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Home My WebLink About05-09-2019 Historic Preservation Commission.r _ � c-c�•; .----.mot-��7...,.. �...m IOWA CITY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Thursday, May 9, 2019 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) National Register Nomination — Clinton Street and Railroad Historic District E) Certificate of Appropriateness 317 Fairchild Street — Northside Historic District (rear deck and entry porch addition) F) Report on Certificates issued by Chair and Staff Certificate of No Material Effect —Chair and Staff review 921 Burlington Street — Summit Street Historic District (roof shingle replacement) Minor Review —Staff review 509 Brown Street — Brown Street Historic District (rear stair and landing reconstruction) G) Consideration of Minutes for April 11, 2019 H) Commission Information and Discussion I) Adjournment If you will need disability -related accommodations in order to participate in this meeting, please contact Jessica Bristow, Urban Planning, at 319-356-5243 or at jessica-bristow@iowa-city.org. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs. Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission City Hall, 410 E Washington Street, Iowa City. IA. 52240 Memorandum Date: May 2, 2019 To: Historic Preservation Commission From: Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner Re: Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District nomination to the National Register of Historic Places The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The State Nominations Review Committee will consider the property during their June 14, 2019 meeting. As a participant in the Certified Local Government Program, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission is required to review the nomination and comment on the attached foam. The Commission should determine whether the nominated district meets the National Register of Historic Places criteria for significance and integrity. The Nomination finds that the district (described as a property for this purpose) is eligible for listing in the National Register in two Criteria categories: Criterion A: Event. A property associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Criterion B: Design/Construction. A property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction. The Nominated District is located in the Riverfront Crossings district in Iowa City. It includes the former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad passenger depot, a hotel associated with the depot, a lunch room also associated with the depot, and a both sides of just over one block of a tree -lined street of nearby residences, many of which were built at a similar time, or because of, the construction of the depot. The properties included in the district include 530 S. Clinton, 604 S. Clinton, 605 S. Clinton, 610 S. Clinton, 611 S. Clinton, 612 S. Clinton, 614 S. Clinton, 615 S. Clinton, 617 S. Clinton, 624 S. Clinton, 109 E. Prentiss, 113 E. Prentiss, 109-119 Wright and 114 Wright. A table beginning on page 5 of section 7 of the Nomination shows the properties. National Register listing will make tax credit funding available for appropriate rehabilitation projects on contributing buildings within the district. Otherwise, National Register listing is an honorarium that does not impose any regulations at the local, state, or federal level. The nomination describes the history of the Railroad and the Neighborhood in Iowa City, and outlines the development of the area. The period of significance for the district extends from 1879 which is the date of construction of the oldest contributing building tin the district to 1948 which is the year in which the last contributing building was moved into the district. The Nomination finds the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A as the last remaining intact collection of buildings associated with the pre-1960 development of the Near Southside neighborhood of Iowa City. The District is Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission City Hall, 410 E Washington Street, Iowa City. IA. 52240 also eligible under Criterion C for the architectural importance of its contributing buildings, building between 1879 and 1915, several of which are individually eligible for listing. Staff finds that the nomination provides a thorough discussion of the importance of the district and the integrity of the structures within that district. While the integrity of some of the structures was questioned in the past, staff does agree with the Nomination in its justification for determinations of integrity for each individual property. The integrity of the district as a whole is also intact. Staff also agrees with the stated significance of this district for the history of our community. Recommended Motion Move to Recommend that the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic places in Criterion Category A and Criterion C at the local level and meets the criteria for both significance and integrity. CERTIFIED LOCAL GOVERNMENT NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION EVALUATION REPORT FORM As a participant in the Certified Local Government Program (CLG), the Historic Preservation Commission is required to review and comment on proposed National Register nominations of properties within its jurisdiction. The State is required to provide the CLG with a 60-day period for the review prior to a State Nominations Review Committee (SNRC) meeting. This form must be received by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) five days in advance of the State Nomination Review Committee (SNRC) meeting. (Please print clearly) A I (r l f 1 ' t ' Historic Property Name: U1 I m� r s f e-o Dirt( l�l I CoQ� �epCT �'�' r5'I Ori� �l s4v c, Address: 0 04 1.1 1 I o (do I (a t (Q ( —K N Certified Local Government Name: o Spy j I Date of public meeting for nomination review: M...A 2 0 19 Applicable Criteria: (Please Check the Appropriate Box) V Criterion A (Historical Events) 'A Criterion C (Architecture) ❑ Criterion B (Important Person) ❑ Criterion D (Archaeological) Please check the following box that is appropriate to the nomination (Please print clearly). ❑ The Commission recommends that the property should be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ❑ The Commission recommends that the property should not be listed in the National Register for the following reasons: ❑ The Commission chooses not to make a recommendation on this nomination for the following reasons: ❑ The Commission would like to make the following recommendations regarding the nomination: (use additional sheets if necessary) : Official Signatures Required Below Historic Review Board Chair or Representative Print Name: Signature: Chief Elected Official Print Name: Signature: Professional Evaluation Print Name: Signature: Approved ❑ Not Approved 11-1 Approved ❑ Not Approved Approved ❑ Not Approved El NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Parts 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 (IMPS Forth 10-900a). 1. Name of Property historic name Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District other namesisite number Name of Multiple Property Listing N/A (Enter "N/A' if property is not part of a multiple property listing) street & number 530-624 S. Clinton St.; 109-113 E. Prentiss St.; 109-119 Wright St. not for publication city or town Iowa City vicinity state Iowa county Johnson zip code 52240 3. State/Federal Agency 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 Applicable National Register Criteria: x A _ B x C _ D Signature of certifying officialffitle: Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Date State Historical Society of Iowa State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property _ meets _ does not most the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official Title State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4. I hereby certify that this property is: _ entered in the National Register _ determined not eligible for the National Register _ other (explain:) determined eligible for the National Register _ removed from the National Register Sections 1 — 4 page 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State 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.) building(s) x district site structure abject Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) Contributing Noncontributing 9 buildings 0 ^ site 0 _ structure 0 0 object 9 4 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 DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling DOMESTIC/multiple dwelling COMMERCE/business DOMESTIC/hotel COMMERCE/restaurant TRANS PORTATI ON/rail-related 7 Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter categories from instructions.) LATE VICTORIANNictorian Eclectic LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne LATE VICTORIAN/Romanesque LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Foursquare foundation: CONCRETE STONE OTHER/Clay Tile walls: WOOD/Weatherboard SYNTHETICSNinyl BRICK roof: ASPHALT OTHER/Clay Tile other: Section 7 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Narrative Description Summary Paragraph (Briefly describe the current, general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is a small historic district in the Near Southside neighborhood of Iowa City, Iowa (Figures 1-4). Iowa City was established in 1839 as Iowa's territorial capital, and a year later it also became the county seat of Johnson County. The oldest part of the city is located on a low bluff lying east of the Iowa River and west of Ralston Creek, which flows in a southwesterly direction to join the Iowa River about a mile south of the downtown. The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is located at the southern edge of the upland area, just north of the railroad tracks and the lowland areas of the Iowa River and Ralston Creek floodplains, which historically were dominated by industrial and working-class residential land uses rather than the civic, commercial, and middle-class residential land uses that dominated the upland area. The historic district is anchored at the south end by the former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Depot, built in 1898, and an associated brick building formerly used as a hotel, built in 1901. The rest of the district to the north contains former middle-class, single- family housing, nearly all of which dates to between 1879 and 1915. Several architectural styles popular during this period are included in the historic district, including the Victorian Eclectic and Queen Anne styles and the Foursquare form. The setting of the buildings has changed considerably in recent decades. During the historic district's period of significance, middle class housing predominated to the east, west, and north of the district, while industrial buildings and working-class housing were built south of the railroad tracks. The replacement of older buildings in this neighborhood by modem civic, commercial, and apartment buildings progressed steadily during the mid- to late twentieth century, but demolition of the neighborhood's older buildings kicked into high gear in 2009 when the City of Iowa City targeted this area for redevelopment as part of the Riverfmnt Crossings District. This has resulted in the demolition within the past few years of several important historic buildings within a block or two of the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District, and their replacement by modern multi -story commercial and apartment/condominium buildings. As a result, the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is the last surviving island of historic buildings in the Near Southside neighborhood. It is surrounded on all sides by modern buildings, parking lots, and a handful of substantially altered older buildings. The historic district contains 14 buildings, of which 10 are contributing and four are noncontributing. One of the contributing buildings, the railroad depot, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable.) (Iowa SHPO Additional Instructions: After the main Narrative Description, discuss any physical alterations since the period of significance under the subheading Alterations, and the seven aspects of integrity as it applies to the resource in a Statement of Integrity with each aspect discussed in its own paragraph.) Narrative Description The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is a small historic district in the Near Southside neighborhood of Iowa City, Iowa (Figures 1-4). Iowa City was established in 1839 as Iowa's territorial capital, and a year later it also became the county seat of Johnson County. The oldest part of the city is located on a low bluff lying east of the Iowa River and just south of a sharp curve in the river as it flows downstream from the northwest. The only other principal body of water in the original town is Ralston Creek, which flows in a southwesterly direction to join the Iowa River about a mile south of the downtown. The historical land uses in the older sections of the city are fairly sharply divided between the lowland areas of the Iowa River and Ralston Creek floodplains and the upland areas between those floodplains and east of Ralston Creek. The upland areas contained the government and state university buildings, central business district, and a variety of residential neighborhoods. The floodplain was generally home to industrial buildings and lower -end rental housing. Section 7 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Although the Iowa River and Ralston Creek form the principal natural boundaries in the historic core of Iowa City, another boundary that has existed for most of the history of the city has been the alignment of the railroad known for most of the city's history as the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. The tracks of this railroad were extended in 1855 to Iowa City, where they terminated at the original location of the railroad passenger and freight depots, about four blocks east of the location of the 1898 passenger depot that is included in the nominated district. Within a few years after 1855, the tracks were extended west to cross the Iowa River roughly halfway between the downtown and the confluence of Ralston Creek and the Iowa River. In the Near Southside neighborhood, located in the blocks south of the central business district, the railroad extended across the southern tip of the upland area between the two floodplains. The areas north and south of the railroad tracks were therefore separated by both a natural topographic boundary and a man-made boundary. While some middle class housing was also built on the floodplain, the river bluff formed both a natural boundary and a fairly stark social demarcation line on the city's south side. The nominated district is located entirely on the upland area between the Iowa River and Ralston Creek floodplains, and all of the 14 properties in the district are located north of the railroad tracks, which form the south boundary of the district. The nominated district includes the former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad passenger depot located on Wright Street, built in 1898 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982; an associated lunch room and hotel, built in 1899 and 1901, respectively; and a cluster of nearby residences built between 1879 and 1915. The residences are typically two stories in height and reflect Late Victorian architectural influences, particularly those of the Queen Anne style. Most of the buildings in the historic district are of frame construction, but the railroad depot, railroad hotel, and one house are constructed of brick. Mature deciduous trees line both sides of the 600 block of S. Clinton Street, where the majority of the buildings in the historic district are located. Fewer trees are located along Prentiss Street or Wright Street, and none are located on or in front of the properties that line the east edge of the historic district. The following table lists the properties in the nominated historic district by street address. It includes a thumbnail photograph of each property, the resource name, its date of construction, and whether or not it is a contributing resource in the nominated historic district. Information on the known architects and builders of the properties in the nominated district is presented in another table below. Narrative descriptions and histories of each property are included in the narrative sections below rather than in table form. In general, a resource is counted as contributing in the historic district if it was built during the period of significance; retains, with only minor exceptions, its massing, roofline and fenestration pattern from the period of significance; and displays at least some of the construction materials and architectural details that it displayed during the period of significance. A resource may have compromised integrity but still meet these minimal integrity requirements if, on balance, it conveys enough of its significance to contribute to the historic character of the district. The only exception to this general rule is the former Depot Lunch Room at 114 Wright Street. The changes that have been made to the siding, roofline, and fenestration of this building are sufficient to make it a noncontributing resource based on the guidelines listed above. However, it is included here as a contributing resource under Criterion A because of its importance as a railroad -related building. It remains standing in its original location opposite the railroad passenger depot that provided its customers, and it retains sufficient integrity (much of its massing and roofline, and its overall fenestration pattern) from the period when it was used as a lunch room to be able to convey its significance. Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Foam NIPS Foam 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Properties in the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Street Address Thumbnail Photo Resource Name Date of Contributine or 530 S. Clinton St. Paine, House AgL�':...•1.r �. 604 S. Clinton St. t Lee, J. Walter and May Parvin, House I 11121,10MIJIM i1n, WIiiiVIIIIIIIIIII s Lewis, George and Orrilla, House 610 S. Clinton St. Beals, Homer and Mae, Rental House .y I 611 S. Clinton St. 612 S. Clinton St. 614 S. Clinton St. Davis, Thomas D. and Margaret, House Lindsley, Frank D. and Penena, House Donohoe, Ellen, House 1893 1879 1906 ca. 1953 1904 C (individually eligible) C (individually eligible) [a] NC NC 1907 (moved 1948) C (individually eligible) 1899 C Section 7 page 5 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Street Address Thumbnail Photo 615 S. Clinton St. 617 S. Clinton St. 624 S. Clinton St. 109 E. Prentiss St. 113 E. Prentiss St. 109-119 Wright St. 1 114 Wright St. Resource Abbott, Katherine, House Hotel O'Reilly Grady, Marian, House Lee, J. Walter and May Imo. Parvin, House II Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot Depot Lunch Room Contributing or NC 1907 (moved 1914) C 1901 1915 ca. 1898 1898 1899 C (individually eligible) C NC C (NRHP listed 1982) Cy Section 7 page 6 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property C Properties in the Clinton Street and Railroad District Historic District 530 S Clinton Street. Contributing. This 2'/2-story Queen Anne -style house, built in 1893, sits on a high foundation, which is composed of rough -coursed stone at grade level directly beneath three rows of large concrete blocks molded to imitate smooth -faced rusticated stone ashlar. The walls of the house are brick, typically laid in running bond except in the gable fields and in decorative panels. The roof is covered in composition shingles. The house has a pinwheel plan, with a central hip -roofed core from which multiple gabled wings project. A thick stone or concrete water table surrounds the house between the foundation and first story. The gable fields are typically brick, but the principal front -facing gable (which faces west) now has wide clapboard siding and a pair of modern windows, replacing the earlier gable field with a small Palladian -style window (Figure 5). The window sills, window lintels, and decorative elements in the segmental arches over the doors and windows are all constructed of either stone or molded concrete. The latter is more likely, considering that a mail order design such as this is not likely to have required specialized stone carving, but the exact material could not be confirmed during the field investigation. The house is notable for its many decorative features, in particular the decorative brick panels on the north, south and west facades; the carved foliate patterns in the panels between the upper window sash and the segmental brick arches above them in the principal fast story windows on the west and south facades; and the use of large stone or concrete keystones and corner blocks in the segmentally arched window and door openings on the principal first and second story windows. The decorative brick panels occur in three places on the house. A large panel is located on the front (west) facade in the second story over the front entrance, while a pair of much smaller panels separated by a brick column is located on each of the north and south facades between the second story window lintels and third story window sills. These panels are composed of a central checkerboard with alternating recessed and projecting header bricks, enclosed within a rectangle of decorative square bricks. Each square brick has one of two decorative patterns that alternate around the boundary. The foliate patterns in the panel between the windows and segmental arches consist of a central stylized floral design with stylized leaved vines extending from it in both directions. The molding over the principal fast story window on the west facade is the most elaborate on the house. It is capped by a large masonry panel rather than a segmental arch, and this panel, like the smaller wooden panels above the other windows, is carved with a stylized floral design different from the ones found elsewhere on the house. In the wood panel below it, in the space where the stylized flower design is found elsewhere, is the date "1893." It is not known whether this date is original to the house or was added later. Based on historic images of the house, the principal changes have been to the porches and front -facing gable.' The original front porch and a smaller rear porch on the southeast corner have been removed. The front porch has been replaced by a small modern deck, while the rear porch has not been replaced, and the two doors leading to it have been sealed. A small deck also serves as the present porch on the rear (east) facade, replacing an earlier porch (not shown in any known photograph, but shown on the floor plan reproduced here as Figure 6). The other major change, as noted above, has been the replacement of the original window and siding in the front -facing gable field with wide clapboard siding and modern (ca. 1960s) windows. The shed -roofed dormer on the north side of the same gable appears to have been added at the same time the change to the front -facing gable field was made. 604 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This two-story, Victorian Eclectic house, built in 1879, has a tile block foundation, according to the Johnson County, Iowa, Assessor's Office. The exterior of the foundation is now covered by stucco, so the material cannot be confirmed, although a file block foundation would be consistent with the date of 1915 when the house is said to have been raised (see Section 8 below). The walls are clad in clapboards, and the cross -gabled roof is covered in composition shingles. The house exhibits complex massing. The core of this house is a 2%2-story gable -on -hip central section combined with a cross -gabled L-shaped section on the south and east. The steeply pitched roof of the central hipped section is capped by a small gabled section with windows in the north and south gable fields. Two gable -roofed wings extend from the hipped core, forming an L. The principal gables face west and north onto Clinton and Prentiss streets, respectively, and a secondary gable faces south. The north -facing gabled wing ends in a Historic images of the house can be seen in Figure 5 and in Margaret N. Keyes, Nineteenth Century Home Architecture oflowa City (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1966), p. 105. Keyes calls this building the Paine-Penningroth House (pp. 103-104). Based on these sources — including a ca. 1947 photograph of the house included in Keyes, p. 105—the principal changes to the building were made between 1947 and 1966. Section 7 page 7 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State three -sided bay window. In addition, a small rectangular gable -roofed entrance wing extends from the northwest corner of the hip -roofed section at a 45 degree angle. A broad hip -roofed veranda extends from the west end of the north -facing gabled wing around the front of the house west and south to the south end of the west -facing gabled wing. The house is most notable for its Victorian Eclectic decorative details, some of which are similar to late Italianate features, but are typically more rectilinear and less robust. These include a decorative frieze band that extends around the house under the second -story eaves; decorative brackets in the three principal gables as well as in the gable of the smaller entrance wing; and decorative window and door surrounds, including fairly elaborate hood moldings that feature a variety of decorative details based on rectilinear motifs. Fishscale shingles in the gable fields of the gable -on -hip section are more characteristic of the later Queen Anne style than the slightly earlier Victorian Eclectic style used in this building. It is not clear whether these shingles were added later or represent an unusually early use of such shingles.' The windows on the house are typically tall, single or paired 1/1-light sash windows, which may be modern replacements. The front door is a modern single -leaf door with a sidelight and transom, which probably replaced an earlier double -leaf door. The front porch, probably the same one added in 1915, is much simpler in design. It features broad posts with inset panels and simple classical moldings, a solid railing, and no cornice or frieze decoration. It is not known to what extent the porch has been altered since 1915. 