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Home My WebLink About2004-06-10 Info Packet !:: 1 ~-=_Iifl!t 4:.~~W~ -=-~ ....~ CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION PACKET -~ June 10, 2004 CiTY OF IOWA CiTY www.icgov.org I JUNE 14 WORK SESSION ITEMS I IP1 Meeting Schedule and Work Session Agendas IP2 ICAREI MECCA Presentations IP3 MidAmerican Election Request For Special Election on Franchise Ordinance I MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS I IP4 Letter from Mayor to Terrence Neuzil: Cell Towers IPS Memorandum from City Clerk: Agenda Items for June 23 Joint Meeting IP6 Memorandum from Dee Vanderhoef, Council Member: September Meeting Schedule IP7 Copy of letter from Planning and Community Development Director, Karin Franklin, to Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Assn. IP8 Letter from Mary Ellen Chudacek to Lowell Soike, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer: Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Ipg Memorandum and attachments from Shelley McCafferty, Associate Planner: Nomination of Northside Districts to the National Register Letter from John Kammermeyer to Elizabeth Foster, State Historical Society: Historic Districts IP10 Memorandum from Ross Spitz, Civil Engineer, to Public Works Director: Burlington Street Bridge Construction Update IP11 Memorandum from City Clerk: Electronic Packet Distribution E-mail from Mike Sullivan to City Clerk - Agenda: Public Leadership Summit June 22, 2004 I PRELlMINARYIDRAFT MINUTES I IP12 Charter Review Commission: May 19, 2004 IP13 Historic Preservation Commission: May 27, 2004 Scattered Site Housing Taskforce: April 29, 2004 Scattered Site Housing Taskforce: May 12, 2004 -.-"-~--- "'..,.- ---. ,---_.", , --------.- --.-..-------.".--.---.-+-------------...-------- !:: 1 -....= -~~ 4:.~W~ ::~ ....~ CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION PACKET ____ ...-.a- June 10, 2004 CiTY OF IOWA CiTY www.icgov.org I JUNE 14 WORK SESSION ITEMS I IP1 Meeting S hedule and Work Session Agendas IP2 Presentations IP3 MidAmerican Ele tion Request For Special Election on ranchise Ordinance IP4 Letter from Mayor to Terrence IPS IP6 Memorandum from Dee Vanderhoef, C ncil mber: September Meeting Schedule IP7 Copy of letter from Planning and Comm ity Development Director, Karin Franklin, to Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Assn. IP8 Letter from Mary Ellen Chudacek to Low II Soike Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer: Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Ipg Memorandum and attachments from helley McCaffe , Associate Planner: Nomination of Northside Districts to the National egister \ IP10 Memorandum from Ross Spitz, C' il Engineer, to Public ~rks Director: Burlington Street Bridge Construction Update \ \, IP11 Memorandum from City Clerk: lectronic Packet Distribution \\ \ \ LlMINARY/DRAFT MINUTES IP12 Charter Review Com ission: May 19, 2004 IP13 Historic Preservati n Commission: May 27,2004 - +-.- -" .-, .--- ¡ £ ¡ :;:] 4:.~~~'t City Council Meeting Schedule and ::~ ....~ -.. ..... Work Session Agendas June 10, 2004 CITY OF IOWA CITY www.icgov.org · MONDAY, JUNE 14 Emma J. Harvat Hall 6:30p Council Work Session · Joint Meeting - Airport Commission · ICAREIMECCA Presentations · Planning and Zoning Items · MidAmerican Election Request · Agenda Items · Council Appointments · Council Time · Identification of Priorities for Discussion · TUESDAY, JUNE 15 Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00p Formal Council Meeting · WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Coralville City Hall 4:00- 6:00p Special Council Work Session Joint Meeting - Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Iowa City Community School Board, Cities of Coralville, North Liberty and City of Iowa City · Separate Agenda Posted I TENTATIVE FUTURE MEETINGS AND AGENDAS I · MONDAY, JULY 5 Emma J. Harvat Hall Independence Day Holiday - City Offices Closed · TUESDAY, JULY 6 Emma J. Harvat Hall TBA Special Work Session · Planning and Zoning Items · Agenda Items · Council Appointments · Council Time · Identification of Priorities for Discussion 7:00p Formal Council Meeting · MONDAY, JULY 19 Emma J. Harvat Hall Work Session Cancelled · TUESDAY, JULY 20 Emma J. Harvat Hall Formal Council Meeting Cancelled Meeting datesltimesltopics subject to change FUTURE WORK SESSION ITEMS Regulation of Downtown Dumpsters ~ -.-....- - . '--'- -----.-------..-.- --.-- __n...'__ .§ Johnson County Council of Governments ]!] ~ 410E woshlr'CJtonSt Iowa City Iowa 52240 .-~ .-.... June 9, 2004 To: City Council \. . Fr: Linda~~, Human Services Coordinator Re: Health and Human Services Presentations by ¡CARE and MECCA Attached you will find information on the services offered by the two agencies and a list of their funding sources. I hope this information will assist you in understanding how they carry out their mission and inspire some questions. The agencies look forward to the opportunity to present to Council. ICARE - STATE OF THE ORGANIZATION REPORT Prepared for the Iowa City Council- June 14th meeting Prepared by Jean Bott, Board Secretary ICARE was founded in 1986 by a group ofIowa City citizens who saw a need to provide practical and emotional support to individuals and their families with HIV/AIDS. That was 18 years ago. In the beginning the typical ICARE client was an adult male who lived a relatively short time after diagnosis. Today the number offemale to male clients has equalized, including minor children with HIV/AIDS, and people with multiple diagnoses. With research, drugs have been developed that can assist a person with AIDS to live longer but there still is no cure. The side effects ofthe drugs plus the symptoms of the illness can sometimesloften prevent an individual from working full time or not at all. Because a person with AIDS lives longer, the type ofICARE's services have changed. Today ICARE's mission is to help individuals live longer lives with dignity. Because of this ICARE is now helping people with housing, transportation, medication assistance, quality of life, counseling, etc. So far this fiscal year ICARE has served 240 individuals. In the current fiscal year, ICARE received the following funding/contributions: Local Funding Sources City of Coralville $ 1,150 City ofIowa City $ 8,883 United Way $ 16.660 Total Local Funding $ 26,693 Grants $ 96,443 Contributions & Fundraising $ 40,954 Rental Income & Misc. $ 6.106 Total IncomelFunding $170,196 As a small agency, ICARE board members and volunteers have always worked very hard to fundraise to keep the agency solvent. This has become increasingly difficult as funding sources have been cut and overhead expenses have been increasing. FY03 had been devastating to ICARE financially. In FY04 the board of directors was able to turn the agency from an operating loss to profit. However, in order to continue to provide services, adapt to the trends, and to grow we needed to explore other management options. In March of this year, ICARE's board proactively entered into an agreement with a longtime collaborative agency: MECCA, in order to insure that the increasing need for ICARE's services for people with AIDS be met. - - .._._w___ -,_.. --------------------..------- ----- MECCA Services · Prevention and Early Intervention -- Consultation and assistance to schools, parents, students, counselors, employers, community groups. Educational programs/prescntationslintervention services · Detoxification -- Safe, supervised place for adults and adolescents to detoxify while closely monitored by multi-disciplinary team. · Evaluation -- Includes OWl (drunk driving) evaluations, determines the extent of difficulties the person is experiencing with substance abuse, and determines treatment recommended. · Adult Residential Treatment - Inpatient services for individuals with substantial SA problems- daily intensive treatment contact. Programming from 8:00 a.m. and continues most evenings until 10:00 p.m. ResidentiallTeatment services are available in both Iowa City and Des Moines. · Adnlt Day Treatment - Slightly less intensive care than residential and without 24 hour live in support. · Adult Outpatieut -- Treatment for adults with moderate substance abuse difficulties. Services tailored to individual needs and may include individual, family and group. Intensive Outpatient (lOP) involves daily education and therapy, complimeuted with weekly individual and/or family. Outpatient Services are available in both Iowa City and Des Moines. · Continuing Care -- known as aftercare-a variety of groups available on weekly basis to provide continuing support to individuals after primary lTeatment. Continuing Care Services are provided in both Iowa City and Des Moines. · Halfway House -residential programming after primary residentiallTeatment that provides support while individual re-integrates into the community. Halfway House programming is provided in both Iowa City and Des Moines. · Women's and Children Services -- case management services addressing the special needs of women by providing lTeatment and accessing a variety of resources to enhance lTeatment success (such as child care, linkages with DVIP, DHS etc.) · Drug Screening -- Screening available for employers, family members, client monitoring and to meet DOT requirements for drivers and other safety sensitive positions. · Hope House -- lTeatment services for chronic OWl clients at Hope House correctional facility. · Health Iowa -- assessment and treatment services for University of Iowa students. · Synchrony EAP - employee assistance program for approximately 30 companies in Johnson County area-Services include assessment, short term counseling and referral services for employees and family members. Also provides training and consultation · Synchrony Substance Abuse Services -- private practice model for individuals and families. Evaluations, outpatient counseling, after care. No financial assistance. · Transitioual Housing --lTansitional housing for parents and children, newly recovering, who continue to be involved at some level of care (continuing care, case management). Twelve apartments located at 438 Southgate, length of stay between 9 months and 2 years. · Community Coalitions -- Consistent with MECCA's commitment to providing services through community based organizations; we are involved in a broad range of cooperative/collaborative efforts. - .- -~.. ---"_.~~---- ----....--.-----.- -- Sources of Funding for MECCA-Substance Abuse Services Local Funding (for FY 04) City of Coralville $ 2,075.00 City ofIowa City ofIowa City 28,654.00 Johnson County 318,270.00 United Way of JC 41,310.00 Other Funding Sources: Iowa Department of Public Health Department of Veterans Affairs Iowa County Cedar County DECAT University of Iowa University of North em Iowa Tobacco Control Strengthening Families I ~ j CITY OF IOWA CITY :;J -~= -~ :f~W~'t MEMORANDUM ",-... "'IIII'~ ...,.... Date: June 9, 2004 To: COyCO""U ~ From: Eleanor Dilkes, City Attorney Re: MidAmerican Energy Request For Special Election on Franchise Ordinance As you know, at the June 1, 2004 Council meeting Terry Smith, Operations Manager for MidAmerican Energy in Iowa City, presented his company's request that the City Council authorize and allow a special election pursuant to Iowa Code § 364.2, to allow Iowa City voters to vote on whether or not to approve an electric franchise ordinance. MidAmerican contemplates that a franchise ordinance would be negotiated between the City and MidAmerican in advance of the vote, the text of which would be available to voters, with MidAmerican picking up the costs of the special election, as required by Iowa Code. Previously, the City Council received a valid petition from Iowa City eligible electors seeking to establish a municipal electric utility pursuant to Iowa Code § 388.2. That petition, pursuant to Iowa Code § 362.4, was examined and accepted for filing, without any objections having been received. By law, the proposal is required to be submitted to the voters at the next regular city election, which is in November of 2005. By resolution the Council has authorized the County Auditor to place the question of whether to establish an electric utility on the November 2005 ballot. The MidAmerican request contemplates a special election in advance of the November 2005 municipal electric utility vote. Iowa Code § 364.2 provides that an ordinance granting a franchise shall not become effective unless approved at an election but allows the Council to dispense with an election unless there is a petition requesting that the proposed franchise be submitted to the voters or the party seeking the franchise requests an election. The election must be held at the next regular city election or at a special election called for that purpose before the next regular city election. It is within Council's discretion whether to hold a special election on the franchise ordinance or wait until the next regular city election in November of 2005 (MidAmerican has specifically requested a special election. It is unclear to me whether they want the proposal to be placed on the November 2005 ballot if Council declines to hold a special election). In any event, as with the proposal to establish a municipal electric utility, if favorably voted on, it is within Council's discretion whether to proceed. A favorable vote on either measure merely authorizes the Council to proceed; it does not require the Council to so act. If a franchise ordinance is submitted to the voters at the same time as the municipal electric utility measure, it is possible that both measures could receive favorable votes, even if such result appears logically inconsistent. With such an outcome, it would be within Council's discretion whether to proceed with either measure. Similarly, were Council to authorize a special election on a franchise in advance of the vote on the municipal electric utility, and the measure passed, it would not negate the requirement that the municipal electric utility measure be voted on in November of 2005. However, in the event that Council had approved a franchise ordinance prior to an affirmative vote on the proposal to establish a municipal electric utility, Council could not proceed with municipal electric until the franchise had expired. Therefore, if -------.- -_..._,,-----------,----_._--~--~---------_...- June 9, 2004 Page 2 Council does grant MidAmerican's request it should give staff direction as to the desired duration of such a franchise Finally, if Council decides to hold a special election on a franchise ordinance in advance of the next regular city election, sufficient time would have to be given to staff and MidAmerican to work out the terms of the franchise ordinance, as Iowa Code § 364.2 requires the complete text of the ordinance be included on the ballot if paper ballots are used. If an electronic voting system is used, the proposal must be stated on the ballot and the full text of the ordinance posted for all voters, and all absentee voters must receive the full text of the ordinance. Please call me if you have any questions. cc: Steve Atkins, City Manager Dale Helling, Assistant City Manager Marian Karr, City Clerk Sarah Holecek, First Assistant City Attorney Andy Matthews, Assistant City Attorney - ___~ - m__+_ - _n..______ -..----,,--- --,_._----- ¡: J E -- = -~~ 4:.~~~ -=~ ....,~ -......... CITY OF IOWA CITY www.icgov.org CITY COUNCIL June 9, 2004 Ernest W. Lehman Mayor Terrence Neuzil Ross Wilburn Johnson County Board of Supervisors Mayor Pro Tern 913 S. Dubuque Street Regenia Bailey Iowa City, IA 52240 Connie Cbamplon Re: Cell towers Bob Elliott Mike O'Donnell Dee Vanderhoef Dear Terrence: The City Council would like to initiate a discussion with the Board of Supervisors regarding the regulation of cell towers within the two-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction of Iowa City. The area encompassed within our growth area is of particular concem. We are aware the issue of the regulation of cell towers has been discussed at JCCOG and agreement was reached that each jurisdiction would take the results of the study done and adopt regulations of cell tower siting as each jurisdiction saw fit. ; We would like to discuss with the Board the possibility of collaborating on siting , decisions within Iowa City's growth area. Please let me know if the Board would be open to such discussions. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, ~ Ernest W. Lehman Mayor Cc: City Council City Manager Jeff Davidson, Exec. Director, JCCOG council@iowa-city.org 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 Phone: (319) 356-50[0 Fax: (3 I 9) 356·5009 I! ! CITY OF IOWA CITY :;J ~~-a:ã~!t £~~~~ MEMORANDUM ",--... "'IIIII~ ~.. DATE: June 9, 2004 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Marian K. Karr, City Clerk RE: Agenda Items for June 23 Joint Meeting Coralville will be hosting the next joint meeting of the City Councils ofIowa City, Coralville, and North Liberty; the Iowa City Community School Board, and the Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, June 23. Please forward any agenda items to me no later than Tuesday, June 15. The meeting is scheduled to last about two hours. Because oftime constraints items will be reviewed by the Mayor prior to submission. A complete agenda will be available in your packet preceding the meeting. - "- .------ -----------~-.-..~..._- --~...._-_."---------"_.__.._--~-......--"--_.._+-. ~ 1 CITY OF IOWA CITY ~ -...= -u:, ~~W:=1If: MEMORANDUM --.:::......_IIIII~ .......~ ""I DATE: June 9, 2004 TO: Mayor and Council FROM: Dee Vanderhoef, Council Member RE: September Meeting Schedule Council previously scheduled one work session and fonnal meeting in September for the 20 and 21. The Iowa League of Cities fall conference is scheduled in Council Bluffs September 22-24. I would like to travel to Council Bluffs on September 21, and therefore request Council consider changing the September meetings to September 13-14. Vander.doc ~ I~ 1 E --= -lit ~--- !t '~Wi!i '-:' ~..., ...... CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Wasbington Street Iowa City. Iowa 52240-1826 (319) 356·5000 (J 19) J 56·5009 FAX June 9, 2004 www.icgov.org Connie and Raymond Baines 1060 Scott Park Drive #308 Iowa City, IA 52240 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Baines: Thank you for your letter and petition regarding improvements to your neighborhood, specifically: · A four-way stop at the corner of Scott Boulevard and Court Street and at Washington and ScottJScott Park Drive, · Bus stops and service east of Scott Boulevard, and · Handicap curbs at the corners of intersections of Scott Boulevard. The four-way stop and bus service have been evaluated previously and I will respond with the findings of those investigations below. The handicap curbs, or curb ramps as we call them, are installed by the developer as development occurs. Since this is an area in the process of development, not all the curb ramps have been installed, such as at the northeast corner of Scott and Court and at the intersection of Scott Park Drive and Court. These sidewalks and curb ramps will be installed by the developer as the property develops. The northwest corner of Scott and Court will need to be installed by the City at such time as the northeast corner is developed; at this time a sidewalk stub and ramp to Scott would take the pedestrian to an area without a sidewalk. There are some spots the ramps should be in place and are not; specifically the west side of Scott on both sides of Washington. We will need to correct those. A four-way stop and/or traffic signalization study of the Scott Boulevard/Court intersection was completed last fall; a copy is enclosed. The conclusion of this study was that the appropriate traffic control at this intersection would be signalization which should occur within the next two to four years. With the low traffic counts on Scott Park Drive, we could not justify a four-way stop or signal at Washington/ ScottJScott Park Drive. With ultimate signalization of Scott and Court, vehicle and pedestrian traffic will be encouraged to use the signalized intersection. If, after reading the enclosed report, you would like more discussion, please feel free to contact Jeff Davidson, our transportation planner, at 356-5252. ,- .._._------------~--~- . .. ------------------.----------- _..,--._--"" Bus service along and east of Scott Boulevard has been investigated and cannot be incorporated into any of the existing 30 minute routes--Rochester, Court Hill or Towncrest routes. These routes would have to be made 45 minutes, which affects all current riders of these routes, or a new route would need to be established. A new route becomes a fiscal matter. Other areas of the city have also requested service expansions. The Department of Parking and Transit is in the process of evaluating the various requests for service expansion and will be presenting a proposal to the City Manager within the near future. It is recognized that the Scott Boulevard area, with general growth in that part of the city and the presence of a senior population and the UI medical clinic, presents some special needs for bus service. We appreciate input from residents of neighborhoods on service needs. We will, to the extent possible and practical, try to accommodate those needs. Because your neighborhood is in the process of development and growth, some of the needs that would be nice to have now are just not feasible immediately but will be in place as time goes on. Sincerely, ~.¥Z~~ Karin Franklin Director Dept. of Planning & Community Development Cc City Manager vCity Council Transportation Planner City Engineer Transit Manager -.., '--- ---.~.- _.._"".._-,-..---~., --- ---------------...------~--------_.~---_.. " .. I ~ ! -~= -10 ~---- !t I~W~ ~ ~ga' October 2, 2003 _ ~ JI Michael Barron, President ~ CIty of ~ Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Association ~ C~ 725 Arlington Drive Iowa City, IA 52245 Re: Traffic study at the intersection of Scott Bouievard and Court Street, Iowa City, Iowa Dear Mr. Barron: The City of Iowa City has previously received correspondence from you expressing the concerns of the Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Association regarding the intersection of Scott Boulevard and Court Street. Specifically, it was requested that a change in traffic control be considered for this intersection. A traffic study has been completed, a copy of which is enclosed. I understand Tim Lehman is now president of the Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Association, so I have also mailed a copy of these materials to him. The necessity of modifying the intersection traffic control to either an all-way stop or a traffic signal was evaluated. An all-way stop is a very inefficient traffic control system, but can be implemented relatively easily. A traffic signal is a much more effective type of traffic control, but is much more expensive to implement, especialiy if pavement improvements are needed. There are specific studies used to evaluate each type of intersection control, which are stipulated in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Our first analysis involved evaluating an all-way stop at the intersection. The conclusion of that analysis was that at the present time there are more disadvantages than advantages to all-way stop control at this intersection. This analysis is summarized in the following report. The disadvantages include: · The collision history at the intersection is not excessive, but there is a trend to an increased number of collisions as traffic volume has increased. Between April 2002 and Aprii 2003 there were five reported collisions; three right-angle collisions and two rear-end collisions. Right-angle collisions are considered correctable by an all-way stop. However, the number of rear-end collisions would be expected to increase with an all-way stop. At least five collisions of a type correctable by an all-way stop are required within a one-year period to warrant instailation of an all-way stop. · We already receive complaints from residents along Scott Boulevard about the noise from large trucks on Scott Boulevard. Traffic noise from large trucks would increase significantly if all-way stop control was installed at the Court Street/Scott Boulevard intersection. · Interruption of arterial street traffic flow on Scott Boulevard is a concern because of the City Council's adopted policy to minimize traffic volume to the degree possible on First Avenue. An all-way stop at the Court Street/Scott Boulevard intersection would run counter to this policy and potentially increase traffic volume on First Avenue. I realize the First Avenue policy is probably not popular with residents of your neighborhood association, but it is the City Council's adopted policy nonetheless. 410 EAST WASHINGTON STREET· IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240-1826 . (319) 356·5000 . FAX (319) 356-5009 - .- ..- ~----~------""''''--'''''..''