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12-14-2017 Historic Preservation Commission
IOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Thursday, December 14,2017 City Hall, 410 E. Washington Street Emma Harvat Hall 5:30 p.m. A) Call to Order B) Roll Call C) Public discussion of anything not on the agenda D) Public Hearings- Discussions for landmark designations of the following properties: 1. 410 North Clinton Street 2. 412 North Dubuque Street 3. 213 East Market Street 4. 319 East Bloomington Street 5. 504 East Bloomington Street 6. 1029 North Dodge Street 7. 715 West Park Road E) Report on Certificates issued by Chair and Staff Certificate of No Material Effect —Chair and Staff review 1. 823 Bowery Street— Govemor-Lucas Street Conservation District (deteriorated porch roof and column reconstruction) 2. 529 Church Street— Goosetown/Horace Mann Conservation District (front step replacement) 3. 106 S. Dodge Street —College Green Historic District (damaged rear porch reconstruction) Minor Review —Staff review 325 South Summit Street— Summit Street Historic District (asbestos siding removal) Intermediate Review —Chair and Staff review 717 East Davenport Street — Goosetown/Horace Mann Conservation District (rear deck and sliding glass door opening removal, new rear door and new front porch railing) F) Amendments to the Historic Preservation Guidelines 1. Driveway curb cut as minor review 2. Front door replacement of certain types as minor review 3. Roof shingle replacement of certain types as minor review 4. Synthetic sidingremoval as minor review 5. Window and door modifications on the back of a primary structure as minor review Carriage house -style (two-story) garage as minor review G) Consideration of Minutes for November 9, 2017 H) Commission Information and Discussion 1. 2018 Commission Schedule 2. "Saving Iowa City's Oldest House, by Alicia Trimble and Gina lie Swaim 3. Invitation to Board and Commissioner training at Kirkwood Iowa City, 5:30 pm, Tuesday, December 19, 2017 4. 2017 HP Awards I) Adjournment If you will need disabilityrelatedaccommodations in order to participate in this meeting, please contact Bob Miklo, Urban Planning, at 319-356-5240 or at bob-miklo@a Iowa-city.org. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meetyour access needs. r -��� CITY OF IOWA CITY Date: December 7, 2017 To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 410 North Clinton Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study and identified several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 410 N. Clinton Street, the Cochrane-Sharpless-Dennis House, be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built in 1865. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 410 N. Clinton Street meets criteria a in that it is one of Iowa City's few remaining Civil War -era homes and criteria b in that it is an intact example of Italianate residential architecture in Iowa City that is not diminished by the addition because it is located behind the house. Staff finds that it meets criteria c in that it is located in an early residential area associated with the university and the western edge of the northside neighborhood in this early period. The house meets criteria d because of its association with active prominent members of the Iowa City community especially Cochrane and Sharpless. Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 410 N. Clinton Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, c, and d. Cochrane-Sharpless-Dennis House 410 North Clinton 410 North Clinton Street, built in 1865, is a two-story brick Italianate with a low -sloped side gabled roof. Unlike typical Italianate houses where the brackets are part of an elaborate cornice in this house the simple cornice is supported on paired brackets. The full -width front porch has paired columns and decorative brackets composed of carved -curling tendrils similar to the cornice brackets. The symmetrical fagade includes a classically detailed center entry with narrow sidelights and transom with deeply recessed trim. Floor -to -ceiling 4-over-6 double hung windows are symmetrically placed on the first floor. The second floor windows have heavy stone sills and lintels. The central window is 4-over-6 like the first floor windows and the windows on each side are smaller 4-over4. The front fagade also has original shutters. Dr. Milton B. Cochrane settled in Iowa City in 1854. He was a surgeon in the 1 st Iowa Cavalry and then promoted to the corps of surgeons of the United States Volunteers during the Civil War. He was a member of the State Historical Society from 1857 until his death in 1898. In 1859-60 He was a member of the Iowa City School Board. After the war he was appointed the first Superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans Home at Davenport until he resigned in 1867. In the early 1880s he was appointed surgeon of an Indian Agency in Wisconsin. Samuel Sharpless and his wife Priscilla Crain owned this property from 1867 until at least 1915 when Priscilla died in the home. Sharpless was a director of the Johnson County Savings Bank, supervisor of various farming industries and a member of the Iowa City Council. In 1917 Edwin E. Dennis and his wife Anna Tantlinger bought the house and passed it on to their daughter Gertrude Dennis in 1936. Gertrude taught music, was an active Presbyterian, and served as part of the local Art Circle. She owned the house until 1965. 412 North Clinton is significant for its architecture and association with prominent citizens of Iowa City. Cochrane-Sharpless-Dennis House 410 North Clinton IOVVA SM UMNTORY Survey ID Number 52-0t52 G• D 06-1D 06-1 Database ID Number Nonextant I . —cation and F .-•`*mi l i fn a inn 1. Historic Nama(s) r C_orhraD wini.s i-goe 2. Common Names) 3. Sw4t Addre s 410-412 N. Clanton St. •1. Cit; Icr3 City Vicinity [ ) 3. County jdmgKm 6. Subdivision Origi ral Plat 7. Block(s) S. L t(s) 9. Lego! D=xriptiou: (IfRural) Township Range Section Qoartcr or (fir Of 10. Historic Function(s) Sirgle doe°.ling 01A l 1. Currant Fuaction(s) volt:' f a:ri.ly p} B 12.Owner Robert. Crane p� Addren 91 ti M3.iden larii city/State Icier: City. IA ZIP 52240 also r fit■ MVIP-1111 Ile IIB :� '_1 fill: • II.; 11111I 111 f U6 'Ifs ill III 5° rlll �' + _li■ rl• to � at 1::u: ...II_ IIG _ln, sFr :� .Ili I - kill; ill At, ej ■N EI: i �. _ ■ I� dN1i Illlfl III !IIII rr :- _ lo... ■II I ^. 'R0 '" it ■Ili 1111. ■1 SI■�Ifrr 1r1- If11�.:111: 'YII ■ �■f■"CrIG JIII 5{Itc ilnl _�.(intcgrtyNOW) Rotl/FMW View — A IOWA SITE XMNTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET Sumy ID Number 52-010—D 041 Database ID Number Street Address -410-412 M. Clintm St. Cit,- IR City Comm J n Levall)=riptiou: (iYRMII) Township Rang,.) SaAm Quarter of QVIAM Of Roll / Frame 10 / 7 Lcokir3 TEE - €t + ;s brici: s:'•3-itia�t at rear Property Characteristic Vorm - Residential CFN 259-1402 Survey ID Number 52-010-DO41 0/25/fi9 Database ID Number .,ae, t Address 410-412 N. Cji_ tan St. City Iowa City County JQbnaon Le x1 Dascription: (If Rural) Township Range Section Quarter of Quarter Of Lacation Inte3rity: Original Site � Moved _ Moved to On:md Site r Endanprid? i3 orY— Ifyes,Tv;-LY? Ground Plan: a Building Shapes) Ell w addition b. Width by Depth a �y in units Architecuual Style/Styhstio L-tAuences Yty Stylistic Attributes Coda Late Vi.2torian: Italianae Bracketed eaves, transom & sidelicghts 42 till slender wirzZws 412 410j- Materials: Foundation Stone Poured concrete 40 100 Walls Brick Brick 30 30 Roof bletal Asphalt 50 80 Number of Stories 2 3 Roof Shape _. _Gable - very low pitch / Gable 1 1 Builder(s) Unkw m Architects) Ur krr wn Original Construction Date 1865 Modification/Addition Dates: 9 unit apartmew- Luilding added to rear in 199? Ante double end chimneys, original exterior shutters and original porch. _ Contine4tinn Sheet [I Significant interior Components: All original except for baths and kitchen Con inuatien Cheer I 1 Surveyor Commmu: ,12 is very old uTith Italianate detsilirgs (brackets, long vrindcers, etc.) 410 is apartment building attached to rear of 412. Brick built for i4. B. Cochran is 1865 (from real estate appraiss°rrent records.) Continuation Shed t t Sources: Sanborn Fire Insurance Lftps: 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933. Keyes pp 59-60 Information provided by present owrer eeds Further Study/Anomaly I 1 Continuation Sheet II Surveyor Moraski/Erwin ter Date 1995-96 C IOWA SITE INVENTORY FORM EVALUATION SHEET ADDRESS: 410-412 North Clinton SURVEY ID # 52-010—DO41 Iowa City, IA REVIEWED BY: Molly Myers Naumann, Consultant DATE: February 1996 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor: 1839—c.1946 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A B _ C __ XD _ NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL_ YES _X_ NO _ CONSERVATION DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING X NON—CONTRIBUTING This two story brick residence from c.1865 is a good example of Italianate residential design. The house is rectangular with a small two story wing to the rear. It features a symmetrical three bay facade, the entry having both transom and sidelights. On the first floor two narrow floor —length windows are paired on each side of the entrance. At the second floor level the windows appear as pairs, but without space between them. Both sills and lintels are of stone. Paired Italianate brackets are located at the cornice. The original end chmneys and exterior shutters are in place. The front porch extends across the entire facade and features slender paired posts, square in shape with chamfered corners. Delicate scroll brackets top each of the porch posts. The pitch of the gable roof is unusually low, one indication of a fairly early date. Although a multi —unit apartment building has been attached to this house at the rear, the integrity of the original structure remains quite high. It is considered to be individually eligible as a good example of its period and style, and is considered to a be a strong contributing structure in the Clinton Street Conservation District, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor: 1839—c.1946 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A X BC D_ NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL YES _X_ _ NO�__ CONSERVATION DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING X NON—CONTRIBUTING The Cochrane —Dennis House from c.1865 illustrates the development of the north part of Iowa City in the years following the removal of the state capital to Des Moines. The location of the State University of Iowa here in 1855, and the arrival of the railroad in 1856, ensured the continued growth of the former seat of state government. The Cochrane —Dennis House and the Dey House across the street at 507 North Clinton appear to be the last remaining examples of early residential design in this neighborhood. Both are good examples of the Italianate style and both have been well maintained. They demonstrate the use of mass—produced building materials that became available with the arrival of the railroad. The university was housed in the Old Capitol and two other buildings located on what is know known as the Pentacrest. The area to the north was a logical location for both faculty and students to live. Clinton Street appears to have always been the western edge of the so—called North Side Neighborhood, and even from the earliest days may have been considered to be separate. The Cochrane —Dennis House is considered to be individually eligible and is also a solid contributing structure in the proposed conservation district. PREPARED BY: Molly Myers Naumann, Consultant ADDRESS: 167 W. Alta Vista, Ottumwa, IA 52501 AFFILIATION: Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS: 401 E. Washington, Iowa City, IA 52240 PHONE: (515) 682-2743 DATE: February 1996 PHONE: (319) 356-5243 Pik l03I11/+ A A J f'MLtEoncfE+;riz e,.,v-.'mn lot •a "We 051oricul Qep liw nt Z .. 6d_raet11., Ic �.., ._,tto.:^522;0 Taerw akad. mL 3. tJ„z• trw.xhiy .T"-. — e i o A 4 9 Sit;. u;,,r_ , 30-1d18 Ct h YWvl 5. 'J7A Ocatton: :nnn _t•;ISt(n,:,r_ n hme__... • Arns ,. Wl r 5-c-iEirie1Tzer r ar3 W- connrr rate o Crarie l�t�i�ert u. 0+..,;.r( ),JUrre ..�•.__r --.F. � �'—, r rp fj intere$t 7. (u t rr -P0,, t r Owl) 3. Usu:T7t"nt__-�,_ Deyr:;dott1CI1 unknown T0. ku"WJng;'Y�FIa: ['rhr,e,Sasa'ell� dtmllin& [i indtstri;=tl ❑ c,.A :r instltutiwio ❑ re0giats Ej multip64,;.mffy ; w.hin�, 2 [educaSomml [i 1n;b6c ❑ agric:ultuml ❑ c irAjr.zr715J 'i1. uis:aw 54'.ste: ❑ drrco r.l [] stor,a O bvic:s [,bz.rd mid bsttan ❑;;ldnqles ❑ siucco ❑ other 12. S!r cIvr;d Sislcm: ❑ r:Wad fr-me v:EM interlocking plw[]v.jood :rama with ity ;i member ('axEEocn imm-5 ) r sonry fa.d•r,.:rrrg •,.�ad9s L7 Eron tramp, [J steel O-rainCored conc(.^aa 13. car.,litlan: f] evcaoent [I good & V4r L] datsriovated U. Esteifm;p F.fj,lrileaf s?Ut ❑mo+sJ—i,,�, t:;EdiCi Notes on �clter�,'.1, r:a, as (with d,^.tas and ,ircblt, t, if :mown) and am, other na;>aL•',;: t2atutx of bufidinu and *a: 15. f r:tixd a7utl�;.isls:gS tma 5utz+val ❑ tarn ❑ other farm :tvucLj;es ❑ caeriye ;•Aura ❑ p^ .ga ❑ piy"i Ba mitbr _-three- sl y brau--buUdin jr,br4 k YeliPl'�s tip �It? �Gti L 1E.E�rQY'f ° y - .� en;iaryarc.;T no c>-: o •,rn T Si. yer:esndlir� , i s briEttir-,g: ❑ oEt2n land ❑ tvo,x;i •r.:3 O r �.tt-re_'. ,�usnoltdtn j> [S c'cr:ac - Lt+iit--(i' ❑ uamin riza ❑ Industrial O reside.ntial I] other T�. 11. Photo t, - yell—��'Prxmc__.f1.—l1try�_ d"JP� •I • r. iindicats sources of iufnrm,.,jon for c•il si:.^. manta) Tit. dre6iiudarai s!�nif%4soc L'i r., Kc/ stretctur;dindivida:Ay m-.f S-Jia, for the Nttlonal :rgirtcr Cj b. Cuniributhig c'raccre ❑ £. iicr, ell-A!:Vin rision Well preserved gable sided brick house with low pitched roof. Features Italianate front porch and paired cornice brackets. k"indows on the first floor are full length, those on the second floor are paired beneath stone lintels and sills.. Tie center window on the second floor is floor length as well. See continuation sheet. $Y. 'rlistoneaiSi4�lfira,e.eo Theme(s) _ a. ;:ey A-jL:t.rrelinoit4du:,ih/ may rf4aCfr fortis. Na.ion-1 R'glstat }';b..Contribudn; structure ❑w. Not eligf '•;d!ntrusion io Italianate-Two story side gable The Samuel Sharpless family owned the house as late as 1912, and he was noted for his local investment activities as well as for his having served as Director of the -Johnson County Savings Bank for twenty five years. Gertrude F. Dennis owned the house from 1935 through the early 1950's at least. 22.(for,.rim'�ry and secordc: f .oe;.crs, jve com lete ixts o^ j)ui lic;tion: -,u:i:o:, Ode, p!;.ce of )uZA!c4tinn, &12, atc.): Prepwedby..__...i..LT' Address Telcpnonc __..-__— I or I-IM i0111 of � Iistoi is PrPmar nation Use Only .". %ics Infvrm.;ion : eurcas on Otis FroMay ❑ Covrfg'!wourcw Tile ❑ W',ulshield 3uteary ❑ National lizii1wer ❑ Grants -In Acid: ❑ Dvterminadon of EIISNOry 2. Subject Traces a. C. _._ C. _...�_ d. ❑ 3atis w and C:o:npIlmnra Project: ❑ Other..__ ❑ Uther r 3. Photo Images t e. oicz. $b7mg7 _ of Historic r1ras.Va.1 __a_cal Dep __ a=ma"a&city, 1, 7 ia-&10-o7/ Site _, . 30 ? e CoV.C2&w! im #e QmeCswe@eshomestead, 42 N. o; r Samuel sbm&ss ( amg served erg n -a e years as the director of Jo -e er» Savings Bank, and was noted local capitalist. (Samer,Hsbr wJker @at,I_(cdr Rapids, Western hEan S2 «,@7a r CITY OF I O W A C I T Y Date: December 12, 2017 (Revised) To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 412 North Dubuque Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study and identified several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 412 N. Dubuque Street, the David Boarts House (aka Sylvanus Johnson House) be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built between 1866 and 1868. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 412 N. Dubuque Street meets criteria a and b in that it is an intact and well - maintained example of Iowa City's early brick cottages. The additions were likely in place by 1911. The house also meets criteria d because of its historical association with Sylvanus Johnson and its association with prominent Iowa City builder and brick mason, David Boarts, who built the Old Science Building (Calvin Hall). Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 412 N. Dubuque Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, and d. David Boarts House (aka Sylvanus Johnson House) 412 North Dubuque Street 412 N. Dubuque Street is a one-story oncK mau ana Parlor type MR house and was constructed between 1866 and 1868. Architectural historian, Molly Myers Naumann, evaluated the site in 1996 and felt that the house was typical of others built in Iowa City in the 1860s to 1880s. The symmetrical facade features single, segmental -arched windows with stone sills. The south facade includes a three -window projecting bay. The current windows are 6-over-6-pane double -hung windows. The current door has a transom above. The house sits on a brick foundation. The north -projecting rear gable addition was added prior to 1892. To the south the rear addition was an open porch. The addition was extended to the east before 1912. The current rear elevation includes additions added after 1920. Historically, the house has been associated with the original owner of the lot, Sylvanus Johnson, purportedly the first brick maker in town. David Boarts, a brick mason and eventually a prominent Iowa City builder, bought the property in 1866 and was a resident in the city directory as of 1868. Boarts built several Iowa City university and public buildings, including the Old Science Building (now Calvin Hall). David's wife Mary was the daughter of George Kimball who owned 1310 Cedar Street another early Iowa City house. By 1882 David and Mary Boarts were the owners of 1310 Cedar Street and sold 412 Dubuque Street in 1889. The next owners, Flora and Hiram Heath expanded the original building almost to the current size prior to 1911. 412 North Dubuque Street is significant because of the architectural character and style, which is representative of early brick cottages in Iowa City. I -;7471Z RID IOWA SITS »NTORY Survey IDNumber 52-010--D068 Database ID Number No■m■am .+r+non and m�.� �:.,s,l infnr•iaati ». 1. Historic Nsnre(s) -- "ilyamis J'tlmsrna ile-mse 7. Common Nmoo(s) 3. Strut Addms 412 N. Whlis:e St. w, City Usltsl atX_ Winity (f S. County Jatm= 6, Subdivision Original Plat 7. Mock(s) 70 8. Lofts) 5• 9. Lagal Dcscriptio■, (If Rump Towm:hip Raw Secdon Qa w of Quarter Of 10. historic Fuacdoa(s) 11. Cur =Fuacd*S) s =1A 'll ina ota Jc&gR n t„_ ra ZIP K294S -. •1�1 `i !!kl lgri lIllL. wI "i111' ?11 I-� ]* .Will r �_ _III2 i- 2 I.a!f VI' 11111- 111 t rr. ;r t17r,.� --. T IW. 111, tlil_ 14111 k ■ 'III. luq, kI1„ 4_1 I 1l1111 -1 =:d: / '.11�klq i,i{I3Y'■ ill■li. f! t1I1 M oil ' INII in[ L111 #1;�11.N�W■I Ill® W■t= i� lac ��EM 711167. sdlll ■ KIWI= 11ii :. � Y el x�; PFOpWi' Charaturblic Forte - Rciidandal CFN 259-1402 Survey lDNumber E-010-DO68 9/25/39 Databum ID Number Sur4at Addma ate _ tx,r me St. City xcwa City County WIMM leid D : (Ng) Towaabip Range S zdm Quartet of Qasrtar — _- a —.- Location Integrity: Odrind Uc X Mowed � Moved to Criginsl Sim,— Bndast,+ ,;C +` or :'_ If yes, why? GroaudAw: e. Bulldiog5L4xW rp=gar b. Width &�bSDgklt 35 intrine Architectural Styli tyiiatic Wiomres ray StylWc Attributes Cie So rl.�tjnr*i4>a pia � t-rical facaee. secaental ar&..'.d 1 l�jgr?�tFg. P1iY Materiais: Foundation nrirl,-. eYv,rry7 c-et_e;. (s+cldjtfon) 30 00 Rod Alwbali--cihin:- 1�la W Number of Storios 1 1/2 Roof Shape _-cphl& / flat ( multim) 1,'4 Bwlrlw(s) tinkncmni Archhect(s) ITnIma:T1 Orisho COurtruc>ion Daft r. _ I R65RrSS-_2s Duty: t3wa raised _ ._.�_.�._. C,irnCavatim+SiFssC.41 Surveyarr rr eTtl: Sow: Satlbaxn File Irtsur ince n 4xa: 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 19261, 1933. Keyes, p. 23 North Side Survey 1981-82 Needs Further Sw*/Anomaly (I Continuation ShectI 1 IOWA SITE INVENTORY FORM EVALUATION SHEET ADDRESS: 412 North Dubuque SURVEY ID # 52-010—DO68 Iowa City, IA REVIEWED BY: Molly Myers Naumann, Consultant DATE: February 1996 ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor: 1839—c.1946 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A B _ C XD _ NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL_ YES _XNO__ CONSERVATION DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING_ _X_ NON—CONTRIBUTING This single story brick gable roof cottage appears to have been built between 1865 and 1875. It is a very simple vernacular structure with segmental arched openings. The facade is not truly symmetrical although the entrance is located between the two windows. This door features a transom but no sidelights. The polygonal bay window on the south (side) elevation also has segmental arched windows and appears to have been original. Additions have been made to the rear. This house is typical of many built in Iowa City during the 1860s-80s. These cottages featured segmental openings rather than the stone lintels of the earlier cottages, and the windows after c.1860 were somewhat taller and narrower. This house is a very good example of the brick cottage type and may be individually eligible with additional documentation. It is definitely a good contributing structure in the North Dubuque Conservation District. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor: 1839—c.1946 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A X BC D_ NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL YES _X__ NO _ CONSERVATION DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING X NON—CONTRIBUTING Traditionally this has been known as the "Sylvanus Johnson House." This attribution was based on the fact that Johnson was the original owner of the lot, and he was the first brick —maker in Iowa City (until 1856 he was the only brick —maker in Iowa City). However, this house does not fit the profile of the brick and stone cottages built in Iowa City prior to the Civil War, and was probably built after 1865. Even if it was not constructed by Sylvanus Johnson, this house is still significant as an early brick cottage and represents the development that occurred following the arrival of the railroad in 1856. It may be individually eligible (more historical documentation is needed) and is a strong contributing structure in the district. PREPARED BY: Molly Myers Naumann, Consultant ADDRESS: 167 W. Alta Vista, Ottumwa, IA 52501 AFFILIATION: Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS: 401 E. Washington, Iowa City, IA 52240 PHONE: (515) 682-2743 DATE: February 1996 PHONE: (319) 356-5243 S., - b" 0 - !/./;, 9 dft Div:i`an of f!lstc rlcrrel+vvj !opt l&I� NIAuric.1 0,-,w�ffl,ntt an E. st, kaw, Uy, lov.,z SK-"IO ldemtiLcatiun Johnson Wilson House � p 2. JF 6. John-T.—__ _314 South 5"i_t St, .. Urw: - - &';,a ----29-13.83 Map Retin "i DL'vmlr)iio-n 86 JS ti. LI ij r-] C-J,'_��-d 4ad K:neii fj i hyf.g" Ci other I?, Snummi L I wood fr&me •MtF-; intcrlov,;ng joints [j we.gl b2m- %Au-, !ifikt tr(xli 'icon 1-dirm) "R w;pfls ,, mssoniv lo;w6-b�ubg Iren $mT;!- [-j svzi frw.-ew wi% cj.�,A!n was Cj ivy wljizzd smincrete U. Cuirliricto O-vxa-mi! Mgovl Vi. EWLiiirftp Nctzs on Jtwutfons, Aelflons (41 lit daies rues jmK:I:t. it krowri, ttAfl rii;yoiii;q ,om",4c R..zIvras a; 'wikIftq; ;,nd ,7bam L]jr.%AgQ Ljpivy z I Tj 4.ul-j r"r, wrt!!;Vf V 7. � mw,67,P r; ow, t-wwihs: rvpafl EDMIUStrl'il Rmi"eva6l -S�cn C,CMCG pn,i'r::.a sc•rrces of Info:;°m}tion (�r,+7 staiamen'¢) i-0..arthii•_,ciuta! ;!:{� ii�since I a. ;;e;• structarv:`ind',IdualFy m•:y q��t;ry rot ter el;,:ionel pailsis.• ❑b. Ccntribat'ays:r_• ;ura [� d. PCc Afi ,JbkAatrusion Greek Revival brick cottage with segmental arches ov3r windows, transom o"' r door, brick bay on end. See 330 East Church for very similar structure. •ysm. tuix/!ndNic:ual;y:n-;•t,u--.y"o:�tE d .i;.nr.IW,a4si� j,b. 4:antribut}nr struc u:a ❑ c. ?!a: elfgY%Arttrus!on Original owner, Sylvanus Johnson, owner of tha city's first brick yard. He supplied bric!:s for the net�a Iowa Territorial -State Capitol built 1840-2 in Iowa C-!V. He lived fron 1813-1902. 22. Sec:o_; Ow p'.nWry and secondary rcnrs c, ;,!vc comp!<;;o 1_M o9 pu:.i:crti.+r.: nfti:og title, c o: publication, d ta, eta.): 01 Xeyes NSNPS Prc red G ,..._..':..• .",.. Addr-s _ _ _T0L, hone Wgaltication_ For aisd.&on J1 ii1sionic �3i'c i�!�v1^'don ;.�s� �J11k� 9. Ofnce brfotrstation Sourc_3 on this Wt,p rty j]Ccar,i; ��w:rwrile ❑ Win.+.shioA::1:s�� ❑ Navonal 2e3istar ❑ Grants -In -Aid: 2. Subjezt Tr:tr>s e C. d. e. ❑ Zewea and Compliaac3 i .'Cu ❑ other° F 3. F:roto lmages _{{ "'J "k Gi r 1 66`) North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study Historic Structure Inventory address: 412 N. Dubuque present use: single family residence present owner: Nolan block: 70 lot no. 1383 owner occupied: no date of construction: c. 1840-1850 building type and material: 1 story brick architectural style: Greek Revival condition: fair importance to neighborhood: important independent of surrounding structures notable features of building and site: Another of Iowa City's very early homes located on the North Side, this house has segmental arches over the windows and a transom over the door. Keyes refers to it as the Johnson -Wilson House. original owner: Sylvanus Johnson original use: historic significance: Property originally owned by Iowa City's first brick maker Sylvanus Johnson. sources: Keyes r CITY OF I O W A CITY Date: December 8, 2017 To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 213 East Market Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study and identified several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 213 E. Market Street, the Anton Geiger House, be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built in 1870. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 213 E. Market Street meets criteria a in that it is a part of the historic northside brewery neighborhood where prominent brewer Anton Geiger built it near his brewery which is listed on the National Register and criteria b because of this location with its proximity to the brewery and Italianate style. Staff finds it also meets criteria c and d because of the association with Anton Geiger and his Brewery. Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 213 E. Market Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, c, and d. Anton Geiger House 213 East Market Street 213 Market Street is a two-story brick home constructed in 1870. This front -gabled ell - shaped Italianate house features paired scrolled brackets with dentils in the frieze band. Single punched two -over -two double -hung windows have segmental stone arched lintels and stone sills. The first floor windows extend to the floor. An oculus window with stone surround is centered in the gable end. This detail is more rare than the other details. The entrance is offset and aligned with the window rhythm. Sharing the same lintel detail, the entrance includes paired doors with a transom above. Glazing in the doors, instead of in sidelights, was common in the Italianate style. A bay window is located on the east side. The house originally had a porch across the front and wrapping around the west corner to the side -gable bay. The porch also existed as early as 1883 and was removed sometime after 1930. The one-story addition on the southeast corner was added between 1912 and 1920. The house was built by Anton Geiger in 1870 near his brewery on the comer of Linn and Market streets. The brewery, known as Hotz and Geiger, as well as the Union Brewery, is individually listed in the National Register. The brewery, built first, has similar Italianate brackets and frieze details and segmental arched windows. Hotz and Geiger was one of three large breweries in Iowa City in the 1870's. Anton's wife was Clara Hotz Gieger, daughter of Simeon Hotz and Barbara Becker William Hotz. Geiger died in 1876. Anton Geiger's descendants sold 213 E. Market to the Wesley Foundation in 1945. 