605 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This 2Y2-story front -gabled house, built in 1906, is an example of what Virginia and Lee McAlester call the Free Classic variation of the Queen Anne style' County assessor's records state that the house has a stone foundation. The foundation is painted on the exterior, so it was not clear during the field inspection whether the material is stone or concrete block. The house is clad in vinyl siding and has a composition shingle roof with flared eaves. The massing is somewhat complex, with three-story wings projecting from near the centers of the north and south facades, as well as a recessed area on the front facade from which a three -sided bay window projects. The north and south wings are capped by shed roofs that extend from the main gable peak and permit a nearly full -height room under the roofs. The wings also have cutaway bays on the first story. The house displays a variety of window types, although the majority are single or paired 1/1-light windows. Other types include a cottage window on the south side of the first story of the front (east) facade, a small rectangular window on the north side of the same facade, and an oval window around the corner from this window on the north facade. The windows have simple classical drip moldings. The front door is modem, and the windows may also be replacements, although they appear to be placed in original openings. Fire insurance maps show that a small one-story wing on the rear is original to the building. 610 S. Clinton Street. Noncontributing. This small, one-story house, built ca. 1953, is located to the rear of 612 S. Clinton Street. The house appears to date to the decade or two following the end of World War 11, and was probably built around 1953. It is a simple gable -roofed box with a smaller gable -roofed wing to the east. It sits on a poured concrete foundation and is clad in vinyl siding, although the original clapboard siding remains evident beneath the vinyl. Its gabled roof, which has close eaves and rakes, is covered in composition shingles. The front door is located at the west end of the south facade. The house has paired 1/1-light windows on the south facade, a one -light window and vent in the east gable end, and 1/1-light windows on the north and west. The smaller east wing is well supplied with roof vents; of the five vents along the north slope of the roof, three are located in the rear wing. 611 S. Clinton Street. Noncontributing. This three-story front -gabled building has been substantially remodeled from a two-story hip -roofed house built in 1904, details of which can still be seen on the north, south and west sides of the building. The original massing, roofline and front porch can be seen in a photograph published in 1952.4 The building rests in part on its original stone foundation, although the front section and rear wing both rest on modern smooth -faced concrete block foundations. The stone in the main part of the foundation is irregularly shaped and rough- 2 Imbricated shingles were rare but not unknown in 1879. Palliser's American Cottage Homes, published the previous year, includes one house shown with imbricated shingles in the gables and on some second -story wall surfaces; see Palliser, Pallister & Co., American Victorian Cottage Homes (New York: Dover Publications, 1990), Plate 27. 3 Virginia and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), p. 264. 4 "For Sale —Immediate Possession," real estate advertisement for 611 S. Clinton Street with photograph and caption, Iowa City [Iowa] Press - Citizen, March 14, 1952, p. 11. This photograph, and all other photographs published in the Iowa City Press -Citizen and its predecessor newspapers cited in this nomination, could not be included in the nomination because Gannett Company's fee for reproducing the images was prohibitive. Section 7 page 8 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State coursed at grade level, but three layers of larger and more decorative rock -faced stone ashlar separate the grade -level foundation from the frame superstructure. The building is clad in vinyl siding and has a composition single roof. Windows and doors throughout the building are modern replacements, including 1/1-light windows and a sliding glass door on the front facade. The original front porch has also been removed. On the north and south sides, original cutaway bay windows remain in place, with decorative brackets under the second -story overhangs. A stepped line on the north facade extending down the side of the building from the original second story cornice line to the ground level appears to indicate the former location of the front of the building, which has been extended to the front as well as to a third story. The north facade also has two non -rectangular windows that may be original. One is an oval window on the second story of the cutaway bay wing. The other is a round -topped window located just to the front (east) of this bay between the first and second stories, probably indicating the location of a staircase. All other windows on the house are rectangular. Original hip -roofed dormer windows are located above the two cutaway bays, although the dormers have been truncated slightly on the ends farthest from the exterior wall since the new third story has been built straight up from the original wall plane. The original wide cornice has been removed from the front section of the house, but remains in the rear section. An extensive set of modem wooden staircases and decks has been constructed at the rear of the building. 612 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This 2%2-story, gambrel -roofed building, built in 1907, sits on a smooth - faced concrete block foundation that appears to date to the time the building was moved to its present site in 1948 (Figure 7). It is clad in narrow clapboard siding and has a composition shingle roof. The principal gambrels face to the north and south sides, although the front facade has a two-story cross -gambrel projection on the second story. This projection features the most unusual architectural detail on the house, a central semi -circular recessed area reminiscent of a shell. This shell-like recess is situated at the bottom of a slightly projecting gable peak. The windows on the house are typically 1/1-light windows under simple classical drip moldings. The two windows on the first story of the front facade are slightly broader than others on the house, though not quite broad enough to be characterized as cottage windows. Another decorative feature of the house is the one-story, rectangular bay window centered on the north facade. This bay window features a Palladian -style window above a basement entrance and a row of dentils under the eave. A second three -sided bay window (not rectangular) is located at the rear of the south facade. The rear facade has a two-story, cross -gambrel wall dormer. The side and rear gambrel roofs display open cornice returns. The posts, railing and deck of the front porch are not original to the house, although the roof (including the wide cornice with a row of dentils beneath it) appears to be original (see Figure 7). The rest of the porch is compatible in style with the house, with large square posts replacing the original posts (round posts with composite capitals), and turned spindles in the railing that appear similar to those in the original porch. A small rear wing is half enclosed, half an open porch with screened walls. Aside from the front porch and the 1940s foundation, the house appears to have undergone very few changes since it was first built. One second -story window on the north facade has been made larger, and the window in the gable peak on the same facade has been changed from a three-part window to a modern two-part sliding window. Some of the windows on the south facade may also have been changed to provide egress windows. On the whole, however, this house retains a high degree of integrity of design, materials and workmanship. 614 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This 2%2-story house, built in 1899, consists of a front -gabled section that extends the length of the house and a large cross -gabled wing with a gambrel roof that extends to the south. The house has a stone foundation under the front section and a rock -faced concrete block foundation under the rear sections. The house is clad in Masonite or a similar hardboard siding. The roof is covered in composition shingles. The roof on the front facade features a broad gable with a pent roof, while the gable roof on the rear has open returns. The gambrel roof of the large wing on the south extends down to the first story, and is centered over a cutaway bay window. A shallower but taller projection on the north facade, two stories tall, is covered by a small gabled roof. The eaves are fairly wide. Most windows appear to be single or paired 1/1-light windows with replacement sash, although the fenestration pattern appears to be original. Exceptions to the general pattern include a cottage window on the front (west) facade and a pair of small stepped windows on the north facade that likely represent the location of a staircase. The front door is a modern replacement. A rear porch is clad in beadboard siding and has a rock -faced concrete block foundation. The house retains its original massing, roofline, fenestration pattern, and some architectural details, and is therefore counted as contributing. However, its integrity has been compromised more substantially than most other Section 7 page 9 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State contributing buildings in the nominated district. Most significantly, the original front porch has been replaced by a modern deck. Other changes include the introduction of Masonite siding, the probable replacement of the window sash, and the construction of what appears to be a non -original projection to the south at the rear of the south -facing gambrel - roofed wing. 615 S. Clinton Street. Noncontributing. This three-story hip -roofed building, built in 1901, has been significantly altered from its original 2%-story appearance, as seen in a photograph taken shortly after the house was completed.' The house rests on a rock -faced concrete block foundation and is clad in metal imitation lap siding. Its hipped roof is covered in composition shingles. Although the house originally had projecting bay windows on the north and south facades and a gabled wall dormer with a Palladian -style window centered on the front facade, it is now a simple rectangular box displaying no original architectural details other than the foundation and front porch. Other than the front porch, the only departure from the rectangular footprint of the house is a small clapboard -sided cellar entrance located on the south side of the porch. Somewhat surprisingly, given the other changes to the house, the Colonial Revival -style front porch has remained essentially unchanged from its original appearance. The porch displays Doric posts, a railing with turned spindles, and a porch apron composed of vertical slats. The windows and doors on the house are modem, although the fenestration pattern and even the window dimensions do not appear to have been changed substantially. The windows typically have 1/1-light sash throughout the house. On the front facade they have snap -in muntin bars to imitate 6/6-light or 8/8-light windows. 617 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This two-story, hip -roofed Foursquare building, built in 1907, reportedly rests on a tile block foundation, according to county assessment records. While consistent with the date this house was moved to its present location, 1914, the foundation material could not be confirmed in the field because the exterior of the foundation has been coated with stucco. The house is clad in vinyl siding and has a composition shingle roof. Its windows typically have 1/1-light sash. The windows appear to be modern, but the fenestration pattern and window dimensions appear to be essentially unchanged. Original decorative details that remain in place include the central wall dormer on the front facade, which has open gable returns and a semi -circular window that appears to be original; three - sided bay windows on the north and south facades, each capped by a full pedimented gable; wide eaves; and a cottage window on the front facade. It is not clear whether or not the front door is original, since it is now concealed behind a screen door. The front porch foundation and deck appear to be original, but the posts, railing, and likely the gabled roof of the porch are modern. A one-story wing extending between the north bay window and the rear of the building is original. 624 S. Clinton Street. Contributing. This three-story apartment building, formerly a hotel, was built in 1901. It sits on a stone foundation that is covered in stucco. The walls are brick, reportedly a brick veneer over frame structure (see the history of this building in Section 8). The low-pitched shed roof slopes from the front of the building (west side) to the rear. County assessor's records identify it as a tar and gravel roof, but this could not be verified because the roof was not visible from the street. A limestone water table extends around the building between the foundation and the brick veneers. The brick walls are laid in running bond in most places, although a few sections were observed where either the stretcher bricks had broken or header bricks were used, perhaps to correct lapping errors in the running bond. On the front facade, the first story has a central door with transom flanked by a large plate glass window on each side. The windows, like most of the windows on the building, are capped by segmental arches. While the front door itself is clearly not original, it appears to have been placed in an original opening, since there is no evidence that the brick has been altered around the door. The second story of the front facade echoes the first story, with two large plate glass windows on either side of a central opening, in this case a much smaller window rather than a door. This window may have replaced an earlier door, based on the appearance of the mortar between the brick directly below this window, which is different from the mortar used elsewhere on this facade. The third story is similarly symmetrical, with a pair of 1/1-light windows flanking a small I/I-light central window. Crowning the front facade is a narrow cornice supported visually by a row of thick, squat jigsaw -cut brackets. It is not clear whether the building originally had a two-story porch as the present building does, but in any case, the present porch is modern. A photograph of the building taken in 1966 5 "New Residences Built in Iowa City in 1908," The Iowa City [Iowa] Citizen, January 13, 1909, p. 5. Section 7 page 10 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State shows a different porch, with square posts and asterisk -shaped railings rather than the round posts and vertical stiles with chamfered comers seen on the present porch (see Figure 8). Although the fenestration on the front facade is symmetrical, the same is not the case on the other facades. On the most prominent facade, the south, the windows are not only irregularly spaced on each of the three stories, but none of the openings aligns vertically with openings above or below it. Presumably the original interior layout determined the exterior appearance. The south facade now has five doors on the first story, although in 1966 it had only four. The fifth door was added immediately to the left (west) of the original third door from the left. As a result, the gabled roof that sheltered that door was enlarged to cover both doors. These gabled roofs with simple but decorative tmsswork were present in 1966, but they likely are not original to the building. They most likely date to the period between the time the former hotel began to include apartments in the late 1920s and 1966, when they are shown in the photograph. Also on the south facade are a deck and wheelchair ramp on the first story, and faded painted letters reading "Hotel O'Reilly" above the third -story windows. This lettering is modem, since it does not appear on the 1966 photograph of the building. The windows on the north facade are similar to those on the south, but no entry doors are located on that facade. The north facade also has a paired window towards the rear of the first story, an unusual feature on the building. The rear facade is dominated by a modern wooden staircase that provides access to upper story apartments. This facade also has an entrance to a basement apartment on the south. Like the north and south facades, the windows on the rear do not align vertically. Several of the openings have been sealed with brick, and others have been converted to metal fire door openings that lead onto the wooden staircase. 109 E. Prentiss Street. Contributing. This two-story Foursquare house, built in 1915, rests on a tile block foundation, according to county assessor's records. The exterior of the foundation has been coated in stucco, so the foundation material could not be verified on site. The house is clad in narrow clapboard siding. Its hipped roof is covered in composition shingles. Exposed rafter tails are present under the second -story eaves and the eaves of the two dormer windows. The windows on the house are typically 1/1-light sash, most of them single but some paired or tripled. Exceptions include a large cottage window with a narrow decorative upper sash divided into eight lights by vertical wood muntins on the first story of the front facade, and two nearly square one -light windows on the west facade. A modern two -light sliding window is located on the second story of the rear wing. Most of the windows and even the front door appear to be original, or at least compatible with the age of the house. The front door has three tall narrow lights with beveled glass over panels. The window surrounds have simple classical drip moldings. Centered on the front (north) slope of the hipped roof is a hip -roofed dormer window that appears formerly to have had two windows. The west half of the front facade of this dormer has been filled in with a plywood panel in which an air conditioning unit has been installed, while the east half contains a small 1/1-light window that appears not to be original. A smaller hip -roofed dormer window is located on the rear (south) facade east of the rear wing. This dormer has a single window opening that currently provides egress to a metal fire escape attached to the upper stories of the rear facade. The front porch extends across the front facade. Its low-pitched hipped roof is supported by a large square post at the two outer corners. The posts have inset panels and capitals with simple classical molding. A similar but shorter newel post supports the end of the railing on one side of the front steps. The railing is constructed of simple rectangular stiles. 113 E. Prentiss Street. Noncontributing. Although this house, built ca. 1898, appears to retain essentially its original massing and roofline, it displays only modem materials, so it is difficult to determine to what extent it has been changed. No historic photographs of the house were located, other than a 1966 photograph that shows just the northwest corner of the house (Figure 9). The house now sits on a tall smooth foundation covered in stucco, but the foundation material is nowhere evident. County assessor's records state that the foundation is stone. The house is clad in vinyl siding, and has a composition shingle roof. All of the windows are single or paired 1/1-light windows that appear to be vinyl. The windows have snap -in muntin bars to imitate 6/6-light windows. The complex massing of the house appears to be original. It has a hip -roofed core with a projecting gabled wing toward the north on the northeast corner, and a shallower projecting gabled wing centered in the west facade. Projecting from each gabled wing is a one-story, three sided bay window. The roof has three dormer windows, one facing north and two larger ones facing east. The two east - facing dormers may be later introductions. The fenestration pattern appears to be largely unchanged, at least from the 1960s, although two windows located near the front door in the 1960s have been sealed and covered in vinyl siding. The Section 7 page 11 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State south -facing rear gable is a clipped gable, although it is not known if this is original to the house. Because of the complete lack of original materials that would help to indicate which features are original and which are modern, this house is counted as noncontributing. If the post -historic materials are removed in the future, the contributing or noncontributing status of the house should be re-evaluated. 109-119 Wright Street. Contributing. NRHP listed 1982. A description of this former railroad passenger depot, built in 1898 and now used as an office building, was given in the 1982 National Register of Historic Places nomination form for this building, so the following description will focus on the changes to the building since 1982 6 The depot building is a long one-story building constructed of polychromatic brick, with dark red brick used for the base and light tan brick above the base. The hipped roof is covered in red clay files. A tower near the east end of the south (track -side) facade and a large porte cochere in the corresponding location on the north (street -side) facade are the most prominent architectural features of the building. The building was originally built as two separate enclosed spaces joined by a covered passageway. The main section on the east housed the ticket office, waiting rooms, and other spaces. The smaller section on the west housed a baggage room. Since the building was converted to office use, the covered passageway has been enclosed to create additional office space. The conversion has been very sympathetic to the historic character of the building. Two exterior wall segments have been constructed to fill in the original passageway. These wall segments are constructed of a dark red brick base and tan upper section that match the original materials in tone, and have windows that also match the originals. However, the finish of the new base in particular is sufficiently different from the original base that the newer material can be distinguished readily from the old. For this reason, the change since 1982 has not reduced the building's period integrity sufficiently to result in the loss of its National Register eligibility. 114 Wright Street. Contributing. Depot Lunch Room. This 2'/2-story cross -gabled former residence and lunch room, built in 1899, sits on a poured concrete foundation. It is clad in vinyl siding and has a composition shingle roof. Its somewhat complex massing is the result of several additions, most of them in place by 1926. The core of the house is a 2'h-story cross -gabled section built in 1899. Between 1912 and 1920, the re-entrant angle between the two cross - gabled wings was filled in by a two-story addition with a flat roof and a square footprint. While the use of this addition was not discovered during the research for the present nomination. the first story, at least, was likely used for expanded seating in the lunch room. Between 1920 and 1926, a one-story flat -roofed wing projecting towards the street to the south was constructed on the building's southwest comer.7 Again, while the use of the new wing could not be determined based on the available information, expanded lunch room seating was a likely explanation. Both of these pre-1926 additions survive, although the flat roofs of the two additions have been changed to low-pitched sloped roofs, presumably to aid drainage. The two-story section now has a shed roof, and the one-story addition has a low-pitched gabled roof. The only other section of the house is a broad but shallow rear wing that extends the width of the building. This wing has a low-pitched gabled roof. It is not clear whether this wing is an extension and remodeling of the rear wing shown on Sanborn fire insurance maps through 1948, or, as is more likely, it is an entirely new wing built within the past few decades. The fenestration of the building is entirely modern. The fenestration pattern has also been altered to some extent, with new openings cut for many of the windows. The three doors on the front and side facades are modem, but remain in the same locations as older doors shown in 1966 photographs (Figures 10 and 11). The window pattern has been altered more substantially. Only the two second story windows on the east facade, the gable field window in the front -facing gable, and the paired windows on the west side of the oriel window on the one-story front wing remain in the same locations and display approximately the same dimensions as their 1960s counterparts. The most notable changes have been the replacement of a cottage window on the first story of the front facade with a sliding glass door; the replacement of a paired window on the second story of the front -facing gabled wing with a broad three-part picture window; and the replacement of two rows of three windows on the front facades of the one-story wing and the second floor of the addition 6 James E. Jacobsen, "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Station," Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places InventoryNomination Form, 1982; copy on file, State Historic Preservation Office, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. I Sanborn Map Company, Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa (New York: Sanbom Map Co., 1912), p. 17; Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa (New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1920), p. 12; Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa (New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1926), p. 18. Section 7 page 12 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State above and behind it by two windows below and a single window above. In addition, several window openings on the east and west facades have been sealed. The front porch has been replaced by a small deck, although it remains in the same location as the former porch and retains the appearance of an open porch. A rectangular oriel window on the west side of the projecting front wing also remains in place, and retains two original knee -brace brackets that support it visually. A final change that has reduced its period integrity is the loss of the open gable returns in the three gables on the south, west and cast. Despite these changes to the building that have reduced its period integrity, the building is counted as a contributing resource in the historic district because of the importance of its historical association with the railroad depot. Although the roofline and fenestration have been changed somewhat, the building's massing, much of its roofline, and its overall fenestration pattern have remained essentially unchanged since its last expansion in the 1920s, as shown in historical photographs of the building taken in 1966 that predate the present changes (Figures 10 and 11). The historical importance of the building as one of three buildings in the historic district built in direct response to the railroad — together with its essentially unchanged massing and the retention of some of its original roofline and fenestration pattern —are sufficient for the building to be counted as contributing despite the changes described above. Alterations. The changes made to individual resources in the historic district are described above. Changes to the historic