_._''''---''''''~._-''~--''''- '. " October 2, 2003 Page 2 Our traffic study concludes that a traffic signal is not yet warranted at the intersection, but once it is, it is the appropriate type of traffic control to be instalied. Because of the need to construct left turn lanes on Scott Boulevard in conjunction with a traffic signal, this project will cost in the vicinity of $300,000 to $400,000. At the rate traffic is increasing in this area, I would expect signalization and the construction of left-turn lanes at the Court Street/Scott Boulevard intersection to occur within the next three-to-flve year period. In the meantime if residents of the Windsor Ridge Neighborhood Association are uncomfortable with the traffic control at the Court Street/Scott Boulevard intersection, they may wish to cross Scott Boulevard at one of the controlled intersections at Rochester Avenue or American Legion Road. The enclosed traffic study has been reviewed by the City Manager, the Director of Planning and Community Development, the Director of Public Works, the City Engineer, and the Neighborhood Services Coordinator who concur with its conclusions. You may be aware that the Director of Public Works is a resident of your neighborhood. We will continue to monitor traffic conditions at this intersection to see if the coli is ion history increases to the point where an all-way stop is warranted as an interim measure until a signal can be installed. You and any member of your neighborhood association are, of course, free to correspond with the City Council regarding this matter. Ultimately, they make all of the decisions. Sincereiy, ~ ~A"" Jeff Davidson, Director Traffic Engineering Planning Enclosure cc: City Manager Director of Planning and Community Development Director of Public Works City Engineer Neighborhood Services Coordinator JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner Tim Lehman jccogtplltrlbarron,doc < , ~ ~JCCOG =- ~ f~~ m e m 0 Date: September 24, 2003 r.... To: Jeff Davidson, JCCOG Director '( From: Anissa Williams, JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner ()JJJ Re: Scott BoulevardlCourt Street All-Way Stop Evaluation This memorandum documents the findings of an evaluation of an all-way stop for the intersection of Scott Boulevard and Court Street in Iowa City. The study was done to evaluate the safety of the intersection in response to complaints that have been received regarding the difficulty of entering Scott Boulevard from Court Street. Existing Conditions Figure 1 shows a sketch plan view of the intersection of Scott Boulevard and Court Street. The existing intersection currently operates under two-way stop sign control, with motorists from eastbound and westbound Court Street being stopped. Scott Boulevard operates under free flow. Scott Boulevard is posted 35 mph within the study area and Court Street is posted 25 mph. The study area is located in a predominantly residential developing area. There is a small neighborhood commercial zone at the Scott Boulevard/Court Street intersection. Scott Boulevard is an arterial roadway that has recently been extended north of Rochester Avenue to North Dodge Street in Iowa City. This extension provides a direct connection for motorists between east and north Iowa City. Court Street is an arterial roadway that provides a direct route between east Iowa City and downtown. Figure 1 shows the existing intersection approach layout. Each intersection approach has one lane in each direction. There are no separate turn lanes. Traffic Count Data JCCOG collected traffic count and speed data at the intersection in July 2003. Figure 2 shows the 24-hour Average Daily Traffic volumes. Scott Boulevard north of Court Street recorded 9,250 vehicles per day (vpd), and south of Court Street recorded 9,044 vpd. Court Street east of Scott Boulevard recorded a volume of 3,232 vpd, and west of Scott Boulevard recorded a volume of 4,572 vpd. On Scott Boulevard, 85th percentile speed for northbound traffic was 40 mph, and for southbound traffic was 39 mph. Existing Capacity Analysis The existing intersection capacity was analyzed using unsignalized intersection capacity analysis methods outlined in the latest edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). The morning and afternoon peak traffic hours were examined. Under existing conditions, Scott Boulevard operates at very good Level of Service (LOS) A, on a scale of A-unrestricted flow, to F- extreme congestion. In the a.m. peak hour, Court Street operates at an acceptable LOS D. In the p.m. peak traffic hour, Court Street operates at poor to very poor LOS E and F. The overall intersection Level of Service is a very good LOS A in the a.m. peak hour and LOS C in the p.m. peak hour. Table 1 summarizes the capacity analysis results for existing conditions. < Figure 1 0 I ntersection Approach. Cl: <1: > Layout w ~ :J 0 OJ ~ t f- f- /TOP SlG' 0 u if) q COURT STREET +- +- \) .... .... Þ STOP SIG/ . ¡ t ~ Johnson County N I ,- Figure 2 Location: Scott Blvd. & Court St. intersection JCCOG Date recorded: Julv 22-25 2003 Requested by: Jp.ff n~virl<;()n (';ity nf fowa City 2003 Traffic Count Program I ~I~ <.11 () ~ ) 9,250 l 2,315 1,598 w - - :::14,5721 3,232r -- 2,257 1,634 '\ ~ Court SI. \ 'ëQ :t:: 0 '-' (j) I I Numbers shown indicate 24-hour ~ average daily traffic Data recorded by NC97 HI-STAR data classifier If there are any questions. contact the JCCOG r__~JCCOG Transportation Planning Division at 356-5235. ,... .. ~ TABLE 1 Unsignalized Intersection Capacity Analysis Summary Intersection of Court Street with Scott Boulevard Existing Conditions A.M. Peak Hour P.M. Peak Hour Movement Lanes Vol. (vph) Queue (Ft) Delav (seclveh) LOS Vol. (vph) Queue (Ft) Delav (seclveh) LOS Court Street Eastbound Left 54 - - 56 Through 1 38 64 27.7 D 62 186 87.4 F Right 51 - 68 Westbound Left 35 - - 25 Through 1 86 74 26 D 44 76 44.5 E .þ. Right 57 - 38 - Scott Boulevard Northbound Left 63 - - 97 - Through 1 231 5 8.1 A 359 3 8.3 A Right 26 - - 40 - Southbound Left - 25 48 - - Through 1 268 2 7.8 A 281 1 8.3 A Right - 52 - 76 - - - Overall Intersection: 9.8 A 19.4 C NOTE: LOS - Level of Service _ Indicates movement shares traffic lane IløJCCOG I " All-Way Stop Evaluation An all-way stop evaluation was performed using the warrants prescribed in the 2000 edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Only existing traffic volume conditions were used in evaluating these warrants. Warrant A: Interim Measure The first warrant applies only to intersections that have been approved for signalization and the all-way stop is used as an interim measure. This warrant does not apply. Warrant B: Crash Problem Warrant B states that if there are five or more reported crashes in a 12-month period that are susceptible to correction by a multiway stop installation, then an all-way stop should be considered at the location. For the intersection of Scott Boulevard and Court Street, there were five reported crashes between April 2002 and April 2003. Three of the collisions were right angle collisions and are considered correctable by a multiway stop installation. The remaining two were rear end collisions and are not correctable by a multiway stop. A multiway stop will increase the probability of rear-end collisions. This warrant is not met. Four of the collisions occurred between January 2003 and April 2003. I recommend monitoring the crash history at this intersection for the remainder of 2003. Warrant C: Minimum Volumes The third warrant details required minimum traffic volumes for an all-way stop. Figure 3 shows the volumes for Scott Boulevard and Court Street for a typical 24-hour weekday, with Scott Boulevard being used as the major street. Vehicle volume entering the intersection from the major street approaches should average at least 300 vehicles per hour for any eight hours of an average day. For Scott Boulevard, the average traffic volume for the highest volume eight hours of an average day is 632 vehicles per hour. Warrant C1 is met. The minor street approaches should average at least 200 units per hour for the same 8 hours. Vehicular volumes may be combined with pedestrian and bicycle volumes on the minor street approaches. Pedestrian volumes were recorded only for the peak hours of the day, but when added into the volume totals, they did not significantly change the average volume for the eight hours. For Court Street, the average traffic volume for the same eight hours is 285 vehicles per hour. Warrant C2 is met. Options There are four other criteria that may be considered in an all-way stop engineering study. The first is the need to control left-turn conflicts. The second criterion is the need to control vehiclelpedestrian conflicts near locations of high pedestrian volumes. The third criterion pertains to restricted visibility. The fourth criterion describes a situation where the operation at two residential neighborhood collector streets of similar design and operating characteristics could be improved. These criteria do not apply to the intersection of Court Street and Scott Boulevard. 5 " Figure 3 Multi-way STOP Evaluation Scott Bouievard- MAJOR Street Court Street - MINOR Street End of hour Scott Boulevard Court Street TOTAL MAJOR ST. MINOR ST. 7/22/2003 Southbound Northbound Eastbound Westbound ENTERING TOTAL TOTAL 1:00 PM 239 274 146 160 819 513 306 2:00 PM 236 274 137 137 784 510 274 3:00 PM 267 293 120 112 792 560 232 4:00 PM 299 317 131 145 892 616 276 5:00 PM 336 372 187 159 1054 708 346 6:00 PM 314 444 205 177 1140 758 382 7:00 PM 296 283 151 153 883 579 304 8:00 PM 210 205 126 131 672 415 257 9:00 PM 153 176 130 91 550 329 221 10:00 PM 148 147 93 80 468 295 173 11:00PM 122 98 58 56 334 220 114 m 12:00 AM 71 74 29 46 220 145 75 1:00 AM 33 58 23 14 128 91 37 2:00 AM 26 16 8 6 56 42 14 3:00 AM 27 10 6 4 47 37 10 4:00 AM 26 14 5 7 52 40 12 5:00 AM 22 14 9 6 51 36 15 6:00 AM 80 43 25 20 168 123 45 7:00 AM 145 122 46 61 374 267 107 8:00 AM 314 254 125 124 817 568 249 9:00 AM 313 264 123 132 832 577 255 10:00 AM 266 230 115 116 727 496 231 11:00AM 241 230 130 135 736 471 265 12:00 PM 233 270 102 133 738 503 235 HIGHEST AVERAGE HOURLY VEHICULAR VOLUME FOR ANY 8 HOURS ENTERING THE INTERSECTION FROM THE MAJOR STREET =632 (Highest volume- 8 hr. period) AVERAGE HOURLY COMBINED VEHICULAR. PEDESTRIAN. BICYCLE VOLUME FOR THE SAME 8 HOURS ENTERING THE INTERSECTION FROM THE MINOR STREET APPROACHES =285 II~JCCOGI , Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis Due to the average daily traffic volumes being high, a traffic signal warrant analysis was performed using the 24-hour machine traffic counts. Traffic signal warrants 1 and 2 of the 2000 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) were evaluated with respect to the observed traffic volumes. Warrants 3-8 are not applicable to this intersection. Figure 4 is a worksheet using the traffic data obtained from the mechanical traffic counters. As can be seen from Figure 4, no traffic signal warrants were met based on vehicular volume. Capacity Analysis All-way stop control intersection capacity analyses were performed for the A.M. and P.M. peak traffic periods. Table 2 summarizes the results of the analyses. Under all-way stop control, approach delay for Court Street is reduced but Scott Boulevard delay increases. The overall intersection delay with all-way stop control is worse than existing conditions. Conclusions Based on analysis of the 2000 MUTCD multiway stop warrants, Warrants C1 and C2 are met. However, this does not preclude the use of engineering judgment in making the determination of whether or not a change in traffic control is needed at this intersection. Warrants A, C3, and D are not applicable to this intersection. There are disadvantages to installing an all-way stop at this intersection. With all-way stop control there will likely be a higher occurrence of rear end collisions on Scott Boulevard. There will be more traffic noise from accelerating and decelerating vehicles, especially large trucks, which will be perceived negatively by the neighborhood. The average delay per vehicle for the intersection would increase with an all-way stop. Interruption of arterial corridor traffic flow is an additional negative impact. The City Council constructed Scott Boulevard north of Rochester Avenue in a manner that attempted to increase traffic volume on Scott Boulevard and lessen traffic volume on First Avenue. This was largely because of several schools that are located along First Avenue. An all-way stop at the Scott BoulevardlCourt Street intersection would run counter to this policy and potentially increase traffic volume on First Avenue. Despite the perception by some motorists that there is a safety problem at this intersection, this is not substantiated by the collision history. There were five reported collisions in the period April 2002-April 2003. Three of the collisions were of a type (right angle) that is considered correctable by all-way stop control; two of the collisions were of a type (rear-end) that would be expected to increase with all-way stop control. Installation of all-way stop control is not recommended at this time. The intersection should continue to be monitored to determine if there is a change in crash frequency or type that would justify all-way stop control. The traffic situation for vehicies on Court Street is inconvenient during the p.m. peak hour, with delays of one minute to 1.5 minutes for eastbound vehicles. Based on the location of these two roadways in a developing residential area, traffic volumes on Scott Boulevard and Court Street are likely to increase significantly. I recommend continuing to monitor this intersection each year to assess the need for a traffic signal. Traffic signal Warrant 1-A is 50% of being met; as soon as it is met, a traffic signal with separate left-turn lanes on each approach is an appropriate traffic control strategy for this intersection. Let me know if you have any questions regarding this matter. jccogtp/mem/aw~studymemo1,doc 7 Figure 4 Scott Boulevard and Court Street MUTCD Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis MAJOR STREET MINOR STREET Scott Boulevard Court Street TOTAL TOTAL End of Hour Southbound Northbound Eastbound Westbound East West 200 PM 239 274 146 160 513 146 160 3:00 PM 236 274 137 137 510 137 137 400 PM 267 293 120 112 560 120 112 500 PM 299 317 131 145 616 131 145 6:00 PM 336 372 187 159 708 187 159 700 PM 314 444 205 177 758 205 177 800 PM 296 283 151 153 579 151 153 900 PM 210 205 126 131 415 126 131 1000 PM 153 176 130 91 329 130 91 1100 PM 148 147 93 80 295 93 80 1200 AM 122 98 58 56 220 58 56 100AM 71 74 29 46 145 29 46 200 AM 33 58 23 14 91 23 14 OJ 3:00 AM 26 16 8 6 42 8 6 4:00 AM 27 10 6 4 37 6 4 500 AM 26 14 5 7 40 5 7 600 AM 22 14 9 6 36 9 6 700 AM 80 43 25 20 123 25 20 8:00 AM 145 122 46 61 267 46 61 9:00 AM 314 254 125 124 568 125 124 10:00 AM 313 264 123 132 577 123 132 11:00AM 266 230 115 116 496 115 116 1200 PM 241 230 130 135 471 130 135 1:00 PM 233 270 102 133 503 102 133 II~JCCOGI ~ TABLE 2 All-Way Stop Control Intersection Capacity Analysis Summary Intersection of Court Street with Scott Boulevard A.M. Peak Hour P.M. Peak Hour I Movement Lanes Vol. (vph) Queue 1Ft) Delav (sec/veh) LOS Vol. (vph) Queue 1Ft) Delav (seclveh) LOS Cou rt Street Eastbound Left 54 - - 56 - - Through 1 38 50 15.0 C 62 100 31.7 D Right 51 - - 68 - Westbound Left - 35 25 - - CD Through 1 86 50 14.7 B 44 70 21.6 C Right - 57 - - 38 - - - Scott Boulevard Northbound Left 63 - - - 97 - - Through 1 231 80 11.3 B 359 #230 13.7 B Right - 26 - - - 40 - - Southbound Left 25 - - 48 - - - Through 1 268 80 11.9 B 281 90 12.2 B Right - 52 - - - 76 - Overall Intersection: 13.91 B 23.7 C NOTE: LOS - Level of Service _ Indicates movement shares traffic lane ~r1lfiJCCOGI };J June 4, 2004 ~(O)¡gþ Lowell Soike Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer SENT CERTIFIED MAIL, State Historical Society of Iowa RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED 600 East Locust Street Des Moines, IA 50319-0290 ,,' Re: Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, Portions of 200-600 Blocks ofN. Gilbert &ð Linn 3.í!'eet, Iowa City, Johnson County :E n Z- 402 East Market Street .:.- :::. ~;; Il 204 North Gilbert Street I = 210 North Gilbert Street --.J , Tl 214 North Gilbert Street. fT· -:::> ,-'-' ~") :::~::c'_ - ,-j :::- /' - Dear Mr. Soike: ~ .. .¡:- - On Friday, May 7,2004, my family and several other owners of property in the above area received notices from the State Historical Society of Iowa that our properties had been nominated for placement on the National Registry of Historic Places. We were further advised that if we wished to object, our written and notarized comments should be sent to you before June II, 2004. Please consider this letter a serious objection to that step, and a request that the above properties be immediately and permanently withdrawn from consideration. We were all "blind-sided" by this and had no idea or knowledge that this was being done, or by whom. We were not asked nor consulted about this, and it is being done totally against our wishes, and obviously without approval from any of the property owners. The above properties have been owned by various family members since the late 1800's, passed along through inheritance. They consist of four buildings on three residential lots, so obviously they are very close together and not compliant with current zoning. The building at 402 East Market Street is a very small frame "neighborhood bar", with the business currently run by a 60-year old man, the third generation of his family to do so. The City of Iowa City informed us years ago that with a then change in the zoning, this property was being "grandfathered in", and when the current business owner/manager ceases to run the tavern, it can no longer be run as a tavern or bar. That will result in its being tom down because of the small size of the lot and the applicable zoning, since the portion of the lot it is on is too small to allow reconstruction or new construction of any kind. The other three properties are old houses, not particularly well built and not particularly pretty or architecturally different. There have been some mutterings through the years from others that these "might be kind of historic", but they, indeed, are not. In their history with this family, they have always been the bar, and three houses, now all rental units. These properties are bounded on two sides by a very busy 2- lane I-way street, and an equally busy 2·lane arterial street/bus route; on one side by an alley which dead ends into the Mercy Hospital Emergency Ambulance Entrance, and on the fourth side by two small lots which are immediately between us and Mercy Hospital. North of this alley is a parking lot owned by Mercy Hospital, which is also being included in this districting. Diagonally across the street from the parking lot is a long-time gas station, which has been for sale and has lost several potential buyers once they heard about this project. A parking lot is by no means historic or valuable nor is a gas station, nor is ..~- our old property. Across the street directly west is an old building containing a paint store; an area remodeled for a live performance theatre; and a small barber shop. At many times through the years, Mercy Hospital and various developers have contacted virtually every family member asking to buy our property so it could be tom down for them to use for expansion of the hospital or development (not retention of the buildings). Owning rental property such as ours in Iowa City is an expensive proposition. With ever increasing City rental rules and inspections, and costs of maintenance, upkeep, and repair, it is very difficult to make any type of profit to justify the costs of ownership. When our mother died in 1999, in order to avoid selling the properties then to pay Federal Estate Tax in her estate because of the "rental business", we were forced to defer Federal Estate payments over a lO-year period, place a lien on part of the property, and make yearly payments (right now interest only) in an effort to keep the property. If we live to see it paid off, I will be 65 and my brother, who has developed serious health problems since then, may be dead. After that, our estates will be forced to sell the properties if they have not already been sold. With the surprise unsolicited and unapproved inclusion of these properties in this district, it will be even more cost-prohibitive for us to maintain rental property. Because of these properties' age and lack of quality, when repairs and upkeep are required, it needs to be done as inexpensively and quickly as possible, so rental income can continue to be earned to help defray expenses. Again, they are not works of art, they are two old frame buildings and a garage, one deteriorating brick building, and an old bar/tavern building which is non-conforming to the zone it is grandfathered into. Because of family circumstances, increasing costs and rules (including City rental rules and historic preservation rules), I can almost personally guarantee that when the time comes when these properties are no longer profitable whether because of (and particularly because of) rules or expenses or family situations at the time, that these properties will be sold and demolished. I would not want to incur the costs to upkeep them, and no developer in his right mind would incur them either. Since these letters were received, one of the property owners has learned that the Mayor and City Council knew nothing of this "nomination" either. Something is seriously wrong somewhere. I am again requesting and indeed, demanding that the above four properties be immediately withdrawn from inclusion for consideration for placement on the National Registry of Historic Places. Things like this should come from the property owners who desire it, rather than an organization itself. I would like to receive a response after the June II meeting. Thank you for your important consideration of this request. Very truly yours, ÛtuJ~ .'--, ö ~) hudacek c::::J ~- 34 Bedfor Court ~0 '-- Iowa City, IA 52240 .t,,_ 'Tl I --- -.I Cc: Elizabeth Foster Hill 1'1 Tax Incentive Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator """D , '-~"I 0 \~-~; State Historical Society of Iowa <;: - .. 600 East Locust Street "'- » ~ Des Moines, IA 50319-0290 - Cc: Iowa City City Clerk and Iowa City Mayor and City Council Members STATE OF IOWA ) ) SS: JOHNSON COUNTY ) On this t.j. 'If¡ day of June, 2004, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa, personally appeared Mary Ellen Chudacek, to me known to be the person named in and who executed the foregoing letter as an involved property owner, and acknowledged that she executed the same to be her voluntary act and deed. ¡ ~ ~! ow. "--) c-.. 0 =---, ~ :2:CJ L_ =>=.-- -11 ~-~. CJ I - ~C'~, -J _/ r"--- .-·rJ ~ --.. Iii -0 ---1 o~ ~. \.j <;:/" - ~ .. .¡:- - - ------, ---"'.. ._-.--., ,________,_____ .____~"__n.__~_____,_"___.__~_.~,_.._"_~_ ------------- STATE HISTORICAL ¡SOCIETY of OW A A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs ? June 4, 2004 ~/ Mr. Stephen J. Atkins, City Manager cJ.i1 City ofIowa City 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240-1826 RE: State Nomination Review Committee meeting June II, 2004 - Gilbert·Linn Historic District, Jefferson Street Historic District and Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase), Iowa City, Johnson County Dear Mr. Atkins, We have received your FAX regarding the removal of the above referenced historic district nominations from the June II, 2004 agenda of the State Nomination Review Committee. This project is funded with a Certified Local Government (CLG) grant that ends June 30, 2004. According to the grant contract for the project, the nominations need to be presented at the June 11,2004 State Nominations Review Committee meeting and revised following that meeting in order to meet the contract deadline. We have discussed this with Shelly McCafferty, the grant project director. We propose that the nominations remain on the June II, 2004 agenda. After the meeting the nominations would be revised by the consultant and then held by our office for up to 60 days to give the city time to respond to citizen concerns. After that time the nominations will be forwarded to the National Park Service for final review and possible listing. All notarized owner objections wi11 accompany the nominations to Washington, D.C. Our office must follow Federal Regulations governing the processing of nominations submitted to us. You may view CFR36 Part 60 on the National Park Service web site at http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topicallcrm/usdocs/36cfr60.html. Specifically, we direct you to section 60.6 (c) and (g) and section 60.11 (c) of this code. Notification of the State's intent to bring these nominations before the State Review Board has been sent to owners of 199 properties within these three historic districts. Federal regulations require the majority (50% plus I) of property owners to object in order to prevent the property from being listed. To date we have received only eight notarized objections to the nominations, 1 for the Brown Street Historic District (boundary Increase) and 7 for the Gilbert-Linn Historic District. We responded to owner concems and sent 2 F AQ sheets regarding the National Register program, the text of 60.6 (g), a list of incentives available for properties listed on the National Register, and a copy of the contributing and noncontributing properties within their specific district. It is important to note that delaying the nominations could present potential delays for non-objecting owners who wish to apply fer State and Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits, Exemption Tax Creòits and grams, If you have further questions please contact Ralph Christian, Historian and the grant manager for this project. You may contact him at 515/281-8697 or Ralph.Christian@iowa.gov. Si~~ Dr. Lowell Soike, Deputy SHPO Chief, Historic Preservation Bureau Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City HPC 600 EAST LOCUST STREET, DES MOINES, JA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5] 11 ..-. - - --- ,- --.-.--...--.-. "-- ..-., ,----------- ..."...._----,--- June 1, 2004 Lowell Soike Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer 0 ~ State Historical Society of Iowa :? 0 -:.= 600 East Locust Street J:-: =" ,:;,: 11 Des Moines IA 50319-0290 ~< ,-- I " I ill . ì Il (i'! -0 ,--1 o :;T~ == i,_...) 5/"- r:--: Re: Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, Portions of 2QO..600 Blocks of N. Gilbert & N. ufJñ: StreetCJ1 Iowa City, Johnson County -' I received your letter advising me that the two properties, 311 and 315 N. Gilbert, were being considered by the State National Register Nominations Review Committee for nomination to the National Register of -Historic Places. I am the sole owner of these properties. I wish to object to the listing. This property is in a commercíal zone and I would assume that eventually it would be the site for some commercial use. It would have béen helpful if a separate meeting of those affected had been held instead ofOfleinconjunction with the 2004 Historic Preservation Recognition Program here in Iowa City. I respectfully request thatboth properties, 311 and 315N. GIlbert, be excluded. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, ~tlM-v #~:r...._ ¡ ~/..ð.y- cc. Elizabeth Foster Hill Subscribed and sworn to by Pabicia Ann Fisher before the undersigned Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa on the first day of June, 2004. & . , 'l!~ ~~ ___ Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa ~ (93, 2 ¡; - 0 C cb :¿C>7273 , _->t/¡Þ ~....'._ - ___mo. ~____ __..~..____~._,~ , "._,.._._.. _ _.~_.__._______.__..___..____._______._..____._.__ _ I ~ 1 CITY OF IOWA CITY :;:] --= -~!t ~~Wi!S MEMORANDUM -..::...... "'IIDI~ ...,..~ DATE: 06/09/04 TO: City Council FROM: Shelley McCafferty, Associate Planner RE: Nomination of Northside districts to the National Register The Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission has proposed that three new areas in the Northside Neighborhood be nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. These areas are the Gilbert- Linn Street Historic District, Jefferson Street Historic District and the Ronalds Street Extension of the Brown Street Historic District. Due to concerns you have received from property owners in these proposed districts, I would like to clarify various questions and concerns that have arisen regarding the nomination of these districts to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). How will NRHP designation restrict property rights? Desionation of NRHP districts does not imcose anv additional restrictions on properties within the district unless federal financino is used. However, any property within an NRHP district may be eligible for various tax incentives if an approved substantial rehabiiitation is undertaken. This may include incentives for noncontributing properties. The Historic Preservation Commission is exploring means in which to make these incentives more practicable and accessible for Iowa City property owners. What is the process by which these districts are nominated? In 1992, City Council adopted the Iowa City Historic Preservation Plan, which was prepared by architectural historian Marlys Svendsen. One of the goals of the plan is to survey and evaluate historic neighborhoods to determine areas that are eligible for the NRHP. In 1996, the Survey and Evaluation of the Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor was completed. Subsequently the Survey and Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phases 1and 2 were completed in 1997 and 1999 respectively, and the Survey and Evaluation ofthe Goosetown Neighborhood was completed in 2000. Following the completion of the Northside surveys, it was determined that three areas would potentialiy be eligible for nomination to the NRHP. For the purpose of hiring a consultant to prepare the NRHP nominations for the three potential historic districts, the Historic Preservation Commission applied for a Certified Local Government grant from the State Historical Society of Iowa. Because this grant required a City match of $4,795, on '- -..