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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-10-2004 Historic Preservation CommissionIOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2004 City Hall, 410 E. Washington Street Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 p.m A. Call to Order B. Public hearing: Eligibility of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District for listing in the National Register of Historic_ Places C. Public discussion: Rezoning of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District, or portions of the proposed district, for designation as a local historic district D. Consideration of a Certificate of Appropriateness 1. 724 Clark Street 2. 431 Rundell Street E. Consideration of the July 22, 2004 Meeting Minutes F. Other G. Adjourn Please review these items prior to the meeting. CITY OF IOWA CITY MEMORANDUM DATE: August 10, 2004 TO: Historic Preservation Commission FROM: Shelley McCafferty, Associate Planner RE: Proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Due to concerns that the public was not allowed adequate opportunity to comment on this nomination, the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has agreed to allow the City to have another public meeting regarding this district. The State Nominations Review Committee (SNRC) will review the nomination again in February to allow revisions to the nomination in light of any new findings or recommendations from the Historic Preservation Commission. The State Historic Preservation Office received letters of protest from seven owners of property located in the commercially zoned portion of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. The City has also received letters from 11 property owners in favor of the designation. Property owners in the commercially zoned portions of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District have expressed concerns to City Council that this district will become a regulated local historic district if it is listed on the National Register. Neither State or Local Code requires that districts listed on the National Register be designated as local historic districts, nor must a local historic district be listed on the National Register prior to local historic district designation. An approved National Register of Historic Places Registration Form is accepted by SHPO as sufficient documentation to substantiated that a proposed local historic district complies with the criteria of Section 303 of the Iowa State Code. A local historic district is an "area of historical significance" and is defined as follows: Section 303, Iowa State Code "Area of historical significance" means contiguous pieces of property of no greater area than one hundred sixty acres under diverse ownership which: a. Are significant in American history, architecture, archaeology and culture, and b. Possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, skill, feeling and association, and c. Are associated with events that have been a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history, or d. Are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past, or e. Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type; period; method of construction; represent the work of a master; possess high artistic values; represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. f. Have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. The National Register is a planning tool that establishes the historic significance of properties and districts. The criteria for listing on the National Register is established by the Secretary of the Interior. An undertaking on anv private orooertv that is 50 vears old or older and that uses federal fundina is subject to Section 106 of the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. During the Section 106 process, if a property has not already been surveyed and evaluated for National Register eligibility, SHPO will make this determination. The federal undertaking to a property must not diminish the property's eligibility for the National Register. The specific regulations for the Section 106 process are the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36, Part 800, which is available from my office or at http://www.cr.nps.gov/linklaws.htm. At the July 22 Historic Preservation Commission meeting, there was an inquiry concerning the federal tax provisions of Section 60.2(c) of the Federal Code of Regulations, which is provided below. Staff research to date has found that National Register listing of a property does not remove any existing property rights. Any property owner is not allowed to use federal tax incentives or other federal funding to develop their property if the owner intentionally demolishes a building or resource on said property which is listed on or eligible for the National Register. If the property is not listed on the National Register, eligibility will be determined through the Section 106 process. Staff expects more information on this provision from the IRS prior to the August 10 meeting. 36 CFR 60.2 Effects of listing under federal law The National Register is an authoritative guide to be used by Federal. State, and local governments, private groups and citizens to identify the Nation's cultural resources and to indicate what properties should be considered for protection from destruction or impairment. property. (a) The National Register was designed to be and is administered as a planning tool. Federal agencies undertaking a project having an effect on a listed or eligible property must provide the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation a reasonable opportunity to comment pursuant to section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Council has adopted procedures concerning, inter alia, their commenting responsibility in 36 CFR part 800. Having complied with this procedural requirement the Federal agency may adopt any course of action it believes is appropriate. While the Advisory Council comments must be taken into account and integrated into the decision making process, program decisions rest with the agency implementing the undertaking. (b) Listing in the National Register also makes property owners eligible to be considered for Federal grants-in-aid for historic preservation. [[Page 257]] (c) If a property is listed in the National Register, certain provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 as amended by the Revenue Act of 1978 and the Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980 may apply. These provisions encourage the preservation of depreciable historic buildings. Owners of historic buildings may benefit from the investment tax credit provisions of the Revenue Act of 1978. The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 generally replaces the rehabilitation tax incentives under these laws beginning January 1, 1982 with a 25% investment tax credit for rehabilitations of historic commercial, industrial and residential buildings. This can be combined with a 15-year cost recovery period for the adjusted basis of the historic building. Historic buildings with certified rehabilitations receive additional tax savings by their exemption from any requirement to reduce the basis of the building by the amount of the credit. The denial of accelerated depreciation for a building built on the site of a demolished historic building is repealed effective January 1, 1982. The Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980 includes provisions regarding charitable contributions for conservation purposes of partial interests in historically important land areas or structures. �r NEW CITY OF IOWA CITY MEMORANDUM Date: July 29, 2004 To: City Manager From: Karin Franklin, Director, Re: State review of Gilbert -Linn Historic District Nomination Upon receipt of the letter from Lowell Soike of the State Historic Preservation Office, we had a conversation with Mr. Soike and both parties have agreed to defer consideration of this nomination by the State review board until the review board's February, 2005 meeting. This will enable adequate time for us to undertake the public review and input process desired by the City Council and meet the submission deadlines of the State. Cc Bob Miklo Shelley McCafferty I r I July 27, 2004 RE: Proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District ®aw is' Itt CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826 (319) 356-5000 (319)356-5009 FAX Dear Northside Property Owner; www.icgov.org As an owner of property in the proposed Gilbert -Linn Historic District, you are invited to the public hearing of the Historic Preservation Commission to discuss the nomination of this district to the National Register of Historic Places. Nomination of the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District to the National Register is a determination of the district's historic, cultural and architectural significance to Iowa City's heritage. A copy of the draft nomination, which was prepared by architectural historian Marlys Svendsen, is available for review on the web at www.icgov.com and at the Planning and Community Development office in City Hall. A map of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is printed on the back of this letter. The meeting will be held Tuesday, August 10 at 7:00 pm in City Hall, Emma J. Harvat Hall, 410 E. Washington Street. The purpose of this meeting will be to: 1. Allow the public to comment regarding the historic significance of the proposed district. 