district's setting include the razing of older buildings and the construction of new buildings and their parking lots. While these changes have been ongoing for decades, they have increased in frequency in the past decade because the nominated district is located entirely within a larger area designated by the City of Iowa City as the Riverfront Crossings District, in which the city actively encourages redevelopment. As a result of this development pressure, other nearby buildings representing the same historic context as the nominated district have recently been demolished. These properties include the 1918 Henry Sabin School at 509 S. Dubuque Street, razed in 2015 as part of a flood mitigation project that included an earlier version of the present historic district nomination; a Foursquare house immediately south of the school at 118 E. Prentiss Street, demolished in 2014; a row of primarily pre-1875 residential buildings in the 600 block of S. Dubuque Street, all of which were demolished in 2014-2016; and a 1903 house at 703 S. Dubuque Street, an unusual example of a transitional house form between the Queen Anne -style "pinwheel plan" and the Foursquare form that had to be removed from the present nomination when the house was demolished in 2018. With the exception of the former railroad passenger depot, the buildings in the nominated district currently lack the protection of local historic district or landmark designation. Integrity. This district retains a moderate to high degree of all seven aspects of integrity. The district's buildings retain excellent integrity of location. All but two of the buildings in the district remain in their original locations, and the two moved buildings were moved during the historic district's period of significance — one in 1914 and the other in 1948. The district retains good integrity of setting. The topographical setting is essentially the same as it was during the period of significance, with river bluffs forming steep (but not high) slopes to the south, east and west of the nominated district, and a very gradual upwards slope leading north from the district towards the city center. The city street grid is also unchanged, and the former railroad depot and railroad tracks anchor the south end of the district. Other aspects of the integrity of setting have been compromised, however, particularly the loss of the majority of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century residences that once lined Clinton and Dubuque streets and the cross streets in the Near Southside neighborhood. These have been replaced by a 1974 federal government building that occupies an entire city block one block north of the nominated district, an associated parking lot that occupies nearly another entire block adjacent to the nominated district to the northwest, and a variety of modern building types, principally office buildings and apartment houses marketed to university students. Nearby buildings that would have been included as contributing resources in the nominated district --a 1903 house at 709 S. Dubuque Street, a 1915 house at 118 E. Prentiss Street and the 1917-1918 Henry Sabin School, for example --me not included in the district because they were demolished between 2015 and 2018. Section 7 page 13 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State The district retains very good integrity of design. Each contributing building retains essentially the same massing, roofline and fenestration pattern as it did during its period of significance, and all buildings, including the older but noncontributing ones, retain their original relationships to each other and to the nearby streets, alleys and railroad tracks. The only significant compromise to the nominated district's integrity of design has been the alteration of three older buildings to the extent that they no longer contribute to the significance of the historic district, and the construction of one building that post-dates the district's period of significance. The integrity of materials of the district is very good. Nearly two thirds of the contributing buildings retain their original siding materials and most exhibit few or no significant changes made since their period of significance. Most appear to retain their original foundation materials as well. The principal materials used are wood and brick for walls (vinyl for the buildings with modern siding), stone or concrete block for foundations, and modern asphalt shingles for roofs. The buildings in the district also retain very good integrity of workmanship, seen particularly in the detail work on the individually eligible buildings at 530 S. Clinton Street, 604 S. Clinton Street, 612 S. Clinton Street, 624 S. Clinton Street, and the railroad depot. Because most of the contributing buildings in the district have not been updated significantly in more than a century, and therefore retain essentially their original appearances and many original features from their period of significance, the district retains excellent integrity of feeling. Finally, as the last remaining collection of buildings representing the development of the Clinton Street corridor between the railroad passenger depot and downtown Iowa City around the turn of the twentieth century, and as the only collection of buildings in Iowa City that illustrates the importance of the railroad in the pre -World War II history of Iowa City, the district's integrity of association is also excellent. Section 7 page 14 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No, 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark'Y' in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for Areas of Significance National Register listing.) (Enter categories from instructions.) A Property is associated with events that have made a ARCHITECTURE significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT B TRANSPORTATION 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, period of Significance g or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. 1879-1948 D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates 1898 Criteria Considerations (Mark 'Y' in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: Significant Person A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) purposes. B removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. Cultural Affiliation (if applicable) D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. ArchitectIBuilder Carpenter, Orville Homer G less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. Barber, George Franklin, and Company Metzinger, John W. Wickham & Englebrecht Wickham, Bernard Alfred Smith, Henry C. Sheets & Freyder Hunzinger, John Henry Hotz. Jacob J. Section 8 page 15 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service t National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Statement of Significance Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (Provide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance, applicable criteria, justification for the period of significance, and any applicable criteria considerations). The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A as the only surviving concentration of historic buildings that represents the history and development of one of Iowa City's oldest neighborhoods, the Near Southside neighborhood. This neighborhood is important in Iowa City's history both for the historical and architectural importance of its working class and middle class housing stock and because it is the only neighborhood in Iowa City that illustrates the importance of rail travel in Iowa City's past. Three of the buildings in the nominated historic district are associated specifically with the construction of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad passenger depot in the neighborhood in 1898, and the name of the historic district was selected to reflect that historic connection. The district is also eligible under Criterion C for the architectural importance of its contributing buildings, built between 1879 and 1915, several of which are individually eligible for listing. The nominated district represents the last remaining vestige of the 1870s —1910s redevelopment of the Near Southside neighborhood as a middle class residential area. North of Prentiss Street, all but one of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century residences on S. Clinton Street have been removed. The exception is 530 S. Clinton Street, a contributing building in the nominated district. Along S. Dubuque Street, only two buildings from this period survive north of Prentiss Street: an isolated Foursquare house at 408 S. Dubuque, and a moved and substantially remodeled ca. 1900 rowhouse at 526 S. Dubuque Street. To the south of Wright Street, east of Dubuque Street, and west of Clinton Street, the land drops rapidly towards the floodplain. While a few isolated buildings or small groups of buildings built around the turn of the twentieth century survive on the hillslopes and floodplain, no other grouping is as large, coherent, intact, or architecturally impressive as the collection of buildings that forms the nominated district. Moreover, because the City of Iowa City actively encourages redevelopment in this area, the number of surviving older buildings in the Near Southside neighborhood is continually shrinking and the remaining buildings are under constant threat of demolition. The district's period of significance begins in 1879, the date of construction of the oldest contributing building in the district, and ends in 1948, the year in which the last contributing building was moved into the district. Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) (Iowa SHPO Additional Instructions: For properties not nominated under Criterion D, include a statement about whether any archaeological remains within or beyond the footprint of the property were assessed as part of this nomination under the subheading Archaeological Assessment.) Narrative Statement of Significance The Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A as the only surviving concentration of historic buildings that represents the history and development of one of Iowa City's oldest neighborhoods, the Near Southside neighborhood. Following local usage, this neighborhood is defined as the area located immediately south of the central business district, bounded roughly by Burlington Street on the north, the Iowa River on the west, Linn Street on the east, and the railroad tracks on the south. This neighborhood has roughly the same boundaries as the County Seat Addition, an area of Iowa City platted in 1841 to include the proposed location of the Johnson County courthouse. The County Seat Addition was the second platted area in Iowa City, platted just two years after the Original Town was platted in 1839. Because this area historically contained some of the oldest buildings in Iowa City, and most of its industrial buildings, the Near Southside neighborhood is important in understanding the development of Iowa City. While other historic neighborhoods in Iowa City survive, both in the Original Town plat and elsewhere, the Near Southside neighborhood illustrates important aspects of Iowa City's history that are not well represented elsewhere in the city. In particular, the importance of railroads in the history and development of Iowa City is best represented by the surviving buildings in the nominated historic district. The railroad was long an important part of Iowa City's history. From the arrival of the first railroad in 1855 to the closing of the last passenger depot in 1970, the railroad was an important —and for many years the principal —method for moving people, goods, and mail into and out of Iowa City. The presence of the railroad encouraged the development of local industries, which, together with the county government and the state university, have historically formed the economic basis of Iowa City. The earliest passenger depot on the line that later became the Chicago, Rock Island & Section 8 page 16 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Pacific was located approximately four blocks east of the nominated district, but the depot was moved to its present location within the nominated district in 1898. No nineteenth or early twentieth century railroad -related buildings remain on the site of the original Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific passenger or freight depots, although the tracks and right-of- way remain in use by the Iowa Interstate Railroad for freight transport. A second railroad built through Iowa City later in the nineteenth century, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern, has left even fewer traces. Its passenger and freight depots, formerly located along Burlington Street east of Gilbert Street, have long since been removed, as have the railroad tracks. For these reasons, the railroad -related buildings in the nominated historic district —the former passenger depot, a former railroad hotel, and a former lunch room for rail passengers --are the surviving examples in Iowa City that best represent this important historic context. The nominated historic district is also eligible under Criterion C for the architectural importance of its collection of middle class residential architecture. The residential architecture in the nominated district includes several important buildings that are both individually eligible for National Register listing and unlike any other buildings in Iowa City. These include a distinctive 1879 frame house built in the Victorian Eclectic style; an 1892 Queen Anne -style brick residence designed by the well known mail order house plan fire of George F. Barber & Co.; and a frame house designed in 1907 by Iowa City architect O. H. Carpenter. These buildings represent the second wave of development in the Near Southside neighborhood, described in greater detail below. While other neighborhoods in Iowa City represent a similar residential historic context —the development of middle and upper middle class residential neighborhoods within walking distance of downtown Iowa City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries —the nominated district is notable both for the distinctive architectural qualities of its individually eligible buildings and for its direct association with the history of rail travel in Iowa City. Despite its long history and its ability to represent many important aspects of Iowa City's history that are not as well represented in other neighborhoods —including the city's industrial history and its African American and Eastern European Jewish ethnic history —the Near Southside neighborhood has long been neglected in Iowa City's historic preservation efforts. While few if any buildings, and no historic districts, survive in the Near Southside neighborhood to represent these other historic contexts, the nominated district survives to illustrate the area's importance in Iowa City's railroad history and middle class residential history. History of Iowa City Iowa City was established in 1839 as Iowa's territorial capital, and a year later it also became the county seat of Johnson County. It served as the territorial and later state capital until the capital was moved to Des Moines in 1857. Iowa City continued to thrive after the state government left, in part because it remained the county seat of Johnson County, and in part because the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) remained in the city. A railroad linking Iowa City with the Mississippi River and points east was completed to Iowa City in 1855, further integrating Iowa City's economy with the regional and national economies. Iowa City's economy in its early years was based in part on the commerce and industry that developed from the city's role as a shipping point for farm products from the surrounding agricultural areas, and in part on its role as the seat of county and state government. Although some industries thrived for a time, the city never attracted as much industry as the city leaders had hoped, and most of the city's factories were abandoned during the mid -twentieth century. However, the presence of the University of Iowa, in particular, has continued to attract both residents and wealth to Iowa City, allowing its economy to weather economic recessions more successfully than many other areas.' History of the Near Southside Neighborhood The Near Southside neighborhood of Iowa City is the second oldest platted area of the city. The Original Town, platted in 1839, extended south to Court Street, four blocks south of the territorial capitol building, now a University of Iowa building known as Old Capitol. Two years later, in 1841, the County Seat Addition was platted as the city's second platted addition. This addition extended from Court Street south to Sumner Street (now Kirkwood Avenue), and from B For a general overview of the development of Iowa City focusing on its historic architectural resources, see Marlys A. Svendsen, "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa," National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Listing, 1992; copy on file, State Historic Preservation Office, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. Section 8 page 17 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Placgs Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State the Iowa River on the west to Linn Street and Maiden Lane on the east. The nominated historic district lies entirely within the County Seat Addition. The new addition was platted in part to set aside land on which to construct the Johnson County courthouse, later built on the block bounded by Court, Clinton, Harrison and Capitol streets, two blocks north of the nominated historic district. Three distinct phases of development of the Near Southside neighborhood can be identified.' The first lasted from the platting of the addition in 1841 until the 1870s or 1880s. During this period, the area was dominated by small, one-story residences, primarily occupied by workers, widows, and others of modest means. More substantial two-story dwellings were common during this period in the blocks immediately east of the court house, but rare elsewhere in the area. Commercial buildings were limited almost entirely to the blocks north of the court house, between the court house and the central business district. Few images of these buildings survive, and surviving examples are even more rare, but the limited evidence available suggests that most were one-story, front -gabled or side -gabled houses. Many, probably most, were of frame construction, but several brick houses and at least one stone house are also known to have been built in the area. The County Seat Addition formed the largest area in the city's First Ward, and the First Ward School House was built in the addition along S. Dubuque Street between Harrison and Prentiss streets, on the site of the 1918 Henry Sabin School (demolished in 2015). Almost no buildings from this first phase of development survive in the Near Southside neighborhood. The last remaining block that contained several relatively unaltered examples of first -generation Near Southside buildings —the east side of the 600 block of S. Dubuque Street —was demolished between 2014 and 2016. One building in the nominated district, 604 S. Clinton Street, dates to the end of this period (1879), but this building replaced an earlier building on the site, and it is a large, architecturally elaborate Victorian Eclectic building. It is therefore more appropriately classified as an early example of a second -generation building. The second stage of development of the Near Southside neighborhood occurred between about 1880 and 1940. This period saw the replacement of many of the smaller first -generation dwellings by more substantial two-story houses, constructed primarily before about 1925. This period also saw the first known non-residential buildings in the area: the 1898 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad ("Rock Island's passenger depot; an 1899 lunch room and 1901 railroad hotel, both located opposite the depot; and a scattering of neighborhood grocery stores beginning in the 1920s. No definitive reason for relocating the passenger depot in 1898 was discovered during the research for the present nomination, although one source seems to suggest that closer proximity to the downtown was a factor.10 This stage of development of the Near Southside neighborhood was influenced by the construction of the depot, but the depot was not the only factor effecting change in this neighborhood. The replacement of the small first -generation buildings by more substantial houses had begun slowly and in piecemeal fashion at least two decades before the depot was built. However, the great majority of the second -generation buildings were built between about 1890 and 1930, as this area of town became a fashionable middle class neighborhood. It was during this period, in 1917-1918, that the Henry Sabin School replaced the earlier First Ward School House. The Near Southside neighborhood became a fashionable middle and upper middle class neighborhood during the second stage of its development in part because of its proximity to Iowa City's downtown and the University of Iowa, and in part because of its proximity to Iowa City's major industrial areas, which lined the peripheries of the County Seat Addition along Maiden Lane, Burlington Street, and the floodplain at the south end of the addition. The importance of Clinton Street is illustrated by the fact that Clinton Street, together with the premier residential streets of Summit and College streets, were the first streets in Iowa City outside the central business district to be paved with bricks. Brick paving on Clinton Street was built in the central business district in 1895, extended two blocks from Burlington Street to the southeast corner of the courthouse square in 1897, and finally extended another two blocks to the Rock Island passenger depot in 1898, the year the depot was built.11 The section of Clinton Street within the nominated district was paved in 1898, which would have enhanced its attraction as a desirable residential location. The most expensive and 9 The following history was developed from a comparison of an 1868 bird's-eye view map of Iowa City (A. Ruger, Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa 1868 [Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1868]), Sanbom and Sanborn -Perris Map Company fire insurance maps published between 1892 and 1948, Iowa City city directories available on Ancestry, and Johnson County, Iowa, Assessor's records, as well as a pedestrian survey of the neighborhood. 10 Bob Hibbs, Iowa City, Postcard History Series (Charleston, South Carolina, and other locations: Arcadia Publishing, 2010), p. 100. 11 Irving B. Weber, "Streets of Dirt," Article 728, Historical Stories About Iowa City, Volume 6 (Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1990), p. 110. Section 8 page 18 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-001 a Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State architecturally impressive houses built in Iowa City during the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries were built in a handful of areas --College Green, Summit Street, Brown Street, and Woodlawn—but the Near Southside neighborhood in general, and S. Clinton Street in particular, competed successfully with other residential areas north and east of downtown to attract the next lower tier of upscale residential housing. The nominated district is the only largely intact collection of second -generation buildings remaining in the Near Southside neighborhood. Most second -generation buildings have been replaced, as described below. Two that were located adjacent to the nominated district and would have been contributing buildings in the district —the former houses at 118 E. Prentiss Street and 709 S. Dubuque Street —were demolished in 2014 and 2018, respectively. A few individual second -generation buildings survive in the neighborhood, and one small group of four such buildings survives opposite the county jail along S. Capitol Street. Most of these buildings have been altered more substantially than the contributing buildings in the nominated district, however, and none is evaluated as individually eligible for National Register listing. As a result, no other significant concentration of historic buildings outside the nominated district survives to represent the same historic context. The final stage of development of the Near Southside neighborhood, dating from about 1940 to the present, comprises the large-scale replacement of both first- and second -generation single-family dwellings by apartment buildings, office buildings, large governmental buildings (federal, state and county, including the University of Iowa), and parking lots. On S. Dubuque Street, some older residential buildings were adapted to commercial uses during this period rather than being replaced, but all of these were demolished in the mid-2010s. The former single-family houses and the former railroad hotel in the nominated district were converted to multi -family dwellings, typically apartments rented to university students and others. Industrial buildings and warehouses lined the periphery of the Near Southside neighborhood from the mid -nineteenth century to the mid -twentieth century, primarily along Gilbert Street, Maiden Lane and Lafayette Street. A few of these former industrial and warehouse buildings survive, but most were removed after the 1950s as the result of national trends towards industrial consolidation and deindustrialization. As automobiles increased in popularity during the mid to late twentieth century, the railroads suffered a corresponding decline in passenger and freight traffic, and other areas farther from downtown Iowa City became the most desirable residential neighborhoods. The railroad depot, which had been a hub of transportation activity during the second stage of development of the Near Southside neighborhood, declined in importance in the decades following 1940, bringing a corresponding decline to its two associated businesses: the railroad hotel and the lunch room. With an increase in the student population at the University of Iowa after World War II, many of Iowa City's older single-family homes —in the Near Southside and elsewhere —were converted to apartments. By the 1970s, many of Iowa City's older single-family residential neighborhoods near the university, including S. Clinton Street, had transformed into "student ghettoes" of multi -family student housing, often poorly maintained. South of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad tracks, on the Iowa River floodplain, some middle class redevelopment occurred similar to what was seen on the higher ground north of the depot. For the most part, however, the area south of the railroad tracks represents a different historic context, focused more on industry and on the residential housing of economically marginalized groups —African Americans, Eastern European Jews, and the working class generally. In any case, this area has also been substantially