-..-....-. ---- ______..____.._.._".._.~._.....__.....__._.._ ...__.w___.._" November 19, 2002 City Council passed a resolution authorizing the Commission to submit the grant application (attached). The City was awarded the $7,000 CLG grant. The City signed a contract with Marlys Svendsen to complete the necessary research and prepare the nominations. As is standard practice, in October 13, 2003 Ms. Svendsen presented her initial findings to residents of the Northside neighborhood at Horace Mann School. The residents were informed of the meeting via the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. On April 8, 2004 the Historic Preservation Commission reviewed the final draft of the nominations and found that the proposed districts complied with the criteria of the Secretary of the Interior for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The State Historical Society of Iowa mailed letters dated May 3 (attached) to each property owner within the proposed districts informing them of the review of the nominations by the State National Register Nominations Review Committee to be held on June 11. The letter also informed the residents of the process by which they may object to the nominations and the State and Federal financial assistance that may be available to properties listed on the NRHP. At the historic preservation awards on May 5 , Ms. Svendsen presented the nominations and a meeting was scheduled following the awards for the public to ask questions and voice their concerns. Each property owner received notification of this meeting by mail (attached, dated April 23). Because each of the three nominations is approximately 35 pages long, copies of the nominations were not mailed to each owner. At the request of the City Manager on behalf for City Council, due to the letters received protesting the nomination of properties within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, the State has agreed not to proceed with forwarding their recommendations regarding the nominations to the National Park Service for 60 days from June 11. At this time, can the nomination of these proposed districts to the NRHP be stopped? With any NRHP nomination, the Historic Preservation Commission and the Chief Elected Local Official (Mayor) must sign a CLG National Register Review signifying that they find that the proposed nomination is eligible or ineligible for the NRHP based on the criteria of the Secretary of Interior. A professional architectural historian may also provide an opinion on the nomination. At their April 4 meeting, by a vote of 6-0, the Historic Preservation Commission voted that the three proposed districts comply with the criteria. The State will review the nominations to determine if they comply with the criteria on June 11. In October, the State will forward the nominations to the National Park Service, who will make the final determinations for approval of the districts. - -_..---.,"',--,- --,.-......_---,-~--.,------ If over 50% of the property owners of any proposed district protest the nomination of the district, the district will not be listed on the NRHP. In the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic District, there are 80 different property owners, seven of which have protested; in the proposed Jefferson Street Historic District, there are 26 different owners, none of which have protested; in the proposed the Ronalds Street Extension of the Brown Street Historic District, there are 59 owners, none of which have protested. In the event that over 50% of the owners of a given district protest the nomination, the nomination will stiil be forwarded to the National Park Service for their determinations of NRHP eligibility. If a district is determined eligible, although it will not be officially listed on the NRHP, property owners within the proposed district may still be eligible for various financial incentives for historic rehabilitation. What is the relationship between NRHP districts and local historic districts? At this time, all the NRHP districts in Iowa City have also been rezoned with a Historic Preservation Overlay, which is used to designate local ordinance historic districts. Once rezoned as a local historic district, regulations for changes to the exterior of properties that require a building permit are applicable. These regulations may be found in the Iowa City Historic Preservation Handbook. Desiqnation of NRHP districts and local historic districts are two separate processes. The NRHP nomination process determines that a proposed district is historically significant based on criteria established by the Secretary of the Interior. If following extensive research it is determined that a proposed district is eligible for the NRHP, then it will also comply with the criteria of the Iowa State Code and Iowa City Zoning Code for local historic district designation. However, because a district is listed on the NRHP does not mean that it will automaticallv become a local historic district. For a local historic district to be established, the area must be rezoned, which involves public hearings at the Historic Preservation Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission, and City Council, who makes the final determination on the rezoning. Also, local historic designation does not require previous NRHP designation, however the same depth of historic and architectural research would be required. The Historic Preservation Commission does not intend on proposing local historic districts in the near future. If in future local districts are proposed, it is not required that their boundaries correspond with the NRHP districts. Why are properties that are not historically significant included in the NRHP nominations? Nominating these districts to the National Register of Historic Places establishes the historic significance of the districts. Due to changes over time, in any historic district there will be properties that do not contribute to the historic significance of the district. To the extent possible, the boundaries are drawn to excluded noncontributing properties from the district. Of the approximately 200 properties in the proposed districts, only 13 (7%) are considered to be noncontributing, which is substantially less then the 40% maximum that is typically allowed. As state previously, the criteria for determining if a district or property is historically significant is based on criteria established by the Secretary of the Interior. For properties to be listed on the NRHP thev must be siqnificant to the local community. Many of these properties are not significant enough to be listed on the NRHP as an individual historic landmark. However, they are significant for their contribution to the overall historic neighborhood character and history. In addition, some buildings may appear to be quite ordinary; however, they may have unique cultural significance. For example, the Foxhead at Market and Gilbert Streets is the oldest bar in Iowa City and has been a popular hangout for many famous writers who have participated in the International Writer's Workshop. The NRHP nominations, which are attached, describe the significance of each proposed district and many of the individual properties. Please find attached additional information regarding the National Register of Historic Places. Also attached are maps of the districts and the NRHP nominations for the three proposed Northside districts. I Mr(o 9 Prepared by: Shelley McCafferty, Associate Planner. 410 E. Washington 51., Iowa City, IA 52240; 319-356·5243 RESOLUTION NO. 02-398 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION TO FILE AN APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFIED LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CLG) GRANT TO OBTAIN FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING FOUR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES NOMINATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED NORTH LINN STREET, NORTH GILBERT STREET, EAST JEFFERSON STREET AND EAST RONALDS STREET HISTORIC DISTRICTS, LOCATED IN THE NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. WHEREAS, the State Historical Society of Iowa administers the Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant program to assist local communities with historic preservation projects; and WHEREAS, the City of Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission has prepared an application for a CLG Grant for $7.000 for the purpose of preparing four National Register of Historic Places nominations for the proposed North Linn Street, North Gilbert Street, East Jefferson Street, and East Ronalds Street Historic Districts; and WHEREAS, said grant will require local matching funds of $4,795, which the Historic Preservation Commission proposes to provide through funds allocated in the budget for historic 'preservation activities and in-kind costs; and WHERAS, surveys and evaluations of the Original Town Plat Phase 1, Orignal Town Plat Phase 2, and the DubuquelLinn Street Corridor have been completed; and WHEREAS, said grant will aid the City in its efforts to identify, protect and property develop its historic resources, in accordance with the Iowa City Historic Preservation Plan. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA, THAT: 1. The Historic Preservation Commission is hereby authorized to file an application for a CLG Grant of to $7,000 for the purpose of preparing four National Register of Historic Places nominations for the proposed Long North Linn Street, North Gilbert Street, East Jefferson Street, and East Ronalds Street Historic Districts, which will require $4,795 in matching local funds, donations, and in-kind services and supplies. Passed and approved this 19th "y~~û AYOR ATTEST:~~';> 9f'. #æuJ rfoved b~ ~ 'Q-1..0-D2- CICLERK City Attorney's Office '-~'- m. ____" . ___.._ ._~__ .,_...____.. ~--- -~-".- "-.- - ..--. ---. -..---...-----"'--...----.- ..~----~._-_.._..- -..-.'".------.--.---. -- .". ,... I Resolution No. 02-398 Page 2 II was moved by Pfab and seconded by Champion the Resolution be adopted, and upon roll call there were: AYES: NAYS: ABSENT: X Champion X Kanner X Lehman X O'Donnell X Pfab X Vanderhoef X Wilburn ~ ! ~~~~'t ~... _l1li1'- ....... CITY OF IOWA CITY 23 April, 2004 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240-] 826 (3] 91 356·5000 (319) 356·5009 FAX www.icgov.org Dear Northside Neighborhood Resident; The Historic Preservation Commission in conjunction with Friends of Historic Preservation will hold the 22nd Annual 2004 Historic Preservation Recognition Program on Wednesday, May 5. In addition to recognizing owners, contractors and consultants for historically appropriate building projects, architectural historian Marlys Svendsen will present a program on her recommendations for historic districts in the Northside neighborhood. Ms. Svendsen has completed the National Register of Historic Places nominations for two new historic districts, the Jefferson Street Historic District and Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, and the expansion of the Brown Street Historic District. A map of these districts is provided on the back of this letter. As a resident of one of these districts, you are cordially invited to attend the awards ceremony and the presentation about the Northside Historic Districts. Following the program, Ms. Svendsen will be available to further discuss the districts and answer any questions. The awards program will be held on Wednesday, May 5 at the Congregatoinal United Church of Christ, 30 N. Clinton Street. Refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 6:00 p.m. If you have any questions please contact me at 356-5243 or via email at shellev- mcca ffertv@iowa-citv.org. Sincerely, (/f¿:f:f7T Associate Planner April 2004 National Register of Historic Places Northside Historic Districts / / 'I '/ ! I / / :, / / ,I ,/ 0) / / 1 , 1 , , 0)'1 ',' , " 1 \ \ I \ ¡ / " ] i r / ì ì "1 I HAPPY I i ,,~W^"^"W w.~ i HOLLOW i I : i ' , PARK I I [! I ì I I [,-------------; '",,,.....,,,,,,,..,..,,,,..,..,,_'...."' ,----------------,---,,,,: I Brown Street Historic District i ----------------- r--- I ,----------- .-. Iii: i ! ...-....-.... .'....-......--- - ...'....-.... - _...-....-. ElrºJn IªJr~E!t"iHikto;i~øi$t;i~tn ST Ex~nl>ion l~__~J --"-----'---0'1 cHURCH ST I e- If) MARKET ST H~£:I~XL _.....m" J , , ! I ! ! ' : : L Jeffer$onStreet Historic! District ì JEFFERSON IOWA AVE . .' STATE . HISTORICAL . IôwXO/ A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs May 3, 2004 John K. Kammenneyer 404 E. Bloomington SI. Iowa City, fA 52245 RE: Gilbert-Lillll Street Historic District, Portions of 200·600 Blocks ofN. Gilbert & N. Linn Street, Iowa City, Johnson County Dear Friends: We are pleased to infonn you that the above named property will be considered by the State National Register Nominations Review Committee for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on June 11,2004. The National Register is the Federal Government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation. Listing in the National Register provides recognition and assists in preserving our Nation's heritage. Listing of the property provides recognition of the community's historic importaflce and assures protective review of Federal projects that might adversely affect the character of the historic property. Listing in the National Register does not mean that limitations will be piaced on the properties by the Federal government. Public visitation rights are not required of owners. The Federal government will not attach restrictive covenants to the properties or seek to acquire them. Listing in the National Register results in: · Consideration in the planning for Federal, federally licensed, and federally assisted projects. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires Federal agencies allow the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation an opportunity to comment on projects affecting historic properties listed in the National Register. For further information please refer to 36 CFR 800. · Eligibiiity for Federal tax provisions. If a property is listed in the National Register, certain Federal tax provisions may apply. The Tax Refonn Act of 1986 revises the historic preservation tax incentives authorized by Congress in the Tax Refonn Act of 1976, the Revenue Act of 1978, the Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980, the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and Tax Refonn Act of 1984, and as of January I, 1987, provides for a 20 percent investment tax credit with a full adjustment to basis for rehabilitating historic commercial, industrial, and rental residential buildings. The fonner 15 percent and 20 percent investment Tax Credits (ITCs for rehabilitation of older commercial buildings are combined into a single 10 percent ITC for commercial or industrial buildings built before 1936. The Tax Treatment Extension Act of 1980 provides Federal tax deductions for charitable contributions for conservation purposes of partial interests in historically important land areas or structures. Whether these provisions are advantageous to a property owner is dependent upon the particular circumstances of the property and the owner. Because tax aspects outlined above are complex, individuals should consult legal counselor the appropriate local Internal Revenue Service office for assistance in determining the tax consequences of the above provisions. For further infonnation please refer to 36 CFR 67 and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.48-12 (ITCs) and 1.170A-14 (charitable contributions). · Consideration of historic values in the decision to issue a surface coal mining pennit where coal is located, in accord with the Surface Mining and Control Act of 1977. For further information please refer to 30 CFR 700 et seq. · Qualification for Federal and State grants for historic preservation when funds are available. 600 EAST Locusr STREET, DES MOINES, [A 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 , _... - , . May 3, 2004 Page 2 . Eligibility for State Tax Credits for rehabilitation. Properties listed on the National Register, eligible for listing on the Nationa] Register or Barns constructed before 1937 are eligible to apply for a 25 percent state tax credit for rehabilitation. The cost of a 24-month qualified rehabilitation project would exceed either $25,000 or 25 percent of the fair market value for a residential property or barn less the land before rehabilitation. For commercial properties, the rehabilitation project would exceed 50 percent of the assessed value of the property less the land before rehabílitation - whichever is less, The State Historic Preservation office must approve the rehabilitation work before an amount of tax credits will be reserved for your project. There are limited credits available each year, so let us know if you want the application information. Owners of private properties nominated to the National Register of Historic Places have an opportunity to concur in or object to listing in accord with the National Historic Preservation Act and 36 CFR 60. Any owner or partial owner of private property who chooses to object to listing is required to submit to the State Historic Preservation Officer a notarized statement certifying that the party is the sole or partial owner of the private property and objects to the listing. Each owner or partial owner of private property has one vote regardless of what part of the property that party owns. If a majority of private property owners object, a property will not be listed; however, the State Historic Preservation Officer shall submit the nomination to the Keeper of the National Register for a detennination of the eligibility of the property for listing in the National Register. If the property is then detennined eligible for listing, although not formally listed, Federal agencies will be required to allow the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation an opportunity to comment before the agency may fund, license, or assist a project which will affect the property. If you choose to object to the listing of your property, the notarized objection must be submitted to the State Historical Society ofIowa, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines, IA 50313 not more than 75 days trom the date of this notice. If you wish to comment on the nomination of the property to the National Register, please send your comments to the State Historical Society of Iowa before the State Nomination Review Committee meets on June 11, 2004. A copy of the nomination and information on the National Register are available trom http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/researchl. You are invited to attend the State Nomination Review Conunittee meeting at which the nomination will be considered. The meeting will take place in New Historical Building, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines, in classrooms A&B, 3rd floor West. A meeting agenda is enclosed. Should you have any questions about the National Register of Historic Places, Tax Incentives or about this nomination in . particular, please feel free to contact me by telephone at 515-281-4137 or by e·mail at beth.foster(â)dca.stateja.us. You may enjoy visiting the National Register website at http://www.cLnps.gov/nr/index.htm. . Sincerely, /i < ,,-/, . /. , ~ -j"rl:u.1:G-f'Uðh ¡tJdf' I "~'~/ for Lowell Soike Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer - ._~..__..__..... . - __'__...__n_.____. .. _.---------_...~~_._-----~_.--._..- , STATE HISTORICAL ISOCIETY of OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 John Kramrnenneyer 404 E. Bloomington Street Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 404 E. Bloomington and 412 E. Bloomington Street within the proposed Giibert-Linn Historic District Dear Dr. Krammenneyer: We received your notarized objection on June 1,2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the clty as to whether gratuitous public mectings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. FoIlowing is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less formal than I normally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to aU property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions." Federal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has] 03 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submittal are all we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at htto://www.cr.nvs.!lov/nrlindex.htm. The complete version ofCFR36 Part 60 can be found at http:/ /archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topical/crm/usdocs/36cfr60.html. Inteflritv oforooertv riflhts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it will be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolition. Sincerely, ~Juk I:W Elizabeth Foster Hill Tax Incentive Programs Manager/ National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LoCUST STREET. DES MOINES. IA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 · STATE HISTORICAL ¡SOCIETYOf OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 Don and Dorothy Fowles 3 I 0 North Gilbert Street Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 310 N. Gilbert located within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic District Dear Mr. and Mrs. Fowles: We received your notarized objection on June 1,2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous public meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. Following is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less formal than I normally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to all property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions." Fcderal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submittal are all we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at httD:!!www.cr.nps.20v!nr!index.htm. The complete version ofCFR36 Part 60 can be found at http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topical/crrn/usdocs/3 6cfr60 ,html. Inteflritv ofDrooertv riuhts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it will be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolition. Sincerely, 4littb Jub dU Elizabeth Foster Hili Tax Incentive Programs Manager! National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LoCUST STREET, DES MOINES, fA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 --,-- - - ._____"._ ....____~___ __ - ___m · STATE HISTORICAL IoWA of A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 Patricia Fisher 315 N. Gilbert Street Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 315 N. Gilbert and 311 N. Gilbert within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic District Dear Ms. Fisher: We received your notarized objection on June I, 2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous public meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. Following is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. OUT second meeting was less formal than I normally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to all property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions," Federal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being hsted in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submÜtal are all we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at htto:/lwww.cr.nps.gov/nrlindex.htm. The complete version of CFR36 Part 60 can be found at http:/ /archnet.asu.edu/archnetltopical/crm/usdocs/36cfr60.html. Intef!ritv oforooertv rif!hts. The owners of private property listed in the Nationa1 Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property wi1l be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it wi1l be rehabi1itated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolÜion. Sincerely, ~J~bW Elizabeth Foster Hill Tax Incentive Programs Manager/ National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa CÜy Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LOCUST STREET, DES MOINES, IA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 · STATE HISTORICAL ¡SOCIETY of OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 Rosalie Hancock 305 N. Gilbert Street Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 305 N. Gilbert Street within the proposed Gilbert·Linn Historic District Dear Ms. Hancock: We received your notarized objection on June I, 2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous public meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. Following is the response: "We had OUT first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to an property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less formal than I normaily do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nomÎnations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to all property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions." Federal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submittal are all we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the Nationa1 Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at htto://www.CT.nvs.gov/nrlindex.htm. The complete version of CFR36 Part 60 can be found at http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topical/crm/usdocs/3 6cfr60 .html. IntefIritv oforooertv rifIkts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it will be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevcnt its demolition. Sincerely, ~..s,tbJ~ J::tH Elizabeth Foster Hili Tax Incentive Programs Manager/ National Register Coordinator Cc: MaryIs Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LoCUST STREET, DES MOINES, IA 50319·0290 P: (515) 281-5111 ---- u_ STATE HISTORICAL ISOCIETYof OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 Tom Conway 225 N. Gilbert Street Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 225 N. Gilbert Street within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic Distnct--Replacement Submittal--Supercedes previous objection received May 21,2004 Dear Mr. Conway: We received your notarized objection on June 1,2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous public meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. Fo11owing is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less fonnal than I normally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to a11 property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the clty. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions." Federal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the scvcn objections included in this submittal are all we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at httD:!!www.cr.nDs.!!ov!nrlindex.htm. The complete version of CFR36 Part 60 can be found at http:/ /archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topi cal/crm/usdocs/36cfr60.html. Intel!ritv oforooertv riflhts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it will be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolition. Sincerely, 4~J~ I:W Elizabeth Foster Hill Tax Incentive Programs Manager! National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST loCUST STREET, DES MOINES, fA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281·5111 STATE HISTORICAL ¡SOCIETYOf OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs June 2, 2004 Howard Carroll 319 E. Bloomington Iowa City, IA 52245 RE: 319 E. Bloomington within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic District Dear Mr. Carroll: We received your notarized objection on June 1,2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous public meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. Following is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less formal than I nOnTIally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to all property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions." Federa1 Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submittal are al1 we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regard1ess of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office files. Enclosed is infoOllation that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at htto://www.cr.nDs.1!ov/nr/index.htm. The complete version ofCFR36 Part 60 can be found at http:/ /archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topical/cnn/usdocs/36cfr60.html. Inteflritv oforooertv riflhts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it wi11 be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolition. Sincerely, ~~tb .Juiu /::W Elizabeth Foster Hill Tax Incentive Programs Manager/ National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shel1ey McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LoCUST STREET, DES MOINES, IA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 .. _. - "'-."--~-------"-.-------"-'-~._-----'^- "-...--------.-.- · STATE HISTORICAL ¡SOCIETY of OWA A Division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affaírs June 2, 2004 Mary Ellen Chudacek Chudacek Partnership 214 N. Gilbert Street Iowa City, TA 52245 RE: 214,210,204 N. Gilbert Street and 402 E. Market Street within the proposed Gilbert-Linn Historic District Dear Ms. Chudacek: We received your notarized objection on June 1,2004. Inquiry was made of the consultant working for the city as to whether gratuitous pubJic meetings had been held regarding the three proposed historic districts proposed for Iowa City. FolJowing is the response: "We had our first meeting on October 13, 2003 to discuss the planned nominations. The city chose to provide notice of the meeting to all property owners in the neighborhood via an article in the Northside Neighborhood Newsletter. Our second meeting was less formal than I normally do. On May 6, 2004 I gave a presentation about the three Northside district nominations at the ICHPC's annual preservation awards program. Invitations to all property owners in the Northside districts was mailed out by the city. We invited property owners with questions about the nominations to ask questions after the awards program. There were no questions," Federal Regulations ascertain that 50 percent plus one (the majority) of the owners must object in order to prevent the district from being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This proposed historic district has 103 properties. To this point, the seven objections included in this submittal are al1 we have received for this nomination. Each owner of private property in a district has one vote regardless of how many properties or what part of one property that party owns and regardless of whether the property contributes to the significance of the district. Objections are forwarded to the National Park Service with the nomination and a copy kept in our office meso Enclosed is information that may help answer some of your questions and concerns regarding 1isting in the National Register of Historic Places. Also, enclosed is a copy of the section of regulation regarding objections. If you have web access you may want to visit the National Register website at htto:llwww.cr.nns.l!ov/nr/index.htm. The complete version ofCFR36 Part 60 can be found at http://archnet.asu.edu/archnet/topica1/cnn/usdocs/3 6cÍÌ"60 .html. Intef/ritv of orooertv rif/hts. The owners of private property listed in the National Register surrender none of their rights to the property. There is no requirement or expectation that the property will be made available for public visitation or inspection, or that it will be rehabilitated or restored. National Register listing does not guarantee protection of the property or prevent its demolition. Sincerely, ~Yuiu t:W Elizabeth Foster Hill Tax Incentive Programs Managerl National Register Coordinator Cc: Maryls Svendsen, Consultant, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. Shelley McCafferty, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 600 EAST LOCUST STREET, DES MOINES, IA 50319-0290 P: (515) 281-5111 THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. What is the National Register of Historic Places? The National Register was established by Congress in 1966, and is part of the National Historic Preservation Act, and is supervised in each state by a State Historic Preservation Officer. The Register is the official list of the nation's cultural resources considered worthy of preservation. The National Register seeks to recognize properties of historical, architectural, and archaeological significance, through a program of registration, financial aid and incentives, and partial protection from destruction by federally funded projects. This program is administered in Iowa by the State Historical Society of Iowa which has as one of its main concerns the preservation of those buildings, structures, sites and objects which effectively illustrate the many facets of the state's history. 2. How does Iowa's National Register Program work? The Community Programs Bureau gathers information about historic properties in Iowa through professional surveys and research, and from material submitted by interested individuals, historical groups, and a variety of federal, state, and local agencies. Those properties that have been nominated and for which sufficient information exists to determine their significance in terms of National Register criteria are submitted by the staff to a review body made up of representatives from the preservation professions as well as interested citizens from around the state. This review committee meets in public session three times per year to consider each property submitted, and to vote on the qualifications of each for the National Register of Historic Places. Nominations for properties so approved are then made to the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. If the National Park Service approves a nomination, that property is listed on the National Register. Nominations are generated both by this office, by local governments and other agencies, and by interested members of the public. 3. What about the rights of owners of properties listed on the National Register? National Register status in no way limits the right of an owner to preserve, alter, or even demolish his/her property. Owners are not required to do anything, or sign anything, or make any commitments regarding the use of their property, unless they have received federal restoration funds through the grants-in-aid program. In those few instances a covenant will be developed for a certain number of years, depending upon the amount of funds received. In some communities, properties, which are located within National Register historic districts might come under local design review ordinances. This is because those communities often use National Register designation as a test in creating local historic districts with the same boundaries. 4. Do owners of National Register properties have to allow public access to the property? Definitely not. National Register status does not in any way alter the right of an owner to maintain his/her accustomed privacy. The National Register is not a tourist program, and any encouragement of visitors is strictly the choice of the property owner. If, however, (and only if) an owner obtains federal preservation assistance involving exterior or interior improvements not appreciable from the public right-of-way, the property must be opened for exterior or interior public visitation (depending on whether it is the exterior or interior that is historically significant) a minimum of 12 days each year. The owner would specify which 12 days. 5. What about financial aid? At the present time there are several programs which offer financial incentives in some form for the restoration/preservation of properties either listed on the National Register or conSidered eligible for the National Register. All of the programs are complex and can be confusing. Property owners are encouraged to call their local Historic Preservation Commission or the State Historical Society of Iowa, at the number below, for information about the programs available and assistance in applying for them. Note (June 9, 2004): Unfortunately, due to recent state budget cuts, our grants have been temporarily frozen for at least one year. 6. How are National Register properties protected? The powers of the staff are limited in this respect, to reviewing those projects which are funded, wholly or in part, by the federal government and which impact, directly or indirectly, listed or eligible properties. National Register status does not mean that a property cannot be destroyed by a highway, by Urban Renewal, or some other project. It does mean that before a federal agency can be involved in any way with such a project, i.e. by funding, licensing or authorizing it, the Federal agency must consider alternatives by which National Register properties might be saved from destruction. After the review process has been completed, the agency may choose to avoid the property, or it may decide to go ahead with the project, even if a National Register property is destroyed in the process. For additional information concerning the National Register of Historic Places please contact: Elizabeth Foster Hill, Tax Incentive Programs Manager / National Register Coordinator State Historical Society of Iowa 600 E. Locust Des Moines, IA 50319 515/281-4137 8eth .Foster@DCA.State.IA.US - ---- ._-~-- National Register: Myths, Misconceptions, and Realities The National Register Does 1. Identify historically significant buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts, according to the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. 2. Encourage the preservation of historic properties by documenting the significance of historic properties and by lending support to local preservation activities. 3. Enable federal, state, and local agencies to consider historic properties in the early stages of planning projects. 4. Provide for review of federally funded, licensed, or sponsored projects which may affect historic properties. 5. Make owners of historic properties eligible to apply for federal grants-in-aid for preservation activities. Presently, in Iowa, these particular funds are limited to survey, nomination, and planning projects with limited funding available for the development of architectural plans and specifications for buildings listed on the National Register. The State Historical Society of Iowa, however, administers the Historic Resource Development Program (HRDP) which makes available matching grants for the rehabilitation of properties listed on the National Register. 6. Encourage the rehabilitation of income-producing historic properties which meet preservation standards through tax incentives The National Register Does Not 1. Restrict the rights of private property owners in the use, development, or sale of private historic property. 2. Lead automatically to historic district zoning. 3. Force federal, state, local or private projects to be stopped. 4. Provide for review of state, local, or privately funded projects which may affect historic properties. 5. Guarantee that grant funds will be available for all significant historic properties. ..-.- - __n_._._____,., 2/2003 INCENTIVE SUMMARY FOR HISTORIC PROPERTIES IN IOWA (Multiple program use encouraged) Historic Resource Development Program (HRDP) $0.3-1 Million/yr. Description: Matching grants for work on historic properties, museums and their collections, libraries and their collections. Properties can be owned by Certified Local Governments, State agencies (assuming no state money is used 85 match), businesses, non-profits, Native American tribes or individuals. Rehabilitation work on historic properties must meet The Secretarv of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. approved by the SHPO (State Historic Preservation Officer). Contact Cynthia Nieb. SHSI Grants at (515) 281-8754 or Cynthia.Nieb@iowa.gov. Properties: Acquisition, development and/or preservation activities for historical properties must be for those listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and a certificate from SHPO or NRHP must accompany the HRDP application. Archeological properties are not required to be listed and may be certified by SHPO as eligible for the Nationai Register. Other eligible projects may be training, public education, surveys and/or nominations to the National Register. Description: At the discretion of county boards of supervisors (through their annual priority iist), the substantial rehabilitation of an historic property (as defined in Iowa Code) which meets nationally accepted rehabilitation standards (and certified as such by the State Historic Preservation Officer), will be exempted from any increase in valuation for four years and then returned to full valuation over the following four-year period. Rehabilitation work on historic properties must meet a cost threshold test. The Secretarv of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, and be approved by the SHPO (State Historic Preservation Officer). Contact Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator, Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill at (515) 281·4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov. Properties: Properties must be listed on the National Register, be evaluated as National Register eligible, contribute to National Register or local historic districts, or be designated as a county or municipal historical landmark. Federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credits for Certified Historic Structures Description: Twenty percent of qualified rehabilitation costs are available as a credit against federal income taxes owned for income- producing properties. Rehabilitation work on historic properties must be "substantial" (an IRS test) and meet The Secretarv of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Applications and photos must be reviewed by the SHPO (State Historic Preservation Officer) and approved by the National Park Service. Contact Tax Incentives Programs ManageriNational Register Coordinator. Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hili at (515) 281-4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov. Instructions and applications are available through e-mail. Properties: Properties must be listed on the National Register or be evaluated as National Register eligible and then listed within 30 months of project completion. State Program for Property Rehabilitation Tax Credit $2.4Million tax credits/year Description: Twenty-five percent of certain rehabilitation costs are available as a credit against state income taxes of the owner(s). Properties do not need to be income producing. The cost of a qualified rehabilitation project must exceed either $25.000 or 25 percent of the fair market value (less the iand value) for a residential property or barn before rehabilitation. whichever is less, For commercial properties, the rehabilitation project must exceed 50 percent of the assessed value of the property (less the land) before rehabiiitation. The State Historic Preservation Office must approve the rehabilitation work before costs count toward the credit and tax credits are reserved for your project. There are limited credits available each year. Contact Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator, Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill at (515) 281·4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov. Instructions and applications are availabie through e. mail. Properties: Properties may be listed on the National Register, eligible for listing on the National Register or are barns constructed before 1937. You may be able to find answers to your questions regarding the National Register (including listed Iowa properties) or State and Federal Rehabilitation tax credits in the Historic Preservation section of our web site at www.iowahistory,org. You may also want to look at the following National Park Service web sites for information: Find National Register information, including listed Iowa properties at www.cr.nps.gov/nr/index,htm Find Federal Tax Credit information at: www2.cr.nps,gov/tps/taxlindex.htm, www2.cr.nps.gov/tps/taxlbrochure1.htm and www2.cr.nps.gov/tps/taxlbrochure2.htm Plaque Companies can be found on the Old House Journal website at www.oldhousejournal.com, restoration directory, by category, P, Plaques Signs & Historic Markers. HISTORIC RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (HRDP) Purpose: To provide matching grants for work on historic properties, museums and their collections, libraries and their collections, Eligibility Requirements: Participation in the program is open to not-for-profit organizations, Certified Local Governments, individuals, businesses, state agencies, other units of government (i.e. school districts), and Native American tribes. For historic preservation projects involving acquisition, development and/or preservation the structures. buildings, sites, or objects must be listed on the National Register of Historic Places or contributing resources to a property listed on the National Register. The exception is archeology sites. which may be certified by SHSI as being eligible for the National Register. Training, educational activities, surveys and nominations to the National Register may also be funded. Contact Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill, Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator. to request National Register listing status, for certification of eligibility for archeological sites or forms for the nomination process. Her telephone number is 515-281-4137 or e-mail at Beth.Foster@iowa.gov. Deadlines and Time Lines: HRDP applications are due January 15 of each year, Grants are awarded in June. Work cannot begin on any project until the contract has been signed. A contract will be drawn and signed by July, You may submit project plans/specs for review to see whether you are meeting the applicable standards. (Rehabilitation work must be completed in accordance with The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitatina Historic Buildinas.) At each reimbursement request, you are required to submit photographs, a progress report and your evaluation of how the work thus far has met the applicable standards. Form of Funding: Matching grants are competitively awarded and the ratio of cash match required Is determined by the status of the applicant (e.g. non-profit organizations 2 to 1, private businesses 1 to 1). Contact: Cynthia Nieb, SHSI Grants Department of Cultural Affairs Historic Resource Development Program 600 E. Locust Street Des Moines. Iowa 50319-01290 515-281-8754 or Cynthia.Nieb@iowa.gov -- , --- ----.---.-- _..--------_..~---- TEMPORARY PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS Purpose: To provide a local property tax incentive for the sensitive, "substantial rehabilitation" of historic buildings. Eligibility Requirements: Properties must be listed on or eligible for the National Register, contributing to National Register properties, Historic Districts or local historic districts, or designated by a county or municipal landmark ordinance. The property must also be eligible based on the specific county's priority iist for that tax year. The County Board of Supervisors will establish priorities for which an exemption may be granted and will annually designate real property in the county for a historic property tax exemption. A public meeting must be held, with notice given, at which the proposed priority list will be presented. By December 31 of the year in which the rehabilitation work takes place, a three-part substantial rehabilitation application must be submitted to the State Historical Society of Iowa (historic preservation bureau). Part 1 evaluates the significance of the property, Part 2 focuses on the proposed rehabilitation work to be undertaken, Part 3 is a request for certification that the rehabilitation work has been completed in accordance with The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitatina Historic Buildinas and that the expenditure meets a "substantial rehabilitation" test. It is best to submit parts 1 and 2 of the application before the project begins so that approval from the State Historical Society can be given. Part 3 must be submitted after the rehabilitation work is completed. There is a minimum amount of rehabilitation investment needed to be eligible for this program. A "substantial rehabiJitation test" is required. Before completing the three forms it is advisable to estimate the adjusted basis and the total rehabilitation investment for the project to determine whether it wiJIlikely meet the "substantial rehabilitation" test. There are two separate applications of the test--one for income-producing and one for non-income producing properties. Form of Incentive: The program provides a combination of four years full exemption from any increased valuation due to the work and four years of decreasing exemption (up to the new valuation). for all rehabilitation projects which began after Juiy 1,1990. The actual exemption application must be made to the assessor of the property's jurisdiction not later than February 1 of the assessment year. Application to receive approval of the State Historic Preservation Officer for the completed work must be made before December 31 of the year that the work was completed. Contact: Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator Department of Cultural Affairs 600 E. Locust Street, Des Moines. IA 50319-0290 (515) 281-4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov .--_..- - .---.--, --- .__._-----~- _______. ..·_._.___....___.._m__.. ------ --..-.-. '-'.-- FEDERAL INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Purpose: To provide a federal incentive (Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit) for the sensitive rehabilitation of historic structures, in keeping with the characteristics for which they are significant, and to revitalize the neighborhoods in which they are located. Eligibility Requirements: Two categories of buildings are eligible, if they can be depreciated (used for income-producing purposes) and if the rehabilitation is "substantial" (see below). (1). For the historic rehabilitation tax credits, where 20% of qualified rehabilitation expenditures are available as tax credits, the structure is eligible jf it is on the National Register of Historic Places or is evaluated as meeting the qualifications set for National Register listing by the U.S, Secretary of Interior. (The property must be listed within one or two years. however.) Contact Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill. Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator, at 515-281-4137 or Beth.Foster@dca.state,ia,us for listing status or information about how to nominate the structure to the National Register. (2). For the 10% tax credit program, the structure must have been first used or occupied prior to 1936 and may be used only for non-residential purposes, such as commercial or industrial purposes. For both, there should be "substantial rehabilitation" within a 24*-month period (reinvesting in rehabilitation an amount exceeding the "adjusted basis" or depreciated value of the building). To qualify for the 20% tax credit for historic buildings, the rehabilitation must be approved as meeting The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitatina Historic Buildinas (Le., the work is consistent with the historic character of the building and, if applicable, the surrounding historic district). *In some instances, the substantial rehabilitation for 20% tax credits may extend over 60 months and several phases. Form of Funding (based on percent of qualified rehabilitation expenditures): Investment tax credit reduces the federal income taxes owed by the owner, as follows: 20% of qualified rehabilitation expenditures is the amount of the credits for an aDDroved substantial rehabilitation of a depreciable building either individually on the National Register or a contributing building in a district or for an aDDroved substantial rehabilitation of a depreciable building that is eligible for the National Register and will be nominated within one or two years. 