2. Allow informal discussion regarding local historic district designation in this area. If the Historic Preservation Commission decides to proceed with a local district, a public hearing will be held at a later date. The purpose of listing property on the National Register is to: 1. Identify historically significant buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts, according to the National Register Criteria for Evaluation; 2. Encourage the preservation of historic properties by documenting the significance of historic properties and by lending support to local preservation activities; 3. Enable federal, state, and local agencies to consider historic properties in the early stages of planning projects; 4. Provide for review of federally funded, licensed, or sponsored projects which may affect historic properties; 5. Make owners of historic properties eligible to apply for federal grants-in-aid for preservation activities; and 6. Encourage the rehabilitation of income -producing historic properties which meet preservation standards through tax incentives. The National Register does not: 1. Restrict the rights of private property owners in the use, development, or sale of private historic property, provided federal funding is not used. 2. Force federal, state, local or private projects to be stopped. 3. Provide for review of state, local, or privately funded projects which may affect historic properties. 4. Guarantee that grant funds will be available for all significant historic properties. 5. Lead automatically to local historic district designation. Local historic districts are established through the local zoning process and require public hearings at and approval by the Historic Preservation Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council. The information collected about a district and properties within the district for National Register nomination may be used to determine if the district or property meets the criteria of state and local code for local historic district or landmark designation. However, National Register listing is not required for local designation. Additional information about the National Register is available on the web at hU://www.cr.nps. og v/nr/ and htip://www.iowaliistory.orgipreservationlindex.htmL Sincerely, Michael Maharry Chair, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District National Register of Historic Places BLOOMINGTON 230 MARKET ST `� Key property Contributing property Noncontributing property N NIPS Form 10-900 (Oct. 1990) OMB No. 100244)018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form m.bmiMwh im+unrow,.wrs a eewiro�wYbr:,6ba wwdYm Y�Nva a,e:e. Sm:+rwem�e xarm cwnp+r•me ruiwwnw�+�wdm.ro,eao� xg'sedc„rwn�uwma Aep�we Wem, ten). cm,pee..m wn W mw�rov manrocmw+ �wMewsYiYlM ilwnmFY„wPwXM.YmYYnW�wY MlbbMtYMwb Y mwxnwwq wwvun'ar5,a W4kWF.'Fw NnCyn. acNenwUNWlolb,mmxliwka»IXW,Ym^m. mlx writ<&^T�IawMaRe�Nw�fmntlenW <e,w.Ao sNbnalmM.nO,w,NMMsm mMn,eW, M+✓a1�SFwm 1600N1. Uu •ryFwxew.'«o'e wwawo,. awmpXa. bmmgeYf pim. historic name other namesisite number 2. Location street & number Portions of 200-600 Blocks of N. Gilbert & N. Linn Streets N/A U not for publication city or town Iowa City N/A Lj vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this tx j nomination [ j request for ermination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property Lxj meets Lj does not most the National gister criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant nationalty L] statewide Lj locally. (Lj see continuation sheet for additional comments). or Federal agency In my opinion, the property Lj meets Lj does not meet the National Register criteria. (L j See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying officialfrdle Date State or Federal agency and bureau entered in the National Rr U See continuation U determined eligible for the National Register. L ] See continuation sheet. Lj determined not eligible for the National Register. Lj removed from the National Register. Lj other, (explain:) Gilbert -Linn 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.) W private LI building(s) Contributing Noncontributing LI public -local Pg district 111 28 buildings [M public -State L] site L] public -Federal L] structure sites L] object 1 structures objects 111 29 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed Enter "WA" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register Historic Resources of Iowa City Iowa Q Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings COMMERCE/TRADE/Restaurant (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne MID-19th CENTURY/Greek Revival LATE IGIP & 21f CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Single Dwellings DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellings COMMERCE/TRADE/Specialty Store COMMERCE/TRADE/Restaurant (Enter categories from Instructions) 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 ark Y in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property National Register listing.) [XI A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Lj 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: LI A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. r 1 B removed from its original location. L] C a birthplace or grave. r I D a cemetery. Lj E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. r I F a commemorative property. (Enter categories from instructions) ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT Period of Significance 1850-1954 Significant Dates N/A Significant Person (Complete if Criterion 8 is marked above) 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 & Frevder (Ermlain the sbanificanoe of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9. Malor Biblioaraohical 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 LI previously listed in the National Register L) Federal agency L] previously determined eligible by the National [XI Local government Register U University U designated a National Historic Landmark U Other L] recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: Lj recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County. IA County and State UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1[1151 [612121217101 M1611131910101 2 M5 L12121416101 [41611131617101 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing 3 r1I 51 [612121510101 [441611131217101 4j11 51 t612,121216101 M1611131410101 (, See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (E)plain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 71 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 Sarong state WI zip code 54870 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 telephone city or town state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate 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 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 hour 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 forth 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 7 Page 1 7. Description (continued) 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 Narrative Description: 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. Ronaids 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. 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 County. IA Name of Property County and State 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 1 e 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 facades 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 2e 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 Comer lots tended to have designs with prominent fagades 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 comer 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 le 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 19"' and early 2e 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 1-house '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 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 2& 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 1, 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. 