redeveloped, and today is populated primarily by mid - to late twentieth century commercial, office, and apartment buildings and their associated parking lots. The small historic district included in the present nomination represents two distinct but related historic contexts. The principal historic context relates to the development of the Near Southside neighborhood between the 1870s and 1910s as a premier area for middle and upper middle class residences. As described above, the nominated district represents the last surviving concentration of buildings representing this second phase of development in the Near Southside neighborhood. The second historic context relates to the construction of the railroad passenger depot and two adjacent buildings (one lunch room and one hotel) built as a direct consequence of the construction of the depot in this location. These three buildings were built in short succession, between 1898 and 1901, and represent a distinct secondary historic context within the larger context of the development of the Near Southside neighborhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The survival of three closely related buildings representing the city's passenger railroad history is unique in Iowa City, and believed to be rare elsewhere. The preservation of this small subcluster of buildings is recommended despite the loss of integrity to the former lunch room building. Section 8 page 19 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State While the trend toward the redevelopment of the Near Southside neighborhood had started before the railroad passenger depot was relocated to Wright Street in 1898, the construction of the depot and the paving of Clinton Street with brick transformed Clinton Street into the main route between the passenger depot and downtown Iowa City and the University of Iowa to the north. The redevelopment of S. Clinton Street north of the depot occurred primarily during the decade following the construction of the depot, and it was probably encouraged at least in part by the new role of Clinton Street as the link between the city center and the outside world, as represented by the railroad. Architects and Builders in the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Several of the buildings in the nominated district were designed or built by prominent local architects and builders, and, in one case, by a nationally known mail order architect, George F. Barber & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee. The known architects and builders of buildings in the nominated district are listed in the following table. With the exception of George F. Barber & Co., all were residents of Iowa City, Iowa. Details of their careers and known works are listed after the table. Architects and Builders in the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Street Address Architect Builder(s) 530 S. Clinton St. George F. Barber & Co. unknown 604 S. Clinton St. Wickham & Englebrecht Wickham & Englebrecht 605 S. Clinton St. unknown unknown 610 S. Clinton St. unknown unknown 611 S. Clinton St. Orville H. Carpenter Sheets & Freyder 612 S. Clinton St. Orville H. Carpenter Harry C. Smith 614 S. Clinton St. Orville H. Carpenter unknown (Thomas Hanlon probably cellar excavation only) 615 S. Clinton St. Bernard A. Wickham Bernard A. Wickham 617 S. Clinton St. unknown unknown 624 S. Clinton St. John W. Metzinger Harry C. Smith 109 E. Prentiss St. unknown John H. Hunzinger 113 E. Prentiss St. unknown unknown 109-119 Wright St. unknown (presumably unknown Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad architect) 114 Wright St. unknown Jacob J. Hotz Architects George F. Barber & Co. The following biographical sketch of George F. Barber was provided by the Knox County, Tennessee, Public Library: George Franklin Barber (1854-1915) was a remarkably successful practitioner of American domestic architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of his success was due to his early and enthusiastic adoption of national promotion of sales catalogues for his own architectural plans for houses and cottages, with a complete willingness to customize the plans for any customer. Barber was bom in De Kalb, Illinois, in 1854. He lived in rural Illinois and later near Marmaton, Kansas. His rural upbringing prevented him from receiving anything more than a nominal education. Barber had an early interest in horticulture and farming, but his work as a carpenter and builder, in partnership with his brother Manley DeWitt Barber, seems to have led him to a career in carpentry, building, and finally architecture. In 1888 Barber moved to Knoxville [Tennessee] for health reasons. He flourished as an architect in the rapidly growing postwar southern Section 8 page 20 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa city. Barber published over a dozen mail order catalogs for residential architectural plans between 1888 and 1908. A sudden illness led to his untimely death in 1915.11 A total of six houses representing three Barber designs are known to have been built in Iowa City, although there may have been others. All six were built in 1892-1893. The three designs were 530 S. Clinton Street (extant, contributing resource in the nominated district), 935 E. College Street (extant, individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977), and a row of four houses with identical plans built at the southeast corner of E. Washington Street and S. Linn Street (all non -extant). For more on these houses, see the discussion of 530 S. Clinton Street in Section 8 below. Orville H. Carpenter. Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938) worked as an architect in Iowa City from about 1898 until his death in 1938. He was Iowa City's first known architect whose background was strictly in architectural design and engineering rather than one of the building trades. For this reason, unlike the two other Iowa City architects described below, O. H. Carpenter worked solely as an architect and superintendent, not as an architect and builder. He designed some of the more prominent residential, commercial and fraternal buildings in the city between the 1890s and the 1910s, including the Elks Lodge (1909, now a commercial and office building); the C. S. P. S. building, a Czech fraternal building (1899-1901, now the Preucil School of Music); the Phoenix Block, a downtown commercial building (1903, non -extant); and a block of flats across from the university campus known as Dewey Terrace (1899, non-extant).13 He also designed numerous residences in Iowa City and surrounding areas, as well as school houses in many southeast Iowa communities. His known commissions (not all of them built) number some 236 new buildings and 40 remodelings, nearly all of them in southeast Iowa. Although he continued to design buildings into the 1920s and probably the 1930s, relatively few of his commissions from these later years are known. His last confirmed design was a building for the Muscatine Water Works in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1928. Additional information about Carpenter is available in the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District in Iowa City.14 John W. Metzinger. John W. Metzinger (ca. 1855-1929) worked primarily as a carpenter, but he also designed several buildings in Iowa City. In addition to the Hotel O'Reilly, he was identified as the architect of four houses and one building of unspecified type designed in 1898 and 1899, probably all in Iowa City. These other buildings have not yet been located, and indeed some may not ever have been built. The Hotel O'Reilly is the only known extant building designed by Metzinger. He is better known for his carpentry work. Between 1897 and 1909, he was identified as the carpenter or contractor on some 15 new buildings or substantial remodelings of buildings, mostly residential, in Iowa City,15 Wickham & Englebrecht. Little is known about the firm of Wickham & Englebrecht, although they designed some of the most prominent houses in Iowa City during their brief partnership between about 1879 and 1881. Even the names of the two principals of the firm are not known with certainty, although they were most likely George Wickham and Simon P. Englebrecht.16 George Wickham (1835-1905) came to the United States from England in 1870 and lived for most of his life in the United States in Iowa City. He worked as a carpenter, stair builder, and cabinet maker, and he 11 Knox County [Tennessee] Public Library, "George F. Barber Collection," electronic document, cmdaknoxlib.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/pl5136co113; accessed December 3, 2018. 13 Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa; draft biographical sketch and list of works of O. H. Carpenter, compiled by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa; copies on file, Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Iowa City. 14 Marlys A. Svendsen, "Gilbert -Linn Street Historic District," Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places Registration Foray 2004; copy on file, State Historic Preservation Office, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. u Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa. 16 These two were mentioned separately in contemporary newspaper articles that described their work as carpenters and joiners. However, in addition to George Wickham (age 45, born in England), who worked as a carpenter in 1880, the 1880 census of Iowa City also lists another household headed by Sydney Wickham (age 44, born in England), likely a sibling of George Wickham, who also worked as a carpenter. Similarly, while Simon P. Englebrecht (age 29, born in Germany), is listed in the 1880 census as a carpenter, his younger brother Carl (age 20), who lived in the same household, was also listed as a carpenter; see Ancestry, 1880 census. The majority of references to Englebrecht spell his surname "Englebrecht," but a few sources give his name as "Engelbrecht," which is the original German spelling. Section 8 page 21 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State was highly respected in his profession, based on contemporary newspaper accounts." Simon P. Englebrecht (ca. 1851 - post-1910) was born in Hessen, Germany, and immigrated to the United States around 1867. He was listed as a carpenter in the 1880 census of Iowa City. By 1910, and probably since at least 1895, he was living with his family in Custer County, South Dakota, where he worked as a stock raiser. is Between April 1879 and May 1881, local newspapers in Iowa City listed several prominent houses that this firm designed. These included houses for Judge Buttles, Mr. Lumbard, Walter Lee, and Mr. Hunt in 1879, Gustave Thiel in 1880, and John Lasheck in 1881. The locations of these commissions, other than the house of Walter Lee (which is included in the historic district nominated here), have not been identified, so it is not known if any of these other houses survive. It is possible that in some cases, Wickham and Englebrecht built the house based on the plans of another architect, but in the case of the Walter Lee house, at least, the newspaper account identified the firm as both the "builder and planners," which probably means they were the architects.19 Bernard A. Wickham. Bernard A. Wickham (1868-1935) was a prominent architect -builder in Iowa City between 1905 and 1913. A son of George Wickham (see Wickham & Englebrecht above), he was born in Southampton, England, and he came to the United States with his family in 1870. His father was a carpenter, stair builder, and cabinet maker, and presumably the main source of his son Bernard's education in carpentry and building. Although B. A. Wickham lived in Iowa City for most of his adult life, most of his known commissions -as either architect, builder, or both -occurred during the brief period between 1907 and 1911. These included, as architect, the C.O.D. Laundry building at 225 Iowa Avenue (1909, non -extant), and a concrete brick house built to be leased to the Tri Deft sorority at 505 Iowa Avenue (1907, extant). He is known to have designed some 43 buildings and three building alterations, and to have been the contractor on another 17 buildings and five building alterations. Not all of the announced designs were necessarily built, but probably the majority were. His best known work as a contractor was the 1908 President's Residence at the University of Iowa, designed by the Des Moines, Iowa, architectural firm of Proudfoot and Bird.20 B. A. Wickham moved to Grinnell in September 1914, and later moved to Des Moines. He appears to have suffered financial difficulties, and he and his wife evidently separated, since she had returned to Iowa City by 1920 while he was still in Des Moines. Wickham eventually was issued a passport in 1928 and moved to Colombia, where he died in Barranquilla in 1935 2t For more information on Wickham, see a biographical sketch of him written for the National Register of Historic Places nomination of the Samuel and Emma A. Ranshaw House in North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa .22 Builders Jacob J. Hotz. Jacob J. Hotz (1853-1916) was born in New York and came to Iowa with his parents in 1855. The son of a carpenter, he also became a carpenter and builder. He worked primarily on his own, but in the 1880s worked in the firm of Shinn & Hotz. He also served in public office, including as county recorder in the 1880s and as 17 Ancestry, 1880 and 1900 U.S. Census; Daily Press (Iowa City, Iowa), April 4, 1879, p. [41; "George Wickham Dies," Iowa City [Iowa] Republican, August 24, 1905, p. [3]. 18 Ancestry, 1880 and 1910 U.S. census. His daughter Helen was listed in the 1910 census as having been born in South Dakota ca. 1895, while his son Henry W. was born in Iowa ca. 1887. No information was found on his death date during the research for the present nomination. 19 Daily Press, June 4, 1879, p. [4]; June 24, 1879, p. [41; July 25, 1879, p. [4]; "City and State" column, Iowa City [Iowa] Daily Republican, December 12, 1879, p. [41; Daily Press, February 23, 1880, p. [4]; "How We Prosper," Iowa City Daily Republican, May 9, 1881, p. [4]. Their only known commission outside of Iowa City was a house near Tipton in neighboring Cedar County for Mr. Newson; see Daily Press, February 4, 1880, p• [4]• 20 Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa; Leah D. Rogers and Melissa A. Allen, "Ranshaw, Samuel and Emma A., House," North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, 2012, electronic document, npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAssevNRHP/12000814_text; accessed December 3, 2018. 21 "Wickham Moves to Grinnell," The Iowa City Citizen, September 7, 1914, p. 1 [unless otherwise noted, the newspapers cited in this nomination were all published in Iowa City, Iowa]; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories 1922-1924; 1915 Iowa State Census, Poweshiek County, B. A. Wickham entry; 1920 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Bernard A. Wickham entry (though probably only Emma Wickham and her daughters were living in Iowa City at the time); 1920 U.S. census, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines, Bernard A. Wickham entry; Rogers and Allen, "Ranshaw, Samuel and Emma A., House." 22 Rogers and Allen, "Ranshaw, Samuel and Emma A., House." Section 8 page 22 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State alderman of the Second Ward of Iowa City for several terms 23 He had several dozen known contracts for constructing buildings in or near Iowa City between 1897 and 1913, and probably had hundreds of such contracts over the course of his career in the city. One of his earliest projects was the construction of the city's water works. Starting in the 1890s, he was responsible for the construction of several of architect O. I- Carpenter's designs in Iowa City (see above). He is also credited with the design of a dozen or so buildings, including municipal utility buildings, schools and residences, between 1898 and 1901, and very likely designed other buildings in other years. 4 John H. Hunzinger. John H. Hunzinger (1882-1947) worked primarily as a carpenter and contractor, although he or his firm also designed many buildings in the 1910s and 1920s. He moved to Iowa City from rural Johnson County, Iowa, between 1904 and 1907. In 1915, he established the fine of J. H. Hunzinger & Co., architects, contractors and builders, with his brother, Frank E. Hunzinger, and William E. Wagner. John H. Hunzinger moved himself and the company to Burlington, Iowa, in 1916, and to Davenport, Iowa, in 1922, but the firm reincorporated in Johnson County in 192325 Before J. H. Hunzinger & Co. was established, J. H. Hunzinger is known to have built some 20 buildings in Iowa City between 1909 and 1915, all of them residential.26 Between 1914 and 1926, the firm worked on "dozens of new houses, several apartment buildings, store construction and remodelings, a major church remodeling, a new downtown mortuary, a fraternity house, a hotel remodeling, SUI [State University of Iowa, now the University of Iowa] hospital remodeling, and a stock pavilion."2' The firm was also heavily involved in the development of the Brookland Park Addition, a middle class residential subdivision, in Iowa City in the 1920s. The firm moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 192928 Sheets & Freyder. James M. Sheets (1828-1905) and Frank X. Freyder (1862-1944) were partners in the firm of Sheets & Freyder. As described by Marlys Svendsen, Sheets & Freyder was: a long-standing Iowa City building firm that traced its roots to the carpentry shops of J.M. Sheets and partners Bernard Gesberg and August Hazelhorst in the mid- 19th century. The men eventually merged operations as Sheets & Co. and became noted for their millwork production and contracting services. By 1897, the firm included partners J.M. Sheets and Frank X. Freyder and operated as Sheets & Freyder. Freyder listed himself as an architect in city directories beginning in 1909 through World War 1. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts for a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including the Iowa City Public Library in 1903 and at least five Iowa City churches.19 Although Frank X. Freyder later went on to design buildings as well as build them, the firm of Sheets & Freyder was evidently strictly a building construction firm. Between 1897 and 1905, Sheets & Freyder were the contractors for at least 16 residential buildings in Iowa City, several of them, like the Thomas D. and Margaret Davis House at 611 S. Clinton Street, designed by architect O. H. Carpenter.30 James M. Sheets was 75 years old at the time the Davis house was built in 1903, and he died two years later, so it is not clear to what extent he was personally involved in the construction of the Davis house. 23 Biographical sketch of Jacob J. Harz in Anonymous, History of Johnson County, Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa: no publisher identified, 1883), pp. 847- 848; "Jacob J. Hotz Dies Suddenly," Iowa City [Iowa] Daily Citizen, November 1, 1916, p. 1. u Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa. 21 Marlys A. Svendsen, "Melrose Historic District," Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, 2004; copy on file, State Historic Preservation Office, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. 21 Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa. 21 Svendsen, "Melrose Historic District," p. 19. 29 Svendsen, "Melrose Historic District," pp. 19-22. 29 Svendsen, "Melrose Historic District," p. 17; Find A Grave, entry for Franklin Xavier Freyder, Oakland Cemetery, Johnson County, Iowa; Ancestry, WPA Graves Registration entry for J. M. Sheets, buried in Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa; accessed May 12, 2015. 30 Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa Section 8 page 23 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Harry C. Smith. Harry C. Smith (1845-1922) worked as a carpenter and building contractor in Iowa City from the 1860s until his retirement around 1918.31 He was bom in Illinois, served in the Civil War, and likely moved to Iowa City shortly after the war. His obituary credits him with the construction of several important buildings in Iowa City, including "the former Coldren opera house, the Golden Eagle building, the New West Hotel [i.e., the Hotel O'Reilly], the Chemistry laboratory, the first armory in Iowa City, the I. X. L. building, and the City Hall. These buildings all stand as monuments to his name.."31 He built only five known residences in Iowa City between 1897 and 1907, at least three or four of which were designed by architect O. H. Carpenter.33 Wickham & Englebrecht. See their entry under "Architects" above. Bernard A. Wickham. See his entry under "Architects" above. Individual Buildings in Historic District 530 S. Clinton Street. This house was built in 1892 for Eugene Paine, a coal dealer (Figures 5-6). An announcement of the planned construction in a local newspaper reads: Eugene Paine will erect a fine house this summer on south Clinton street. D[.] [sic] F[J Barber, of Knoxville, Tenn[.], is the architcect [sic]. He is also the architect of the houses that Captain Price [sic] will erect.34 "D F Barber" is an error for George Franklin Barber, the well-known pattern book and mail order architect of Knoxville, Tennessee. Paine's house is pictured in the 1896 edition of Barber's house catalogue, The Cottage Souvenir (Figures 5-6). It is not known exactly when the house was completed, but it was most likely not completed until 1893. A house for Eugene Paine, presumably this one, was included in a list of building activity in Iowa City in 1893 published in a local newspaper.35 A date now on the house in the decoration over the west -facing picture window reads "1893." While it is not known whether this date was original to the house, it appears to be an accurate reflection of the date the house was completed. In addition to the three (later four) Pryce houses at the southeast comer of Linn and Washington Streets, one other house designed by George F. Barber is known to have been built in Iowa City. This was the Linsay House at 935 E. College Street (extant, NRHP), also built in 1893. It is now best known as the Bloom County House for its regular appearance in Berkley Breathed's syndicated comic strip of the 1980s, "Bloom County.s36 31 Ancestry, U. S. City Directories, 1822-1995 (Iowa City, 1868, 1901-1922). sz "Harry C. Smith Dies at Home of Daughter," Iowa City Press -Citizen, December 19, 1922, p. 5. 33 Databases of architects and contractors who worked in Iowa City, Iowa, 1897-1916, compiled from various sources by Richard Carlson, Iowa City, Iowa. 34 The Daily Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa), May 9, 1892, p. [3]. Captain Samuel D. Pryce erected three Barber -designed houses at the southeast comer of Linn and Washington streets, later expanded to four, with the last constructed as the comer building; see letter from Samuel D. Pryce to George F. Barber & Co. dated October 22, 1892, transcribed in George F. Barber & Co., Artistic Homes: How to Plan and How to Build Them (Knoxville, Tennessee: Geo. F. Barber & Co., 1893), p. 70. Pryce writes in this letter that "The contractors have nearly completed the three brick veneered tenement houses for which I received plans from you the month of April, and they are universally admired, not only for the pleasing exterior, but for the convenient interior arrangement.... I have not fully decided to build on the corner this season, but if I do so, I will write again." For Pryce's buildings, see also The Daily Citizen, May 3, 1892, p. [31; August 12, 1892, p. [3); Sanborn -Perris Map Company, Iowa City, Iowa (New York: Sanbom-Penis Map Company, 1892, p. 6; 1899, p. 10). Fire insurance maps show these houses to have had standard footprints for Queen Anne - style houses, with several bay windows and other irregular projections from the central mass. These houses were replaced in 1924 by the Joseph O'Leary automobile garage, which remains extant as a commercial and apartment building (Marlys A. Svendsen, "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa," National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Listing, "Architectural and Historical Resources of the Iowa City Central Business District, 1855-1950" Associated Historic Context, 2000, pp. E58—E59, included in Marlys A. Svendsen, Survey and Evaluation of the Central Business District, Iowa City, Iowa (prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission by Svendsen Tyler, Inc., Sarona, Wisconsin, 2000). 31 "Many New Homes," Iowa City [Iowa] Weekly Republican, January 3, 1894, p. [5]. 11 Margaret N. Keyes, Nineteenth Century Home Architecture of Iowa City, expanded edition (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1993), pp. 89-91, 142-143; Diane Langton, "Time Machine: Bloom County House," The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), January 25, 2015, electronic document, www.thegazette.com/subject/news/time-machine-bloom-county-house-20150126, accessed December 4, 2018. Section 8 page 24 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Eugene Paine (1839-1919) was a long-time coal dealer in Iowa City. Born in Vermont, he served in the Civil War in that state before moving to Iowa. He married Olivia Brockway in 1874. According to his obituary, "Mr. Paine entered the coal business in this city immediately after locating here and remainded [sic] in that business and was more or less active until the last. During the early days he was associated with his cousin, S. E. Paine, one time mayor of Iowa City, and later continued the business alone.',37 After Eugene Paine's death in 1919 (his wife Olivia had died in 1918), the house on S. Clinton Street continued to be owned by Paine heirs until 1959. The house was occupied by one of the Paine children, Mrs. Sarah Olivia Paine Hoffman (1883-1952) until her death.38 Sarah Paine, a 1905 graduate of the State University of Iowa, married Coleman Lovejoy Hoffman in 1906 and had one child. By 1910 they were divorced, and Sarah and her son Harry Hoffman were living at 530 S. Clinton Street with Sarah's parents. Sarah Paine Hoffman worked as a high school music teacher, and was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and other genealogical societies 39 Shortly after her death the house was divided into apartments, the use it has had ever since 1959. It has been owned by the Peaningroth family since 1962, and by Penningroth Apartments, Ltd., since 1980.40 604 S. Clinton Street. This house was constructed in 1879 for J. Walter Lee. A smaller house is shown in this location on an 1868 bird's-eye view map of Iowa City. The lot was acquired in 1875 by T. S. Parvin and his son-in-law, J. Walter Lee. In January 1878, Parvin sold his share in the property to Lee for $400. A year later, in 1879, the property had an assessed value of $1,200 41 In July 1879, two weeks after mistakenly stating that Walter Lee would soon build an octagonal house, a local newspaper corrected itself - Walter Lee is not building an octagon shaped house as we stated a few days ago, but one of unique and tasteful design, with the entrance on the comer. Wickham & Englebrecht are the builders and planners." The house was completed in the fall of 1879, and the Lee family had moved into it by December 1 43 John Walter Lee was bom in Illinois in 1842, and moved with his family to Iowa City in 1844. In 1868 he married May Parvin, the oldest child of Professor Theodore Sutton (T. S.) Parvin, an important figure in early Iowa history44 At the time of his marriage, J. Walter Lee worked for the dry goods and grocery firm of O. C. Donaldson & Co. He was later the junior partner in other dry goods firms, including Bowersock, Pratt & Lee (1878) and Hohenschup, Cree & Lee (1883)45 At other times he operated as an independent dry goods merchant, furniture merchant or grocer." 