10% for "non-historic" and non-residential older building that was built prior to 1936 or for non-residential buildings that are "non-contributing" and located in historic districts, the owner must apply to the state to be certified as non-contributing. Instructions and applications are available through e-mail. Contact: Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill Tax Incentives Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator Department of Cultural Affairs 600 E. Locust Street, Des Moines. IA 50319-0290 (515) 281-4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov STATE TAX CREDITS FOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION Iowa offers a financial reward for substantial rehabilitation of historic buildings. The Iowa Historic Property Income Tax Credit, signed into Jaw in May 2000. provides an income tax credit of up to 25 percent of qualified rehabilitation costs. Another 20 percent is possible if the property qualifies for the Federal Rehabilitation Investment Tax Credit (for income-producing properties only). Several types of properties are eligible for the tax credit: · The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. or is determined by the staff of the State Historic Preservation Office to be eligible for listing. · The property contributes to the historic significance of a historic district that is listed, or eligible to be listed, on the National Register. · The property is a local landmark via government action, · The property is a barn constructed prior to 1937. About half of the states offer similar credits, but several are more restrictive, Some states provide a credit of only 20 percent of qualified investment, and others insist that properties must be actually listed on the National Register to participate. The credit program eligibility varies depending on the type of building. For residential properties, for example, the value of the work must equai at least $25.000 or 25 percent of the fair market value ot the property, exciuding the land, prior to rehabilitation, whichever is lower. For commercial properties - including multi-family housing projects, the work must be at least 50 percent of the assessed value, excluding the land. "If you have a historic house with a fair market value of $60,000, excluding the land, you only need $15,000 of work to qualify. A paint job, a roof and a new furnace would gobble that up pretty quick," said former historic preservation architect Judy McClure. "Jf you qualified in that situation, you would receive up to 25 percent of the rehabilitation amount in tax credits. Jf you spent $20,000, it could be as much as $5,000 in credits. Remember, a tax credit means that you're getting a dollar-far-dollar reduction on the amount of income taxes you owe the state,~ she said. Like other State Historical Society of Jowa incentive programs, the repair·oriented work must meet nationally accepted rehabilitation standards and guidelines, and State Historical Society approval is needed before expenditures can count toward the state income tax credits. State government has set a cap of $2.4 million to cover all of the credits, The Society has set up an approval/encumbering system so that an owner would know what year in the future that state tax credits would be available for the completed project. Instructions and applications are available through e-mail, Contact: Elizabeth (Beth) Foster Hill Tax Incentives Programs Manager/NationaJ Register Coordinator Department of Cultural Affairs 600 E. Locust Street. Des Moines. IA 5031 9-0290 (515) 281-4137 or Beth.Foster@iowa.gov Due to the cap on the program and the state tax credits are encumbered into 2014 right now, and are in heavy demand. That is the year when the credits can be attached to the applicant's income tax forms. · The credits are encumbered on a first come first served basis as the Part 2 applications are approved. · The credits are retroactive up to two years from the completion date. Rehabilitation costs incurred prior to the date of approval of the Part 2 must be qualified expenditures under the federal rehabilitation credit in see, 47 of the Internal Revenue Code. · Applications are not considered submitted until TOT ALLY complete, if more information is requested from you the application is put on hold, the information should be sent as soon as possible. When your project is on hold an application that is totally complete can be approved ahead of yours. · If the project cost shouJd go above the estimated cost on the Part 2 application the additional credits will be encumbered at Part 3 for the year where credits are next available (at the end of the line), It is better to estimate high. · Once the applicant has reached project completion a part 3 application should be submitted for review. Once the Part 3 application is approved, the applicant will receive a tax certificate dated for attachment to state income tax forms in the year that credits were encumbered. The state law expresses that only the expenditures two years prior to the completion date of a project can be used to calculate the STC. Revised 5/2004 - - - -. ~ , Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District U~ - __m.____~ , r-, ~~ :. I .J 1..-' ! ! k.-~...,..., ! l':3! n ~ nl c,;¡-- -: " ! l ,~, ì" ~'. i*. 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' , zt"ul 2Z ' , , . -~ ~____m_______ ----- -- ,-__________._m_.________-, ~----_..__._- , , -. i œ Key Strncture D Contributing Structure ~ D Noncontributing Structure JEFFERSON STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT -.---...-.- . -- ._."._-------_..._~-'~---------~""'~.-_.__..,_.".__.- - _..._~ . MAR 2 3 2004 NPS Fonn 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Thif;lonniofor""'lnnornir>dngO!requMlin¡¡delermiMdoOlfot~")ID~and____ s..inslJu<:lio<¡a"How!o~I1MJNIf/ioIyIR.gio/erofHœloricP4lœ'I'IeQJ$IrtIIIonFomt(Nat!ooIllRegister8uhtin16A).CompleleeachhmbymarkN1g"finlh..ppropMloo =..tz,:'=O.:n"~~:~~~~=(~~~Pfo':1=~~.~"::d,::;:~~~~~~~Iu=.'Chhctur"d~otiOn,malerl8l8.nd.....ofelOnibnce,ente'ol\tc~riea.r>d.ubclúgoris6homlhon.trucllon.. "** 1. Name of ProDertv historic name Jefferson Street Historic District other names/site number 2. Location street & number Portions of 100-400 Blocks of East Jefferson Street N/A U not for publication city or town Iowa City N/A U vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 3. State/Federal Anencv Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this Lx] nomination U 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 W meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant U nationally U statewide Lx] locally. (U see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying officialfTitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property U meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. (U See continuation sheet for additional comments,) Signature of certifying officialffitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Keeper Date of Action U entered in the National Register. U See continuation sheet. U detennined eligible for the National Register. U See continuation sheet. U determined not eligible for the National Register. U removed from the National Register. U other. (explain:) -..-.- -"--" -.-"""-..-,- ..~,....._----~ --~^.._.._----"-~,.._---"'- Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) [29 private U building(s) Contributing Noncontributing U public-local [29 district 36 3 buildings U public-State Usite U public-Federal LJ structure sites LJ object structures objects 36 3 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) In the National Register Architectural and Historical Resources of Oriainal Town Plat Neiahborhood (Phase lit 1845 -1945 5 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Sinale Dwellinas DOMESTIC/Sinale Dwellinas DOMESTIC/Secondarv Structures DOMESTIC/Secondarv Structures DOMESTIC/MultiDle Dwellinas DOMESTIC/MultiDle Dwellinas EDUCA TION/Colleae EDUCA TION/Colleae RELlGION/Reliaious Facilitv EDUCA TION/Librarv RELIGION/Church-Related Residence RELlGION/Reliaious Facilitv HEALTH CARE/HoSDiial RELIGION/Church-Related Residence 7. DescriDtlon Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) MID-19th CENTURY/Gothic Revival foundation STONE/Limestone MID-19th CENTURY/Greek Revival walls WOODlWeatherboard LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne BRICK roof ASPHALT other Narrative Description (Describè the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) --,-- -~ Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Sianlflcance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifyin'g the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.} ARCHITECTURE IX] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of COMMUNITY PLANNING AND our history. DEVELOPMENT U B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [2S] C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance individual distinction. 1850-1954 U D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations Significant Dates (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) NIA Property is: U A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person U B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) N/A U C a birthplace or grave. Cultural Affiliation U D a cemetery. N/A U E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. U F a commemorative property. U G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. See continuation sheet Narrative Statement of Significance IExDlaln the sianificance of the DrODertv on one or more continuation sheets.) 9. Malor BiblloaraDhlcal References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this fann on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: U preliminary determination of individual listing [2U State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested U Other State agency U previously listed in the National Register U Federal agency U previously determined eligible by the National [2S] Local govemment Register U University U designated a National Historic Landmark U Other U recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # U recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Jefferson Street Historic DistriCt Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 10. GeoaraDhlcal Data Acreage of Property 12 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1 I1l.§l ~ ~ 2I1l.§l ~ ~ Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing 3I1l.§l ~ ~ 4 I1l.§l ~ ~ U See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form PreDared Bv name/title Marlvs A. Svendsen. Svendsen Tvler. Inc. organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date Januarv. 2004 street & number N3834 Deep Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state WI zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional ijems) ProDertv Owner (Complete this ijem at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number telephone city or town state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regardìng this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Pari< Service, P.O. Box 37127. Washington. DC 20013-7127; and the OffIce of Management and Budget. Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018). Washington. OC 20503. - ~- ,..--~......_._.._..._~~-_._--- ,--.----.-..,-..--------..- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 5&7 Page 1 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 5. Classification: Related Multiple Property Listina (continued) "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS (1994, amended 2000) 7. Description: Architectural Classification (continued) LATE VICTORIAN/ltalianate LATE VICTORIAN/Second Empire LATE VICTORIAN/Romanesque LATE 19th & 20'h CENTURY REVIVALS/Classical Revival LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY REVIVALS/Italian Renaissance Revival LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALSlTudor Revival LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALSILate Gothic Revival LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALSILate Gothic Revival/Collegiate Gothic LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman Description: Materials (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: STUCCO roof: METAL roof: STONE/Slate 7. Narrative Description: The Jefferson Street Historic District is a linear neighborhood located one block north of the downtown and immediately adjacent to the east campus of the University of Iowa (historically referred to as the State University of Iowa or SUI in this nomination). The District also borders the southern edge of a commercial and residential section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." The District extends east for approximately three blocks along East Jefferson Street from North Clinton Street on the west to North Van Buren Street on the east. The northern edge of the District generally United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 2 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State follows along the alleys to the north of East Jefferson Street. The southern edge of the District jogs through portions of the University of Iowa in the west half and generally follows the alleys south of East Jefferson Street in the east half. Properties facing the intersecting streets of Dubuque. Linn, Gilbert, and Van Buren are also included within the District. All of the Jefferson Street Historic District is contained within the Original Town Plat of the city of Iowa City, which was laid out in 1839 as the territorial capital of Iowa Territory. Jefferson Street was laid out with a standard 80-foot width with alleys measuring 20 feet and intersecting streets also measuring 80 feet. Adjacent blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet with eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the west half of the Jefferson Street Historic District saw several instances of the combination of lots to form larger building parcels for institutional structures while the east half of the District experienced subdivision of lots resulting in a denser residential neighborhood. Most of the south side of the 100-300 blocks of Jefferson Street is part of the east campus of the University of Iowa with Linn Street vacated to form a continuous double-block. All of the streets in the District are paved in asphalt with 4-foot wide cement walks along each side. Jefferson Street serves as an eastbound one-way with westbound traffic handled by Market Street located one block to the north. The terrain of the District is generally flat with buildings sited level with the street. The exception are the lots on the north side of the 400 block of Jefferson Street that have moderate to steep upgrades along the sidewalks but no retaining walls. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak, ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings within private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Jefferson Street Historic District are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features within the District and no city parks or playgrounds in or near the District. The building stock in the Jefferson Street Historic District includes a mix of institutional and residential buildings that reflect its historical development along the edge of the downtown and the SUI campus. University related resources include buildings originally used as a biological sciences classroom building, a medical school anatomy lecture hall, an isolation hospital, and sorority houses. BUildings used for religious purposes include four churches, a student center, a former convent, and a rectory. The balance of the District includes two large apartment buildings, single-family dwellings that date from the 1850s through the 1930s, and secondary structures erected during the early 20" century. The District contains a total of 44 buildings including 38 primary resources and six secondary resources. All but one of the primary resources or 97 percent are considered contributing resources with 22 buildings or 50 percent qualifying as individually significant or key contributing resources. One primary building, the Neuman Catholic Center (104 E. Jefferson Street), is non-contributing due to its relatively recent date of construction though it is physically connected to a previously freestanding historic convent. The two are counted as a single resource within the District. The District also contains 6 secondary resources originally constructed as garages. Of these, four are considered contributing and two have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or age. The pattern of building and density of the Jefferson Street neighborhood is a result of the organic manner in which the area was developed over eight decades. Sanborn maps from various dates reveal the construction of earlier buildings on some lots and their replacement by larger, more substantial buildings as the decades passed. In several cases, brick and frame dwellings were moved to nearby lots to make room for larger buildings, One instance (John and Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson Street), saw the movement of a house that originally faced Market Street across the alley into the District in order to make room for an expansion of the family-owned brewery. In another case, a widow moved her former house (115 N. Gilbert Street) one lot north to make room for a substantial new residence for her and 'Email interview with Terry Robinson, Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City reo species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 3 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State her children (Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson Street). The practice of moving buildings was a long-standing tradition in Iowa City identified in the in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 -1945,,2 More than 10 percent of the primary buildings in the North Side neighborhood under study were moved to their current sites during the period 1904 - ca. 1935. The District's two and two-and-half-story houses are constructed of frame, brick, and stucco with frame being the most popular. Wood cladding includes narrow and medium width clapboards or decorative shingles. Institutional buildings are constructed of masonry materials including dressed and ashlar limestone and locally manufactured red brick. Bedford stone was used for one of the churches and both of the State University of Iowa's tum-of-the-20'h -century buildings with brick used for the other churches, apartment buildings, and hospital building. Brick was also used for several houses. the rectory, the convent, and a sorority house within the Districl. The institutional and residential buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District exhibit a variety of late 19th and early 20th century historic architectural styles including excellent examples of eleven distinct styles. Greek Revival, ltalianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses are scattered through the District with well preserved institutional buildings designed in the Gothic Revival, French Second Empire, Classical Revival, Romanesque Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, and a mix of the COllegiate Gothic and Tudor Revival. Many of the dwellings are examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City before and after the turn of the 20th century. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Jefferson Street Historic District are the American Four-Square (most common), Front-Gable Roof, and Side-Gable Roof house forms. These styles and vernacular forms are discussed in greater detail in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 - 1945" approved by the National Park Service in 2000. Some of the best examples of residential architectural styles, vernacular house forms, and institutional architectural styles in the Jefferson Street Historic District are listed below. A complete list of contributing and non-contributing resources appears on pages 24 and 25. Residential Architectural Styles · Greek Revival: Bostick-Rohret House, 115 N. Gilbert SI. (Photo #1, ca. 1850, NRHP) · Italianate: Robert & Julia Hutchinson House, 318 E. Jefferson 51. (ca. 1875) · Queen Anne: John & Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson SI. (Photo #2, ca. 1885) John & Catherine Sueppel House, 425 E. Jefferson 51. (Photo #3, 1876) · Colonial Revival: Joseph & Ludmila Barborka House, 114 N. Gilbert SI. (ca. 1900) Justine Mueller House, 420 E. Jefferson SI. (Photo #4, ca. 1 905) Vernacular House Forms · Front-Gable: David & Isabell Abrams House, 424 E. Jefferson SI. (1893) 2"Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 -1945: Amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS: National Register of Historic Places, 2000, pp. 49-50. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State · Am. Four-Square: Alois & Esther Smith House, 120 N. Gilbert St. (ca. 1908) Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #5, 1911) Falk Rental House, 403 E. Jefferson St. (1907) James & Henry Kohrt House/Phi Rho Sigma Annex, 430 E. Jefferson St. (1924) John & Mary Messner House, 117 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #6, ca. 1911) Institutional Architectural Styles · Gothic Revival: First Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton St. (Photo #7, 1868) First Methodist Episcopal Church, 214 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #8, 1908) · French Second Empire: Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 130 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #9, 1852/ca. 1875) · Romanesque Reviva/: St. Mary's Rectory, 220 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #10,1891) St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 230 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #11, 1867/1907) · Classical Revival: Hall of Anatomy, 119 E. Jefferson St./SUI Bldg. #19, (Photo #12, 1902) Medical Laboratory Building, 121 E. Jefferson St./SUI Bldg. #18 (Photo #13,1902) · /tai/an Renaissance Revival: St. Mary's Convent (part of Newman Center), 104 E. Jefferson St. (ca. 1930) Isolation Hospital, 325 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #14, 1916) · Collegiate Gothic: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 404 E. Jefferson St. (Photo #15,1926) The condition of buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District ranges from fair to excellent. Nearly all of the residences originally used as single-family homes have been subdivided into duplexes or apartments with three residences converted to use as guesthouses (115 N. Gilbert Street, 119 N. Gilbert Street, and 328 E. Jefferson Street). The most likely alteration to houses in the District that have been converted to use as rental housing is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. Other changes include the removal of porches and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. One new institutional building has been built at the west end of the District. The Newman Catholic Center (104 E. Jefferson Street) replaced the former Catholic school on that site in 1988 but the adjacent St. Mary's Convent remains connected to the new building. Historic rehabilitations have been completed for a number of buildings within the District during the 1990s including two major University of Iowa buildings. The SUI Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19) was converted to the Biological Sciences Library and the SUI Medical Laboratory Building (SUI Building #18) was rehabilitated for continued use as the Biology Building. Other buildings substantially rehabilitated include the Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary at 130 E. Jefferson Street, the Mary Rohret House at 328 Jefferson Street, and the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street. All of the churches within the District have seen significant maintenance work during the 1990s as well. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 5 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Sianificance: General: The Jefferson Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A the Jefferson Street Historic District derives significance under the category of "Community Planning and Development." The District is associated with an important era of growth in one of Iowa City's North Side neighborhoods at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. During this time, Jefferson Street was transformed from a neighborhood of single family dwellings and churches to a neighborhood of larger, more substantial residences, churches, and State University of Iowa education and hospital buildings. Prominent Iowa City residents continued to make the District their home throughout its development, choosing to build, enlarge, move, and rebuild homes along a street favored by proximity to the city's churches, downtown businesses, and SUI campus. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Jefferson Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to working class families. As the 20th century progressed, this mix of social groups included individuals associated with the University as professors, physicians, and laborers of many types, Undergraduate students, graduate students, nursing students, and medical students resided in apartment buildings, boarding houses, and sorority houses in the District with many attending classes and working in University medical school buildings in the District. Under Criterion C the Jefferson Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles, vernacular house forms, and institutional architectural styles that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. A number of examples of the work of important local and state architects have been identified to date with a likelihood that more may exist. In addition to single-family dwellings, the District contains four architecturally significant churches and several other buildings with religious connections including a convent and rectory. Three architecturally important SUI buildings including two classroom buildings and one hospital building are present as well. Together the District's buildings tell the story of architectural design and vernacular building practices displaying 11 different architectural styles. Four buildings within the District are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Congregational Church (30 North Clinton Street), the William Bostick House (115 North Gilbert Street), the Park HouselSt. Agatha's Seminary (130 East Jefferson Street), and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and Rectory (230 East Jefferson Street). The last property contains two contributing resources. Although a number of individual properties in the district are associated with important local business and civic leaders, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the District. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. The period of significance for this locally significant historic District extends from 1850 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest architecturally significant resource in the District and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for National Register eligibility. North Side Historical Survey Recommendations: The Jefferson Street Historic District is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northem tiers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 Jefferson Street Histone District Johnson Counlv. IA Name of Property County and State approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1981 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts - one commercial properties and one residential properties - were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the National Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1984 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: · Dubuque/Linn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) · Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase I) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) · Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase II) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) · Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) · Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase II MPD have been listed on the NRHP. In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Iowa City. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, architectural significance, andlor historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa City neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca, 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: · Jefferson Street Historic District - This four-block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches, residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State University of Iowa Medical School and the University Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, relj,\lion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19'" and early 20 century institutional and residential building styles. · Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District - This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north-south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick-paved course of Linn Street and the north-south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa City's most important turn of the century architects, O.H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximity to employment gimerators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. · Brown Street Historic District and Ronalda Street Extension - The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa City's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub-themes; its ,- .- ,--~ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 1869 During the decades of the 1840s and 1850s churches from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) established by Roman Catholic, Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Protestant (later Christian), and Universalist .¡c,. . '.f![! congregations built on the reserved lots facing the north and south :ii' ,~: I' - sides of the park. The first building (non-extant) occupied for St. ~~ø:.,:¿.-<,· ..... ,~~:,"\.-. .- Mary's Roman Catholic Church was constructed in 1841-43 at the ?S-·,';" northwest corner of Linn and Jefferson streets. At the end of the ì Civil War a new building was erected. Father Edmonds, the I "t pastor of St. Mary's Church in 1867-68 when the new St. Mary's r; Roman Catholic Church was erected at 230 E. Jefferson Street ,!~ (Photo #11, contributing, NRHP), has been credited with :\ designing the church4 An historic view of the church appears to ,-,. the left. The Methodist Episcopal Church was the second congregation to build a church along Jefferson Street on a church reserve lot. The first building (non-extant) was completed in 1842, enlarged in 1863, rebuilt fOllowing a fire in 1884, and destroyed in a second fire in 1906, The present building at 214 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #8) was completed in 1908. Both of the churches erected on reserve lots south of the park, the Methodist Protestant Church and the Universalist Church. are non-extant. Before the turn of the 20'h century, a fifth church was built along Jefferson Street. The Congregational Church (contributing, Photo #7, NRHP) was constructed at 30 North Clinton Street on a non- reserve lot in 1868. Located at the east end of the Jefferson Street Historic District, the church faced Capitol Square. The presence of these five churches in the 191h century helped to attract and retain homeowners in the blocks fronting on Jefferson Street. The role of these churches in the social structure of the neighborhood is born out by an examination of memberships in several of the church-sponsored organizations of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at the turn of the 20lh century. The 1897 city directory shows nine separate societies sponsored by the church, That year, three of the leaders of the Young Ladies' Society were residents of the District while leaders of two men's societies had their homes here as well. Among the most involved were the five members of the John and Catherine Sueppel family (425 E. Jefferson Street, contributing, Photo #3) who served as leaders in four separate organizations. Despite city park's prominent location as the front yard of the town's first churches, it remained largely an unimproved feature during its first half century. The block was never formally landscaped. Instead it contained a collection of native grasses that was rarely cut or maintained. Historic photographs show a horizontal rail fence surrounding the park in the post-Civil War years. Public celebrations were regularly held here, and it likely functioned as an informal gathering spot for visitors to the downtown and students at the nearby academies and university. Public scales were maintained at the southwest corner of the park at the intersection of Iowa Avenue and Dubuque Street giving rise to the regular practice for many years of weighing and selling hay at this intersection. The park along with the prominent spires of the Congregational 4Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk. Virginia: The Downing Company). 1989. p. 58. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary, 1865 (Gerald Mansheim. Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk. Virginia: The Downing Company). 1989, p, 80) The same block of Jefferson Street that attracted the Park House saw the construction of other small scale commercial buildings during the 1850s. However, as the business center of the town gradually established itself further south along Clinton, Washington. COllege, and Dubuque streets, Jefferson Street fell out of favor as a commercial district. As a result, the Jefferson Street commercial buildings were converted to use as private schools (both non-extant - the Iowa City Academy and Normal School and St. Joseph's Institute, a Catholic boy's school). In later years, all of this portion of the 100 block of E. Jefferson Street was acquired by St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and in 1893 became the site for construction of St. Mary's Catholic School.Like Capitol Square, the city park located just south of the District between Jefferson Street. Iowa Avenue, Dubuque Street, and Linn Street played an important role in the development of the District. Its primary purpose initially was to serve as an open space on which important buildings such as churches could front. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number B Page 7 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State affiliation with the growth of the State University of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four-block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. . North Clinton Street Historic Street - This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa City's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition the houses are well-executed and well-preserved examples of the architectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 21" century, the area adjoins the State University of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternity houses and rooming houses. A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preserved. but scattered. collection of University of Iowa fratemity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian-American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the Jefferson Street Historic District included in this nomination, they include the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District and the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street section. The Historical Development of East Jefferson Street: 3 Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Jefferson Street Historic District is located along an east-west stretch of Jefferson Street in the central section of the Original Town Plat. This plat, which appears on page 8 with the Jefferson Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and reserves set aside by territorial legislators for churches and a school. Three of these open space features, now either nonextant or much altered, were originally located near the Jefferson Street Historic District. The most significant was Capitol Square (now the Pentacrest Historic District, NRHP) located southwest of the District on a rise overlooking the Iowa River. Lots anticipated for commercial development measuring 80 feet x 140 feet were laid out facing the square, and a grid system of streets aligned with the compass points stretched in four directions from the square. Jefferson Street had an 80-foot width with lots facing the street along its east- west course. Proximity to the square initially encouraged commercial building along the north side of the 100 block of Jefferson Street. Among the most important buildings in this block was the Park House (contributing, Photo #9) built in 1852 at 130 E. Jefferson Street opposite the northwest corner of the city park for which it was named. The hotel was frequently used by territorial legislators as seasonal lodging. Like many of the buildings within the District, its use changed over time as the character of the District changed. The Park House closed soon after the capital was moved to Des Moines in 1857 and 3portions of this section are taken from "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845- 1945: listed 2000. Additional material was taken from a second amendment to the MPS prepared in 2000 titled "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 -1945" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The three documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen. .-.... -..- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 8 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County end State the demand for transient lodging lessened. In 1861 the building reopened as 51. Agatha's Seminary. It was owned by SI. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and functioned as a day and boarding school for Catholic girls under the direction of the Sisters of Charity of the Benevolent Virgin Mary, a fact confirmed by painted wall signs in the 1865 view on page 9. Map of Iowa City, 1839 t (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N GT~!GGGQGG rf.?15 rr'r~!œPL11HB am em am 8 ìtttJ ,I. " ~ IIOIIALDS 5TR[U : æ [ttB~JæJJPÆ~8IB G , c.\.l'ITO~ ; !Bß .. .. G . ......-... . ...-- - _...-......--.._"-~- _.__,______._________m______ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 11 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Church, the first Methodist Episcopal Church (non-extant), and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church stand out on the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City that appears below. Approximate boundaries of the District are shown. In 1890 the city council authorized transfer of the city park block to the State of Iowa for use in conjunction with the State University of Iowa. It was thought at the time that such a move would discourage talk in the Iowa General Assembly of moving the University to Des Moines - an ever present concern in Iowa City. Whether the transfer of the park was actually the cause that achieved the desired effect or not, SUI was not moved. The transfer of park property completed in 1890 was not favored by all Iowa Citians. After SUI made plans to build a new Chemistry and Pharmacy Building on the site but before its construction, women parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 1868 "- (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N protested the building's construction because of the planned felling of trees. Iowa City historian Irving Weber has described the event as Iowa City's first protest. After a brief delay, the bishop of the Dubuque Diocese interceded and the women withdrew so that the work could proceed. During the decade following the property transfer, several SUI buildings were constructed in the former park block. The Chemistry-Pharmacy Building (non-extant) was built at the northeast corner of Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue in 1890 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 12 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and Stete and the Homeopathic Hospital (non-extant) was constructed at the southeast corner of Jefferson and Dubuçue streets in 1894. The first section of the University Hospital (portions extant), was erected east of Linn Street in 1897" In 1899 the building complex extended across the vacated Linn Street right-of-way and into the east half of the former park block. Once SUI redeveloped the park with buildings to house classroom and hospital space, this section of the campus became a permanent barrier between the North Side and the downtown. Though the former park site has strong historical associations with the development of the neighborhood, it is excluded from the Jefferson Street Historic District because of integrity issues including the construction of several modem class room buildings, the completion of major additions to the former University Hospital, and razing of portions of the Hospital. A third historically important open space located near, but not within, the Jefferson Street Historic District was Center Market near the east end of the District between Jefferson, Market, Van Buren, and Johnson streets. The impact of this block- square market on the development of the surrounding neighborhood was significant. In Iowa City's early years, its platting allowed a large parcel of ground to be retained in public ownership while serving a succession of public uses. Like city park, Center Market remained unimproved during its early years. Located several blocks east of three Market Street breweries and one block east of the north/south route of the Military Road along North Gilbert Street, Center Market was not well positioned to attract commercial development around its perimeter, however. Modest residences ringed the block instead as a result. As Iowa City's school age population grew at the end of the 19th century, a specific civic purpose was determined for the still vacant Center Market block - the construction of public schools. Beginning in 1885 a series of school buildings (all non- extant) were erected on the block and successively used for various grade levels. The first building, the Grammar School, was erected at the northwest corner of Johnson and Jefferson streets in 1885 and converted to the 2nd Ward Elementary School in 1903. It was reused as the Administration Building for the Iowa City School District in the early 19205. The second building, Iowa City's first high school, was built in 1891 at the northeast corner of Van Buren and Jefferson streets and was converted to use as a grammar school in 1903. The same year, the third building - Iowa City's second high school - was constructed at the southwest corner of Johnson and Market Streets. It was converted to Central Junior High School in 1939. In ca. 1915 a fourth and final building was added to the former Center Market block at the southeast corner of East Market and North Van Buren streets. All of the buildings in the former Center Market block had been razed by the time it was acquired for construction of a parking ramp in the 1980s. The presence of this succession of public school buildings along with three Catholic schools - SI. Agatha's, 51. Joseph's, and St. Mary's - in and near the Jefferson Street Historic District, tended to reinforce the residential use of the District in the decades preceding and following the turn of the 20th century. Proximity to the schools also saw a number of teachers residing in apartment buildings, private homes, and boarding houses along Jefferson Street. Politics and government on the territorial and state levels figured prominently in Iowa City between 1839 and 1857. Territorial legislative assemblies between 1841 and 1845 and state assemblies between 1846 and 1857 brought politicians together to write three state constitutions, to adopt laws including the Code of 1851, to levy taxes, to make expenditures for the public good, and to create a state university headquartered in Iowa City. This last act determined the future course of "The Original Town Plat on page 6 shows this strip of land as a school reserve. In 1641 the Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association of Iowa City organized and applied to the Territorial Legislature to use this reserve for buildin9 a school and library. The Association completed a two-story brick building (non-extant) along the east side of Linn Street north of Iowa Avenue in 1642 but when the Association failed to comply with the terms of the legislative grant, the property reverted to the State of Iowa. The Mechanics' Hall had a succession of uses including Iowa City's first public school in 1853, the first building for the State University of Iowa (1655-1856), SUI's Normal Department (1660), and a men's dormitory for SUI (1866). In ca. 1671 the Mechanics' Hall was converted to a 20-bed hospital managed by the SUI Medical Department with nursing provided by the Sisters of Mercy. In 1865 the Sisters of Mercy established a separate hospital and the building was vacated. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 13 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State events in Iowa City more than any other development and is more fully described in the historic context for the "University of Iowa (1855 - 1940)" contained in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City" MPS. As the historic context points out, however, the economic benefits of the enabling legislation for the State University of Iowa were slow to be realized as growth of SUI , during its first decades was erratic. As a result, property owners in the blocks most closely positioned to SUI's grounds on Capitol Square saw the greatest benefit early on. Among those most favored were property owners along East Jefferson Street. Residences housed SUI professors and st<Jff members while apartment buildings and boarding houses were filled by students and junior faculty. Real estate sales appear to have been steady with Johnson County Property Transfer Records showing frequent sales. City directories both before and after 1900 confirm the occupancy of many houses by families or widows with one or more children attending SUI as well. The 1890s ushered in a period of expansion for SUI in terms of enrollment, faculty, and physical plant. Construction of several University buildings in the former city park block along East Jefferson Street was among the first projects to be completed. Under the successive presidencies of Charles Schaeffer (1887-1898) and George MacLean (1899 - 1911), a comprehensive plan for the development of the campus was implemented. Architect Henry Van Brunt successfully advocated the use of the Beaux-Arts Style for the design of four major new buildings to flank Old Capitol, the former territorial capitol on Capitol Square. The plan was completed between 1902 and 1924 and Capitol Square was given a new name - the "Pentacresf' (NRHP). At the same time that plans for the Pentacrest were taking shape, disaster struck elsewhere on Capitol Square. In 1901 the old Medical School Building that stood south of Old Capitol was struck by lightning and destroyed by the ensuing fire. In the aftermath, two new bUildings for the SUI Medical School were constructed in the 100 block of East Jefferson Street - the Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19, Photo #12, contributing) at 119 E. Jefferson Street and the Medical Laboratory Building (SUI Building #18, contributing, Photo #13) next door at 121 E. Jefferson Street. Both were constructed in 1902. Sanborn maps show the Hall of Anatomy originally included an embalming area on the ground level, a lecture hall on the second floor, a dissecting laboratory on the third floor with tiered seating ringing the north wall, and a cremating area in the attic level. The building also housed a 100-ton freezer for cadaver storage. Built at the same time as the Hall of Anatomy, the Medical Laboratory Building was constructed immediately to the northeast. Sanborn maps show that it originally included classrooms on the ground level, a lecture hall with classrooms and offices on the second floor, and a clinical laboratory and general laboratory the third floor. The Medical School's surgery department was located in another freestanding building to the southwest (non-extant). In 1928 both the Medical School and the SUI Hospital relocated to the west side of the river following completion of the $4.5 million General Hospital. The former Hall of Anatomy and Medical Laboratory Building continued uses in the human sciences with the Hall of Anatomy variously called the Human Anatomy Laboratory and the Biology Building Annex. The Medical Laboratory Building was renamed the Zoolo~y Building and later, the Biology Building. 'Both buildings received substantial rehabilitations shortly before the turn of the 21 century. Joseph Hall Bodine (1895-1954) was among the distinguished zoologists and biologists to occupy offices in the former Hall of Anatomy and Zoology Building. Bodine was notable for his contributions to the physiology and biochemistry of embryonic development and as head of the Zoology Department at SUI beginning in 1929. Construction of the Hall of Anatomy and the Medical Laboratory Building along Jefferson Street came at the end of a decade that had seen considerable growth in the SUI Medical School. As was noted earlier, both the Homeopathic Hospital (non- extant) and first sections of the SUI Hospital were constructed in the former city park site in 1894 and 1897 respectively. The need for two hospitals arose due to a disagreement between homeopaths and allopaths regarding medical privileges. The original SUI Hospital was in the hands of the allopaths and consisted of three sections built in a U-shaped plan. The center section and the southwest wing were completed in 1897 with other wings added in 1908, 1912, and 1914. Two years later in 1916, new hospital procedures regarding infectious diseases saw construction of the last major SUI Medical School building on the east campus - the SUI Isolation Hospital (contributing, Photo #14) located at 325 E. Jefferson Street. The building was free standing at street level but connected to the main hospital by underground tunnels despite its name. --.. --..--- ---- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 14 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Continued growth in the SUI Medical School and the SUI Hospital programs after World War I brought another wave of change to the Jefferson Street Historic District. In 1924 construction began on a new 700-patient hospital and medical school on the west side of the Iowa River. The project was completed in 1928 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation matched by the Iowa General Assembly. Soon after the new hospital complex opened, the Isolation Hospital was abandoned. A 1-story wing (non-extant) was constructed to the south replacing several residences previously used as housing for nurses. The building complex was renamed the Music Building and served in this capacity until 1972. It was subsequently used as art studios and in 2003, during completion of this nomination, stood vacant. While public open spaces, churches, schools, collegiate buildings, and hospitals were being established along Jefferson Street from the 1850s through the 1920s, several phases of residential development took shape along the street. The first generation of dwellings included mostly small frame structures located either close to the street or with random setbacks. The earliest view of dwellings in the District is found in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa reproduced on page 11. The map shows one and two-story houses widely spaced along the length of Jefferson Street with denser clusters on the south side of the street between Clinton and Dubuque streets and on the north side between Gilbert and Van Buren streets. Only one of the nearly two dozen residences depicted here survives in the District in 2003 - the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo #1, NRHP). Constructed in 1850, this two-story brick house stood one lot to the south when it was built as a private residence for the Bostick family. It served as Iowa City's city hall from ca. 1875 to 1882 while the new city hall was being constructed. Then, it resumed domestic use when Mary Rohret and her husband George, a retired farmer acquired it. The couple lived here until George's death when Mary had the house moved about 100 feet north to its current location on Gilbert Street in ca. 1909 before constructing a new family residence. Industrial and merchant families built nearly a dozen houses still standing in the Jefferson Street Historic District. The most important industrial family in the neighborhood was the Englerts, who owned a brewery and ice business in Block 59 that fronted on Market Street one block north of Jefferson Street. Members of the Englert family eventually owned three houses in this block. The oldest was a large frame house built in the Queen Anne Style for John and Magdalena Englert in ca. 1885. It originally stood next to the Englert-owned City Brewery that faced Market Street immediately north of where the house stands today. City Brewery was one of three breweries between Gilbert and Dubuque streets along Market Street that thrived during the late 19th century. Sanborn maps from the period document the move of the house to the present site at 320 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #2). The Englerts resided in this house before and after it was physically moved in 1910 to accommodate business expansion. Nearby Englert family houses included the Clarence and Marie Englert House at 324 E. Jefferson Street and the Mollie Englert House at 119 N. Gilbert Street. Employees of the two other Market Street breweries, the Graff Union Brewery and the Dostal Great Western Brewery, also resided in the District at the turn of the 20th century. Merchant families in the Jefferson Street Historic District included several grocers, a meat market owner, several clothing and shoe store operators, a jeweler, and a hardware storeowner. John and Catherine Sueppel were among the most prominent. The couple and their large family lived in a spacious Queen Anne Style house built in 1876 at 425 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo # 3). John had immigrated to the United States from Germany and held a number of civic positions after arriving in Iowa City, including city treasurer for two years and county treasurer for four years. He and his family were active members in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church located just two blocks west of the family home. Sueppel's professional life saw him own and operate a successful grocery business while also serving as secretary-treasurer for the George Hummer Mercantile Company. After John's death, his wife Catherine took over operation of Sueppel's Grocery while continuing to operate her own business - Catherine Sueppel Clothier and Furnisher. By 1918 the Sueppel House was occupied by the next generation, son Francis and his wife Mary. Francis Sueppel served as secretary of the Iowa City Electric Railway Company, the Mississippi Valley Electric Co., and the Rundell Land Improvement Co., an important local real estate development company. Sueppel family members held the property until 1936. -~-,- - _..