213 E. Market is significant for its architecture and its association with Iowa City's late 19th-century brewing industry. Anton Geiger House 213 East Market Street IOWA SUZ INVENTORY 1. Historic Nanws) An art Geier House 2. Common Name((;1) 3. Stroat Addrem 213 E. Xarket 3. Subdivision Oricrittal Plt ___ _ 7. S. LcsW D=y pdon: (ff Raral) Survey IDNumbet 52-010-D179 Database ID Number Nonwont Township RMP Section Q=M of Quarter Of DMIdon cQQ 10. Fuucdm s)�grals owe-11::ng OIA 1-. Cuff" Funcd*s) It nknl-- 97 12. AD*w r— o1sa1U Vesmrlatinn of Tnwa Plows Addren 17n m n::,.�-A ct City/Shft J, wa City. IA —ZIP 52245 it art/ ,—' •. �,. �' � ur nu. ■n u � 1� ... f t 4 � 7111' ill ■fi itifs 111111 ■11" f391I i •mil}! 'tea LL � 9 lit' .; 1 fi4 tU �1� 'la: 1■ I1111C�Ill: JII A■!!•I� :ill. ir11r ■ s IIII! � rw. • 11l✓�, 1. "{ Peupersy Charaetnidk Pena - Meal C�8239-1402 9ecverIDNmmber 52-010—D179 8/25M Dotage ID Nember IN Rear addition at unkr4m date SignifiUm Interior Cates: nnrte sdm Rhea r 1 Surveyor Comm: Italianate brackets, b=y on east elevation Pcm: tuckpointing has altered appearance of much of i&a lc ex level. 2:ziis could haves been inclua-ad an the Union Bmm--r NNIP namnation as an associated structure. coodan oo Showr n Sources: Sanborn Pyre Ig Mnpsr 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933. Keyes, p. 74 1 eoft Fhrthw Study/A¢amatY [ 1 Coatinnaaon Sheet 11 Surveyor Moaraaki/Etiwin/ _ Date 1995-96 IOWA SITE INVENTORY FORM EVALUATION SHEET ADDRESS: 213 East Market Iowa City, IA REVIEWED BY: Molly Myers F!aumann, Consultant ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor: 1839-c.1946 SURVEY ID # 52-010-13179 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A B C D NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL YES _ _ NCi_ _ DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING _X_ NON-CONTRIBUTING DATE: February 1996 The Geiger house is a two story brick rectangle with a gable roof. It exhibits characteristics of the Italianate style with paired scroll brackets at the eaves, an oculus window in the gable, and a sin -,le story bay window on the east (side) elevation. The entrance is located on the gable end and is off- set to the right. First floor windows extend to floor level and a transom is found above the door. Fenestration throughout is segmental arched. idthou3h.an addition has been made to the rear it is not considered to be intrusive. This house is a geed example of simplified Italianate design from 1870. It may be individually eligible and is certainly a k y structure in a historic district which includes Linn Street. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE & ASSOCIATED CONTEXTS: Dubuque/Linn Stroet Corridor: 1839-c.1946 APPLICABLE NRHP CRITERIA: A Y B C D_ NRHP ELIGIBILITY: INDIVIDUAL YES X NO DISTRICT: CONTRIBUTING NON-CONTRIBUTING This house is historically significant as the residence of Anton Ge the Union Brewery (NRHP) which was located immediately east of businessmen who chose to live near their place of work. The whch were located in the North Side bininess district in the 19th district was basically located along Market Street, wNh businesses and Gilbert as well. This area is part of the current survey, but farther east. The Geiger House might have been Included in the Since it was not, it can be considered to be individually eligible, district which would include Linn Street. PREPARED BY: Molly Myers Naumann, Consultant ADDRESS: 167 W. Alta Vista, Ottumwa, IA 52501 AFFILIATION: Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission ADDRESS: 401 E. Washington, Iowa City, IA 52240 iger, a partner with Simeon Hotz in of the house. it is representative Union Brewery was one of three century. This North Side business running north and south on Unn should be associated with the area Union Brewery NR nomination. and is a key structure in a historic PHONE: (515) 682-2743 DATE: February 19g6 PHONE: (319) 356-5243 North Side Jaighborhood Preservation Study Historic Structure Inventory block: 67 z lot a address: 213 Market no, 1942 Present use: religious -Wesley Foundation owner Present owner: Wesley Foundation of Iowa occupied: w a date of construction: 1870 building type and material: two-story brick architectural style: Italianate condition: good z Importance to neighborhood: important independent of surrounding structures notable features of building and site: E; a N The gable front of this building has a small round window in U the gable peak, windows with segmental stone arches, a cornice with. Italianate paired brackets and dentil molding. The front entrance has � ropa-turned wood trim around the door, and the stone foundation is topped by a dre$ged stone water table. ,Yeyas refers to this building as the Geiger-UJesley Foundation House. 9 original owner: Anton Geiger original use: single family residence W historic significance: E� z M Q H sources: Keyes :ilaisic:t of t•'.Isv�ic PiL;erv.itiorz Sit lo•��a asste :•e tia:f,:! I)t:g,nment Zt., hY.:'i City, I'n+.x 522+:1 IdenfficcAdon 1. slte Nzme fie %. !'?ilagc7'awtilCity i_v,'•; : C ]. 9. SimelAddrEsr 213 East �. L;;gxl SAex';irer�.< 6 .. SteN;u:rber 36-1942 @ISMct Finme�l r�+ Ci't "�C••I'izrr7 r=r'�`'if1 Gryy S. UVA S.-=,j6a: Tcllri!—__--_4,aw;unw_:- ..rrrthing pAcr.d 2.._-i A r r a Wesley Foundation o; Iixia 7. o+rt:lMe)dtadre.r, 12, Nort�bubaue _ - 9----- --- — ._._ I. Ul, :Frpkat campus !ninistry _ otfi,. ,residence p = A. De -A don 1870 9. i3rlec•::r,:-s�.tru*-:i�:n-..,—_._ .�:rchite;laiider-"Unkn��an`_- ❑ s;ngl.riemlFr dwall;ng [j Induetia; ❑ other in"Migo i71 f n:l; ors ❑ muMpie-family diwaCing ❑ srdacational ❑ p_u Ic ❑ agriculture! U commrrcia; 1'. EV edar lHaib: ❑ LljpLfaard ❑ stDae Ll b,ieS� ❑ ba>rd anti la tewt ❑ shtagies [3ctuccir 17.a i-wr 1 . S turwrA Saaet.;s ❑,6 wu fmma r.:;it inter;:rcl;:ng joints im fia ,At. Iighi rran:i vs ("Hc.)n ;Tama) Q m-.;v.,r: walls ❑ !rsn frame ❑ relnfomed conerate !'. CcAdeusa: []s:,e..11c;t []Zr1Od y3•fAr (=dgwi,arate•+1 14. e ti:t:�,rz;y F?oifm c; t;te ❑ mrvcd-8f so, when?_ NewW on Ata.�d:. ru, ecdit;ons (r,.:t d�-.ies ,:iu x.rhlvtr., if known) cad aw, �. r : ns±:u:lc :xasurer of indiding and site: 15. RZU'Bel a 0::t'bu',4-itngs deck jj ban ❑ cl"nar fxrn. strrucivres 0 car. -.ate F. u:,a ❑ S3r.5a ❑ prNy i-7 other — 9�.1^tieehclidlr:getR3ar;geredi ono ❑ptis-IYso,x�hyt__..--�-- _-_ 17. Sureoondings ok tktti bxrlldSngs ❑ of an land _ woodland ❑ sr.4t_red ouibusbd;nf{s ❑ deras,.fy built-up Zscoinmercisi ❑{ndu;'r:a; j"]rrsids•+,ial ❑other--..—__._—_� 19. P1wio AZF 6 a W 1 oll.- Frtun Niarw R S19a17.'�]] C Zlv9 (%IWcata ^ocres of lnfo:rr,%= h:-e : ct JMm 30 "J..l teitecturl eiKr,llica,rcc © s. I::y structuvAndHdually n , c :i—, * fy forth, N, t :*nn; rwG!aQr ❑ 5:. ContritiuLn� di :'cts: u ❑ _.:: efiGibialintreaion Itaiianate, small round t=indot in front stone arches, cornice with Italianate pLir:ad entrance has rope turned wood trim around th dressed stone ,;ate;^ table (NSNPS) a gable peat, t::indows Stith segmental brac%ets and dentil molding, front door, stone foundation topped by See photo, continuation s�zet o* 130 north Dubuque For vie-j o7 early -7ronc porch. Sze continuation sheet. 2S. N(,Iorfca151�iftcancr 'Me". s) Italiarai:: [_ a, �:; strustuhfi.idP.ddu.911y mr; r;t;:�?(:;• for flea F:::'w'a;-1 ltctjs4ov b. CoWaibul;na ar7 --wre ❑ c. ;;o: eiigibl,vintrusion Anton Geiger, born in Germany, built t4is house in 18y0 (14eber says 1887) xtith ten rooms and te.o baths, and decorated 13' ceilings. In 1880 an iron fence, porch and 'Front concrete stop rtith the letters "GEIGER" :-:ere added. Geiger, rith his father- in-lat=r S. Hotz, built the Union Brewery to the east (sae 121-131 North Linn). Bertha Geiger lived in the house as late as 1940, rind file ;�:siey Aethodist Student Foundation received the property in 1945, and continues to use it todate. 22.cry : d seecurK r.: s t., , e'a:: co npi rr tat s �i tell ik y ar :5rz�r: 6. f!3.ce a5 pt b(tc tlon, c3 s, a.): :•Veber, II, pp. 95-7• Keyes,'pp. 74-5. Prepared b'p.._.. Address_.______ 70ephone_... For Division of 1- istoric P esan(adon Use Only 1. Qifice in:onnalion Sources on Ws Proprerty ❑ eounry 2asource File ❑ Windshield Sun cy ❑-Rztlrs at Register ❑ Cranwin-Atd: _ ❑ Determ:nat:on of Eligbibt; 2. Sce:Jwl.aces b. C. d. e. ❑ Rawam and Comp(i�ncu Project: ❑ C3tfnir__ ❑w7th:;T ....... i 1 Salitsir„a r` FiifiYa•(t f<-cSerani)OII Slle s�., u.eShentiSt.,lU Rr arrre,ra: District Name )ate t:r,., Ir3tiassaa M.p Referenrn ed__ edenILLIeddo?i 1. slic ;.'-= — Geiger %,lei_ey 4F-gdmtio - .. .pr irW ., k =taioga9 a5 te16Pr S. i,. 7. C^ ner(s) Address _... litnwt:dMuu1 (cop IState) (apt a. Uae: pre=tent_---____, ,.._ Or%inal o3ccIiptiom y, f:7. x!2sinl k3-f.,,wly d ra:lint. ❑ iredusl- .. ❑ ot;;-_r insNtuticnni ❑ riigi;us Cl mu+tiFirt f : H, t+n 11M [i uduc Alorwl ❑ public U og dcuhuml ❑ cafamerr it l i t. ka9:. ?ur •.te':Fs: ❑ e 61p"r.:u�nl O rnor t 25'6rick ❑ bo.ro wry':. b.itca U s)o ,i (,z (] siucco ❑ olner--_---- 1 . ?lasrrty : yyitam l3wood'nAme Vtit in �Ao:Air:g; nts r,-mao.: 4 n+a wlt i lit nd me—ab , , (bWR,:oa frmc ❑mx otry Inwi-ires airr wi4L u 4ron frwx ❑ iirtei f..ame wi:Fev:t�ln u:�ais ❑ reln%at: d em:aa.a i3. Condl:Ibo: rla.xcalbim ❑y'ori ❑fair Ljd,-Kericrstsd 1:. hdesri[,: ❑or;jlie::� ❑ruvsd-itt+�, trh uni.�_._ Atci=:,eaeaitr-::raises, uatYosta(:�`thd�tes.-.r�ar��,i3.<P.:('•:not.rt):;i;fnyou,_rnr?;c'aa�,a,urv�ufbt�:idiny:indsitd: i5. F;t=:..34.3 aapiTeuildin ;i a,:3 FrwpFr?yt 1u, la tOPe buSTaling endna:gzred'! ❑uu ❑b to ClcnsurfAmistmaei-as �j Sm go ❑ril`r�' 57. yureot:n!iter 3eittie?+u%u4su: ;`(c(,;-,nf-lid L]woodisrad ;"].;,tlfrr. •nrtbai(aingr ❑msraf:/b�dla-uo rmrrwtri^1 C. indsrttu3 ❑ rr.idr,nti y 'is. V W?, i Hilt ),_,(1`,SOb it:m¢;_.1_b�Rgrl1ooking Sbf Sign f1cc=e (Indi.3to sourcas oNnformet!sn'lm', i ar_tamenti 15. AcxSd edurJ aign:lhmnc ❑ ,: . ;y saucmrdlndMdv:liy at�.y eu.ii:;' fo:• tl�_ iJ�i:anal ?c,ister ❑J. Co.vWbutinrscrucr_':s ❑ a Not ells bletint:asie-i This house Is of the Anglo-ltulian style, it's gable e The cornice has scrolled coupled brrck3ts with dentils cornice returns. Windows have plain segmental -arched is recessed and is treated the sarrx as the windows. nd facing the street. as it frieze, with no headings. The entrance A round window with plain heading surrounding it is in the gable area. There is a one-sotyr bay on the east side of the house and a tr.lza-story bay on the west dation is of ashlar with a projecting water table of dressed stop. 20. rda(vrIvAl 5lgnlarsnce samipolygonal side. The foun- Themes) _ ❑ %--y strLctureAndividuaiiy nsy cual!.sy :or t ,N 2lortai Re; swr ❑ b. Contributing stiuctu:= ❑ c. clot eli�,;bielintrusion 21• Pwce� tsar prim=: y _ad sorandary souxes. •:v: wmj)!etu h..cis c: puClicv ki. r;:iw, lick, piAra of pubgezion, d4,c-, a-.c.): Nineteenth Century Nome Architecture of iaWa City, Margaret N. Keyes. University of Iowa Press, C1966, Third printing 1971, P. 74. Prepared by OHO staff Adareas Telephone Orgacthal'lon For Division of FAstoric Preservation Jsse Only 1. OfBca Information sources on this Property ❑ County Resource rile ❑ Windshield survey ❑,National Register ❑ Grants -In -Aid: ❑ Determination of Eligibility, 2.. subject lfmces b. C. d. e. ❑ rnietis nd Compifa.•xe ;'roj=; ❑ Other ❑ Ot 3r ){ i' 3. Pi!oio.mazes }_ im-0 W r.Z sO� t C. e- Site No. 52-010-107 North Side Me`hborhood Praservation S udy October 1977 Historic Structure :rvsntoz%r block: - 67 lot address: 213 Iola ket no. 1942 Present use: religious -Wesley Foundation owner present owner: Wesley Foundation of lOVY& occupied: date of cohstructioa: 1870 building type and material: two-siofv brick architectural style: ltalianate condition: gooei importance to neighborhood: important srdependent of surrounding structures notable features of building and site: The gable front of this building has a small. round window in the gable peak, windows vritil segmental stone arches, a cornice with Italianate paired brackets and den`d, molding. The front entrance has rope -turned wood. "trim around the door, and the stone foundation is topped by a dregged stone vater'tabXe. ;:ekes refers to this building as the Gei_sr-VVes.ey Foundation House. I original owner: Anton Geiger original use: single family residence historic significance: sources: Keyes r CITY OF IOWA CITY ANDU IV I E M' 0 IN" I M III F Date: December 7, 2017 To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 319 East Bloomington Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study and identified several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 319 E. Bloomington Street, the Conrad and Anna Graf House, be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built between in 1878-79. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 319 E. Bloomington meets criteria a in that it is an significant example of the Italianate style and is an important element of the Northside brewery industry with the Union Brewery and the Anton Geiger House. The house meets criteria b as a well -maintained Italianate house with ornate trim details which is not diminished by the addition which is placed on the rear. The associations with Conrad Graf and his wife Anna Hotz, from the Hotz and Geiger brewery as well as the associations with the Union Brewery meets both criteria c and d. Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 319 E. Bloomington Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, c and d. Conrad and Anna Graf House 319 East Bloomington 319 East Bloomington is a two-story Italianate-style brick house built in 1878-1879. The moderately pitched front gable has elaborate paired brackets, an oval window inset in stone, and returning cornices. The porch extends across the full front and has a flat/ hipped roof, a bracketed frieze, and square columns resting on a brick balustrade which is likely a modification of the original full length columns. The three -bay front has the entrance opening with a transom in the right (west) bay. A second entrance on the left may have been converted from an original window. Elaborately carved stone segmental arches with keystones are located above the windows and door. Other window elements include a bay window on the east facade with a bracketed and dentiled cornice. The front fagade window openings on the first floor have wood panels extending to the floor. The house is associated with Conrad and Anna Graf and the late 19th-century brewing industry in Iowa City. Conrad Graf came to Iowa City from Bavaria in 1874 and was hired by the flourishing Union Brewery at 127-131 N. Linn Street. (Union Brewery was often known as Hotz and Geiger Brewery, for brewery partners Simeon Hotz and Anton Geiger). In 1875, Conrad Graf married Anna ("Annie") Hotz, a daughter of Simeon Hotz and Barbara Becker Williams Hotz. (Another Hotz daughter, Clara, had married Anton Geiger, Hotz's partner.) In 1878 Conrad and Anna Graf built the stately brick Italianate at 319 E. Bloomington, east of the brewery. Conrad Graf eventually became the owner of Union Brewery. The business, through many evolutions, stayed in the family for decades —as did the house until the 1950s. 319 East Bloomington is locally significant as an important example of the Italianate style and for its association with the thriving brewery industry in late 19th-century Iowa City. Conrad and Anna Graf House 319 East Bloomington F r,,; dS 7 10' f'7 a :Jiie 1111rantortz — o t u CNvs:?c•a r>: hiisiaic Presarvolun slta Nutnbz; 36-1906 lo- . fta o h tai �a L,;;.aartmcra f e. 1cur.. 6 . , t2t C.., to y, I�J%va 522 iU Mulct Name ' N ir.J iteier�nr.e o--L�' UantfficalAon 1. se.�;N�nsz Graf House ?.. VITt rro,4"Cjty_oiia�' y�y Tu+tst:itit,..._: --Cu,amry_ _ Johnson_,. _ 3. sna>:irzad,es 31 1aoton 15' of 3,,. _b of �.�..,.: t.a1Vt Wi✓yniti,•'_ Rrra: k.wr..rv:1 rar,�r rwtlon ksarrAn or P. vc*m 1. Ui'N ion_ 'd E: Lorne ...v.... .uy..c,r .,uu nrucrman-oarracr r-Irwlyrraea 7. 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IS. i§2)a?.1 Cbibasildht at,d Ynnperry: ❑ bam ❑ o:rLi : um strucwras ❑ carriage hausa ❑ gara�e ❑ privy ❑ other.- 16. is the bu}idin,; entlangereaP M no ❑ qet:-7t so, why? :7. 5cammOrrgv of The buildlug: ❑ open land n Wvcdiand ❑ rc;itered outbuilding ❑ densely built-up 0 commercial ❑ industrial 2 rusidential ❑Diener �.,.._..... Id. i 19, i:.oto �I SiM7-i,63COJIC 5. iln ,4.: e'.nurces o'r .n;arr :., ai c ,r a i s3 a ,�:,:ia• �..{ Ml1iiLKf4•r :7 ; 7y:e1F`. G3.i1+;C pia..__ -.*,, h[rsfnrprdu 9yracy anei:iyfor ta!» a+i,i:.;i.i#,.ter L h. on1ribut1a , s ructc. 0,7. that �%Jbfc{lrr.nstor. Italianate geatures include porch columns, bracket supports, ornamental stone liatess above Andows on facade, ornamental double doors, heavy brackets under the eaves of the tin roof. Stone watar table tops stone foundation. 31. 7iF.ta.'.u:i 9a,niq:.znre 1hernr:(s1.-- I;; e. ef: vrtusc!ind vidually m quiufy for th= Naric,4 (t�—ger El v. C.'ontr1hutina siructua•a• Lr::. Ncielt;*defttrusk-n City Directories list folla:�iog occupants: Conrad4Graf)(Schultze & Graf Brewery) 1878/9, same proprietor of bottli-ag works on Io,.-:a pva. 1891/2, Christ Senner, manager Union Brewery and Iowa City mineral Springs, 1897/8 (marries Graf's daughter Anna), same, 1901/2, same, saloon mans er, 1904. same 1908, 1914. 1924. Charles and Aate Hlorgan (employed Englert Ice Co 1934, 'Villiam and Kary Graf, Graf Bottling Works, 1943-1954, Clayton L. Shalla, and Leonard Rosenthal, dentists, 1964. One of two extant brewer's brick homes (see 113 East Mar'.et) v'hich individuals NSNPS Research by r1argaret Bonney G<.ner Questionnaire 1jw,jr^fNN)) �.wrt';T`i .2 r",lit .'p. -_--Date_ ._... .. AddressJelaphone Fo_ Divislorl olf Historic Presei.lic-'LIME Use Only- I. OFiice !nfortkatiou Sourc=,s on tails Pr4ri-rti Ll PwAery wad rcuenlfence ro)e+.t: L-]Wind;hk-r7Sura;� ❑Otb�r__.— ._,e [[I. W&;Ihorl r''.ek]3tzr Ll Other_.,. —___.__ ❑ Delt nnin+fion yf MoWlity a. 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Not oll jNefintrusion X MWodcs) 5 ,9XIcance Theme(s) _. ❑ r.. i::y structuratindh!dually m;:.y qc=.Ihy for the Matic-n:l Rmgistar ❑ J. Cont:.5uting structure ❑ C. Not eli(lblMMrusion 21, Saa:c_a (fo:. pdmary .znd secondary sources, ' -, complete 7:cts of publication: cu8ior, V6.,, puce of publication, date, e4c.): Prepared Address. OrgElix'�^" _ Telephone For Division of Historic Preservation Use Only 1. Oi:rcc: Information 5auras on this Property ❑ Counj, iZesovrce ; iile ❑ Windshield Servay ❑ Nationcl F.egister ❑Grants•in Aid: _ ❑ Determination of Elijbility 2. Subject Tress b. C. d. a. ❑ :tviv,•t:,nd Compliance Pro;act: ❑ Other _ ❑ Otirer ❑ Other 3. Plato Images +%1. 61 North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study Historic' Structure Inventory address: 319=5.Bloomington present use: Commercial -Walls Alive present owner: Westinghouse Learning Corp block: 58 lot no, 1906 owner occupied: date of construction: c. 1870-1880 building type and material: 2 story brick architectural style: Italianate condition: good importance to neighborhood: important independent of surroundings notable features of building and site: The columns on the porch of this house have Italianate style bracket supports. There are ornamental stone arches over the windows, an oval window in the front gable and ornamented double doors. Heavy brackets appear under the eaves of the tin roof. A stone water table tops the stone foundation. The front porch was added c. 1895. original owner: original use: historic significance: sources: Sanborn 1883, 1888, 1892, 1899 z 0 U z w A 0 O F a. x U w w ram, w U z a U z 2 ca y N 0 F+ 3�l -oie -65"Y lomra Site hiveentory Site Number Division of historic Preservailon Iowa State Historical Department 26 E. Market St., Iowa City, Iowa M40 Continua Lion Sheet Ifie43I1oLi her(�L Residence of Christian Senner, 319 E. Bloomington Mr. Senner was born in Germany in 1858, came to the U.S. at age 23, and to Iowa City seven ye:nrs later. He lived in Washing- ton State for some time, returning to the city in 1896. He was employed at S. Hotz's brewery (later Graf's). He married Anna M. Graf, daughter of Conrad Graf the brewer in 1896. He was active in the German Aid Society. Aurner, History of Johnson County, Iowa (Cedar Rapids, Western Pub. Co., 1912) p.202, Wmi North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study Historic Structure Inventory .10 address: 319 Bloomington present use: Commercial -Walls Alive present owner: Westinghouse Learning Corp Site No. 52-010-059 October 1977 block: 58 lot no, 1906 owner occupied: date of construction: c. 1870-1880 building type and material: 2 story brick architectural style: I tallanate condition: good importance to neighborhood: important independent of surroundings notable features of building and site: The columns on the porch of this house have Italianate style bracket supports. There are ornamental stone arches over the windows, an oval window in the front gable and ornamented double doors. Heavy brackets appear under the eaves of the tin roof. A stone water table tops the stone foundation. The front porch was added c. 1895. original owner: original use: historic significance: sources: Sanborn 1883, 1888, 1892, 1899 r2 w U 4 U z .. y N x O F+ Site Inventory Form State Inventory No.52.03269 0 ;dew ❑Supplemental State Historical Society of Iowa ❑ Part of a district with known boundaries (entor invordory no.) (January 28,107) Relationship: ❑ Contributing ❑ Noncontributis ❑ Contributes to a potential district with yet unknown boundaries National Register Status: (any that apply) ❑ Ustad ❑ Do -listed ❑ NHL ❑ DOE Review & Compliance No, 0 Non -Extant (enter year) aide - roparty historic name Conrad and AM3 GWHonwr. other namestsite number street & number 319 Fast Fllarmrinntta stint * ortcvm Imracity ❑ vicinity, county johnson Legal Description: (If Rural) Totnmsh?p: Name No. Range No. Section Quarter of Quarter Subdivision Do:) site structure object Contributing Noncontributing 1 0 (Do not include buildings sites structures obiects Name of related project report or multiply property study (Enter'N/A* If the property is not part of a multiple property examination). M )NarorkalYArchMectural Date Base Number Iowa Citk4gjgjpel Town PPlid ftm U Study 52-032 8. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categcrias from Instructions) Current Functions (Enter categonea from Instruction) 0IA01 D01E3TIOsndedwe11iaehasidenm U28 COM%=CETRADEkrofysuwd foaice) 05IAM VICTORrtLilit Ae Materials (Eater categories from instructions) foundation oa sroxei walls 03 BRICK; roof 08 AWHALT other Narrative Description (0 SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED) vitcabie National Register criteria (Mart: `:f in one or more bozos for criteria that may qualify the property for National Register l or.,J) Yes ❑ No ❑ iifiore Research Recommended A Property is associated with significant events. Yes ❑ No ❑ "ore Research Recommended B Property is associated with the lives of significant persons. Yes No [IMore Research Recommended C Property has distinctive architectural characteristics. Yes WNo 0 More Research Recommended D Property yields significant Information in archaeology or history. Criteria Considerations ❑ a Cwnod by a religious institution or used E A reconstructed building, ob,ii:: or structure. for religious purposes. F A commernorstivu property. ❑ B Removed from its original location. G Loss than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 8 C A birthplace or grave. years. 0 A cemetery Areas o7 Significance (Er;ler categories from InCn;tions) Significant Dates construction date 02 ARC.HITF((11tE 173 Ocher dates 17 iNDIMY Significant Person Architect/Builder (Catrp :i a naiWiiui=cYaiilr CntMon B iy metke a vbovo) Archlfv d C0111ad Ctat: CIui91ar1 Sepner ankrimm SSIX"An-fu =' ff lattn'bntom Narrative Statement of Significance (® SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED) 9. Major Bilbillographical References iogr'aphy 0 sae continuation rrhuat to: esatiom of the beola, ardoles, and other sourtas uned In prepanry this form Amwiitr,.terki M (oPTXWrAD - 2 See continuation sheet for additionei UTN references or comments . _. nameFiiyea A. 4. vead{-a organization Svcrdsen Tyler. Inc. _ _ _ date 7M street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road telephone 719469-3300 city or toron J$amp state W1 zip code 54870 1, igiffip@ff the property's locctlon in a towri/city or townshipwing posdlon of buildings and structures in the ninated a3. : representative blade and white photos. If the photos ere taken es part of a survey for which the Society is to be curator of or color slid, a pho�cicatabg sheet news tc bncluded s to be provided particular inventory aria: RolVslide sheet # 9616 Freme/slot # ?0 Dato Ta,cen 4/15/98 Roll/slide sheet # Framesiot # Date Taken RolVsflde sheet # Frame/slot # Date Talm See continuation sheet or attached phc?o & slide catalog sheet for list of photo roll or slide ontric�. Photosliliustraflons without negatives are clso In itus site inventory file FOR CERTAIN KINDS OF PROPERTIES, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AS WELL •i. Fairmstroad & Dh;&kt.. (List of structures and buildings, known or estimated year built, and contributing or non-contributing status) 2. Barn: a. A sketch of the frameltruss con iguretion in the form of drawing a typical middle bent of the bam. b. A photograph of the loft showing the frame configuration along one side. r n aYatrh aenr nlwn of the interior space anancemsrtts alone with the bam's a.Ntenor d'imenrions In feet. - - Iowa Department of Guttural Affairs State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa Site inventor; entor; Form Continuation Sheet Conrad and Anna Graf House Johnson Name of Property County In Iowa 7. Narrative Description Site Number 52.03269 This 2-story single-family dwelling was built in ca.1880 according to the Tax Assessor's records. The 1879 Sanborn map, the earliest map to depict this section of East Bloomington Street, confirms its presence by that date. Property Transfer Records indicate that Conrad Graf bought the property in 1878 and the 1878-79 city directory shows his family residing at this location. The house is similar in design to two other houses built by Anton Geiger at 213 East Market Street and the Joseph Kozo House at 618 East Davenport Street, The Graf House is built in the Italianate Style with a front -gable roof plan and a combination flat/hipped roof porch extending across the full front. The porch has a bracketed frieze and square columns resting on a brick balustrade. A sloping concrete ramp connects to the porch at the west end. The house's cornice line has elaborate paired brackets and the moderate pitched front -gable has returning cornices. An oval window inset in stone is centered beneath the gable peak. The three -bay front has the entrance opening with transom in the left (east) bay. Elaborate carved stone segmental arches with keystones are above the windows and door. Other fenestration elements include a bay window on the east fagade with a bracketed and dentiled cornice. All window sash are 1/1 double-hungs though the originals were probably configured as 2/2. The window openings on the first floor have wood panels extending to the floor?. The house is set on a stone foundation and its walls are constructed of brick probably produced at a local brickwork s. 8. Statement of Significance This house is an important local example of the Italianate Style, its scale and construction type uncommon in Iowa City. Though several changes have been made to the building (possible balustrade replacement and ramp addition), it retains its most important Italianate features. As a result, the house is eligible for the National Register under Criterion C. In addition, the building qualifies for the National Register because of its association with Iowa City's late 190' century brewing industry and the lives of two of its most important brewers, Conrad Graf and his son-in-law, Christian Semler. Conrad Graf came to Iowa City from Bavaria in 1874 and went to work in the brewery industry. The following year he marred Annie Hotz, daughter of Simon Holz, owner of the Union Brewery. Graf became proprietor of the Union Brewery located at 127-131 North Linn Street (National Register listed) and in ca. 1878 had this house built for his new family just a half block to the east. Christian Senner came to Iowa City in 1888 and went to work at the Union Brewery. In 1896, Senner married Conrad Graf s daughter, Anna M. Graf. When the Conrad died a few years later, Christian and Anna moved into the family house at 319 East Bloomington Street though they never owned it. In addition to being an important brewmaster, Senner was active in the German Aid Society in Iowa City. The house eventually passed to Anna's brothers, Otto Graf and William Graf. 9. Maior Bibliographic References Aurner, Clarence. History ojJohnson County, Iowa. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Western Publishing Co., 1912, p. 202. History ojJohnson County, Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa, 1883, p. 832. Keyes, Margaret. Nineteenth Century Home Architecture ojlowa City, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1966, pp. 74-75. Iowa City city directories, 1875-76, 1878-79, 1891-92, 1893-94, 1897-98, 1899-1900. Property Transfer Records, Johnson County Auditor's Office. Tax Assessor's Records, City of Iowa City Assessor. N36-1906, North Side Neighborhood Survey, 1981. Sanborn maps, 1879, 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970. CITY OF IOWA CITY Date: December 12, 2017 (Revised) To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 504 East Bloomington Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study and identified several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 504 E. Bloomington Street, the George and Helen Hummer House, be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built in 1880. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 504 E. Bloomington meets criteria a and b in that it is a well-preserved example of the melding of Italianate and Victorian architecture. Staff finds that it also meets criteria d in its association with George Hummer and the entrepreneurial spirit of his mercantile business. Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 504 E. Bloomington Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, and d. George and Helen Hummer House 504 East Bloomington Built in 1880, 504 East Bloomington is a two-story brick gable -front Italianate house with a low pitched cross gable roof. The three -bay front has segmental arched windows with a double door entrance at the right side. Two etched -glass doors are topped by a flat fanlight. A small hipped roof porch extends over the entrance. It has a segmental arched cornice with small brackets above each of the slender square columns. Originally the porch wrapped around the front and east side of the ell. In 1906, the porch also wrapped around the west side of the front facade. The west wing consists of a partially canted bay with decorative scrollwork and corner pendants defining the cornice line. The west wing also includes decorative dogtooth brickwork on the outer edges. The windows are 2-over-2 double hung except for the first floor windows on the front facade which are 2-over-4 double hung. The segmental arched window headings consist of two courses of projecting rowlock bricks. Two sets of bay windows are located along the east wall. The front porch wrapped around both sides of the front wing into the 1930's when it was reduced to three separate porticos. Mary Helen Hummer originally acquired four lots in the 500 block of East Bloomington in 1872, sold them a short time later, and reacquired them in 1879. This house was built a short time later by Helen and her husband, George Hummer. George Hummer was the president of George Hummer Mercantile Co., which was originally located along South Gilbert Street and relocated to 227-231 East Washington Street. The company carried a full line of food products and grocer's sundries. By 1900 the company had extended into other parts of Iowa. George Hummer served on the building committee for the public library, completed in 1904. 504 East Bloomington is significant as a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture. George and Helen Hummer House 504 East Bloomington Site Inventory Form State invantory No.-ss-oszls ® New ❑ Supplemental Stats Historical Society of Iowa ❑ Pan of a district vAh Immin boundaries (antor Inventory no.) (Jawary 13, 107) Relationship ❑ Contributing ❑ Noncontributing ❑ Contributes to a potential district with yet unknown boundaries National Register Status: (nny that apply) ❑ Listed ❑ De -fisted ❑ NHL ❑ DOE Review & Compliance No. ❑ Non -Extant (enter year) 1. Nam of Property historic name C,siot= and Hal qLHIlinarx HrEse other namestsite number 2. Location street & number NJ East Rloomaretan sw- city or toy n Iowa City ❑ vicinity, county Johnson Legal Description: (If Rural) Township: Name No. Range No. Section Quarter of Quarter site structure object Contributing Noncontributing 1 0 1 0 buildings sites structures objects Total Name of related project report or multiple property study (Entor'NIA' If the property Is not part of a ewMipla properly exammeeon). Tips Frt0rlca4AMhkecturat Data 6aao Nwnbor (Enter categories from instructions) 01B DOMES nGmulavix uweiline'r 02B COMMERCE?R 1DEbro&e Vlaw office t0,50LATE VICTMAN41 imy" foundation o4 sTnNE walls 03 TIR.ICK roof 08 A.40IAI T other Narrative Description (0 SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED) placable National Register Criteria (ilAark I' In one or more Yes IN No [I More Research Recommended A Yes ❑ No ❑Adore Research Recommended 8 Yes ❑ No ❑ More Research Recommended C Yes jM No 0 More Research Recommended D .,?i for criteria that may queMy tho property for National Register Imtinx Property is associated with significant events. Property Is associated with the lives of significant persons. Property has distinctive architectural characteristics. Property yields significant information in archaeology or history. Criteria Considerations ❑ A Owned by a religious institution or used 0 E A reconstructed building, object, or structure. for religious purposes. F A commemorative prop_cty. B Rsmovod from Its oneinal location. G Lazo lion 50 y3ars of age or achieved significance within the past 50 C 1 birthplace or grave. years. ❑D Acrmwtery Areas of Significance (Ens-- categories from irr tructlorm) Significant Dates Conshucaon deco MAA(WEP-MIJ str l,rtf;4 Ofhw Was Significant Person (Complete if National Register Criterion a Is narked abcvra) gmaHttntmer Architect/Bulhier Amhg-,Vt _"Fzncv wn Buhr CONTINUATION SHEETS, of the bta'.vfi, artidos, and dhor souroes ,i. Map showing the property's location in a towNcity or tranship 2. Site an showing position of buildings and structures in the nominated area in relation to adjacent public road(s). 8. r'hoto�raphs : representative black and white photo:. If the photos are taken as part of a surw:y for which the Socaty Is to be curator of the negatives or color slides, a photoicstalog sheet neeris to be includ•ad with the negatives/slides and the foliowing news to ba provided below on this particular Inventory site: ROlysllde sheet # 5510 Frame/slot # 17 Date Ta'cen 3/23/99 Rolyslide sheet: Fmme/slot # Date Taken Roll/slide shoat # Frame/slot # Date Taken gSee continuation sheet or attached photo 8, slide catalog sfiaet for list of photo roll or slide entries. Photoahllustrations without negatives are Llso in this site inventory file FOR CERTAIN KINDS Or PROPERTIES, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AS WELL 1. Famrstosd d District (Ust of structures and buildings, known or estimated year built, and contributing or non-contributing status) 2. Dam: a. A sketch of the frameltruss configuration in the form of drawing a typical middle bent of the bam. b. A photograph of the loft showing the fnuno configuration along one side. M1F1WGVf`WMlOfIW$1?rnWRa�l, f�'i�: I_,j WIT t;j-tlkt U AVM P 941QWM•K9POra, ffWnWR ' laa hY d3x�d property br' part of, a kicrilly desig W04 f MlYid �y.,...:._..�................ Die: Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs State Historical Society of Iowa lava Site inventory Forr_rtl Continuation Sheet George and Helen Hummer House Johnson Name of Property County in Iowa 7. Narrative Description Site Plumber 52-03213 This 2-story single-family brick dwelling was built in 1880 according to City Assessor records. Sanborn maps confirm that it was built prior to 1892. It is an example of an Italianate Gable -Front form with a low pitched intersecting gable roof The three -bay front has segmental arched windows with a double door entrance at the right side. Two etched glass doors are topped by a fiat fanlight. A small hipped roof porch extends over the entrance. It has a segmental arched cemice with small brackets above each of the slender square columns. The porch deck is at grade and there is no balustrade. A similarly finished porch is tucked in the east ell. A square light fanlight tops the entrance from this porch. Configuration of the porches has changed through the years with the earliest 1892 Sanbom map showing a wrap around porch extending along the front and east ell. The 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, 1926, 1933 and 1970 Sanborn maps show the porch continuing around the west side but by 1985 the current porch configuration was in place. The west wing consists of a three -sided or canted bay on the lower level and a rectilinear upper level. Decorative scrollwork and comer pendants define the bases of the corners of the west wing's upper level. Fenestration includes tall 2/2 double -hung sash placed singularly and in groups. The two windows to the left of the entrance extend to the floor in a 2/4 configuration. The segmental arched window headings consist of two courses of projecting rowlock bricks. Two sets of bay windows are located along the east wall. The house is set on a low stone foundation with walls of reddish brown brick. Decorative brickwork includes a dogtooth section on the outer edges of the west wing, lower level in addition to the window arches. The house had a major remodeling in 1946 when it was converted to four apartments. Work included construction of the 2-story rear addition. 8. Statement of Significance The Hummer House is a well-preserved example of the Gable -Front form of the Italianate Style. The modification of the front wrap around porch is regrettable but the integrity of the balance of the houses is sufficient to retain its eligibility for the National Register under Criterion C. Mary Helen Hummer originally acquired Lots 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the 500 block of East Bloomington Street in 1872, sold them a short time later, and reacquired them in 1879. This house was built by Helen and her husband George Hummer a short time later. It served as the familial headquarters for the Hummer family with several other family members residing in houses in the 500 block of Bloomington during the late 19`s and early 20`s century. George Hummer was the president of George Hummer Mercantile Co., a wholesale mercantile supplier incorporated in 1884. Originally located along South Gilbert Street, the company eventually located its office and warehouse at 227-231 East Washington Street. The company carried a full line of food products and grocer's sundries. By 1900 the company had spread their territory into other parts of the state connected to Iowa City by rail. Other officers in the company included F. S. McGee, vice president and F.N. Sueppel, secretary and treasurer. 9 Major Bibliographic References Iowa City, Historical, Descriptive and Commercial Review, Iowa City, Iowa. ca. 1900. Iowa City city directories. Property Transfer Records, Johnson County Auditor's Office. Tax Assessor's Records, City of Iowa City Assessor. #52-010-060, Goosetown Neighborhood Survey, 1985. #52-010-060, North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study, 1977. Sanbom maps, 1879, 1888, 1892, 1899, 1906, 1912, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970. We DqmdmzM of Culiurrsl Affairs State Histcrical Society of Iowa Iowa Site inventory Form Continuation Sheet .age r�Q and if lon ti! MMu HDIiSt: fnhnw�n lawn± If Pmpwty County In k Additional Dcruarmation Plat vo ,��1� r wl •sf'_' t Si_a I �'Lw MT I l � 1 t� l�o�a;� •• eI � .. —1-c_ _ : ter= : nr 7//tlir7OIV E. Bi,pOMINCr7Jh/ Y l� 2 l K+a 1 ' Sita Number 32-onn N 1 rdd 7 101;tr Site 12,1 en-ko y Offlcc of MCoric Preserrccion to at Stale Hlstoreal Department East 12:h I Grano A-vnue Des rmioinas, lovia 50319 Idandiicaiion 2. Vittage(Town/City low 3. Street Rtadre5s 504 i. Legal ? ocafien . _ . 3. UTA% Location: zone_ 6. Owner(s) Name Den i. O•vil er(s)Address 3=( a. Use: artments .Site Number 5,1 "0 / 0 06 L District Name GoO�etOsnt Map Reference III 1 Ta<vnship CountyJohnson townsi.p range sMion Inge noymmiE • nneage teth A., Florence L. Norbeck, Betty tvernor 1733 6Tinston Dr (City) (state) residential % lwlb of % xenon (Zip) Description 9. o"Je oC consimci;o . 1880 Architect/Builder 10. etrilCena 7;jie: ❑ s'.%le-family dwellin.0 industrial ❑ other institutional ❑ religlocs ® multiple -family dwallinp ❑ educational ❑ public ❑ agricultur-1 ❑ commercial 11. f 4enor Wo;4s: []clapboard f_i siona (Abrick ❑ board and l;JWc ❑ siting:es ❑ y:ucco Ll other Q. blmc'za;4 Sys,am: ❑wood frame with interloaing joints ❑wood frame with light members (balloon frame) ❑ masonry load -bearing walls [l iron frame ❑ steel frame with curtain walis ❑ reinforced concrete ❑other 13. Loaelilan: ❑ excellent ❑ good M fair ❑ deteriorated U. ict.ig.-iiy: ®originzl site ❑ moved —if so, when? holes on alterations, additions (with dates and architect, if imovrn) and any oche. notable features of building and site: Remodeled 1946. Original 11T" acquired two story rear (north) addition (brick) in two installments. Also one story � gable addition, assorted porches. Now :our apartments. 15. Ttais ed vuib.efuirtgs aid iropea y: ❑ [ barn oiner farm structures ❑ carnage house ❑ garage ❑ privy Liother Ur. Is the buildFngendangeredi ®no ❑yes —if so, whyt __. V. Sanouneings of the ballding: C7 open land ❑ woodland ❑ scattered outbuildings ❑ di w.,�i•: rs:.'ah u1+ ,_ ....,..ter•-w'.' .'J industrial ® resideniial ❑ other 16fMap19. Photo m i Roll- 't^ (rame--Zh_ViewI�_-.._�._.._I i C1 Z. -19A'1-L;jCC' �dCe (indicate sauces c, information for all statements) 20. ierert`,irqu(ai sl�eiCi-wrcc ❑ a. Key Mruclum inclMdus(,y nray qualify for the r-aticnJ Register ❑ ia. Cc iv rrbulina structure U c. Not efigibte/intrus(oa 21 historical sisn!fiatadr rhemets) _. ❑ a. %ey structure/indiv6;la,lly may qu.aii:y for the tdational Register ❑b. Conn:butin„structure i] C. Not eliy-iirlcAntresion 22. 50srces Ifor-Virne.,ry and ;.e:cnda.y sources, )ve compute facts or publication; auchor, title, place of publication, date, etc.): NSNPS City directory. Prepared by__--_ Address OrgarriZadon— For Office of Telephone i-iistoric Preservation Use On! 1. Office Information Sources on this .Prr. ,erty ❑ County Resource File Ll Wintishield Survey ❑ National Rc7.ister j ❑ Determination of E.igibility :2+_view ;;;td CompiianCe Project: ❑ Cth. r ❑ Other ❑ Other 3. Photo Images 1 _lU W U of l e InvE?111oly Si Number o to _- 0 S� _0 Division of Historic PRr,cnaCon Iowa Stale Historical Department 26 E. Market St., Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Continuation Sheet P Item Number(s) Architectural description Basic Italianate facade features side entrance, front gable, and partly returned cornices. Single and paired windows are topped with headings which consist of two courses of rowlock bricks. On the facade, these headings are enhanced by arched head moldings formed by projecting bricks. The western, or left—hand wing projects above a three sided bay. Decorative scrollwork and a corner pendant define the bases of projecting corners of the second floor of this wing. Dogtooth brick work was used on the outer edges of the bay. Two single story, three sided bay windows project from the east wing of the house. The rear two story addition, built in two parts, consists of two parallel gables. Windows in the house are 2/2 sash. The house retains its exterior. 'The Italianate porch is a noteworthy addition. Historical background George Hummer, President of G. Hummer Mercantile Go. (South Gilbert Street)' owned this house as early as 1891. His widow Helen resided here through 1920. Joseph Otto Schulze then owned the house through 1940. r� Tovv. l' Sit? 111-ver tol rN4ea ti Hi %tevio Prasomalevt tt::a S;,!K, i;i:.forfed Vipartment 'tact 12ta v Grnnd Arunue Des Muines. Iowa 50319 1dontilcc.'ion I. Lr?ea-0arex___.. __.. 2. 1E!'IagerfC'vn/Caty_jOyLd City . 3. StreetAddres, 504 East Bloomingtol +. Legal iocatlon _-_ OT . Urben: wbdWis Rural: towerh'p 5. U7b3 ioc,alan: 6. aC) Rea(s) Nal-w 7. C.vnes(_) �dre She Number_ . 0isaict Name__GOO5et_QWtI Map Reference �P_. r4nge 8. Use: Present ApartmaritS Or!,ninal Residential % eoatlon of V, r Ion D9,scrk.otion 9. iS„t2,t Lo n;ir�;a,,r_z 1880=:rcIJtecVBuilder_. 'ill, Su"rh b:b', i'yy2: single-family dwelling ❑ industrial ❑ other institutional ❑ relisious z'. multiple -family dwelling [_j educational ❑ pub)ic ❑ agricultural ❑ commercial 11. e' :eexr tVAls: ❑ clapboard ❑ steae n bAzh ❑ buard and batten ❑ shing'es []Stucco ❑ other _ 12. Straciurai 5ya rf: ❑ wood frame with inter +ocking joints [1 wood frame with light members (balloon frame) ❑ masonry losd-bearing walls ❑ iron fame ❑ steel frame with curtain w2lis ❑ reinforced concrete .2. land —Mon: ❑ excellent ❑ good :M fair [I ;atedor fed 13. !:dxyriry: ' original site ❑moved --if so, sihen?__- __--_ Notes on alterations, additions (with da?es and architect, if I:nowN and any other no,.abi_ features of bullding and site: PLEASE SEE CONTINUATION SHEET 117. R,02txd 0°alb:939jvgs ai:i #':nipeviy: ❑ barn ❑ oi%2r farm structures 71 other 16. Is the bullditrg endangesedr' XXno 0 yes --if so, why?--- ❑ cartage house ❑ garage ❑ privy 17. Serro...d;n , o' like iaullding: ❑ open land []woodland [)scattered outbui?yink-,s ❑ densely built-up ❑ commercial ❑ industdal !residential ❑ other 18. Map 0. Photo 7.oll 13 Frame %3 _ /inr_-i C-t `J A •cjJ?r.'C?Xe pndic.,'e sources of informe1on for all sWemants) 19. Arch-lectcral significance im a. Ke; strUctu.&;nc:!Adually ma,, rualiiy to: tae Nationai Reg!ster ❑ to. Ccntribws r,g structure ❑ c. Not eligiblz/inLusio:, Basic Italianate facade features side entrance, front gable, and partly returned cornices. Single and paried windows are topped with headings which consist of two corners of row- lock bricks. On the facade, these headings are enhanced by arched head moldings formed byprojeks. The cting estern, or hand wing, projects above iirsDeratvesrollwork and acorner pendantdefinehebaestof the projectngconer of the second floor wing. Dog tooth brick work was used on the outer edges of the bay. Two single story, three sided bay windows project from the east wing of the house. The rear two-story addition, built in two parts, consists of two parallel gables. Windows in the house are 2/2 sash. The home retains its cistern. The Italianate porch is a noteworthy addition. 20. Hiatockai Slg.iict;re Mzme(s). Xle. Key structute/individually may q%131ify :or thz National ReJvs r (_]b. Contlbctin3 structure ❑c. NoteliJbiz/intrusion George Hues, President of G. Huwnes Mercantile Co. (South Gilbert Street) owned this house as early as 1891. His widow Helen resided here through 1920. Joseph Otto Schulze then owned the house through 1940. 21. Sxiwc.s (fo: pi mary and secondary sources, ;ire complu:e facts of publication: autl+or, ti$a, plra of publication, dote, etc.): NSNPS City Directory Prepzred'ry-'—.___ --- -- -- -- Telephone For Ofl:j.cQ of Y:Tis10ric Preservation Use Only 1. Office Information Sources on this Property ❑ County Resource File f l Windshield Survcy 1] MzJonzl .1eeister ❑ Grants -In -Aid: ❑ Determination of Eligibility ?. Subject Traces a. ❑ ^eview and Compliance Project: ❑ Other—_ ❑ Other__.. ❑ Other- 3. Photo Images b. C. d. e. Iowa Site Inventory Site Number Division of Historic Preservation Iowa State Historical Department 26 E. Market St., Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Continuation Sheet Item Number(s) 14 - INTEGRITY Remodeled in 1946. Original "T" acquired two-story rear (north) brick addition in two installments. Also, one-story gable addition, assorted porches. Now four apartments. Wrap -around curved porch on west side removed. r CITY OF IOWA CITY PA E M R A NJ EL) Ua M1 Date: December 12, 2017 (Revised) To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 1029 North Dodge Street A sub -committee of the Commission did a study ana mentmea several of Iowa City's early brick houses as priorities for local landmark designation. The subcommittee requests that the property at 1029 North Dodge Street, the Parrott House, be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed Iowa Site Inventory Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture and the enclosed summary sheet provides additional information obtained through staff and Commission research. Indications are that the building was built in 1893. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Staff finds that 1029 N. Dodge meets criteria a and b as a well-preserved example of its unique transitional style at the north edge of Iowa City. In addition, the melding of the Colonial Revival details on a Queen Anne Victorian house with a transitional gambrel roof make this house distinctive and rare in the architecture of Iowa City so that it meets criteria e. Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 1029 N. Dodge Street as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, and e. Parrott House 1029 North Dodge 1029 North Dodge, built in 1893 is a home exhibiting a transition from Queen Anne to the Colonial Revival style. The overall height and proportion of the house, use of ocular windows, and spindle details are elements of the Queen Anne. The side -gabled roof with a front gambrel and side porch are elements of a Victorian transitional style. The pedimented entry porch and arched brick openings with stone details are hallmarks of the Colonial Revival. The heavily corniced dormer window above the front porch and the large Palladian window in the adjacent gable are further elements of a Colonial Revival Style. The porch gable end is filled with decorative woodwork in a vining pattem, and more decorative woodwork accents an exterior wall space above the porch gable. Windows are spaced asymmetrically throughout, and while a few windows have been replaced or filled with brick, the openings have not been changed. The history of the house comes mostly from family oral tradition. Kenny Parrott, grandson of Charles and Magdalene Parrott, states that the house was constructed the same year as St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, which was 1893. The original owner, Shay, was unable to complete construction of the house and Parrott negotiated to trade his house on Kimball for 1029 North Dodge. From then until the mid-1960s, the house was owned by the Parrott family. A descendant, Charles F. 'Polly" Parrott Il, who moved into the house in the mid-1940s, after a series of tenants, was a superintendent of Oakland Cemetery from 1947 to 1964. The house is significant for its architectural character as a transition from Victorian styles to the Colonial revival. I Site Inventory Form state Inventory No. 52-04145 0 waiw ❑ Supplemental stabs Historical Society of lou'a ❑ Per) of s district v iih !znrn m boundanes (wvtzr invardcry no.) (3awery28, IC37) Relationship: ❑ Contributing ❑ Noncontributing ❑ Cunaibrtes to a potential district witii yet unknown boundaries National Register Status: (any that app'y) ❑ Ud" ❑ De -toted ❑ NHL ❑ DOE Review & Cempriance No. ;'7 ri ❑ Non -Extent (enter year)'` 1 Nam ofKip ty historic name Chrrles sad Man_dalew Parrott ltmin other namelsite number 'I ro6atlon street & number 10,19 Ninth Uodea Stn city or to c` ❑ vicinity, rouitty John= Leger Dasorip on: (f Rural Tawnshlp: Name No. Range No. Section Quarter of Quarter Past Lucas _ 79 ¢ s� (if Urban) Subdivision Block(sl Wife) 4a one site structure dined Contributing Noncontributing buildings sites structures objects Total Name of related project report or multiple property study (fr sc. Ji+ If the property iW not pr•Y 6 a mu;Jpfa prg7 ,Iy cwemhiatia:i). rile KisfcncerAn*ZevfuW Dais 9eae Numbw �y:'e_,(',;�r`cYt1 D�CfriAC $1lEE[: t1it�YMIY IC z\t". I a.'"Ac aid A[�t1�3�*lil�ik.t'l41�— 52-035 a. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter ca"ories from mst w;tions) Current FUnctiOne (Enter cateperies from instriwilons) o1Aot plagi nrmurti. —,u.a mataflale (Enwr coteyonts from hilt uction9) foundation o4 worts t+alls 03 lid roof 01 A, r"I jdade Other Narrative Description Q SEE CONTINUATION SHEETS, WHICH MUST BE COMPLETED) Ipnn801e nYAOflar K6g=ff UnTOna (:�ZM-.; A one or more Yes No More Research Reoommonded A Yes No ❑ More Research Recommended B Yes ❑ No ❑ More Research Recommended C Yes ❑ No 0 More Research Recommended D Property is associated with significant events. Property is associated vMh the Imes of significant persons. Property has disbrntive architectural charactahslics. Property yields significant Information in archaeology or history. Criteria Considerations ❑ A tJ :med by a religious institution or used Q E A rcconstrWad buftng, oYy r or strurdure. for mkggous pmerposes. 