Restaurant DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings COMMERCE/TRADE/Specialty Store COMMERCEITRADE/Restaurant 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne MID-19r" CENTURY/Greek Revival LATE 19" & 20'h CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival foundation STONE/Limestone walls WOOD/Weatherboard WOOD/Shingle roof ASPHALT other see continuation sheet Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, IA County and State Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark'Y' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) [X] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. L] B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [X] C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. L] D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark "x' in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: L] A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. L] C a birthplace or grave. L D a cemetery. L] E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. L] F a commemorative property. Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Period of Significance 1850-1954 Significant Dates N/A Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A L] G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. Carpenter O.H. Narrative Statement of Significance Sheets & Freyder (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9 Maior Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: L] preliminary determination of individual listing [X ] State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested L] Other State agency L] previously listed in the National Register L] Federal agency [_] previously determined eligible by the National [X] Local government Register L] University L] designated a National Historic Landmark L] Other L] recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: L] recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 22 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1f11 51 1612121217101 141611131910101 Zone Easting Northing 30151 f612121510101 [41611131217101 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 2 j1j 51 j612121416101 Zone Easting 4j1j 51 f612121216101 II See continuation sheet [41611131617101 Northing [41611131410101 11. Form Prepared By name/title Marlys A. Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler Inc. organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date January, 2004 street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state WI zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Propertv Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number city or town telephone state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20501 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 1 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 7. Description Architectural Classification: (continued) LATE VICTORIAN/ITALIANATE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman OTHER Materials: (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: BRICK walls: STUCCO roof: METAL United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 2 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State 7. Narrative Descrintion: The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is an irregular shaped neighborhood that begins approximately three blocks north of the downtown and the east campus of the University of Iowa (historically referred to as the State University of Iowa or SUI in this nomination) and extends north approximately five blocks along N. Gilbert and N. Linn streets from E. Market and E. Bloomington streets, respectively, to Fairchild and E. Ronalds streets, respectively. District boundaries along the west and east edges generally extend only one or two lots west of Linn Street and east of Gilbert Street depending on the condition of buildings and the presence of parking lots or vacant parcels. Properties facing the intersecting streets of E. Davenport Street, E. Fairchild Street, and E. Church Street are also included within the District. The District comprises a portion of the commercial and residential section of Iowa City known historically and today as the "North Side." All of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is contained within the Original Town Plat of Iowa City that was laid out in 1839 when the town was established as the territorial capital of Iowa Territory. Streets in the District were laid out with standard 80-foot widths with east -west alleys measuring 20 feet. Blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet with eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the North Side residential blocks through the years saw numerous instances of subdividing of lots into smaller building parcels with a handful of full size lots retained intact for larger buildings. Unlike most of the North Side, the north -south routes of both Gilbert and Linn streets had the primary fagades of buildings facing these streets rather than the intersecting east -west streets. Street paving within the District is a mix of brick and asphalt. N. Linn Street, E. Davenport Street, and E. Fairchild Street are paved in brick with 12- inch limestone curbing along abutting blocks. The balance of the District has concrete curbing and asphalt paving. All streets in the District carry two-way traffic with parallel parking on alternating sides of the streets on a daily basis. The terrain of the District is generally flat with a gradual upward slope from south to north of approximately 35 feet over five blocks with the highest point in the District near the intersection of Ronalds and Linn streets. Houses throughout the District are sited level with the street or on slight upgrades with no major retaining walls present. Setback of houses varies markedly throughout the District with older buildings generally set closer to the street. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak, ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings within private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features within the District and no city parks or playgrounds. The nearest municipal parks are City Park located adjacent to the Iowa River and N. Dubuque Street approximately a mile northwest of the District and Happy Hollow Park located a half - mile northeast of the District along Brown Street between Lucas and Governor streets. The historic building stock in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District includes single-family dwellings that date from the 1850s through the 1930s and secondary structures erected from the late 19'h century through the 1940s. Approximately 42 percent of the 103 buildings originally constructed as single-family dwellings, double -houses, or apartment houses (primary buildings) are significant individually or key contributing structures. Another 53 percent qualify as contributing structures within the District but are not individually significant. A total of 10 primary buildings or 9 percent are non-contributing due to their date of construction or significant alterations. The District contains 40 secondary buildings originally constructed as garages, carriage houses, or barns. Of these, 55 percent are considered key or contributing and the remaining 45 percent have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or date of construction. The dense residential blocks in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District contain a mix of small, moderate and large-scale houses constructed over a period of a nearly a century. Though the platting of lots favored construction of primary fapades 'Email interview with Terry Robinson, Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City re: species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 3 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State fronting on east -west streets, historic factors strengthened the importance of both Gilbert and Linn streets. During the early years the route of the Military Road along N. Gilbert Street drew houses to this corridor. In another case, the brick paving that took place along N. Linn Street at the turn of the 20'h century drew development to this route. Paving of Linn Street was done as part of an effort to provide ready access between North Side churches and local cemeteries. Whatever the reasons, the paved street prompted houses built after the paving to face Linn Street. Corner lots tended to have designs with prominent facades facing both directions and because the east and west edges of the District extend several houses deep along intersecting streets, a number of houses face these streets as well. Building parcels located along Gilbert and Linn streets are generally quite shallow while those facing Bloomington, Davenport, Fairchild, and Church streets are deep except for corner lots where rear portions have been divided to provide housing sites facing onto Gilbert and Linn streets. The District's one, two, and two -and -half -story -houses are constructed of stone, brick, wood, and stucco with frame structures being the most popular. Both dressed and ashlar stone was used for two of the neighborhood's earliest Greek Revival residences as well as foundations on most 191h century houses. Locally manufactured brick was used for several Italianate Style houses while pressed brick was incorporated into foundations and decorative porch pedestals in later dwellings. Frame houses dating from the Civil War on included a range of narrow, medium and wide width clapboard styles, and both decorative and square -cut shingles. The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District exhibits a variety of late 19rh and early 20rh century architectural styles including good examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School style houses. For earlier houses in the District, it is common to see eclectic combinations of these styles. Many of the houses are also examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City during that period. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District include the Side -Gable — both one-story and two-story or khouse forms, the Front -Gable, the Gabled Front and Wing, the American Four -Square (most popular), and the Gambrel Cottage. Greek Revival influenced houses in the District display symmetrical facades with prominent entrances surrounded by flat transoms and rectangular sidelights. Italianate Style houses most often appear in the Front -Gable form with prominent decorative brackets lining the eaves and ornamented window hoods and porches. More than 20 houses display design features from the Queen Anne Style. These houses have asymmetrical facades, decorative scroll -cut and turned trim, and varied shingle detailing used on the main body of the house as well as porches and gabled dormers. An important design element that was rarely built on Queen Anne Style houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District or has been lost through attrition is the tower or turret. After the turn of the 20rh century, many of the largest houses built in the District were built in the Colonial Revival Style incorporating classical design motifs into their facades, varied window forms, sweeping verandas, and in several cases, their carriage houses. By World War I, houses were being constructed that favored the more rectilinear design elements of the Craftsman and Prairie School styles. Paired, grouped, or banded windows appeared with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double -hung windows in Craftsman Style houses while exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee -brace brackets lined cornices and porch roofs. Isolated examples of the Prairie School Style also appear in the District. These houses contained hipped roofs with lower pitches, horizontal window groupings, and other design features intended to emphasize the horizontal look of the buildings. The vernacular housing that appeared during the ten decades that the District was under development included modest one and one -and -half -story cottages based on both the Front -Gable and Side -Gable forms during the earliest years. A later generation built residences in the Two -Story Side -Gable or I -House form. This form continued to appear in the years leading up to the turn of the 20'h century along with even larger Gabled Front and Wing houses. Both forms are scattered throughout the District. After 1900 the most common form used for vernacular housing in the District was the American Four -Square, which could be sized to fit virtually any size lot in the District. Nearly 30 Four -Squares were built by 1930, many with Craftsman or Colonial Revival detailing. At least one example of a Gambrel Cottage was also built after 1900. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Some of the best examples of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District are listed below. Residential Architectural Styles • Greek Revival: Jacob Wentz House, 219 N. Gilbert St. (NRHP, Photo #1, ca. 1850) Henry C. Nicking House, 410 E. Market St. (NRHP, Photo #2, 1854) • Italianate: Conrad & Anna Graff House, 319 E. Bloomington St. (Photo #3, 1872) Gustave Strub House, 309 E. Church St. (Photo #4, ca. 1865) • Queen Anne: Anna Saunders House, 217 E. Davenport St. (ca. 1895) John & Alice Kessler House, 222 E. Davenport St. (ca. 1895) Schmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild St. (Photo #5, 1895) John Thomas McClintock House, 230 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1895) Joseph & Mary Chudacek House, 210 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #6, 1900) Harry & Goldie Miller House, 418 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #7, ca. 1896) Mathilda Hotz House, 522 N. Linn St. (Photo #8, ca. 1895) Mary McKinley House, 526 N. Linn St. (Photo #9, ca. 1895) • Colonial Revival. Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House, 332 E. Davenport St. (NRHP, Photo #10, 1918) Frank & Anna Larkin House, 416 N. Linn St. (Photo #11, 1905) John & Barbara Koza House, 619 N. Linn St. (Photo #12, 1906) • Craftsman: William & Anna Hoffelder House, 322 E. Bloomington St. (Photo #13, 1916) Joseph & Mary Brumm House, 225 E. Church St. (1923) George & Pearl Falk House, 225 E. Davenport St. (Photo #14, 1918) John & Ida Yokum House and Garage, 402 E. Davenport St. (Photo #15, 1925) William and Mayme Fryhauf House, 419 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #16, 1914) Eva Slezak House, 311 N. Linn St. (ca. 1915) • Prairie School: Lavinia & Martin Bridenstine House, 404 E. Davenport Street (Photo #17, 1924) Vernacular House Forms • Front -Gable: Frederick & Louisa Rothweilder House, 310 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1875) • Side -Gable Roof One Story: Unnamed house, 316 E. Church St., (Photo #18, ca. 1870) Adam Ohnhaus House, 321-323 E. Davenport St. (1870) • Side -Gable Roof Two Story/1-House: Maden House, 312 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1912) • Gabled Front & Wing: Cerny House, 214 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1899) Edward & Edna Miller House, 311 N. Gilbert St., (1908) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 & 8 Page 5 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State American Four -Square: [Note: most examples have Colonial Revival, Craftsman, or Prairie School attributes] Henrietta & George Freyder House, 320 E. Davenport St. (1907) G. Adolph & Dorothy Brenner House, 309 E. Fairchild St. (Photo #19, ca. 1908) Edward Ebert House, 311 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1898) Louis F. Cerny House, 317 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1908) Albert Husa, Jr. House, 324 E. Fairchild St. (1916) Joseph & Theresa Stach House, 325 N. Gilbert St. (1907) Nancy Graham House, 413 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #20, 1919) William & Emma McRoberts House, 313 N. Linn St. (ca. 1916) Lemmue[ Hunter House, 411 N. Linn St. (ca. 1906) William & Julia Schneider House, 514 N. Linn St. (Photo #21, 1902) Gambrel Cottage: William & Susan Morrison House, 314 E. Fairchild St. (Photo #22, ca. 1908) The condition of houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District ranges from fair to excellent. A substantial number of dwellings continue as single-family homes with subdivision into duplexes or apartments most common in the blocks closest to the University of Iowa east campus. The most likely alteration to houses in the District is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. An analysis completed by the staff of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission shows that approximately 36 percent of the primary buildings in the District have this alteration. Other changes include the removal, alteration, or enclosure of porches with screening or fixed walls, the modification or addition of entrances, the addition of fire escapes in multiple -family buildings, and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. Four single-family houses were constructed as infill buildings during the 1950s while a wave of North Side apartment building construction that took place from 1960 through the mid-1980s, saw three apartment buildings constructed in the District. 8. Statement of Significance: General: The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance under the category "Community Planning and Development." The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is associated with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Much of this population growth was associated with the expansion of the State University of Iowa and its hospitals located several blocks south of the District. Other residential development paralleled expansion of the city's commercial district with some of the District's most elaborate residences erected by downtown business owners. Residential building stock in the District is related to two historic contexts previously developed in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" — the "Railroad Era, 1856-1900" and "Town and Gown Era, 1900-1940," Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door or across the street from working class families. The N. Gilbert Street and N. Linn Street neighborhood also became one of the sections of the North Side to play host to socially mobile German and Bohemian -American families, groups that grew as a result of continued immigration from Germany and Bohemia as well as settlement patterns within Johnson County immediately before and after 1900. Under Criterion C the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. The District also spotlights the work of one of Iowa City's most prolific and important residential architects, Orville H. Carpenter, with at least eight houses identified as his commissions in the District. Together the District's buildings tell the story of how national architectural styles and vernacular building forms were adapted through local building practices immediately before and after the turn of the 20'h century. Although a number of individual properties in the district are associated with important local business leaders and educators, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the District. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. Three properties within the District are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Jacob Wentz House (219 N. Gilbert Street), the Henry C. Nicking House (410 E. Market Street), and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House (332 E. Davenport Street). The first two properties each contain one contributing resource and the last property contains two contributing resources. The period of significance for this locally significant historic district extends from 1850 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest contributing resource and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for NRHP eligibility. North Side Historical Survey Recommendations: The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northern tiers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1981 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts — one commercial properties and one residential properties — were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the National Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1984 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: • Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) • Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase 1) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) • Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase II) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) • Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) • Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase 11 MPD have been listed on the NRHP. In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Iowa City. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, architectural significance, and/or historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa City neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 7 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca. 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: Jefferson Street Historic District — This four -block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches, residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State University of Iowa Medical School and the University Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, reVion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19`h and early 20 century institutional and residential building styles. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District — This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north -south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick -paved course of Linn Street and the north -south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa City's most important turn of the century architects, O.H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximity to employment generators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. Brown Street Historic District and Ronalds Street Extension — The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa City's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub -themes; its affiliation with the growth of the State University of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four -block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. North Clinton Street Historic Street — This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa City's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19'h and early 20`h centuries. In addition the houses are well -executed and well-preserved examples of the architectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 21s` century, the area adjoins the State University of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternity houses and rooming houses. A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preserved, but scattered, collection of University of Iowa fraternity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian -American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District included in this nomination, they include the Jefferson Street Historic District and the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street section. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 8 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State The Historical and Architectural Development of the N. Gilbert Street and N. Linn Street Neighborhood.' Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its river city population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is located in the northwest corner of the Original Town Plat. This plat, which appears on the following page with the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and reserves set aside by the territorial legislators for churches and a school. Primary access into the capital city from the north was via Territorial Road along N. Gilbert Street. The first sections of the new city to be developed were near Capitol Square with the earliest commercial blocks located along Clinton and Washington streets. This area and the blocks to the east and south would become Iowa City's central business district. Within twenty years of Iowa City's founding, a second commercial and industrial district began to appear several blocks north of the downtown along a stretch Market Street between Linn and Gilbert streets. The area, which became known as the "North Side," eventually contained three breweries (one building extant), a hotel, grocery stores, meat markets, and a number of small retail establishments. In the years before and after the Civil War, a residential neighborhood grew up in the blocks surrounding the North Side commercial area. In the decades leading up to the turn of the 201" century, the area saw a second wave of development associated with general population increases in the Third Ward and growth directly associated with the expansion of the State University of Iowa. The residential blocks that extend along N. Linn and N. Gilbert streets and the intersecting routes of Bloomington, Davenport, Fairchild, and Church streets that have the most physical integrity at the turn of the 21 " century form the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. One of the earliest views of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is contained in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City that appears on page 10. A prominent landmark in this view is Old Capitol, the former territorial capitol located at the center of Capitol Square, what is today part of the University of Iowa and the Pentacrest Historic District (NRHP). The North Side commercial area shown here stretching along E. Market Street shows the collection of breweries and commercial enterprises that had become well established south of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District by the end of the Civil War. Other landmarks visible here include the spires of churches located along Jefferson Street. The bird's eye view depicts the blocks in the District containing one and two-story houses scattered among vacant lots with the blocks north of Davenport Street the most sparsely developed. The oldest houses to survive in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District are located along or near the major access route into the capital city — Military or Territorial Road along N. Gilbert Street. The two oldest dwellings in the District, the Jacob Wentz House and the Henry Nicking House, are both highlighted above. The Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #1) was constructed in ca. 1850 and is representative of the many vernacular stone houses constructed in Iowa City during the decades prior to the Civil War. Wentz, a farmer and landowner, had the house constructed in a simple, two-story side -gable form with coursed rubble stone walls and dressed stone lintels for the openings. The other stone house in the District was built in a similar fashion in 1854 for Henry Nicking, a barber. The stone for one or both houses may have been quarried about a half -mile away at an important quarry that was located along the Iowa River at the west ends of Ronalds and Church streets_ It was labeled on the 1839 Original Town Plat map (see page 9) as simply "quarry" and designated as the "public quarry" on an 1854 map,3 Other quarries were located upstream along the river and what is now N. Dubuque Street. There are at least a dozen extant houses of similar stone construction scattered throughout Iowa City including another North Side house previously listed on the National Register — the Schindhelm-brews House constructed in ca. 1855 at 410 N. Lucas Street. The use of stone for this pair of early houses in 2Portions of this section are taken from "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," listed in 2000. Additional material was taken from a second amendment to the MPS prepared in 1997 titled "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa, 1839 - ca. 1910" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The first two documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen and the third by Jan Olive Nash. 31owa City and Its Environs, drawn by J.H. Millar, Byran & Millar, Guthrie County, Iowa, 1854. 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I, I I LILtl.2.LL � I OUT T.,IT �{ rr IIOY• + STREET NO i• s a • .+ a e � '$ s . + 5�� 'i ` �RW �AYY fi!'� M Y ©iIYY - e de ed� ei ee MIN I a Il a _ ►]A �ibi© �P p.liy c© Gi o �iAY OOOO gig `` ORAL Op ON I RIM OAA� oAtiO ��O fiii�� y1:Ti UJI r ��A fiYfiY E�iiiil �, o o(ii.. oO©O • Q ■il ■n,7� • ■.n.� .v. �.�_—.._c.a= may._=: �..�� -. �,.�_ .`;_�, No r, Kr 0 o wide eerie ©ed rl�rti� IN � o®©® rII� ma■ �� n United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Population figures for Iowa City as a whole and the Third Ward, which included the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District, demonstrate periods of growth and decline in the North Side. A population table summarizing state and federal census figures appears on page 11. Prior to 1870 Iowa City's population was recorded as a single, citywide number. Population stood at 1,250 in 1850 when the first residents were building homes in the North Side and by 1860 when the two houses just mentioned were in place, it had grown dramatically to 5,214. This quadrupling of population occurred despite the removal of the state capital to Des Moines. Positive factors outweighing this event were the establishment of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and the arrival of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad in the mid-1850s. Declines in population growth during the early 1860s reflected losses due to the dislocation caused by the Civil War and temporary immigration decreases. from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 1868 % (from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) N By the mid-1860s census figures show that Iowa City's population was already beginning to recover. Growth resumed at a more moderate pace than the previous decade, reaching 5,914 by 1870. This was also the first census to record the geographic dispersal of Iowa City's population. It showed 2,295 people residing in the Third Ward, a section of the city that extended from N. Linn Street on the west to east of Reno Street on the east and from Washington Street on the south to Brown Street on the north. Five years later in 1875 the city's population rose to 6,371 while numbers in the Third Ward declined slightly to 2,026. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 11 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Population for Iowa Ci & Third Ward Year Iowa City Third Ward 1850 1,250 - 1854 2,570 - 1860 5,214 - 1863 4,417 - 1865 5,417 - 1867 6,418 - 1869 6,583 - 1870 5,914 2,295 1873 6,454 2,026 1875 6,371 2,026 1880 7,123 - 1885 6,748 1,842 1890 7,016 1,755 1895 7,526 1475 1900 7,987 1905 8,497 - 1910 10,091 1,599 1915 12,033 1,914 1920 11,267 1,721 1930 15,340 - 1940 17,182 1,870 1950 27,212 2,101 1960 33,443 - 1970 46,850 1980 50,508 1990 59,735 2000 62,220 A dozen houses survive from the 1860s and early 1870s in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District including five clustered along E. Church Street. Houses from these years range from small frame dwellings such as the simple one-story house at 316 E. Church Street (Photo #18, contributing) built in ca. 1870 and the slightly larger frame house built by Frank and Rose Schmidt next door at 318 E. Church Street (contributing) at about the same time to more substantial brick houses such as the Gustave Strub House built in ca. 1865 across the street at 309 E. Church Street (Photo #4, contributing). Occupants of the Church Street houses during these years included a pottery manufacturer, a stonecutter, several laborers, and a carriage painter. The contrast seen in size, material, and design reflected the diverse socioeconomic make-up of the neighborhood during this period. The diversity seen here and elsewhere in the District during these years resulted in part from the presence of three operating breweries in the North Side. Before the Civil War the pioneer brewers who established operations along Market Street between Dubuque and Gilbert Streets recognized the transportation advantage offered by N. Linn and N. Gilbert streets. The Englert or City Brewery (non -extant) was established on the south side of E. Market Street in 1853. The Union Brewery (extant, NRHP) was built at the southwest corner of Market Street and N. Linn Streets in 1856. The Great Western Brewery, later known as the Dostal Brewery (non -extant), was built on the north side of Market Street between N. Linn Street and N. Gilbert Street opposite the City Brewery in 1857. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 12 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State These three breweries prospered in the years leading up to national prohibition in 1916 with early buildings periodically expanded, razed, burned, and rebuilt. Their Market Street location just south of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District gave employment to hundreds of North Side residents through the years. Owners of all three breweries also built North Side residences. The substantial brick house built for brewery owner Conrad Graf and his wife Anna was constructed at 319 E. Bloomington Street (Photo #3, contributing) in 1878. Graf came to Iowa City from Bavaria in 1874 and went to work in the brewery industry. The following year he married Anna Hotz, daughter of Simon Hotz, owner of the Union Brewery. Graf became proprietor of the Union Brewery located at 127-131 N. Linn Street (NRHP) and had this house built for his new family just a block to the northeast. The house was later occupied by Graf daughter, Anna, and son-in-law Christian Senner, the brewmaster at the Union Brewery. Like other North Side German -Americans, Senner was active in the German Aid Society in Iowa City. Despite the close proximity of employment centers such as the breweries, population in the Third Ward declined during the 1880s and early 1890s, dropping to 1,475 by 1895. This drop contrasts with changes in the overall population in the city that showed increases in both 1885 and 1895 to 6,748 and 7,526 respectively. The decline in Third Ward population during the 1870s through the 1880s paralleled a drop in the number of houses surviving from the same years with only five dwellings surviving from the 1880s. This apparent declining trend in homebuilding (see page 14) reversed itself in the following decade. During the 1890s the Third Ward remained the most "foreign" of any in Iowa City with 1,215 residents (82% of the Third Ward's total residents) claiming foreign -born parents in 1895. The foreign -born population largely consisted of a mix of German and Bohemian immigrants. The surnames of households in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District responsible for building new houses in the two decades prior to 1900 confirm the presence of first and second generation immigrant families — Strub, Schmidt, Ohnhaus, Graf, Rothweilder, Wydenkoff, Cerny, Haberstroh, Hervert, Zimmerli, Husa, Novak, Maresh, Kessler, Kurz, Hotz, Senner, and Hohenschuh. This pattern would continue well into the 20t" century with German and Bohemian -American families continuing to build new homes and occupy existing homes in the District. The resumption of homebuilding during the 1890s is reflected in the 20 houses dating from the decade that survive in the District today. Addresses for these houses are widely distributed throughout the neighborhood suggesting a general infill pattern for development of the neighborhood taking place. An examination of city directories indicates that merchant families were completing much of the building. Examples include: • William Willis, superintendent of Iowa City Academy and School of Shorthand, built a house at 308 E. Church Street in ca. 1890. • Frederick Zimmerli, a cigar manufacturer, built a house at 324 E. Church Street in ca. 1890. • John Flannagan, a boot and shoe store owner, built a house at 223 E. Davenport Street in ca. 1895. • William Maresh, co-owner of Maresh Brothers Hardware Store, built a house at 312 E. Davenport Street in 1893. • W.G. Schmidt, co-owner, Dalscheid & Schmidt Machine Shop, built a house at 225 E. Fairchild Street in 1895 • Albert Husa, Sr., a merchant tailor with Husa & Sons, built a house at 326 E. Fairchild Street in ca. 1890. • Joseph Hervert, a saloonkeeper, built a saloon next door to his house at 402 E. Market Street in 1892. • Christian Hohenschuh, co-owner of Hohenschuh & Wieneke Book Store, built a house at 229 N. Gilbert Street in 1897. Other houses constructed during the decade were built by widows with large families, several retired Johnson County farmers, and physicians associated with the SUI Medical School. Matilda Hotz, a widow with four adult children boarding at home and either attending the University or working downtown, built a large house at 522 N. Linn Street in ca. 1895. Mary McKinley, another widow, built a house next door at 526 N. Linn Street for herself and her working daughter at about the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 13 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Propefty County and State_ same time At the dawn of the 20`h century, the North Side comprised the city's principal residential neighborhood — a collection of houses described in a contemporary account as "well designed and constructed,... [with] ample room, some of them being highly ornamental.,,4 The houses had accrued over a 50-year period representing virtually every architectural style and vernacular house form popular in Iowa. The next century would see the North Side continue to maintain its important role as a residential district while continuing to evolve in response to local population growth, changes in student population, shifts in housing patterns, and changes in real estate development practices. In 1900 citywide population stood at 7,987, a modest increase from a decade earlier. The lack of available ward census figures for this decade prevents a comparison with earlier population figures for the neighborhood. By 1910 when ward population figures are available once again, they show 1,599 people residing in the Third Ward and 10,091 in the city as a whole. One explanation for the relatively low number of ward residents in census figures before and after 1900 might be a reduced number of households or size of households. Since the overall population of the city grew during this time period, a more likely explanation is that the type of occupants — resident students — were not being recorded in the figures. This factor could also explain fluctuations in ward popular through the Depression years. In 1915 the ward's population rebounded to 1,914 while citywide figures totaled 12,033. The number of residents in the Third Ward continued to rise following World War I with 1,721 in 1920 and 1,870 in 1940. This is the last year that records are kept without including students at the State University of Iowa. Citywide population figures continued to trend upward throughout this period with 11,267 in 1920, 15,340 in 1930, and 17,182 in 1940. The most likely factor related to the population increase was growth of enrollment at the State University of Iowa during this period. Even though students were not officially recorded in census figures, the increased number of University employees were. Another related group would be the family members of students, especially married students in the growing graduate school. In 1900 student enrollment stood at just under 1,500 and by the end of the 1920s had grown to more than 8,500. This period of University growth gave rise to parallel expansion in the central business district and nearby residential neighborhoods such as those in the North Side. It is more fully described in the historic contexts "Town and Gown Era (1899-1940)" and "University of Iowa (1855-1940)" in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS. Growth of the State University of Iowa spurred residential development of several sorts in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. Student housing had traditionally been accommodated in rented rooms in private homes, rooming houses, boarding houses, sorority houses, and fraternity houses, all within a few blocks of the east campus of the University. This pattern grew at an even faster pace as the North Side gradually played host to more resident students as enrollment experienced a nearly six -fold increase by 1930. An even more significant change in housing in the District was the construction of new single-family dwellings on vacant lots or in place of earlier, smaller houses. Construction dates of surviving building stock show 54 houses erected between 1900 and 1930, an average of nearly eight houses per block. The most dramatic growth came in the years leading up to World War I when 80 percent of these houses were constructed, an average of just under three houses per year between 1900 and 1916. 4Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa, (Davenport, Iowa: Huebinger Survey and Map Publishing Co.), 1900, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 14 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson CountyIA Name of Property County and State The table below shows the numbers of surviving houses by decade based on dates researched during earlier surveys. Houses Built by Decade Decade Number of Houses Pre-1860 2 1860-1869 4 1870-1879 8 1880-1889 6 1890-1899 21 1900-1909 27 1910-1919 18 1920-1929 9 1930-1939 1 1940-1949 0 1950-2000 7 TOTAL 103 An examination of Sanborn maps for the years 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, and 1926 shows several housing development patterns during these years. The first involved the replacement of smaller one-story houses with larger two-story dwellings. Sanborn maps document this occurring on corner lots and mid -block lots. The second development pattern saw previously vacant lots subdivided and infilled with two or more new houses. In many cases construction of these houses was accompanied by the building of garages. In all cases, new houses were established with a more regular setback and the size of the houses became more uniform. A third pattern saw existing dwellings updated with the addition of rear additions and new larger front porches. A fourth pattern documented in at least one case and likely seen in others involved the moving of buildings. This was a common practice documented in one neighborhood survey that involved portions of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. It showed that approximately 10 percent of the housing stock was moved. House moves followed several common practices. Some house moves were done to create new building parcels. In these cases, houses might be moved short distances of less than 100 feet to allow a lot to be divided into two or more new building sites. An example in the District involved the Issac Fuiks House originally built in ca. 1880 on a full corner lot at 304 E. Davenport Street. In 1906 a rear section of the lot adjacent to the alley was sub -divided and a new house built facing N. Linn Street. By 1912 the original parcel was further sub -divided and the Fuiks House was turned 90 degrees to face N. Linn Street. Two additional houses were added facing E. Davenport Street. As a result of these actions, a prominent corner lot that once held a spaciously sited moderate sized house became a densely developed area with four closely spaced houses. The overall impact of all of these housing development patterns was to establish the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District as a dense urban residential neighborhood. This was done while the neighborhood grew in uniformity of building size and setback. A third important result was the strengthening of the importance of both of the north -south streets extending through the District. The three -block stretch of N. Gilbert Street had 24 facing houses in 1899 and by 1926 had 34 houses. A similar growth was seen along the four -block stretch of N. Linn Street where 18 houses present in 1899 grew to 35 in 1926. Private construction projects involving new homes, moved homes, remodeled houses, and new garages were mirrored by public improvement projects. The growing popularity of the automobile after the turn of the century brought complaints about the existing macadamized streets that became rivers of mud during wet weather. Difficult to negotiate by wagon, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 15 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State these routes were impassible for automobiles. As with street railways, however, Iowa City was slow to undertake street paving. Brick paving was not introduced in the downtown until 1895 and the commercial section of E. Market Street south of the District was not paved until 1904. Paving of Linn Street north to Brown Street was completed in 1907 in order to provide a more suitable route for funeral processions from North Side churches.5 Another major brick paving project in the District involved N. Gilbert Street from Market Street to Brown Street in 1912. Although brick paving did not give rise the initial development of areas such as the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District, it is likely that it enhanced the value and reputation of the residences along these particular streets. The turn -of -the -century housing boom in the District continued to see members of the merchant class, lawyers, and physicians building spacious modern homes alongside railroad workers, carpenters, shop clerks, and other working class families. SUI faculty members built homes along the same blocks that SUI support staff rented or built homes. And at least a half -dozen Johnson County farmers traded their farms for retirement homes in the District within a few decades. Information from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources provides a sampling over time of the District's residents, their occupations or professions, and business affiliations. Students are generally not represented in these figures because they were not the heads of households and, therefore, were not listed in city directories. It should be noted that because this list generally represents the earliest resident associated with a property, it does not demonstrate the growing importance of major employers such as the State University of Iowa in later years. East Bloomington Street 319 E. Bloomington St., Conrad Graff, brewer, 1872 322 E. Bloomington St., William Hoffelder, co-owner and clerk, respectively; New York Store, 1916 412 E. Bloomington St., Carl Stach, electrical contractor & supplier, 1924 East Church Street 225 E. Church St., Joseph Brum, dishwasher, SUI, 1923 228 E. Church St., Elisha Moore, merchant, ca. 1860 308 E. Church St., William Willis, superintendent of Iowa City public schools, ca. 1890 309 E. Church St., Gustave Strub, stonecutter, ca. 1865 317 E. Church St., George Kurz, plumber, ca. 1897 319-323 E. Church St., Sarah Edwards, librarian, Iowa City Public Library, 1920s 324 E. Church St., Frederick Zimmerli, cigar manufacturer, ca. 1890 East Davenport Street 214 E. Davenport St., George McVey, agent, U.S. Express Co., ca. 1903 220 E. Davenport St., James Kane, harnessmaker, Francis Kane, ca. 1865 222 E. Davenport St., John Kessler, physician & dermatology lecturer, SUI, ca. 1895 223 E. Davenport St., John Flannagan, boot & shoe store owner, ca. 1895 225 E. Davenport St., George Falk, cashier, Johnson Co. Savings Bank, ca. 1914 308 E. Davenport St., Clarence Wassam, professor of economy, SUI, ca. 1906 51rving Weber, Irving Weber's Iowa City— Volume 6. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1987, pp. 109 —110. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 16 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 311 E. Davenport St., Emil Ruppert, mechanic, SUI, ca. 1920 312 E. Davenport St., William Maresh, co-owner, Maresh Brothers hardware, 1893 314 E. Davenport St., Frank Larkin, retired farmer, 1893 315 E. Davenport St., John Wydenkoff, laborer, 1880 320 E. Davenport St., George Freyder, carpenter, 1907 321-323 E. Davenport St., Adam Ohnhaus, pottery manufacturer, 1870 332 E. Davenport St., Emma Harvat, merchant & mayor; Mary Stach, owner, clothing store, 1918 402 E. Davenport St., John Yokum, signal foreman, Rock Island RR, 1925 404 E. Davenport St., Martin Bridenstine, watchman, SUI, 1924 East Fairchild Street 225 E. Fairchild St., George W. Schmidt, owner, Iowa City Iron Works, 1900 230 E. Fairchild St., John Thomas McClintock, professor of physiology, SUI, ca. 1895 309 E. Fairchild St., G. Adolf Brenner, business manager, Iowa City Citizen Pub. Co., ca. 1908 311 E. Fairchild St., Edward Ebert, barber, ca. 1903 312 E. Fairchild St., Patrick Maden, driver, C.A. Murphy, ca. 1912 314 E. Fairchild St., William Morrison, proprietor, Crescent Pharmacy, ca. 1908 317 E. Fairchild St., Louis F. Cerny, co-owner, University Book Store, ca. 1908 320 E. Fairchild St., John Husa, tailor, Husa & Sons, ca. 1925 324 E. Fairchild St., Albert Husa, Jr., tailor, Husa & Sons, 1916 326 E. Fairchild St., Albert Husa, Sr., merchant tailor, Husa & Sons, ca. 1890 328 E. Fairchild St., Jessie Booge, widow; James Booge (son), asst. instructor of chemistry, SUI, ca. 1910 North Gilbert Street 204 N. Gilbert St., Joseph Hervert, saloon owner, ca. 1885 210 N. Gilbert St., Joseph Chudacek, carpenter, ca. 1900 219 N. Gilbert St., Jacob Wentz, farmer & land owner, ca. 1850 229 N. Gilbert St., Christian Hohenschuh, owner, Hohenschuh & Wieneke, bookstore, 1897 310 N. Gilbert St., Frederick Rothweilder, carriage painter, ca. 1875 311 N. Gilbert St., Edward Miller, co-owner, Miller & Miller, stoves dealers, 1908 324 N. Gilbert St., Julius Haberstroh, carpenter, ca. 1881 325 N. Gilbert St., Joseph Stach, owner, Stach's Shoe Store, ca. 1908 331 N. Gilbert St., Zaccheus Seeman, bookbinder, ca. 1901 409 N. Gilbert St., Daniel Peters, real estate and county supervisor, 1920 413 N. Gilbert St., Nancy Graham, widow, 1919 419 N. Gilbert St., William Fryauf, barber, ca. 1914 420 N. Gilbert St., Charles Schmidt, barber, 1908 421 N. Gilbert St., George Fahey, & Mary, ca. 1916 North Linn Street 311 N. Linn St., Eva Slezak, widow, ca. 1915 313 N. Linn St., William McRoberts, retired farmer, ca. 1916 318 N. Linn St., George Servoss, mason, SUI, ca. 1916 319 N. Linn St., John Roessler, retired farmer, ca. 1910 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 17 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 322 N. Linn St., Emory Wescott, retired farmer, former postmaster, ca. 1910 323 N. Linn St., Oscar Stimmel, plumber, ca. 1914 326 N. Linn St., Jacob Kramer, collector, Ga. 1910 411 N. Linn St., Lemmuel Hunter, retired farmer, ca. 1906 412 N. Linn St., Issac Fuiks, jeweler, ca. 1880 416 N. Linn St., Frank Larkin, retired farmer and campus man, SUI, 1905 506 N. Linn St., William Baldwin, lawyer, Baldwin & Baldwin, ca. 1900 507-513 N. Linn St., Edwin Joy, bookkeeper, ca. 1892 514 N. Linn St., William Schneider, co-owner, Schneider Brothers, furniture, 1902 522 N. Linn St., Matilda Hotz, widow with four adult children, ca. 1895 526 N_ Linn St., Mary C. McKinley, widow, and daughter Mary K., music teacher, ca. 1895 527 N. Linn St., Henry Walker, attorney, city solicitor, ca. 1905 615 N. Linn St., Clark Roup, retired farm and justice of the peace, ca. 1925 619 N. Linn St., John Koza, owner, John Koza & Son Meatmarket, 1906 620 N. Linn St., Joseph Slavata, merchant tailor, ca, 1903 624 N. Linn St., Frank Messer, lawyer, Messer, Clearman & Olsen, ca. 1900 628 N. Linn St., Charles and Minnie Baker, lawyer and teacher, ca. 1908 East Market Street 402 E. Market St., Joseph Hervert Saloon, 1892 410 E. Market St., Henry C. Nicking, barber, 1854 Architectural Background and Significance Houses constructed in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vernacular building forms that swept the country from the mid-19th century through the early-20th century. As design trends had no hard and fast beginning and ending dates in this part of the Midwest, it was common to find two or more styles incorporated into the same house. Styles that influenced the designs of building in the District in either singular examples or in eclectic mixes include the Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School. The Greek Revival was the first formal architectural style introduced to Iowa City when architect John Francis Rague designed Iowa's Territorial Capitol building (NHL) in 1839. Construction was completed on the capitol by 1842 and dozens of private residences and commercial blocks in the Greek Revival Style were rendered in stone, brick and clapboard finishes during the next 25 years in Iowa City. Houses such as the Jacob Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #1) built in ca. 1850 and the Henry Nicking House built in ca. 1854 at 410 E. Market Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #2) employed Greek Revival elements such as flat stone window lintels and entrance transoms in their simple two-story side -gable forms. As noted above, historical and architectural survey work completed in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District has identified fewer than two dozen houses constructed during the two decades during and following the Civil War. Early city directory listings showing the presence of a significant number of houses in the District during these years contradicts this pattern. The attrition of earlier houses is more likely a result of the wave of redevelopment in the neighborhood that took place after the turn of the 20th century resulting in the replacement of earlier houses with newer ones. As a result, there are few Italianate Style houses surviving in the District. Two of the better preserved examples discussed above are the Strub House built in ca. 1865 at 309 E. Church Street (contributing, Photo #4) and the Graf House built in 1872 at 319 E. Bloomington United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 18 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Street (contributing, Photo #3). Both brick houses have Front -Gable forms, bracket lined eaves, and side -hall plans. During the 1890s and subsequent decades, an abundance of late Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses were built in a wide range of vernacular forms to replace earlier residences. Late Queen Anne Style dwellings built along N. Gilbert and N. Linn streets were frequently examples of the Cross -Gabled Roof, Front -Gable, Gabled -Front and Wing, or Hipped Roof with Lower Cross Gables forms with asymmetrical fagades and various combinations of roof projections, wall dormers, and attic dormers. Houses in the District included several instances of towers, decorative millwork and spindlework, and fashionable verandas, balconies, and porches. Examples of the late Queen Anne Style typical of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District include the Schmidt House at 225 E. Fairchild St. (contributing, Photo #5) built in 1895, the Joseph and Mary Chudacek House at 210 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #6) built in 1900, the Harry and Goldie Miller House at 418 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #7) built in ca. 1896, the Matilda Hotz House at 522 N. Linn St. (contributing, Photo #8) built in ca, 1895, and the Mary McKinley House at 526 N. Linn St. (contributing, Photo #9) also built in ca. 1895. Approximately 20 houses in the District exhibit Queen Anne Style designs and/or detailing. After the turn of the 201r' century, a new architectural style gradually displaced the Queen Anne Style. The classical vocabulary was reintroduced to academic halls on the campus of the State University of Iowa, in the new public library and post office buildings, and several banks and commercial blocks in downtown Iowa City in various examples of the Neo- Classical and Beaux Arts styles. A parallel movement saw classical elements and design features incorporated into single- family houses in what came to be known as the Colonial Revival Style. Variations of the style were built over several decades in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District with several well-preserved examples surviving. Most have symmetrical fagades, hipped roofs, prominent doorways with fanlights or pedimented frames, and porches or porticos trimmed in classical decoration. Other Colonial Revival examples within the District included embellished American Four -Square house forms with columned porches, multi -light window sash, modillions and dentils lining eaves and belt courses, and other classical ornamentation. Colonial Revival Style designs in the District include the Frank and Anna Larkin House at 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) built in 1905 and the John and Barbara Koza House at 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12) built in 1906. The William and Susan Morrison House at 314 E. Fairchild Street (contributing, Photo #24) is an example of a variation of the Colonial Revival with a Gambrel Roof form, sometimes referred to as the Dutch Colonial Revival. One of the most important houses in the District in terms of both historical and architectural significance was built by Emma Harvat and Mary Stach at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #10) in 1918. Harvat began her career in local business as a shop clerk in the late 1880s and eventually came to own a local book store, a ladies clothing store with her partner Mary Stach, and several businesses of her own in Missouri towns. Harvat and Stach retained Iowa City architect O.H. Carpenter in 1916 to design a residence for the two to share. By that time, the two were involved in numerous real estate investments together as well. In 1921 shortly after national women's suffrage was passed, Harvat was elected to the city council. She served as Iowa City's first woman mayor from 1924 to 1927. In this position she was also the first woman in the United States to serve as chief executive of a municipality with a population of over 10,000. Architecturally speaking, the Harvat House is an eclectic blend of elements of several architectural styles including the Colonial Revival, the Georgian Revival, and the Prairie School. It features a low-pitched hipped roof, a pair of hipped multi -light attic dormers, a wide symmetrical front facade, 15/1 double -hung sash, an eye -brow arched portico, and multi -light sidelights and transom surrounding the front entrance. It faced the newly brick paved Gilbert Street when it was completed. The Craftsman Style was the next architectural style to appear in the District. This style grew out of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America and was strongly promoted by native Wisconsin architect and furniture designer Gustav Stickley in his magazine The Craftsman published between 1903 and 1916. The Craftsman Style was predisposed towards utilitarian forms and designs and experienced great popularity in the N. Gilbert and N. Linn street area. The Craftsman Style developed a multiplicity of forms adaptable to both prominent mid -block lots and smaller sub -divided lots fronting on side streets. More than a dozen Craftsman Style houses were built in the District during the years before and after World War I. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 19 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Craftsman Style houses in the District were built in various forms and sizes. Exterior cladding included narrow and wide clapboard siding and square -cut shingles, frequently alternating between floors on multi -story houses. Exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee -brace brackets lined window bays, wide eaves, and porch roofs. Windows frequently appeared in pairs and groups of three with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double -hung windows in most cases. Porches had either closed, clapboard clad balustrades or geometric patterns with battered columns for corner supports. The overall effect was strikingly different from the spindlework of the Queen Anne houses and classical ornamentation of the Colonial Revival residences of just a decade earlier. A number of well-preserved examples of the Craftsman Style survive in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District spanning the period 1914 to 1925. The William and Anna Hoffelder House at 322 E. Bloomington St. (contributing, Photo #13) was constructed in 1916- It is one of two examples of an unusual two-story, hipped roof Bungalow form found in District. It features a low-pitched hipped roof on the main house with wide eaves, exposed rafter tails, hipped attic and wall dormers, and a recessed front porch. Geometric designs decorate the pillars and mark the floor rafters between the first and second floors. The design of the Hoffelder House closely resembles that of the "Erlanger design" shown at the right that appeared in the 1910 edition of Artistic Homes compiled by Herbert C. Chivers Company of St. Louis. The other example of a hipped roof Bungalow is the Eva Slezak House (contributing) at 311 N. Linn Street built in ca. 1915. Like the Hoffelder House, it has a low-pitched hipped roof with exposed rafter tails and hipped wall dormers. Instead of a recessed front porch, however, it has a two-story porch with square columns and closed balustrade clad in narrow clapboard siding. Windows have the standard Craftsman Style 5/1 vertical upper light configuration. A R T I S T I C 11 O M E S I Erlanger design, 5271, %kith 27 ft 6. story heights 10 and 9-ft 6. Large commodwus living room. Plans $10. DIM., 14-6.15 I , ca.F F '•-e y.!rw li,.: - dab-6 t -1 Chen Sar �, 171 - The Craftsman Style house at 225 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #14) is an example of the Front -Gable house form. It was built in 1918 for George Falk, a local banker, and his wife Pearl. Falk retained local architect O.H. Carpenter for at least one other house he built for rental purposes so it is possible that Carpenter also designed this residence. The Craftsman Style features of the Falk House include the overall organization of the front fagade, the wide belt course between levels, the knee -brace brackets along the wide eaves, paired and grouped 911 double -hung windows, a bracketed window box, and a bracketed eyebrow -shaped entrance roof. Craftsman Style house plans were among several house designs that were adapted to multiple locations in the North Side neighborhood. The William and Mayme Fryhauf House constructed in 1914 at 419 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #16) is an example of this practice. Identical houses were built in 1915 at 819 E. Market Street for Jennie Woltman and 402 N. Dodge Street for Charles Benda .6 Like the Falk House, the Fryhauf House and its mates featured a Front -Gable form. It 6Marlys Svendsen, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845—1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS') prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999; listed in the NRHP, 2000, pp. 43-44. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 20 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and Stale has belt courses separating wide and narrow clapboard levels and a full -width front porch with battered columns typical of Craftsman Style houses. The distinguishing design element of this shared plan is the group of three 411 vertical light double - hung windows on the second floor that is flanked by single fixed four -light sash. The belt course between the second level and the attic forms the header for the flanking windows. The Craftsman Style also influenced, to a greater or lesser extent, many of the examples of another important vernacular house form found throughout the North Side — the American Four -Square. Many of the North Side's best preserved examples, 30 in all, are concentrated in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. Built between ca. 1900 and ca. 1925, common characteristics of this form include a two-story, three -bay front facade; a hipped roof of various pitches, hipped or gable roof dormer(s) on one or more fagades, porches across the entire front facade or off -set entrance porticos, asymmetrically placed entrance doors (common), cottage windows on the first floor (common); double -hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary fagades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 vertical light configurations; and belt courses separating first and second floors. Though Four -Squares are distributed throughout the District they are most concentrated along N. Linn Street (11), E. Fairchild Street (7), and N. Gilbert Street (7). A list of the most significant examples of this vernacular form is found on page 5. The earliest Four -Squares in the District were more likely to incorporate Colonial Revival Style features such as classical ornamentation, porch columns, balustrades, entrance treatments, and window trim. The Craftsman Style began appearing in Four -Squares built closer to World War I. The style's influence was evident in the popular vertical light configuration in the upper sash of double -hung windows, the alternating siding types on first and second levels, and interior finishes that favored Arts and Crafts motifs. Prior to 1900 it is likely that many homebuilders in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District began turning to pattern books and design catalogues for design inspiration. These would have been available from local lumber companies such as the William Musser Lumber Co., the Iowa Lumber Co. and its successor the Ditmars & Ayers Co., the Hawkeye Lumber Co., or from local planing mills such as J.M. Sheets and Co.. In such cases a single house plan with variations in ornamentation or floor plan may have been used for multiple houses such as the example cited previously for the William and Mayme Fryhauf House at 419 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #16). After the turn of the 20`h century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut or "kit houses" such as those offered by a number of Midwest manufacturers. Kit houses included materials for the entire house with numbered parts and instruction booklets as well as shingles, paint, and nails. Among the companies offering homes in the Midwest were three Bay City, Michigan manufacturers — the Aladdin Company began in 1906 and offered 450 models between 1910 and 1940; Lewis Homes/Liberty Homes; and Sterling Homes/international Mill and Timber. Three Chicago firms included Sears Roebuck and Company, Montgomery Ward Company, and Harris Brothers. The best known of these was Sears, the nation's premier merchandiser at the turn of the 20'h century. The company began offering house plans in 1895 and by 1908 had begun operations of a "Modern Homes" division that supplied building plans, materials, and kit houses that were shipped by rail around the United States. The first catalogue was limited to several dozen plans for medium size houses but by 1916 the first Sears kit houses with numbered parts were available. Incomplete records make the total output of kit homes difficult to estimate; however, it is likely that by World War II, Sears had sold more than 100,000 homes nationally. Soon after Aladdin and Sears began manufacturing homes, an Iowa company joined their ranks. Located just 60 miles east of Iowa City in Davenport, the Gordon -Van Tine Company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 they offered house designs and were among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre- cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon -Van Tine Company likely knew of the brisk market for residential United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 21 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State construction in Iowa City during this period. Several houses have been identified within the District during previous historical surveys as likely Gordon -Van Tine Company kit houses. They include the Woodford House at 404 E. Bloomington Street (contributing) built in 1921. The Woodford House is an example of an American -Four Square design, the most popular house form in the District and also among the most popular designs offered by the Gordon -Van Tine Company. The company's 1923 catalogue included 18 separate plans in the Four -Square house form designed to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price," "A Big Square Home — Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two -Story Home," "An Ever Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home — A Space and Money Saver," "A Substantial Seven Room House," and "A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms."' The Woodford House closely resembles the 26-foot wide "Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 549" advertised as a "Conservative 2-Story Stucco House."8 The design appears on the following page. Whether or not other American Four -Squares in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District were built from Gordon -Van Tine Company plans, they were typical of the designs sold by the company. These plans featured four rooms on the first floor usually including a large entrance hall with stairs to the second floor, a "cased opening" (one featuring pillars, shelving, or other trim) between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the 1923 catalogue were sized for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor, moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and one large house containing 1,100 square feet per floor. A second Gordon -Van Tine Company house is located immediately next door to the Woodford House at 412 E. Bloomington Street (contributing). It was built in 1924 for Carl Stach, an electrical contractor and supplier, and his wife Celesta. It is an example of a Side -Gable Bungalow form with a shed roof attic dormer, wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and purlins, and square -cut shingle siding. The asymmetrical front fagade has an offset entrance porch with a low-pitched gable roof with knee -brace brackets, exposed rafter tails, and short battered columns. A third Gordon -Van Tine Company house in the District is located a block north along Gilbert Street at 402 E. Davenport Street. It was built in 1925 for John Yokum, a signal foreman for the Rock Island RR at the time, and his wife Ida. The "Gordon -Van Tine Plan No. 605" that appears on the following page closely matches that of this prominent two-story frame house at the corner of Davenport and Gilbert streets. It was built in the Craftsman Style with a clipped gable roof and dormer plan. Double -hung 5/1 windows with vertical light upper sash are paired on the second floor and appear in bands on the first floor. The enclosed sun porch positioned beneath an extended slope of the main roof was part of the original plan. The garage located immediately adjacent to the house is similar to "Gordon -Van Tine Garage No. 106" also shown on page 23.9 Another variation on the Four -Square form resulted from the influence of the Prairie School Style. The Lavinia and Martin Bridenstine House at 404 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #18) was constructed in 1924. Like several other North Side Four -Squares influenced by this style, the Bridenstine House has an extremely low-pitched hipped roof, broad eaves, banded window groupings, and a raised belt course that give the house a horizontal feeling typical of Prairie School buildings. 