-~...._---~, - -- .._-_...._..._--_.._--~-----_...._---....- ,--......---..-.--.-...-..-.......--------.,---.--..--.,.. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 15 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Another social pattern that was observed in several instances in the Jefferson Street Historic District in which recently widowed women construct major family residences in the neighborhood. Justine Mueller, widow of Adam Mueller, bought the property at 420 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #4) in 1904, commissioned an architect to design a house for the lot a short time later, and had a house built for herself and her four children the following year. Adam had been a partner in Mueller Brothers Shoes in downtown Iowa City. After Justine's death, her daughters Mary and Margaret owned the family house until 1956. One worked as a bookkeeper for Mueller Brothers Shoes and the other was a schoolteacher. In a similar case, Mary Rohret tackled an even larger homebuilding project following the death of her husband George Rohret, a retired farmer and carpenter. The Rohret family had previously lived in the two-story brick dwelling located at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Gilbert streets. When a new house was planned in 1908, the former residence was moved to the north half of the lot (115 North Gilbert Street) to make room for a modern American Four-Square house. Construction dates for single-family houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District indicate that most dwellings were built during the decades immediately before and after 1900. This pattern is typical of other North Side neighborhoods and may reflect general growth in Iowa City during the period. In the case of East Jefferson Street, however, it likely reflects the expansion of the State University of Iowa's east campus in the blocks immediately adjacent to the District. Five major buildings connected to the SUI Medical School and SUI Hospital were constructed between Clinton and Gilbert streets between 1894 and 1916. Fifteen new houses were completed in the District during the same period with five more completed during the early 1920s. Another important housing trend during these years responded to the growing need for rental housing, more particularly - student housing. Along East Jefferson Street this need was met in a variety of ways. Nursing students, for example, were housed in the former Robert and Julia Hutchinson House at 318 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). From ca. 1911 through ca. 1920 the building served as the SUI Nurses Home and by 1926 was described in city directories as the SUI Obstetrical Home. Located directly across the street from the SUI Hospital and SUI Isolation Hospital, the house was officially converted to apartments in 1947. The establishment of rooming houses and boarding houses for SUI students was repeated throughout the District. The Chase Rooming House was operated by Marie Chase, a widow, at 22 North Gilbert Street (contributing) in the years immediately preceding and fOllowing World War I. During this period the University established informal but strict policies about such establishments restricting rooming houses to same-sex boarders. A variation on this restriction applied to the location of sorority and fraternity houses. The former were located in neighborhoods east of the downtown while the latter were located on N. Dubuque and N. Clinton streets or west of the river. Several houses functioned as sorority houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District through the years, the largest example constructed at 430 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). Its design was that of an oversized American Four-Square with a private apartment for the owners, Janet and Henry Kohrt. The Kohrts served as house-parents during its early years when it was leased to members of the Phi Rho Sigma Sorority as an annex to the main sorority house located a block away at 505 East Iowa Avenue. Another sorority house was located across the street at 431 E. Jefferson (contributing) beginning in the 1920s. Originally built as a private residence for Laura and William Foster, it was used as the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House and the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House after World War I. The largest example of rental housing in the District was the former Park HouselSt. Agatha's Seminary (contributing, Photo #9) at 130 E. Jefferson Street. After St. Agatha's Seminary closed here in 1909 the building became a women's dormitory. Beginning in 1918, the building was converted to flats and renamed for proprietor Albert Burkley as the Burkley Place Apartments. The demand for apartments continued to be brisk after World War I and Burkley added a separate new apartment building to the north at 115 N. Dubuque Street (contributing) named "Burkley Place North: Together the two buildings had nearly 40 flats. Prior to World War II, SUI junior faculty and staff as well as downtown employees occupied buildings such as these. Student use of such apartments was a post-war phenomenon. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 16 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and Stale By the time the Jefferson Street Historic District was fully developed by the late 1920s, the neighborhood consisted of a mix of middle and upper income households in owner-occupied and rental houses and apartments. Students at the State University of Iowa, especially medical students, nursing students, and music students filled rooming houses and apartment buildings. Information in the list below has been gleaned from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources and provides a sampling of the District's residents, their occupations or professions, business affiliations, and the location of the houses they occupied. Dates shown are for estimates for building construction: East Jefferson Street 104 E. Jefferson St.. Newman Catholic Center, 1988 (St. Mary's Convent wing originally built ca. 1930) 119 E. Jefferson SVSUI Building #19, Hall of Anatomy (Biological Sciences library), 1902 121 E. Jefferson SVSUI Building #18, Medical Laboratory Building (Zoology Bldg./Biology Bldg.). 1902 130 E. Jefferson St., Park House/SI. Agatha's Seminary, 18521ca. 1875 214 E. Jefferson St.. First Methodist Episcopal Church (First United Methodist Church). 1908 220 E. Jefferson St., St. Mary's Rectory, 1891 230 E. Jefferson St., St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 1867/1907 302 E. Jefferson St., Hugh & Josephine McCabe, retired. ca. 1925 306 E. Jefferson St., Mary Thoman, ca. 1925 318 E. Jefferson St., Robert & Julia Hutchinson. carpenter and city marshall, ca. 1875 320 E. Jefferson St., John & Magdalena Englert, owner, City Brewery. ca. 1885 324 E. Jefferson SI., Joseph & Lena Weiss, occupation unknown, 1940 325 E. Jefferson St./SUI Building #20, State University of Iowa Isolation Hospital, 1916 328 E. Jefferson St., Mary Rohret, widow, 1911 403 E. Jefferson St., Dionysius Speidel, partner, Speidel Brothers Clothing Store, 1905 404 E. Jefferson St., SI. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1926 405 E. Jefferson St., Thomas & Martina Brown, proprietor, Clinton Street Smoke House, 1906 409-411 E. Jefferson SI., Andrew & Mary Beermaker, occupation unknown, ca. 1883 413 E. Jefferson St., Beermaker rental house, ca. 1892 415 E. Jefferson SI., Mrs. FA Lucas, widow, ca. 1868 420 E. Jefferson SI., Justine Mueller, widow, 1905 424 E. Jefferson SI., David & Isabell Abrams, shoe dealer and grocery store owner, 1893 425 E. Jefferson SI., John & Catherine Sueppel, owner, Sueppel's Grocery and Catherine Sueppel Clothier and Fumisher, 1876 428 E. Jefferson SI., Warren & Anna Irons, no occupation, ca, 1921 430 E. Jefferson St., Janet & Henry Kohrt, / Phi Rho Sigma Annex, 1924 431 E. Jefferson St., Foster, Laura & William, no occupation/Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House & Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House, ca. 1894 North Dubuque Street 115 N. Dubuque St., Burkley Place North Apartment Building, ca. 1925 North Gilbert Street 22 N. Gilbert St., Hugh & Margaret Smith, partner. Smith & Cilek Hardware Store 24 N. Gilbert St., Thomas Moore, no occupation, ca. 1905 114 N. Gilbert SI., Joseph & Ludmila Barborka , retired jeweler, 1901 115 N. Gilbert SI., Wm. Bostick, ca. 1850 and later, George & Mary Rohret, retired farmer 119 N. Gilbert St., Mollie Englert, widow of George Englert, owner, City Brewery, ca. 1900 120 N. Gilbert St., Alois & Esther Smith, brewmaster, Iowa Brewing Co. (former Dostal Brewery), ca. 1908 125 N. Gilbert St.. Jacob & Sarah Goldberg, grocery store owner, ca. 1922 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 17 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State North Van Buren Street 21·25 N. Van Buren St.. Unnamed House. ca. 1875 109 N. Van Buren St., William Graf, proprietor. Graf Bottling Works. 1920 117 N. Van Buren St., John Messner. partner. Messner. Koza & Co., meat market, ca. 1911 The Architecture of the Jefferson Street Historic District: The mix of residences, apartment buiidings, churches. and collegiate buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District provides a representative sampling of architectural styles and vernacular forms typical of late 19'h and early 20th century neighborhoods in Iowa City. At the same time. this mix of institutional architecture and domestic building stock provides a blend of architectural scale, materials, and designs that is rare within Iowa City. Architects of local and regional prominence are identified with several individual buildings within the District while builders and carpenters associated with many of the vernacular buildings remain unidentified. Good examples can be found of Greek Revival, Italian ate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival style residences as well as well preserved examples of vernacular forms such as the American Four-Square. Religious buildings include fine examples of Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival, French Second Empire, and a mix of Tudor Revival and Collegiate Gothic designs while collegiate buildings are designed in the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles. A discussion of the architecture of the District begins with an examination of several architect-designed buildings. Churches and SUI owned buildings comprise the major architectural commissions in the Jefferson Street Historic District. The earliest building designed by an architect in the District is believed to be the Congregational Church at 30 N. Clinton Street (contributing, Photo #7. NRHP). A design for the church was commissioned in 1867 from Gurdon P. Randall (1821-1888) of Chicago. Randall had apprenticed in the offices of Asher Benjamin of Boston before moving west in 1856. His 34-year practice specialized in schoolhouses, churches, and courthouses throughout the Midwest. The same year that he designed the Congregational Church in Iowa City, he published A Handbook of Designs, Buildings. The Madison County Court House in Winterset, Iowa was completed the same year also but was destroyed by fire in 1875. The Union Park Congregational Church completed in Chicago (1869 and 1871), was among his other church designs· It is pictured to the right, its front façade a nearly identical, but reverse, image of the Congregational Church in Iowa City.7 (see Photo #7) The Congregational Church is a well preserved example of the Gothic Revival Style of architecture found in religious buildings throughout the country after the Civil War. F" t B Ii t C t" I Ch rch Th· b ld' . I f th 'd t I h h f It h t· I f Irs ap S ongrega lona u , IS UI Ing IS an examp eo e Sl e-s eep e c urc orm. as an asymme rica ror 60 N. AShland Ave., Chicago "wesley I. Shank, Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, (Nevada, Iowa: University of Iowa Press), 1999, p. 201. 'Photo by Stephen Seal from Chicago Landmarks Web Site, available at http://www.ci.chLil.us/Landmarks/F/FirstBaptist.html. Accessed on November 5, 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 18 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State containing an octagon broached spire ornamented with small gabled windows located at the northwest corner of the building facing Clinton and Jefferson streets. The front façade incorporates a smaller turret on the southwest corner that originally terminated in a pinnacle. The Gothic design's distinctive fenestration includes pointed or lancet arched windows in singles, pairs, or trios. The building has a stone foundation and the masonry walls are constructed of a locally produced reddish brown brick. Stone belt courses extend around the building between the raised basement and first floor and at three points around the tower. Brick pointed arches are inset in the walls of the tower as well. Facing the Pentacrest, the Congregational Church provides a dramatic landmark at the west entrance to the Jefferson Street Historic District. First Methodist Episcopal Church, undated" ~ . _":'~ Architects for other churches in the District .,/... .... . are not as clearly identified. St. Mary's ~. 1/ "/'. Roman Catholic Church at 230 E. .;"",',, .", ^ Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo#11) t ,"",; -: with its Romanesque Revival Style center .;~.~';'. ". steeple form was reportedly designed by î;"'"i:, :.t."\.' Father Emonds, pastorat the church at the . . ,~' . time of Its construction In 1868-69. The ;,¡..," building's large footprint took advantage of :". '.5. the church reserve lot it occupied opposite '. ~. the park. Like the Congregational Church. it was constructed of reddish brown brick with limestone trim. Its imposing church steeple centered on the front façade was one of three that marked the skyline of East Jefferson Street by the turn of the 20th century. When a rectory was added next door at 220 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #10) in 1891, it was also designed in the Romanesque Revival Style. .' . - - ",-~- The First Methodist Episcopal Church stood on another church reserve lot West of St. Mary's Church and Rectory. After several fires and partial reconstructions, the building was destroyed in 1906 in a fire that threatened conflagration in the densely developed neighborhood. Two years later a replacement church building was completed at 214 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #8). Though no specific architect has been identified for the replacement building that appears at the above, it is possible that the contracting firm for the church, Sheets & Freyder, also served as architect. This long-standing Iowa City buiiding firm 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. Business listings in city directories from before the turn of the 20th century through the 1920s listed the firm with "architects" as well as various builder specialties. Frank X. Freyder apparently served as the firm's architect. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts on a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including at least four other Iowa City churches. One of these, the German Methodist Episcopal Church (non-extant), was located at the southeast corner of Gilbert and Jefferson streets. "Photo from Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company). 1989, p. 59. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 19 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County, IA Name of Property County and State At a quick glance, the massive side-steeple form and rusticated limestone walls of the 1908 First Methodist Episcopal Church suggest that the building is a Richardsonian Romanesque design. Closer examination identifies the church as an example of the Late Gothic Revival Style that was gaining national popularity on college campuses at the turn of the century such as Bryn Mawr, Princeton, West Point, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. Gothic pointed arches in the three entrance bays and the stained glass windows in the tower and sanctuary combine with steeply pitched gable roof peaks, crenellated towers, decorative roof ridge crestings, and tall chimneys to give the church its distinctive Gothic design. As was noted previously, growth of the State University of Iowa Medical School and related hospitals transformed a nearly three-block stretch of the south side of Jefferson Street beginning in the decade of the 1890s. The University employed architect that oversaw that change was the Des Moines firm of Proudfoot & Bird and its successor, Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson. The firm was headed by William T. Proudfoot (1860-1928) and George W. Bird (1854-1953) when it relocated to Des Moines in 1896. Harry D. Rawson (1873-1934) joined the firm in 1910. During the first decades of the 20th century, the firm became established as "Iowa's preeminent early-twentieth-century architectural firm... noted for the high quality of their architectural design, their high level of professional competence, and the large number of completed commissions."" Among Proudfoot and Bird's best known SUI commissions are the four academic halls on the Pentacrest that surround Old Capitol- Schaeffer Hall (1902), MacBride Hall (1908), MacLean Hall (1912), and Jessup Hall (1924). The four Bedford stone buildings were designed in the Classical Revival Style with Beaux-Arts elements. When fire claimed the SUI Medical School Building that also stood on Capitol Square as Schaeffer Hall was nearing completion, SUI turned to Proudfoot & Bird to design a new Medical Laboratories Building (SUI Building #18, contributing, Photo #13) and Hall of Anatomy (SUI Building #19, Photo #12, contributing) along the south side of the 100 block of East Jefferson Street. The two buildings were completed between 1902-1904 and also featured the use of Bedford stone in their Classical Revival designs. Further to the east along Jefferson Street, a complimentary set of hospital buildings was designed by Proudfoot and Bird for the University. The main hospital was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style with red and buff colored brick combined with limestone trim and a red clay tiled roofs to achieve a less academic aesthetic. The main hospital and a series of additions (either non-extant or located outside of the District) were constructed between 1897 and 1914. Construction of the SUI Isolation Hospital in 1916 required a freestanding building, which was located at 325 Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo # 14). Rendered in the same Italian Renaissance Revival Style and polychromatic materials, its exterior remains largely unaltered in 2003. The third architect identified with buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District was Orville H. Carpenter of Iowa City. Though at least three other buildings designed by Carpenter are already listed on the NRHP, most of what is known about his life and professional career has been uncovered only recently by historian and Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner Richard Carlson. Examinations of local newspapers and issues of American Contractor magazine for the years 1897-1908 and 1897-1930 respectively have identified at least three residences designed by Carpenter in the District.1o The buildings span the period 1905-1907 and their designs demonstrate the transition between late Queen Anne Free Classic designs and American Four-Square plans that Carpenter's work was undergoing at this time. Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938) was born and grew up in rural Camanche in Clinton County, Iowa about 70 miles east of Iowa City. He attended public schools and one or more business colleges before beginning a career doing survey work for a civil engineering company in western Iowa in 1885. During the next decade he tray~led extensively, working for "some of the largest architectural firms in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large cities." It is not known whether or not " Shank, p. 127. 10Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897-1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 -1930, November, 2003. "Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," .~--- ,,---- --------.. -,---_.~---....._.."-- _____.____________. .______m______ . United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 20 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Carpenter received any formal training in architecture or engineering. By 1895 he had returned to Clinton County where he was apparently working as an engineer, architect, or both. In late 1898 Carpenter moved to Iowa City to open an architectural practice. A published account of his work in The Commercia/ Magazine in 1898 featured photographs of five completed residences in Iowa City suggesting that his work had likely commenced in Iowa City sometime before he made the decision to relocate there. The dearth of professional architects in Iowa City at the time was a likely factor in drawing Carpenter to Iowa City. This was coupled with the fact that in Clinton County, several competent architects already had established practices and the local economy was experiencing a decline. Carpenter appears in city directory business listings from 1899 through 1936. A comprehensive review of local newspapers underway in 2003'2 has identified at least three residences designed by Carpenter in the Jefferson Street Historic District. They include the Justine Mueller House at 420 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #4), the Falk Rental House at 403 E. Jefferson Street (contributing), and the Thomas and Martina Brown House next door at 405 E. Jefferson Street (contributing). The Mueller House is the earliest completed in ca. 1905 and is also the most elaborate of the three residences. It is a well preserved example of a variation of the popular late 19'" century Queen Anne Style that Carpenter used for many of his early Iowa City residential designs. Its solid, hipped-roof mass incorporated classical elements such as a keystone arched Palladian window in the attic gable, modillion style porch brackets, heavy tumed balusters, and paneled columns. As such, the house typified other late Queen Anne "Free Classic" residential designs by Carpenter in Iowa City. The other Jefferson Street houses by Carpenter are examples of the American Four-Square plans that he frequently designed in the years leading up to and following World War I. The Falk House and Brown House are two of the earliest Four-Squares that Carpenter is known to have designed. Both feature typical elements of this form incorporated in Carpenter plans including hipped or pyramidal roofs, attic dormers, wide hipped roof front porches, and large double-hung sash in singles and groups. Three other O.H. Carpenter residences near the Jefferson Street Historic District are individually listed on the NRHP - the Benjamin F. and Bertha (Horack) Shambaugh House built at 219 N. Clinton Street in 1902 and moved to 430 N. Clinton Street in 2002, the Arthur Hillyer Ford House completed in 1908 at 228 Brown Street, and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street completed a decade later in 1918. The Shambaugh House is an example of the Free Classic Queen Anne form favored by Carpenter for his earlier designs while the Ford House is an example of the Mission Style. The Harvat-Stach House is an eclectic blend of Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and Prairie School. At least eight Carpenter houses have also been identified in the proposed Gilbert- Linn Street Historic District located several blocks north of the Jefferson Street Historic District. O.H. Carpenter's architectural career included more than residences such as those documented in and around the Jefferson Street Historic District. Commercial and institutional projects including downtown business blocks, fratemal halls, and schools were among his work in Iowa City and in southeast Iowa. Carpenter's architectural practice continued through the 1920s and early 1930s though examples of his work became more rare, perhaps due to his age. In 1938 he died while continuing to reside in Iowa City. As was noted earlier in this section, much if not most of the domestic building stock in the Jefferson Street Historic District was constructed without the benefit of custom, architect-designed plans. The presence of only a handful of professional architects in Iowa City during the 19'" century contributed to the dearth of professionally designed dwellings along Jefferson Street. Newspaper advertisements of builders at the turn of the 20'" century promote the idea residences constructed by design/build firms. This idea was further encouraged by the tradition in American homebuilding that saw house designs frequently spring from sources other than architects. In some cases, popular house plans passed from generation to November 18, 2003 draft; "O.H. Carpenter," Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City, Iowa), Special Edition, May 31,1899, p. 6. "Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897-1908, and study oIO.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 -1930, November, 2003. --". .--....- ~-----._- ---....--.-..--... ._---. -~".