7 A commemorative property. B Rcrnoved from its origind location. G Leas than SO year. of age cr achieved stgriffiicanoo within the past 50 C A bitlryfaco or grave. years. ❑❑ D A cemetery Afaa$ of Significance (-cnicr emc0erie: f,Ym wtstnmtom) Significant Dates t'iO mirmbon data 02ARCHITECft1Rk .a 1P43 0#w metes Significant Person (Camp d Nalm-A Reotsior Crtta^ma a is ma^t"a3vee) Sw cerMnut tim sheet for dW.lars ai the beams, Zm+a Easong Nafftm 2 See cot( matl0n sh t for u* W-mul organization Talking iGstoriaos I,.C. ArehiteetlBallder AeCh$ect Zone ;casting r ro street & ntrmiaer 2118 $�liyasid• iSrire telephone (314) 354-6722 city or town Asa Char state I.m_ ^ ;dpoodeL 52246 I. Abap showing the property's loontion In a tomVdty or township 2. Site showing position of bindings and sbuchm in the romrnowd in relation to ac1)aoent pubdlo s . 3. curatorPhoftmiga�; Y,Yttve lode and why .. sheet ��• �p�ho Loos are^tWm as�t of`a_ for which threJiSoosly hi to tea. ,y y IfC MW{/rYlr rMrN4 M a Y{� ,NM1 #Iai M. _P W,� ,WWO fO WII included t114 Ides mW the fuucrrng 1RgW to RoWsAde sheet # FnUneislot # Date Te:mn RolVslide sheet # Framefda # Data TateVi RdV&We shoe: # Frametalot # Date Tart See continudon she=t or attached pkbD B 0de cetarsg shvN for 19 of photo roll or slide enbi s. Photoa/dlustrations wlttW negatives are also in this site lrF ventc ry file FOR CERTAIN KINDS OF PROPERTIES, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AS MLL 1. Fermst"d S Dlsbfet (Lint of shuetmes and bu0drtgs, known or intimated year buX and contributing or non-contributing status) 2. Bain; a. A sketch of the frameftnrss omfgwation In thefam of d NmV a typical Middle b:i of the bem. b. A photograph of the loft showing the IraMe conliigurattan along one side. Trds Is a fosaffy designated prop&ty or Evaluated 6y (rlameitiNe " - ," Date: 1 'r . .. LLo 0 Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs State Historical Society of Iowa EGA ra Site I!` veroliovy ohm Continuation Sheet: Page 1 Charles and Magdalene Parrott 'House Name of Property 7. Narrative Description Johnson County in Iowa Site Number 52-04145 The Parrott House exhibits many fine architectural elements. It is a one -and -one-half story budding, irregular in plan, with a (mainly) cross -gabled roof. The asymmetrical front facade, which cannot be seen clearly because of mature trees, is visually balanced between a gambrel -roofed wing on the left and a two -bay, one-story open porch on the right, above which a small window dormer is cut into the roof of the house proper. The upper story of the front left wing is almost entirely filled with a large Palladian window above which is perched a row of three smaller windows. The porch gable end is filled with decorative woodwork in a vining pattern, and more decorative woodwork accents an exterior wall space above the porch gable. Windows are spaced asymmetrically throughout, and while a few windows have been replaced or filled with brick, the openings have not been changed. The east facade exemplifies window treatment, where the major openings have stone sills and decorative lintels or hood moldings achieved by brick patterning and faux keystones integrated into the brick of the exterior walls. An oculus window, also accented with a brick and faux -keystone surround, is located near the peak of the east gable end. The assessor's record states that exterior walls are of solid brick construction, but field inspection indicates they may actually be brick veneer. A stone watertable bands the house just above a rough -cut stone foundation with a full basement. A wood deck has been added to the west side of the house. While the house is not without alterations, they are comparatively minor and do not compromise its historic architectural integrity. 8. Statement of Significance The Parrott House is significant under National Register Criterion C as an excellent example of the Queen Anne style in Iowa City. In 1947, Edwin Ellis singled out this house for its pristine condition and Queen Anne styling, and its historic architectural integrity remains very good. The history of the Parrott House comes mostly from family oral tradition. Kenny Parrott, grandson of Charles and Magdalene Parrott, states that the house was constructed the same year as St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, which was 1893. The original owner(s), identified only by the last name of Shay (or Shea), reportedly ran out of money while the house was under construction, and Parrott negotiated to trade his house on Kimball St for this residence. He lived here until his death in 1910, and his wife Magdalene continued to live here until about 1930, although city directories list a number of (unrelated?) occupants between 1911 and 1915, After Mrs. Parrott left (or died), their son, Charles F., rented the house for several years. John and Ruth Swaner (see Swaner Farms Dairy, 1107-1109 No. Dodge) rented it for a brief time in the early 1930s, followed by several other tenants until the mid-1940s, when Charles F. moved into the house. Charles F. is remembered for his long-time public service as superintendent of Oakland Cemetery from 1947 until his retirement in 1964. 9 Major Bibliographical References Field inspectim December 29, 1999 and March 6, 2000. Iowa City Assessor records. Iowa City city directories, 1911-1956. Ellis, Edwin Chas. "Certain Stylistic Trends in Architecture in Iowa City." University of Iowa: M.A. Thesis, 1947 (p. 291). Parrott, Kenny. Interview with Linda St. Claire, March 2000. "Parrott Gave Cemetery Job `Extra Touch."' lowa City Press -Citizen, 1 I January 1964. See accompanying project report. laft Department of Cultural Affairs State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa Site Inventor .1 Form Continuation Sheet `A Charles and Maedalene Parrott House Johnson Name of Property County in Iowa Additional Documentation Location Map North Transporti lion 4'"ap, Site Number 52-04145 Sketch Map/Site Plan 5.® CITY OF IOWA CITY Date: December 6, 2017 To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: 715 West Park Road Donald Black, the owner of the property at 715 West Park Road, the Dr. Alfred Byfield House, has requested that the property be designated as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The enclosed National Register Nomination Form provides a discussion of the building's history and architecture. A summary sheet is also attached. The building was built in 1917. Designation of the property as an Iowa City Historic Landmark will require Commission approval of any significant changes to the exterior of the building. Landmark status will also make the property eligible for special exceptions that would allow the Board of Adjustment to waive or modify certain zoning requirements. The Commission should determine if the property meets at least one of the criteria for local designation listed below: a. Significant to American and/or Iowa City history, architecture, archaeology and culture; b. Possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship; c. Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; d. Associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; e. 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 may lack individual distinction; f. Has yielded or may likely yield information important in prehistory or history. Note that the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of March 2017 Recommended Motion: Move to approve the designation of 715 West Park Road as an Iowa City Historic Landmark based on the following criteria for local designation: criteria a, b, d, and e. Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House 715 West Park Road Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 2017, the Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House was built in 1917 in style that is an American Tudor Revival with elements of English Arts -and -Crafts Style. Dr. Byfield was the founding Department Chair of the Pediatrics Department in the University of Iowa College of Medicine. This house was part of the first wave of building in the Manville Heights Neighborhood developed by Bert Manville. In a practice that was not rare in Iowa City, an engineering professor with the State University of Iowa Department of Engineering, Stuart Hobbs Sims, was employed as the designer. With this property it appears possible to trace Sims' inspiration to a similar house in Biddenham, England published in a plan book in 1912 that Sims is believed to have consulted. As a well-preserved, large-scale example of the blending of Tudor Revival and the English Arts -and Crafts architectural styles the house is locally significant. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional certification comments, entries, and narrative items on continuation sheets if needed (NIPS Form 10-900a). 1. Name of Property historic name Bvfield. Dr. Albert Henrv. House other names/site number Beifield-Albright House; IA Site Inventory Number: 52-04880 street & number 715 West Park Road. city or town Iowa City N/A not for publication N/A vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 103 zip code 52246 3. State/Federal Aaencv Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination _ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets _ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: national statewide X local Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Signature of certifying officialrritle Date State Historical Society of Iowa State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property _ meets _ does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official Date Title State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register _ determined eligible for the National Register _ determined not eligible for the National Register _ removed from the National Register _ other (explain:) Signature of the Keeper Date of Action By,field. Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) X private public - Local public - State public - Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) X building(s) district site structure object Name of related multiple property listing (Enter "N/K if property is not part of a multiple property listing) Johnson County, Iowa County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing 1 buildings sites structures _ objects Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter categories from instructions.) DOMESTIC: single dwelling 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) LATE 19th & 201h CENTURY REVIVALS: Tudor Revival LATE 19th & EARLY 20th CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS: Bungalow/Craftsman LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS: Colonial Revival Narrative (Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property. E summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of Summary Paragraph DOMESTIC: single dwelling foundation: OTHER: Clay Tile walls: BRICK STUCCO roof: SYNTHETICS: Rubber other: OTHER: Clay Tile un contributing and noncontributing resources if necessary. Begin with a property, such as its location, setting, size, and significant features.) The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House located at 715 West Park Road was completed in 1917 along the northern edge of the Manville Addition situated in the northeast comer of Iowa City's Manville Heights Neighborhood, a residential neighborhood primarily under development from 1906 to 1940. Its construction came during the first wave of home building that preceded World War I in the neighborhood. The development of Manville Heights also paralleled construction of the State Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State University of Iowa (SUI) Children's Hospital and General Hospital on the west side of the Iowa River between 1919 and 1928. The house's original occupant was Dr. Albert Henry Byfield, a physician and the first head of the Department of Pediatrics at the State University of Iowa Medical School and SUI Children's Hospital. The house is a well-preserved example of a blending of Tudor Revival and Craftsman Style elements and materials in the tradition of late 19th and early 20th century English Arts -and -Crafts residences. Designer for the house was Stuart Hobbs Sims who was employed by the SUI Engineering Department at the time. The practice of commissioning SUI engineering faculty to design buildings, bridges, dams, water systems, etc. was a common one during the early 201° century in Iowa City and elsewhere in Iowa. Description Site: The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Lexington Avenue, a local residential street, and West Park Road, a two-lane arterial street, in west Iowa City. The irregularly shaped parcel comprises portions of the northeast corner of Block 3 in Manville Addition, part of a residential neighborhood known since the 1920s as "Manville Heights." The neighborhood has a population of about 1,600 people in 2010 in mostly single family residences laid out in hilly topography with both a curvilinear and grid street pattern. The Byfield House parcel measures 233 feet across the north edge and 150 along the south edge and three angled legs along the west and southwest sides of 97.44 feet, 75.79 feet and 73.05 feet totaling 246.28 feet, for a total size of approximately 1.08 acres. The property is currently zoned "Low Density Single -Family Residential Zone (RS-5).' Non-residential uses in the immediate area include a church, public school, and municipal park land including the Ned Ashton House (820 West Park Road, NRHP-listed), an event facility operated since 2011. Building stock in the immediate vicinity of the Byfield House contains a mix of similarly sized single and two-story houses built of stucco, brick, and frame construction or a combination of more than one. The Byfield House site is densely wooded on the steep downward grade along Park Road on the north edge. A moderate grade follows the alignment of Lexington Avenue on the east side with mature white oak and maple trees scattered throughout the property and several spruce present along the south side of the house. CMALNLL£ ' ' ii Iowa,RiVer - WNW a gNPW se gun � r e • \� < Y z r nA no vAnn •q ` YgE.VI < g YGF.V1 CORALNLLE'�yn�my' y Z uwmmrr��W63"° \ 4` i5s ON .,. m s Man ' le Heights Neighborho $g Iowa ity c �m A'"•'q. pi p� IPe1eR91Y w �p roAa _ 0W 1 A� Ground covers on the lot include natural areas along Park Road with landscaped beds and brick walkways extending along the north and south sides of the house and lawn areas for the balance of the property. At the northwest comer of the site, a stone filled, grade -level gutter guides run-off towards Park Road. Access to the property is via a looped driveway that circles the house. The north entrance comes into the property about 50 feet south of Park Road. The paved driveway extends west to a smaller turn- around circle that connects to the main loop near the garage's north entrance doors. The north entrance is flanked by a pair of entrance markers (noncontributing structure) constructed in 2011. Their designs feature battered reddish -brown brick piers (40 inches by 24 inches at the base and 32 inches by 20 inches at the top) capped by decorative stone pieces salvaged from the University of Iowa 'According to the City of Iowa City Zoning Code, Title 14: Zoning Code, Article A: 14-2A-1, this designation is" primarily intended to provide housing opportunities for individual households ... The regulations allow for some flexibility of dwelling types to provide housing opportunities for a variety of household types. This zone also allows for some nonresidential uses that contribute to the livability of residential neighborhoods, such as parks, schools, religious institutions, and daycare facilities. Related nonresidential uses and structures should be planned and designed to be compatible with the character, scale, and pattern of the residential development." In 2016, the area is NOT designated as a Historic District Overlay zone for historic landmarks and historic districts. Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State Children's Hospital (built in1919 and razed 2005). The balance of the driveway passes along the west side of the attached garage following the south property line of the Byfield House property connecting back to Lexington Avenue. The south leg of the loop is also is used by the owners of houses at 425 and 441 Lexington Ave, which are located west and southwest of 715 West Park Road. Building: Though estimated to have been built in 1915 according to Iowa City Assessor records, the correct completion date is 1917. Property transfer records show all of Block 3 in the Manville Addition transferred on July 8, 1916 from Frederick E. Bolton to A.H. Beifield/Byfield.2 Before the end of the year, an article in the Daily Iowan shown at right identified the doctor as the owner of a new west side residence under construction. The substantial house was valued at $12,000 and described as likely to be "one of the finest in the city" when completed. The architect was listed as Stuart Hobbs Sims of the University's Engineering College. Sims left employment at the University at the end of the 1918-1919 term after four years teaching mechanics in civil engineering classes on campus. The house contractor was listed in the same news account as Joseph David Long who city directory sources show associated with his father, M.L. Long, in the contracting and carpentry business. J.D. Long's name has been discovered by the current owner on millwork in the house with the inscribed date as "January 1917." Another source supporting this date for the house is a newspaper account dated December 30, 1922, that notes that improvements had been made to the existing "Beifield" residence during 1922 by contractor C.M. Sulser suggesting that it was already completed sometime before then. An interpretation of these facts suggests that a construction date of 1917 for the house is accurate. Above: The Daily Iowan, December 13, 1916; Below: historic view, ca. 1920s-1930s, property of Donald Black, house owner in 2016. BMI•'LLI) I$ BUILDING r9T awr RLSIDENa7E 1 ip, ,1, }I. 1t,aT cld, it.}a4 id TjPt An IP:Ir!ufr'nt err ir! 1i411 10g a !iv'.r pt;,ue"u 11,111ik C•Il till' NNL"! !111• IsL'!'l IG1:11iIli/� t1i1) jG!1R TP: ��q p: hIra e-t1! 1.!•. Y, iICA ttJll}1Ig;;:i{. upo of ltln I'ifi st L: Il.p c'1!F. r'tcar! bill;lu:d +q' +a•�, :•UFtn�•lnt!"; c%.i:-xKY. i. urt•!lil3Pl. ;; u.+. J.. Il, I,rn'r,.l , is,.-*t Pp+B Pj:N•7r. 4 Tla: I:r: :ii;;i ,.I�$rp uY �Yr11il YCl llrn In W-Ihi Ii,;flug,,a,O. M,ft�•j brIvk PfPf Ilip !i 10 Fj{n'}' aPd ltte tcvout. 4 -it R11!Itt 0i... @ufq 4.. yr io r•. vt::ri Ill.. Vi, 1-11, rrbftiio Grt. wi_ ,•.rf•:dIll vhi P•.IioeA:A +W.2 L•,ltit ':I:itp YU•'•lrir'1 +•iupa :+Url: :)tl.l y9:1:'1 ri:•'1 tary it Ilutrf%, 1•;ui GSII+k :dld iGlir un•. ?Iru:a n;r,y Inrlt:,I•rd ile tln` !eic.l:.-. 2The family surname was spelled "Beifield" until July 1917 when Albert's father, Joseph Beifield of Chicago, changed the spelling on behalf of the entire family to "Byfield." Use of both the old and new spellings was confirmed in State University of Iowa yearly catalogues with the modified name used beginning in the 1917-1918 edition and in all subsequent publications consulted for preparation of this nomination. 4 Byfield. Dr Albert Henry, House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Exterior.' This 2-story masonry house is an example of a blending of the Tudor Revival and Craftsman residential styles identified at the time of construction as the "English Style." According to research by the current owner (see Figures * and 9), the design for the house completed by Stuart Hobbs Sims is based on a similar house in Biddenham, England included in a plan book published in 1912. The house was first designed in the 1890s by Charles E. Mallows, an English architect and landscape designer who primarily worked in the late 19th and early 20th century Arts -and -Crafts design tradition espoused by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944) and M.H. Baillie-Scott (1865-1945).3 The house was featured in a plan book that Sims is believed to have consulted as a basis for the design - J. H. Elder-Duncan's Country Cottages and Weekend Homes, (1912) and later reproduced in the Architectural Record, Volume XLVI I (January -June, 1920), p. 70. A photograph and plan for the English house appear in Figure 6. The Byfield House has a clay tile block foundation and above grade walls faced in reddish -brown colored brick laid in running bond on the lower level and painted stucco cladding on the upper level. A course of header brick forms a narrow belt course between levels and cast stone is used for window sills and for lintels on lower level windows. The two -level porch on the east fagade has a combined foundation and balustrade with narrow brick piers and stucco -clad panels arranged in three bays. The upper level balustrade has half-timbering and stucco cladding in geometric panels while the gable -end has stucco and angular half-timbering. The house itself has an asymmetrical design with an intersecting gabled roof on the main block. The front facade faces north with the west half of the fagade featuring a broad, moderate pitched front -gable with the west half extending over the one-story section that originally housed an attached garage. On the south fagade, the front -gable section does not have an extended slope. Throughout the house, the roof is clad in red terra cotta tiles described in the first newspaper account as "German tile."4 The house's roof has a combination of narrow eaves along the short lengths of the north and south sloped sides and no eaves along the gabled ends. The two-story gable - roofed porch facing Lexington Avenue is an exception with medium -width eaves along all three sides. The porch's lower level has four narrow brick piers evenly spaced across the front covering the combined foundation and balustrade levels. Three recessed, stucco -clad panels are set between the piers and one longer panel is on each side of the porch. Screen infill panels are above the balustrade configured in 1/1 sections. There is no outside access door to the porch. yay��s .y: Entrance openings for the main house are midway along the north and south facades. The primary entrance faces north and is recessed beneath a low eye- brow style door hood supported by paired brackets added in the past decade on each side. Two small nine -light leaded -sashes are to the right of the door hood and one nine -light window to the left. The more simple garden entrance on the south fagade is located in a similar position on the wall and has a cast stone lintel with no flanking windows. Both doors are examples of Dutch Colonial two- part doors composed of channel -cut or tongue -and -groove boards, a row of four small square lights across the top, a horizontal -split located slightly below the middle -point, and latching hardware on the inside. Fenestration includes an asymmetrical arrangement of sizes and shapes for fixed and casement style multi -light leaded sashes. The north fagade's lower level has a window group to the left of the front entrance that opens into the living room with four 18-light vertical casement sashes. A similar group to the west opens into the informal dining room. A single 18-light sash to the right of the entrance is positioned at the head of the basement stairs and this sash was restored in 2004 based on photo documentation. An exterior door was previously installed in this opening. Other sash on the north fagade include a single and pair of multi -light windows is further to the right beneath the extended gable roof slope that open into the former garage and current kitchen. On the upper level of the north facade, three 15-light sashes are grouped at the east end and four similar sashes are grouped at the west end. A group of three short, nine -light sashes, a single nine -light sash and a tall 15-light sash are located in the center section of the upper level. Similar window and door groupings appear on the garden fagade. Windows include similarly configure sashes with groups of three and four 18-light and 15-light units taking advantage of the 3Dynevor, Lucy, "A Dissertation on the Work of C.E. Mallows, Architectural Gardner & Illustrator,' (chapters relating to Biddenham NR. Bedford), Post -Graduate Diploma Course on the Conservation of Historic Landscapes Parks and Gardens, The Architectural Association, June 1993, Preface and Chapters 2 and 14. 