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Survey and Evaluation Update
Iowa City
Central Business District
Prepared for
City of Iowa City
Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission
Prepared by
Alexa McDowell
AKAY Consulting
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 2018
City of Iowa City
City Council
Mayor, Jim Throgmorton
Kingsley Botchway II
Rockne Cole
Susan Mims
Pauline Taylor
John Thomas
Mazahir Salih
Historic Preservation Commission
Chair, Ginalie Swaim
Thomas Agran
Cecile Kuenzli
Frank Wagner
Pam Michaud
Esther Baker
Zachariah Builta
Sharon DeGraw
GT Karr
Kevin Boyd
Gosia S. Clore
Neighborhood and Development Services
Bob Miklo, Senior Planner
Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner
Sylvia Bochner, Intern
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction 01-02
Figure 01. Map of Project Survey Area Showing 2001 & 2018 Boundaries 02
2.0 Methodology 03-05
Table 01. National Register Listed Resources in the 2018 Survey Area 03-04
Table 02. National Register Listed Resources in Adjacency 04
2.1 Community Engagement 04-05
3.0 Development Overview 05-12
4.0 Summary of Findings and Recommendations 12-43
4.1 Standards of Evaluation 14
4.1.a Individually Eligible 16
4.1.b Contributing 17
4.1.c Non-Contributing 20
4.2 Statement of Findings 21-42
Table 03. Resource Evaluation Findings 22-35
Figure 02. Resource Map 36
4.2.a Individually Eligible 37
Table 04. Individually Eligible Resources 37-38
4.2.b Historic District Eligibility 38-39
Figure 03. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries -1 40
Figure 04. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries - 2 41
4.2.c. Historic Preservation Overly Zones 42
4.3 Recommendations 42-43
5.0 Historic Preservation Incentives 44
5.1 Historic Tax Credit Programs 44
5.1.a Iowa Historic Tax Credit Program 50
5.1.b Federal Historic Tax Incentive Program 50
5.1.c Iowa Historic Property Temporary Tax Exemption Program 51
5.2 City of Iowa City Programs 51
5.2 a Tax Increment Financing 51-52
5.3 Iowa Downtown Resource Center Programs 52
5.1.a Main Street Iowa 52
5.1.b Model Communities 52
5.1.c Workforce Housing Tax Credits 52
List of Tables
Table 01. National Register Listed Resources in 2018 Survey Area 03
Table 02. National Register Listed Resources Adjacent to 2018 Survey Area 04
Table 03. Resource Evaluation Findings 22
Table 04. Individually Eligible Resources 37
List of Figures
Figure 01. Map of Project Survey Area – 2018 36
Figure 02. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries 40
Figure 03. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries Without Urban Renewal 41
List of Images
Image 01. Franklin Printing – 115 S. Dubuque Street – 1856 06
Image 02. View of west side of S. Dubuque with 1870s era buildings 07
Image 03. The Airliner – 22 S. Dubuque Street – ca.1877/1950 08
Image 04. Englert Theatre – 221 E. Washington Street – 1913 09
Image 05. Kresge’s – 119-123 E. Washington Street – 1930 10
Image 06. Eldon Miller Building (Gabe’s) – 330 E. Washington Street – 1955 11
Image 07. Carnegie Public Library – 309 E. College Street – 1903 15
Image 08. Coast & Sons – 10-14 S. Clinton Street – 1895 18
Image 09. Things & Things & Things – 130 S. Clinton Street – 1970 19
Image 10. Commercial Building – 112 E. College Street – ca.1915 20
Image 11. Historic Image – E. College Street – ca.1915 21
Image 12. Before: Letts-Fletcher Company Warehouse, Marshalltown - 2011 45
Image 13. After: Letts-Fletcher Company Warehouse, Marshalltown - 2011 45
Image 14. Before: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building, Cedar Rapids – 2014 47
Image 15. After: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building, Cedar Rapids – 2016 47
Image 16. Before: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building – Interior – 2014 48
Image 17. After: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building – Interior – 2016 48
Image 18. After: Iowa State Bank & Trust – 102 S. Clinton – 2018 49
Appendices
Appendix A. 2018 Survey Resource Table and Maps
Appendix B. Updated Multiple Property Documentation Form “Architectural and Historical
Resources of the Central Business District, 1856-1984”
Appendix C. Project Presentations
Appendix D. Iowa Historic Tax Credit Program
Appendix E. Federal Historic Tax Credit Program
Appendix F. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
Appendix G. Jan Olive Nash,“Iowa’s Main Street Commercial Architecture,” MPD, 2002.
Appendix C
1. Public Presentation “Let’s Talk! Iowa City’s Historic Downtown (09/2017)
• Promotional Flyer
• Slide Show Presentation
• Videos
“Iowa
City
Update:
Preserving
Historic
Downtown”
City
Channel
4
–
Iowa
City
Published
08/31/2017
https://youtu.be/cMWkf9GHVLc
“Let’s
Talk!
Iowa
City’s
Historic
Downtown”
City
Channel
4
–
Iowa
City
Published
09/18/2017
https://youtu.be/_Ph8Jm5uvGg
2. Presentation to Business/Property Owners (11/2017)
• Promotional Flyer
• Slide Show Presentation