37 "Death Called Eugene Paine Aged Pioneer," Iowa City Daily Citizen, September 2, 1919, p. 4. 38 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; "Miss Sarah Paine Hoffman Dies After Long Illness," Iowa City Press -Citizen, May 12, 1952, p. 11; Iowa City city directories 1919-1952. 39 "Miss Sarah Paine Hoffman Dies After Long Illness'; Ancestry, 1910 U.S. census entry for Eugene Paine household. 40 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. 41 Roger 1868; Iowa City Assessment Book for 1879 (State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Iowa City); Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 40, pp. 99 and 613. 42 Daily Press (Iowa City, Iowa), July 25, 1879, p. [4]. The newspaper had earlier stated that "J. Walter Lee will soon begin the erection of an octagon shaped dwelling house on his Clinton street Iot" (Daily Press, July 12, 1879, p. [4]). 43 "Personal" column, Iowa City Daily Republican, December 1, 1879, p. [4]. 44 T. S. Parvin, burn in New Jersey in 1817, studied law in Ohio and accompanied Governor Robert Lucas to the Iowa Territory in 1838 as his personal secretary. He was involved in a variety of legal and educational initiatives in Iowa's territorial and early state history, including donating the books that formed the State Library, helping to form one of the earliest fully equipped schools in the territory, and being one of the founders of the Annals oflowa, the chief publication of the State Historical Society of Iowa. He served as a professor of chemistry and geology at the University of Iowa from 1859 to 1861, and as the chair of the Department of Natural History at the university from 1861 to 1870. He was also an extremely active Mason, helping to form the Grand Lodge of Iowa in 1844 and serving as its Grand Secretary continuously until his death in 1901. For more on Parvin, see William R. Kreuger, "Parvin, Theodore Sutton," in The Biographical Dictionary oflowa (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009), electronic document, uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DoWlsPage.aspx?id--297; accessed December 4, 2018. In the 1878 city directory, Parvin is reported to have lived on "Prentis[s] cor[ner of] Clinton"; see F. E. Owen, Owen's Iowa City Directoryfor 1878-9 (Davenport, Iowa: F. E. Owen, 1878). It is not clear whether this refers to the former house on the site of 604 S. Clinton Street or the house Parvin later occupied half a block to the west at 13 Prentiss Street. 43 Anonymous, History of Johnson County, Iowa, p. 860; Ancestry, 1868 Iowa City city directory; Owen, Owen's Iowa City Directoryfor 1878-9. 46 Burton Brothers, Burton Bros. 'Iowa City Directoryfor 1875-6 (Galena, Illinois: Burton Bros., 1875); Republican Company, 1840-1890 Semi - Centennial Iowa City Republican with Directory oflawa City (n, p. [Iowa City, Iowa?]: Republican Co., 1890); E. B. Johns (compiler), Directory of Iowa City, 1891-92 (Iowa City, Iowa: Republican Co., 1892); Ancestry, 1885 Iowa state census, Johnson County, Iowa City, entry for John Walter Lee. Section 8 page 25 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State He and his family (including three children who lived to adulthood) lived in 604 S. Clinton Street until about 1898, when he moved to a new smaller house on the same lot at 113 E. Prentiss Street (see below). By 1900, the house at 604 S. Clinton Street was rented to the family of James H. Wells, a travelling salesman 47 By 1906, the Lee family was living in Chicago, which is probably where J. Walter Lee died in 1907. May Parvin Lee survived until 1921 48 The Lees retained ownership of the property at 604 S. Clinton Street until 1906, when they sold it to Homer S. Johnson and his wife Bessie W. Johnson. The Johnsons apparently leased the house to tenants, since the house was occupied in 1908 by Emily D. Davis, the principal of the First Ward School, located a block to the northeast 49 The Johnsons sold the property in 1910 to Allie W. Leuz (1860-1929), the wife of Daniel Lenz, a painter, who lived a block away at 4 E. Prentiss Street.50 The Leuzes evidently used the house primarily as a rental during their 20 years of ownership. In city directories published between 1911 and 1930—generally published every two years —the house was occupied by members of the Leuz family only in 1915 (Daniel Lenz) and 1926-1930 (Allie I. Leuz in 1926 and 1928, Daniel C. A. Leuz in 1930)." In 1915, a local newspaper reported that the house of Mrs. Dan Leuz, Sr., at the corner of Prentiss and Clinton streets, had been raised and a new front porch added.12 The present tile block foundation and porch were most likely installed at that time. In 1930, the estate of Allie I. Leuz sold the property to Kate Wickham. Kate Wickham was a public school teacher for whom the present Kate Wickham Elementary School in Iowa City was named. She was also the sister of Bessie W. Johnson, who had owned the 604 S. Clinton Street property with her husband between 1906 and 1910. Kate Wickham did not live in the Clinton Street property herself after 1930, instead residing in her sister Bessie Johnson's household on Bowery Street. She leased the Clinton Street house to tenants: first to Mrs. Honora E. Leenay, who offered furnished rooms in the building during the 1930s, and then to Francis R. Bendure and his wife Nora Ellen Bendure in the 1940s.53 Kate Wickham agreed to sell the property to the Bendures in a contract dated 1946, the terms of which were completed in 1950, when the Bendures owned the property outright.54 Francis Bendure worked in various jobs at the University of Iowa in the 1940s and 1950s, including cook at the hospital in 1940-1942, dairyman in 1943, cook in 1946, and electrician from 1949 until at least 1959.55 The Bendures sold the property to the present owners in 1989.56 605 S. Clinton Street. This house was built for George Lewis in 1905, though it was possibly completed in January 1906. In August 1905, a local newspaper announced that "George Lewis is considering plans for about an eight room house, which he expects to erect yet this fall at the corner of Clinton and Prentiss streets.."57 Work on his "beautiful residence" had begun by August 14, 190558 It had been completed by mid -January 1906, when it was announced that Mr. and Mrs. George Lewis of Union Township were moving their household goods into their new house, and would occupy it in a few days 59 The newspaper articles on the construction of the house mentioned no architect or builder. In particular, despite the architectural elegance of the house, there is no evidence to suggest that it was designed by Iowa 47 Ancestry, 1900 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, entries for J. Walter Lee and James H. Wells; Omaha Directory Company, McAvoy's Iowa City Directoryfar 1899-1900 (Omaha, Nebraska: Omaha Directory Co., no date [ca. 18991). 08 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 90, p. 617; Find A Grave, entries for J. Walter Lee and May Parvin Lee, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. 49 Ancestry, Iowa City city directory, 1904. so Ancestry, 1910 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, entry for Daniel Leuz; 1909 Iowa City city directory. 51 Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1911-1930. 12 "A Million Dollar Improvement Record Made in Iowa City for the Year 1915—Big Bridge, Paving, Residences, University," Iowa City Citizen, November 12, 1915, p. 5. However, Sanborn fire insurance maps do not show the new porch (which was either the present porch or an earlier porch with the same footprint) until 1926; the 1920 map still shows the older, smaller porch. It is not clear whether the 1915 porch had the same footprint as the previous porch, and the present porch was not built until the 1920s, or whether the 1920 Sanborn map is in error. sa Ancestry, 1930 and 1940 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Homer S. and Bessie W. Johnson entries; Iowa City city directories, 1932-1949. 54 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 187, p. 332; Deed Book 210, p. 441. ss Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1940-1959; 1940 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Francis Bendure entry. 56 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. 57 "Briefs" column, The Iowa Citizen, August 11, 1905, p. 1. sa "Briefs" column, The Iowa Citizen, August 14, 1905, p. [8]. 59 "Briefs" column, The Iowa Citizen, January 19, 1906, p. [5]. Section 8 page 26 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State City architect O. H. Carpenter, who designed many of the more architecturally impressive middle class residences in the Near Southside neighborhood, and elsewhere in Iowa City, during this period. George Lewis worked as a stockbuyer in 1908. In 1910, he and his wife Orrilla sold the house at 605 S. Clinton Street to John U. Plank. Plank and a subsequent owner, Stephen A. Buckner, owned the house for only three years between them. During this time, one of the tenants was the Acacia fraternity (1911). In 1913, Buckner sold the property to Emma B. Cooke 60 Emma B. Cooke (1866-1935) was the wife of James Stuart Cooke (1862-1948), who worked as a cattle buyer in Independence, Iowa, in 1900, and a carpenter in Iowa City in 1910. The Cookes had divorced by 1915.61 Emma Cooke is not known to have had an occupation. City directories list her as the, occupant of the house at 605 S. Clinton Street in 1915, 1918, 1922 and 1926, but not in 1919, 1924, or 1928 on. She may have moved to live with family members from time to time, and rented out her Clinton Street house at those times. In 1930, she lived in Mason City with her daughter, who worked as a school teacher.62 After Emma Cooke's death, the property was sold in a sheriff's sale in 1939 to Annie E. Griffin. Griffin did not live in the house herself, but leased it to Thomas J. Delaney, who was listed as the resident in city directories from 1940 through 1943. He worked as a janitor in 1940, and as a clerk and later bartender at Dunkel's Cigar Store in 1942 and 1943. In 1944, Griffin sold the property to Wayne S. and Helen M. Putnam. Wayne Putnam owned Putnam Welding, Machine and Foundry Service in Iowa City, during the 1940s and 1950s, at least.` The Putnams sold the property in 1970.64 It has likely been used as an apartment house since that time. 610 S. Clinton Street. Although the county assessor dates this building to 1960, it was more likely built between 1952 and 1954, when the address first appears in Iowa City city directories. In 1954, it was occupied by Mrs. Beryl M. Douglas, who in 1952 and earlier had lived nearby on the same block at 119 E. Prentiss Street. She was a bindery worker at the Economy Advertising Company. The house is situated to the rear of 612 S. Clinton Street, which was moved to its present location in 1948 (see below). Mrs. Douglas lived in the house at least through 1959, but she appears never to have owned the property.5 The house appears always to have been under the same ownership as 612 S. Clinton Street. 611 S. Clinton Street. This house was built in 1903 for Thomas D. Davis, and was completed in early 1904. In August 1903, a local newspaper reported that "Plans are being made by architect [O. H.] Carpenter for a modern ten room house for T. D. Davis to be erected at the comer of Prentis [sic] and Clinton. The house when completed will be one of the most convenient and modem of its size in the city. Mr. Davis will use the house for a residence."" The contract for constructing the house was let on September 9, 1903, to the local firm of Sheets & Freyder. It was announced at the time that the house would be completed that fall.67 The frame of the house was nearly completed by the end of September, and the house itself had been completed by mid -January 1904, when the Davis family moved into it 6E Although no image was located of the original appearance of the house, the building probably retained close to its original appearance at the time a photograph of the house was taken in 1952. This photograph depicts what were likely the original massing, roofl]ne, fenestration pattern, siding and front porch of the house. The photograph shows a two- story Queen Anne/Foursquare transitional house with a large double -gabled dormer on the front (east) slope of its pyramidal roof and a Colonial Revival -style front porch. The original massing, roofline, fenestration pattern, siding and 10 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, 1911 Iowa City city directory. 61 Ancestry, 1900 U.S. census, Iowa, Buchanan County, Independence, Stewart [sic] Cooke entry; 1910 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, J. S. Cooke entry; 1915 Iowa state census, Johnson County, Mrs. Emma Cooke entry; Find A Grave, entries for Emma Brown Cooke and J. Stuart Cooke, Oakwood Cemetery, Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa 61 Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1915-1930; 1930 U.S. census, Iowa, Cerro Gordo County, Mason City, Emma Cooke entry. 0 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1943-1959. 61 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. 66 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1952-1959; Johnson County, Iowa, Assessor, entry for 612 S. Clinton Street, electronic document, iowacity.iowaassessors.com/parcel.php7gid=371058; accessed December 4, 2018. 66 "New Residence," The Iowa Citizen, August 10, 1903, p. 1. 61 "Briefs" column, The Iowa Citizen, September 9, 1903, p. [8]. 66 "Work Progressing," The Iowa Citizen, September 30, 1903, p. [6], "Settled in Home," January 18, 1904, p. [8]. Section 8 page 27 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State front porch of the house were all changed between 1952 and 1971, by which time the building had attained essentially its present appearance.69 Thomas D. Davis worked as a clerk at Bruce Moore's hardware store from at least 1904 to 1911. No occupation was listed for him in city directories in 1915 or later. He had presumably retired, since he was about 68 years old in 1911. He died around 1935, and in 1936 his widow Margaret Davis sold the property to her children, who owned the property until 1944. The house was leased to Annie Fitzpatrick from at least 1940 to 1944. In 1944, the property was sold to Anna M, Julia and Bridget Fitzpatrick, the former presumably being the early 1940s renter of the same name 70 From 1955 to 1972" the property was owned by Gordon Glen Clausen, who operated the Clausen Nursing Home from the property from the 1950s to about 1971. He also lived in the house.71 The house was remodeled extensively at some point between 1952 and 1971, including the addition of a full third story, the removal of the front porch, and changes to the siding and windows.72 This was probably done in preparation for converting the house to a nursing home, although it may have been done during the time the building was used as a nursing home. In August 1971, a recovery center for alcoholics was opened in the building. It operated as the Gill Voss Recovery House until at least the late 1970s.73 The building was later converted to an apartment house, its present use. 612 S. Clinton Street. This building was originally located at 328 S. Clinton Street, and was built in 1907 for F. D. Lindsley (Figure 7). It was designed by O. H. Carpenter, a local architect who designed two other building in the nominated district: the T. D. Davis house at 611 S. Clinton Street (noncontributing) and the Ellen Donohoe house at 614 S. Clinton Street (contributing). The former Lindsley house has the highest integrity of design, materials and workmanship of the three Carpenter -designed houses in the nominated district. It was moved to its current location in 1948 when its original location became the site of a building for the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Farm Store (non-extant).74 A photograph of this house being moved was published in a local newspaper in July 194871 Franklin David Lindsley (1845-1909) grew up on a farm in Knox County, Ohio, then moved with his family to Galt, Illinois, where he became an agent for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. He later moved to Mt. Auburn, Iowa, where he worked as an agent for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad, and in 1882 moved to Iowa City to take a similar position with the same company (later absorbed by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific). After working for three years around 1904 in the coal business in the firm of Foster & Co. (or Foster & Lindsley), he returned to railroading to work as an agent for the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City interurban railroad at Iowa City, a position he held until his death in 1909. He was married in 1872 to Penena Kite, and the couple had two children who survived to adulthood .71 Additional research on the house in its original location was not conducted as part of the present nomination. In 1948, a Sears, Roebuck & Co. Farm Store was planned for the original site of the house. One older house was demolished for this new construction, but the former Lindsley house was purchased by Homer and Mae Beals and moved 69 "For Sale —Immediate Possession," Iowa City Press -Citizen, March 14, 1952, p. 11; Myron A. Kautsch, "`Recovery House' Here for Alcoholics," Iowa City Press -Citizen, August 30, 1971, p. 2A. 70 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1936-1944. 71 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1954-1959. The last newspaper reference to the Clausen Nursing Home discovered during the research for the present nomination was published in January 1971; see Classified Advertising, Section 7, Iowa City Press -Citizen, January 19, 1971, p. 6B. 72 A photograph showing its appearance in 1952 is cited above. The house had attained essentially its present appearance by 1971; see Kautsch. 73 Kautsch; International Halfway House Association, Directory, 1977-1978 (Cincinnati, Ohio: International Halfway House Association, ca. 1977), p. 44, electronic document, www.ncjrs.gov/pdffilesl/Digitization/47437NCJRS.pdf, accessed December 3, 2018. 74 "Plan $50,000 New Building," Iowa City Press -Citizen, June 19, 1948, p. 2. This article notes that the southern of the two houses removed for the new farm store —presumably the Lindsley house —"is to be moved soon to a lot three blocks southward on Clinton street," and that the new building was scheduled to be completed by October 1. Another house on the site of the new building, built in 1869, was torn down rather than moved. This house was pictured in the newspaper two weeks later, although the photograph caption noted erroneously that both houses on the site were being tom down; see "79-Year-Old House Goes Down," Iowa City Press -Citizen, July 1, 1948, p. 1. 71 "Move House to Make Way for Farm Store," Iowa City Press -Citizen, July 20, 1948, p. 9. Based on the photograph, the original porch posts and railing were not on the house at the time it was moved, but it is not clear whether they were moved separately for reassembly on the new site, or had been removed at some point prior to the move. The original wood shingle roof had been replaced by the time of the move by a standing seam metal roof, and the brick chimney had been removed above the roofline. 76 Clarence Ray Aurner, Leading Events in Johnson County Iowa History, Volume 2 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Western Historical Press, 1912), pp. 496-499; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1901-1909. Section 8 page 28 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-MI a Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State to a lot they owned three blocks to the south, now 612 S. Clinton Street. An earlier house on this site, shown on fire insurance maps from 1899 through 1912, was removed between 1912 and 1920, and the lot remained vacant until the Lindsley house was moved onto it in 1948 77 Homer and Mae Beals owned this property from 1948 to 1976, when the estate of Mae Beals sold the property to the present owners. The Beals family did not live in the house themselves; city directories published between 1949 and 1959 list a series of short-term tenants. This trend has presumably continued to the present, since the building remains divided into rental apartments. 614 S. Clinton Street. Construction of this house was started in 1899, but it may not have been completed until 1900. Lot 7, where the house is located, was owned between 1891 and 1920 by James and Ellen Donohoe. James Donohoe died in 1894. A house (non -extant) had been constructed on the north half of Lot 7, on the site of the present 612 S. Clinton Street, by 1899, and may have predated the Donohoes' ownership.78 The present house at 614 S. Clinton Street was designed by local Iowa City architect O. H. Carpenter. In June 1899, a local newspaper reported that "Architect Carpenter has completed plans for an elegant new residence to be erected by Mrs. Ella Donohoe on South Clinton Street.s79 A week later, it was reported that Thomas Hanlon's workforce had begun digging the cellar for the house.80 No further reference to the construction of the house could be located. It is possible that the house was not completed until 1900, since Ellen Donohoe and her family are still listed at their previous address on S. Governor Street in the 1900 census. By the time the 1901 city directory was compiled, she was listed as living on S. Clinton Street, although no house number was given.81 Ellen Donohoe lived only briefly in this house, since in 1902 she commissioned O. H. Carpenter to design her a new house at 22 E. Court Street (non -extant). She had moved into this house by the time of the 1904 city directory.82 It is not known what caused her to live only briefly in her house on S. Clinton Street, but it was evidently not any dissatisfaction with the architect. Ellen Donohoe retained ownership of the house at 614 S. Clinton Street, leasing it to tenants until her death in 1919.B3 The house continued to be rented to tenants under all subsequent owners: Allie I. Lenz and her heirs (1920-1930), Wilbur R. Shields and his wife (1930-1946), John C. Organ and his wife (1946), Emil and Della Lacour (1946), members of the Hunter family (1946-1964), Jane Dare (later Jane Parker) (1964-1972, although she and her husband Edwin Dare bought the property on contract in 1954), and the most recent three owners (1972 to the present). The tenants of this property tended to have a fairly high turnover rate. It was rare for an individual to be listed as a tenant in more than one city directory, and the only tenants to be listed in more than two successive directories were also owners of the property: John C. Organ and June E. Dare. Curiously, John C. Organ was listed in city directories at this address as a tenant in 1936, and later as an owner in 1940-1946, but land records show that he owned the property for no more than a 12-day period in 1946.14 77 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Sanbom-Perris Map Company, fire insurance map of Iowa City, Iowa, 1892, 1899; Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps of Iowa City, Iowa, 1906-1933 (updated through 1948). " Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 67, p. 175; Deed Book 105, p. 467; "Found Dead in Ills Bed," The Iowa Citizen, February 2, 1894, p. [5]; Sanborn Map Company 1899. re "Local News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, June 19, 1899, p. [5]. so "Local News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, June 28, 1899, p. [5]. sr Ancestry, 1900 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Ellen Donohoe entry; Iowa City city directory, 1901. It should be noted that another Donohoe family with an adult named Ellen also built houses on land they owned on S. Clinton Street at around the same time, so it was necessary to match the newspaper references carefully with the right house and family, as determined by Sanborn fire insurance maps, deeds and census records. Michael and Ellen Donohoe had two houses with identical footprints built at 416 and 420 S. Clinton Street in 1900 and 1901, but these are believed to be the houses listed in newspaper references as built by local contractor J. J. Hotz for M. Donohoe (with the surname spelled differently in different sources); see "Marvelous Growth of Manufacturing and Jobbing," Iowa City Daily Republican, December 31, 1900, p. 2; "Year's Great Record," Daily Iowa State Press, December 31, 1900, p. [3]; "Good Year, Goodbye!," Daily Iowa State Press, December 31, 1901, p. [4); Sanborn Map Company 1906. sa "News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, November 11, 1902, p. [41; "News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, December 13, 1902, p. [41; "Building Notes," Iowa City, Iowa, American Contractor, November 22, 1902, p. 27; Ancestry, 1904 Iowa City city directory. ss Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Find A Grave, entry for Ellen Donohoe, St. Michael's Cemetery, Holbrook, Iowa. 84 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 181, p. 529; Deed Book 192, p. 30; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1936-1946. Possibly he bought the property as a contract purchase in the late 1930s and it was not completely paid off until 1946. Section 8 page 29 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Forth 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Based on the number of people listed at this address in city directories, the house was rented as a single unit until about 1928. From 1928 to 1934, it was divided into three apartments, but it returned to a single unit from 1936 until about 1952. It then housed two tenants in 1954, three in 1956, four in 1958 and five in 1959.85 The house continues to be divided into multiple apartments today. 