4The 2014 roof restoration project identified the original and replacement tile as Ludowici Roof Tile manufactured in New Lexington, Ohio. Byfield. Dr Albert Henm House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State southern orientation. An example of a typical multi -light window detail from a guest bedroom is shown above. The west end has'a one-story wing built in 2008 that links the main house to the garage constructed in 2006. This L- shaped wing has a flat roof with exterior walls clad in frame panels in the lower halves and decorative crown moldings along the cornice. A continuous row of twelve 6/6 double -hung sashes and one multi -light door line the southern side and east fagades of the L-shaped wing. The shorter north fagade wall in the L-shaped wing provides the main service entrance to the west half of the house and features a multi -light window flanked by 6/6 double -hung sashes and wall treatment similar to the south fagade. The attached garage constructed in 2006 was based on local Craftsman Style designs for similar scale outbuildings. Located at the west end of the L-shaped connecting wing, it has a side -gabled plan with two separate garage doors facing north. The asphalt shingled roof has a broad moderate pitch with wide eaves and exposed rafter tails along the sloped sides. The walls are clad in weatherboard with rabbeted edges and cornerboard trim. The garage has a 24 by 24 foot plan, a concrete floor, and twin overhead doors with two rows of six wood panels below a single row of six -light windows. Interior. The Byfield House's interior retains many of its original Colonial Revival features and finishes. These include several classically inspired fireplace designs, the simple enamel -finished millwork and doors throughout the house, the main staircase balustrade that combines enamel -finished turned spindles_ with a walnut hand rail, crown molding detailing for ceilings on the first floor, plaster ceiling medallions in prominent = ''•' locations, semi -circular arched openings and a section of semi- circular vaulted ceiling in the rear hallway with a faux stone finish. The interior incorporates no Tudor Revival or Arts -and -Crafts elements except for the important interior role played by the multi - light windows and the den's fireplace design. ►+' The house originally had a central vacuum system and though the system is no longer functional, these connection points remain in place throughout the house. Quarter sawn oak floors referenced in the first news account of the house remain present. The foyer and entrance hall have black and white marble squares that were part { Genfi'ai Vacr�C4anneclar , ' Bvfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State of a 2004-2005 rehabilitation of the house. The rehabilitation of the kitchen and former garage was completed in 2007 with oak flooring installed throughout the space and the informal dining area and cabinets placed in the former kitchen. The new kitchen area was established in the original single -bay attached garage. Both the rear servants' staircase and the basement stairs are accessed from the informal dining room. The basement remains largely intact with an abandoned brick cistern or water tank located along the north wall. This feature would have been important prior to the introduction of municipal water service in 1924-1926 when private wells were no longer necessary. The original laundry drying area and a bathroom were located along the south wall. The boiler is located in the east end of the basement. The floor plan for the house includes 3,288 sq. ft. on two levels for the original house, 546 sq. ft. on two levels of the front sleeping porch, and 321 sq. ft. in the contemporary L-shaped wing that connects the main house to the 576 sq. ft. garage. Allocation of the space in the main house rooms on the first floor includes a foyer and entrance hall containing the main staircase, rear servants' staircase, living room, den/library, half -bathroom, formal dining room, informal dining room, and L- wing hall to garage. Additional views of first floor rooms appear below with second floor rooms on the following page. '��^'�]* '-� �- _• _ Imo'_ yr�.,� inud o Roa it mg NE I I Fom OiningR >o oklny H !i T Tim �. `6o l•wnn9 hail, 1001[ily.E wW kw I� I h ti K - i dill Judi ignl r �� • Info- al pining Roani, looking E I Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Johnson County. Iowa Name of Property County and State The second floor of the main house includes the upper hall, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a bedroom/lounge, and miscellaneous closets. The change in floor plan completed in the 1950s saw the former servant's rooms converted to a bathroom, storage closet and the bedroom/lounge. More recently, the west bedroom's closet space was converted to book cases. Floor plans for the first and second floors are included in Figure 5. YV 41 n 0 Elyfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Chronological Summary of Property Changes and House Alterations: 1916 — Original property (all Block 3) sold by Frederick E. Bolton to A.H. Byfield. 1916-1917 — Original house construction, Stuart Hobbs Sims, architect. 1924 — Original property (all Block 3) sold by Byfield to Anna Close Albright and Dr. George Albright. 1924 — Redecorate first floor library (paint, wallpaper and new millwork). 1920s — Porch screens added. 1930s — Dining room wallpaper (scenic pattern) identified by wall date. 1937 — Adjacent property (southeast corner of Block 3) sold by Albrights to Grace and Leland Nagle. 1939 — Adjacent property (southwest corner of Block 3) sold by Albrights to Harry Smith. 1940s — Kitchen remodeled with new cabinets and appliances (nonextant); door and opening to kitchen closed. 1950s — First floor powder room and entrance closet added. 1956 — Detached two -bay frame garage constructed west of house (building permit), demolished 2005. 1956 —West bathroom and closet added on second floor (building permit), Henry Fisk, architect. 1960s — Foyer and first floor hall, marble flooring added. 1965 — Anna Albright sold the house and property (north half of Block 3) to Robert and Jane Anderson. 1971 —Andersons transferred house and property (north half of Block 3) to Dr. James C. Noel and Monica Brown. ca. 1990s — Boiler replaced; air conditioning added; roof underlayment replaced. 2003 — Browns sold house and property (north half of Block 3) to Dr. Donald W. Black. 2004 — Interior and exterior rehabilitation including: re -wiring, replacing original push-button light switches with new push-button models, and cleaning brass light fixtures throughout; re -plumbing throughout, re -activated basement toilet, relocated double soapstone sink, and refinished nickel bathroom fixtures; refinishing wood floors and new marble in foyer/entrance hall; re -plastering, painting and wallpapering as needed; re -glazing windows; new millwork including mantels in living room and dining room, book cases in library and upper level study; replaced non -original radiators in foyer, upper level study, moved upstairs study radiator to dining room; re -install original and matching salvaged storm doors; doorway opening installed in brick cistern in basement for storage; in west end of entrance hall, removed door to rear staircase and created a double barrel vault or cross vault ceiling with a faux limestone block finish; in two -level porch repair or replace deteriorated wood and reline screens. 2004 — Convert original attached garage to kitchen; convert former kitchen to informal dining room; removing garage doors in west end wall of garage, installing row of leaded multi -light windows in west end wall, and finishing end wall with stucco. 2004 — Removed non -original service door to basement stairs on north fagade and install leaded 18-light sash in opening. 2004 — Removed aluminum gutters and replaced with salvaged copper gutters. 2005 — Demolish existing ca. 1956 detached garage; build two -bay free-standing garage using salvaged copper gutters and salvaged windows. 2007-2008 — Construct L-shaped wing to connect west end of house to garage; wing contains a hallway, mudroom, spa room and half -bath. 2008 — Install decorative brackets (reversible installation) at front entrance hood. 2010 — Install bead board on lower level porch ceiling to replace non -original dry -wall ceiling. 2011 — Drive -way entrance markers constructed at north entrance using cast -stone finials salvaged from Children's Hospital demolition. 10 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County. Iowa County and State 2014 — Roof restoration including removal of all existing tile, replacing deteriorated wood structural pieces and new underlayment, copper flashing, and reuse of original 1917 Ludowici tiles for 90 percent of roof area and matching tile for the remaining 10 percent supplied by the Ludowici Roof Tile Company of New Lexington, Ohio. Undated changes — Deactivate original central vacuum system; deactivate cistern and well/pump (post-1926); remove and replace most push-button light switches and plates; removed door to rear staircase hall; first paining of original pebble -dash stucco in upper wall sections. Integrity The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House retains sufficient integrity from the period of significance identified, 1917 — 1924, to qualify for National Register listing. A summary of the seven aspects of integrity appears below: Location: The location for the Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House at the southwest corner of West Park Road and Lexington Avenue remains the same as the dates of occupancy by Dr. Byfield while he served as the founding department head for the Pediatrics Department of the State University of Iowa Hospital and Medical School in 1919 until he left the University Medical School in 1923 and sold his house the following year. Principal changes to the location itself include the maturing of both native and landscaped plantings, paving of the driveway, extension of the south section of driveway, and installation of noncontributing entrance markers. Design: The original design by Stuart Hobbs Sims has largely been maintained with the exception of the west addition at the rear of the kitchen that provides for an attached garage. Other changes in the original design are confined to a rehabilitation of the original kitchen and original single -car garage and minor floor plan changes on the upper level. The house's original Arts and Craft design and carefully selected finish materials complimenting that design are retained. Though a minor addition of door hood brackets has been completed on the north entrance, it does not detract from the entrance bay's overall concept. Setting: The setting for the Byfield House has been minimally changed through the years including the reduction of the size of the building site from approximately five acres to the current size of one acre. After subdivisions of the lot were sold off beginning in the 1930s. Natural and landscaped areas have matured, or in the case of foundation gardens, been updated slightly with new plant materials and replacement hardscapes. The entrance markers are designed to match the design themes for the balance of the house. The route of the loop drive fits with the development of other house lots to the west and southwest of the Byfield House as well as the complicated terrain to the southwest. These changes do not detract from the setting of the building itself. • Materials: The principal materials originally used for construction of the Byfield House continue in use in 2016 with a few exceptions. The exception would include the materials used for the construction of the new double -bay garage and the connecting hall/mud room between the new garage and the original kitchen. The use of wood siding for these newer finishes helps to differentiate original from newer construction. New materials have also been installed for some of the kitchen remodeling, electrical repairs, the entrance hall flooring, and mechanical system updates. Workmanship: Original workmanship has been retained throughout the house with rehabilitation efforts in the past decade undoing a few earlier alterations in order to highlight original finishes. The quality of rehabilitation efforts and new construction achieves the high standard set by the original contractors for this house with this work done according to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Historic Buildings. As a result, a level of workmanship was maintained for all original building elements and finishes that could be retained. The building's exterior masonry workmanship remains intact and replacement roof tile work living up to restoration standards. • Feeling: The Byfield House's sense of feeling is defined by the retention of the building's exterior finishes, vistas of the surrounding Manville Heights Neighborhood , and substantial sections of the houses original floor plan on both the main and upper levels. The house's original isolated location, however, overlooking the Iowa River has been slightly diminished as a result of a century of development in Manville Heights. Despite this change in setting, the building's prominent corner location and its clear view from Lexington Avenue allows the building to retain its sense of feeling in 2016. • Association: The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House continues to demonstrate the building's association with the career of its first owner and the early years of residential development in the Manville Addition. It continues to serve its 11 Byfield. Dr Albert Henry House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State purpose as a private home, which through coincidence is occupied by a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa Medical School in 2016. By coincidence, the salvaged decorative masonry materials used in construction of the entrance markers in 2011 are associated with the original State University of Iowa Children's Hospital (nonextant) that was opened at the same time that Dr. Byfield was chosen as the first department head for the new Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine. The story of the entrance markers is well -documented and regularly shared with visitors by the owner. 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark'Y' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying (Enter categories from instructions.) the property for National Register listing.) ARCHITECTURE ❑ A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. 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. n D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations (Mark'Y' in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Period of Significance Qustification) Period of Significance 1917 Significant Dates Significant Person (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry Cultural Affiliation ArchitectlBuilder Sims, Stuart Hobbs Long, J.D. Sulser. C.M. & Co. Because the resource is significant under Criterion C, the period of significance includes only the year its construction was completed — 1917. 12 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Criteria Considerations (explanation, if necessary) Not Applicable. Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (Provide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance and applicable criteria.) The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House was completed in 1917 in the Manville Heights Neighborhood of Iowa City's west side. The Byfield House derives local architectural significance under Criterion C at the local level. It is as a well-preserved, large-scale example of the blending of the Tudor Revival and the English Arts -and -Crafts architectural styles in a residential design by Stuart Hobbs Sims, a State University of Iowa Department of Engineering professor. Sim's "moonlighting" role as an architectural designer was typical of the practice of the University that encouraged staff members to employ their academic skills outside of the classroom during the early decades of the 20th century. Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of sig Criterion C: The Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House Is significant under Criterion C at the local level as a well-preserved residential example of a blending of the Tudor Revival and the Craftsman styles with the English Arts -and -Crafts style. It was built during the first wave of development in the Manville Heights Neighborhood of Iowa City in the years leading up to World War I. The design blends elements of the American styles with the tradition of late 191h and early 201h century English cottages. Many examples of the English cottage tradition were published in illustrated plan books and later republished in American architectural journals including the design for this house, which is discussed below. Stuart Hobbs Sims is credited with borrowing from the design of English architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915) for the Byfield House. The house closely parallels Mallows' work as an Arts -and -Crafts designer and landscape architect before and after 1900. A biographical note from James S. Curl's A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture describes Mallows as an: "English Arts -and -Crafts architect practicing from 1892 in Bedford. A gifted draughtsman, he produced many architectural perspectives, and in 1898 he took George H. Grocock (fl. 1892-1904) into partnership. His finest work was for houses and gardens, including Three Gables, King's Corner, and White Cottage, all at Biddenham, Bedford (1899-1900), and Tirley Garth, Tarporley, Ches. (1907)."' The "Cottage at Biddenham, Bedfordshire, No. 2" (Cottage No. 2) featured in John Hudson Elder-Duncan's Country Cottages and Week -end Homes published inl912 and abstracted in Figure 6 is so close to that of the Byfield House that it is highly likely that it was used by Sims who was identified in newspaper accounts as the architect for this "English style" designs Like Cottage No. 2, the two-story Byfield House employs a massive cross -gable roof with one section extended over a one-story section that contained the attached garage wing or what was referred to as the storage area for "cycles" in Cottage No. 2. Both houses employ red brick on the lower level and stucco for the upper level, groups of multi -light leaded glass casement windows with stone or cast -stone sills and lintels, and battered brick chimneys. The addition of a two-story gabled sleeping porch on the east end of the Byfield House, the most obvious difference in the plan reflecting the preference for this "modern" feature prior to World War I in America. Fenestration differences are slight. The interior plan is similar but not identical. Far greater space is allowed for the kitchen's scullery and a separate "morning room" in Cottage No 2 with a slightly different entrance hall arrangement and both central and rear staircases, the latter present in the Byfield House but absent in Cottage No. 2. On the upper level, the primary differences in plan of Cottage No. 2 are the presence of an additional small bedroom adjacent to the master bedroom, the location of the bathroom, and the placement of fireplaces in each room due to the absence of central heating. Another interior technological change in the Byfield House was the very modern addition of a central vacuum system. The most visible differences in the interior of the Byfield House completed in 1917 and Cottage No. 2 depicted in 1912 were the choices for millwork, plaster ornamentation and surfaces finishes described as "old colonial style with white enamel woodwork" — all still present in 2016. Though Stuart Hobbs Sims (1881-1941) was not trained or licensed as an architect, the fact that he was retained by Dr. Byfield to design a personal residence is not surprising. As noted above, SUI engineering faculty were frequently 'Curl, James S., "Mallows, Charles Edward." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press (2000); available online at: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/101-MallowsCharlesEdward.html; accessed 3/5/2016. 'Research by current owner, Donald Black, began in ca. 2005 and is summarized in Figure 10 and Figure 11. 13 Byfield. Dr Albert Henry House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State encouraged to offer design and engineering services while maintaining their faculty positions. The engineering jobs ranged from residences including several faculty residences to bridges, dams, and sewage treatment plants by hydraulics engineers to golf courses by a golf coach. Eventually this moonlighting practice was discouraged but shortly after the turn of the century through at least the 1940s it was encouraged as a means of supplementing relatively modest compensation from teaching. Sims' career at SUI was brief. He taught for five years in the Department of Civil Engineering after a career that began with graduation from the University of Michigan with a degree in civil engineering in 1903. He was subsequently employed on several railroad construction projects in Indiana and then moved to the Northwest where he joined the faculty of the University of Idaho as an instructor in 1908-1909 in Moscow, Idaho. From here, he moved further west to Tacoma, Washington where he was employed as assistant to the mayor from 1909 to 1913 to oversee a large municipal water supply, water power and irrigation/reclamation project. In 1913-1914 he became the structural engineer for the school board of Portland, Oregon. He moved back to the Midwest to join the civil engineering faculty at SUI serving from 1914 through the spring of 1919 advancing from instructor to associate professor of civil engineering. He employed his diverse experience teaching mechanics, descriptive geometry and drawing. In late 1916, Dr. Byfield retained his services to design his new house in the Manville Addition. No other architectural building designs have been identified for Sims in Iowa City. His skills as an engineer and particularly in descriptive geometry and drawing are reflected in his plan for the Byfield House. The design carefully follows the scale, proportions, feature details, and materials observed in Mallow's Cottage No. 2. The house's need to accommodate a large boiler system, a private well, a large brick cistern, and a septic system evidenced the wide range of engineering talents he employed. In the fall of 1919, Sims left SUI to teach at Oregon Agricultural College (Oregon State University) in Corvallis. His coursework offerings there reflected experience with projects like the Byfield House. They included the study and design of masonry foundations, walls, piers, dams, and arches; structural analysis for roof and bridge trusses; reinforced concrete and foundation design; structural design; and design of steel roof trusses and transmission towers in 1920.7 Description and Overview of Development of the Manville Heights Neighborhood The Manville Heights Neighborhood was originally surveyed in 2008-2010 to identify potentially individually NRHP-eligible properties and historic districts. The findings of that survey completed by Svendsen Tyler, Inc. on behalf of the City of Iowa City and the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission were documented in HADB 5-078 Architectural and Historical Resources of Manville Heights Neighborhood, 1910 — 1960, an unlisted Multiple Property Documentation (MPD) NRHP form. The Byfield House was one of several dozen houses identified as individually eligible within the neighborhood at that time. The description and overview of the Manville Heights survey area that follows has been taken largely from this document.a A neighborhood survey map is provided on the following page. The Manville Heights Neighborhood is located west of the Iowa River as it curves its way through Iowa City from northwest to southeast. The neighborhood is bounded on the east by North Riverside Drive, on the south by the right-of-way of the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (CRANDIC) Railway and U.S. Highway 6, on the north by West Park Road, and on the west by Rocky Shore Drive that extends along the Iowa River. The neighborhood's topography varies from steep hillsides on the west, east, and south edges to ravines and rolling hills in the western and southeastern blocks to mostly level blocks in the central and northeast sections. Unlike residential blocks of Iowa City north of Park Road and sections of Coralville to the west, the Manville Heights Neighborhood consists of uplands rather than low-lying alluvial river edge. North Riverside Drive forms a strong neighborhood edge along the east side with institutional buildings and parking lots located east of Manville Heights in the Arts Campus of the University of Iowa (UI), with large-scale residential buildings (apartment buildings and fraternity houses), and St. Thomas More Catholic Church situated atop the bluff along the west side of North Riverside Drive. The terrain at the southeast corner of the neighborhood drops abruptly at a bluff edge with two UI buildings within the survey area — the Art Building West (2006) at the foot of the bluff and the Public Health Academic Building (2009, above the bluff). The heavily trafficked U.S. Highway 6 and the CRANDIC Railway corridor together form a hard edge for the neighborhood along the south side. The curving route of Rocky Shore Drive demarks the limits of residential development with open space parkland and river edge to the west and residences along the east 7Leonard, John William, Winfield Scoff Downs, and M. M. Lewis, editors, Who's Who in Engineering, (New York: Isaac Goldman Company), 1922, p. 1154; available online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=FUAmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#% onepage&q=sims%2C%20stuart%20hobbs&f=false, accessed 3/5/2016. 'Svendsen, Marlys A., Svendsen Tyler, Inc. HADB 52-078 Architectural and Historical Resources of Manville Heights Neighborhood, 1910— 1960, Multiple Property Documentation NRHP form prepared for City of Iowa City (not NRHP-listed), January, 2010. 14 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State side. West Park Road is less defined by physical characteristics than the other neighborhood boundaries. The 100 — 400 blocks contain residences along the north side of the road developed in roughly the same time period as blocks to the south within Manville Heights. The Byfield House was built on a section of mostly level upland along the northern edge of the neighborhood with a partially unobstructed view of the Iowa River at the time. Manville Heights Survey Neighborhood Location Map (2008)9; the Byfield House location at black star. MANVILLE HEIGHTS SURVEY NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATION MAPl� 1 WBE BID'.Y W % R�oh i ru.,e ",e I L i I. Ltlp4FR9rvo! WIj Y�YNQI R \j} � RI YI.yB hl � M!r �'N'MY ql � uwwwn=r � 9 pp row �/ Q.p jY iow Building stock in the Manville Heights Neighborhood consists of a mix of single-family and multi -family (mostly fraternity houses) residential buildings constructed between 1906 and present day. It contains a mix of one and two-story frame, brick, stone, and stucco residences as primary buildings with both one and two-story garages present as attached or freestanding structures. More than 80 percent of the area's buildings were built prior to 1960. The summary table of construction dates below shows remarkably steady development between 1906 and 1940, a period that included initial subdivision of the neighborhood and growth associated with establishment of the University's West Campus's hospital buildings (1917-1928) and athletic facilities. Construction of the neighborhood's large-scale multi -family buildings included 10 fraternity houses built during the 1920s and two large-scale apartment buildings completed during the mid-1930s. Construction of single-family residences actually peaked during the Great Depression years reflecting the relative stability of the University's professional workforce during the decade of the 1930s. The Byfield House's construction came during the first wave of major construction during the decade highlighted in the table on the following page. First Wave of Residential Building - 1906 through 1920 The first wave of residential building in the Manville Heights Neighborhood began on the western edge of the neighborhood and extended over four decades beginning with the first sale of lots in scattered locations in the five subdivisions laid out in the neighborhood between 1906 and 1910 and extended through the aftermath of World War I (see Figure 3). Berten E. book publishing company in Chicago during his early career. Here, he supervised a sales force of college students 9"Manville Heights Survey Neighborhood Location Map" prepared by Kay Irelan, City of Iowa City, Public Works Department, Engineering Division, October 10, 2008; found in HADB 52-078. 