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 & Goidie 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) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 • 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) • Pralne School: Lavinia & Martin Bridenstine House, 404 E. Davenport Street (Photo #17, 1924) Vemacular 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 StoryA-House: Maden House, 312 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1912) • Gabled Front & Ong: Cerny House, 214 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1899) Edward & Edna Miller House, 311 N. Gilbert St, (1908) • 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) Lemmuel 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 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 5 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 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 Sionificance: 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 le century and the beginning of the 2e 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 Gass 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 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 -of( for NRHP eligibility. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 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 intems. 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 11) 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 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 fors 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, relpion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19"' and eary 20 century institutional and residential building styles. Gllbert-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 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 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 styies 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"' and early 2e 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 a 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. The Historical and Architectural Development of the N. Gilbert Street and N. Linn Street Neighborhood., 2 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 comer 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 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 towa 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. 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 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 2e 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 the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District 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. ;Iowa City and Its Environs, drawn by J.H. Millar, Byran & Millar, Guthrie County, Iowa, 1854. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Properly County and State Map of Iowa City, 1839 (from the State Historical Society of Iowa — Iowa City) 1 N v Elk 'FiFC� ; a7 m u xt �;.� tt I, srl t ! I?J31td! I,Id13+i F xu _ a., s , sr •s R se sn.,ls sn a I• .. aw , s.� aL i I e ♦ s, xl '} ' �.I al. ST CTI 1, a a sas' a x .sa x all t, sa s�. •ass .ox .a a x ♦'a a e x a lP3.t1i91 :�11e .axx •sax a xM ' 6 ax ro $x •a smer sas..>aa ♦six ,>ra a i x x Qp6ft%S SQIIAB' ,. �rti'►n a s SC 2T Ea A► 43 E7 it tD e � QC United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Gilbert -Linn Sheet 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 4417 1865 5,417 1867 6,418 - 1869 6,583 1870 1 5,914 2,295 1873 6,454 2,026 1875 6,371 2,026 1880 7,123 1885 6,748 1842 1890 7,016 1,755 1895 7,526 1,475 1900 7,987 1905 8,497 - 1910 1 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 2,1 1960 33,443 1970 46,850 1980 50,508 1890 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 comer of Market Street and N. Linn Streets in 1856. The Great Western Brewery, later known as the Dostai 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 7 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 ff3, 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 Holz, 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 homebuiiding (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-bom parents in 1895. The foreign-bom 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, Cemy, Haberstroh, Hervert, Zimmerli, Husa, Novak, Maresh, Kessler, Kurz, Hotz, Senner, and Hohenschuh. This pattern would continue well into the 20th 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 Flanagan, 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 1896 • Albert Huse, 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 fanners, 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 7 Page 13 same time At the dawn of the 2& 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 omamental.i4 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 population 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 atjust 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 1 when 80 percent of these houses were constructed, an average of just under three houses per year between 1900 and 1916, 4ABas of Johnson County, lows, (Davenport, Iowa: Huebinge( Survey and Map Publishing Co.), 1900. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 14 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic Disbid Johnson County, IA 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 comer 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 comer 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 comer 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 7 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 tum-of-thecentury housing boom in the District continued to see members of the merchant class, lawyers, and physicians building spacious modem 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 Districts 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 Sheet 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., Cart 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, hamessmaker, 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 Slrving Weber, Irving Webees 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 16 311 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, refired 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 Bridensfine, 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 3TrE-FeircfiTdSE, Louis F.-Cemy, co-owner, University Book Store, ca. 1908 320 E. Fairchild St., John Huse, tailor, Huss & Sons, ca. 1925 324 E. Fairchild St., Albert Huse, Jr., tailor, Huse & Sons, 1916 326 E. Fairchild St, Albert Huss, Sr., merchant tailor, Huse & 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 Rothweikder, 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, refired 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, ca. 1910 411 N. Linn St., Lemmuel Hunter, retired farmer, ca. 1906 412 N. Linn St., Isaac 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 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 -le 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. 1860 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 20P 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 7 Page 18 Gilbert -Linn Sheet Historic Distrid Johnson County. W 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 Holz 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 20"' 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. Otter Colonial Revival examples within the District included embellished American Foursquare 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 #22) 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 Cily'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 1. United States Departrnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 20 has bait 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 bait 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 facades; 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 facades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 vertical light configurations; and bait 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 3. 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 Vim. 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 aftemating 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 20P century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut or "kit houses" such as those offered by a number of Midwest manufacturers. bit 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 2& century. The company began offering house plans in 1895 and by 1908 had begun operations of a "Modem 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 19W. 