615 S. Clinton Street. In October 1907, it was reported that Mrs. Patrick of S. Clinton Street had purchased the lot south of the T. D. Davis house (see 611 S. Clinton Street above) with the intention of building a "fine modern residence" on the property 86 The house was identified in an end -of -the -year building summary published in a local newspaper in December 1907 as a "ten room modern residence.s87 However, the house was evidently not completed until 1908, since it was also included in a 1909 retrospective of buildings in Iowa City entitled "New Residences Built in Iowa City in 1908." According to the 1909 description of the house, it was designed and built by local architect and contractor B. A. Wickham. The house was described as `large and imposing.... There are eleven rooms in the house which is equipped with a hot water heating system and all modern conveniences. The house is finished in oak and yellow pine."" Like many other houses in the nominated district, this house did not remain single -occupancy for long. Lucinda Patrick was last listed at this address in city directories in 1915. By 1918, and continuing for the next decade, the house was rented to a series of professional fraternities for students at the university: Delta Sigma Delta (dentistry) from 1918 to 1922, Chi Delta Sigma (technology) in 1924 and 1926, and Delta Sigma Pi (business/commerce) in 1928. After the last fraternity left the building, the owners leased the house to a series of short-term tenants until 1943. During this period, Lucinda Patrick sold the property in 1920 to F. M. Barnes and Timothy Coglan, although Coglan sold his share to Barnes in 1923. In 1943, the property was acquired by Carl T. and Dorothy D. Kirk. Carl Kirk worked as a carpenter. His wife Dorothy died in 1950.89 Between 1954 and 1956, Carl Kirk married again and moved to a house on Bowery Street. Through at least the 1960s, and probably later, the house at 615 S. Clinton Street was divided into seven apartments.90 The house remains in use as an apartment house, and has probably not changed uses since the 1950s. It is not known when the attic story was removed and replaced by the present full third story, although it may have happened when the building was first converted to seven apartments in the 1950s. The building was described as a three-story building in 1969, suggesting that the change had occurred by then 91 Since the number of apartments did not change between 1956 and 1969, it is most likely that the third story was added in the 1950s. 617 S. Clinton Street. This house was originally built in 1907 at 28 W. Jefferson Street for Mrs. Kate Abbott. It was described at the time of its construction as an "eight room residence," located at Jefferson and Madison streets, although it was actually the second house east of the corner.92 Seven years later, in 1914, the State University of Iowa acquired Mrs. Abbott's property in order to build a women's gymnasium, now Halsey Hall. In early October 1914, Kate Abbott sold her property on Washington Street to the university, and bought a house lot on S. Clinton Street. 3 As reported in a local newspaper in 1915, in a summary of building projects in Iowa City the previous year, "Mrs. Kate as Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1911-1959. ae `Briefs" column, The Iowa Citizen, October 2, 1907, p. [4]. s� "Big Building Season," The Iowa City Citizen, December 27, 1907, p. 1. as `New Residences Built in Iowa City in 1908," The Iowa City Citizen, January 13, 1909, p. 5. The photograph caption mistakenly gives Mrs. Patrick's initials as "L. F." rather than "L. J." The photograph depicts a house much different from the one seen today. The house was originally a two-story Foursquare house with a Colonial Revival -style front porch, a central gabled dormer on the front facade, and a three -sided bay window and dormer window on the north side of the house. Today the building has been raised to three stories, the bay window on the north has been removed, and the building has new siding and new fenestration. Oddly, given the other changes to the building, the Colonial Revival -style front porch appears to be original. s9 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1943-1956; "Mrs. C. T. Kirk, 68, Of Iowa City, Dies This Afternoon," Iowa City Press -Citizen, February 24, 1950, p. 1. 90 Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1956-1959; "Apartment Damaged By Fire," Iowa City Press -Citizen, January 10, 1969, p. 3A. 91 "Apartment Damaged By Fire," Iowa City Press -Citizen, January 10, 1969, p. 3A. 92 "Big Building Season," The Iowa City Citizen, December 27, 19072 p. 1. 9s Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 108:572, 594; "Condemn, If Forced to It," Iowa City Daily Press, July 3, 1914, p. 4; John Belden Scott and Rodney P. Lehnertz, The University of Iowa Guide to Campus Architecture (Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Press, 2006)5 pp. 45-46. Section 8 page 30 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service t National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Name of Property Johnson County, Iowa County and State Abbott moved her residence from W. Jefferson street to S. Clinton and remodeled and improved it extensively.s94 No information is available about the architect or builder of the house in its original location. Katherine M. Dinter, or Denter (1857-1943) married Cyrus W. Abbott (1850-1893) in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1875. Cyrus Abbott worked in a saw mill in Washington County, Iowa, in 1880, and in Iowa City in 1885. After his death in 1893 at the age of about 43, Katherine never remarried.95 Their son Edward graduated from the homeopathic medical department of the State University of Iowa in 1899, and practiced medicine in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, for the next five years.96 Dr. Abbott moved to New York in 1904, and to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1906.97 It is not known whether or for how long Kate Abbott joined her son for either of these moves, but she was back in Iowa City by 1907, when she commissioned the present house in its original W. Jefferson Street location. After the house had been moved to 617 S. Clinton Street in 1914, Kate Abbott remained in the house until her death in 1943. Between about 1932 and 1936, she also advertised furnished rooms in her house.98 At the time of the 1930 census, her household included three unrelated roomers, all single men; by 1940, she was living alone.99 After Kate Abbott's death, the property was inherited by her nieces and nephews, children of her brother Adolph D. Denter.100 It is not clear why Kate's son Edward did not inherit the property, but it is most likely that he died in 1939 and left no descendants; an Edward C. Abbott died in that year and is buried in Iowa City.101 Kate Abbott's nephew Chester Denter owned the property from 1944 to 1946, and he and his presumed father Adolph Denter were listed as living in the house in the 1946 city directory. At the time, Chester Denter was a factory worker in the Hutchinson Ice Cream Division of the Borden Company.102 The house was occupied by James F. and Bertilla Burke from at least 1949 to 1959. The Burkes bought the property in 1952. James F. Burke worked as an ambulance driver for the university hospital.103 The house remained in the Burke family (James and Bertilla Burke from 1952 to 1986, and afterwards their children) until 1994, when it was sold to its present owners. By 1958, a second unit appears to have been included in the building, and by 1973, the building was advertised as a triplex.104 The building continues to be rented as apartments. 624 S. Clinton Street. This former hotel, now an apartment building, was built in 1901 for Michael O'Reilly. O'Reilly, who worked at the time as a saloon keeper, evidently built the hotel on speculation in response to the construction of the railroad depot on Wright Street in 1898, but did not intend to operate it himself. Michael O'Reilly's purchased the site of the present building in March 1901 and immediately announced his intention to construct a hotel on the site.10' In April 1901, it was announced that "Harry Smith has the carpenter contract and John Osborne the plumbing contract on the brick veneer hotel for M. O. Reilly, after plans by J. W. Messinger."106 J. W. "Messinger" was almost certainly John W. Metzinger, an Iowa City carpenter and contractor who also designed buildings (see his biographical sketch above).107 The contract was let for $13,000.108 Smith's contract most likely 9q "Add Many New Homes in Year," The Iowa City Citizen, January 18, 1915, p. 6. 95 Ancestry, Iowa, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900, entry for Cyrus W. Abbott and Katie Dinter; 1880 U.S. census, Iowa, Washington County, Iowa Township, Joseph Shockley entry; 1885 Iowa State Census, Johnson County, Iowa City, Cyrus W. Abbott entry; Find A Grave, entries for Cyrus W. Abbott and Katherine Abbott, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1909-1940. 96 "Abbott, Dr. E. Carson," entry in Albert Watkins, History of Nebraska: From the Earliest Explorations to the Present Time, Volume 3 (Lincoln: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1913), p. 485. Kate and Edward Abbott were living in Black River Falls at the time of the 1900 census; see 1900 U.S.. Census, Wisconsin, Jackson County, Black River Falls, Kate M. Abbott entry. 91 "Abbott, Dr. E. Carson," entry in History of Nebraska. 91 Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1915-1943. 99 Ancestry, 1930 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Katherine Abbott entry; 1940 U.S. census, Iowa, Johnson County, Iowa City, Katherine Abbott entry. 100 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; various Johnson County census records showing the relationship of members of the Denier family to Kate Abbott. '0' Find A Grave, entry for Edward C. Abbott, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa 103 Ancestry, 1946 Iowa City city directory. 101 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1949-1959. ' a Ancestry, 1958 Iowa City city directory; advertisement in Iowa City Press -Citizen, March 28, 1973, p. 23A; Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, 1940 U.S. census, Iowa, Dubuque County, Cascade, lames Burke entry. 101 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 83, p. 340; The Iowa Citizen, March 29, 1901, p. [5]. 116 "Hotels," Construction News, April 27, 1901, p. 284. 107 This conclusion is based in part on the fact that no known architect or builder sumamed Messinger is known to have worked in Iowa City at this time, and in part on the fact that J. W. Metzinger had worked on at least two other projects for O'Reilly in 1900 and 1901, in those cases most likely Section 8 page 31 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State included the brick veneer as well as the carpentry work, since no mention of a separate masonry contract was made in any of the sources consulted. In late April, the site for the new hotel was cleared by removing an "old stone house ... [that] had been standing for more than half a century and was still in use until torn down.s109 A month later, the hotel was described as follows: The frame work of M. O[']Reilly's new hotel has been erected as high as the second floor. The indications are that rooms will be large and well lighted[.] The lobbies, dining hall, kitchen and pantries will all be on the first floor. The main entrance of the hotel will be towards the west.' 10 Lathing of the hotel occurred in June."' By early August it was announced that the hotel was almost finished: Michael O'Reilly's hotel near the C. R. I. & P. depot is almost finished. The second and third stories are done, and the fast will be completed this week. The opening day will be August 20 or thereabouts, if present plans do not fail. Mr. O'Reilly is in correspondence with W. F. Sanderson, until recently landlord of the St. Nichols, at Kent in Ohio, and the latter will be here this week, possibly to close a contract with the owner of the new hotel to run it."' However, the plan to contract the hotel operation to Sanderson evidently fell through, and the hotel did not open on schedule. In January 1902, it was announced that O'Reilly would open the hotel around February 1, and would operate it himself since he was unable to secure a tenant.11' Finally, the hotel was opened informally on March 2, 1902. At the time it opened, it was reported that "[t]he hotel has 30 fine rooms and Mr. O'Reilly will build as many more the coming summer."' 14 These additional rooms were apparently never built, since in August 1904 it was reported that the hotel had "28 sleeping rooms for guests and one large sample room for the display of goods shown by traveling salesmen carrying samples." The same 1904 article on the hotel also noted that: The house has all modern convenience[s] such as steam heat, electric and gas light, call bells, etc. There are also bath rooms on every floor and water, both hot and cold, in every room. The hotel is a most home -like place admirably located and is conducted upon the American plan [which includes three meals as part of the room rate]. The rates are $1.50 per day. Mrs. N. L. White is manager of the hotel, and she devotes herself most successfully to the comfort, pleasure and entertainment of those who are fortunate enough to be either transient or permanent guests at the O'Reilly Hotel.1' Beginning in 1903, Michael O'Reilly began offering motorized transportation between the two railroad depots in the city and the St. James Hotel in downtown Iowa City. The "Mobile" described below presumably traveled straight north on Clinton Street past several of the other houses in the nominated district: There has been much interest manifest in Michael O'Reilly's "Mobile," and many people of this city have been treated to a pleasant ride by the genial owner. Mr. O'Reilly announces that he will run the "Mobile" as a public conveyance hereafter and that he will charge 10 cents for each passenger from the St. James hotel to either the C. R. I. & P. or the B. C. R. & N. [Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern] depots [the latter located on Burlington Street between Gilbert and Van Buren streets], and a like sum for the return trip. All patrons of the Hotel O'Reilly will be given their passage free.... The "Mobile" is what is known as a "Wagonette." It is propelled by a 14-horse power steam engine and is one of the very latest and best to be had. This machine was shipped from the east to Chicago for the purpose of exhibition as a contractor ("Year's Great Record," Daily Iowa State Press, December 31, 1900, p. [3]; "Good Year, Goodbye!," Daily Iowa State Press, December 31, 1901, p. [4]). 101 The Iowa Citizen, April 19, 1901, p. [5]. 101 Daily Iowa State Press, April 25, 1901, p. [3]. 110 "News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, May 29, 1901, p. [4]. "1 "News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, June 17, 1901, p. [4]. 112 Daily Iowa State Press, August 5, 1901, p. [4]. 111 The Iowa Citizen, January 24, 1902, p. [3]. 114 "High -Class Hotel," Daily Iowa State Press, March 3, 1902, p. [4). 111 "O'Reilly's Hotel," Iowa City Daily Press, Midsummer Industrial Edition, August 5, 1904, p. [8]. Section 8 page 32 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State at the great automobile show held there last fall and it was purchased by Mr. O'Reilly in Chicago. It has a canopy top with side curtains in case of storm, is finely cushioned and is in every way convenient and excellent. It carries 12 people easily and can be run at a very high rate of speed.16 Michael O'Reilly sold the hotel property in 1907 to A. J. Olinger, an absentee landowner who lived in Harrison County, Iowa, in 1907, and in Fulton County, Illinois, when he sold the property a year later in 1908 to Thomas Metcalf.' 17 After Metcalf died in 1913, his son Mason Metcalf lost the property in a court -ordered sale to the Johnson County Savings Bank, which assigned the deed to Dan Donovan. Dan Donovan and his wife Margaret sold the hotel property in 1919 to Mary H. McCarthy. She was the first long-term owner of the hotel property, owning it from 1919 until 1943.11a The hotel was operated as the Hotel O'Reilly during most or all of the period when Michael O'Reilly owned it, from 1901 to 1907. It was probably under the next owner, A. J. Olinger, who owned the property from 1907 to 1908, that the hotel's name was changed to the New West Hotel, a name it retained until 1923. In 1923, under the ownership of Mary McCarthy, the name was changed to the Hotel Andrews, named after its new landlord, Mr. S. V. Andrews.119 It was reported at the time Andrews assumed his position as landlord in 1923 that he "plans to develop the Hotel Andrews into one of the best small hotels in the state. In addition to the regular hotel rooms, he will have a few thoroughly modern furnished kitchenette apartments." The building continued to be known as the Hotel Andrews until about 1935, when it was renamed the Cain Apartments. The new name evidently came from Dell and Tillie Cain, who in 1935 entered into a contract to buy the property, although this eventually fell through. The Cains occupied one of the apartments in the building from about 1935 to 1942.1zo The 1935 renaming of the building was evidently the culmination of a long-term shift in the business away from a hotel for rail travelers and towards apartments for longer term tenants. The 1928 city directory lists the Hotel Andrews as having three apartments (labeled A, B and C), while the city directories of 1930 through about 1946 list four apartments in the Hotel Andrews and Cain Apartments. It is not clear whether the building housed both short-term hotel rooms and long-term apartments throughout this period, or whether the four apartments occupied the entire space formerly devoted to hotel rooms. As late as 1958, only four people were listed in the city directory as living at 624 S. Clinton Street. However, in the 1959 directory, the building was listed as having 16 apartments, 12 of them occupied at that time. The conversion to 16 apartments was probably made by Mark Thompson, who contracted to purchase the former hotel property in 1957, and who transferred this contract to two partners in an investment company in 1962.121 The building appears to have remained in use as a 16-unit apartment building since 1959 (Figure 8). The current owners acquired the building in 1993.'22 109 E. Prentiss Street. This house was built in 1915 for Marian J. Grady, widow of William Grady. The Gradys had lived in the neighboring house at 113 E. Prentiss Street from about 1901 until William's death in 1910. The house at 109 E. Prentiss was built in 1915 by contractor J. H. Hunzinger. It was described as a six -room modem house, finished in red oak, and completed at a cost of $3,300.123 For more on William and Marian Grady, see below under 113 E. Prentiss Street. The house at 109 E. Prentiss Street was occupied by Marian Grady until 1923, when it was sold to Rose E. Landes. ""'Will Run in for Passengers," The Iowa Citizen, March 18, 1903, p. [5]. Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 98, pp. 280, 315 and 387; Deed Book 93, p. 197. 18 Find A Grave, entry for Thomas Metcalf, Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa; Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 87, p. 48; Deed Book 118, p. 106; Deed Book 178, p. 396. In 1935, Mary McCarthy and her husband entered into a contract with Dell and Tillie Cain (see below) to purchase the property, but this contract was terminated when the property was sold to Alfred and Emma Spaan in 1943; see Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 178, p. 395. 19 "blew West to Rank High as Hotel Andrews," Iowa City Press -Citizen, February 1, 1923, p. 11. 120 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 178, p. 395; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1936-1942. Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 189, p. 71; Deed Book 229, p. 338; Deed Book 231, p. 292. 122 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. "I "New Residences Recently Built," Iowa City Citizen, July 22, 1915, p. 5; "A Million Dollar Improvement Record Made in Iowa City for the Year 1915—Big Bridge, Paving, Residences, University," Iowa City Citizen, November 12, 1915, p. 5. Section 8 page 33 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Rose Landes was the widow of Dr. Lucius Johnson Landes, a physician who had worked in Grand River, Decatur County, Iowa He died in 1915, and in or about 1923, Rose Landes and her daughter Emma moved to Iowa City. They most likely moved because Emma, then aged about 19, had enrolled at the University of Iowa. By 1930, Emma Landes was working at the university as a student advisor, and she continued to work as a secretary or clerk at the university until her death in 1944. Rose Landes died 15 years later, in 1959.174 The estate of Rose Landes sold the property to Katherine LaSheck in 1963. The present owners acquired the property in 1983.125 113 E. Prentiss Street. This house was probably built between 1897 and 1899 for J. Walter Lee, who had lived with his family for about 20 years in a house on the same lot numbered 604 S. Clinton Street (see above). Between the 1897 and 1899 city directories, J. Walter Lee moved from 604 S. Clinton Street to 113 E. Prentiss Street. While it is possible that the Lees had had the house on Prentiss Street built earlier, and leased it to tenants before moving into it themselves around 1898, it is more likely that it was built for their own use in about 1898. No newspaper references to its construction have yet been located.126 The new house had been built by the time the Sanborn -Perris Company compiled its 1899 fire insurance map of Iowa City. The Queen Anne "pinwheel plan" form of the house suggests a construction date in the 1890s. The Lees lived in their new house only briefly, selling the property in 1901 to Marian J. Grady. She lived here with her husband William, who worked as a baggageman for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad in 1904, and as an express messenger in 1907 and 1909. William Grady died in 1910. Marian Grady continued to live at 113 E. Prentiss Street until 1915, when she had a new Foursquare house built for her use next door at 109 E. Prentiss Street (see above), 127 In 1915, Marian Grady sold the property at 113 E. Prentiss Street to Mary Murphy, who owned the property until 1943. Mary Murphy, widow of Edward D. Murphy, occupied the house through about 1940. In the 1910s and 1920s, she shared the house with up to five tenants, but from 1932 to 1940 she was listed as the sole occupant at this address in city directories.128 Subsequent owners in the 1940s and 1950s were also owner -occupants who apparently did not rent out any portion of the house to tenants. Mary H. Healy owned the property from 1946 to 1961, although she had apparently sold the house on contract to the next owners, Clarence C. and Iva Sibley, around 1953, since the Sibleys were listed in city directories as the owners from 1954 through at least 1959, the last year consulted. The Sibleys owned the property outright from 1961 to 1971, when they sold it to the current owners.129 It is currently listed in county assessment records as a three-family conversion, a use that likely originated with the present owners. A photograph taken in 1966 indicates that the massing, roofline and fenestration pattern of the house have remained largely unchanged since that time, although the materials have been entirely replaced or concealed behind modern materials (Figure 9). 109-119 Wright Street. A statement of significance for this former railroad passenger depot, now an office building, was given in the 1982 National Register of Historic Places nomination form for this building. That significance has not changed since 1982, so the argument will only be summarized here. The building is individually eligible under Criterion C as a good example of Victorian architectural eclecticism, employing a combination of Richardsonian and Victorian Romanesque styles that is unique in Iowa City. It is also eligible under Criterion A for its importance to the transportation history of Iowa City. Built in 1898, it was the second passenger depot for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad in Iowa City. It is the only surviving railroad passenger depot in Iowa City, and thus the most important representative of the significant historic context of railroad passenger transportation in the city. Railroad passenger service to the depot ended in 1970, and in 1982 two local attorneys purchased the building and converted it to office 1� Ancestry, 1910-1940 U.S. census records, 1925 Iowa state census, and Iowa City city directories; rind A Grave, entries for Dr. Lucius Johnson Landes, Rose DeKalb Landes, and Emma M. Landes, Leon Cemetery, Decatur County, Iowa. ub Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. 126 Edgar Smith, Smith's Directory of Iowa City and Johnson County for 1897-1898 (Rock Island, Illinois: Edgar Smith, 1897); Omaha Directory Company, McAvoy's Iowa City Directoryfor 1899-1900. 127 Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1904-1911; Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; "Wm. Grady Passed Away Yesterday," Iowa City Citizen, February 2, 1910, p. 1. 121 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1915-1940. 129 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books; Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1942-1959. Section 8 page 34 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-001 a Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State space.13' As described above in Section 7, this conversion involved filling in a former open passageway, but the change was made in a way sympathetic to the historic design and materials of the building, and has not significantly reduced its period integrity. 114 Wright Street. This combination house and lunch room was built in 1899 for William (Billy) Doyle and his wife Margaret. 131 As reported in a local newspaper in June 1899: Contractor [Jacob] J. Hotz is building a house for Billy Doyle immediately across the street north from the Rock Island depot. Mr. Doyle will occupy the house as a dwelling, and will also conduct a lunch room and dining hall.132 William Doyle and his wife Margaret owned this lunch room only briefly, from its construction in 1899 to 1901. In August 1901 they sold the property to Michael O'Reilly, who at the time was in the process of constructing a hotel on the lot adjacent to the west (see above). O'Reilly owned the lunch room property until 1907, when he sold both the hotel and lunch room properties to A. J. Olinger. This may be the building about which it was reported in 1904: "A new lunch room has been opened in the O'Reilly building opposite the Rock Island's Wright Street station. ,133 If so, it is not clear why it was identified as a new lunch room if a lunch room had existed there since 1899. If it is not the same building, it is unclear what building this new lunch room was located in. After O'Reilly sold the property in 1907, subsequent owners during the period of significance were A. J. Olinger (1907), W. A. and Augusta Phillips (1907), Euphemia Trine (1907-1917), Elmer J. Hamilton (1917) and his wife Ninna Hamilton (1917-1921), H. L. and Mary Campbell (1921-1925, sold by referee), Etta and Edward P. Lally (1925-1928), Harry Abbott and Anna M. Nortman (later married and known as Harry and Anna Abbott) (1928-1945), and Homer L. and Mae E. Beals (1945-1969).134 As discussed below, some of these owners are known to have operated the lunch room on this site, while others appear to have leased it to tenants. Occupants of the house and operators of the lunch room during this period included William and Minnie Burke (1911, 1915), John A. Donovan and Mrs. Margaret Donovan (1918), Mrs. Minnie Campbell and Harry L. Campbell (1919), Harry M. Campbell (1922), Anna M. Nortman (1924), and Henry A. Musack (1926). The business operated under the name Depot Lunch Room in most years between 1930 and at least 1959; exceptions included 1949, when the building was vacant, and 1952, when it operated as D. R. Davis Restaurant. Operators of the Depot Lunch Room were Harry Abbott and Anna M. Nortman (1930-1932), Harry Abbott (1934-1936), Charles A. Seemuth (1938), Homer L. Beals (1940-1946, also including Mrs. Mae E. Beals in 1940, Mrs. Mary T. Parrott in 1940-1942, and Mrs. Margaret T. Parrott -possibly the same as Mary T. Panntt-in 1946), Mrs. Lillian Bannon (1954), and William H. Phipps (1956- 1959 and probably later).135 William H. Phipps, who operated the lunch room in the late 1950s, bought the property from Mae Beals in 1969, and owned the property until 1983 (Figures 10 and 11).136 . The obituary of Annie M. Abbott in 1948 mentions that she and her husband operated Depot Lunch for a number of years.137 Archaeological Assessment. No archaeological remains within or beyond the footprint of the property were assessed as part of this nomination. 