7117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon -Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923), pp. 37, 52, 66, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 99. albid, p. 79. t 01bid, pp. 74 and 117. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 22 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson CountyIA Name of Property County and State Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 54910 Guaranteed Prices -No Extras Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 549 Conservative 2-Story Stucco Home The architectural story of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District would not be complete without a discussion of the architectural contributions of two Iowa City architectural and contracting firms — Sheets & Freyder and Orville H. Carpenter. The older of the two firms, Sheets & Freyder, was a long-standing Iowa City building firm that traced its roots to the carpentry shops of J.M. Sheets and partners Bernard Gesberg and August Hazelhorst in the mid-1g1h century. The men eventually merged operations as Sheets & Co. and became noted for their millwork production and contracting services. By 1897, the firm included partners J.M. Sheets and Frank X. Freyder and operated as Sheets & Freyder. Freyder listed himself as an architect in city directories beginning in 1909 through World War 1. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts for a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including at least five Iowa City churches. 9lbid, p. 79. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 23 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State - Gordon VanTine Homes y. f �\ �§J v Is Kalil Gordon -Can Tine flotne No. 605 Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 605 and Garage No. 106 i i y .! ro Garage No. 106. Double Garage this design, No. 107 Single Garage with Stucco Finish, No, 109; Double, No. 109 One house in the District has been clearly identified as the work of Sheets & Freyder with a second attributed to the firm. The Schmidt House at 225 E. Fairchild Street (contributing, Photo #5) was constructed in 1895 for W.G. Schmidt, partner in Dalscheid & Schmidt, a local machine shop. At the turn of the 20th century George W. Schmidt, owner of the Iowa City Ironworks, and his wife Augusta occupied it. The Schmidt House was featured in a published advertisement for Sheets & Freyder that appeared in 1898. The house is a good example of a late Queen Anne Style residence that was modified with the addition of an updated porch prior to 1912. The house has an asymmetrical plan with a steeply pitched hipped roof and highly decorated projecting wall gables, wings, and dormers. A mix of narrow and medium width clapboard and decorative shingles adds to the house's ornamental appeal. A major historic alteration occurred when the house's small but highly decorated porch was replaced with the present full -width porch in ca. 1910. It has a flat roof with broad arches supported by paneled half -columns at the outer corners. The columns rest on a continuous paneled balustrade with offset entrance stairs. Changes in the house design are documented in historic views of the house that appear below. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 24 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Historic Views of Schmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild Street: 1898 (top) and 1912 (bottom)" O)PIIdr cities."13 It is not known whether or not Carpenter received The second house in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District associated with Sheets & Freyder is the Henrietta [Schmidt] and George Freyder House at 225 E. Davenport Street. Henrietta Schmidt acquired this property in 1892 when a smaller house was located on the lot. Sometime after Henrietta married George Freyder at the turn of the century, the two replaced the older house with the current dwelling. George, the son of Frank X. Fryeder, worked as a carpenter in the family -owned business which operated under various styles: Sheets and Freyder (1899-1904) and Frank X. Freyder (1909 — 1928). Beginning in 1909, Frank X. Freyder also was listed in city directories as an architect so it is possible that his firm designed this house depending on when it was actually built. It is likely that George participated in some elements of the construction. The second, more important architect to practice in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District was Orville H. Carpenter. A;though at least three other buildings designed by Carpenter are already listed on the NRHP, most of what is known about his life and professional career has been uncovered only recently by historian and Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner Richard Carlson. Examinations of local newspapers and issues of American Contractor magazine for the years 1897-1908 and 1897- 1930 respectively have identified at least eight residences designed by Carpenter in the District and one additional house attributed to him.12 The buildings span the period 1897 to 1918 and their designs provide a showcase of Carpenter's work and demonstrate its transition in style during this period. Orville H. Carpenter (1866-1938) was born and grew up in rural Camanche in Clinton County, Iowa about 70 miles east of Iowa City. He attended public schools and one or more business colleges before beginning a career doing survey work for a civil engineering company in western Iowa in 1885. During the next decade he traveled extensively, working for "some of the largest architectural firms in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large any formal training in architecture or engineering. By 1895 he "Top photo: "Iowa City, Iowa," The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January, 1898), p. 43; bottom photo: Charles Ray Aurner, Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2 (Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912, p. 220. 12Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers,1897-1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 —1930, November, 2003. 13Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 25 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State had returned to Clinton County where he was apparently working as an engineer, architect, or both. In late 1898 Carpenter moved to Iowa City to open an architectural practice. A published account of his work in The Commercial Magazine in 1898 featured photographs of five completed residences in Iowa City suggesting that his work had likely commenced in Iowa City sometime before he made the decision to relocate there. The dearth of professional architects in Iowa City at the time was a likely factor in drawing Carpenter to Iowa City. This was coupled with the fact that in Clinton County, several competent architects already had established practices and the local economy was experiencing a decline. The Christian and Clara Hohenschuh House at 229 N. Gilbert Street (contributing) was among the houses included in The Commercial Magazines photographic resume, which appears at the right. Hohenschuh, co-owner of the Hohenschuh & Wieneke news depot, bookstore, and stationery shop, was typical of the upper middle-class clients for whom Carpenter worked during his career. The house plan he completed for the Hohenschuh family is a late Queen Anne design stripped of elaborate spindlework ornamentation but retaining classical elements, hence the name "Free Classic' for this Queen Anne sub-type.15 Classical ornamentation used here included paired and clustered half - columns extending along the veranda and a distinctive Palladian window group in the attic dormer. The house's two-story mass has a steeply pitched hipped roof with shallow projecting wings that have canted walls. The overall concept and plan for the Hohenschuh House are typical of other late Queen Anne Style house plans that Carpenter prepared prior to ca. 1905 for Iowa City clients. Another house in the District shows how the same basic plan could be adapted to provide a client with a unique house plan while at the same time replicating popular features. The house Historic Views of O.H. Carpenter Houses Christian & Clara Hohenschuh House, 229 N. Gilbert Street, 1898 (lower right) t4 r•-.r- ��j i ,j w. A.E_Boe+)et. k a. Judge M.J. Wade Re 1 t S dtp , ,.- Uri iio enschufl. Res. designed for Frank and Anna Larkin at 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) in 1905 has a steeply pitched hipped roof with large gable attic dormers and a full - width front porch. This overall design as well as special features such as the stair -stepped windows on the side fagade are November 18, 2003 draft; "O.H. Carpenter,' Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa), Special Edition, May 31, 1899, p. 6. 14u10 wa City, Iowa," The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January, 1898), p. 39. 15Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (New York: Alfred A Knopf), 1992, pp. 264-286. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 26 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State identical to those of the Hohenschuh House. Carpenter gave the house's large footprint even more space on the second floor by adding rectangular and canted oriels. The primary difference between the two house plans and others Carpenter designed based on this prototype was the feature that the client would most identify with — the front porch. The Larkin House's porch has turned balusters rather than the closed clapboard clad balustrade in the Hohenschuh House. Heavier full -height Ionic columns line the Larkins' pedimented porch. Other features that Carpenter would vary on his porch designs included placement of the entrance steps, inclusion or exclusion of a roof pediment, design and ornamentation of the pediment, balustrade components, column order and height, pedestal material or cladding, and assorted millwork details. After the turn of the century Carpenter's designs in the District show that he developed a Four -Square house plan, which could be built with a narrower footprint to deal with the smaller mid -block lots frequently forced upon homebuilders in the North Side during this period. When a lot allowed, however, Carpenter's Four -Square plan could be widened. Like the Free Classic Queen Anne plan, the two-story Four -Square house plan featured a steeply pitched hipped or pyramidal roof. Tall attic dormers and canted bay windows or oriels were used to provide added interest in the cubical house mass. The plan did not have a front projection and dormers were centered and set back on the front roof slope rather than asymmetrically arranged along the roof edge as in the Free Classic house plan. Full width porches with various combinations of classical ornamentation continued to be used in the new plan as well. Examples of Carpenter's earliest Four -Square houses in the Gilbert -Linn Historic District include the Frank and Kate Strub House built in 1900 at 221 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) and the William and Julia Schneider House at 514 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #21) built in 1904. The Strub House has a width of just 26 feet with a bay projection on one side while the Schneider House sized for a slightly larger lot has a width of 28 feet and bay projections on both sides. Both houses have offset entrances and cottage windows. The more intact Schneider House retains its full -width porch with paired half -columns set on stone pedestals. Its tall gable attic dormer features a Palladian window grouping with a returning cornice that forms the window arches. As the decade progressed Carpenter appears to have continued to take on both middle class and upwardly mobile clients. The John Heck House was constructed in 1906 at 319 E. Davenport Street (contributing). Unlike most of Carpenter's other designs, the Heck House had a two-story Side -Gable form with minimal classical ornamentation. Heck lost the house to foreclosure by 1911. Another house design attributed to Carpenter was completed in 1908 for Louis Cerny at 317 E. Fairchild Street (contributing). The house design was a blend of the Four -Square form with simplified Queen Anne detailing such as canted corners, projecting bays, and decorative shingles in the attic gables. The modest treatment of the Cerny House can be contrasted with one of Carpenter's most accomplished designs in the District, the John and Barbara Koza House at 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12), which was also constructed in 1908. Koza owned a well -established meat market at the time. The large house the family commissioned for a prominent lot along a newly brick paved -stretch of N. Linn Street made a statement of the family's economic prosperity as well as smart advertising for the business. When John and Barbara Koza, both Bohemian immigrants, moved from the flat above their meat market to this house it marked an important immigrant success story. From an architectural perspective, the Koza House design demonstrates Carpenter's skill in manipulating the Four -Square plan to accommodate the client's demand for a very large house. The house has a 32 foot -wide front with a depth of 36 feet. The flat -roofed front porch overhangs the sidewalls that span the full -width of the front. Its cut stone foundation in lieu of frame skirting gives the house a substantial appearance. Streamlined classical ornamentation on the porch includes heavy paneled columns clustered with slender curved columns for roof supports and a spindled balustrade. The main house's hipped roof has a lower pitch than Carpenter's earlier Four -Squares with wide eaves and low attic dormers on each side. The house's two-story carriage house reflects the house's design with its matching narrow clapboard siding, hipped roof, and hipped roof attic dormer. In the years leading up to and following World War I, Carpenter continued to design North Side houses based on the popular Four -Square plan. Two houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District show subtle but important changes, however. The Albert Husa, Jr. House at 324 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) was built in 1916. The house was one of three Husa houses adjacent to one another occupied by Albert, Sr., son John, and son Albert, Jr. — all tailors. Located on a narrow mid -block United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 27 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State lot, the house has a width of just 26 feet. Design treatments such as the low-pitched bell -cast hipped roof, wide eaves, low- pitched hipped roof attic dormers, and a full -width front porch with a flat roof that projects beyond the house's edges contribute to a more horizontal look for the house. This horizontal emphasis was associated with Prairie School Style buildings designed during this period and appeared on other American Four -Squares in the District that were based on pattern book plans or designed by Carpenter. The same year that the Husa House was under construction, Carpenter prepared plans for another important residential commission in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District — the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10, NRHP). Construction on the house was delayed for two years until 1918, perhaps due to war shortages. As noted above, Harvat and Stach bought and sold real estate and operated several local businesses together with Harvat gaining importance for her political activities. Like many other designs by Carpenter, this design is an eclectic blend of styles including the Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and Prairie School. This house has a center -hall plan rather than the side -hall Four -Square plans Carpenter was frequently designing during this period. It has a low-pitched hipped roof, wide projecting eaves, and a pair of hipped attic dormers with 15-light horizontal sash. A curved pediment supported by square columns resting on a high brick balustrade is centered on the front. The entrance has a Colonial Revival treatment with a single door flanked by multi -light sidelights and topped by a divided light fanlight. Fenestration includes 15/1 double - hung sash to either side of the center bay on both levels of the front fagade, a bay window above the portico, and 9/1 sash on the other fagades. A chronological list of the O.H. Carpenter houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District appears below • Christian & Clara Hohenschuh House, 229 N. Gilbert Street (contributing) in 1897 • Frank & Kate Strub House, 221 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) in 1900 Frank & Anna Larkin House, 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) in 1905 • William & Julia Schneider House, 514 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #21) in 1904 • John Heck House, 319 E. Davenport Street (contributing) in 1906 • John & Barbara Koza House, 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12) in 1908 • Louis F. Cerny House, 317 E. Fairchild Street —attributed (contributing) in 1908 • Albert Husa, Jr. House, 324 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) in 1916 • Emma Harvat & Mary Stach House , 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10, NRHP) in 1918 Two other O.H. Carpenter residences near the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District are individually listed on the NRHP — the Benjamin F. and Bertha (Horack) Shambaugh House built at 219 N. Clinton Street in 1902 and moved to 430 N. Clinton Street in 2002 and the Arthur Hillyer Ford House (NRHP) completed in 1908 at 228 Brown Street. The Shambaugh House is an example of the Free Classic Queen Anne form favored by Carpenter for his earlier designs while the Ford House is an example of the Mission Style. Three additional Carpenter houses have been identified in the proposed Jefferson Street Historic District. O.H. Carpenter's architectural career included more than residences such as those documented in and around the Gilbert - Linn Street Historic District. Commercial and institutional projects completed in Iowa City included the CSPS Hall, a Bohemian fraternal hall at 524 Johnson Street (NRHP) built in 1900; the Phoenix Block (non -extant), a Romanesque Revival Style commercial block built in 1902 on Washington Street; the B.P.O.E Hall at 325 E. Washington Street in 1909; and several schools including the Kellogg School (non -extant) built at the south end of Woolf Avenue in 1916-1917. Carpenter's obituary in 1938 noted that he had designed "many large buildings throughout the state during his career, especially school houses" with more than a dozen schools, primarily consolidated schools in rural communities in Iowa, listed in advertisements in The American Contractor between 1908 and 1918.16 Carpenter's architectural practice continued 160.H. Carpenter Obituary, Iowa City Press -Citizen, March 10, 1938, p. 13. as cited in Richard Carlson's, "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," p. 3. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 28 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State through the 1920s and early 1930s though examples of his work became more rare, perhaps due to his age. In 1938 he died while continuing to reside in Iowa City. Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources: The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District contains a total of 143 resources including 115 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 52 are key or individually significant (41 primary and 11 secondary). The balance of the District includes 9 non-contributing primary buildings, 18 non-contributing secondary buildings, and one non-contributing structure (pedestrian shelter). Three properties containing four resources are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the District: the Jacob Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo # 1) listed in 1974, the Henry C. Nicking House at 410 E. Market Street (contributing, Photo #2) listed in 1975, and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10) listed in 2000. The Harvat-Stach House also contains a contributing garage. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District were developed using National Register Bulletin 16A: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994, 1997, and 1999-2000 listed below: "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," prepared 1999, listed NRHP 2000 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS' for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1997 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi -block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District meets these requirements. Individual resources were then evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing, or 3) non-contributing. Single or multi -family buildings (including rooming houses and apartment buildings) designated as "key contributing," are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportion, and roofline. Principal fagades remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic siding has been installed it is considered acceptable if the width matches that of the original surfaces and few architectural features are compromised by its installation. Original or historically altered porches are intact, windows remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi -family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure is easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. More permanent porch enclosures that are more than 50 years old are also considered acceptable. The majority of window openings remain unchanged but, if altered, the sizes of window openings conforms to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant architectural detailing. Acceptable synthetic sidings on District buildings include asbestos shingles, asphalt brick, aluminum, and vinyl. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 29 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State For secondary structures associated with residential buildings such as garages or barns, designation as "key contributing" requires the retention of original size, shape, proportion, and roofline. Original windows, siding, passage doors, and vehicle bay opening doors are also retained. Replacement of the vehicle bay door with a contemporary door disallows a secondary structure from being evaluated as having key status. "Contributing" secondary structures include garages and barns that are at least 50 years old but may have been altered through the addition of synthetic siding compatible to the original finish or replacement of garage doors. For contributing structures, the location of vehicle and passage doors as well as windows is consistent with the original building design. Residential buildings, both primary and secondary, designated as "non-contributing" include all resources built outside of the period of significance — 1850 to 1954. Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable should also be considered non-contributing regardless of age. Examples of significant changes include major changes in roofline, incompatible porch enclosures of a non -reversible nature, and major additions or modifications of primary fagades inconsistent with the proportion, rhythm, materials, and finish of the balance of the building. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings. National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A complete list of buildings in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District appears below. Buildings are separated into primary (single-family house or multi -family building) and secondary (barn, carriage house, or garage). If the box is blank under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage, carriage house, or barn is currently present. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District — Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources # STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- TERM OWNER(s) DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Key Non -Contributing SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS Contributing Non -Contributing ARCH. STYLE - VERNACULAR FORM 228- 232 E. Bloomington St. Unnamed Rental Double House ca. 1870 C No Style 319 E. Bloomington St. Graff, Conrad & Anna 1872 Key Italianate/Front- Gabled Roof 322 E. Bloomington St. Hoffelder, William & Anna House 1916 Key C Craftsman/Bungalow 404 E. Bloomington St. Woodford House 1921 C Am. Four -Square 412 E. Bloomington St. Stach, Carl & Celesta 1924 C Craftsman/Bungalow 225 E. Church St. Brum, Joseph & Mary 1925 Key Craftsman/Side- Gabled Two Story 228 E. Church St. Moore, Elisha & Annette ca. 1860 C Italianale 308 E. Church St. Willis, William ca. 1890 C Queen Anne 309 E. Church St. Strub, Gustave ca. 1865 Key Italianate/ Front -Gabled Roof 314 E. Church St. Michael, Joseph ca. 1890 C NC Queen Anne 316 E. Church St. Unnamed House ca. 1870 Key C, C Side -Gabled Two Story_ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 30 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and Stale # STREET ORIGINAL) LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 317 E. Church St. Kurz, George & Anna ca. 1897 C NO Queen Anne/Hipped Roof Two Story 318 E. Church St. Schmidt, Frank & ca. 1870 Key NO Front -Gabled Roof Rose Two Story 319- E. Church St. Edwards, Sarah ca. 1860 C Side -Gabled Two 323 Story 324 E. Church St. Zimmerli, Frederick ca. 1890 C Key Queen Anne/Gabled- Front and Win 214 E. Davenport St. McVey, George & ca. 1903 C Key Am. Four -Square Malinda 217 E. Davenport St. Saunders, Anna ca. 18951 Key NO Queen Anne 220 E. Davenport St, Kane, James & ca. 1865 C Italianate/Queen Anne Elizabeth 222 E. Davenport St. Kessler, John & Alice ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne 223 E. Davenport St. Flannagan, John & ca. 1890 C Queen Anne Honora 225 E. Davenport St. Falk, George & Pearl ca. 1914 Key Craftsman/Front- Gabled Roof Two Sta ry 304 E. Davenport St. Unnamed house ca. 1910 NO Am. Four -Square 308 E. Davenport St. Wassam, Clarence & ca. 1906 C Am. Four -Square Minnie 311 E. Davenport St. Ruppert, Emil & ca. 1920 C NO Craftsman/Bungalow Blanche 312 E. Davenport St. Novak-Maresh House 1893 C Queen Anne 314 E. Davenport St. Larkin, Frank & Anna 1893 C NO Front -Gabled Roof 315 E. Davenport St. John & Francis 1880 C NC Gabled -Front and W denkoff House Win 319 E. Davenport St. John Heck House 1902 C Side -Gabled Two - Story 320 E. Davenport St. Freyder. Henrietta & 1907 Key C Am. Four -Square George 321- E. Davenport St. Ohnhaus, Adam 1870 Key NO Side -Gabled One 323 Story 324 E. Davenport St. Cerney-Brockman 1880 C Hipped Roof Two House Story 332 E. Davenport St. Harvat, Emma & Mary 1918 Key Key (same Colonial Revival/ Stach NRHP garage as at GeorgianlPrairie 409 N. Gilbert 402 E. Davenport St. Yokum, John & Ida 1925 Key Key Craftsman 404 E. Davenport St. Bridenstine, Lavinia & 1924 Key Prairie/Am. Four - Martin Square 221 E. Fairchild St. Strub, Frank & Kate 1902 C Key Am. Four -Square 225 E. Fairchild St. Schmidt, W.G./George 1895 Key Key Queen Anne W. & Augusta 230 E. Fairchild St. McClintock, John ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne Thomas 301- E. Fairchild St. Unnamed Double 1986 NO No Style 303 House United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 31 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 309 E. Fairchild St. Brenner, G. Adolf & ca. 1908 Key C Colonial Revival/Am. Dorothy Four -Square 311 E. Fairchild St. Ebert, Edward & Rose ca. 1903 Key Key Hipped Roof Two Story 312 E. Fairchild St. Maden House ca. 1912 Key NC Side -Gabled Two Story 314 E. Fairchild St. Morrison, William & ca. 1908 Key NC Colonial Revival/ Susan Gambrel Roof 317 E. Fairchild St. Cerny, Louis F. ca. 1908 Key Am. Four -Square 320 E. Fairchild St. Husa, John ca. 1925 C NC Craftsman/ Front -Gabled Roof 324 E. Fairchild St. Husa, Albert Jr. 1916 Key Key Am. Four -Square 326 E. Fairchild St. Husa, Albert, Sr., & ca. 1890 C C Side -Gabled Two Eleanor Story/1-House 328 E. Fairchild St. Booge, Jessie ca. 1910 C Am. Four -Square/ Queen Anne 204 N. Gilbert St. Hervert, Joseph ca. 1885 C Front -Gabled Roof 210 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek .Joseph & ca. 1900 Key Queen Anne Mary 214 N. Gilbert St. Cerny House ca. 1899 Key Key Queen Anne/Gabled- Front and Win 219 N. Gilbert St. Wentz, Jacob ca. 1850 Key Greek Revival/Side- NRHP Gabled Two Story/ (- House 225 N. Gilbert St. Hohenschuh House 1903 C Hipped Roof One second Story 229 N. Gilbert St. Hohenschuh, 1897 C Queen Anne Christian & Clara 230 N. Gilbert St. Mercy Hospital 1998 NC No Style Pedestrian Shelter 305 N. Gilbert St. Russ's Amoco Station ca. 1955 NC No Style 310 N. Gilbert St. Rothweilder, Frederick ca. 1875 Key C Greek Revival/ & Louisa Gabled -Front and Win 311 N. Gilbert St. Miller, Edward & Edna 1908 Key C (same Gabled -Front and garage as at Wing 315 N. Gilbert 315 N. Gilbert St. Miller, Peter & Matilda ca. 1907 C Am. Four -Square 318 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed house 1958 NC NC Ranch 324 N. Gilbert St. Haberstroh, Julius & ca. 1881 C Side -Gabled Two Veronica Story/ I -House 325 N. Gilbert St. Stach, Joseph & 1907 Key Am. Four -Square Theresa 330 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed house 1953 NC No Style 331 N. Gilbert St. Seeman House ca. 1901 C Am. Four -Square 409 N. Gilbert St. Peters, Daniel & Alice 1920 C Am. Four -Square 413 N. Gilbert St. Graham, Nancy 1919 Key C Am. Four -Square 414 N. Gilbert St. Schneider, Mary 1939 C Colonial Revival/ Hipped Roof Two Story United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 32 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAL LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 418 N. Gilbert St. Miller, Harry & Goldie ca. 1900 Key C Queen Anne 419 N. Gilbert St. Fryauf, William & ca. 1914 Key Key Craftsman/ Ma me Front -Gabled Roof 420 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt, Charles & 1908 C Am. Four -Square Lillie 421 N. Gilbert St. Fahey, George & Mary ca. 1916 C Am. Four -Square 426 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt rental house ca. 1895 C Gabled -Front & Wing One Story 429 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed Apartment ca. 1960 NC No Style Building 430 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt rental house ca. 1898 C Hipped Roof Two Story 311 N. Linn St. Slezak, Eva ca. 1915 Key Craftsman 313 N. Linn St. McRoberts, William & ca. 1916 Key NC Am. Four -Square Emma 318 N. Linn St. Servoss, George & ca. 1916 C Gabled Front and Sadie Win 319 N. Linn St. Roessler, John & ca. 1915 C Am. Four -Square Emma 322 N. Linn St. Wescott, Emory & ca. 1910 C C Gabled Front and Eliza Win 323 N. Linn St. Stimmel, Oscar & ca. 1914 C NC (same Am. Four -Square Edith garage as at 225 E. Davenport) 326 N. Linn St. Kramer, Jacob & ca. 1910 C Gabled -Front and Barbara Win 328- N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1900 C Gabled -Front and 330 double -house Wings 403- N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1910 C Gabled -Front and 405 double -house Wings 411 N. Linn St. Hunter, Lemmuel ca. 1906 Key Am. Four -Square/ Queen Anne 412 N. Linn St. Unnamed house ca. 1880 C Side -Gabled Two moved Story/1-House 1912 416 N. Linn St. Larkin, Frank & Anna 1905 Key Colonial Revival/Am. Four-S uare 418- N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1890 C Side -Gabled Two 422 double -house Story 506 N. Linn St. Baldwin, William & ca. 1900 C Front -Gabled Roof Ella 507- N. Linn St. Joy, Edwin & Jane ca. 1892 NC Queen Anne/Ranch 513 /ca. 1970 514 N. Linn St. Schneider, William & 1902 Key Classical Revival! Julia Am. Four -Square 521 N. Linn St. Unnamed apartment ca. 1980 NC No Style building 522 N. Linn St. Hotz, Matilda ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne 526 N. Linn St. McKinley, Mary ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne 527 N. Linn St. Walker, Henry & ca. 1900 C Queen Anne Si ne United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 33 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 533 N. Linn St. Boye, Julia ca. 1870 C Gabled -Front and Win 612 N. Linn St. Unnamed house ca. 1955 NC NC Side Gabled One Story 615 N. Linn St. Roup, Clark & Rachel ca. 1925 C NC Am. Four -Square 619 N. Linn St. Koza, John & Barbara 1906 Key Key Classical Revival/ Am. Four -Square 620 N. Linn St. Slavata, Joseph & ca. 1903 C NC Am. Four -Square Louisa 624 N. Linn St. Messer, Frank ca. 1900 C NC Am. Four -Square 628 N. Linn St. Baker, Charles & ca. 1908 C Am. Four -Square Minnie 629 N. Linn St. Unnamed house 1870 C Front -Gabled Roof 402 E. Market St. Joseph Hervert 1892 Key No Style Saloon 410 E. Market St. Nicking, Henry C. 1854 Key Greek RevivaUStde- NRHP Gabled Two Story Summary In summary, the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential area at the end of the 19`h century and the beginning of the 2dh century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. The Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to middle income and working class families. Individuals who resided in this neighborhood highlight several important themes in the city's history in the decades before and after the turn of the 20'h century. Primary among these were the growing prosperity of Iowa City's German -American and Bohemian -American communities and the growth in importance of the State University of Iowa. The construction of new houses, the brisk rental of existing houses, and the infill construction pattern that produced an extremely dense residential district from ca. 1895 through ca. 1925 testifies to the neighborhood's significance. Under Criterion C the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. From modest Bohemian cottages to pattern book houses and elaborate multi -story mansions, the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District reflected the architectural character and best local residential building practices of the period. The District derives added architectural significance because of the large number of well-preserved residences designed by Iowa City's most productive early 20`h century architect, O.H. Carpenter, between 1897 and 1918. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District its distinct identity and significance. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 34 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and Slate 9. Major Bibliographical References: 117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1992- (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon - Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923). Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. [Publisher unknown] 1917. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa: The Huebinger Survey & Map Publishing Co., 1900. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: J. J. Novak, 1889. Aurner, Clarence Ray. Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2. Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912. Baxter, Elaine. Historic Structure Inventory, North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa. Institute of Urban and Regional Research, 1977. Bercovici, Konrad. On New Shores. New York: The Century Co., 1925. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897— 1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings in The American Contractor, 1897 — 1930, November, 2003. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," November 18, 2003 draft. The Census of Iowa for the years 1856, 1873, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895, 1905, 1915, and 1925 as printed by various State Printers. Census of the United States between 1850 and 2000. City Directories of Iowa City, Iowa. Multiple years. Combination Atlas and Map of Johnson County, Iowa. Geneva, Illinois: Thompson & Everts, 1870. Drury, John. This is Johnson County, Iowa. Chicago: The Loree Company, 1955. Ellis, Edwin Charles. "Certain Stylistic Trends in Architecture in Iowa City." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1947. Gebhard, David, and Gerald Mansheim. Buildings of Iowa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-264. Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870— 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc., ca. 1973, 1883. NPS Form 10-900 (Oct. 1990) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form The to ra for use in nominating or requesting deleminagons for intlMdaal properlias and dialripa Sea inabaceons in How to Complete the Netlonef Regislan of Historic Places Re9istra ion F ma (National RegisterBUBebn 16A). Complete each item by nmyi X an the apprapnaro pair or by enteringthe information requested. g an gem does not apply to the properly being documenled,Wier -i he 'not appiape For functions, arprH¢C1urNtlasaifica0on, materials and areas of sgnlbcance, interaM/categories and auDcategories from NeinsUucEans. Place arldtional entree and me,." M. on confinuaEon sheets (NP5 Form 105ggar Ilse a lypcvrtrter word yocesor, or computer, to compete al gems. historic name other names/site number 2. Location street & number Portions of 100-400 Blocks of East Jefferson Street N/A L] not for publication city or town Iowa Cily N/A Ll vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this j x ] nomination L] request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Lx ] meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant (_] nationally L] statewide I x l locally. (L_] see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying official/fitle Date or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property L] meets L] does not meet the National Register criteria. (L] See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official Title Date State or Federal agency and bureau :by certify that the property is: U entered in the National Register. [ 1 See continuation sheet. L] determined eligible for the National Register. L] See continuation sheet. (_] determined not eligible for the National Register. L I removed from the National Register. U other, (explain:) Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) [x] private L] building(s) Contributing Noncontributing L] public -local [X] district 36 3 buildings L] public -State L] site [_) public -Federal L] structure sites L] object Name of related multiple property listing Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) structures objects Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase ll) 1 B45 — 1945 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings EDUCATION/College RELIGION/Religious Facility RELIGION/Church-Related Residence HEALTH CARE/Hospital DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings EDUCATION/College EDUCATION/Library RELIGION/Religious Facility RELIGION/Church-Related Residence 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) MID-19th CENTURY/Gothic Revival MID-19" CENTURY/Greek Revival LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne foundation STONE/Limestone walls WOOD/Weatherboard BRICK roof ASPHALT other Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and Stale Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark'Y' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) [X] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. L] B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. LX] C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. [J D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark'Y' in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: L] A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. L] B removed from its original location. L] C a birthplace or grave. U D a cemetery. L] E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. L] F a commemorative property. Areas of 5lgmticance (Enter categories from instructions) ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Period of Significance 1850-1954 Significant Dates N/A Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A Cultural Affiliation N/A L] G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. See continuation sheet Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9 Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: L] preliminary determination of individual listing [X ] State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested L] Other State agency L] previously listed in the National Register [_] Federal agency L] previously determined eligible by the National [X] Local government Register [_] University L] designated a National Historic Landmark L] Other L] recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: L] recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 12 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1 fn51 [612121016101 [41611131214101 Zone Easting Northing 3j1L5j [612121518101 f41611131018101 Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 2jIJ 51 f612121518101 Zone Easting a 1 5 f612121016101 [ I See continuation sheet [41611131214101 Northing f41611131110151 11.Form Prepared By name/title..- Marlys A. Svendsen Svendsen Tyler Inc. organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date January, 2004 street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state WI zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number city or town telephone state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127, and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 35 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. (New York: The Sanborn Map Company and the Sanborn and Perris Map Company; 1874, 1879, 1883, 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970). "Iowa City, Iowa". The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January 1898). Iowa City, Iowa, Souvenir and Annual for 1881-82. Iowa City, Iowa: Hoover, Kneedler & Faust, 1882. Iowa City and Her Business Men; Iowa's Most Enterprising City. Iowa City, Iowa: Moler's Printery, [Date Unknown]. Iowa City, Iowa, a City of Homes. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Commercial Club, 1914. Iowa Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration. Johnson County History. Iowa City, Iowa: Johnson County Superintendent of Schools, sponsor, 1941. Jacobsen, James. "North Side Neighborhood, Iowa City, Iowa". Draft National Register of Historic Places nomination prepared for Iowa City, Office of Planning and Program Development, Iowa City, Iowa, 1981. Keyes, Margaret N. Nineteenth Century Home Architecture in Iowa City. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1966. Lafore, Laurence Davis. American Classic. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1975. McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Magnuson, Linda Westcott. "Sheets and Company, an Iowa City Builder/Architect Firm, 1870-1905.0 Masters thesis, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1980. Mansheim, Gerald. Iowa City: An Illustrated History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company, 1989. Map of Iowa City, Iowa, with Description of Resources and Natural Resources and Advantages. Des Moines, Iowa: The Iowa Publishing Co., 1910. Nash, Jan Olive. "Survey and Evaluation of the Portion of the Original Town Plat of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa". (contains proposed MPDF amendment for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa") Draft report prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, April 1997. "O.H. Carpenter," Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa), Special Edition, May 31, 1899, p. 6. Petersen, William John. "Iowa City — Then and Now." The Palimpsest, Vol. 48, No. 2 (February 1967). Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa Counties, Iowa. Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893. Ruger, A. "Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa." Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1868. "Semi -Centennial Edition." Iowa City Republican, October 20, 1890. Shambaugh, Benjamin F. Iowa City: A Contribution to the Early History of Iowa. M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, Published by State Historical Society of Iowa, 1893. Shank, Wesley I. Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary. Nevada, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1999. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 36 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Stevenson, Katherine Cole and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1986. Svendsen, Marlys. "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS'. National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1992. Svendsen, Marlys. "Survey and Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phase II Area" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS') prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999-2000. Weber, Irving. Irving Weber's Iowa City — Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1976, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1990. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Page 37 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Beginning at the northwest corner of Lot 1 in Block 72 of the Original Town Plat; thence south along the west side of said lot across the alley and continuing south along the west side of Lot 8 in Block 72; thence south across East Church Street to the west property lines of the buildings fronting on North Linn Street in Block 71, thence south across East Fairchild Street to the west property line of the house at 221 East Fairchild Street; thence south to the center line of the alley in Block 70; thence west along said line to west property line of the house at 214 East Davenport Street; thence south along the west property line of said property across East Davenport Street to the west property line of the house at 217 East Davenport Street; thence south along the west property line of said property to the center line of the alley in Block 69; thence east along the center line of the alley to the west property line of Lot 8 in Block 69; thence south along said line to the south property line of Lot 8; thence east along said line to the east property line of Lot 8; thence north along the east property line of Lot 8 to the center line of the alley in Block 69; thence east along the center line of the alley across North Linn Street continuing east along the center line of the alley in Block 57 to the west property line of the house at 322 East Bloomington Street; thence south along said line across East Bloomington Street to the west property line of Lot 2 in Block 58; thence south along said line to the center line of the alley in Block 58; thence east along the center line of the alley across North Gilbert Street to the west property line of Lot 5 in Block 47; thence south along said line to the south property line of Lot 5 or the north edge of East Market Street; thence east along the north edge of East Market Street to the east property line of the house at 410 East Market Street; thence north along said line across East Bloomington Street to the east property line of the house at 412 East Bloomington Street, thence north along said line across the alley and along the east property line of Lot 4 in Block 48; thence north across East Davenport Street along the east property line of Lot 5 in Block 49 to the center line of the alley; thence east along the center line of the alley to the east property line of the houses fronting on North Gilbert Street; thence north along said line to the south edge of East Fairchild Street thence west along said line to the west edge of North Gilbert Street; thence north along said line to the center line of the alley in Block 55; thence west along said line to the east property line of Lot 2 in Block 55; thence north along said line across East Church Street and continuing along the east property line of Lot 8 in Block 54 to the center line of the alley in Block 54; thence west along the center line of the alley to the east property line of the houses fronting on North Linn Street; thence north along said line to the south edge of East Ronalds Street; thence west along the south edge of East Ronalds Street across North Linn Street to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The boundary of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District has been drawn to include a multi -block area extending principally along N. Gilbert and N. Linn Streets containing residential buildings of similar scale and materials with a common period of development. The boundaries have been drawn to exclude blocks or portions of blocks that contain major intrusions such as apartment buildings and parking lots while including residences with a higher level of physical integrity. The north edge of the District is close to another North Side residential district, the Brown Street Historic District (NRHP). The west and east edges of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District contain houses that have lost a substantial level of integrity and therefore are not part of the District. The nature of the blocks along the south edge is commercial rather than residential. This North Side commercial area may qualify for separate historic district designation at a future date. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Photographs Page 38 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Photograph Key for Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District: (See Photo Map, page 44) Shelley McCafferty and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Wentz, Jacob, House, 219 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 2. Nicking, Henry C., House, 410 E. Market Street, looking north 3. Graff, Conrad & Anna, House, 319 E. Bloomington Street, looking southeast 4. Strub, Gustave, House, 309 E. Church Street, looking south 5. Schmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild Street, looking southwest 6. Chudacek, Joseph & Mary, House, 210 N. Gilbert Street, looking east 7. Miller, Harry & Goldie, House, 418 N. Gilbert Street, looking southeast 8. Hotz, Matilda, House, 522 N. Linn Street, looking east 9. McKinley, Mary, House, 526 N. Linn Street, looking southeast 10. Harvat, Emma and Mary Stach, House, 332 E. Davenport Street, looking west 11. Larkin, Frank & Anna, House, 416 N. Linn Street, looking southeast 12. Koza, John & Barbara, House, 619 N. Linn Street, looking west 13. Hoffelder, William & Anna, House, 322 E. Bloomington Street, looking northwest 14. Falk, George & Pearl, House, 225 E. Davenport Street, looking south 15. Yokum, John & Ida, House, 402 E. Davenport Street, looking northeast 16. Fryhauf, William and Mayme, House, 419 N. Gilbert Street, looking northwest 17. Bridenstine, Lavinia & Martin, House, 404 E. Davenport Street, looking north 18. Unnamed house, 316 E. Church Street, looking north 19. Brenner, G. Adolph & Dorothy, House, 309 E. Fairchild Street, looking south 20. Graham, Nancy, House, 413 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 21. Schneider, William & Julia, House, 514 N. Linn Street, looking east 22. Morrison, William & Susan, House, 314 E. Fairchild Street, looking north United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 39 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County IA County and State Property Owners within the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE I ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYER(S) 228-232 E. Bloomington St. Thomas M. & Joan M. Cook 2835 Friendship St. Iowa City IA 52245 319 E. Bloomington St. Smith -Rust Properties LLP 915 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 322 E. Bloomington St. Howard E. Carroll 322 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 404 E. Bloomington St. John K. Kammermeyer 404 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 412 E. Bloomington St. John K. Kammermeyer 404 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 225 E. Church St. James B. & Becky J. Buxton 1811 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City 52240 228 E. Church St. Jack Lageschulte 3 Marbury Ln. Barrington HIA 60010 308 E. Church St. Camay Enterprises Company LTD 3725 Forest Gate Dr. NE Iowa City 52240 309 E. Church St. Peter J. Craig & Amy L. Scattergood 309 Church St. Iowa City 52245 314 E. Church St. The Delta Chi Fraternity Inc. PO Box 1817 Iowa City IA 52244 316 E. Church St. Judith S. & Franklin Miller 316 Church St. Iowa City IA 52245 317 E. Church St. Catherine A. Schneider 317 Church St. Iowa City IA 52245 318 E. Church St. Tina M. & Larry R. Woodsmall 318 Church St. Iowa City IA 52245 319-323 E. Church St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Church St. Molly R. Ramer 211 Friendship St. Iowa City IA 52245 214 E. Davenport St. H & G 10 Heather Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 217 E. Davenport St. Joseph L. Dobrien c/o Keystone Prop. M mt. 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 220 E. Davenport St. Hodge Construction Company 711 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52240 222 E. Davenport St. IC Rentals LC 741 Oakland Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 223 E. Davenport St. Donna M. Launspach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 225 E. Davenport St. Jill R. Gaulding & Marc N. Light 225 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 304 E. Davenport St. Peter J. Ammentorp & Michelle Lampe- Ammentorp 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 98642 308 E. Davenport St. Ammentorp Properties LLC 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 98642 311 E. Davenport St. Dwight A. Dobberstein & Nancy L. Parker 326 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 312 E. Davenport St. Katherine Johnson 203 W. 20th St. #4W New York NY 10011 314 E. Davenport St. Hubert L. & Leona H. Rummelhart 314 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 315 E. Davenport St. Joel D. & Melissa C. Schintler 155 Columbia Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 319 E. Davenport St. Everill & Jean Ann Daters 320 Park Rd. Iowa City IA 52246 320 E. Davenport St. Walter J. Kopsa 130 Ashwood Dr. Iowa City IA 52240 321-323 E. Davenport St. Frank G. Person 321 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Davenport St. Walter J. & Jane A. Ko sa 130 Ashwood Dr. Iowa City IA 52240 332 E. Davenport St. Carol S. De Saint Victor 332 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 402 E. Davenport St. Dale Arlo Yocom 402 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 404 E. Davenport St. Lake & Lake LC 403 S. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52240 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 40 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County IA County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYER(S) 221 E. Fairchild St. F. George & Wilma M. Blair 225 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 225 E. Fairchild St. F. George & Wilma M. Blair 225 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 230 E. Fairchild St. James D. Pohl & Ryan L. Rooney 603 S. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52240 301-303 E. Fairchild St. Greg J. Allen 2427 Hwy 6 NW Tiffin IA 52340 309 E. Fairchild St. Shirley A. Harrison 1713 S. Ave. South Amara IA 52334 311 E. Fairchild St. Susan K. Futrell & William J. Jennings 311 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 312 E. Fairchild St. Wilfred E. & Patricia A. Eckhardt 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 314 E. Fairchild St. Roy E. Reynolds & Marcy E. Rosenbaum 314 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 317 E. Fairchild St. Thomas E. & Julianne K. McNalle 317 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 320 E. Fairchild St. Miller and Hawkins 673 Westwinds Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 324 E. Fairchild St. Douglas B. Critser & Lisa C. Koizumi 328 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 326 E. Fairchild St. Harry Hinckley 886 Park PI. Iowa City IA 52246 328 E. Fairchild St. Jeffrey L. & Beth M. Dill 720 Rosebud Ct. Coralville IA 52241 204 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 210 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 214 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 219 N. Gilbert St. Mark K. Brookfield & Melissa J. Murphy 219 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 225 N. Gilbert St. Thomas E. Conway 225 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 229 N. Gilbert St. Mary E. Keating Go M. Blakle 940 Prairie Ridge Rd. North Liberty IA 52317 230 N. Gilbert St. Mercy Hospital 500 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 305 N. Gilbert St. RSNV, INC 305 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 310 N. Gilbert St. Don C. & Dorothy L. Fowles 609 Granada Cl. Iowa City IA 52246 311 N. Gilbert St. Patricia Ann Fisher 315 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 315 N. Gilbert St. Patricia Ann Fisher 315 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 318 N. Gilbert St. William C. & Julia E. Leu old 3084 130th St. Spirit Lake IA 51360 324 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma M. Alberhasky 1150 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 325 N. Gilbert St. Eugene F. Fisher 3485 G. Richard Cir. SW Iowa City IA 52240 330 N. Gilbert St. Arthur W. & Renetta A. Webster 330 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 331 N. Gilbert St. Emergency Housing Project Inc. 331 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 409 N. Gilbert St. Spaight Services LLC c/o Thomas N. S ai ht 1185 Forevergreen Rd. Iowa City IA 52240 413 N. Gilbert St, Jeffrey Porter & Claire S onsler 413 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 414 N. Gilbert St. Frank M. Wilcox 7241 218th Way N. Forest Lake MN 55025 418 N. Gilbert St. Benjamin & Carolyn Barrientes 418 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 419 N. Gilbert St. Amelia R. Baum & Michael R. Singer 419 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 420 N. Gilbert St. Keystone Property Management 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 421 N. Gilbert St. Melvin D. & Alice L. Roth 1340 12th Ave. Coralville IA 52241 426 N. Gilbert St. Waltraud Maierhofer 426 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 41 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County IA County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT ADDRESS BUYER(S) 429 N. Gilbert St. Melvin D. & Alice L. Roth 1340 12th Ave. Coralville IA 52241 430 N. Gilbert St. Victoria A. Walton 430 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 311 N. Linn St. Iowa City Monthly 311 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52240 Ueefinn of Friends 313 N. Linn St. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 98642 LLC 318 N. Linn St. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 326 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Nancy L. Parker 319 N. Linn St. Ammentorp Properties 2709163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 68642 LLC 322 N. Linn St. Mary K. Pelmberg 1718 Wilson St. Iowa City IA 52245 323 N. Linn St. Donald L. Stumbo & 3082 Running Deer Rd. Iowa City IA 52240 Janene Ela ne Panfil NE 326 N. Linn St. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 326 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Nancy L. Parker 328-330 N. Linn St. Eugene F. Fisher 3485 G. Richard Cir. SW Iowa City IA 52240 403-405 N. Linn St. James B. & Becky J. 1811 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 Buxton 411 N. Linn St. RMB Investments LLC 3286 Hwy 1 SW Iowa City IA 52240 412 N. Linn Sl. Arthur K. & Shari 2026 130th St. Riverside IA 52327 Sweatin 416 N. Linn St. Sarah Buss & Henry L. 416 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Paulson 418-422 N. Linn St. H & G 10 Heather Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 506 N. Linn St. Wilfred E. & Patricia A. 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Eckhardt 507-513 N. Linn St. Michael Allen & Debra 1415 Franklin Ave. West Branch IA 52358 Kay Cooper 514 N. Linn St. Wilfred E. & Patricia A. 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Eckhardt 521 N. Linn St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 522 N. Linn St. T. David Egenberger & 1102 College St. Iowa City IA 52240 Wendy Caye Moses 526 N. Linn St. Timothy D. Toomey & 526 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Ruth A. Fuglsang- Toome 527 N. Linn St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 533 N. Linn St. Gregory J. & Leann D. 1635 Larch Ave. Washington IA 52353 Hassman 612 N. Linn St. Matthew D. Lepic 1849 Hollywood Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 615 N. Linn St. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane 619 N. Linn St. Clarence J. & Dorothy E. 619 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Haverkam 620 N. Linn St. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane 624 N. Linn St. John A. & Kayla K. Cress 4506 Dryden Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 628 N. Linn St. Hawkeye Property 3575 Hanks Dr. SE Iowa City IA 52240 Management Go Bill Terry 629 N. Linn St. John S. Mann & Tama J. 629 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Baldwin 402 E. Market St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 410 E. 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Description: Architectural Classification (continued) LATE VICTORIAN/Italianate LATE VICTORIAN/Second Empire LATE VICTORIAN/Romanesque LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS/Classical Revival LATE 19T" AND 20" CENTURY REVIVALS/Italian Renaissance Revival LATE 191h & 20'h CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS/Tudor Revival LATE 19th & 201h CENTURY REVIVALS/Late Gothic Revival LATE 191h & 201h CENTURY REVIVALS/Late Gothic Revival/Collegiate Gothic LATE 19T" AND EARLY 20T" CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman Description: Materials (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: STUCCO roof: METAL roof: STONE/Slate 7. Narrative Description: The Jefferson Street Historic District is a linear neighborhood located one block north of the downtown and immediately adjacent to the east campus of the University of Iowa (historically referred to as the State University of Iowa or SUI in this nomination). The District also borders the southern edge of a commercial and residential section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." The District extends east for approximately three blocks along East Jefferson Street from North Clinton Street on the west to North Van Buren Street on the east. The northern edge of the District generally United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 2 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State follows along the alleys to the north of East Jefferson Street. The southern edge of the District jogs through portions of the University of Iowa in the west half and generally follows the alleys south of East Jefferson Street in the east half. Properties facing the intersecting streets of Dubuque, Linn, Gilbert, and Van Buren are also included within the District. All of the Jefferson Street Historic District is contained within the Original Town Plat of the city of Iowa City, which was laid out in 1839 as the territorial capital of Iowa Territory. Jefferson Street was laid out with a standard 80-foot width with alleys measuring 20 feet and intersecting streets also measuring 80 feet. Adjacent blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet with eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the west half of the Jefferson Street Historic District saw several instances of the combination of lots to form larger building parcels for institutional structures while the east half of the District experienced subdivision of lots resulting in a denser residential neighborhood. Most of the south side of the 100-300 blocks of Jefferson Street is part of the east campus of the University of Iowa with Linn Street vacated to form a continuous double -block. All of the streets in the District are paved in asphalt with 4-foot wide cement walks along each side. Jefferson Street serves as an eastbound one-way with westbound traffic handled by Market Street located one block to the north. The terrain of the District is generally flat with buildings sited level with the street. The exception are the lots on the north side of the 400 block of Jefferson Street that have moderate to steep upgrades along the sidewalks but no retaining walls. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak, ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings within private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Jefferson Street Historic District are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features within the District and no city parks or playgrounds in or near the District. The building stock in the Jefferson Street Historic District includes a mix of institutional and residential buildings that reflect its historical development along the edge of the downtown and the SUI campus. University related resources include buildings originally used as a biological sciences classroom building, a medical school anatomy lecture hall, an isolation hospital, and sorority houses. Buildings used for religious purposes include four churches, a student center, a former convent, and a rectory. The balance of the District includes two large apartment buildings, single-family dwellings that date from the 1850s through the 1930s, and secondary structures erected during the early 20`h century. The District contains a total of 44 buildings including 38 primary resources and six secondary resources. All but one of the primary resources or 97 percent are considered contributing resources with 22 buildings or 50 percent qualifying as individually significant or key contributing resources. One primary building, the Neuman Catholic Center (104 E. Jefferson Street), is non-contributing due to its relatively recent date of construction though it is physically connected to a previously freestanding historic convent. The two are counted as a single resource within the District. The District also contains 6 secondary resources originally constructed as garages. Of these, four are considered contributing and two have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or age. The pattern of building and density of the Jefferson Street neighborhood is a result of the organic manner in which the area was developed over eight decades. Sanborn maps from various dates reveal the construction of earlier buildings on some lots and their replacement by larger, more substantial buildings as the decades passed. In several cases, brick and frame dwellings were moved to nearby lots to make room for larger buildings. One instance (John and Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson Street), saw the movement of a house that originally faced Market Street across the alley into the District in order to make room for an expansion of the family -owned brewery. In another case, a widow moved her former house (115 N. Gilbert Street) one lot north to make room for a substantial new residence for her and 'Email interview with Terry Robinson, Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City re: species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 3 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State her children (Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson Street). The practice of moving buildings was a long-standing tradition in Iowa City identified in the in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945".2 More than 10 percent of the primary buildings in the North Side neighborhood under study were moved to their current sites during the period 1904 — ca. 1935. The District's two and two -and -half -story houses are constructed of frame, brick, and stucco with frame being the most popular. Wood cladding includes narrow and medium width clapboards or decorative shingles. Institutional buildings are constructed of masonry materials including dressed and ashlar limestone and locally manufactured red brick. Bedford stone was used for one of the churches and both of the State University of Iowa's turn-of-the-201h-century buildings with brick used for the other churches, apartment buildings, and hospital building. Brick was also used for several houses, the rectory, the convent, and a sorority house within the District. The institutional and residential buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District exhibit a variety of late 19th and early 20th century historic architectural styles including excellent examples of eleven distinct styles. Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses are scattered through the District with well preserved institutional buildings designed in the Gothic Revival, French Second Empire, Classical Revival, Romanesque Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, and a mix of the Collegiate Gothic and Tudor Revival. Many of the dwellings are examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City before and after the turn of the 20th century. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Jefferson Street Historic District are the American Four -Square (most common), Front -Gable Roof, and Side -Gable Roof house forms. These styles and vernacular forms are discussed in greater detail in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945" approved by the National Park Service in 2000. Some of the best examples of residential architectural styles, vernacular house forms, and institutional architectural styles in the Jefferson Street Historic District are listed below. A complete list of contributing and non-contributing resources appears on pages 24 and 25. Residential Architectural Styles • Greek Revival: Bostick-Rohret House, 115 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #1, ca. 1850, NRHP) Italianate: Robert & Julia Hutchinson House, 318 E. Jefferson St. (ca. 1875) • Queen Anne: John & Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #2, ca. 1885) John & Catherine Sueppel House, 425 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #3, 1876) • Colonial Revival: Joseph & Ludmila Barborka House, 114 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1900) Justine Mueller House, 420 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #4, ca. 1905) Vernacular House Forms • Front -Gable: David & Isabel] Abrams House, 424 E. Jefferson St. (1893) 2"Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845—1945," Amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," National Register of Historic Places, 2000, pp. 49-50. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Am. Four -Square: Alois & Esther Smith House, 120 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1908) Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #5, 1911) Falk Rental House, 403 E. Jefferson St. (1907) James & Henry Kohrt House/Phi Rho Sigma Annex, 430 E. Jefferson St. (1924) John & Mary Messner House, 117 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #6, ca. 1911) Institutional Architectural Styles • Gothic Revival: First Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton St. (Photo #7, 1868) First Methodist Episcopal Church, 214 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #8, 1908) • French Second Empire: Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 130 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #9, 1852/ca. 1875) • Romanesque Revival: St. Mary's Rectory, 220 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #10, 1891) St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 230 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #11, 1867/1907) • Classical Revival: Hall of Anatomy, 119 E. Jefferson St./SUI Bldg. #19, (Photo #12, 1902) Medical Laboratory Building, 121 E. Jefferson St./SUI Bldg. #18 (Photo #13, 1902) • Italian Renaissance Revival: St. Mary's Convent (part of Newman Center), 104 E. Jefferson St. (ca. 1930) Isolation Hospital, 325 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #14, 1916) • Collegiate Gothic: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 404 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #15, 1926) The condition of buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District ranges from fair to excellent. Nearly all of the residences originally used as single-family homes have been subdivided into duplexes or apartments with three residences converted to use as guesthouses (115 N. Gilbert Street, 119 N. Gilbert Street, and 328 E. Jefferson Street). The most likely alteration to houses in the District that have been converted to use as rental housing is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. Other changes include the removal of porches and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. One new institutional building has been built at the west end of the District. The Newman Catholic Center (104 E. Jefferson Street) replaced the former Catholic school on that site in 1988 but the adjacent St. Mary's Convent remains connected to the new building. Historic rehabilitations have been completed for a number of buildings within the District during the 1990s including two major University of Iowa buildings. The SUI Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19) was converted to the Biological Sciences Library and the SUI Medical Laboratory Building (SUI Building #18) was rehabilitated for continued use as the Biology Building. Other buildings substantially rehabilitated include the Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary at 130 E. Jefferson Street, the Mary Rohret House at 328 Jefferson Street, and the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street. All of the churches within the District have seen significant maintenance work during the 1990s as well. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 5 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Sianificance: General: The Jefferson Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C Under Criterion A the Jefferson Street Historic District derives significance under the category of "Community Planning and Development." The District is associated with an important era of growth in one of Iowa City's North Side neighborhoods at the end of the 19`" century and the beginning of the 20" century. During this time, Jefferson Street was transformed from a neighborhood of single family dwellings and churches to a neighborhood of larger, more substantial residences, churches, and State University of Iowa education and hospital buildings. Prominent Iowa City residents continued to make the District their home throughout its development, choosing to build, enlarge, move, and rebuild homes along a street favored by proximity to the city's churches, downtown businesses, and SUI campus. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Jefferson Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to working class families. As the 20t' century progressed, this mix of social groups included individuals associated with the University as professors, physicians, and laborers of many types. Undergraduate students, graduate students, nursing students, and medical students resided in apartment buildings, boarding houses, and sorority houses in the District with many attending classes and working in University medical school buildings in the District. Under Criterion C the Jefferson Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles, vernacular house forms, and institutional architectural styles that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. A number of examples of the work of important local and state architects have been identified to date with a likelihood that more may exist. In addition to single-family dwellings, the District contains four architecturally significant churches and several other buildings with religious connections including a convent and rectory. Three architecturally important SUI buildings including two classroom buildings and one hospital building are present as well. Together the District's buildings tell the story of architectural design and vernacular building practices displaying 11 different architectural styles. Four buildings within the District are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Congregational Church (30 North Clinton Street), the William Bostick House (115 North Gilbert Street), the Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary (130 East Jefferson Street), and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and Rectory (230 East Jefferson Street). The last property contains two contributing resources. Although a number of individual properties in the district are associated with important local business and civic leaders, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the District. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. The period of significance for this locally significant historic District extends from 1850 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest architecturally significant resource in the District and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for National Register eligibility. North Side Historical Survey Recommendations: The Jefferson Street Historic District is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northern tiers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1981 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts — one commercial properties and one residential properties — were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the National Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1984 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: • Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) • Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase 1) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) • Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase II) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) • Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) • Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase II MPD have been listed on the NRHP. In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Iowa City. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, architectural significance, and/or historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa City neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca. 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: Jefferson Street Historic District — This four -block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches, residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State University of Iowa Medical School and the University Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, religion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19`h and early 20t century institutional and residential building styles. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District — This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north -south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick -paved course of Linn Street and the north -south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa City's most important turn of the century architects, O. H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximity to employment generators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. Brown Street Historic District and Ronalds Street Extension — The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa City's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub -themes; its United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 7 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State affiliation with the growth of the State University of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four -block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. North Clinton Street Historic Street — This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa City's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19`h and early 20`" centuries. In addition the houses are well -executed and well-preserved examples of the architectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 21 st century, the area adjoins the State University of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternity houses and rooming houses. A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preserved, but scattered, collection of University of Iowa fraternity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian -American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the Jefferson Street Historic District included in this nomination, they include the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District and the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street section. The Historical Development of East Jefferson Street: 3 Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Jefferson Street Historic District is located along an east -west stretch of Jefferson Street in the central section of the Original Town Plat. This plat, which appears on page 8 with the Jefferson Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and reserves set aside by territorial legislators for churches and a school. Three of these open space features, now either nonextant or much altered, were originally located near the Jefferson Street Historic District. The most significant was Capitol Square (now the Pentacrest Historic District, NRHP) located southwest of the District on a rise overlooking the Iowa River. Lots anticipated for commercial development measuring 80 feet x 140 feet were laid out facing the square, and a grid system of streets aligned with the compass points stretched in four directions from the square. Jefferson Street had an 80-foot width with lots facing the street along its east - west course. Proximity to the square initially encouraged commercial building along the north side of the 100 block of Jefferson Street. Among the most important buildings in this block was the Park House (contributing, Photo #9) built in 1852 at 130 E. Jefferson Street opposite the northwest corner of the city park for which it was named. The hotel was frequently used by territorial legislators as seasonal lodging. Like many of the buildings within the District, its use changed over time as the character of the District changed. The Park House closed soon after the capital was moved to Des Moines in 1857 and 3Portions of this section are taken from "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," listed 2000. Additional material was taken from a second amendment to the MPS prepared in 2000 titled "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 — 1945" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The three documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen. 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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and Slate Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 1865 (Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company), 1989, p. 80) r The same block of Jefferson Street that attracted the Park House saw the construction of other small scale commercial buildings during the 1850s. However, as the business center of the town gradually established itself further south along Clinton, Washington, College, and Dubuque streets, Jefferson Street fell out of favor as a commercial district. As a result, the Jefferson Street commercial buildings were converted to use as private schools (both non -extant — the Iowa City Academy and Normal School and St. Joseph's Institute, a Catholic boy's school). In later years, all of this portion of the 100 block of E. Jefferson Street was acquired by St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and in 1893 became the site for construction of St. Mary's Catholic School. Like Capitol Square, the city park located just south of the District between Jefferson Street, Iowa Avenue, Dubuque Street, and Linn Street played an important role in the development of the District. Its primary purpose initially was to serve as an open space on which important buildings such as churches could front. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 1869 from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) During the decades of the 1840s and 1850s churches established by Roman Catholic, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Protestant (later Christian), and Universalist congregations built on the reserved lots facing the north and south sides of the park. The first building (non -extant) occupied for St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church was constructed in 1841-43 at the northwest corner of Linn and Jefferson streets. At the end of the Civil War a new building was erected. Father Edmonds, the pastor of St. Mary's Church in 1867-68 when the new St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church was erected at 230 E. Jefferson Street (Photo #11, contributing, NRHP), has been credited with designing the church.° An historic view of the church appears to the left. The Methodist Episcopal Church was the second congregation to build a church along Jefferson Street on a church reserve lot. The first building (non -extant) was completed in 1842, enlarged in 1863, rebuilt following a fire in 1884, and destroyed in a second fire in 1906. The present building at 214 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #8) was completed in 1908. Both of the churches erected on reserve lots south of the park, the Methodist Protestant Church and the Universalist Church, are non -extant. Before the turn of the 20`h century, a fifth church was built along Jefferson Street. The Congregational Church (contributing, Photo #7, NRHP) was constructed at 30 North Clinton Street on a non - reserve lot in 1868. Located at the east end of the Jefferson Street Historic District, the church faced Capitol Square. The presence of these five churches in the 19`h century helped to attract and retain homeowners in the blocks fronting on Jefferson Street. The role of these churches in the social structure of the neighborhood is born out by an examination of memberships in several of the church -sponsored organizations of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at the turn of the 20`h century. The 1897 city directory shows nine separate societies sponsored by the church. That year, three of the leaders of the Young Ladies' Society were residents of the District while leaders of two men's societies had their homes here as well. Among the most involved were the five members of the John and Catherine Sueppel family (425 E. Jefferson Street, contributing, Photo #3) who served as leaders in four separate organizations. Despite city park's prominent location as the front yard of the town's first churches, it remained largely an unimproved feature during its first half century. The block was never formally landscaped. Instead it contained a collection of native grasses that was rarely cut or maintained. Historic photographs show a horizontal rail fence surrounding the park in the post -Civil War years. Public celebrations were regularly held here, and it likely functioned as an informal gathering spot for visitors to the downtown and students at the nearby academies and university. Public scales were maintained at the southwest corner of the park at the intersection of Iowa Avenue and Dubuque Street giving rise to the regular practice for many years of weighing and selling hay at this intersection. The park along with the prominent spires of the Congregational 4Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City. An Illustrated History (Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company), 1989, p. 58. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 11 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and Slate Church, the first Methodist Episcopal Church (non -extant), and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church stand out on the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City that appears below. Approximate boundaries of the District are shown. In 1890 the city council authorized transfer of the city park block to the State of Iowa for use in conjunction with the State University of Iowa. It was thought at the time that such a move would discourage talk in the Iowa General Assembly of moving the University to Des Moines — an ever present concern in Iowa City. Whether the transfer of the park was actually the cause that achieved the desired effect or not, SUI was not moved. The transfer of park property completed in 1890 was not favored by all Iowa Citians. After SUI made plans to build a new Chemistry and Pharmacy Building on the site but before its construction, women parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 1868 (from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) N protested the building's construction because of the planned felling of trees. Iowa City historian Irving Weber has described the event as Iowa City's first protest. After a brief delay, the bishop of the Dubuque Diocese interceded and the women withdrew so that the work could proceed. During the decade following the property transfer, several SUI buildings were constructed in the former park block. The Chemistry -Pharmacy Building (non -extant) was built at the northeast corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue in 1890 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 12 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State and the Homeopathic Hospital (non -extant) was constructed at the southeast corner of Jefferson and Dubuque streets in 1894. The first section of the University Hospital (portions extant), was erected east of Linn Street in 1897.5 In 1899 the building complex extended across the vacated Linn Street right-of-way and into the east half of the former park block. Once SUI redeveloped the park with buildings to house classroom and hospital space, this section of the campus became a permanent barrier between the North Side and the downtown. Though the former park site has strong historical associations with the development of the neighborhood, it is excluded from the Jefferson Street Historic District because of integrity issues including the construction of several modern class room buildings, the completion of major additions to the former University Hospital, and razing of portions of the Hospital. A third historically important open space located near, but not within, the Jefferson Street Historic District was Center Market near the east end of the District between Jefferson, Market, Van Buren, and Johnson streets. The impact of this block - square market on the development of the surrounding neighborhood was significant. In Iowa City's early years, its platting allowed a large parcel of ground to be retained in public ownership while serving a succession of public uses. Like city park, Center Market remained unimproved during its early years. Located several blocks east of three Market Street breweries and one block east of the north/south route of the Military Road along North Gilbert Street, Center Market was not well positioned to attract commercial development around its perimeter, however. Modest residences ringed the block instead as a result. As Iowa City's school age population grew at the end of the 19"' century, a specific civic purpose was determined for the still vacant Center Market block — the construction of public schools. Beginning in 1885 a series of school buildings (all non - extant) were erected on the block and successively used for various grade levels. The first building, the Grammar School, was erected at the northwest corner of Johnson and Jefferson streets in 1885 and converted to the 2nd Ward Elementary School in 1903. It was reused as the Administration Building for the Iowa City School District in the early 1920s. The second building, Iowa City's first high school, was built in 1891 at the northeast corner of Van Buren and Jefferson streets and was converted to use as a grammar school in 1903. The same year, the third building — Iowa City's second high school — was constructed at the southwest corner of Johnson and Market Streets. It was converted to Central Junior High School in 1939- In ca. 1915 a fourth and final building was added to the former Center Market block at the southeast corner of East Market and North Van Buren streets. All of the buildings in the former Center Market block had been razed by the time it was acquired for construction of a parking ramp in the 1980s. The presence of this succession of public school buildings along with three Catholic schools — St. Agatha's, St. Joseph's, and St. Marys — in and near the Jefferson Street Historic District, tended to reinforce the residential use of the District in the decades preceding and following the turn of the 20th century. Proximity to the schools also saw a number of teachers residing in apartment buildings, private homes, and boarding houses along Jefferson Street. Politics and government on the territorial and state levels figured prominently in Iowa City between 1839 and 1857. Territorial legislative assemblies between 1841 and 1845 and state assemblies between 1846 and 1857 brought politicians together to write three state constitutions, to adopt laws including the Code of 1851, to levy taxes, to make expenditures for the public good, and to create a state university headquartered in Iowa City. This last act determined the future course of 5The Original Town Plat on page 8 shows this strip of land as a school reserve. In 1841 the Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association of Iowa City organized and applied to the Territorial Legislature to use this reserve for building a school and library. The Association completed a two-story brick building (non -extant) along the east side of Linn Street north of Iowa Avenue in 1842 but when the Association failed to comply with the terms of the legislative grant, the property reverted to the State of Iowa. The Mechanics' Hall had a succession of uses including Iowa City's first public school in 1853, the first building for the State University of Iowa (1855-1858), SUI's Normal Department (1860), and a men's dormitory for SUI (1866). In ca. 1871 the Mechanics' Hall was converted to a 20-bed hospital managed by the SUI Medical Department with nursing provided by the Sisters of Mercy. In 1885 the Sisters of Mercy established a separate hospital and the building was vacated. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 13 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State events in Iowa City more than any other development and is more fully described in the historic context for the "University of Iowa (1855 - 1940)" contained in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City' MPS. As the historic context points out, however, the economic benefits of the enabling legislation for the State University of Iowa were slow to be realized as growth of SUI during its first decades was erratic. As a result, property owners in the blocks most closely positioned to SUI's grounds on Capitol Square saw the greatest benefit early on. Among those most favored were property owners along East Jefferson Street. Residences housed SUI professors and staff members while apartment buildings and boarding houses were filled by students and junior faculty. Real estate sales appear to have been steady with Johnson County Property Transfer Records showing frequent sales. City directories both before and after 1900 confirm the occupancy of many houses by families or widows with one or more children attending SUI as well. The 1890s ushered in a period of expansion for SUI in terms of enrollment, faculty, and physical plant. Construction of several University buildings in the former city park block along East Jefferson Street was among the first projects to be completed. Under the successive presidencies of Charles Schaeffer (1887-1898) and George MacLean (1899 - 1911), a comprehensive plan for the development of the campus was implemented. Architect Henry Van Brunt successfully advocated the use of the Beaux-Arts Style for the design of four major new buildings to flank Old Capitol, the former territorial capitol on Capitol Square. The plan was completed between 1902 and 1924 and Capitol Square was given a new name — the "Pentacrest" (NRHP). At the same time that plans for the Pentacrest were taking shape, disaster struck elsewhere on Capitol Square. In 1901 the old Medical School Building that stood south of Old Capitol was struck by lightning and destroyed by the ensuing fire. In the aftermath, two new buildings for the SUI Medical School were constructed in the 100 block of East Jefferson Street — the Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19, Photo #12, contributing) at 119 E. Jefferson Street and the Medical Laboratory Building (SUI Building #18, contributing, Photo #13) next door at 121 E. Jefferson Street. Both were constructed in 1902. Sanborn maps show the Hall of Anatomy originally included an embalming area on the ground level, a lecture hall on the second floor, a dissecting laboratory on the third floor with tiered seating ringing the north wall, and a cremating area in the attic level. The building also housed a 100-ton freezer for cadaver storage. Built at the same time as the Hall of Anatomy, the Medical Laboratory Building was constructed immediately to the northeast. Sanborn maps show that it originally included classrooms on the ground level, a lecture hall with classrooms and offices on the second floor, and a clinical laboratory and general laboratory the third floor. The Medical School's surgery department was located in another freestanding building to the southwest (non -extant). In 1928 both the Medical School and the SUI Hospital relocated to the west side of the river following completion of the $4.5 million General Hospital. The former Hall of Anatomy and Medical Laboratory Building continued uses in the human sciences with the Hall of Anatomy variously called the Human Anatomy Laboratory and the Biology Building Annex. The Medical Laboratory Building was renamed the Zoologfy Building and later, the Biology Building. Both buildings received substantial rehabilitations shortly before the turn of the 215 century. Joseph Hall Bodine (1895-1954) was among the distinguished zoologists and biologists to occupy offices in the former Hall of Anatomy and Zoology Building. Bodine was notable for his contributions to the physiology and biochemistry of embryonic development and as head of the Zoology Department at SUI beginning in 1929. Construction of the Hall of Anatomy and the Medical Laboratory Building along Jefferson Street came at the end of a decade that had seen considerable growth in the SUI Medical School. As was noted earlier, both the Homeopathic Hospital (non - extant) and first sections of the SUI Hospital were constructed in the former city park site in 1894 and 1897 respectively. The need for two hospitals arose due to a disagreement between homeopaths and allopaths regarding medical privileges. The original SUI Hospital was in the hands of the allopaths and consisted of three sections built in a U-shaped plan. The center section and the southwest wing were completed in 1897 with other wings added in 1908, 1912, and 1914. Two years later in 1916, new hospital procedures regarding infectious diseases saw construction of the last major SUI Medical School building on the east campus — the SUI Isolation Hospital (contributing, Photo #14) located at 325 E. Jefferson Street. The building was free standing at street level but connected to the main hospital by underground tunnels despite its name. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 14 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson CountyIA Name of Property County and State Continued growth in the SUI Medical School and the SUI Hospital programs after World War I brought another wave of change to the Jefferson Street Historic District. In 1924 construction began on a new 700-patient hospital and medical school on the west side of the Iowa River. The project was completed in 1928 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation matched by the Iowa General Assembly. Soon after the new hospital complex opened, the Isolation Hospital was abandoned. A 1-story wing (non -extant) was constructed to the south replacing several residences previously used as housing for nurses. The building complex was renamed the Music Building and served in this capacity until 1972. It was subsequently used as art studios and in 2003, during completion of this nomination, stood vacant. While public open spaces, churches, schools, collegiate buildings, and hospitals were being established along Jefferson Street from the 1850s through the 1920s, several phases of residential development took shape along the street. The first generation of dwellings included mostly small frame structures located either close to the street or with random setbacks. The earliest view of dwellings in the District is found in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa reproduced on page 11. The map shows one and two-story houses widely spaced along the length of Jefferson Street with denser clusters on the south side of the street between Clinton and Dubuque streets and on the north side between Gilbert and Van Buren streets. Only one of the nearly two dozen residences depicted here survives in the District in 2003 — the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo #1, NRHP). Constructed in 1850, this two-story brick house stood one lot to the south when it was built as a private residence for the Bostick family. It served as Iowa City's city hall from ca. 1875 to 1882 while the new city hall was being constructed. Then, it resumed domestic use when Mary Rohret and her husband George, a retired farmer acquired it. The couple lived here until George's death when Mary had the house moved about 100 feet north to its current location on Gilbert Street in ca. 1909 before constructing a new family residence. Industrial and merchant families built nearly a dozen houses still standing in the Jefferson Street Historic District. The most important industrial family in the neighborhood was the Englerts, who owned a brewery and ice business in Block 59 that fronted on Market Street one block north of Jefferson Street. Members of the Englert family eventually owned three houses in this block. The oldest was a large frame house built in the Queen Anne Style for John and Magdalena Englert in ca. 1885. It originally stood next to the Englert-owned City Brewery that faced Market Street immediately north of where the house stands today. City Brewery was one of three breweries between Gilbert and Dubuque streets along Market Street that thrived during the late 19'" century. Sanborn maps from the period document the move of the house to the present site at 320 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #2). The Englerts resided in this house before and after it was physically moved in 1910 to accommodate business expansion. Nearby Englert family houses included the Clarence and Marie Englert House at 324 E. Jefferson Street and the Mollie Englert House at 119 N. Gilbert Street. Employees of the two other Market Street breweries, the Graff Union Brewery and the Dostal Great Western Brewery, also resided in the District at the turn of the 20th century. Merchant families in the Jefferson Street Historic District included several grocers, a meat market owner, several clothing and shoe store operators, a jeweler, and a hardware storeowner. John and Catherine Sueppel were among the most prominent. The couple and their large family lived in a spacious Queen Anne Style house built in 1876 at 425 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo # 3). John had immigrated to the United States from Germany and held a number of civic positions after arriving in Iowa City, including city treasurer for two years and county treasurer for four years. He and his family were active members in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church located just two blocks west of the family home. Sueppel's professional life saw him own and operate a successful grocery business while also serving as secretary -treasurer for the George Hummer Mercantile Company. After John's death, his wife Catherine took over operation of Sueppel's Grocery while continuing to operate her own business — Catherine Sueppel Clothier and Furnisher. By 1918 the Sueppel House was occupied by the next generation, son Francis and his wife Mary. Francis Sueppel served as secretary of the Iowa City Electric Railway Company, the Mississippi Valley Electric Co., and the Rundell Land Improvement Co., an important local real estate development company. Sueppel family members held the property until 1936. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 15 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Another social pattern that was observed in several instances in the Jefferson Street Historic District in which recently widowed women construct major family residences in the neighborhood. Justine Mueller, widow of Adam Mueller, bought the property at 420 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #4) in 1904, commissioned an architect to design a house for the lot a short time later, and had a house built for herself and her four children the following year. Adam had been a partner in Mueller Brothers Shoes in downtown Iowa City. After Justine's death, her daughters Mary and Margaret owned the family house until 1956. One worked as a bookkeeper for Mueller Brothers Shoes and the other was a schoolteacher. In a similar case, Mary Rohret tackled an even larger homebuilding project following the death of her husband George Rohret, a retired farmer and carpenter. The Rohret family had previously lived in the two-story brick dwelling located at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Gilbert streets. When a new house was planned in 1908, the former residence was moved to the north half of the lot (115 North Gilbert Street) to make room for a modern American Four -Square house. Construction dates for single-family houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District indicate that most dwellings were built during the decades immediately before and after 1900. This pattern is typical of other North Side neighborhoods and may reflect general growth in Iowa City during the period. In the case of East Jefferson Street, however, it likely reflects the expansion of the State University of Iowa's east campus in the blocks immediately adjacent to the District. Five major buildings connected to the SUI Medical School and SUI Hospital were constructed between Clinton and Gilbert streets between 1894 and 1916. Fifteen new houses were completed in the District during the same period with five more completed during the early 1920s. Another important housing trend during these years responded to the growing need for rental housing, more particularly — student housing. Along East Jefferson Street this need was met in a variety of ways. Nursing students, for example, were housed in the former Robert and Julia Hutchinson House at 318 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). From ca. 1911 through ca. 1920 the building served as the SUI Nurses Home and by 1926 was described in city directories as the SUI Obstetrical Home. Located directly across the street from the SUI Hospital and SUI Isolation Hospital, the house was officially converted to apartments in 1947. The establishment of rooming houses and boarding houses for SUI students was repeated throughout the District. The Chase Rooming House was operated by Marie Chase, a widow, at 22 North Gilbert Street (contributing) in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. During this period the University established informal but strict policies about such establishments restricting rooming houses to same -sex boarders. A variation on this restriction applied to the location of sorority and fraternity houses. The former were located in neighborhoods east of the downtown while the latter were located on N. Dubuque and N. Clinton streets or west of the river. Several houses functioned as sorority houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District through the years, the largest example constructed at 430 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). Its design was that of an oversized American Four -Square with a private apartment for the owners, Janet and Henry Kohrt. The Kohrts served as house -parents during its early years when it was leased to members of the Phi Rho Sigma Sorority as an annex to the main sorority house located a block away at 505 East Iowa Avenue. Another sorority house was located across the street at 431 E. Jefferson (contributing) beginning in the 1920s. Originally built as a private residence for Laura and William Foster, it was used as the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House and the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House after World War I. The largest example of rental housing in the District was the former Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary (contributing, Photo #9) at 130 E. Jefferson Street. After St. Agatha's Seminary closed here in 1909 the building became a women's dormitory. Beginning in 1918, the building was converted to flats and renamed for proprietor Albert Burkley as the Burkley Place Apartments. The demand for apartments continued to be brisk after World War I and Burkley added a separate new apartment building to the north at 115 N. Dubuque Street (contributing) named "Burkley Place North." Together the two buildings had nearly 40 flats. Prior to World War 11, SUI junior faculty and staff as well as downtown employees occupied buildings such as these. Student use of such apartments was a post-war phenomenon. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 16 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson CountyIA Name of Property County and State By the time the Jefferson Street Historic District was fully developed by the late 1920s, the neighborhood consisted of a mix of middle and upper income households in owner -occupied and rental houses and apartments. Students at the State University of Iowa, especially medical students, nursing students, and music students filled rooming houses and apartment buildings. Information in the list below has been gleaned from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources and provides a sampling of the District's residents, their occupations or professions, business affiliations, and the location of the houses they occupied. Dates shown are for estimates for building construction: East Jefferson Street 104 E. Jefferson St., Newman Catholic Center, 1988 (St. Mary's Convent wing originally built ca. 1930) 119 E. Jefferson SUSUI Building #19, Hall of Anatomy (Biological Sciences Library), 1902 121 E. Jefferson SUSUI Building #18, Medical Laboratory Building (Zoology Bldg./Biology Bldg.), 1902 130 E. Jefferson St., Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 1852/ca. 1875 214 E. Jefferson St., First Methodist Episcopal Church (First United Methodist Church), 1908 220 E. Jefferson St., St. Mary's Rectory, 1891 230 E. Jefferson St., St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 1867/1907 302 E. Jefferson St., Hugh & Josephine McCabe, retired, ca. 1925 306 E. Jefferson St., Mary Thoman, ca. 1925 318 E. Jefferson St., Robert & Julia Hutchinson, carpenter and city marshall, ca. 1875 320 E. Jefferson St., John & Magdalena Englert, owner, City Brewery, ca. 1885 324 E. Jefferson St., Joseph & Lena Weiss, occupation unknown, 1940 325 E. Jefferson St./SUI Building #20, State University of Iowa Isolation Hospital, 1916 328 E. Jefferson St., Mary Rohret, widow, 1911 403 E. Jefferson St., Dionysius Speidel, partner, Speidel Brothers Clothing Store, 1905 404 E. Jefferson St., St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1926 405 E. Jefferson St., Thomas & Martina Brown, proprietor, Clinton Street Smoke House, 1906 409-411 E. Jefferson St., Andrew & Mary Beermaker, occupation unknown, ca. 1883 413 E. Jefferson St., Beermaker rental house, ca. 1892 415 E. Jefferson St., Mrs. F.A. Lucas, widow, ca. 1868 420 E. Jefferson St., Justine Mueller, widow, 1905 424 E. Jefferson St., David & Isabell Abrams, shoe dealer and grocery store owner, 1893 425 E. Jefferson St., John & Catherine Sueppel, owner, Sueppel's Grocery and Catherine Sueppel Clothier and Furnisher, 1876 428 E. Jefferson St., Warren & Anna Irons, no occupation, ca. 1921 430 E. Jefferson St., Janet & Henry Kohrt, / Phi Rho Sigma Annex, 1924 431 E. Jefferson St., Foster, Laura & William, no occupation/Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House & Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House, ca. 1894 North Dubuque Street 115 N. Dubuque St., Burkley Place North Apartment Building, ca. 1925 North Gilbert Street 22 N. Gilbert St., Hugh & Margaret Smith, partner, Smith & Cilek Hardware Store 24 N. Gilbert St., Thomas Moore, no occupation, ca. 1905 114 N. Gilbert St., Joseph & Ludmila Barborka , retired jeweler, 1901 115 N. Gilbert St., Wm. Bostick, ca. 1850 and later, George & Mary Rohret, retired farmer 119 N. Gilbert St., Mollie Englert, widow of George Englert, owner, City Brewery, ca. 1900 120 N. Gilbert St., Alois & Esther Smith, brewmaster, Iowa Brewing Co. (former Dostal Brewery), ca. 1908 125 N. Gilbert St., Jacob & Sarah Goldberg, grocery store owner, ca. 1922 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 17 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State North Van Buren Street 21-25 N. Van Buren St., Unnamed House, ca. 1875 109 N. Van Buren St., William Graf, proprietor, Graf Bottling Works, 1920 117 N. Van Buren St., John Messner, partner, Messner, Koza & Co., meat market, ca. 1911 The Architecture of the Jefferson Street Historic District: The mix of residences, apartment buildings, churches, and collegiate buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District provides a representative sampling of architectural styles and vernacular forms typical of late 19th and early 20`h century neighborhoods in Iowa City. At the same time, this mix of institutional architecture and domestic building stock provides a blend of architectural scale, materials, and designs that is rare within Iowa City. Architects of local and regional prominence are identified with several individual buildings within the District while builders and carpenters associated with many of the vernacular buildings remain unidentified. Good examples can be found of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival style residences as well as well preserved examples of vernacular forms such as the American Four -Square. Religious buildings include fine examples of Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, French Second Empire, and a mix of Tudor Revival and Collegiate Gothic designs while collegiate buildings are designed in the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles. A discussion of the architecture of the District begins with an examination of several architect -designed buildings. Churches and SUI owned buildings comprise the major architectural commissions in the Jefferson Street Historic District. The earliest building designed by an architect in the District is believed to be the Congregational Church at 30 N. Clinton Street (contributing, Photo #7, NRHP). A design for the church was commissioned in 1867 from Gurdon P. Randall (1821-1888) of Chicago. Randall had apprenticed in the offices of Asher Benjamin of Boston before moving west in 1856. His 34-year practice specialized in schoolhouses, churches, and courthouses throughout the Midwest. The same year that he designed the Congregational Church in Iowa City, he published A Handbook of Designs, Buildings. The Madison County Court House in Winterset, Iowa was completed the same year also but was destroyed by fire in 1875. The Union Park Congregational Church completed in Chicago (1869 and 1871), was among his other church designs.6 It is pictured to the right, its front fagade a nearly identical, but reverse, image of the Congregational Church in Iowa City.' (see Photo #7) The Congregational Church is a well preserved example of the Gothic Revival Style of architecture found in religious buildings throughout the country after the Civil War. This building is an example of the side -steeple church form. It has an asymmetrical fror First Baptist Congregational Church, 60 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago 6Wesley I. Shank, Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, (Nevada, Iowa: University of Iowa Press), 1999, p. 201. 7Photo by Stephen Beal from Chicago Landmarks Web Site, available at http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/F/FirstBaptist.htm]. Accessed on November 5, 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 18 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State containing an octagon broached spire ornamented with small gabled windows located at the northwest corner of the building facing Clinton and Jefferson streets. The front fagade incorporates a smaller turret on the southwest corner that originally terminated in a pinnacle. The Gothic design's distinctive fenestration includes pointed or lancet arched windows in singles, pairs, or trios. The building has a stone foundation and the masonry walls are constructed of a locally produced reddish brown brick. Stone belt courses extend around the building between the raised basement and first floor and at three points around the tower. Brick pointed arches are inset in the walls of the tower as well. Facing the Pentacrest, the Congregational Church provides a dramatic landmark at the west entrance to the Jefferson Street Historic District. First Methodist Episcopal Church, undated Architects for other churches in the District are not as clearly identified. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at 230 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #11) with its Romanesque Revival Style center steeple form was reportedly designed by Father Emonds, pastor at the church at the time of its construction in 1868-69. The building's large footprint took advantage of the church reserve lot it occupied opposite the park. Like the Congregational Church, it was constructed of reddish brown brick with limestone trim. Its imposing church steeple centered on the front fagade was one of three that marked the skyline of East Jefferson Street by the turn of the 20`h century. When a rectory was added next door at 220 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #10) in 1891, it was also designed in the Romanesque Revival Style. The First Methodist Episcopal Church stood on another church reserve lot West of St. Mary's Church and Rectory. After several fires and partial reconstructions, the building was destroyed in 1906 in a fire that threatened conflagration in the densely developed neighborhood. Two years later a replacement church building was completed at 214 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #8). Though no specific architect has been identified for the replacement building that appears at the above, it is possible that the contracting firm for the church, Sheets & Freyder, also served as architect. This long-standing Iowa City building firm traced its roots to the carpentry shops of J.M. Sheets and partners Bernard Gesberg and August Hazelhorst in the mid-191h century. The men eventually merged operations as Sheets & Co. and became noted for their millwork production and contracting services. Business listings in city directories from before the turn of the 20rh century through the 1920s listed the firm with "architects" as well as various builder specialties. Frank X. Freyder apparently served as the firm's architect. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts on a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including at least four other Iowa City churches. One of these, the German Methodist Episcopal Church (non -extant), was located at the southeast corner of Gilbert and Jefferson streets. $Photo from Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company), 1989, p. 59. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 19 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State At a quick glance, the massive side -steeple form and rusticated limestone walls of the 1908 First Methodist Episcopal Church suggest that the building is a Richardsonian Romanesque design. Closer examination identifies the church as an example of the Late Gothic Revival Style that was gaining national popularity on college campuses at the turn of the century such as Bryn Mawr, Princeton, West Point, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. Gothic pointed arches in the three entrance bays and the stained glass windows in the tower and sanctuary combine with steeply pitched gable roof peaks, crenellated towers, decorative roof ridge crestings, and tall chimneys to give the church its distinctive Gothic design. As was noted previously, growth of the State University of Iowa Medical School and related hospitals transformed a nearly three -block stretch of the south side of Jefferson Street beginning in the decade of the 1890s. The University employed architect that oversaw that change was the Des Moines firm of Proudfoot & Bird and its successor, Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson. The firm was headed by William T. Proudfoot (1860-1928) and George W. Bird (1854-1953) when it relocated to Des Moines in 1896. Harry D. Rawson (1873-1934) joined the firm in 1910. During the first decades of the 20th century, the firm became established as "Iowa's preeminent early -twentieth-century architectural firm... noted for the high quality of their architectural design, their high level of professional competence, and the large number of completed commissions.i9 Among Proudfoot and Bird's best known SUI commissions are the four academic halls on the Pentacrest that surround Old Capitol — Schaeffer Hall (1902), MacBride Hall (1908), MacLean Hall (1912), and Jessup Hall (1924). The four Bedford stone buildings were designed in the Classical Revival Style with Beaux-Arts elements. When fire claimed the SUI Medical School Building that also stood on Capitol Square as Schaeffer Hall was nearing completion, SUI turned to Proudfoot & Bird to design a new Medical Laboratories Building (SUI Building #18, contributing, Photo #13) and Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19, Photo #12, contributing) along the south side of the 100 block of East Jefferson Street. The two buildings were completed between 1902-1904 and also featured the use of Bedford stone in their Classical Revival designs. Further to the east along Jefferson Street, a complimentary set of hospital buildings was designed by Proudfoot and Bird for the University. The main hospital was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style with red and buff colored brick combined with limestone trim and a red clay tiled roofs to achieve a less academic aesthetic. The main hospital and a series of additions (either non -extant or located outside of the District) were constructed between 1897 and 1914- Construction of the SUI Isolation Hospital in 1916 required a freestanding building, which was located at 325 Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo # 14). Rendered in the same Italian Renaissance Revival Style and polychromatic materials, its exterior remains largely unaltered in 2003. The third architect identified with buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District was Orville H. Carpenter of Iowa City. Though at least three other buildings designed by Carpenter are already listed on the NRHP, most of what is known about his life and professional career has been uncovered only recently by historian and Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner Richard Carlson. Examinations of local newspapers and issues of American Contractor magazine for the years 1897-1908 and 1897-1930 respectively have identified at least three residences designed by Carpenter in the District.10 The buildings span the period 1905-1907 and their designs demonstrate the transition between late Queen Anne Free Classic designs and American Four -Square plans that Carpenter's work was undergoing at this time. Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938) was born and grew up in rural Camanche in Clinton County, Iowa about 70 miles east of Iowa City. He attended public schools and one or more business colleges before beginning a career doing survey work for a civil engineering company in western Iowa in 1885. During the next decade he traveled extensively, working for "some of the largest architectural firms in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large cities."11 It is not known whether or not 9Shank, p. 127. 10Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897— 1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 — 1930, November, 2003. 11Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 20 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Carpenter received any formal training in architecture or engineering. By 1895 he had returned to Clinton County where he was apparently working as an engineer, architect, or both. In late 1898 Carpenter moved to Iowa City to open an architectural practice. A published account of his work in The Commercial Magazine in 1898 featured photographs of five completed residences in Iowa City suggesting that his work had likely commenced in Iowa City sometime before he made the decision to relocate there. The dearth of professional architects in Iowa City at the time was a likely factor in drawing Carpenter to Iowa City. This was coupled with the fact that in Clinton County, several competent architects already had established practices and the local economy was experiencing a decline. Carpenter appears in city directory business listings from 1899 through 1936. A comprehensive review of local newspapers underway in 200312 has identified at least three residences designed by Carpenter in the Jefferson Street Historic District. They include the Justine Mueller House at 420 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #4), the Falk Rental House at 403 E. Jefferson Street (contributing), and the Thomas and Martina Brown House next door at 405 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). The Mueller House is the earliest completed in ca. 1905 and is also the most elaborate of the three residences. It is a well preserved example of a variation of the popular late 19th century Queen Anne Style that Carpenter used for many of his early Iowa City residential designs. Its solid, hipped -roof mass incorporated classical elements such as a keystone arched Palladian window in the attic gable, modillion style porch brackets, heavy turned balusters, and paneled columns. As such, the house typified other late Queen Anne "Free Classic" residential designs by Carpenter in Iowa City. The other Jefferson Street houses by Carpenter are examples of the American Four -Square plans that he frequently designed in the years leading up to and following World War I. The Falk House and Brown House are two of the earliest Four -Squares that Carpenter is known to have designed. Both feature typical elements of this form incorporated in Carpenter plans including hipped or pyramidal roofs, attic dormers, wide hipped roof front porches, and large double -hung sash in singles and groups. Three other O.H. Carpenter residences near the Jefferson Street Historic District are individually listed on the NRHP — the Benjamin F. and Bertha (Horack) Shambaugh House built at 219 N. Clinton Street in 1902 and moved to 430 N. Clinton Street in 2002, the Arthur Hillyer Ford House completed in 1908 at 228 Brown Street, and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street completed a decade later in 1918. The Shambaugh House is an example of the Free Classic Queen Anne form favored by Carpenter for his earlier designs while the Ford House is an example of the Mission Style. The Harvat-Stach House is an eclectic blend of Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and Prairie School. At least eight Carpenter houses have also been identified in the proposed Gilbert- Linn Street Historic District located several blocks north of the Jefferson Street Historic District. O.H. Carpenter's architectural career included more than residences such as those documented in and around the Jefferson Street Historic District. Commercial and institutional projects including downtown business blocks, fraternal halls, and schools were among his work in Iowa City and in southeast Iowa. Carpenter's architectural practice continued through the 1920s and early 1930s though examples of his work became more rare, perhaps due to his age. In 1938 he died while continuing to reside in Iowa City. As was noted earlier in this section, much if not most of the domestic building stock in the Jefferson Street Historic District was constructed without the benefit of custom, architect -designed plans. The presence of only a handful of professional architects in Iowa City during the 19`" century contributed to the dearth of professionally designed dwellings along Jefferson Street. Newspaper advertisements of builders at the turn of the 20t1 century promote the idea residences constructed by design/build firms. This idea was further encouraged by the tradition in American homebuilding that saw house designs frequently spring from sources other than architects. In some cases, popular house plans passed from generation to November 18, 2003 draft; "O.H. Carpenter," Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa), Special Edition, May 31, 1899, p. 6. 12Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897— 1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 — 1930, November, 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 21 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State generation embellished with ornamentation and design features of their richer, architect -designed cousins. In other instances, the favored forms of individual carpenters or masons were modified based on stylistic trends of the day and built for new customers. In the Jefferson Street Historic District, examples of each of these homebuilding trends can be identified. The three houses identified as O.H. Carpenter designs are evidence of the presence of professionally designed dwellings in the District. Although specific architects have not been identified for other houses such as St. Mary's Rectory at 220 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #10) or the Sueppel House at 425 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #3), it is likely that professionals contributed to their designs. Two dwellings are examples of the adaptation of a popular house plan passed down from generation to generation. Both the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo #1, NRHP) and the Robert and Julia Hutchinson House at 318 E. Jefferson Street (contributing) are examples of the adaptation of the I -House form. In both cases the two-story, side -gabled houses were constructed of brick but in the earlier Bostick House built in 1850, the building incorporated Greek Revival Style windows, arches, and entrance treatment. In the Hutchinson House built about fifteen years later, the same house form incorporated the robust ornamentation of the Italianate Style for cornice brackets and porch trim. Robert had first settled in Iowa City in 1839 soon after its founding working as a carpenter and joiner. He was credited with erecting the town's first log house. During the California gold rush he went west but returned a few years later no richer for the trouble. Hutchinson's experience as a carpenter likely encouraged him to chose a house form that was both pleasing and flexible. Other houses constructed in the Jefferson Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vernacular forms that swept the country from the 1880s through the 1920s. Homebuilders for these houses turned to pattern books and design catalogues that were readily available from local lumber companies. After the turn of the 201h century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut houses such as Aladdin Homes, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck and Company, and Iowa's own Gordon -Van Tine Company. Another source of vernacular home designs were the plans offered through plan services such as the Home Owners Service Institute or pattern books published by Ray Bennett, Gustav Stickley, Herbert C. Chives, the Radford Architectural Co., or Harris, McHenry & Baker. The case of the Gordon -Van Tine Company headquartered in Davenport, Iowa is worth examining. The company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 the company offered house plans and were among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre-cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon -Van Tine Company knew of the brisk market for residential construction in other Iowa communities before and after World War I regularly placing advertising in local newspapers and sending traveling salesmen throughout the state. The most popular vernacular house form in the Jefferson Street Historic District was one frequently promoted by the Gordon -Van Tine Company — the American Four -Square. Ten separate buildings using this form were built in the District in the years leading up to and immediately following World War I. The Gordon -Van Tine Company included 18 separate plans in the American Four -Square house form in its 1923 catalogue seeking to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price," "A Big Square Home — Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two -Story Home," "An Every Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home —A Space and Money Saver," "A Substantial Seven Room House," and "A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms."13 13117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon -Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923), pp. 37, 52, 66, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 99. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 22 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State As noted above, the American Four -Square was the most common house form in the Jefferson Street Historic District. Common characteristics included a two-story, three -bay configuration; hipped roof of various pitches; hipped, shed or gable attic or wall dormer(s) on one or more fagades; porches generally extending across the entire front facade; asymmetrically placed entrance door (common); a cottage window on first floor (common); double -hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary fagades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 configurations; belt courses separating first and second floors; and differing materials on each level (common). The typical plan for a Four -Square featured four rooms on the first floor usually including an entrance hall with stairs to the second floor, a cased opening between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the District were built for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor, moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and a few large houses containing more than 1,000 square feet per floor. Although the use of pattern book houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District has not been documented, the presence of 10 examples of the American Four -Square form makes it likely that one or more were the result of catalogue or pattern book selections. Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources: The Jefferson Street Historic District contains a total of 44 buildings with 41 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 22 are key or individually significant (21 primary and 1 secondary). The balance of the District includes 1 non- contributing primary building and 2 non-contributing secondary buildings. Five buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Congregational Church in 1973, the Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary in 1978, St. Mary's Church and St. Mary's Rectory in 1995, and the William Bostick House in 1996. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District were developed using National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994 and 1999-2000 listed below "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," prepared 1999, listed NRHP 2000 Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 — 1945," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 2000 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi -block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Jefferson Street Historic District meets these requirements. Individual buildings were evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing or 3) non-contributing. For single or multi -family buildings (including sorority houses, rectories, convents, rooming houses, and apartment buildings) to be designated as "key contributing," they had to be substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportions, and roofline. Principal fagades had to remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 23 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State siding has been installed it was considered acceptable if the width matched that of the original surfaces and few architectural features had been compromised by its installation. Original porches were required to be intact, windows had to remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances had to remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi -family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure is easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. The majority of windows remain unchanged but if altered, the sizes of window openings conform to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant architectural detailing. For secondary structures such as garages, changes considered acceptable for contributing status include the replacement of garage doors. Residential buildings designated as "non-contributing" include all structures built outside of the period of significance —1850 to 1954. Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable are also considered non-contributing. Examples of significant changes include a change in roofline, porch enclosures of a non -reversible nature, major additions or modifications of primary facades, and moving of a building outside of the period of significance. The balance of the buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District fall into the category of institutional buildings. These larger buildings include churches, education buildings, and hospitals and were evaluated and ranked according to the same three designations of key contributing, contributing, or non-contributing. If an institutional building is designated as a "key contributing" resource, its primary facades are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportions, and roofline. A church, for example, retains its original shape and proportions with original window openings, doors, spires, and other architectural features preserved. Construction materials for foundations, walls, and windows remain original. The use of modern roofing materials is an acceptable alteration. New additions or wings are considered acceptable if they are located along secondary facades, have sympathetic design elements, and are constructed of compatible building materials. Such additions do not preclude a building from being considered a key contributing resource. In general, modifications made more than 50 years ago are accepted as part of the historic appearance of a building. Similar integrity standards apply to other institutional buildings including those built as academic halls and hospitals within the District. Changes to primary entrances, important window openings, and rooflines result in institutional buildings being considered either "contributing" rather than "key contributing" or "non-contributing" depending on the level of change. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings. National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A list of buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District appears on the following page. Buildings are separated into primary (church, education hall, hospital, single-family house, or multi -family building) and secondary (carriage house or garage). If no box is marked under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage or carriage house is present. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 24 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Jefferson Street Historic District— Contributing and Non -Contributing Resources # STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 30 N. Clinton St. First Congregational 1868 Key Gothic Revival Church NRHP 115 N. Dubuque St. Burkley Place North ca. 1925 C No Style Apartment Building 22 N. Gilbert St. Smith, Hugh & ca. 1910 C Am. Four -Square MargarettChase Rooming House 24 N. Gilbert St. Moore, Thomas ca. 1905 C Am. Four -Square 114 N. Gilbert St. Barborka, Joseph & 1901 Key Colonial Revival Ludmila Cross Gable 115 N. Gilbert St. Bostick, Wm./Rohret, M. 1 550 Key Greek RevivaVSide- Geo e & Ma NRHP Gabled Two -Story 119 N. Gilbert St. Englert, Mollie ca. 1900 C Gable -Front and Wing 120 N. Gilbert St. Smith, Alois & Esther ca. 1908 Key Colonial Revival/Am. 125 N. Gilbert -St. Goldberg, Jacob & ca. 1922 C NC Four-Scluare Craftsman/ Sarah Am. Four -Square 104 E. Jefferson St. Newman Catholic 1988 NC Modern Movement Center (with St. Mary's (Italian Renaissance Convent win Revival convent win 119 E. Jefferson St Hall of Anatomy 1902 Key Classical Revival SUI Building #19 (Biological Sciences Libra 121 E. Jefferson St Medical Laboratory 1902 Key Classical Revival SUI Building #18 Building (Zoology Bld ./Biolo Bld . 130 E. Jefferson St. Park House/St. 1852/ Key Second Empire A atha's Semina ca. 1875 NRHP 214 E. Jefferson St. First Methodist 1908 Key Gothic Revival Episcopal Church (First United Methodist Church 220 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Rectory 1891 Key Romanesque Revival NRHP 230 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Roman 1867/ Key Romanesque Revival Catholic Church 1907 NRHP 302 E. Jefferson St. McCabe, Hugh & ca, 1925 C Craftsman/Bungalow Josephine 306 E. Jefferson St. Thoman, Mary C Side -Gabled Two 318 E. Jefferson St. Hutchinson, Robert & ca. 1875 Key C Story/Craftsman Ilalianate/ I -House Julia 320 E. Jefferson St. Englert, John & ca. 8885 Key Queen Anne/Gable- Ma dalena Front and Win 324 E. Jefferson St. Englert, Clarence & 1940 C C Gable -Front and Wing Marie I 325 E. Jefferson StJ SUI Isolation Hospital 1916 Key Italian Renaissance SUI Building #20 Revival United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 25 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAL/ LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE - TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non -Contributing Contributing Non -Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 328 E. Jefferson St. Rohret, Mary 1911 Key Am. Four -Square 403 E. Jefferson St. Falk Rental House 1907 Key Am. Four -Square 404 E. Jefferson St. St. Paul's Lutheran 1926 Key EclecticlTudor Revival Church & Collegiate Gothic 405 E. Jefferson St. Brown, Thomas & 1906 C Am. Four -Square Martina 409- E. Jefferson St. Beermaker, Andrew & ca. 1883 C Side -Gabled Two- 411 Mary Story 413 E. Jefferson St. Beermaker rental ca. 1892 C Side -Gabled Two - house Story 415 E. Jefferson St. Lucas, F.A. ca. 1868 C Front -Gabled One Story 420 E. Jefferson St. Mueller, Justine 1905 Key Key Colonial Revival/ Am. Four -Square/ 424 E. Jefferson St. Abrams, David & 1893 Key Front -Gabled Two Isabell Story 425 E. Jefferson St. John & Catherine 1876 Key NC (same Queen Anne/Front- Sueppel House garage as at 415 Gabled Two Story E. Jefferson & 21-25 Van Buren 428 E. Jefferson St. Irons, Warren & Anna ca. 1921 C C Am. Four -Square 430 E. Jefferson St. Kohrt, Janet & Henry/ 1924 Key Am. Four -Square Phi Rho Sigma Annex 431 E. Jefferson St. Foster, Laura & ca. 1894 C Queen Anne William/Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House & Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House 21-25 N. Van Buren St. Unnamed House ca. 1875 C Front -Gabled Two Sto 109 N. Van Buren St. Graf, William 1920 C Craftsman/Bungalow 117 IN. Van Buren St. Messner, John & Mary Ica. 19111 1 Key I I Am. Four -Square Summary: In summary, the Jefferson Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential areas at the end of the 19`h century and the beginning of the 20th century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. Jefferson Street's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the institutional buildings — both religious and collegiate — that were constructed along Jefferson Street from the 1860s through the 1920s. The street's many churches became social centers for the community and the neighborhood. Growth in importance of the nearby State University of Iowa beginning in the 1890s saw construction of new medical school buildings and hospitals along East Jefferson Street. The resulting mix of institutional buildings and residences gave Jefferson Street a unique character among Iowa City's neighborhoods. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 26 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Under Criterion C the Jefferson Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. The juxtaposition of 11 different architectural styles and vernacular forms employed for single-family dwellings, rooming houses, apartment buildings, churches, academic halls, and a hospital testifies to the architectural diversity of the District. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Jefferson Street Historic District its distinct neighborhood identity and significance. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 27 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 9. Major Bibliographical References: 117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon -Van Tine Co. New York. Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1992. (reprint of Gordon -Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon - Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923). Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. [Publisher unknown] 1917. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa: The Huebinger Survey & Map Publishing Co., 1900. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: J. J. Novak, 1889. Aurner, Clarence Ray. Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2. Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912. Baxter, Elaine. Historic Structure Inventory, North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa. Institute of Urban and Regional Research, 1977. Bercovici, Konrad. On New Shores. New York: The Century Co., 1925. "Buildings East of the Pentacrest" compiled by Dan Hurd, University of Iowa, Facilities services Group, Design & Construction Services, September 26,2000. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897— 1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings in The American Contractor, 1897 — 1930, November, 2003. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," November 18, 2003 draft. The Census of Iowa for the years 1856, 1873, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895, 1905, 1915, and 1925 as printed by various State Printers. Census of the United States for 1850 to 2000. City Directories of Iowa City, Iowa. Multiple years. Combination Atlas and Map of Johnson County, Iowa. Geneva, Illinois. Thompson & Everts, 1870. Drury, John. This is Johnson County, Iowa. Chicago: The Loree Company, 1955. Eckhardt, Patricia Ann Lacey. "Proudfoot and Bird, Campus Architects: Building Facilities for Professional Education at the University of Iowa, 1898-1910." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1990. Ellis, Edwin Charles. "Certain Stylistic Trends in Architecture in Iowa City." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1947. Gebhard, David, and Gerald Mansheim. Buildings of Iowa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-264. Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 28 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870— 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc., ca. 1973, 1883. Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. (New York: The Sanborn Map Company and the Sanborn and Perris Map Company, 1874, 1879, 1883, 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970). "Iowa City, Iowa". The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January 1898). Iowa City, Iowa, Souvenir and Annual for 1881-82. Iowa City, Iowa: Hoover, Kneedler & Faust, 1882. Iowa City and Her Business Men; Iowa's Most Enterprising City. 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The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century: An Institutional History. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press. 1990. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 29 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson CountyIA Name of Property County and State Petersen, William John. "Iowa City — Then and Now." The Palimpsest, Vol. 48, No. 2 (February 1967). Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa Counties, Iowa. Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893. Richardson, Jim. The University of Iowa. Louisville, Kentucky: Harmony House Publishers, 1989. Ruger, A. "Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa." Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1868. "Semi -Centennial Edition." Iowa City Republican, October 20, 1890. Shambaugh, Benjamin F. Iowa City: A Contribution to the Early History of Iowa. 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"Survey and Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phase II Area" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 — 1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS") prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999-2000. Svendsen, Marlys. "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 — 1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS") prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission (not submitted to the National Park Service), 1999-2000. Weber, Irving. Irving Weber's Iowa City— Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1976, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1990. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Page 30 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and Slate 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Beginning at the northwest corner of Block 79 in the Original Town Plat at the intersection of North Clinton Street and East Jefferson Street; thence south along the west side of Lot 4 to the south property line of the Congregational Church of Iowa City; thence east along said line approximately 120 feet; thence south approximately 80 feet along the west edge of University of Iowa campus to the south property line of Lot 3; thence east approximately 80 feet; thence north approximately 100 feet to the rear wall of the Medical Laboratory Building (also known as the Zoology Building and the Biology Building); thence east to the east property line of Lot 4 along North Dubuque Street; thence north to the centerline of East Jefferson Street; thence east along said centerline to a point located approximately 100 feet west of the northeast corner of Block 60 extended; thence south along said line to a line along the rear wall of the Isolation Hospital Building (also known as the Music Building); thence east along the rear wall to the east side of North Gilbert Street; then south along the west side Lot 4 of Block 45 to the north side of the alley; thence east along the north side of the alley to the west side of North Van Buren Street; thence north along the west side of said street to the south side of the alley in Block 46; thence west to the east line of Lot 4; thence north along said line approximately 40 feet; thence west across North Gilbert Street to the east side of Block 59; thence north approximately 40 feet; thence west to the west line of Lot 1; thence south to the south side of the alley; thence west along said alley to the east side of North Clinton Street; thence south along the east side of said street to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The boundary for the Jefferson Street Historic District relates to the surviving group of historic resources located along East Jefferson Street, which is situated midway north and south between the Market Street commercial area and the central business district. This section of Jefferson Street includes a mix of residential, church, and collegiate buildings that visually relate the development story of this portion of Iowa City. A nearly two block long stretch of the south side of Jefferson Street that includes academic halls of the University Iowa is excluded from the District because these buildings are not part of the period of significance of the Jefferson Street Historic District or, as in the case of the former SUI Main Hospital, have been so modified as to no longer qualify for the NRHP. The west boundary of the District along North Clinton Street was drawn to exclude portions of the adjoining University of Iowa campus that do not relate to the historic development of the District. Southwest of the Jefferson Street District, the Pentacrest Historic District (NRHP) and Old Capitol NHL block are located. The east boundary of the District was established along North Van Buren Street with the blocks further east noted for their significant loss in building integrity. A key factor in drawing this boundary was the loss of the former Center Market square as a result of construction of a multi -story parking ramp to serve nearby Mercy Hospital. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Photographs Page 31 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Photograph Key for Jefferson Street Historic District: (See Photo Map, page 35) Shelley McCafferty, and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Bostick-Rohret House, 115 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 2. John & Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 3. John & Catherine Sueppel House, 425 E. Jefferson Street, looking south southwest 4. Justine Mueller House, 420 E. Jefferson Street, looking north northeast 5. Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 6. John & Mary Messner House, 117 N. Van Buren Street, looking west 7. Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton Street, looking southeast 8. First Methodist Episcopal Church (First United Methodist Church), 214 E. Jefferson Street, looking northeast 9. Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 130 E. Jefferson Street, looking northwest 10. St. Mary's Rectory, 220 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 11. St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 230 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 12. SUI Hall of Anatomy, 119 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building # 19, looking north 13. SUI Medical Laboratory Building, 121 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building #18, looking southwest 14. SUI Isolation Hospital, 325 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building #20, looking northwest 15. St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 404 E. Jefferson Street, looking northwest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Jefferson Street Historic District Name of Property Page 32 Johnson County, IA County and State Property Owners within the East Jefferson Street Historic District # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYER(S) 30 N. Clinton St. Congregational Church of Iowa City 30 N. Clinton St. Iowa City IA 52245 115 N. Dubuque St. Julie K. Hodge 711 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52240 22 N. Gilbert St. Morrissey Partnership 800 2 nd St. Suite 500E Coralville IA 52241 24 N. Gilbert St. Morrissey Partnership 800 2nd St. Suite 500E Coralville IA 52241 114 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma M. Alberhask 1150 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 115 N. Gilbert St. Steven & Barbara Van Der Woude 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 119 N. Gilbert St. 122 Building Co. c/o Van Der Woude 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 120 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma M. Alberhask 1150 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 125 N. Gilbert St. Stephen M. Baker 927 Duck Creek Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 104 E. Jefferson St. Diocese of Davenport 2706 Gaines Davenport IA 52804 119 E. Jefferson St SUI Buildinq #19 University of Iowa 121 E. Jefferson St SUI Building #18 University of Iowa 130 E. Jefferson St. Parkhouse LC 711 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52240 214 E. Jefferson St. First Un. Methodist Church 214 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 220 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Catholic Church 220 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 230 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Catholic Church 220 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 302 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Catholic Church 302 E. Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 306 E. Jefferson St. St. Mary's Catholic Church— Go Keystone Prop. M mt. 1125 Street PI. Coralville IA 52241 318 E. Jefferson St. Marc B. Moen 123 N. Linn St, Iowa City IA 52245 320 E. Jefferson St. William L. Dull 320 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Jefferson St. Michael N. & Joan M. Hart 848 Jennifer St. Madison WI 53703 325 E. Jefferson St./ SUI Building #20 University of Iowa 328 E. Jefferson St. Steven & Barbara Van Der Woude 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 403 E. Jefferson St. Morrissey Partnership 800 2 Od St. Suite 500E Coralville IA 52241 404 E. Jefferson St. St. Paul's Lutheran Church 404 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 405 E. Jefferson St. Philip Launspach 136 Koser Ave. Iowa City IA 52246 409- 4111 E. Jefferson St. John O. & Joellen S. Roffman 1314 Burry Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 413 E. Jefferson St. John O. & Joellen S. Roffman 1314 Burry Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 415 E. Jefferson St. Jane E. & Kevin Deets 4656 Fox Lane NE Iowa City IA 52240 420 E. Jefferson St. Steven & Barbara Van Der Woude 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 424 E. Jefferson St. W.C. Winkel 424 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 425 E. Jefferson St. Donna M. Launspach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 428 E. Jefferson St. Steven L. Droll 3312 Arbor Dr, Iowa City IA 52245 430 1 E. Jefferson St. Neita V. Cochran 430 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 431 E. Jefferson St. Donna M. Launspach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 21-25 N. Van Buren St. Andrew Small 25 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 109 N. Van Buren St. Michael J. Haverkamp 109 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 117 N. Van Buren St. Ralph D. Ramer & Larry G. Ramer 117 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maps Page 33 Jefferson Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson CountyIA County and State Map Showing Location of Jefferson Street Historic District (Transportation Map, Iowa Department of Transportation, 2002) N )AR RAPIDS TO CEDAR RAPIDS w Jefferson Street Historic District '�F 5�1�/`\ information call I n information, call 319-356-5151 vr�ry �ni D w rrrr y /— i cY y,�Nli-�FAL a 8HEIGHTS 1 218 TO M IOWA CITY CORALVILLE SCALE Of MILES 0 1f4 122 1 1 r v f 4 I r2p m r may,;_ a°oti Hickory HJ1 r wrk;e Pork i] m rug 0 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maps Page 34 Jefferson Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County IA County and State Sketch Map of East Jefferson Street Historic District N I OWA hAERC' r H 05PITAL L J A r,. fr United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maps Page 35 Jefferson Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, IA County and State Photo Map of East Jefferson Street Historic District N S EEN 11113 NEI 1� � �i DRAFT MINUTES IOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION EMMA J HARVAT HALL FEBRUARY 12, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. MEMBERS PRESENT: Richard Carlson, Michael Maharry, Mark McCallum, Jim Ponto, Amy Smothers, Tim Weitzel MEMBERS ABSENT: James Enloe, Michael Gunn, Paul Sueppel STAFF PRESENT: Shelley McCafferty OTHERS PRESENT: Helen Burford CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Maharry called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: McCafferty said the Commission will need to hold a special meeting in February for a Section 106 Review of a house on Crescent Street that is over 50 years old. She stated that Habitat for Humanity purchased the lot and plans to use federal funds to demolish the house and build a new one. McCafferty said the house is not in a historic district, but because it is over 50 years old and federal funds are to be used, the Section 106 Review is required. Weitzel said the Section 106 review requires an architectural survey, and an archaeological survey may also be required, depending on what SHPO determines. Smothers asked if the archaeological survey would be waived because of the regrading of Highway Six, and Weitzel said that could be an argument to have it waived. Maharry said that on February 26 at 1:30 p.m. in the Public Library in Meeting Room B, Don Longwell would speak on the use of federal historic tax credits for property. He suggested holding the special meeting on the 26th so that Longwell could hold a discussion with the Commission. The consensus of the Commission was to schedule the meeting for February 26 at 7:00 p.m. IOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION HANDBOOK McCafferty said the Handbook was adopted by the City Council. She said the City Attorney had her insert a little bit more language regarding criteria for changing the classification of properties, and there were three criteria for that. McCafferty said she would mail out updated copies to Commission members. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS: 1220 SHERIDAN AVENUE: McCafferty said this is an application for the replacement of a window on a house in the Longfellow Historic District. She said this is a kitchen window that is deteriorating on the back side of the house. McCafferty said this part of the house is actually an addition and not part of the original structure. McCafferty said the owners propose to replace the window with a wood, double hung WeatherShield, metal clad window. Weitzel said this house has an overhang porch that has been filled in, and there has been a mud room/porch added on in the back, which has another addition added on to it. He said that for those reasons he would not have much of a problem with this. Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 12, 2004 Page 2 Weitzel said the owners do talk about blocking down the window, and he would not want to see the window end up to be porthole -sized. He said the owners want to use a standard window instead of a custom size, because of cost considerations. McCafferty said the dimensions of the proposed window are 46 by 49 inches, so this would not significantly block it down. Weitzel said the Commission does not officially consider the back of the house differently from the front, but this window can only be seen from the alley and the house behind this one. Weitzel asked if it is permissible in the guidelines to use a different sized window and then block in the opening with non-standard trim. McCafferty read from the application, "Trim may be slightly wider or narrower than existing trim, as standard size replacement window must be used." She suggested requiring that the trim be no more than one inch smaller or greater than the existing trim. Carlson said this also depends on whether there are any other windows on the back to which people would compare the new window. He said if there is only one window of this kind on the rear fagade, it would not really be a problem. MOTION: Weitzel moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the replacement of a window at 1220 Sheridan Avenue, subject to the reduction in the opening being no greater than one inch on each side and subject to the replacement of deteriorated trim to match the existing. Ponto seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. HISTORIC REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE McCafferty said that Gunn has done a lot of work on this and suggested that he be present before the Commission discusses the matter in any depth. McCafferty said there would probably be three people on the subcommittee, possibly one on a permanent basis and two rotating positions. Weitzel said he would like to possibly see the subcommittee consist of the chair; an architectural historian, if available; and someone who is very familiar with the guidelines. Maharry said that McCafferty would be present at the subcommittee meetings as well, and she is very familiar with the guidelines. 2004 WORK PLAN: Maharry referred to the list of projects for 2004. Maharry suggested coordinating public hearings or any meetings regarding the neighborhoods to be held during Historic Preservation Week, which is the first week of May. He said there could be discussions about the North Side or Goosetown Districts. McCafferty said she and Burford, who is the Executive Director of Friends of Historic Preservation, have discussed ways to raise public awareness of Historic Preservation Week. She said that perhaps the Commission could arrange for Marlys Svendsen to discuss the North Side and/or Goosetown, possibly as the keynote speaker for the awards event. McCafferty said another possibility is to hold a College Hill Walking Tour. Burford said that Roger Gwinnup is working on a television program about the Salvage Barn for the library. She said it will be shown during Preservation Week, and the Salvage Barn will also be holding an open house during that week. Burford also suggested opening the Englert Theatre for tours. Maharry said the Commission had discussed asking the City Council to reduce the cost of building permits that would not have to be applied for in other districts for those in historic or conservation districts. He did not know if eliminating the fee altogether would go over but would like to see a 50% reduction in the cost of the permit. Maharry said it would be good to announce such a change during Historic Preservation Week. McCafferty said there could be a talk about the Butler House during Historic Preservation Week. She said the City does not intend to spend money on the Butler House at this time. McCafferty said the National Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 12, 2004 Page 3 Register nomination for the Butler House is not yet complete. She said the nomination still needs historic photographs and comments on issues regarding archaeology. Weitzel said he would help with the archaeology aspect. Maharry asked if it would be possible to have a walk-through of the Butler House during Preservation Week. McCafferty said it would. Weitzel stated that attendance at such an event would be a good gauge of interest in the house. Maharry asked what the next steps are for Goosetown Neighborhood designation. McCafferty said the next step would be to hold a neighborhood meeting. She said the names and addresses have been compiled and the map is completed. McCafferty said that she would coordinate with Marcia Klingaman to hold the neighborhood meeting in early March. Maharry said the step after the neighborhood meeting(s) would be for the Historic Preservation Commission to hold one public hearing. He said there would then be two Planning and Zoning Commission meetings and possibly three to four City Council meetings. Maharry asked if one of the City Council meetings could potentially coincide with Historic Preservation Week. McCafferty said she would check the schedule. Maharry suggested seeing if Svendsen would be in town any time in March and would be able to do a presentation. McCafferty said she would find out. Maharry said it is very helpful to have the presentation done by the person who did the research. McCafferty stated that Michaelanne Widness and Jean Walker have contacted her with their concerns about the Melrose Avenue Neighborhood, specifically the area south of Melrose, just south of the hospital. McCafferty said Widness and Walker would like to do whatever they can to put pressure on the University to save that area. McCafferty said the University has been buying property in the area and has fairly concrete plans to build Hope Lodge, a three-story building, between Melrose Circle and Melrose Place. Weitzel said that during the University's campus -wide meetings held last year, people were invited to bring up concerns and issues, and historic preservation was mentioned repeatedly. He said the University's planning statement says that it will pay attention to historic preservation and stewardship. McCafferty said she asked Svendsen if there was potential for a historic district in the area, and Svendsen thought there would be. Svendsen also informed her that the cost of a survey for the approximately 85 properties in the area between Melrose Circle and Brookland Park Drive would be $15,500. McCafferty said she would inform Widness and Walker that the Commission would be in favor of a historic district here but would also tell them not to count on getting money for this from the City. McCafferty said she recommended to Widness and Walker that those in attendance at their neighborhood meeting draft a letter asking the Commission to look into this. McCafferty added that if volunteers do some of the research, it would keep the cost of the surveying down. Maharry said it would be good to have alternatives to recommend to the University. He added that a three-story structure would be out of place south of Melrose Avenue. McCafferty said she would inform Widness and Walker of the Commission's general support. Regarding the brochures, McCafferty said Burford had volunteered to do some of the writing but has not had the time. McCafferty said completing the text is what is holding up the project. Weitzel volunteered to help with the writing. Maharry asked what the timetable is for completion. McCafferty said she would like to at least have a mockup prepared in time for Historic Preservation Week. Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Minutes February 12, 2004 Page 4 McCafferty noted that McCallum had volunteered to send notification letters to area realtors regarding the location of historic and conservation districts. McCallum said he would be happy to do so. McCafferty said she had a sample letter to provide him. Smothers volunteered to work on Preservation Week planning. Regarding a potential downtown historic district, McCafferty said the survey and evaluation of the downtown area is complete. She said it has been determined that there is an area of downtown that would be eligible for a nomination. McCafferty said the issue is that there is a SSMID district being formed downtown and also a number of different interest groups. Communication with these groups must take place. Maharry asked if three City Council members would have to recuse themselves on a vote on a downtown district. Weitzel said City Council members are able to vote on other issues that have financial implications for downtown. McCafferty said she would have to obtain an opinion on this from the City Attorney. McCafferty said that this is a good time for the Commission to do some consensus building and work with the downtown groups. Maharry suggested also doing some one-on-one lobbying. McCafferty said the Commission may want to draft some guidelines to dispel any myths regarding what having a downtown district would mean. Weitzel said the text could probably come right from the CLG grant proposal. Maharry said it would be beneficial to have a downtown brochure mockup fairly soon. Regarding the regulations and programs, McCafferty said she needed to work on drafting language for the historic preservation ordinance, economic hardship ordinance, and putting together other information. She added that she would write up a strategic plan of the different steps the Commission needs to take to complete these things, who is responsible, and the target dates for each. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 8:14 p.m. Minutes submitted by Anne Schulte data on citynt/pcd/minutes/hpc/hpc02-12-04.doc DRAFT MINUTES HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION FEBRUARY 26, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. EMMA HARVAT HALL — CIVIC CENTER MEMBERS PRESENT: Richard Carlson, James Enloe, Michael Maharry, Mark McCallum, Jim Ponto, Tim Weitzel MEMBERS ABSENT: Michael Gunn, Amy Smothers and Paul Seuppel STAFF PRESENT: Shelley McCafferty OTHERS PRESENT: Mark Patton CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Maharry called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: None SECTOIN 106 REVIEW: 1501 Center Street. McCafferty said that review by the Historic Preservation Commission is required because CBDG and/or HOME funds will be used to redevelop this property. She stated that the Commission needs to determine if this property is historically significant and eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. She said that it is likely that this building was originally an outbuilding, possible a chicken coop, associated with the adjacent historic house. Mark Patton said that this house does not have a basement or appropriate foundation, or a furnace. The house is built on or over the property line and the street is not extended to the property line. It does not conform to the zoning or building code. Enloe stated that we do not have a proposed historic district in this location. Carlson stated that buildings in this area were mostly constructed or moved to the area in the 1930s and 1940s. Carlson stated that her researched this property relative to Criteria B of for the National Register. He state the property has been owned by Holtz since 1946. Holts was not a historically significant person. He was shoeshiner and later custodian at the library. McCafferty read the National Register criteria. A. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or B. That are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or C. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or D. That have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. MOTION: Enloe moved that this property is historically significant and eligible for the National Register of Historic Places because it does not meet any of the criteria. Ponto seconds the motion. The motion fails by a vote of 0-5. (Weitzel absent) MINUTES HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MARCH 11, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. EMMA J. HARVAT HALL DRAFT MEMBERS PRESENT: Richard Carlson, James Enloe, Michael Gunn, Michael Maharry, Mark McCallum, Jim Ponto, Amy Smothers, Paul Sueppel, Tim Weitzel MEMBERS ABSENT: None STAFF PRESENT: Shelley McCafferty OTHERS PRESENT: Michael Brennan, Elsa Feddersen CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Maharry called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: None CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS: 223 South Dodge. McCafferty said this application concerns the replacement of two windows; a double casement and a single casement. She showed photographs of the windows, both of which are on the first floor. Feddersen said she is the house administrator for the property. McCafferty said the casement windows have divided -lights and swing out with screens that swing in. She said the hardware is broken on the windows, and they are drafty. McCafferty said the bedroom window openings are 20 inches wide. She said that if the window is replaced, HIS would require that the mullion be removed to provide enough space for egress. McCafferty said the applicant has proposed two options for the double window: one would replace the window with a casement window and a fixed window of two different sizes, and the other would replace it with a French casement with both sashes open out, one large screen, and no mullion. Fedderson provided information about the French casement proposal and said replacing the windows would make the windows easier to operate. McCafferty said she has spoken with Elsa about a third option; having contractor Phil Douglas, who rehabs old windows, to repair the existing windows and provide new hardware. Elsa said she is concerned about having to open the screens to open the windows. Enloe said that window screens are really not the Commission's purview. McCafferty agreed but said she was looking at the screen issue, because it would be beneficial to solve the entire problem here. Maharry said there are therefore three different proposals for replacement of the double window. McCafferty said the Commission could defer this application and wait until there is information about repairing the window. She said if Feddersen decides to repair the windows, a permit would not be needed, and her application could be withdrawn. Feddersen said she would like to meet with Douglas regarding the windows, but that would not affect her desire to replace these two. She said she is willing to consider and get estimates to see what the repair person has to offer but would like to see this application approved. Sueppel said that if the new window would meet egress requirements, he would not have a problem with it. McCafferty commented that the mullions are a fairly significant feature of the house fenestration. Sueppel agreed but said the City is requiring compliance with egress requirements. Weitzel pointed out that the City only requires compliance if the windows are being replaced. MOTION: Sueppel moved to approve the application for the replacement of two casement windows, with the double window to be a French casement window per the information provided by the applicant. Ponto seconded the motion. Historic Preservation Commission March 11, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. Page 2 Weitzel said that as long as the original window is still there, it is nice to preserve it if possible. He said that might not be possible in this case. Ponto said that, independent of whether the window is repairable, the residents would want adequate egress in the event of a fire. McCallum said he agreed with Ponto's comments. Carlson stated that it would be a major change to take out the mullion. Carlson said the egress is a separate issue, and it is not intended for the Commission to consider the egress. He said that for purposes of this project, he would vote against the replacement windows and, if possible, would like to see the windows repaired and the mullion kept. Enloe said he agreed with some of Carlson's comments. He said egress is not the concern of the Commission; historic preservation is the Commission's purview.. McCafferty said the guidelines recommend preservation of historic windows and discourage the installation of modern -type windows. She said the issue is the mullion, which is not addressed in the guidelines. Weitzel said the Secretary of the Interior Standards recommend against retrofitting and favor repair and maintenance. Gunn said the Commission has approved all sorts of egress windows in the past. Enloe agreed that an egress window should be allowed for safety purposes and for that reason, he would not vote against the French casement window. The motion carried on a vote of 7-2. with Carlson and Smothers voting no. 1037 Washington Street. Maharry said that since he owns this property, it would be a conflict of interest for him to chair the meeting. He turned the chairmanship over to Carlson. McCafferty said that Maharry is rehabilitating the house at 1037 Washington Street. She said there are two issues with regard to the application. McCafferty said that Maharry would like to change the window in the kitchen at the back of the house to raise the sill so that a counter could be added below it. She said the current window is a vinyl window that is broken. McCafferty said the application to swap the kitchen window with the window from the second floor has been amended. The applicant plans to keep the second floor window and replace the kitchen window wood double -hung. The sill of this window would be raised to at least 3 feet, 4 inches. McCafferty said the second issue is the removal of the porch that is a nonhistoric addition. She said the door opens in to the stairway. Maharry added that the current landing is unsafe and that he plans to fill in the door using lap siding to match the original wood siding. He said that to return the house to a usable state he will need to add counter space in the kitchen. Maharry stated that for the replacement window, he would like to salvage an old window, but if that is not possible, he would use a new, wood window. He said it will be in the same style as the current window. Enloe asked what the dimensions of the new window would be. Maharry responded that the current width would be maintained, but he would nee the sill to be three feet four inched above the floor to accommodate a counter. MOTION: Enloe moved to approve the application for 1037 Washington Street for the removal of the porch, and fill in the door with wood siding to match to original. Weitzel seconded the motion. Maharry left the room at this point of the meeting. Ponto said he thought the removal of the porch would be appropriate. Smothers stated that the porch entrance appears to be an afterthought and is an insignificant feature. The motion carried on a vote of 8-0. Historic Preservation Commission March 11, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. Page 3 MOTION: Enloe moved to approve the application for 1037 Washington Street for the replacement of the kitchen window with the sill raised above counter height. The windows must be wood and double -hung, and the exterior trim and siding must match the original. Sueppel seconded the motion. Weitzel said he does not think the change would constitute an alteration of a significant architectural feature of the house. Enloe said there are currently two windows of identical dimensions in the kitchen on different walls. McCafferty stated that to determine if the feature is historically significant, the Commission should consider if the window sill is raised, would it change the interpretation of the style of the house or appear not to fit given the house style. Enloe said he was concerned about how the Commission has treated other applications like this. Smothers said the owner should be able to retrofit this to make this a usable kitchen. McCafferty read from her memo from February 26th; "The Secretary of the Interior defines rehabilitation as the process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions and features of the property which are significant to its historic, architectural, and cultural value." She compared this to the sun porch on Grant Street. She said the sun porch was a significant feature of that style of house. In contrast, the kitchen window, its size, location, etc. is not distinctive or unique. Carlson said if this window was a prominent, definitive feature, he would be against the change, but he does not feel that is the case here. He said the Commission has approved more significant changes than this, including additions. Enloe said he would not vote against this. He said, however, that his reservations were based on the similarities between the two kitchen windows. Enloe said the other windows in the house are taller than they are wide, although the front window has a different dimension. He commented that the window proposed for replacement is the only window on that floor on the back of the house. Carlson said the new window would still have dimensions making it taller than it is wide, just not as much so as it is now. The motion carried on a vote of 8-0. Maharry rejoined the meeting as Chair. BUILDING CODE AMENDMENT: McCafferty said that HIS is working on its annual amendments to the Building Code and has asked if the Commission has any recommended changes. She said she did not have any recommendations for amendments. Ponto asked about including an amendment regarding a change in permit fees for certain projects in historic and conservation districts and historic landmarks. McCafferty said this is not part of the Code Amendment issue. She said she spoke with Tim Hennes about presenting such a resolution to the City Council. She said the Commission has indicated its preference for the City to charge the minimum permit fee for any building permit requested for a property in a conservation or historic district or for a historic landmark if a permit would not be required for the same project elsewhere in the City. McCafferty said Hennes would like to see administrative costs be covered. She said the minimum fee would be $35. Weitzel said that Section 105.9.1 discusses a building with no historic significance. He asked if it were clear anywhere else in the Building Code where that determination is made and asked if the ordinance should specify where the opinion comes from. Enloe suggested that the fact that the building is in a district already means the Commission has purview. Brennan asked if "historic significance" is defined in the code. McCafferty said she did not believe the definition is in the existing ordinance and agreed to add it to her list of items to consider for the ordinance rewrite. Historic Preservation Commission March 11, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. Page 4 Weitzel said he just wanted to make certain there was no loophole — that owners don't independently just decide their properties have no historic significance. Maharry said if the section already talks about the specific areas, then it is a moot point. McCafferty said the Commission has no purview except for conservation and historic districts and landmark properties. She stated that all areas designated as districts have already been surveyed and a determination has been made as to the historic significance of individual properties. Carlson stated that a under Section 105.2, 15b, the wording should read, "Property is not located in a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, or a Conservation District Overlay Zone, or is not an Iowa City Historic Landmark." MOTION: Enloe moved to change the proposed amendment for Section 105.2, 15b to read, "Property is not located in a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, or a Conservation District Overlay Zone, or is not an Iowa City Historic Landmark." Sueppel seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 9-0. PROJECT UPDATES McCallum said the MLS is proprietorial and therefore we would need permission from the Iowa City Board of Realtors before we could use it to obtain information about listings of historic buildings. McCallum suggested that we make a proposal to the Board that would include the welcome letter. He stated that each realty office should receive a copy of the Handbook and if individual realtors want their own copy, they could request one. He said he would like to propose getting permission to use his access to sold information to identify closing dates in order to generate a letter to send to the new owners. Sueppel said in that case the prospective owner does not get the information until after the sale. McCallum said another possibility is to have a notation on the MLS listing to indicate whether the property is in a district or a landmark. McCafferty said the Handbook is currently available on the web. She suggested sending a letter to all area realtors to let them know the information is available on the web. McCafferty said that eventually perhaps the Commission could prepare a small brochure for homeowners. McCallum said such a brochure could be included in the standard welcome packet and recommended that McCafferty present information about historic properties to the Board at one of their luncheons. HISTORIC PRESERVATION WEEK: McCafferty said the week runs from May 3 through May 9. She said she has spoken with Margaret Weiting of the Johnson County Historic Preservation Commission and Helen Burford of Friends of Historic Preservation to get ideas and see what they might be able to contribute. McCafferty said she is waiting for a response from Marlys Svendsen regarding information on the North Side, scheduling of a neighborhood meeting for Goosetown, and whether or not Svendsen is willing to speak at the awards ceremony. Smothers said that since there is such an emphasis on Goosetown and the North Side, she would check with the Preucil School to see if the event could be held there. McCafferty said she, Maharry, Smothers, Whiting, and Burford would hold a meeting to discuss details of the presentation. She asked other members to keep looking for potential nominations. Maharry asked if there would be a tour of the North Side during Preservation Week. McCafferty said that Burford had been interested but now was not certain that there would be enough houses. McCafferty added that she did not know if the North Side was planning such a tour on its own. MONTGOMERY-BUTLER HOUSE: McCafferty said Carlson and Weitzel would be finishing up the nomination. She said there are some loose ends, particularly with regard to the NRHP nomination relative to the archeology. McCafferty said a sign will be installed at the trailhead going to the property. Weitzel agreed to work on verbage for the sign. Historic Preservation Commission March 11, 2004 — 7:00 P.M. Page 5 BUILDING PERMIT FEES: McCafferty said she will prepare a resolution to go to the City Council. She said the point is to change the process so that projects that require building permits only because they are in a conservation or historic district or are landmark properties would only pay the flat fee of $35 for a building permit so that the owner is not penalized because his property is in a district or is a landmark. MOTION: Enloe moved that the Commission propose to the City Council to change the building permit process so that projects that require building permits only because they are in a conservation or historic district or are landmark properties would only pay the flat fee of $35 for a building permit. Weitzel seconded the motion. Brennan suggested that the $35 fee just be waived completely. McCafferty said that Hennes wanted to keep the minimum fee to cover administrative costs. McCafferty recommended voting on this issue after she has drawn up the resolution and consulted with the City Attorney. WITHDRAWAL OF MOTION: Enloe agreed to withdraw his motion, and Weitzel agreed to withdraw the second. INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION: McCafferty pointed out the new standards for rehabilitation and guidelines for rehabilitating historic buildings. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 8:47 p.m. Minutes submitted by Anne Schulte data on cityntlpcd/minutesthpr120041hpco3-1 1-o4.doc Historic Review Procedures Historic Review Subcommittee The Commission may elect a Historic Review Subcommittee to review applications for Certificates of Appropriateness and make recommendations to the full Commission. Findings of the subcommittee will be provided in a report to be included in the HPC packet. Applicant will be notified of the meeting and have the opportunity to attend the subcommittee meetings. Meeting Procedures for Reviewing Applications 1. Application and subcommittee findings presented by staff. 2. Applicant and/or the applicant's representatives (contractor, consultant, etc.) may address the Commission. 3. Commission may ask the applicant questions. 4. After all the facts have been presented, a Commission member must make a motion. 5. If the motion is seconded, the Commission may proceed with discussion of the application. Discussion should be limited to the application under consideration. Please make sure that comments and questions are pertinent to the decision making process for the specific application. If you have additional issues that you feel requires further discussion, request that staff add the issue to the next meeting agenda. It is important that the Commission considers applications in an efficient, thorough and fair manner. Packets are provided to the Commission prior to the meeting so members may have adequate time to review the applications and visit the property prior to consideration. If you feel additional information is necessary, please contact staff. Commissioners must be prepared to knowledgeably discuss the projects. 6. Following consideration of the application, the Chair must call for a vote. 7. If the application is approved, within five days, staff will prepare and issue a Certificate of Appropriateness. The COA will be filed with the City Clerk, Housing and Inspection Services and mailed to the applicant and the applicant's contractor and consultant. 2004 Historic Preservation Awards Program Schedule of Tasks Responsibility Target Date Organization Person Date CmplVd Comments Preliminary Activities Set date and time for program Wednesday, May 6 @ Congretgational Church Reserve program location HPC done Speaker Select speaker HPC (done Marlys Svendsen will speak on Northside Districts Send confirmation letter to speaker HPC April 19 Tour/discuss nominations HPC Invitations Design and print invitations Friends Assemble invitation mailing list All Address and mail invitations JCHS April 19 Nominations Press release regarding nominations � HPC Photograph nominees - digital HPC April 20 Deadline for nominating projects April 16 Select Nowysz award winner HPC April 22 Select award winners HPC April 22 Letter to award winners HPC April 23 Photograph award winners - digital HPC April 28 Prepare short description of winning projects April 30 Public Relations Prepare display for public library HPC May 4 Prepare and distribute guest editorial HPC Tim April 28 Prepare and distribute press release HPC Helen Schedule taping with Cable Vision HPC Shelley Presentation Documents Design new logo HPC Design and prepare program HPC Shelley Print program HPC Shelley Design and prepare certificates HPC Shelle Prepare name tags HPC Shelley Prepare Powerpoint presentation HPC Shelley April 30 Presentation Activities Council agenda for April 20-proclaimation HPC Maharry April 14 Set up audio visual equipment HPC Set up refreshments at program site HPC Clean up program site HPC Postpresentation Activities Send follow-up thank you letters Reserve next years space at Library Update commission files Iowa City Historic CERTIFICATE OF NO MATERIAL EFFECT 633 S. Governor Street On March 31, 2004, the Chair of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the Preservation Planner conducted a historic review and approved a Certificate of No Material Effect for 633 S. Governor Street, which is a contributing property in the Governor -Lucas Street Conservation District. This certificate allows the repair of the front porch deck using materials similar to the existing. The porch skirt board and skirting must be painted. The Commission Chair and Preservation Planner finds that the proposed alterations will have no material effect on the exterior appearance of the property, and will not compromise the historic integrity of the structure. The proposed alterations, as presented on the plans submitted by the applicant, are approved as provided in City Code Section 14-4C-7. f Michael Maharry Chair Iowa City Historic Preservation Commidion e eY YM Caffert, Pr rvati n Planner 3 Date General Parcel Information Page 1 of 4 General Parcel Information Pin 1015110008 Deed BOLES, BLAISE R Contract AV, r 633 S GOVERNOR ST Address IOWA CITY IA x 52240-0000 Class RESIDENTIAL Map Area 20500-Res In� Plat Map 10-15-1 N" Legal STROHMS ADD S 17.5' LOT 19 & N 20.7' LOT 18 BLK 1 Current Value Information Land Value Dwelling Value Improvement Value Total Value 38,000 747230 0 112,230 Residential Building Information Style Occupancy Year Built Total Living Area 2 Story Frame 101 Single -Family / Owner Occupied 1926 1,224 Land Information Lot Basis Front Rear Side 1 Side 2 EFF Frontage Front Foot 38.00 38.00 150.00 150.00 38.00 http://www.iowaassessors.com/lowaCity/cgi-bin/getinfo. exe/pcl?parcel=1015110008 3/31 /2004 CA41�9� Application for a Certificate of Appropriateness The montthh. meets the second Thursday of each . During the summer months, the HPC may also meet on the fourth Thursday. Applications are Application for alterations to the exterior of historic landmarks or properties due by Wednesday the week prior to the meeting. located in a historic district or conservation district pursuant to Iowa City Code Section 14-4C. Date submitted ..: �..�a� _ Q ................................... Applicant Information (Please check one person to contact for further information or reference) Lr C ❑ Owner..,��. )�,Al_ :.5E/............... <,. ?............................ Phone.... // --..1.I.. 1..JV...(...................................................... Address .&3. ......... S...... �z�r.�.1..�....-ti� �....��.... T. email...................{{.��......................U...........(....Q.../.................................. ❑ Contractor .... i A.u.F- }........�J!' • .`5......... .� Address ... ).3.Z...?......... ��P0iZ.,1..........cJ.r.......... ........................................................................ Phone............................................................ emial.............................................................. ❑ Consultant ............................ Address ......................... Phone................................................ ........................................................................ email.............................................................. Application Requirements Attached are the following items: ❑ Site plan ❑ Floor plans ❑ ilding elevations td Photographs ❑ Product information ❑ Other.............................................................................. If the proposed project entails an addition, a new structure or a significant alteration to an existing structure, please submit a site plan, Floor plans. building elevatons and photographs. Indicate all alterations and matererials on these plans. If the proposed project is a minor alteration to a structure, please provide drawings and photographs to sufficiently describe the scope of the project. Provide a written description of the proposed project on the back of this sheet. Property Information s . (S,Ori�i2�Jd Address of property ... ..................................................................5 ............................................................................................ Use of property.... l....................................... Date constructed (if known) ........diz-G............... Historic Designation ❑ This property is a local historic landmark OR This property is located in the: ❑ Brown Street Historic District ❑ College Green Historic District ❑ East College Historic District ❑ Longfellow Historic District ❑ Summit Street Historic District ❑ Woodlawn Historic District ❑ Clark Street Conservation District ❑ College Hill Conservation District ❑ Dearborn Street Conservation District 4 Lucas -Governor Conservation District Within the district, this property is: Contributing ❑ Noncontributing Project Information This project consists of: ❑ Demolition of a building or portion of a building (ie. porch, chimney, decorative trim, baluster or similar) ❑ Alteration of an existing building (ie. siding, window replacement, skylights, window opening alterations, new decks, porch reconstruction, baluster repair or similar) ❑ Addition to an existing building ❑ Setback addition to an existing building (located in rear and offset 8" or more from side walls) ❑ Construction of new building ❑ Alteration of the site Repair of an existing structure that will not change its appearance. ❑ Other............................................................................................... 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Applicable guidelines and standards (staff use) Applicable Iowa City Guidelines (staff use) ❑ Iowa City Historic Preservation Guidelines ❑ Foundation ❑ Windows ❑ Iowa City Historic Preservation Guidelines with Exceptions ❑ Masonry ❑ Doors ❑ Secretary of Interiors Standards for Rehabilitation ❑ Wood ❑ Gutters & downspouts ❑ Design Standards for Multifamily Buildings ❑ Roof ❑ Chimney ❑ College Hill District Guidelines ❑ Siding ❑ Porch ❑ Longfellow District Guidelines ❑ Paint and color ❑ Balusters & handrails Other guidelines, standards or reference material recommeded by staff:..... ........................................................................................................................................... Iowa City Historic CERTIFICATE OF NO MATERIAL EFFECT 304 S. Summit Street On March 31, 2004, the Chair of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the Preservation Planner conducted a historic review and approved a Certificate of No Material Effect for 304 S. Summit Street, which is a contributing property in the Summit Street Historic District. This certificate allows the replacement of the roof with like asphalt shingles. The Commission Chair and Preservation Planner finds that the proposed alterations will have no material effect on the exterior appearance of the property, and will not compromise the historic integrity of the structure. The proposed alterations, as presented on the plans submitted by the applicant, are approved as provided in City Code Section 14-4C-7. Michael Maharry Chair ` Iowa City Historic Preservation C mission ShVley WCafferty,71"tion Planner Z le - Date General Parcel Information Pagel of 3 General Parcel Information Pin 1011389007 Deed NOLAN, CONSTANCE J Contract 304 S SUMMIT ST Address IOWA CITY IA 52240-0000 Class COMMERCIAL Map Area 20500-Com Plat Map 10-11-3S COM NW COR OF KAUFFMANS ADD THENCE S 105'; E Legal 153.6'; N N 105'; W 153.6' TO BEG Current Value Information Land Value Dwelling Value Improvement Value Total Value 95,450 0 127,660 223,110 Residential Building Information Style Occupancy Year Built Total Living Area 2 Story Brick 109 Six -Family Conversion 1870 4,119 Land Information Lot Basis Front Rear Side 1 Side 2 EFF Frontage Front Foot 105.00 105.00 154.00 154.00 106.05 Sale Information http://www.iowaassessors.com/IowaCity/cgi-bin/getinfo.exe/pcl?parcel=1011389007&PDF-1 4/1/2004