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 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 Gadding 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 comer 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'gf an unusual two-story, hipped roof Bungalow form found in Distitct.-<4-teabAa" low-pitched hq*W400fan-themain-house with �fioors. Thedesignofthe 134lfefder House closely resembles that of the "Erlanger design" shown at ttte right that appeared in the 191tkeditirxr2lf AfNsbeHenteecompiled _by Herbert C. Cbivers-Company oM Louis. The other example of a hipped roof Burtgalowis-th€€vaSkmak 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. Erlanger demon. 5271. width 27 It 6, story heights 10 and 9-h 6. large. cornnwdiwis Iming rain. Plans $10. 'rL — l S i.. -vt- atv o.0 The Craftsman Style house at 225 E. Davenport Sheet (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 bait course between levels, the knee -brace brackets along the wide eaves, paired and grouped 9/1 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 Woitman 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 sMarlys Svendsen, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase 11), 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 7 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."7 The Woodford House closely resembles the 26-foot wide "Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 549" advertised as a "Conservative 2-Story Stucco House.'a 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 Can 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 kwr-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 comer 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 #17) 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. slbid, p. 79. 101bid, 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 Co"Itt IA Name of Property County and State Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 549te Guaranteed Prices -No Extras _ � � �" Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 549 Conservative 2-Story Stucco Horne 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 -le 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 I. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts for a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including at least five Iowa City churches. 91bid, 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 Tine iittIon -7 g �_ r 08 IIR� Cordon.Can Tine Roma No, 605 Gordon -Van Tine Home No. 605 and Garage No.106 Gxraµe \a. toe. Double G..g; thl., d.iµn, Ko. 199 Shtµln Gumµe with stucco Fi. nh, He. M; V«,W, iNo. 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 200' 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 wail gables, wings, and dormers. A mix of narrow and medium width clapboard and decorative shingles adds to the house's omamental appeal. A major historic alteration occurred when the house's small but highly decoWed 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 comers. 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)" cities."13 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*was actually built It is likely.th�e+ge paficipafadin.S4me pigments 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-unemeied 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 (1865-1938) was born and grew up in rural Camanche in Clinton County Iowa about 70 miles east of Iowa City. He attended bublic 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 trivelad extensively, working for "some of the largest architectural firms in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large It is not known whether or not Carpenter received 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: Charters Ray Abner, 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 Properly 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 Magazine's photographic resume, which,appears at the right Hohenschuh, co-owner of the Hohenschuh & Wieneke news depot, bookstore, and stationary shop, was typical of the upper middleclass clients for whom Carpenter workedduring his career. The house plan he completed for the Hohenschuh family is a late -Queen- Anne design stripped of elaborate spindlework ornamentation but feWkingclassical 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)14 Y e v I 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. 140lowa City, Iowa; The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (January, 1898), p. 39. "Virginia 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 Foursquare plan could be widened. Like the Free Classic Queen Anne plan, the two-story Foursquare house plan featured a steeply pitched hipped or pyramidal roof. Tali 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 asymmetrical 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 Foursquare 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 fuIPMdth porch with paired half -columns set on stone pedestals. Its tali 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 Cemy at 317 E. Fairchild Street (contributing). The house design was a blend of the Foursquare form with simplified Queen Anne detailing such as canted comers, 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 Foursquare 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 1, Carpenter continued to design North Side houses based on the popular Foursquare plan. Two houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District show subtle but important changes, however. The Albert Huss, Jr. House at 324 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) was built in 1916. The house was one of three Huse 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 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 Huse 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 Foursquare 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 -tight 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 jifter fapades. A chronological list of the O.H. Carpenter houses in the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District appears below. " -C+fttianA- e, 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&JaliaSchneider-House;SMkkF:•tinmStreet(cxnthibnting;-PMoto#21j1n1904 - - — • 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. Cemy House, 317 E. Fairchild Street - attributed (contributing) in 1908 • Albert Huss, 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. 0,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 btyle 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, primaniy consolidated schools in rural communities in Iowa, listed in advertisements in The American Contractor between 1908 and 1918. 'a Carpenter's architectural practice continued 16O.H. Carpenter Obituary, Iowa City Press -Citizen, March 10, 1938, p. 13. as cited in Richard Cadson'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 Properly 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 144 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 10 noncontributing 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 Me 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 11), 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 rootline. 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 bams, designation as "key contributing" requires the retention of original size, shape, proportion, and roofiine. 