130 Jacobsen, "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Station." "' Johnson County, Iowa, Assessor's records incorrectly date this building to 1896, see Johnson County, Iowa, Assessor. 132 "Local News" column, Daily Iowa State Press, June 17, 1899, p. [5]. 113 "Local News Briefs" column, Iowa City Daily Press, November 26, 1904, p. 1. 134 Johnson County, Iowa, Auditor's Office, Transfer Books. "I Ancestry, Iowa City city directories, 1911-1959. 116 Johnson County, Iowa, Recorder's Office, Deed Book 330, p. 190; Deed Book 645, p. 327. 117 "Annie Abbott Dies at Home," Iowa City Press Citizen, April 14, 1948, p. 15. Section 8 page 35 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Acknowledgements. The activity that is the subject of the National Register nomination has been financed in part with Federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior. This program receives Federal financial assistance for identification and protection of historic properties. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color national origin, disability, or age in its federally assisted programs. If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above or if you desire further information, please write to: Office of Equal Opportunity National Park Service 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20204 The present nomination is adapted from an earlier nomination prepared in 2015 as part of a historic architectural survey of the Iowa City Southside neighborhood.138 That earlier survey report was prepared under the terms of a Memorandum of Agreement among the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Iowa Homeland Security & Emergency Management Department, the University of Iowa, the Office of the State Archaeologist, and the City of Iowa City, regarding the permanent relocation ofthe University of Iowa's School of Music building. That report was conducted as part of the mitigation for the planned removal of the Henry Sabin School in Iowa City, evaluated as eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. "I Richard J. Carlson, "Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District," Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, included in Richard J. Carlson and Marlin R. Ingalls, Phase I Intensive Historic Architectural Survey of the Sabin School and Southside Iowa City Neighborhood, Johnson County, Iowa, Technical Report 121 (Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 2015); copy on file, Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa, Iowa City. Section 8 page 36 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State 9. Major Bibliographical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.) American Contractor. Building Notes, Iowa City, Iowa. American Contractor, November 22, 1902. Ancestry. 1880 United States Federal Census (May Englebrecht, Geo. 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Sections 9 —11 page 41 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service I National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Name of Property Previous documentation on file (NPS): Johnson County, Iowa County and State preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested previously listed in the National Register previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey recorded by Historic American Engineering Record recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey Primary location of additional data: X State Historic Preservation Office X Other State Agency Federal Agency X Local Government X University Other Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa; City of Iowa City Name of repository: Department of Neighborhood and Development Services, Planning Office Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): Sections 9 —11 page 42 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property 3.75 acres (Do not include previously listed resource acreage; enter "Less than one" if the acreage is .99 or less) Latitude/Longitude Coordinates Datum if other than WGS84: (enter coordinates to 6 decimal places) 1 91.534411 N 41.653872 W 3 Latitude Longitude Latitude Longitude 4 Latitude Longitude Latitude Longitude Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the The boundary of the nominated historic district is shown in Figures 1-4. Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were The nominated historic district includes the NRHP-listed railroad depot (1898), two adjacent buildings associated directly with the depot (a former railroad hotel and a former lunch room), and a small cluster of former residential buildings (now divided into apartments) located along Clinton and Prentiss streets north of the depot. With the exception of one 1950s residence, all of the buildings in the district represent the second generation of buildings in the Near Southside neighborhood. All but one of the contributing buildings date to the period between 1893 and 1915, and are thus roughly contemporary with the railroad depot. This cluster of nearly contemporary buildings represents the last remaining concentration of such buildings in the Near Southside neighborhood. To the north, east and west, nearly all of the buildings representing the same historic context have been replaced by modem governmental, university, commercial or apartment buildings and their associated parking lots. Only a few other nearby buildings survive that represent the same historic context, and nearly all are isolated examples that are architecturally less elaborate and have been remodeled more substantially than the contributing buildings in the nominated district. The nominated district is a compact district that includes both sides of a street where possible. However, at the core of the district are several buildings that appear to be individually eligible for National Register listing-530 S. Clinton Street, 604 S. Clinton Street, 624 S. Clinton Street and the National Register -listed railroad passenger depot —as well as two largely unaltered examples of early twentieth century residential buildings that are strong contributing resources in the district: 612 S. Clinton Street and 109 E. Prentiss Street. 11. Form Prepared By name/title Richard J. Carlson/Architectural Historian date December 2, 2018 organization Office of the State Archaeologist telephone (319) 384-0732 street & number 700 Clinton Street Building email richard-i-carlsonguiowa.edu city or town Iowa City state IA zip code 52242-1030 Sections 9 —11 page 43 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: • GIS Location Map (Google Earth or BING) • Local Location Map • Site Plan • Floor Plans (As Applicable) • Photo Location Map (Key all photographs to this map and insert immediately after the photo log and before the list of figures). Sections 9 -11 page 44 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Photographs: Submit dear and descriptive photographs under separate cover. The size of each image must be 3000x2000 pixels, at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or larger. Key all photographs to the sketch map. Each photograph must be numbered and that number must correspond to the photograph number on the photo log. For simplicity, the name of the photographer, photo date, eta may be listed once on the photograph log and does not need to be labeled on every photograph. Photo Log Name of Property: City or Vicinity: County: Photographer: Date Photographed: Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Iowa Citv Johnson State: Richard J. Carlson December 5 and 7. 2018 Iowa Description of Photograph(s) and number, include description of view indicating direction of camera: IA JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0001 Railroad depot (109-119 Wright St., right), former lunch room (114 Wright St., center), and Hotel O'Reilly (624 S. Clinton St., left), camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0002 600 block of S. Clinton Street, camera facing north-northwest. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0003 East side of 600 block of S. Clinton Street, camera facing southeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0004 East side of 600 block of S. Clinton Street, camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0005 West side of 600 block of S. Clinton Street, camera facing southwest. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0006 617 (left) and 615 (right) S. Clinton Street, camera facing west-southwest. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0007 530 S. Clinton Street (center), showing modern buildings to north and east, camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict-0008 East side of 600 block of S. Clinton St. (right) and south side of 100 block of E. Prentiss St. (left), camera facing southeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict0009 109 (right) and 113 (left) E. Prentiss St., camera facing south_east. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0010 Former railroad depot at 109-119 Wright St., camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. Sections 9 —11 page 45 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NIPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa IA_JohnsonCounty_Cl inton StreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0011 624 S. Clinton Street (Hotel O'Reilly), facade (left) and south side (right), camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0012 114 Wright St. (former lunch room), camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0013 530 S. Clinton Street, camera facing northeast. Photograph taken December 5, 2018. IA—JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0014 604 S. Clinton Street, camera facing east. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0015 612 S. Dubuque St., camera facing southeast. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0016 614 S. Dubuque St., camera facing east-southeast. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. IA_JohnsonCounty_ClintonStreetRailroadDepotHistoricDistrict_0017 605 S. Clinton Street, camera facing northwest. Photograph taken December 7, 2018. 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 3 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 100 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. Sections 9 —11 page 46 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad i Historic District .�,__ a I.AFAYETTE ST Johnson County, Iowa il! Clinton Street and Railroad Depot L I Historic District 41.653872 N H RRIs 91.534411 W F � J r 0 55 110 220 — r 0 200 400 800 N !-�• - g Feet � r 4 • Figure 2a. Location of Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District, Iowa City, in relation to surrounding neighborhood. The Johnson County courthouse, shown here at the northwest corner of Clinton and Harrison streets, is one of the few historic buildings that survive in the Near Southside neighborhood outside of the nominated district. Base aerial photograph: 2017 aerial photograph (ISUGISSRF). Sections 9 -11 page 48 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District w l'114 OMB No. 102"018 Johnson County, Iowa Clinton Street and Railroad Depot � Historic District 0 41.653872 N 91.534411 W r L s 7 Fit. !r WRIGHT ST r M - -- - mpA :�p IYIGIGI.I I y � 0 20 40 80 0 70 140 280 h y Feet Figure 2b. Location of Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District, Iowa City, small-scale map showing individual buildings. Base aerial photograph: 2017 aerial photograph (ISUGISSRF). Sections 9 —11 page 49 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District I E PRENTISS ST. ' 605 fill O 615 U V Contributing Resource r-, Noncontributing Resource Approximate Scale 0 1 150 ft. I 530 604 10 11 _ 612 F6-1-01 614 624 11 Johnson County, Iowa 1E: � ' W ::1 FL Ci 613 m ` 615 ' 619 ' 122 WRIGHT ST. 109 ' IL�� 7 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District W u Figure 3. Map of Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District, showing contributing and noncontributing resources. Map created by Maria Schroeder. Sections 9 —11 page 50 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Name of Property t r 10 g OMB No. 1024-0018 Johnson Countv and Iowa r Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Hlstortc District 1 r y O a m a w * fi WRIGHI 57 lw--�� A Meters 0 20 40 80 r 0 70 140 280 Feet N Figure 4. Key to photos I-17 of the Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District, Iowa City. Base aerial photograph: 2017 aerial photograph (ISUGISSRF). Sections 9 —11 page 51 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Bnek Bendenee of BUGRATE PAIIPE, Imon cog, Ionia. Figure 5. Photograph ofhouse for Eugene Paine, Iowa City, Iowa, designed by George F Barber & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee (George F Barber & Co., The Cottage Souvenir, Fourth Edition, 1896, p. 116; available in the George F. Barber Collection in the Calvin M McClung Digital Collection of the Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tennessee, athttp://0mdc.knoxlib.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15136coll3/id/1791/rec/6; accessed April21, 2015). This house is now numbered 530 S. Clinton Street. Sections 9 —11 page 52 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Name of Property County and State DESIGN No. 151. LAY. TncxN SIZE. �2 32 x 56 feet, with stories 9 feet 2 — KI reW cru PAN 18x1q Ic Ro inches and 8 feet 2 inches, respect- L ull ively, and a cellar 7 feet deep under ero R n the entire house. BATH Ix7-c ItALL Al CLO TAtlILY )i M � land itM.. NOTES. Lo I�x'y Iz r.la c The above residence was recently �. erected in brick and handsomely fin- ICKAnaelt ished in choice hardwoods through- CNi.M9rn tz..ls 4 gyp. out at a cost of $52300; but as this t"`xr+ r ] included everything of the choicest HALE. kind, the price could be materially HALL reduced by using less expensive PARLOR materials. Mmy Mr.'Paine writes a very Battering letter letter to the architects about the p cLos eHA16x17.� PORCH results obtained, and d"4+ thinks he has a building hard to nprnoexxuw excel for the money expended. Oren g..L 116 Figure 6. Floor plan and other information on house for Eugene Paine, Iowa City, Iowa, designed by George F Barber & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee (see bibliographic information in Figure 5). This house is now numbered 530 S. Clinton Street. Sections 9 —11 page 53 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Figure 7. House built for Frank D. Lindsley and his family in 1907, in its original location at 328 S. Clinton Street (now located at 612 S. Clinton Street). From Clarence Ray Aurner, Leading Events in Johnson County Iowa History, Volume 2 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Western Historical Press, 1912), p. 497. Aside from the front porch and the foundation, the house in its present location appears to be essentially unaltered from the time this photograph was taken around 1911. Sections 9 —11 page 54 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024.0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Figure 8. Hotel O'Reilly, facing northeast, March 30, 1966. The principal changes to the building since 1966 have been the replacement of the front porch railings; the replacement of one window on the first story, south facade, with a door; and the replacement of the smaller gabled hood over the original door with a correspondingly larger hood over both doors. Also note that the faded painted sign near the top of the south facade that now reads "Hotel O'Reilly" was not present in 1966. Cropped from image number 2-3-2 in the Mildred Mead Collection, "Iowa City —Streets Residential " folder, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. Sections 9 —11 page 55 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-001 S Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Figure 9. 100 block ofE. Prentiss Street, south side, including 604 S. Clinton Street on west end, facing southeast, March 30, 1966. 113 E. Prentiss Street is the third house from the right. The parts of the house visible in this photograph indicate that that massing, roof ine and fenestration pattern of the house have remained essentially unchanged since 1966. Image number 2-3-3 in the Mildred Mead Collection, "Iowa City —Streets —Residential "folder, State Historical Society oflowa, Iowa City. Note that this image is misidentified on the envelope as "432, 422, 430 (?) S. Dubuque. " Sections 9 —11 page 56 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Figure 10. Depot Lunch Room, facing northeast, March 30, 1966. The massing and roofline are essentially the same as today, aside from the change in the two flat roofs to sloped roofs and the removal of the open cornice returns. Changes to the windows and frontporch have been more substantial. Cropped from image number 2-4-2 in the Mildred Mead Collection, "Iowa City —Streets Residential" folder, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. Sections 9 —11 page 57 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Clinton Street and Railroad Depot Historic District Johnson County, Iowa Figure 11. Depot Lunch Room, facing northwest, March 30, 1966. Note that the locations of the doors are the same today as in 1966 Cropped from image number 2-4-3 in the Mildred Mead Collection, "Iowa City —Streets —Residential " folder, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. Sections 9 —11 page 58 Staff Resort May 2, 2019 Historic Review for 317 Fairchild Street District: Northside Historic District Classification: Key Contributing The applicants, Mary and Dominic Audia, are requesting approval for a proposed alteration project at 317 Fairchild Street, a Key Contributing property in the Northside Historic District. The project consists of the addition of a deck and covered porch at the rear of the house and the removal of the exterior cellar door. Applicable Regulations and Guidelines: 4.0 Iowa CityFlistoricPreservation Guidelines for Alterations 4.1 Balustrades and Handrails 4.3 Doors 4.5 Foundations 4.6 Gutters and Downspouts 4.7 Mass and Rooflines 4.10 Porches 4.11 Siding 4.13 Windows 4.14 Wood 9..0 GuidehnesforAddidons 5.1 Expansion of the Building Footprint 5.2 Decks and Ramps Staff Comments This house was built between 1907 and 1912 in a transitional style between the waning Queen Anne Style and the large vernacular American Foursquare style. The cutaway corner and projecting bay on the east side are examples of the Queen Anne Style. The large square form with gabled dormers are elements of a traditional Foursquare, but the scale of the dormers reflects the gabled projections on a Queen Anne. The house has narrow lap siding, a standing seam metal roof, and one -over -one double -hung windows. The front porch has been enclosed and a small rear corner porch has also been enclosed. The large gabled rear projection may be original since it appears on the 1912 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. In 2011, a Certificate of No Material Effect was issued for the removal a non -historic applique in the gable of the front porch. In 2017 a Certificate of No Material Effect was issued for the repair of the internal gutters and replacement of any deteriorated soffits and fascia found when the external gutters and downspouts were replaced. This same year approval through an Intermediate Review was given to replace and widen the driveway. In 2018, the Commission approved the installation of solar panels on the garage roof. The applicant is proposing to add a 4 foot by 10 foot covered entry porch at the existing rear door in the west end of the south side of the house. The covered porch will provide a protected entrance to the back of the house. The historic small rear porch at this location will be further enclosed with siding matching the rest of the house. The roof details will match the rest of the house, including the cornice returns and other trim details. The entry porch will be set in 10 inches from the west side of the house to allow the roof overhang to terminate at the comer instead of extending beyond it. The porch will cover both the door and window in that corner of the rear of the house. The rear door will be replaced with one that matches the head -height of the other doors on the house. Similarly the adjacent window will be replaced with an appropriate double - hung window of a size that matches the other windows on the house. The applicant also proposes to add a new 12 foot by 12 foot rear deck which will be set in 10 inches from the east side of the house and connected to the new entry porch. The three short double -hung windows on the rear of the house will be replaced with a pair of full-lite French doors. The cellar door will also be removed and access to the basement will be inside the house. All siding and trim for the new doors will match the existing. The deck will have railing and skirting that matches the new entry porch. The guidelines for additions recommend constructing new porches that are consistent with the style of the historic house. In general, the guidelines recommend matching the key horizontal lines of the house such as water table, eave height, and window head height. New porches should be constructed using traditional wood framing and wood flooring, rather than concrete, if the porch floor is more than 18" above grade. Also, if the porch floor is 24" or more above grade, then the space between the porch floor and grade should be filled with skirting. Skirting should be installed between the piers, rather than covering the piers. Specific details in the guidelines include allowing rock -face concrete block for new piers. The guidelines for windows recommend that a relocated opening should not detract from the overall fenestration pattern. If a window is to be enclosed on a framed structure, appropriate siding that matches the existing should be used with its members being placed across and randomly extended beyond the opening. New door openings must be trimmed to match the other doors and windows on the house. Sliding glass doors are not allowed on historic houses but French doors are allowed. A deck addition that meets the guidelines is typically a staff review but this deck is included as part of the larger project. The guidelines recommend railing and balustrade design, deck materials, skirting, location and inset from the side of the house. All of the deck conditions in the guidelines would be met with this deck. In Staff's opinion, the new front entry porch will allow a covered rear entry to the house and allow the existing enclosed rear porch to become an insulated space that blends well with the rest of the house. Replacing the three rear windows with a pair of French doors will not impact the historic character of the house because of their location on the rear of the house. The French doors will also provide access from the dining room to the deck instead of having the only access through the kitchen, enclosed rear porch/mudroom, and new entry porch. The existing rear door is not original and the replacement of it and the adjacent window will allow both to match the other windows and doors on the house. The existing cellar door will be covered by the deck. The retaining walls on each side of it have deteriorated and the area is not in good condition. Removing this entry, because basement entry will be from the inside, is acceptable. The applicant does propose to use large wood posts for the porch piers to match the deck instead of using rock - faced block to match the foundation. While this is a departure from the guidelines, staff finds it acceptable because this is on the back of the house, the porch is not historic and it is part of a larger project where the supporting piers could all match. Recommended Motion Move to approve a Certificate of Appropriateness for the project at 317 Fairchild Street as presented in the application. We •14 phi , CW. .V.;277 RLL ■'';III IIiIIRI w2z,"Nk A1PPLICATtoN fOR HIS'I Oaf f"IEW . Application for alterations to the historic landmarks or properties located in a historic district or conservation district pursuant to Iowa City Code Section 14-313. Guidelines for the Historic Review process, explanation of the process and regulations can be found in the Iowa City Historic Preservation Handbook, which is available in the Neighborhood and Development Services office at City Hall or online at: www.icgov.org/histodepreservationresources The HPC does not review applications for compliance with building and zoning codes. Work must comply with all appropriate codes and be reviewed by the building division prior to the issuance of a building permit. Meeting Schedule: The HPC meets the second Thursday of each month. Applications are due in the office of Neighborhood and Development Services by noon on Wednesday three weeks prior to the meeting. See last page of this application for deadlines and meeting dates. --- -- P-igoPeRTY OwNm/ APPLicANYT INVOOMATION ❑ Property Owner Name: Dom^ m 1 c 4mairy At7TO Email: Phone Number: Ci State:0 Zip Code: tractor/Consul tName: —17 ccFe i7q r Address: City: 1 State: Zip Code: off' C ' PROPOSED PROJECT INFORMATION Address: Use of Property: 5w,ni r vVIt Date Constructed (if known):0 HISTORIC>: -�o: :. 'a W, r ;.r. a i' 6 :.l �aa>. '� : irU� s y1 \e•. 14-= ❑ This Property is a local historic landmark. OR This Property is within a historic or cconwr'ation district (choose location): ❑ Brown St. Historic District Er Northaide Historic District ❑ College Hill Conservation District ❑ College Green Historic District ❑ Summit St. Historic District ❑ Dearbom St. Conservation District ❑ East College St Historic District ❑ Woodlawn Historic District ❑ Goosetown/ Horace Mann ❑ Jefferson St. Historic District ❑ Clark St. Conservation Conservation District ❑ Longfellow Historic District District ❑ Govemor-Lucas St, Conservation District Within the dis ' this Property is Classified as: Contnbuting ❑ Noncontributing ❑ Nonlvatork LmA 0-enoil - - ! APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Choose appropriate project type. In order to ensure application can be processed, please include all listed terials. Applications without necessary materials may be rejected. 