15 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State employed to sell encyclopedias throughout the Midwest. In ca. 1905 he became interested in real estate development prospects in his home state. He wrote letters to bank presidents in county seat towns and, based on responses, made a tour of prospective communities. Iowa City was among the towns he visited and after initially being disappointed in available land, he struck a deal to buy 160 acres of land from Frank Hutchinson. Known as the old Hutchinson Farm, a portion of the land had hosted the Iowa City and Johnson County Chautauqua between 1906 and 1908. Manville's efforts to secure the land and subdivide it were not a simple arrangement. With the help of Isaac B. Lee, a local insurance salesman, and AI Meardon, a local realtor, Manville sold lots through subscription and secured financing from First National Bank to pay for the balance owed. The effort, later dubbed the "Manville Plan" by Bert, was a success. On June 7, 1909 the Manville Addition (see plat on following page, black star is Byfield House location) was formally laid out on 80 acres of the Hutchinson farm situated between Park Road on the north, the CRANDIC Line on the south, Woolf Avenue on the west, and Hutchinson Avenue on the east. Manville Addition was originally platted in nine blocks, each measuring about five acres and roughly 300 feet by 640 feet. An additional strip of town lots was laid out in three long half blocks extending along the east side of the large blocks. Bert later recorded in his unpublished autobiography that "Manville Addition" was named for his father, Lyman B. Manville, and not himself. Access to Iowa City east of the river was via the wagon bridge completed in 1908 on Park Road about a mile east of the Byfield House site. Manville Heights —All Buildings -Summary of Construction by Decade Decades Number of Buildings Percentage +/- Pre-1900 2 less than 1% 1900-1909 5 1% 1910-1919 52 12% 1920-1929 85 20% 1930-1939 72 17% 1940-1949 61 14% 1950-1959 87 20% 1960-1969 37 9% 1970-1979 9 2% 1980-1989 10 2% 1990-1999 7 2% 2000- resent 6 1% Total 433 100% In 1910 a second addition, the Manville Heights Addition, was laid out to the east extending to North Riverside Drive. Purchasers of multiple lots and entire blocks ranged from UI professors to a bank cashier to other realtors. Part of Manville's strategy was to discount lot prices initially to establish interest and encourage brisk sales. He was successful not only in the Manville Heights Neighborhood but also in at least six other subdivisions in Iowa City and Coralville in which he had an interest.10 Second Wave of Residential Building — the 1920s The second wave of home-building in the neighborhood spanned the post -World War I years and accompanied completion of the new Children's Hospital in 1919 and the construction of the new University General Hospital on the West Campus between 1924 and 1928. One -fifth of the neighborhood's houses were built during this decade with UI student enrollment expanding from 5,345 in 1920 to 8,235 in 1930. Construction of major new facilities for the UI Hospital and West Campus sports facilities were completed. The resulting demand for housing for UI academic staff and UI Hospital staff precipitated a robust second wave of homebuilding. Near the end of the decade, a parallel phase of multi -family buildings to provide student housing in the form of fraternity houses commenced. Sites overlooking North Riverside Drive and the Iowa River or major topographic features such as deep ravines and rock outcroppings provided some of the most challenging fraternity building sites in the neighbor -hood. The potential for more costly building efforts afforded by multi- family buildings insured a density of development that might not have been possible with only single-family dwelling construction. When originally platted, the five additions comprising the Manville Heights Neighborhood were without public water service. As a result private wells and cisterns were installed for all of the homes being constructed including the Byfield House. Resolution of the water service problem was being considered by residents about a year before Dr. Byfield sold his house 10Svendsen, HADB 52-078, pp. 5-16. 16 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County. Iowa County and State to Anna Close Albright and her husband, Dr. George Albright in 1924. At a meeting of Manville Heights neighbors the previous summer on August 16, 1923, 30 residents agreed on a plan to secure public water service for the area's current and future residents. Two public officials led the meeting. Frank H. Randall a lawyer and Iowa City alderman served as chair and H.J. Rowland, Johnson County sheriff and a resident of the neighborhood served as secretary -treasurer. Manville Addition Plat, original plat recorded September 12, 1907; updated survey in 1909; plat recorded June 23, 1910; Bert M. and Martha Manville, principal landowners. (Index to Town Plats, Johnson County Recorder's Office, Book 1, p. 149.); and Byfield House location at black star. rid,.:,.< dear..... xrvs ..,.. I m A' ar.srs,.oe. v ns.r wren w y�,-,m d'+•✓M+'e/# es a•sa`?P•!:Npp M' A6., a^P.M ar rYi�1 • Ay/z✓.y a a imip;?6C and .wn. v mr ra rrdd✓L/w .. ,,. 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About 100 "benefited property �x owners' agreed to pay interest +doNdG ' on the note in April 1924. w,d Once new connections were is re made, refunds were to be made by the water company to retire the note itself. Accord- ing to correspondence between the Manville Heights Improvement Association and the water company, the company was slow to make their payments and not entirely honorable in how they dealt with the residents. Nevertheless, the water mains were installed, interest payments were paid for about an 18 month -period to the bank, and the note was retired in December 1926. The work of the neighborhood committee ceased. According to the Iowa City Water Department, records show installation of water service mains to serve the vicinity of 715 West Park Road were installed between 1924 and 1927 with no connection date identifiable for specific addresses. Completion of the water main project greatly aided the second development that wave of began during the 1920s.11 Background for Dr. Albert Henry Byfield The first owner and occupant for the Byfield House was Dr. Albert Henry Byfield (1881-1946). He served on the staff of the State University of Iowa College of Medicine as founding head of the Department of Pediatrics and as the overseer for construction of the State University of Iowa Children's Hospital (nonextant). Byfield was born in Chicago of Hungarian and American parents and received under -graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in 1900 and Harvard University in 1902. He received his medical degree from John Hopkins University in 1907 and returned to Chicago to intern at Michael "Ibid., pp. 31-32. 17 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Rees Hospital from 1907-1908. Beginning in 1909 he moved to Europe where he studied pediatrics in children's hospitals and asylums in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. He then returned to Chicago where in 1912 he became an Assistant in Pediatrics at Northwestern University. From 1913-1915, he was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. Later in 1915, Dr. Byfield accepted the position of Professor of Pediatrics and head of the newly established Department of Pediatrics at the State University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City. He held this position until 1923. At the same time that Dr. Byfield was moving to Iowa City, SUI made the decision to acquire a substantial parcel of ground on the west side of the Iowa River for campus expansion, more specifically for developing a new hospital complex and athletics facilities. The hospital decision sprang from several factors. The SUI hospital located on Iowa Avenue at the turn of the 201h century was definitely overcrowded, but a more important factor for considering its relocation was the finding of a publication of the Carnegie Foundation's Flexner Report in 1910. This national study of medical colleges in the United States and Canada recommended that the SUI College of Medicine and SUI Hospital either make serious reforms or shut down because of deficiencies. The second triggering event was passage of the Perkins Act in 1915 by the Iowa General Assembly, which mandated that the SUI College of Medicine provide care for the state's indigent children. In separate action later that year, the General Assembly established funding for a 150-bed "Hospital for Indigent, Diseased & Crippled Children." Directing the new Children's Hospital's development became one of Dr. Byfield's responsibilities upon arrival. Construction began the same year that his Park Road residence was completed. His experience in much revered German hospitals and medical schools prior to coming to Iowa as well as his graduation from highly regarded Johns Hopkins University Medical School were important credentials for his new position. The Iowa General Assembly's legislative actions together with the impetus of the Flexner Report set the course for major reform and hospital expansion at the State University of Iowa. The site selected for the new Children's Hospital was part of an 80-acre campus expansion west of the Iowa River and about a mile south of the Byfield House. The hospital was built for a cost of $150,000 between 1917 and 1919 but was used prior to completion to house men serving in the Student Army Training Corp. Many suffered from Spanish influenza while residing here in 1918-1919. When the Children's Hospital opened in 1919 it was the first SUI building on the new West Side Campus. It was soon followed by completion of the Psychopathic Hospital in 1920 and Westlawn Nurse's Dormitory in 1921. Records of Children's Hospital patients after formal opening in 1919 studied by Dr. Byfield's biographer, Dr. Paul B. McCray, shed light on the problems studied by pediatric interns under Dr. Byfield's supervision: "...problems seen by the interns included diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, pneumonias, pulmonary tuberculosis, meningitis, congenital syphilis, empyema, typhoid, gonorrheal vulvovaginitis, endocarditis, varicella, tuberculous meningitis, and intestinal tuberculosis. In addition, there were cases of cerebral palsy, anemia, arthritis, chronic sinusitis, chorea, brain tumors, hydrocephalus, acute and chronic renal disease, leukemia, and congenital heart disease. During the pre -antibiotic era therapy was discouraging with mortality still very high. The prescribing of various formulas to treat digestive disturbances in infants was an important task for interns.12 Though unrelated directly to Dr. Byfield's career, completion of the Children's Hospital in 1919 triggered further state legislative action in the arena of public health. The Iowa General Assembly passed the Haskell -Klaus Act, which extended the benefits of free medical care to indigent adults. As a result of the Perkins Act and the Haskell -Klaus Act, more than half of the SUI Hospital's admissions were made up of indigent patients by the early 1920s. To address the growing demand for hospital beds, a lengthy process of negotiation was begun to secure funding for the construction of a new general hospital on the West Side Campus. Abraham Flexner, author of the report that had severely criticized the SUI Hospital and College of Medicine in 1910, was impressed with the subsequent efforts of the Iowa legislature and the College of Medicine to deal with the problems. As a result, Flexner became SUI's champion in his new position with the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. Flexner proposed that the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation help SUI build a new medical center across the river from the facility he had described in his 1910 report as small and outmoded. He noted to the General Education Board "that the state legislature had dramatically increased its support of the medical school from less than $70,000 in 1912-1913 to more than $1 million in 1922-23. But generous though it was to the medical school, the legislature would not appropriate the whole $4.5 million needed to build a new medical 12McCray, Paul B. Jr., M.D., A History of the Department of Pediatrics 1870-1986, (Iowa City: University of Iowa, Hospitals & Clinics), 1987, p. 30. 18 Byfield. Dr Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State center."13 Flexner proposed that the Rockefeller philanthropies provide $2.5 million with the balance to come from taxes. Despite efforts by opponents within the Rockefeller Foundation who did not favor funding tax -supported entities, the SUI hospital proposal was approved. The project's significance on a national scale was that it combined state tax dollars with Foundation resources breaking the long-standing position of the Rockefeller philanthropies to not fund tax supported institutions. The Iowa General Assembly approved funding for the new General Hospital and Medical Laboratories Building in 1924. Construction was planned for four years with the opening of the Laboratories Building in 1927 and the 770-bed General Hospital in 1928. Representatives of major state and national medical organizations and medical schools from throughout the country attended the three-day long dedication celebration held in November 1928.14 In writing about Dr. Byfield's history as part of the University of Iowa's Department of Pediatrics, his biographer Dr. Paul B. McCray described him thusly: "[He was] a generous man and a good clinician and teacher. He assumed his Chairmanship of Pediatrics at a time when the Departmental resources were limited in terms of facilities and manpower, making progress difficult at times. He lived in a large house with forty [sic] acres of land on Park Road in Iowa City. He was a lover of flowers, had notable gardens, and raised goats on his land. His property included a barn to house the goats and their milk was used in formulas for some hospitalized infants. He was an accomplished violinist and played Beethoven sonatas accompanied by Dr. Arthur Steindler at the piano."15 During his eight -year tenure as head of the SUI School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and his position for four years as overseer for construction of the State University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Byfield also researched and wrote on a range of pediatric topics. Dr. McCray noted that his work was done despite being "burdened with heavy clinical responsibilities allowing little time for research."1e Some were done as case reports or as a collaborator during his affiliation with the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. Subjects included "Systemic Manifestations of Chronic Nasal Sinus Infection in Childhood" (1918), "Etiology of Arthritis Deformans in Children" (1918). "A Polyneuritic Syndrome Resembling Pellagraacrodynia [Pellagra-acrodynia] Seen in Very Young Children: Report of Cases" (1920) and "The Relation of Gonorrheal Proctitis in Male Infants to Hospital Epidemics of Vulvovaginitis" (1924).17 Examples of those done in collaboration with Amy L. Daniels of the Child Welfare Research Station included "Feeding the Baby" in 1920 and "Investigations in the Artificial Feeding of Children" the following year. In 1923 Dr. Byfield resigned from the Department of Pediatrics and returned to Chicago. His reasons for leaving SUI suggested by correspondence with the Dean's Office include the fact that he had limited financial resources and a small staff with which to work. In Chicago he rejoined several family businesses including holding the position of vice-president for the Hotel Sherman Company and treasurer of the Ahlbell Storage Battery Container Corporation, both headed by his father Joseph Byfield. The Hotel Sherman was undergoing major expansion during the mid-1920s including construction of a $7 million, 23-story tower in 1925 adjoining the original 1911 hotel. Local newspapers praised the 1,600 room facility as the largest hotel west of New York City and home to one of Chicago's premier night spots.ls After the death of Byfield's parents in late 1926, Dr. Byfield married Harriet Kron the following year on April 21, 1927. The couple resided in greater Chicago until divorcing in October 1935. Dr. Byfield relocated to Los Angeles sometime after the divorce, most likely in 1937 and was reportedly associated with Harry Atkinson, Inc., a hotel management firm for a time.la There are no records of Dr. Byfield having been actively involved in the practice of pediatrics after he left Iowa City in 1923. He died in Los Angeles, California on August 23, 1946 and buried in the Chicago area.20 13E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America (Berkley, CA: University of California Press), 1979, p. 177. 14Svendsen, Marlys A., Svendsen Tyler, Inc., Melrose Historic District National Register of Historic Places Nomination, prepared for Melrose Neighborhood Association, Inc., May 2004, p. 12. 15McCray, p. 21. 161bid., p. 30. 171bid., p. 30-31. 18"Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1892-1945, Hotel Sherman," available online at: https:/fjazzagechicago.wordpress. com/hotel-sherman/, accessed 3/3/2016. 1e 19McCray, p. 21. 20"Dr. Albert Byfield's Body to Be Sent East," Los Angeles Times, 4/25/1946. 19 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State Additional Owner Background: As noted previously, Dr. Byfield's ownership of the Park Road property extended from July 6, 1916 until July 24, 1924. Transfer records show the entirety of Block 3 in the Manville Addition passing to Anna Close Albright, wife of Dr. George Albright, M.D. at that time. The property was described in 1926 as a "farm" when the couple began living here as recorded in the city directory published in 1926. George Albright was listed as a physician in private practice, who specialized in the treatment of the eye, ear and nose problems. Anna was a member of the Close family, a prominent Iowa City and Coralville milling family. Albright served on the Iowa City School Board when decisions were being made regarding the location of a new elementary school for the Manville Heights Neighborhood, Lincoln School, completed in 1926. Two Albright children resided at home for a time as adults. Edwin Albright was a student at University in the early 1930s and Harriet Albright was a student during World War II and continued to reside there after the war. The Albrights made their first sales of Block 3 during the late 1930s with the transfer of the southeast corner of Block 3 in September 1937, the southwest corner of the block in January 1939 and the northwest corner of the block I March 1957. After Dr. Albright's death in the late 1950s, Harriet stayed on with her widowed mother. Property transfer records show the house passing to Robert and Jane Anderson in 1962. Robert was the manager of the Congress Inn and Pancake House located along U.S. Highway 6 at the time. By 1971, Robert was affiliated with Anderson Distributing headquartered in Marshalltown. The same year the Andersons transferred the remaining house and property in the northeast corner of Block 3 to Dr. James C. Noel Brown, M.D. and his wife Monica. Dr. Brown was a physician in general practice in Iowa City. The Browns held the property until 2003 when it was purchased by current owner, Dr. Donald W. Black M.D. He is the fourth medical doctor to reside at this address and the second associated with the University of Iowa Medical School. In 2016 he holds positions as Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Black is an extensively published clinical and translational researcher in his field.21 Summary: In summary, the Dr. Albert Henry Byfield House completed in 1917 in the Manville Heights Neighborhood and occupied by Byfield between 1917 and 1923, is significant under Criterion C. The Byfield House drives local significance as a well- preserved, large-scale example of the blending of the Tudor Revival and the English Arts -and -Crafts architectural styles. The residential design was prepared by Stuart Hobbs Sims, an engineering professor with the State University of Iowa Department of Engineering. The house is associated with the first wave homebuilding in the Manville Heights Neighborhood developed by Bert Manville on the western edge of Iowa City before and after World War I. The neighborhood continues to be known in the community for both its distinctive architecture and association with the University of Iowa Hospital complex on the west side of the Iowa River. 9. Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.) "Albert Henry Byfield, A.B., M.D., History of the Department of Pediatrics." Available online at: http://um history.dc.umich.edu/history/Faculty_History/Medical_School_Faculty Pediatrics. htm 1, accessed 2/10/2016. "Beifield is Building West Side Residence." Iowa City Daily Press, 12/13/1916, p. 2. Black, Donald, (Byfield House property owner). Personal interviews and email correspondence with Marlys Svendsen, September -December, 2009 and November 2015. Black, Donald (Byfield House property owner). Research notes and correspondence obtained by Black re: Dr. Byfield's education, career at the University of Iowa, his writings, his life in Chicago, his life in California and the career of architect Sims, 2003 — 2015. Bristow, Jessica, photographer. Photographs of 715 West Park Road, Iowa City, November and December, 2015. 21"Clinical Profile: Donald W. Black, MD," University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; available online at: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/dept_primary_apr.aspx?appointment=Psychiatry&id=blackdw, accessed 3/4/2016. 20 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Building Permits for 715 West Park Road, City of Iowa City, 1956. Curl, James S., "Mallows, Charles Edward." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press (2000); available online at: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-MallowsChariesEdward.htmi; accessed 3/5/2016. Daniels, Amy Louise and Albert Henry Byfield. "Feeding the Baby," First Series, No. 33, November 1920, University of Iowa Studies, Studies in Child Welfare, Volume 1, November 2, University Extension Bulletins, p. 65. Dean, Lee Wallace and Albert Henry Byfield. "Paranasal Sinus Disease in Children," The Iowa Alumnus, Vol. 18, April 1920 and May 1921, p. 257; available online at: https://books.google.com/books?id=E4gmAQAA]AAJ&pg= PA257&lpg=PA257&dq=Dr.+albert+henry+Byfield&source=bl&ots=hbvYEO946R&sig=46fJj kALOsrybpG6uMlsji0l _z4& hl=en&sa=X&ved=OahUKEwivuvDSiYTLAhUMQyYKHV7oBwEQ6AEIRDAH; accessed 2/10/2016. "Dr Albert Byfield's Body to Be Sent East." Los Angeles Times, August 25, 1946. Dynevor, Lucy. "A Dissertation on the Work of C.E. Mallows, Architectural Gardner & Illustrator," (chapters relating to Biddenham NR. Bedford), Post -Graduate Diploma Course on the Conservation of Historic Landscapes Parks and Gardens, The Architectural Association, June 1993, Preface and Chapters 2 and 14. Elder -Duncan, John Hudson. Country Cottages and Week -end Homes. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1912, narrative description pp. 141-142, photos and floor plans, 174-175. Harvey, Jim, MRS Appraisals. "Appraisal of Real Property located at: 715 W. Park Road, Iowa City." February 22, 2012. Harvard Class of 1902 Fiftieth Anniversary Report. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed for the Class of 1902, 1952. [from Harvard University Archives]. Harvard College Class of 1902 Twenty -Fifth Anniversary Report, 1902-1927. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press, Printed for the Class, 1927. [from Harvard University Archives]. Iowa City city directories, ca. 1915 through 1970. Leonard, John William, Winfield Scott Downs, and M. M. Lewis, editors, Who's Who in Engineering, (New York: Isaac Goldman Company), 1922, p. 1154; available online at: https:Hbooks.google.com/books ?id=FUAmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=sims%2C%20stuart%20hobbs&f=false, accessed 3/5/2016. Letter to Dr. Paul McCray from Gerard J. Shorb, St. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Archives re: Dr. Albert Henry Byfield (Beifeld), January 12, 1984. McCray, Paul B. Jr., M.D. A History of the Department of Pediatrics 1870-1986. University of Iowa, Hospitals & Clinics, 1987. "Albert Henry Byfield, 1915-1923," pp. 19-32. Property Transfer Records for Byfield House property, Johnson County Auditor's Office. Sanborn maps, 1926, 1933, 1933 updated to 1948, and 1933 updated to 1970. Smith, Grace Partridge. "The Children's Hospital," The Iowa Alumnus, March 1919, pp. 161- 164. "State University of Iowa Children's Hospital Post Card View, 1919." Available online at: http://digital.lib.ulowa.edu /utils/ajaxhelper/?CI SOROOT=ictcs&CISOPTR=16762&action=2&DM SCALE=25&DM WI DTH=512&DMH EIGHT=404 &DMX=O&DMY=O&DMTEXT=children's%20hospital&DMROTATE=O, accessed: 2/3/2016. Svendsen, Marlys, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. "Iowa Site Inventory Form, 52-04880 for Beifield-Albright House, November, 2009. Svendsen, Marlys, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Architectural and Historical Resources of Manville Heights Neighborhood, 1906 - 1960, Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for City of Iowa City (not NRHP-listed), January, 2010. Tax Assessor's Records for Byfield House, City of Iowa City Assessor. "University and Educational News [Stuart Hobbs Sims]." Science, Number 8, Volume L. No 1801, December 5, 1919, p, 524. 21 Byfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State University of Iowa College of Medicine "Stead Family Department of Pediatrics: Department History." Available online at: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/pediatrics/history/; accessed 2/5/2016. Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780: A Guide to Styles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985. Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: _preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67 has been X State Historic Preservation Office requested) _Other State agency _previously listed in the National Register _Federal agency _previously determined eligible by the National Register _Local government designated a National Historic Landmark University _recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # X Other _recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # _recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey #_ Neighborhood Development Services, Name of repository: Urban Planning OfficeCity of Iowa City, Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): 52-078 Historical Resources of the Manville Heights Neighborhood of Iowa City, Iowa 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 1.08 acre (Do not include previously listed resource acreage.) UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1 15 620920 4614080 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing 3 Zone Easting Northing 4 Zone Easting Northing Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.) The property includes a parcel located in the City of Iowa City, Manville Addition as described in the meets -and -bounds description as: commencing 67.20' east of the northwest corner of Block 3; thence south 97.44'; thence southeast 75.79'; thence southeast 73.05'; thence east to the east line of Block 3; thence north to the northeast corner of Block 3; thence west to the point -of -beginning. Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.) The boundary consists of a meets -and -bounds description for a 1.08 acre parcel in the Manville Addition currently occupied by the Byfield House. It was acquired in 1915 by Dr. Albert Henry Byfield as part of a larger 5.25 acre parcel consisting of all of Block 3 and intended for construction of a private residence at 715 West Park Road. Construction of the house began in 1916 and was completed in 1917. The balance of the multi -acre parcel was sold off in separate parcels to the west and south beginning in the late 1930s and ending in the 1950s by then owners Dr. George and Anna Close Albright. 22 Byf/eld. Dr Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State 11. Form Prepared By name/title Marlys A. Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. organization street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road city or town Sarona svendsentvler(cDcenturytel. net e-mail Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: date 3/2016 telephone 715/469-3300 state WI zip code 54870 • 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. Key all photographs to this map. • Continuation Sheets • Additional items: (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items.) Photographs: Submit clear and descriptive photographs. The size of each image must be 1600x1200 pixels at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or larger. Key all photographs to the sketch map. Name of Property: Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House City or Vicinity: Iowa City County: Johnson State: Iowa Photographer: Jessica Bristow, Iowa City, Iowa Date Photographed: November and December 2015 Description of Photograph(s) and number: Photograph Map Key —see p. 25 Photograph List: 1. East and north facades, looking southwest 2. East and south facades, looking northwest 3. Front porch close-up, looking southwest 4. South facade, looking northwest 5. Rear half of south facade, garage, looking north 6. North facade, garage wing, looking southeast 7. North fagade main house, looking southeast 23 Byfreld. Dr. Albert Henry House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State 8. Casement window group, looking south 9. Interior, Foyer and central staircase, first floor, looking northeast 10. Interior, Living Room, first floor, looking north 11. Interior, Living Room entrance to porch, first floor, looking northeast 12. Interior, Den/Library, fireplace detail, first floor, looking southeast 13. Interior, Master Bedroom looking at entrance to porch in background, second floor, looking southeast 14. Interior, Front porch, second floor off Master Bedroom, looking southeast 15. From Lexington Avenue, east and north facades through entrance markers, looking southwest Property Owner: (Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name Donald Black street & number 715 West Park Road telephone 319-354-1102 city or town Iowa City state IA zip code 52246 Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C.460 at seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Office of Planning and Performance Management. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1849 C. Street, NW, Washington, DC 24 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information �Ll.�J 11CJ JV I-GV IG) Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 25 Dr. Byfield House Photograph Map Key 1� 1 � 6� g �3 1 16 12 1e DN OF 13 11 Kitchen Dining g Foyer 24 Roan ur Bath 11 Hall s +�1 72 10 Ong ze Porch n Z 1--U 1e Den ► Room Garage Bath Nbrory 12 Formal 11 z4 Dining Hot Tub 16 Room N zo tt First floor zz 11 1 4 e 2 5 Closet Bath 13� 13 11 ose) LoungeN u oset Lounge open DN lIP Bath 2s� 21 i Master 14� 16 Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom Second Floor 25 NPS Norm 1U-9UU-a (KeV. 8/2UU2) OMB No. 1U24-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet ��nyuoa s-� i-cv y Bvfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa__ County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number Additional Information Page 26 Figure 1: Location map (above) and Pictogram (below) for Dr. Albert H. Byfield House, 715 West Park Road, Iowa City (Map from Geographic Information System Division of Johnson County; a.anaaic VIIIIIIG Pl Ill,././/I,IJ./VIIIIJVII-VVVI1,�'.VVIII/'/I Y/, accesse, u.nav iv/. us L. sr ¢¢ II CJ_: I''�� i en 736 `r ®e IBM AAPK AD I Ir 1 07 1.4 ,i � ns .,ea, � ..ies �. Irz.� -'�� 1. �, ue 1J I }I i . Me W1.Gd, pis I FEZ NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 27 Figure 2: 2014 Aerial View of Byfield House, 715 West Park Road, Iowa City Assessor Website; available online at: http://iowacity.iowaassessors.com/parcel.php?gid=257523; accessed 2/22/2016. 27 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 av .,v i <+ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 28 Figure 3: Composite View of Platted Additions in Manville Heights "Manville Heights Survey Neighborhood — Platted Additions" prepared by Kay Irelan, City of Iowa City, Public Works Department, Engineering Division, December 2, 2008; Byfield House at star. `4 Itlon .\ nCbogrF'��o i Imo— •Y ]� (- I ,t. r- (1908 ' -- - - ,a�rr y --�- —F '^_ 71j'Ci4 x /ice dIL _}t'##r1:N94ar r,i'i �ij• L-t.-,��.r-.ttI { i t Igi r i-1 tI Y — t.r�o owo Lot nu11t0mr uS ngweMY d 0 111 x w — Lit bs as mlpinally plodeo t:itp]wo dphLc6wo-y `¢Nrgy Ao vmated d9M-ory W r 28 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information k.pr.s o-u i -av iq Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 29 Figure 4: 715 West Park Road identified on Iowa City West section of The USGS National Map; available online at: http://store. usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd&layout=6_1 _61 _48&uiarea=2&ctype=areaDet ails&carea=%24ROOT)/.do; accessed 2/5/2016. 1 t y ] a _ _ t _ _ [ i 1s u'.. IUSGS - Thu NaVonal i-lap 29 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 812002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Weld, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa____ County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 30 Figure 5: Byfield House, First and Second Floor Plans (prepared by Jessica Bristow, 1/2016) Main Entrance 1s 12 TDen/ is DN Kitchen Dining 24 Raom uP11Hall s m za pDrdiGarage Bath Formal u Dining Hot Tub 16 Room 20 12 22 11 p poor Garden Entrance fW1 osetBath 13 u Lounge nth DN UP Porch Master Bedroom I is Bedroom I Bedroom Bedroom , I I I i I N Second Floor 21 30 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Wield, Dr. Albert Henrv, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 31 Figure 6: John Hudson Elder -Duncan, Country Cottages and Week -end Homes (London: Cassell and Company, Limited), 1912, narrative description pp. 141-142, photos and floor plans, 174-175. Available online at: httos://archive.ora/details/cu3l924014904571; accessed 2/21/2016. Original photograph caption accompanying entry: "Cottages at Biddenham, Bedfordshire, No. 2. C. E Mallows, Architect." This typical English cottage home is built in the lower part of local hand -made red bricks, with the upper part of common brick covered with Portland cement rough -cast. Externally and internally the woodwork is painted white. The roof is covered with red local hand -made tiles similar to the other cottage at Biddenham by the same architect. The gardens in each case were designed by the architect and are often mistaken now for old gardens. In the present v,- - .-.r m�v far case the yew hedges are some four or five feet high. The accommodation comprises large drawing -room extending the full depth of the house, small hall, dining -room, morning -room, kitchen, scullery, cycle house and offices. On the first floor there are five bedrooms, two linen cupboards and bathroom, and box room in the loft entered through a trapdoor in the ceiling of first -floor landing. Cost on application to the Architect. 31 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Weld, Dr. Albert Henrv, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iow_a_____ County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 32 Figure 7: Biographical Entry for Stuart Hobbs Sims in 1922, (from Who's Who in Engineering by Leonard, John William, Winfield M. Lewis, editors, Who's Who in Engineering, (New York: Issac Goldman Company), 1922, p. 1154; available online at: https:Hbooks,google.com/books?id=FUAmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v= onepage&q=sims%2C%20stuart%20hobbs, SIMS. 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(i:tf<^i.fileil'i1t UCI)i0iilea 1;. 1:Sa:YaCtip S€T,l?l. 32 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 33 Figure 8: University of Iowa College of Medicine "Stead Family Department of Pediatrics: Department History." Available online at: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/pediatrics/history/; accessed 2/5/2016. The University of Iowa's College of Medicine opened in Iowa City in September, 1870. In 1915, the College of Medicine established a separate Department of Pediatrics. I � r '._..,, Hospital )hntcg•aph b-:GwJ 1915-1923 Dr. Albert H. Byfield, founding Department Chair Dr. Albert Henry Byfield was chosen as the first department head and became the first trained pediatrician on the medical school faculty, and initially, the sole pediatrician. In 1919, he was joined by Dr. Mark Floyd who had received his MD from Iowa in 1918 and then interned under Dr. Byfield in pediatrics. These two men composed the pediatric medical faculty throughout Dr. Byfield's chairmanship. (Dr. Byfield photo at left: credit, F.W. Kent Collection of Photographs, University Archives, University of Iowa Libraries) Coincidentally with Dr. Byfield's coming to Iowa City, an important piece of state legislation was passed. It was particularly important for its lasting effect on pediatrics at the University Hospitals. The "Perkins Law" of 1915 provided funds for the care of indigent children at University Hospitals. The "Perkins Law" resulted in crowded conditions for pediatric patients in the hospital wards. It became apparent that more space was needed, creating the impetus for building a Children's Hospital in 1919 [see new Children's 33 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional Information Bvfield. Dr. Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 34 Figure 9: Nonextant Children's Hospital, "State University of Iowa Children's Hospital Post Card View, 1919." Available online at: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/utils/ajaxhelper?CISOROOT =ictcs&CI SOPTR=16762&action=2&DMSCALE=25&DMWIDTH=512&DMHEIGHT=404&DMX=O&DMY=O &DMTEXT=children's%20hospital&DMROTATE=O Accessed: 2/3/2016. 34 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Byfield, Dr. Albert Henry. House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Section number Additional Information Page 35 Figure 10: Personal comments by Donald Black, Byfield House owner, from email messages and conversations with Marlys Svendsen, nomination preparer (November 2015 - March 2016), regarding his Black's research efforts to identify source(s) for the house's design and his observations of the English prototype for the house discussed in Figure 6. In 2005, 1 started randomly searching the Architectural Record for the 1910s. I found an article that featured what I thought was my house. Then, I read more carefully and noticed the house was in England. The January 1920 issue identified a cottage at Biddenham, Bedfordshire with C.E. Mallows, architect. The material was reproduced from Country Cottages and Weekend Homes by J. Elder Duncan. I found a copy of the book at Iowa State University (ISU) library in Ames (New York, Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1912). The English house is located at 9 Main Road, King's Corner, built in 1899 for John White. It is described thusly: "This typical English cottage home is built in the lower part of local hand -made red bricks, with the upper part of common brick covered with Portland cement rough -cast. Externally and internally the woodwork is painted white. The roof is covered with red local hand -made tiles similar to the other cottage at Biddenham by the same architect. The gardens in each case were designed by the architect and are now mistaken for old gardens...." I pursued this lead ... and assumed Sims [identified in the first newspaper account as the designer] must have gotten hold of a copy of the book. The house in England is a duplicate, though the interiors are different. I visited that house in 2006... There is no question that the Park Road house was based on this house that was built in 1893. I've traced Stuart Hobbs Sims to Oregon Agricultural College, and later the University of New Mexico. He died in El Paso in 1941 at age 60. 1 am unable to find other buildings he designed. I found the current owner of the house in Biddenham by starting with writing the town council. Whoever I contacted knew the house and owner. We exchanged emails and I visited England in 2006. I retrieved this photo (at left) of Sims. My house was built in 1916-1917 so Sims would nave relied on Elder-Duncan's "Country Cottages." UI libraries has a 1909 edition of the book (pp. 173-76). You may down load any or all of this. In 2006 when I visited the house at Biddenham in Bedfordshire, the house was very similar to my house - brick first storey, stuccoed second story (called pebble -dash); massive chimneys, strips of mullioned windows, prominent cat -slide gable, use of curved overhang over front door. My house is larger, and window placements differ. Both have a front elevation and a "garden" elevation, both nearly identical but for the placement of windows. Floor plans are similar but not identical. Photos show the house as it looks today. The cat slide gable has been removed as the owner wanted more space on the upper storey, thus distorting the original plan. The window placements differ somewhat, but the overall design is remarkably similar. 35 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Additional information (Expires 5-31-2012) Weld, Dr. Albert Henry, House Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State N/A Name of multiple listing (if applicable) Page 36 Figure 11: Photographs of the John White House designed by C.E. Mallow's located at 9 Main Road, King's Corner in Biddenham, Bedfordshire, England (photographer, Donald Black in 2006 during a visit to the house). Au r MINUTES PRELIMINARY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION EMMA J. HARVAT HALL NOVEMBER 9, 2017 MEMBERS PRESENT: Thomas Agran, Esther Baker, Kevin Boyd, Zach Builta, Gosia Clore, Sharon DeGraw, G. T. Karr, Cecile Kuenzli, Pam Michaud, Frank Wagner MEMBERS ABSENT: Ginalie Swaim STAFF PRESENT: Jessica Bristow, Bob Miklo OTHERS PRESENT: Jerod Leupold, Julia Leupold, W.C. Leupold, Shawn Meaney, Derek Perez, Alicia Trimble RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL: (become effective only after separate Council action) CALL TO ORDER: Vice Chairperson Baker called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANYTHING NOT ON THE AGENDA: There was none. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS: 725 Summit Street. Bristow said this house is in the Summit Street Historic District. She said that over the past few years, it has had metal siding removed, and that has been replaced with cement board siding. Bristow said that last year there was an addition put on the back. Bristow stated that the current application is to remove the garage that was built with a 1993 certificate of appropriateness and replace it with a new garage. She said that because of the fact that the garage was approved by the Commission, it is not an historic garage, so there is no need to really put it under the same evaluation as an historic garage to remove it. Bristow said that it can just be taken down, especially since it is going to be replaced with another garage. Bristow showed an aerial view with the existing garage. She showed the approximate location of the new garage. Bristow stated that when the 1993 garage was approved, it replaced an original barn -type garage that was roughly in the planned location for the new garage. Bristow showed the site plan, pointing out the house and Summit Street. She showed the current, existing garage and the new garage location. Bristow showed the front elevation. She said the garage will have board and batten siding. Bristow said she discussed some of the barn -type and garage structures that are seen in the College Hill and Summit Street neighborhoods with the architect. She said the architect took that as inspiration for this. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 2 of 14 Bristow said this will be a two -car garage, as opposed to the one -car garage that is currently here. She said the shingles currently would not match the house, because the house has an older kind of flat -style shingle, and when that does need to be replaced, staff would want them to use an architectural shingle. Bristow said staff therefore suggested using that kind of shingle on the new garage so that it does not need to be replaced later on. Bristow said there is an overhead door on the north side. She said that the windows will be a metal -clad, single hung that meets the guidelines. Bristow said that basically this meets the guidelines, and if it did not need to replace another garage, could probably be a minor review and staff review to approve the design of this garage. She said that staff does recommend approval. Meaney, the owner of the property, said that where one can clearly see the foundation of what he assumes was a carriage house or barn of some sort, there was a structure there, although he does not know if it was original to the property. MOTION: Kuenzli moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the project at 725 South Summit as presented in the application. Boyd seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 10-0 (Swaim absentl. 817 Iowa Avenue Bristow said this house in the College Hill Conservation District has undergone significant changes over time. She showed what the house currently looks like and what it looked like prior to the 2006 tornado. Bristow said there has been some window replacement and the whole addition structure really altered the appearance of the house. She showed what the house looked like right after the tornado. Bristow said that one can see where there was a picture bay window and another pair of windows. She showed where, once the house was rehabilitated after the tornado, it was left with a single window and a pair of double hung windows below. Bristow said it is set up the way it typically would be on a house of this style, but the upper window is actually a little bit undersized. Bristow said the applicant needs to install an egress window. She said that typically, code doesn't require a change, but this would be for a new bedroom. Bristow said this is kind of a unique case, as this has not been a bedroom recently, according to the Building Inspector. Bristow said that in many cases, what staff ends up doing is approving a casement window with some type of muntin bar so that it looks like a double hung window. She said those are usually only approved for a basement or on the back of a property, partly because when a casement is open, it does not really look right on an historic building. Bristow said she has talked to the owners about putting in a bigger window that would meet egress requirements and still be a double hung window. She showed a rough, Photoshop mockup of what that might look like. Bristow added that staff really feels like this would be the way to go as far as putting an egress window in this room. Bristow said the new window would fit the proportions in an acceptable way. She said staff recommends approval of putting in a double hung window as an egress window in this location. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 3 of 14 MOTION: Wagner moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the project at 817 Iowa Avenue as presented in the application. Clore seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 10-0 (Swaim absentl. 318 Gilbert Street Bristow stated that this property is on the southern end of the North Side Historic District. She said that at the time of the survey, this was categorized as a non -historic house. Bristow said the house was built in 1958, so that at this point, it would meet the 50-year threshold to be considered historic. She said that if the district were to be re-evaluated, this house would be considered non-contributing to this district. Bristow said the application is to replace the siding, and staff assumes replacement of the soffits and fascia as well, with an aluminum smooth siding that would probably have the same wide plank, lapped look to it. She said that as the Commission starts to look at mid-century, modern houses, she does research on these types of houses. Bristow said this house is almost pristine on the outside as far as having its original materials. She said the house has original storm windows, original windows, a front stoop that matches the stone veneer at the entry, is shaped like an L, and has an entrance that is recessed into that L and actually recessed into the wall, which is very typical of this style of mid-century ranch home. Bristow stated that having shutters on just one face and the configuration of the picture window in the recess of the L are also typical features. As far as having its own historic integrity, Bristow said this house is very intact. Bristow said that at the same time, this house needs to be painted. She said that she has spoken to the applicants, who have done some touchup work over time. Bristow said that she visited the property in September, and it needs to be scraped and the rest of the paint needs to be removed. She said that except for a few areas up near the gutters, she did not see any big areas of rot or deteriorated siding. Bristow said the house is bound to have rot in a couple places, but what she saw in places on the west and south that she could get to is basically peeling paint. Bristow said it needs to be made sure that the wood is the right moisture level. She said that she does not know whether or not it needs to have linseed oil applied to it like any other wood lap siding. Bristow said that once the wood has the right moisture level, if the applicants use a high -quality oil -based primer and then paint the house, it should last for at least ten to 15 years. Bristow said the proper methods must be used. She said that when she visited more recently, it looked like someone had gone over this same wall in probably a primer or paint coat, which covered up the paint but is not the kind of job that needs to be done to make the paint really last. Because the siding is not heavily deteriorated and is original siding, Bristow said that at this point staff recommends that the owners paint the siding properly and not replace the siding. She said that if the Commission decides to disallow the replacement of the siding, it will need to form the motion in a positive but then vote it down. Bristow said the motion needs to be worded as a positive, and Commission members may vote yes or no based on their findings. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 4 of 14 Wagner asked about the siding and whether it was wood or something like medium density fiberboard. Bristow confirmed that it is wood siding and she could see the grain in it. Karr asked Bristow about the status of the property and type of district. Bristow confirmed that this is a non-contributing property in an historic district not a conservation district. She said that if the district were to be reviewed again, it would still be classified as non-contributing. Bristow said that each district has a period of significance, and the current period of significance for this district does not extend up to 1958. Miklo stated that the property would be considered historic though, but it is from a different era. Kuenzli said that if the Commission were to approve replacing the siding with aluminum siding, people who were aware that this is in an historic district would say that they should be able to do the same thing. Bristow commented that every property is evaluated for siding individually anyway, whether it is historic or non -historic, contributing, or non-contributing. Bill Leupold said he wanted to give the Commission the history of how he wound up with a house in Iowa City. He said that in 1999, his son and daughter-in-law were living in an expensive apartment in Iowa City. Bill Leupold said his son and daughter-in-law planned to buy a house as a solution. He said he began house hunting, and eventually they bought the house on Gilbert Street. Bill Leupold said it became an issue as to whether this area should become an historic district. He said that he was not in favor of that, because he felt there would be problems in terms of maintaining this building as he wished. Bill Leupold said he received a call before the vote and was told that since the property was non-contributing, he would not have to worry and could do about anything he wants. Bill Leupold recently found out that the house needed to be painted, and he instructed his son to get it painted. They contacted three different painters. He said they could not find anyone to do the work, so he decided to try siding. Bill Leupold said the siding will last a long time, will satisfy the City, and will not require painters. Jerod Leupold said that he has lived at the house for the past 18 years. He said that he called the City several months ago and said he understood that the property is non -conforming/ noncontributing and asked if he needed to worry about anything as far as getting siding done. Jerod Leupold said he got a call back with a message saying that he was not part of that, this is non-contributing, go ahead and move along, and there were some suggestions, if he wanted to call back. Jerod Leupold said he did not need suggestions but just wanted to move forward and get this done. He said he went through a couple of different people for bids. Jerod Leupold said that when the contractor came to turn in the plans to City Hall was the first time he saw that there was any sort of issue and there may be a problem. Julia Leupold said that when it did not seem possible to paint this structure and there were all kinds of roadblocks and they had contact from the City Inspector, Miklo, and Stan Laverrman saying this doesn't look good, they understood that and knew that something needed to be done. She said that when they could not find a painter, she said they needed to do something and decided to do siding. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 5 of 14 Julia Leupold said that at that point, Miklo referred her to Bristow, because Jerod Leupold had already sent for vinyl siding. Julia Leupold said they did not put the vinyl on, but it was Jerod Leupold's understanding that as a non-contributing and non -historic structure, the guidelines in the handbook did not have to be followed. Julia Leupold said that Jerod Leupold met with the Acri Siding Company several times and spent a lot of time selecting a vinyl siding. She said that Miklo then informed them that vinyl would not be a good thing, as it is a synthetic. Julia Leupold said she talked to Bristow over the phone, who told her that a siding that is aluminum with a smooth surface, if it had the same profile as the existing siding and is paintable, would be appropriate for this structure. Julia Leupold said she then called the Acri Company to tell them that they wanted to comply with this district. She said it is not their intent to not respect a historic place. Julia Leupold said that the Acri Company spent some time and did find what they felt would be appropriate 1950s siding. She discussed the history of aluminum siding and asked if aluminum would be considered synthetic, as aluminum is on the periodic table. Julia Leupold said the siding that the Acri Company found meets all the criteria that she was told would be acceptable. She said they had been told that the stonework should not be covered. Julia Leupold said that was fine with them, as they loved the stonework. She said she was also told that the shutters should remain, and they were fine with that as well. Julia Leupold said they have tried very hard to meet the guidelines that they were given. She said previous discussion stated that the style encompassed by the North Side goes up to the 1930s. Julia Leupold said the handbook also references numerous housing styles and structures, and this little house does not fit. Julia Leupold said the handbook also really directs one to those historical architectures. She asked what the implications are and if the district will stay at that era or if other architectural styles may be added. Julia Leupold said that currently, little ranch houses are not part of that. Bristow agreed that ranch houses are not listed in the current styles for that district. Regarding whether they could be added, Bristow said she did not know but said that would be done as part of a re-evaluation of the district. Julia Leupold said that re-evaluation has not been done at that point in time, and Bristow said that is correct. Bristow said that is why this property is considered non-contributing. Julia Leupold said that is her understanding and is why they have moved forward the way that they have. Julia Leupold said that she is a teacher. She said that when one looks at a school system, it is actually very much like one of these historic districts. Julia Leupold said that through the handbook or the grading system, everyone is pretty much expected to tow that line. She said that as a teacher, however, her student body is not like that. Julia Leupold said she had all kinds of students, some more capable, some requiring more effort, more time, and more caring. She said this little house sits on the very fringe of this district. Julia Leupold said it is not contributing. Julia Leupold asked what they can do. She said she is not going to allow this little house to not be cared for, but she may need to do it in a different way than the guideline in the handbook. Julia Leupold said there are also clauses in the handbook that say that there are exceptions for non -historic and non-contributing properties. She said that she believes siding is one of them. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 6 of 14 Miklo said there is a section regarding siding that he could quote from when Julia Leupold has finished her statement. Julia Leupold said they are just trying to be the best caretakers that they can be and know how to be to this home that they cherish. She said they have owned it and cared for it for 18 years. Julia Leupold said they are asking the Commission for an exception to be flexible to allow the use of a 1950s appropriate aluminum siding and meet all the criteria that they were given. She thanked the Commission for its consideration of this issue. Derek Perez said that he is a friend of Nick Acri, owner of Acri Siding Company, and also owns a couple of businesses in town. Perez said that some of the conversation made it sound like the Leupolds planned to replace the siding. He said that they plan to cover the siding, not replace it. Perez said that one of the specifications, either the appeal or the thing, is that one covers the siding and leaves the original in place, and this fits that mode. Perez said that if one looks at the house, one can see where it is painted well. He said that the house sits on the corner alley between the two buildings, and there is nothing there that can protect that south side. Perez said that no matter how many times it is painted or what kind of paint is used, the heat of the sun will hit it and the cool of the night will cool it down. He said that is why the side that looks so poor is the south side, and this will continue to happen. Perez said, with regard to historic homes, the Commission is trying to do the best that it can, and the Leupolds are trying to do the best that they can with the house that they have, and they want it to look right. Perez said that the 1950s aluminum siding is definitely within the historic parameters of that era. Perez said the moisture freezes in our climate and causes the paint to not stick. He said that the Acri Company has put siding on many historic homes in the Quad Cities, and the Historic Society in the Quad Cities has decided that the best way to protect the structures is to put siding on it. Perez said that although the owners wanted to put vinyl siding on the house, they changed to do something more historically accurate. Regarding non-contributing, Perez said that some of the people at the meeting live in the area. He said there are beautiful homes all the way throughout, but this isn't one of them. Perez said it is a nice house, but it does not have ornate details and there is nothing to it that is any different than a house over by Twain or over by his house on Brookside. He said it is not a foursquare; there are not dental applications. Perez said he can see why the Commission does this; the houses on Summit Street look great, but this is not one of them. He said the definition of historic is "famous or important in history." Perez said that in Iowa City, this house is not famous or historic. Perez added that there will be a difference in price between having to paint the house, especially on the south side where it will have to be painted more often because it cannot be shaded. He said the boundary lines show that it makes no sense that this house is in that area. Perez said that at the corner of Bloomington and Linn, there is a beautiful house that is not in the district at all. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 7 of 14 Perez said he was reading through the historic information, and as they progress from 1992 to 2007, it says that every five to ten years it is supposed to be resurveyed. He asked when the last time was that this district was resurveyed. Perez said if it has not been, the City is not following its own rules. Bristow said that if the district were resurveyed, this house would be found to be non- contributing. Perez said the house is non-contributing, but then somehow it became historic. Bristow said it is historic if it is over 50 years old; that is the definition that is used in historic preservation. Perez said he understands that 50 years is the margin, but if there is ever something that should be a reason for an exception, it is this house. Miklo stated that at the 50-year mark is when properties are considered to be potentially historic He said that characteristics are also looked at, such as the interest in mid-century, modern architecture, and that is where this property falls. Perez said that in the case of the North Side District, the idea is to protect houses from the 1930s era. Miklo said the plan is to protect a whole neighborhood. Perez stated that this house doesn't have anything to do with the 1930s; it was built in 1958. He said that if one would go through the course of the thing from when it was put into place in 2007, 50 years before that would be 1957. Miklo said that mid-century modern is now being recognized as an historic architectural design. Perez asked if this house is important architecturally. Bristow said it is, because it is very characteristic of its style and because it has its original materials. Bristow said that part of the overriding goal of historic preservation is to preserve the historic character of the property, whatever it is. She said that the historic character is usually defined by the materials that are used, as well as the forms, and this has both. Perez said the goal is to protect the historic materials, and by putting on something, to save the taxpayers the money of having to repaint it over and over again, what they could do is put something over it to protect it. He said that is part of it, and aluminum is not synthetic. Bristow said there are also goals in historic preservation to not cover historic materials with something that will then trap the moisture in and deteriorate them further. Perez said there was a house there before this one. He said that if that house had been saved, he could understand but said that this house was built in 1958. Perez said the Leupolds bought it in 1999. He said he did not understand how this house got included, and the house on the corner is not in a district. Perez said the owners want to do the right thing. He said there is no way to shade the one side of the house, and their best option is to cover it with aluminum siding. Perez said that if the Commission doesn't want to make them come back and repaint this all the time... He said this is just a little house that doesn't conform to the neighborhood. Perez said no one will be able to say to the Commission that this house was allowed to have aluminum siding, because there is no other house the same. Perez asked why the house on the corner is not in a district. He asked why all of those houses down across from Mercy Hospital are not in the district. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 8 of 14 Miklo answered that those houses are in a commercial zone. He said there was a decision at the time not to include the commercial properties in the historic district. Agran asked if the image of the paint that is chipping off the side is from the south wall, the wall that is shared with the little brick wall. Bristow said it is right around the corner. She said that in first picture, the wall that has the deterioration is in the gable. Agran asked about the wall that is right by the entryway. Bristow said it did not show that level of deterioration. She pointed out all of the walls and the directions they face. Bristow said she did not include an overall shot of the south side because of the weeds and overgrowth that is along there and blocks the view of that side. Agran said that, as he recalled, the wall with the greatest deterioration had a ten- to 15-foot privet hedge that was growing right up against it along that alley on the south -facing side of the building. He said it was cut back a couple of years ago. Jerod Leupold confirmed that the hedge was cut down about two years ago. Karr asked how many times the Leupolds have painted the house in the 18 years they have owned it. Bill Leupold responded that he painted it himself once about 15 years ago. Baker said the subject came up about one of the painters not wanting to paint the house if it had lead -based paint. She asked if the paint has been tested. Jerod Leupold said that a couple of painters did stop by, with one testing the paint. He said they were not 100% sure but had enough of a concern that there could be lead paint. Kuenzli asked if any other painters were contacted because there are many painters in town, not just three. Jerod Leupold said that after that, if someone asked how old the house was, he got the same kind of reaction. He said that after going through a handful of folks, he figured he would try a different option with siding. Wagner asked, if the house were owner -occupied, could the paint be let go. Miklo replied that the City cites owners as well as rental properties. He said the City does have a little more leverage with a rental property, because the rental permit can be denied until the defect is corrected. Regarding being a landlord, Bill Leupold said that he receives no rent for the property. He was shocked that he would be considered a landlord and need a rental permit when he doesn't get rent out of it. Regarding the paint job, Trimble said she sees paint deterioration. She said there is some gray wood, which was probably painted over initially, which means that it probably had UV exposure, and paint will not bind to that. Trimble said it does not look like there is an oil primer on there. She said those are two of the biggest issues. Trimble said that when painting a house, one has to make sure to use a very high solid content primer and paint. She said that most of them on the market today are not very high. Trimble said that those factors will make the paint fail much more quickly, and one needs to make sure to use at least two coats of paint, probably three in weather and sun -prone areas. Julia Leupold stated that the property to the north of this one is historic and happens to have vinyl on it. She said she was visiting with the owner of the property: Prime Rentals [actually Prestige Properties]. Julia Leupold said the owner agreed that the house had vinyl siding but HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 9 of 14 said it was installed before this was an historic district. Julia Leupold said they discussed his other rental units and how often they need to be repainted. She said the neighbor told her that he has the properties on a seven-year rotation to paint, and every five years he feels like they need to go in and touch up the paint. Julia Leupold said he told her that he pays $40 per gallon for primer. She said the City is very fortunate to have a business owner who is doing that. DeGraw asked if there are painters in Iowa City who will work with lead paint. Bristow responded that the City has a list with at least ten painters who will work with lead paint. She agreed that when siding is grayed or has been exposed to UV rays, it has to be sanded and the wood has to be properly prepared. Bristow said that when the proper steps are taken, the paint job should last several years. Kuenzli said that there are two things that direct the Leupolds' wish to use aluminum siding. She said that it seems to have started with the difficulty of finding a painter who would do the job. Kuenzli said that then equally or maybe even more important, seems to be the point of view of the ease of maintenance, considering the distance away that the owners live. Kuenzli said that aluminum siding is not maintenance free. She said that when Bristow showed the pictures, she said the siding looks to be in pretty good condition, except around the gutters where there is some rot. Kuenzli said that with aluminum siding on it, one cannot see when it is rotting behind the siding. Kuenzli added that a friend of hers who has aluminum siding on her house has been plagued with wasps in the house and could not find the source. Kuenzli said that two companies looked for the source and finally, someone found a tiny hole in the second story of the house in the aluminum siding where wasps had gotten down. She said that between the aluminum siding and the exterior wall of the house, they removed a wasp nest that was five feet long and two feet wide. It is not completely maintenance free. Kuenzli said that with any siding, where there is any opening, anything can get in there whether it is moisture or insects and one cannot see it MOTION: Wagner moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the siding replacement project at 318 North Gilbert Street as presented in the application. Builta seconded the motion. Agran said that from his own perspective and his own familiarity with this property, he does not believe that the siding is deteriorating because the paint just won't hold up. He said there are two south -facing walls here - one is in proximity to very overgrown vegetation and was for a long time. Agran said he is sure the deterioration is related a lot to that, especially since the other side does not have that issue. He said it could be due to the different size of the eaves, but he just does not quite believe that. Agran said he thinks that the wood seems to be in fine condition and just needs to be painted. He said a side of him feels that this is a relatively small house and that painting and maintaining this house is not really a big deal. Agran said it might be a big deal though, if the landlord lives a long way away. Agran said that if the property owner being referred to is Michael Olivera from Prestige Properties, he owns a lot of properties in the neighborhood. Agran agreed that he does a very good job of maintaining his properties, and part of that maintenance and responsibility to the property is touching up the paint and repainting. He said that like all things on a structure, they HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 10 of 14 are not maintenance free, just like the gutters, which as shown in the picture are not properly attached. Agran said that side of the argument he does not really agree with. At the same time, He said that whether or not he personally agrees that this is the correct financial decision or the correct decision for the integrity of the house, the structure is listed as non-contributing. Agran said that whether or not it is historic now, it is surveyed currently as non-contributing. Miklo read the section from the exception in the guidelines that addresses that when considering whether replacement siding should be allowed: "Non-contributing and non -historic structures should be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine the architectural merit of the property under consideration. Some non-contributing and non -historic structures were classified according to an architectural style or construction period inconsistent with the district but nevertheless remain important properties and worthy of preservation." Miklo said the whole point of that paragraph is to say that perhaps this is not a Victorian house that fits into the character of the district. He said the question the Commission should ask and answer in making this decision is if this is a good example of mid-century modern buildings - ones that the Commission wants to preserve with a degree of historic materials. Miklo said he thinks that is the key point in the whole discussion. Agran said that if this were his property, this is not the choice he would make. He said that he does not think that the cited causes are actually the causes for the deterioration here. Agran said he thinks the owners make a compelling case that for whatever authenticity this property has that using the suggested material is one that would have been widely available at the time the building was constructed. He said that while he does not agree with that choice, he thinks it is a compelling argument. Boyd said he looks at the Commission's job of looking at these properties as part of a larger district as telling the story of that neighborhood. He said that should one do a reassessment that post-war infill and 50s homes that were added and mid -modern homes that were added are likely going to be part of that history of these neighborhoods and these districts. Boyd said that preserving them as they would have been and as they were seems to be part of what the Commission is trying to accomplish in terms of preserving the nature of these houses that are historic by definition now, at 50 years, and in a reassessment certainly could be contributing to a larger story of what the neighborhood and what the districts look like. Agran said this is not an enameled steel house like the one on Clark Street. He said thatwhile that story is correct, that there may be five houses in the North Side that are part of that district, but if that story has not been established as part of a survey, to say if surveyed these would be part of that story is very different than if the survey had been done. Miklo said that is why the guidelines call for a case by case basis review of properties coming before the Commission. Agran said that any property over time, if contributing or non- contributing, is taken all individually as they are now, not as they were surveyed, and Miklo confirmed this. Bristow said that a recent example is a house on Brown Street that was listed as non-contributing and when the owner put in an application they discovered that through changes to previous alterations the house is now consider contributing to the district. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 11 of 14 Karr said there was a very similar property on Summit Street. He said that about 15 years ago he was in the applicants position. Karr said there was a duplex that he wanted to put siding on. He said it was ultimately decided that it would not be allowed, because of similar reasons, it was still in a condition to paint. Karr said the decision may have been different if the property had been in a conservation district. Miklo said there is a little more latitude in a conservation district. The motion failed to carry on a vote of 0-10 (Swaim absent). REPORTS ON CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY CHAIR AND STAFF: Certificate of No Material Effect - Chair and Staff Review. 523 Rundell Street. Bristow said this project involved the replacement of shingles, replacing flat shingles with architectural shingles. 701 Oakland Avenue. Bristow said the flat part of the roof on the addition must be redone. 519 North Gilbert Street. Bristow said the porch roof on this house is being reconstructed, and the owners may be redoing the roof material on the one-story addition on the back. 317 Fairchild Street. Bristow said this house has a new owner who is trying to get tax credits. Bristow said the internal gutters will be repaired, along with some soffit and fascia repair. Minor Review- Staff Review. 613 Grant Street. Bristow said this house has its original siding on the front, with some metal siding on the sides and the back. She said the owners are removing the metal siding on the back to make it match the front. Bristow said the sides will be done eventually. 613 Grant Street. Bristow said the owners are putting a small deck on the back of the house. 420 Ronalds Street. Bristow said that the owners are replacing a tiny, first floor casement window with a double hung window in the back on an addition. She said it does not appear to even originally be a casement window. Bristow added that the four little windows in the attic, which are inward - opening hopper windows, will be replaced with awning -type windows. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 12 of 14 314 Church Street. Bristow said there is an addition on the top with a modern, full -light door. She said the owner will put a new, more appropriate door and storm door on it. Intermediate Review - Chair and Staff Review. 317 Fairchild Street. Bristow said that the curb cut here is extremely tiny. She said the owners have a big problem with people parking near the drive and blocking them in. Bristow said the owner is going to widen it just a little bit so that one can park in the driveway and not hit the wall with the car door. 314 Summit Street. Bristow said this involves the project that was approved by the Commission. She said that the owners actually could not build the garage because of the accessory apartment. Bristow said that it is a zoning issue in that the house has to be owner -occupied in order to have an accessory apartment. Miklo said there could be a finished space up there, but it could not have a kitchen or bathroom. Bristow said the owner has now revised the plans to something much more standard. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES FOR OCTOBER 12, 2017: MOTION: Michaud moved to approve the minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission's October 12, 2017 meeting, as written. Clore seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 10-0 (Swaim absent). COMMISSION INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION: Preservation Iowa Membership. Miklo said that a flyer from Preservation Iowa, which is seeking members was included in the meeting packet. He said it is a fairly low-cost membership, and the group does a lot in terms of education and advocacy for preservation across the State. Local Landmark Process Update. Bristow said that staff is proceeding forward with some of the local landmarks that the Commission earmarked about two years ago. She said that owner meetings will be held next week. Bristow said the properties are 213 East Market Street, 319 East Bloomington Street, 504 East Bloomington Street, 410/412 North Clinton Street, 412 North Dubuque Street, and 1029 North Dodge Street. Miklo said that presentations to the property owners will be made on Wednesday at 5:30. He said that Commission members are invited to attend. Bristow said staff is also proceeding forward with a small historic district south of Burlington Street: the Clinton Street and Railroad Historic District. She said it would include the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION November 9, 2017 Page 13 of 14 passenger railroad station, which is already a local landmark and on the National Register. Bristow said it would include the houses just along Clinton Street, so it would encompass the depot, the small hotel right across the street, the neighboring next two houses, the larger house on the corner, and the brick house across the street. She said that staff will be meeting with these owners on Thursday at 5:30. Bristow invited interested Commission members to attend. Miklo said the next step after that meeting would be a public hearing before the Commission, possibly in December or January. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 6:43 p.m. Minutes submitted by Anne Schulte HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION ATTENDANCE RECORD 2017-2018 NAME TERM EXP. 11110 12/8 1112 2/9 3/9 4/13 5111 6115 7131 8/1f AGRAN, THOMAS 7/1/20 X X X X O/E X X X X X BAKER, ESTHER 7/1/18 O/E X X X O/E X X X X X BOYD, KEVIN 7/1/20 X O/E X X X X X X O/E X BUILTA, ZACH 7/1/19 X X O/E X X O/E X X O/E X CLORE, GOSIA 7/1/20 X X X O/E X X X X X O/E DEGRAW, SHARON 7/1/19 X X X X X X O/E X X X KARR, G. T. 7/1/20 X X KUENZLI, CECILE 7/1/19 X X O/E X X O/E O/E X O/E O/E MICHAUD, PAM 7/1/18 X X X X X X X X X O/E SWAIM, GINALIE 7/1/18 X O/E O/E X X X X X X X WAGNER, FRANK 7/1/18 X X X X X X X O/E O/E X KEY: X = Present O = Absent O/E = Absent/Excused --- = Not a Member