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 bams 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 roofiine, 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 11 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 N STREET ORIGINALI 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/Frord- Gabled.Roof 322 E. Bloomington St. Hoftelder, William & Anna House 1916 Key C Craftsman/Bungalow 4041 E. Bloomington St. Woodford House 1921 C Am. Foursquare 12 E. Bloomington St. Stach, Cad & Celesta 1924 C Cratt rrian/Bungalow 5 E. Church St Brum, Joseph & Mary 1925 Key Cransman/Side- Gabled Two Story 228 E. Church St Moore, Elisha & Annette ca. 1860 C halianate 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 Sto 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 State / STREET ORIOINALI 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 NC Queen AnneMipped Root Two Story 318 E. Church St. Schmidt, Frank & ca. 1870 Key NC 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 AnnetGabled- Front and Win 214 E. Davenport St. McVey, George & ca. 1903 C Key Am. Foursquaro Melinda 217 E. Davenport St. Saunders, Anna Co. 1895 Key NC 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. Flanagan, John & ca. 1890 C Queen Anne Honora 225 E. Davenport St. Falk, George & Pearl ca. 1914 Key Craftsman/Front- Gabled Roof Two Sto 304 E. Davenport St. Unnamed house ce.1910 NC Am. Foursquare 308 E. Davenport St. Wassam, Clarence & ca. 1906 C Am. Foursquare Minnie 311 E. Davenport St. Ruppert, Emil & ca. 1920 C NC Craftsman/Bungalow Blanche 312 E. Davenport St. Novak-Maresh House 1893 C Queen Anne 314 E. Davenport St. Larkin, Frank & Anna. 1893 C NC Front -Gabled Roof 315 E. Davenport St. John & Francis 1880 C NC Gabled -Front and nkoff House Wing 319 E. Davenport St. John Heck House 1902 C Sk"abled Two - Story 320 E. Davenport St Freyder. Henrietta & 1907 Key C Am. Foursquare George 321- E. Davenport St. Ohnhaus, Adam 1870 Key NC Side -Gabled One 323 Story 324 E. Davenport St. Cemey-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 Georgian/Prairie 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. Foursquare 225 E. Fairchild St. Schmidt, W.G./George 1895 Key Key Queen Anne W. & Augusta 230 E. Fairchild St. McClintock, John p. 1895 Key Queen Anne Thomas 301- E. Fairchild St 1 Unnamed Double 1986 NC 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 CountyIA Name of Property County and State if 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. Madan House ca. 1912 Key NC Sloe -Gabled Two Story 314 E. Fairchild St. Morrison, William & ca. 1908 Key NC Colonial RevivaV Susan Gambrel Roof 317 1 E. Fairchild St. Cemy, Louis F. ca. 1908 Key Am, Foursquare 320 E. Fairchild St Husa, John ca. 1925 C NC Craftsman/ Front -Gabled Roof 324 E. Fairchild St. Huse, Albert Jr. 1916 Key Key Am. Foursquare 326 E. Fairchild St. Huse, Albert, Sr., & ca. 1890 C C Side -Gabled Two Eleanor Sto II -House 328 E. Fairchild St. Booge, Jessie ca. 1910 C Am. Four-SquareJ 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 SL Wentz, Jacob ca. 1850 Key Greek Revival/Side- NRHP Gabled Two Story/ I - 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 Revivalt & 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. Foursquare 318 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed house 1958 NC NC Ranch 324 N. Gilbert St. Haberstroh, Julius & ca. 1881 C Side -Gabled Two Veronica Sto / 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. Foursquare 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 RevivaU 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 i STREET ORIGINALILONG• 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/ M e Front -Gabled Roof 420 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt, Charles & 1908 C Am. Foursquare 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 429 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed Apartment ca. 1960 NC One Story 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 & a. 1 116 Key NC Am. Four -Square Emma 318 N. Linn St. Servoss, George & ca. 1 116 C Gabled Front and Sadie Win 319 N. Linn St. Roessler, John & ca. 1 115 C Am. Four -Square Emma 322 N. Linn St. Wescott, Emory & ca. 1910 C C Gabled Front and Eliza Wing 323 N. Linn St. Stimmel, Oscar & p. 1 114 C NC (same Am. Foursquare Edith garage as at 225 326 N. Linn St. Kramer, Jacob & ca. 1910 C E. Davenport) Gabled-Frontand Barbara Wing 328- N. Linn St Unnamed rental ca. 1 000 C - Gabled -Front and 330 double -house Wings 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. Foursquare] 412 N. Linn St. Unnamed house ca. 1880 C Queen Anne Side -Gabled Two moved Story/1-House 1912 416 N. Linn St. Larkin, Frank &Anna 1905 Key Colonial Revival Am. -WI-6 N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1890 C Four uare Side -Gabled Two 422 double -house Story 508 N. Linn St. Baldwin, William 8 ca. 19000 C Front -Gabled Roof Ella 507- N. Linn St. Joy, Edwin & Jane ca. 1 992 NC Queen AnnelRanch 513 /ca. 1970 514 N. Linn St. Schneider, William & 1902 Key Classical RevivaV 521 N. Unn SL Julia Unnamed apartment p. 1 W NC Am. Four uars No Style building 522 N. Linn St. Holz, 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 S' n 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 ORIGINALI 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. Boys, 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. Foursquare Louisa 624 N. Linn St. Messer, Frank ca. 1900 C NC Am. Foursquare 628 N. Linn St. Baker, Charles & ca. 1908 C Am. Foursquare 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 Revival/Side- NRHP Gabled Two Sto 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 19M century and the beginning of the 2& 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 21P 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 testify to the neighborhood's significance. Under Criterion C the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of this 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 Gilbi rt-Ljnn street Histbiib bistrict reflected the architectural character and best local residential building practices of the period. The District dbri0it added architectural significance because of the large number of well-preserved residences designed by lovlra CiVs most productive early 2e 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 distit{bt id✓ ritity and significance. 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Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Page 37 Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Johnson County. IA County and State Beginning at the northwest comer 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 Ronakis 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 Name of Property and Jessica Johnson Cgft IA County and State (See Photo Map, page 44) 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 23. South side of the 300 block of E. Fairchild Street, looking southeast 24. West side of the 400 block of N. Gilbert Street, looking southwest Untied 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 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 Sf. Iowa City IA 52245 404 E. Bloomington St. John K. Kammemhayer 404 E. Bloomington St. Iowa Cty IA 52245 412 E. Bloomington St. John K. Kammermeyer 404 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City11A 52245 225 E. Church St. James B. & Beery J. Buxton 1a11 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City 52240 228 E. Church St. Jack Lageschulte 3 Marbury Ln. Bartington 60010 308 E. Church St. Camay Enterprises Corr an LTD309 3725 Forest Gate Dr. NE Iowa City 52240 E. Church St. Peter J. Craig & Amy L. Scats ood 309 Church St Iowa City 52245 314 E. Church St. The Delta Chi Fraternity Inc. PO Box 1817 Iowa City 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. It 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 Or. Iowa City IA 52245 217 E. Davenport St. Joseph L. Dobnen Go KeWone Prop. M mt 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 220 E. Davenport St. Hodge Construction Corr an 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. Goulding & Marc N. Li ht 225 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 304 E. Davenport St. Peter J. Ammentorp & Michelle Lampe- Ammento 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. DavenportSt. Katherina Johnson 203 W. 201h St. #4W New York NY 10011 314 E. Davenport St. Hubert L. -& Leone H. Rummelhad 314 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 315 E. Davenport St. Joel D. & Melissa C. Schindler 155 Columbia Or Iowa City IA 52245 319 E. Davenport St. Everill & Jean Ann Deters 320 Park Rd. Iowa City IA 52246 320 E. Davenport St. Wafter 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. Water 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 Ado Yowm 402 Davenport St. Iowa Cdy IA 52245 404 E. Davenport St. Lake &Lake LC 403 S. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52240 Unked Stabs Deparbnent 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 # 221 STREET E. Fairchild St. TITLEHOLDER F. George &Wilma M. Blair TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS 225 Fairchild St. CITY Iowa City STATE IA ZIPCODE 52245 CONTRACT BUYERS) 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. Roone 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 Amana IA 52334 311 E. Fairchild St. Susan K. Futrell & William J. Jennings 311 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 312 E. Fairchild SL 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. as 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. Corelville IA 52241 204 N. Gilbert St. Chudaoek 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. tows 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 c/o M. Slaklev 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 Ct. Iowa City IA 52246 311 N. Gilbert St Patricia Ann Fisher 315 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 315 N. Gilbert St. P tncia Ann Fisher 315 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 318 N. Gilbert St. William C. & Julia E. Leu Id 0084130th St. Spilt Lake IA 51360 324 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma M. Alberhaskv 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 Si.