7Addition (Typically projects entailing an addition to the building footprint such as a room, porch, deck, etc.) ❑ Building Elevations ❑ Floor Plans ❑ Photographs Product Information ❑ Site Plans Alteration (Typically projects entailing work such as siding and window replacement, skylights, window opening alterations, deck or porch replacement/construction, baluster repair, or similar. If the project is a minor alteration, photographs and drawings to describe the scope of the project are sufficient) ❑ Building Elevations ❑ Product Information ❑ Photographs Construction of a new building ❑ Building Elevations ❑ Floor Plans ❑ Photographs ❑ Product Information ❑ Site Plans Demolition (Projects entailing the demolition of a primary structure or outbuilding, or any portion of a building, such as porch, chimney, decorative trim, baluster, etc.) ❑ Photographs ❑ Evidence of deterioration ❑ Proposal of Future Plans Revair or Restoration of an existing structure that will not change its appearance. ❑ Photographs ❑ Product Information Other Please contact the Preservation Specialist at 356-5243 for materials which need to be included with applications APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS PrniPrt nPacrinfinne D dt✓t Co ue-fred Fo rcl Cl nil 1 Novo e Materials to be Used: flSNat h e. ro (Sc Gti�P� ol��l�s mod. �`�ra(IS �6ce Vb 4.1corkv1 Urc q- �d IlnP t c ekt or o f lh�r Exterior Appearance Changes: To Submit Application: Download form, Fill it out and email it to jessica-bristow@iowa-city.org or mail to Historic Preservation, City of Iowa City, 410 E. Washington Street, Iowa City, IA 52240 REGARDING, HOME Beth Rapson 715 N dohneon St lovwaCtty. K52245 (Bat-O k { NO. LOCATION BOOK CODE SIZE INFO DESCRIPTION tine-3 Powder Room CCDR2820 abated from Es6erior. Sob: 1/2" =1' Line-4 Kitchen RO Size: 63 3/8 X 93 3/4 W Viewed from:8derbr, sob:1/4" = V Line-5 Bathroom Screen Size: 33 X 47 Line-6 Dining Screen Size: 33 X 57 QQ-2.20.900.2824 cusL,037000 NET UNIT QTT EXTENDED PRICE PRICE Custom Clad Double Hung, Auralast Pine, Sash Replacement Kit, Sash Opening= 32 X 46 Black AAMA 2605 Finish Sash, Primed Interior, 14 deg Beige Jambliner, Chestnut Bronze Hardware, Cam Lock(s), No Finger Lifts, Insulated Low-E 366 Tempered Glass, Neat, Protective Film, Black Spacer, Argon Filled, Traditional Glz Bd, PEV 7019.1.0.744WM 6.371 (W13/19) PW (Outside Casing Size: 62 5/8 X 93) Custom Clad Inswing French 2 Panel Inac , Left, Asmbld Actual Frame Size: 62 5/8 -in X 93 -in Brilliant White Frame-AAMA 2605 Finish, Auralast Pine Primed Interior, 1-3/4" Thick Pnl, Brilliant White Sash-AAMA 2605, Extruded Clad Pnl, Folding Nail Range Standard DrfpCap, 5 1/4 Jamb Width. 5/4 Matte Black Hardware, Harieston Traditional Multi-pt Hdl Set 3pt Mort Prep Authentic Oil Rubbed Bronze Adj Hinges Std Sill W/Swing Screen Bright Brass Screen Handle, , 6 5/8" Btm Rall, Ins Wet Int Glz Low-E 366 Tempered Neat Black Spacer, Argon Filled, Traditional Glz Bd, No Grid Brilliant Whit San BetterVue Mesh Screen Installed (4 hinges per operating panel) Door closers should not be used with adjustable hinges. Clear Opening 0 90 degree opening:56.6w, 90.2h, 35.5 sf Hinged door screens subject to extended lead time.. Inswing doors are not lntended,for Light Commercial applications. PEV 2019.r6/PDVV71 (02/13/19) KV \ - n 1 Custom Insect Screen Only DH PW Premium, Pre-12/06 Black Licorice Scrn PEV 2018.1.0.2446/PDV 6371(W13/19) PW Custom Insect Screen Only DH PW Premium, Pre-12/05 Black Licorice San PEV 2018.1.0.2446/PDV 6.371(02/13/19) PW Page 2 of 3(Prices are subject to change.) 3LIZO3663. 4/11/2019 -1:21 PM Drawings are for visual :efeence only and may not be to eadt scale. All Last Modified; 4/11/2019 orders are subiect to review byJE(D-WEN Quote Date: 4/4/2019 Qu G"l S4 goII I6 / 1 ► -151 - 44-A t4 THISDRAWINb ANU IU iITE-s..,i w.iRg.•ii SIMPSON DOOR COMPANY AND SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED, COPIED OR DISCLOSED IN WHOLE OR PART, OR USED FOR MANUFACTURE OR FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE Customer Layout 3Z , R n WITHOUT THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF SIMPSON DOOR COMPANY. Revisions D�114-210-$00-0700 Rev.M Dmmpbm Dace by Whomuma NA ! �47. m. 3. Decker 'E iil07i2007 fin® ,~�� DIY � �w ��v •1.� ~�-- r,•'- vYY . � "fir • f11r is ' �I! ir �. _ � r it _ • � ,; r MINUTES PRELIMINARY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION EMMA J. HARVAT HALL April 11, 2019 MEMBERS PRESENT: Kevin Boyd, Zach Builta, Sharon DeGraw, Gosia Clore, G. T. Karr, Cecile Kuenzli, Quentin Pitzen, Lee Shope MEMBERS ABSENT: Thomas Agran, Helen Burford STAFF PRESENT: Jessica Bristow OTHERS PRESENT: Robert Runciman RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL: (become effective only after separate Council action) CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Boyd called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANYTHING NOT ON THE AGENDA: There was none. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS — CONSENT AGENDA: 1030 Bowery Street — Clark Street Conservation District (new rear entry canopy). MOTION: Kuenzli moved to approve the project at 1030 Bowery Street as presented in the application with the following conditions: • Roof slope and proportion matches other roofs on the house; • Bracket, fascia, shingle, and soffit (underside) materials match other roofs on the house. Clore seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 8-0. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS: 802 Summit Street — Summit Street Historic District (secondary entry door change to window opening). Bristow noted this house was discussed last year for a garage and breezeway addition. The current project is removal of a door on the house and replacement with a window. A view of the house from the corner was displayed. The house is on the corner of Sheridan and Summit. Bristow said doors would be referred to as the Sheridan door and the Summit door, and there would be the new breezeway door. She said the discussion is about removal of the Summit Street door completely and its replacement with a window. The applicants had discussed moving the Summit Street door, which is a formal door, to the new breezeway addition. They also would like to have matching doors on the street side and the breezeway. Staff would not recommend either of these suggestions, stating the breezeway door should be a simpler door, so as not to confuse it with the front door. Bristow shared an historic photo from the 1930s or 40s. The house had a wrap -around porch that was reconstructed around 1996. Comparing the historic photograph to the current image, the Sheridan door has been shortened over time. There is some suggestion that this door had a HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 2 of 9 transom above, or maybe it was a completely different door. The trim is different now than it was. The current owners have suggested that the house was duplexed at one point in time. It is likely that the Summit Street and Sheridan Avenue doors were used as the entries for the two part of the duplex. Bristow shared an historic photo showing the side of the house, Summit Street. The door could not be seen but, because there was a pediment on the porch at this location and steps, there is an assumption of a door here. She said typically in houses of this age, if they have a projecting bay, if there is a cant or an angle in the bay, it had a window or door in that spot. It is not typical to see them canted with nothing but wall in that location. Bristow said there are a lot of the details in the Summit Street door that fit the house, so it could be an original door to the house. It is also possible that door was added when the house was duplexed and that there was a window there originally, despite the evidence of pediment and steps at the porch. Because of that question, Staff suggested that it would not be the most appropriate thing to remove the door and replace it with a window. However, because we do not know the history, it might be acceptable to do so. Bristow stated that the applicant wants to replace the door with a window because the door opens inward into the dining room, making the space awkward to use. There are some issues with draftiness that could be alleviated with a storm door and repairs to the Summit door. They are requesting to replace it with a window that would match the other double -hung windows on the house. It would be done at the same time as the other project. Staff went through the exercise of possibly relocating this door to Sheridan Street, but the contractor said it was not possible because it opens in the opposite direction and would require changes to the interior trim and wall. Bristow said if the door was replaced with a window, the door would either be stored with the house or it could be salvaged. Boyd asked for any clarifying questions from the Commission. Kuenzli asked if they would retain the transom. Bristow thought the transom would probably go with the door. She said if it was salvaged, it should go as a set containing the frame, the door, and the transom. Boyd opened the floor to public comment. There was none. Boyd said the guidelines on doors state the original size and shape of the door opening should be maintained; however, it might not have had that original opening. It's up to us to fill in the gaps where the guidelines are not specific about it. Many of us may think it likely the door was there in the 1930s. Bristow noted the guidelines do not talk about the removal of a door because it does not often come up; typically, they are not removed. She said there is a section that talks about the removal of a window because sometimes that does come up. We have had times when people wanted to remove bathroom windows and they end up just blacking out the glass and walling over it, so the window stays there. Usually that is done because that window fits a specific HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 3 of 9 pattern of windows on the house. It would be jarring or changing the character of the house if there was a wall where there used to be a window in a certain pattern. With the door, it's just a little bit different, but it honestly doesn't come up that much and that's why it is not specifically discussed in our guidelines. DeGraw wanted to know if there was a story behind the other homes that have two doors on a porch. She asked about the functionality of having two doors. Bristow thought there was a function. Depending on how the living area was set up inside the house, the space by the secondary door was likely either a dining room or a parlor. After the meal, if you wanted to go from either the parlor or the dining room out to the porch, it was more convenient and social to go through the secondary door than to go out the front door. That's why those doors tended to exist, as what might be a superfluous door. Kuenzli noted there were several examples in Goosetown and elsewhere. The Friends of Historic Preservation rehabbed a house on Church Street that had what looked like a front door, but it went into the kitchen, and immediately to its left, a door that went into the front parlor. The Patrick House on Court Street has a formal front door, wrap -around porch, and a side door that comes off the driveway closer to where the garage would have been. Shope also noted the house at the entrance to Woodlawn as an example. DeGraw believed changing the door to a window would remove a portion of history. Builta believed the request was for convenience only. Boyd said he would vote no because he believed the door was there originally. DeGraw thought it would be possible to weatherproof the door, even from the inside, so if there was a future owner of the home and they loved the door, the door would still be there. Shope also believed removing the door was a matter of convenience and, as a matter of convenience, said you could just not use the door. It could remain in place and if you did not use it, even though it opened the wrong way, it would not be an impediment to how the dining room was used. MOTION: Karr moved to approve the Certificate of Appropriateness for the project at 802 Summit Street as presented in the application. Pitzen seconded the motion. The motion failed on a vote of 3 vea-5 nay. CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRiATENESS: 718 Davenport Street—. Goosetown/Horace Mann Conservation District (garage demolition and reconstruction). Bristow explained 718 Davenport Street is in the Goosetown/Horace Mann Conservation District and it is a very important Joseph Cerny house. It is individually eligible for the National Register, so it is a key property in this district. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 4 of 9 Bristow said the applicants need to do some work on the garage and the original conversation began last fall about replacing the siding. She said they talked through it, took some time off, and came back and discussed the idea of what repairs would be needed. Bristow said the Staff report was written before she located the past project from 2014. After reviewing the past project, she said it would not have changed her recommendation. She said she has provided copies and would go through the past project for the Commission. She noted this application is different than the 2014 project. If they had been the same, it would have been pulled because it had already been denied. Bristow shared a photo of the garage from 2014, when there was a request to demolish the garage and replace it with a parking slab. At that time, the discussion was about the importance of this property being built and lived in by Joseph Cerny, who was many things, including a brick layer. There are other houses built by him. The house is currently owned by descendants, one of which is here with us today. She owns the house and other Cerny houses. Bristow said the Sanborn maps for this property are a little bit confusing. There are numerous outbuildings. There is a building that was in this spot and then possibly enlarged, which could be this building. There was another building over to the east side of the property line. It could have been relocated to this spot and could be this building. Overall, whether this is an original barn built by Joseph Cerny or just an historic garage, it is still an important structure. It is almost a time capsule, but it has severely deteriorated. Bristow showed that the site now has just the house and the garage. The garage has a gable roof that matches the main house. There is also a flat roof. The flat roof is completely deteriorated. She shared a current image of the back of the garage. The roof is completely falling off. She said it must be replaced, no matter what. The siding was evaluated. It is car siding with battens put over the joints. It has deteriorated to the point where there are almost no parts that are not checked, rotten, and dried out. Bristow shared another view. She noted that all the windows in the garage are multipane sashes that are nailed in place. There is no real frame. There is no trim except for the sill. She said it could have been a barn. It could also have been a small garage that was added on when cars were a little bit longer. It does have a little bit of brick support. It has half -round gutters and the nice standing seam metal roof. Bristow said she reviewed the details of the garage with the current contractor on the project. She said they went through and found there is not a lot of siding that could be scraped, painted, and salvaged; very little. So suddenly we are replacing the siding. Then it was noted the flat roof would need to be replaced. The concrete floor on the inside is all broken up and needs to be replaced. She said they were trying to figure out how to do all of this and save the metal roof. The underside of the eaves are rotten. Of interest, they found what looked like wood window shutters on the inside that could be pulled across in a track. Bristow said one of the reasons this building might be from the same time period as the house is because its structure is reminiscent of post and beam. It uses larger lumber. This is not the same as typical dimensional lumber. There are only verticals occasionally. There are some cross pieces, but for all the diagonal bracing on this structure they are relying on the siding. The HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 5 of 9 tongue and groove siding acts as a structural member for building. So, when we are replacing it, we are getting down to a few posts and beams and the roof and that's it. Bristow said that is why Staff recommends taking it down and rebuilding. The application was put forward with a few changes, including a slight size increase and removing the flat roof portion so it was all just one gable roof. She said there was something about a carport in one of the drawings, but that's not something we are discussing or something Staff would recommend. Bristow said that whether or not the Commission would want to allow it to be taken down and just copied as it is, with the flat roof, or if you would want to allow the changes to be made, including the size, is something you need to discuss. Bristow said before she knew about the previous denial, she felt it was appropriate to aliow it to be rebuilt in the larger size with the flat roof removed but with the same type of siding, same roof, the standing seam metal, exposed rafter tails. Once she found out about the denial she could see where the Commission might prefer to copy it instead. The garage is of a passable size to make a nice, small garage. Bristow said there is a lot of room on this lot if they did want to put a second garage for some reason. Or they could build this one a little bit bigger, but they are not looking to make it a two - car garage. Boyd asked how much bigger the square footage of the proposal would be. Bristow said the proposal would make it two feet wider and two feet longer. Boyd opened the floor to public comment. Robert Runciman, project contractor stated if they could go two feet wider and two feet longer than the existing full footprint it would not change the appearance of things. He also said he was thinking of getting some older, refurbished windows. Public comment period closed by Boyd. Kuenzli questioned the use of a flat panel, single car garage door. She did not think it would fit this building and asked if it would have some windows in it or a recessed panel. The contractor said it would be flat panels, not just one flat surface. Bristow said Staff would recommend several conditions if this were to be approved. Part of the problem with this current garage is the siding is sitting in the ground. In the Staff report it was recommended that it would have a curb around the slab so the siding would start above grade, probably six inches. Staff would recommend that condition and that all door, window, and overhead door product information be approved by Staff. MOTION: Karr moved to approve the Certificate of Appropriateness for the project at 718 East Davenport Street as presented in the application, and recommendations for a curb on the slab, and door, window, and overhead door approval by Staff. Kuenzli seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 8-0. REPORT ON CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY CHAIR AND STAFF Minor Review —Staff Review. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 6 of 9 217 East Davenport Street — Northside Historic District (porch roof replacement and siding repair). Bristow said this was just to replace the shingles on the porch roof, so temporarily they will not match the house roof, because the house roof has old three -tab shingles. She said they will match when they re -roof the main house. Part of the reason it needed to be re -roofed was water damage to the inside corner of the porch and siding. 1011 Sheridan Avenue — Summit Street Historic District (roof shingle replacement). Bristow said the house currently has wood shingles. They were put on more recently but are deteriorating, she assumed due to ventilation issues in the attic. Bristow said they worked through the process of possibly doing wood shingles, but it is just not possible. They will use asphalt shingles. The existing roof had nice ridge caps that were metal. She said they were going to try to install those with the shingle roof if possible. It depended how easily they could remove them. CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES FOR MARCH 14, 2019 MOTION: DeGraw moved to approve the minutes of the Historic Preservation Commission's March 14, 2019 meeting. Karr seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 8-0. COMMISSION INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION: Sanxay-Gilmore House Structural Report. Bristow provided the Commission with the structural report that the consultant compiled for the Sanxay-Gilmore House. She said it can be moved. A lot of the costs would be subject to what it would be used for in the future and where it would go. She said to move a big brick house like this, the porch columns would come out and must be put back in. They also suggested all the chimneys should come down to the roof and then be rebuilt. They suggested the chimney addition on the outside be removed forever, partly because it is hard to tell how well it was attached and it could separate and fall off the side of the house. Historically, we know the chimney did not go up the outside of the house. The City Manager and the Mayor have been working with the University to determine whether it could be moved. The answer from the University is discussed in the memo Bristow provided as a handout and is part of the City Council information packet. The University has talked to the church and for 3 to 5 years the church is going to use that space as they have been. When the period is up or the church no longer wants to use the space, the University will require that the house will have to be moved. The hope here is that some of the issues with where it would go and what it would be used for could be answered. Bristow thought the Commission would need to get involved with the community to discuss its potential use. Kuenzli believed the moving costs would increase if it wasn't moved for a few years. Bristow said if a location and use were determined, the City could approach the University about moving it sooner. Kuenzli wanted to verify that it would be moved at some point HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 7 of 9 Boyd said the way he read the memo was there was $330,000 allocated for the moving, not the full amount, so the Council would have to allocate the remaining funds. A future Council could decide not to do that. It is a current Council priority, but the current Council exists as it is for another 8-9 months. Kuenzli wondered if the current Council would allocate the extra money if it were moved now. Bristow said their reaction to the memo was not yet known. For a project like this, a planning committee would be needed to prepare the house for moving and to outline goals of the rehab. She said she did not think the City had a goal to own it when it is done. Boyd noted with the two houses that Mercy used to own on the southwest corner of Bloomington and Gilbert, the City had a recent history of advertising and promoting the preservation of historic properties. Shope said the City Manager had identified a site across the street on Market, a small parking lot, as a potential home for this house. He wondered what the University planned for that space and the possibility of trading lots and not moving the house at all. Bristow thought the University would want contiguous lots to give proper depth for building and parking. Preservation at its Best Nominations. Bristow said a call for nominations had been received for Preservation at its Best, which is the State award ceremony. She said she was happy to write a nomination to a project but wanted direction from the Commission. Categories include small residential, large residential, and commercial. It is based on rehab. Kuenzli said if the Sanxay-Gilmore House comes to materialize it would be a prime candidate. Bristow stated in the past we had nominated the Bowery Street Grocery Store because it became a National Register and local landmark and was rehabbed. She said it was unique because it was small commercial. They get a lot more nominations in residential than they do in small commercial. Bristow said 304 Summit Street had been nominated. It had been flipped by Kevin Hanick. She explained a full rehab is the kind of project to look for. Pitzen asked if it had to be one rehabilitation project or if it could be a series of small ones over decades. Bristow thought it had to be one rehab project. Kuenzli suggested the log cabins. Bristow thought they might make a good candidate. Preserve ;owa Summit. Bristow explained the Summit would be in Newton this year, early in June. She said registration was open. She noted the Summit is a really good way to meet with other state-wide and HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 8 of 9 Midwest regional preservationists and to learn a little bit. At the Summit they would also see who won the Preservation at its Best awards. Work Plan and Downtown District. Boyd said he and Bristow needed to do a little work on the work plan and it would be discussed at the next meeting. Regarding the Downtown District, he said they just found out yesterday that the University Urban and Regional Planning, a graduate program, had agreed to take on some part of this project. Bristow said a kickoff meeting was held with Alexa McDowell from AKAY consulting about the National Register nomination. ADJOURNMENT: Kuenzli moved to adjourn the meeting. Seconded by Clore. The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m. Minutes submitted by Judy Jones HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION April 11, 2019 Page 9 of 9 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION ATTENDANCE RECORD 2018-2019 TERM NAME EXP. 5/10 6/14 7/12 8/9 8/23 9/13 10/11 11/08 12113 1/10 2/14 3/14 4/11 AGRAN, THOMAS 6/30/20 X X O/E X X X O/E X X O/E O/E X O/E BAKER, ESTHER 6/30/18 X X -- -- -- -- -- -- -- KEVIN KEVIN 6/30/20 X X X X X X X X X X X X BUILTA, ZACH 6/30/19 X X X X X X X X X X X X X BURFORD ,HELEN 6/30/21 X X O/E X O/E X X X X O/E CLORE GOSIA GOSIA 6130/20 X X X O/E O/E X O/E X X O/E X X X DEGRAW, SHARON 6/30/19 X X X O/E X X X X X X O/E X X KARR, G. T. 8/30/20 X X 0/E X X X X X X X X X X I , CECILE ECILE 6/30119 X X O/E X X X X X X 0/E X X MICHAUD, PAM 6/30/18 X X PITZEN , QUENTIENTIN 6/30/21 X X X X X X X X X X X SHOPE, LEE 6130/21 X X X O/E X X O/E X X X SWAIM. GINALIE 6/30/18 X X WAGNER, FRANK 6/310/18 X X