- Iowa City IA 52245 StRFrank cy Housing P ject Inc.bert 331 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 St.oss LLC c!o N. S ' Mert 1185 Forevergreen Rd. Iowa City IA 52240 AGilbertbert St.rter & Claire S onslerert 413 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 St.k M. Wily 7241 218th Way N. ForestLake MN 55025 ert St.n & Carotyn 418 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245Bardentesert St. R. Baum & el R. Sin er 419 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 420 N. Gilbert St. Keystone Property Mara mend 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 421 N. Gilbert St. Melvin D. & Mice L. Roth 134012th Ave. Coralville IA 52241 426 N. Gilbert St. Wa raud Maierhofer 42 NN. 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. Coralvilie 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 Meeting of Friends 313 N. Linn St. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St NE Ridgefield WA 98642 LLC 318 N. Linn St. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 328 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Nancy L. Parker 319 N. Linn St. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 68642 LLC 322 N. Linn St. Mary K. Palmberg 1718 Wilson St. Iowa City IA 52245 323 N. Unn St. Donald L. Stumbo & 3082 Running Deer Rd. Iowa City IA 52240 Janene Elayne 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. Unn St. RMB Investments LLC 3286 Hwy 1 SW Iowa City IA 52240 412 N. Linn St. Arthur K. & Shari 2026 130th St. Riverside IA 52327 Sweating 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- Toomey 527 N. Unn St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City LAI 52245 533 N. Linn St. Gregory J. & Leann D. 1635 Larch Ave. Washington IA 52353 Hassman N. Linn St. Matthew D. Lepic 1849 Hollywood Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 N. Linn St. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane N. Linn St. Clarence J. & Dorothy E. 619 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 r624 Haverkam N. Linn St. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane N. Unn St. John A. & Kayla K. Cress 4506 Dryden Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 N. Linn St. Hawkeye Property 3575 Hanks Dr. SE Iowa City IA 52240 Management do Bill Terry 629 N. Linn St John S. Mann & Tama J. 629 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Baldwin402 E. Market St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford CL Iowa City IA 52240 410 E. Market St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 United States Department of the 1aWW National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maps Page 42 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Johnson County, A Name of Property County and State Map Showing Location of Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District (Transportation Map, Iowa Department of Transportation, 2002) N RAPIDS TO CEDAR RAPIDS rc x Gilbert- Historic iD stnn rict 11 ti4} Ma`XCICK Y TO � �°'` I OWA CITY CORALVILLE ,r� SCAIF OF fkLFS f u'da 1;2 1 Hkk� Fh'p TER Q iVE. 0 United States Departrnent of the interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maps Page 43 Gilbert -Linn Street Histotic DisMot Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State Sketch Map of Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District N United States Department of the interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Maas Page 44 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, IA County and State Photo Map of Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District N ------------------ r r. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Photo 3 Photo 4 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District Photo 5 Photo 6 _ f « ..: � 2 • w. : Gilbert-Unn Street FOstoric ashict Photo 9 Photo 10 WWI. N, . -.tunk��uuuu��� wlo__ *47 ■ I pl! W-., 41 Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District .. Photo 15 Photo 16 Fit R -. _ _ ___.. .: �_ s' ' Y , a�Mpl r A f °w F. R.: WAW- 0-11.�� August 2, 2004 Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Civic Center 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 To Whom It May Concern: As the owner of the property located at 328 Fairchild Street, Iowa City, IA, I hereby oppose the nomination or potential nomination of my property being placed on the National Registry of Historic Places as part of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. Thank you for your consideration. I have also sent a copy of this letter to the Iowa City City Council. Sincerely, Jeff Dill Nichole Slabach RUB Investments Inc. 3286 Hwy 1 SW Iowa City, IA 52240 August 2, 2004 Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission Civic Center 410 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA 52240 To Whom It May Concern I have an objection with some recently proposed nominations for our property to be placed on the National Registry of Historic Places as part of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Historic District, and I'd like to request your assistance in making things right. The properties addresses in consideration are 411 Linn St. and 228 Church St. I am very comfortable with new developments having property agreements as to the expectations for what is expected of the housing, landscaping, dimensions, etc., but differ as to the changing requirements of current ownership. I also have a deep believe in the concept of due process at all levels of government, whether federal, state or local. I trust that our elected officials consider the thoughts and opinions of all people in the community they represent and base policy with this sensitivity in mind. I believe some well -intended people may have over looked one of our most basic rights as Americans, those of property rights. Just as the current Patriot Act is under scrutiny at the federal level, for implications regarding privacy and our rights, the liberty to enjoy and utilize our properties remain at the core of our society. I thank you for your consideration and would like you to: 1. Consider this letter our personal objection for consideration to the National Registry. 2. Request the matter be dropped as an agenda item for consideration. Sincerely, ktbl� <3� Nichole Slabach CC: City Council August 2, 2004 Dear Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, I, Renetta Webster, owner of the properties located at 330 North Gilbert Street and 402 Fast Davenport Street, am opposed to having my properties nominated to be placed on the National Registry of Historic Places as part of the proposed Gilbert -Linn Historic District. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Renetta Webster \ n �„ .. � ,u,vl4ov Kitw (_ c.'uj r �n-franc. ):tfva T �� C�<�Et� [o �l / n /� .ter, �x` fF sylrrn �%37C t,. ra � vd fiu,�.r�t. ,��r f<'� ��.-u�i� �G:lfxcl 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 144C. Meeting schedule: 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. Applicant Information r (Please check primary contact person) ❑ Owner.,..F ./_/-.:x...F-na.1.,.lrca.. Phone.........�..................................................................................... Address .....-142Y..... 7z!irA.............................................. ct` .....C.L.•7•........ ....... ...................................... email................................................................................................. ❑ Contractor Address .....1n..".t.,ner 4 je..K,l .......d2............... t..!7............................................... Phone.. 3.t..ln.-...'........................................ email .............. ❑ Consultant Address ......., Phone email Application Requirements Attached are the following items: Z Site plan I9'Floor plans -El�_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 elevations and photographs. 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 second page of this application. For Sto/f Use. Date submitted....gl..al..d.7........................... ❑ Certificate of No Material Effect Certificate of Appropriateness ❑ Major review ❑ Intermediate review ❑ Minor review Property Information Address of property ...... lY......... ....................... ........................................................................ UseJI........................................... Date constructed (if known) 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 Street Historic District ❑ Longfellow Historic District ❑ Summit Street Historic District ❑ �Woodlawn Historic District ud Clark Street Conservation District ❑ College Hill Conservation District ❑ Dearborn Street Conservation District ❑ Lucas -Governor Street Conservation District Within the district, this property is classified as: ❑ Contributing ❑ Noncontributing ❑ Nonhistoric Proipct Type Alteration of an existing building (ie. siding and window replacement, skylights, window opening alterations, new decks, porch reconstruction, baluster repair or similar) •9r�Xddition to an existing building (includes decks and ramps) ❑ Demolition of a building or portion of a building lie. porch, chimneys, decorative trim, baluster or similar) ❑ Construction of new building ❑ Repair or restoration of an existing structure that will not change its appearance ❑ Other Project description / .................. 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During the summer months, the HPC may also meet on the fourth Thursday. Applications are due by Wednesday the week prior to the meeting. Applicant Information (Please check primary contact person) j/ / / ❑ Owner ...... Te.I.T..ryCy SGY1..3.l...I....In...... Phone......ssl1-. .7tff�......�.pp�. j................................I........ Address .... Y ... 31.............!J.0..6...e.�A............................. email ❑ Contractor .... -..= Address .......................... Phone email..............................�................................................................... ❑ Consultant .... =... l,I.AAIt.:C�.... . � �A.r ..� �..E.. Address........................................................................................... Phone email Application Requirements Attached are the following items: A"lite plan ❑ Floor plans .0�_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 elevations and photographs. 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 second page of this application. For Staff Use. Date submitted ....................................... ❑ Certificate of No Material Effect ❑ Certificate of Appropriateness ❑ Major review ❑ Intermediate review ❑ Minor review Property Information l Address of property.... �..��.J..............0 e ..!..........,.......... Use of property ....... �.Y:!...".:!..e/....q.......�Q�........e............61 Date constructed (if known) ......(..../..`5.�.5..................................... 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 Street Historic District X Longfellow Historic District ❑ Summit Street Historic District ❑ Woodlawn Historic District ❑ Clark Street Conservation District ❑ College Hill Conservation District ❑ Dearborn Street Conservation District ❑ Lucas -Governor Street Conservation District Within the district, this property is classified as: 0 Contributing ❑ Noncontributing ❑ Nonhistoric Project Type ❑ Alteration of an existing building (ie. siding and window replacement, skylights, window opening alterations, new decks, porch reconstruction, baluster repair or similar) ❑ Addition to an existing building (includes decks and ramps) ❑ Demolition of a building or portion of a building lie. porch, chimneys, decorative trim, baluster or similar) ❑ Construction of new building ❑ Repair or restoration of an existing structure that will not change its appearance r n Ids Other -f"rr e_ 04 9 hD�2 PiVtC► Project description ngo✓...........'en,.s..t.................... .................... cads �"..r....a.......... 5....................................................... 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EMMA HARVAT HALL — CIVIC CENTER MEMBERS PRESENT: Michael Gunn, Michael Maharry, Mark McCallum, Jim Ponto, Amy Smothers, , Tim Weitzel MEMBERS ABSENT: James Enloe, Justine Zimmer, Paul Sueppel STAFF PRESENT: Shelley McCafferty OTHERS PRESENT: Doug Ducharm, Martha Kelch, Mike Brennan CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Maharry called the meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: There was none. ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION: Historic Review: 1130 Seymour Avenue. Martha Kelch of Shive-Hattery presented the proposed addition to Longfellow School. She stated that there were three reasons for the addition: 1. Need space for cafeteria table, 2. Provide vestibule into gymnasium; 3. Provide more inviting entrance to gymnasium. Kelch said that the addition will be an extension of the existing vestibule, which is not used. All new brick will be used. The design incorporates accent brick banding and foundation from the original building, pilasters and pre -cast door trim from the addition. Smothers said that this is an addition to the addition and that Shive-Hattery could have been more creative. She said you don't have to make it blend in with the addition and modern materials could have been used. Maharry asked if because the addition is over 50 years old is it considered historic. Weitzel said he felt that the gymnasium was not itself significant. McCafferty said that a contemporary addition would be acceptable under the Secretary of the Interior's Standards. Weitzel said he felt the proposed addition is acceptable. MOTION: Ponto moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for an application for an addition to Longfellow School as proposed by Shive-Hattery. McCallum seconded the motion. Weitzel said that the Commission was not going to require that the design be changed. Smothers agreed and said this was a discussion about design theory. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. 1025 Oakland Avenue. McCafferty stated that the applicant is not present. In the past the applicant requested a COA to replace the front gable window with a new double -hung window of the same size, which was approved as a certificate of no material effect. This application is a request to replace the east or west gable window with a double -hung the same size as the front gable window for egress. This would make the window significantly taller and wider and the sill would no longer align with the fish scale siding. McCafferty said the applicant is willing to use a casement window of a size similar to the existing window with a simulated check rail, but also requested approval for the double -hung window. McCafferty recommended the casement window. Weitzel and McCallum agreed. Smothers said that the fish scale could be lowered so that it aligns with the sill of the taller double -hung window. Weitzel said that the frieze board could be extend as a band below the fish scale. Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 22, 2004 Page 2 MOTION: Weitzel moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for 1025 Burlington Street to replace the east and/or west gable windows with a casement window of the same vertical dimension as the existing opening; or a double -hung window of the same dimension as the front gable window provided fish scale shingles are added to align with the sill of the new window or the frieze board is extended across the gable with fish scales above. McCallum seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. 723 Oakland Avenue. McCafferty said that the applicant is requesting a certificate of appropriateness to add a handrail to the front and back stoops. McCafferty said she recommended black pipe hand railings but the applicant wanted something he felt would be more compatible with the architecture. McCafferty said after looking at other hand rails on the street she recommend the railing illustrated in the packet. She said the applicant found her recommendation acceptable. Gunn asked about the issue of waiting a year to paint pressure treated lumber. Weitzel said that because this type of lumber is not kiln dried it has a high moisture content. McCafferty said it will not hold paint until it has cured. McCafferty said she would check with HIS to see if there was anyway to enforce painting after a year, but was doubtful. The Commission agreed that they would have to have confidence that the homeowner would paint the handrail after it has cured. Ponto asked about the newel post cap. Weitzel recommended a flat or simple pyramid cap. MOTION: Weitzel moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness to construct wood handrails at the front and back stoop of 723 Oakland Avenue as proposed provided flat or simply pyramid newel post caps are used. Ponto seconded the motion. Maharry said he felt it complied with the guidelines and that it would be a nice addition. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. Minutes June 10, 2004. McCafferty said she listened to the tape of the meeting and changed the minutes regarding 728 Dearborn Street accordingly. MOTION: Weitzel moved to approve consideration of the June 10, 2004 minutes to the Commission's next meeting. Smothers seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. July 8. 2004. Maharry asked if there were any concerns with these minutes. Weitzel said no. MOTION: McCallum moved to approve the July 8, 2004 minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission meeting, as amended. Gunn seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION: Ponto asked about 728 Dearborn Street and whether they still required review for the fiberglass clad window. McCafferty said she had not heard from the applicant. Weitzel asked about a replacement for Paul Sueppel. McCafferty said she need a letter from Sueppel. Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District. McCafferty stated that a number of property owners in the commercially zoned area of the proposed National Register Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District have submitted letters of protest to the State. The primary reason for their concern is that they feel NRHP designation will lead to local historic district designation and regulation of their properties. However, under state code, NRHP registration is not required to designate a local historic district. McCafferty said that the Commission has the information necessary to substantiate that this area meets the criterian of state and local code for local designation. Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 22, 2004 Page 3 Maharry said the reason for the open hearing on August 10 is that property owners feel they were not properly notified. Maharry said that at the hearing they could discuss the historic significance of the district and individual property. Weitzel asked if individual owners can request to have their property removed from the National Register district. McCafferty said that if more than 50% of the owner protest the designation by sending a notarized letter to SHPO, the nomination would not be listed on the NRHP. In this district there are 103 properties and 86 owners, therefore 44 owners would have to protest. If this happens, the nomination is still reviewed by SNRC and the National Park Service will make a determination of eligibility. However the district will not appear on the National Register. But if determined eligible for the NRHP, property owners in the district would still be able to use historic preservation tax credits. McCafferty said the public hearing will be held Tuesday, August 10 at 7:00. Brennan asked if the letter notifying property owners will state that the registration will not effect property owners. McCafferty said the notification will state what the NRHP does and does not do. Brennen asked if it would mention any adverse effects. McCafferty stated she was not aware of any law that results in an adverse effect. Brennen stated that 36 CFR 60 would adversely effect property. He said athough there are tax benefits, there are also tax penalties for demolition. Maharry said that may be a matter of interpretation and said they would provide the same information that has been provided in notification for other NRHP districts. Maharry said the purpose of the public hearing is to provide the public with information. McCafferty said she was not familiar with 36 CFR 60 and would look into it. She said she could refer property owners to the applicable code. Ponto said information provided should be balanced and fair. McCafferty said that all the objectors have property in the commercially zoned area. Gunn said it is likely that discussion will be focused on local designation. McCafferty agreed. She said that regardless of the facts provided by the City and SHPO, people who are opposed do not believe that this is not regulatory and not required for local designation. The reason for opposition is the fear that if it is listed on the NRHP it will also become a local historic district. One of the approaches to address their concern is to proceed with local designation immediately exclusive of the commercial properties. McCafferty said that given the character of Iowa City and issues with commercial property, commercial property owners are not at this time comfortable with local historic districts. The Commission discussed if the public hearing should include discussion of local designation. Maharry stated that the purpose of the public hearing is to determine NRHP eligibility and historic significance. Gunn said that what people are most concerned about is local designation. If the Commission isn't willing to discuss local designation they will be accused of not listening. McCafferty recommended that there be two items on the agenda. The first to determine NRHP eligibility and the second a neighborhood meeting, not the public hearing, about local designation. Gunn said that local designation is a long process that involves many meetings. During the meetings people ask questions, they get answers, there are arguments, thing changes. He said this is a democratic process. Gunn said there is a process with local designation that helps to sooth fears about the designation and that it is a good process. Smothers said that the message should be that the public is hear to define their own neighborhood. Listing an area on the NRHP archives the history of an area. The Commission discussed the impact that zoning has on the assessed and market value of property. McCallum stated an example of a fraternity in which the bank loaned the fraternity money for repairs based on the appraisal which determines the highest and best use of the property. In this case, the highest and best use was not a fraternity or rooming house, it was an apartment building. The bank will provide loans for highest and best use because in the event of foreclosure, they could recover the loan. Smothers stated that in Savannah banks are not allowed to deny loans to owners that intend to preserve their property; this is redlining. Gunn said that if local district zoning restricts commercial properties more than existing zoning than property owners will be upset and justifiably so. Gunn said this is a valuable argument and maybe these properties should be removed from a local district. The Commission must address this issue. McCafferty said that appraising historic buildings is difficult and many appraisers do not know how to place economic value on the intrinsic value of a historic building. She stated Carnegie Library is an Historic Preservation Commission Minutes July 22, 2004 Page 4 example of this. This building was not placed on the National Register, but the outcry from the public prevented its demolish. Because it is historic, it is desirable. This is not reflected in an appraisal. Gunn asked if the properties in the commercial were nonhistoric. McCafferty said that only two of the properties are nonhistoric. Gunn said that the issue is not alteration but demolition. If the property is historic it cannot be demolished if in a local historic district. Gunn said this is a real issues, owners have reason to be upset and the Commission must deal with it the best they can. W ietzel said there is an issue with owners wanting to sell to Mercy when they are done with their property. McCafferty said that until the commercial community have sufficient evidence that historic commercial properties are desirable because they contribute to a sense of place, the desirability of a community and the community's economy, there will not be support for commercial historic districts. McCafferty said that the case needs to be made that historic properties are economically beneficial to a community. Weitzel said there is ample evidence that in other communities this is true. Maharry said this is one of the charges of the Commission. McCafferty said there is ample opportunity in the Northside for development, such as the Paglia's parking lot, City parking lot, gas station, etc. A, vision of the redevelopment of the Northside Market Place that is integral to the preservation of historic properties needs to be presented. Weitzel said that in communities in the eastern US, when communities revitalize their historic core, it brings people back to this part of the city. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Minutes submitted by Shelley McCafferty sYpcd/minuted pd2004/ pc7-22-04.doc