~....._--~-- --.. ---' United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 21 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv.IA Name of Property County and State generation embellished with ornamentation and design features of their richer, architect-designed cousins. In other instances, the favored forms of individual carpenters or masons were modified based on stylistic trends of the day and built for new customers. In the Jefferson Street Historic District, examples of each of these homebuilding trends can be identified. The three houses identified as O.H. Carpenter designs are evidence of the presence of professionally designed dwellings in the District. Although specific architects have not been identified for other houses such as St. Mary's Rectory at 220 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #10) or the Sueppel House at 425 E. Jefferson Street (contributing, Photo #3), it is likely that professionals contributed to their designs. Two dwellings are examples of the adaptation of a popular house plan passed down from generation to generation. Both the William Bostick House at 115 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo #1, NRHP) and the Robert and Julia Hutchinson House at 318 E. Jefferson Street (contributing) are examples of the adaptation of the I-House form. In both cases the two-story, side-gabled houses were constructed of brick but in the earlier Bostick House built in 1850, the building incorporated Greek Revival Style windows, arches, and entrance treatment. In the Hutchinson House built about fifteen years later, the same house form incorporated the robust ornamentation of the ltalianate Style for cornice brackets and porch trim. Robert had first settled in Iowa City in 1839 soon after its founding working as a carpenter and joiner. He was credited with erecting the town's first log house. During the California gold rush he went west but returned a few years later no richer for the trouble. Hutchinson's experience as a carpenter likely encouraged him to chose a house form that was both pleasing and flexible. Other houses constructed in the Jefferson Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vemacular forms that swept the country from the 1880s through the 1920s. Homebuilders for these houses turned to pattern books and design catalogues that were readily available from local lumber companies. After the turn of the 20'" century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut houses such as Aladdin Homes, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck and Company, and Iowa's own Gordon-Van Tine Company. Another source of vernacular home designs were the plans offered through plan services such as the Home Owners Service Institute or pattern books published by Ray Bennett, Gustav Stickley, Herbert C. Chives, the Radford Architectural Co., or Harris, McHenry & Baker. The case of the Gordon-Van Tine Company headquartered in Davenport, Iowa is worth examining. The company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 the company offered house plans and were among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre-cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon-Van Tine Company knew of the brisk market for residential construction in other Iowa communities before and after World War I regularly placing advertising in local newspapers and sending traveling salesmen throughout the state. The most popular vernacular house form in the Jefferson Street Historic District was one frequently promoted by the Gordon-Van Tine Company - the American Four-Square. Ten separate buildings using this form were built in the District in the years leading up to and immediately following World War I. The Gordon-Van Tine Company included 18 separate plans in the American Four-Square house form in its 1923 catalogue seeking to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price,""A Big Square Home - Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two-Story Home," "An Every Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home - A Space and Money Saver," "A Substantial Seven Room House," and "A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms.,,13 13117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon-Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon-Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon-Van TIne Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923), pp. 37, 52, 66, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 99. ----._._-~-- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 22 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State As noted above, the American Four-Square was the most common house form in the Jefferson Street Historic District. Common characteristics included a two-story, three-bay configuration; hipped roof of various pitches; hipped, shed or gable attic or wall dormer(s) on one or more façades; porches generally extending across the entire front facade; asymmetrically placed entrance door (common); a cottage window on first floor (common); double-hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary façades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 configurations; belt courses separating first and second floors; and differing materials on each level (common). The typical plan for a Four-Square featured four rooms on the first floor usually including an entrance hall with stairs to the second floor, a cased opening between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the District were built for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor, moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and a few large houses containing more than 1,000 square feet per floor. Although the use of pattern book houses in the Jefferson Street Historic District has not been documented, the presence of 10 examples of the American Four-Square form makes it likely that one or more were the result of catalogue or pattem book selections. Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources: The Jefferson Street Historic District contains a total of 44 buildings with 41 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 22 are key or individually significant (21 primary and 1 secondary). The balance of the District includes 1 non- contributing primary building and 2 non-contributing secondary buildings. Five buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Congregational Church in 1973, the Park House/St. Agatha's Seminary in 1978, St. Mary's Church and St. Mary's Rectory in 1995, and the William Bostick House in 1996. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District were developed using National Register Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994 and 1999-2000 listed below · "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for" Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase 11),1845 -1945," prepared 1999,Iisted NRHP 2000 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 - 1945," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission 2000 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi-block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Jefferson Street Historic District meets these requirements. Individual buildings were evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing or 3) non-contributing. For single or multi-family buildings (including sorority houses, rectories, convents, rooming houses, and apartment buildings) to be designated as "key contributing," they had to be substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportions, and roofline. Principal façades had to remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 23 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State siding has been installed it was considered acceptable if the width matched that of the original surfaces and few architectural features had been compromised by its installation. Original porches were required to be intact, windows had to remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances had to remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi-family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure is easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. The majority of windows remain unchanged but if altered, the sizes of window openings conform to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant architectural detailing. For secondary structures such as garages, changes considered acceptable for contributing status include the replacement of garage doors. Residential buildings designated as "non-contributing" include all structures built outside of the period of significance - 1850 to 1954. Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable are also considered non-contributing. Examples of significant changes include a change in roofline, porch enclosures of a non-reversible nature, major additions or modifications of primary façades, and moving of a building outside of the period of significance. The balance of the buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District fall into the category of institutional buildings. These larger buildings include churches, education buildings, and hospitals and were evaluated and ranked according to the same three designations, of key contributing, contributing, or non-contributing. If an institutional building is designated as a "key contributing" resource, its primary façades are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportions, and roofline. A church, for example, retains its original shape and proportions with original window openings, doors, spires, and other architectural features preserved. Construction materials for foundations, walls, and windows remain original. The use of modern roofing materials is an acceptable alteration. New additions or wings are considered acceptable if they are located along secondary façades, have sympathetic design elements, and are constructed of compatible building materials. Such additions do not preclude a building from being considered a key contributing resource. In general, modifications made more than 50 years ago are accepted as part of the historic appearance of a building. Similar integrity standards apply to other institutional buildings including those built as academic halls and hospitals within the District. Changes to primary entrances, important window openings, and rooflines result in institutional buildings being considered either "contributing" rather than "key contributing" or "non-contributing" depending on the level of change. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings. National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A list of buildings in the Jefferson Street Historic District appears on the following page. Buildings are separated into primary (church, education hall, hospital, single-family house, or multi-family building) and secondary (carriage house or garage). If no box is marked under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage or carriage house is present. ..----.'-.---. ,----- ----_......- ." - .------------,----..--..---. ----- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 24 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Jefferson Street Historic District - Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources II STREET ORIGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non·Contributing Contributing Non-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 30 N. Clinton SI. First Congregational 1868 Key Gothic Revival Church NRHP 115 N. Dubuque SI. Buri<ley Place North ca. 1925 C No Style Apartment Buildino 22 N. Gilbert SI. Smith. Hugh & ca. 1910 C Am. Four-Square MargareVChase Roomina House 24 N. Gilbert SI. Moore, Thomas ca. 1905 C Am. Four-Square 114 N. Gilbert SI. Barbori<a. Joseph & 1901 Key Colonial RevivaV Ludmila Cross Gable 115 N. Gilbert SI. Bostick. Wm./Rohret, ca. 1850 Key Greek RevivaVSide- Georoe & Marv NRHP Gabled Two-Story 119 N. Gilbert SI. Englert, Mollie ca. 1900 C Gable-Front and Wing 120 N. Gilbert SI. Smith. Alois & Esther ca. 1908 Key Colonial RevivaVAm. Four-Sauare 125 N. Gilbert SI. Goldberg. Jacob & ca 1922 C NC Craftsman! Sarah Am. Four-Sauare 104 E. Jefferson SI. Newman Catholic 1988 NC Modem Movement Center (wilh SI. Mary's (Italian Renaissance Convent wine) Revival convent wino) 119 E. Jefferson St Hall of Anatomy 1902 Key Classical Revival SUI Building #19 (Biological Sciences Libra..) 121 E. Jefferson St Medical Laboratory 1902 Key Classical Revival SUI Building #18 Building (ZOOI~~.) Bldg./Bioloav Bid , 130 E. Jefferson 81. Pari< House/SI. 1852/ Key Second Empire Agatha's Seminarv ca. 1875 NRHP 214 E. Jefferson SI. First Methodist 1908 Key Gothic Revival Episcopal Church (First Uniled Methodist Church) 220 E. Jefferson SI. SI. Mary's Rectory 1891 Key Romanesque Revival NRHP 230 E. Jefferson SI. SI. Mary's Roman 1867/ Key Romanesque Revival Catholic Church 1907 NRHP 302 E. Jefferson SI. McCabe. Hugh & ca. 1925 C Craftsman/Bungalow Joseohine 306 E. Jefferson 51. Thoman, Mary C Slde·Gabled Two Story/Craltsman 318 E. Jefferson SI. Hutchinson, Robert & ca. 1875 Key C Italianete/I-House Julia 320 E. Jefferson St. Englert. John & ca. 1885 Key Queen Anne/Gable- Meadalena Front and Wing 324 E. Jefferson SI. Englert. Clarence & 1940 C C Gable-Front and Wing Marie 325 E. Jefferson St./ SUI Isolation Hospilal 1916 Key Italian Renaissance SUI Building 1120 Revival United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 25 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non-Contributing Contributing Non-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 328 E. Jefferson St. Rohret, Mary 1911 Key Am. Four-Square 403 E. Jefferson St. Falk Rental House 1907 Key Am. Four-Square 404 E. Jefferson St. St. Paul's Lutheran 1926 Key EclecticfTudor Revival Church & Colleniate Gothic 405 E. Jefferson St. Brown, Thomas & 1906 C Am, Four-Square Martina 409- E. Jefferson St. Beermaker, Andrew & ca. 1883 C Side-Gabled Two- 411 Marv StorY 413 E. Jefferson St. Beermaker rental ca. 1892 C Side·Gabled Two- house StorY 415 E. Jefferson St. Lucas, F.A. ca. 1868 C Front-Gabled One StaN 420 E. Jefferson St. Mueller, Justine 1905 Key Key Colonial Revival! Am. Four-Snuarel 424 E. Jefferson St. Abrams, David & 1893 Key Front-Gabled Two Isabell StorY 425 E. Jefferson St. John & Catherine 1876 Key NC (same Queen AnnelFront- .. SueppelHouse garage as at 415 Gabled Two Story E. Jefferson & 21-25 Van Buren\ 428 E. Jefferson St. Irons, Warren & Anna ca. 1921 C C Am. Four-Square 430 E. Jefferson St. Kohrt, Janet & Henry! 1924 Key Am, Four-Square Phi Rho Siema Annex 431 E. Jefferson S1. Foster, Laura & ca. 1894 C Queen Anne Wìlliam/Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House & Zeta Tau AIDha Sorority House 21-25 N. Van Buren S1. Unnamed House ca. 1875 C Front-Gabled Two StaN 109 N. Van Buren S1. Graf, William 1920 C Craftsman/Bungalow 117 N. Van Buren S1. Messner, John & Mary ca. 1911 Key Am. Four~Square Summary: In summary, the Jefferson Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential areas at the end of the 1 gth century and the beginning of the 20th century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. Jefferson Street's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the institutional buildings - both religious and collegiate - that were constructed along Jefferson Street from the 1860s through the 1 g205. The street's many churches became social centers for the community and the neighborhood. Growth in importance of the nearby State University of Iowa beginning in the 1890s saw construction of new medical school buildings and hospitals along East Jefferson Street. The resulting mix of institutional buildings and residences gave Jefferson Street a unique character among Iowa City's neighborhoods. . -. ..- _.--. '-'________,_,"_____ ___"_ _ __ __.._.__,..______~_____,__" __ m.____..~_ -..---.-.-. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 26 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Under Criterion C the Jefferson Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. The juxtaposition of 11 different architectural styles and vemacular forms employed for single-family dwellings, rooming houses, apartment buildings, churches, academic halls, and a hospital testifies to the architectural diversity of the District. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Jefferson Street Historic District its distinct neighborhood identity and significance. ......---...-----. . ..'_._-~- - . .----.-,.__..-" --_.._...---------..._._~--.- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 27 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State 9. Major Bibliographical References: 117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon-Van Tine Co. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1992. (reprint of Gordon-Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon- Van Tine Co., Davenport, Iowa, 1923). Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. [Publisher unknown] 1917. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Davenport, Iowa: The Huebinger Survey & Map Publishing Co., 1900. Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: J. J. Novak, 1889, Aurner, Clarence Ray. Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2. Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912. Baxter, Elaine. Historic Structure Inventory, North Side Neighborhood Preservation Study. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa. Institute of Urban and Regional Research, 1977. Bercovici, Konrad. On New Shores. New York: The Century Co., 1925. "Buildings East of the Pentacresr compiled by Dan Hurd, University of Iowa, Facilities services Group, Design & Construction Services, September 26,2000. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. Email interview re: study of Iowa City buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897-1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings in The American Contractor, 1897 - 1930, November, 2003. Carlson, Richard, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. "Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect: November 18, 2003 draft. 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Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. , -'_.---._~_..~ - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 28 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870 - 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc.. ca. 1973. 1883. Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. (New York: The Sanborn Map Company and the Sanborn and Perris Map Company; 1874,1879,1883,1888,1892,1899,1906,1912,1920, 1926, 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970). "Iowa City, Iowa". The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No.1, (January 1898). Iowa City, Iowa, Souvenir and Annual for 1881-82. Iowa City, Iowa: Hoover, Kneedler & Faust, 1882. 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"Surveyand Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phase II Area" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 -1945,' (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS") prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999-2000. Svendsen, Marlys. "Architectural and Historical Resources of Iowa City Central Business District, 1855 - 1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS') prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission (not submitted to the National Park Service), 1999-2000. Weber, Irving. Irving Weber's Iowa City - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1976, 1979,1985,1987.1989 and 1990. United States Deparbnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Page 30 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and Stale 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Beginning at the northwest corner of Block 79 in the Original Town Plat at the intersection of North Clinton Street and East Jefferson Street; thence south along the west side of Lot 4 to the south property line of the Congregational Church of Iowa City; thence east along said line approximately 120 feet; thence south approximately 80 feet along the west edge of University of Iowa campus to the south property line of Lot 3; thence east approximately 80 feet; thence north approximately 100 feet to the rear wall of the Medical Laboratory Building (also known as the Zoology Building and the Biology Building); thence east to the east property line of Lot 4 along North Dubuque Street; thence north to the centerline of East Jefferson Street; thence east along said centerline to a point located approximately 100 feet west of the northeast corner of Block 60 extended; thence south along said line to a line along the rear wall of the Isolation Hospital Building (also known as the Music Building); thence east along the rear wall to the east side of North Gilbert Street; then south along the west side Lot 4 of Block 45 to the north side of the alley; thence east along the north side of the alley to the west side of North Van Buren Street; thence north along the west side of said street to the south side of the alley in Block 46; thence west to the east line of Lot 4; thence north along said line approximately 40 feet; thence west across North Gilbert Street to the east side of Block 59; thence north approximately 40 feet; thence west to the west line of Lot 1; thence south to the south side of the alley; thence west along said alley to the east side of North Clinton Street; thence south along the east side of said street to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The boundary for the Jefferson Street Historic District relates to the surviving group of historic resources located along East Jefferson Street. which is situated midway north and south between the Market Street commercial area and the central business district. This section of Jefferson Street includes a mix of residential, church, and collegiate buildings that visually relate the development story of this portion of Iowa City. A nearly two block long stretch of the south side of Jefferson Street that includes academic halls of the University Iowa is excluded from the District because these buildings are not part of the period of significance of the Jefferson Street Historic District or, as in the case of the former SUI Main Hospital, have been so modified as to no longer qualify for the NRHP. The west boundary of the District along North Clinton Street was drawn to exclude portions of the adjoining University of Iowa campus that do not relate to the historic development of the District. Southwest of the Jefferson Street District, the Pentacrest Historic District (NRHP) and Old Capitol NHL block are located. The east boundary of the District was established along North Van Buren Street with the blocks further east noted for their significant loss in building integrity. A key factor in drawing this boundary was the loss of the former Center Market square as a result of construction of a multi-story parking ramp to serve nearby Mercy Hospital. .~--- .---," -- ..,_._~---_.._------ · United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number PhotOQraDhs Page 31 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Photoaraph Kev for Jefferson Street Historic District: (See Photo Map, page 35) Shelley McCafferty, and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Bostick-Rohret House. 115 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 2. John & Magdalena Englert House, 320 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 3. John & Catherine Sueppel House, 425 E. Jefferson Street, looking south southwest 4. Justine Mueller House, 420 E. Jefferson Street, looking north northeast 5, Mary Rohret House, 328 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 6. John & Mary Messner House, 117 N. Van Buren Street, looking west 7. Congregational Church, 30 N. Clinton Street, looking southeast 8. First Methodist Episcopal Church (First United Methodist Church), 214 E. Jefferson Street, looking northeast 9. Park House/SI. Agatha's Seminary, 130 E. Jefferson Street. looking northwest 10. SI. Mary's Rectory, 220 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 11. SI. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 230 E. Jefferson Street, looking north 12. SUI Hall of Anatomy, 119 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building # 19, looking north 13. SUI Medical Laboratory Building, 121 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building #18, looking southwest 14. SUI Isolation Hospital, 325 E. Jefferson Street/SUI Building #20, looking northwest 15. SI. Paul's Lutheran Church, 404 E. Jefferson Street, looking northwest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number ProDertv Owners Page 32 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Property Owners within the East Jefferson Street Historic District # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT BUYER(S) 30 N. Clinton 5t. Congregational Church of 30 N. Clinton 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 lowaCitv 115 N. Dubuque St. Julie K. Hodge 711 S. Gilbert 5t. Iowa City IA 52240 22 N. Gilbert 5t. Morrissey Partnership 800 200 51. 5uite 500E Coralville IA 52241 24 N. Gilbert St. Morrissey Partnership 800 200 St. 5uite 500E Coralville IA 52241 114 N. Gilbert 5t. John R. & Erma M. 1150 Jeffe",on St. Iowa City IA 52245 Alberhaskv 115 N. Gilbert St. Steven & Barbara Van Oer 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 Woude 119 N. Gilbert St. 122 Building Co. clo Van 509 Brown SI. Iowa City IA 52245 DerWoude 120 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma.~ 1150 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 Alberhas 125 N. Gilbert St. Stephen M. Baker 927 Duel< Creek Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 104 E. Jefferson 8t. Diocese of Davenport 2706 Gaines Davenport IA 52804 119 E. Jeffe",on 5t University of Iowa 5UI Buildinn #19 121 E. Jeffe",on St University of Iowa 5UI Buildinn #18 130 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Parkhouse lC 711 S. Gilbert 5t. Iowa City IA 52240 214 E. Jeffe",on St. First Un, Methodist Church 214 Jeffe",on 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 220 E. Jefferson 8t. 51. Marys Catholic Church 220 Jeffe",on St. Iowa City IA 52245 230 E. Jeffe",on 5t. St. Mary's Catholic Church 220 Jeffe",on St. Iowa City IA 52245 302 E. Jeffe"'on 5t. 5t. Mary's Catholic Church 302 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 306 E, Jeffe",on 5t. St. Marys Catholic Church- 112 5· Street PI. Coralville IA 52241 clo Kè=tone Pron. Mnmt. 318 E. Jeffe",on St. Marc B. Moen 123 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 320 E. Jeffe",on 5t. William L. Dun 320 Jeffe"'on SI. Iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Jeffe",on St. Michael N. & Joan M. Hart 848 Jennifer St. Madison WI 53703 325 E. Jeffe",on St./ University of Iowa SUI Buildinn #20 328 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Steven & Barbara Van Der 509 Brown 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 Woude 403 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Morrissey Partnership 800 200 St. Suite 500E Coralville IA 52241 404 E. Jeffe"'on St. 5t. Paul's Lutheran Church 404 Jeffe",on 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 405 E. Jeffe",on St. Philip launspach 136 Koser Ave. Iowa City IA 52246 409- E. Jefferson 5t. John O. & Joenen 5, 1314 Burry Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 411 Roffman 413 E. Jeffe",on St. John O. & Jaenen 5. 1314 Burry Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 Roffman 415 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Jane E. & Kevin Deets 4656 Fox lane NE Iowa City IA 52240 420 E. Jefferson S1. Steven & Barbara Van Der 509 Brown St. Iowa City IA 52245 Woude 424 E. Jeffe",on St. W.C. Winkef 424 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 425 E. Jeffe",on 5t. Donna M. Launspach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 428 E. Jefferson S1. Steven L. Droll 3312 Arbor Dr. Iowa City fA 52245 430 E. Jefferson St. Nena V. Cochran 430 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 431 E. Jefferson 51, Donne M. launspach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 21-25 N. Van Buren 5t. Andrew Small 25 N. Ven Buren 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 109 N. Ven Buren 5t. Michael J. Haverkamp 109 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 117 N. Van Buren St. Ralph D. Ramer & Larry G. 117 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 Ramer United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number MaDs Page 33 Jefferson Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Map Showing Location of Jefferson Street Historic District (Transportation Map, Iowa Department of Transportation, 2002) .. N ro 'CEDAR RAPIDS TO CEDAR RAPIDS )Of.. RO- IOWA CITY CORALVILLE SCALE OF .v,llES r""""-- , o 1 ''4 1/2 I .... 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N w :) z -ITIJª~~[] !.I[I\'C'T H O'3PIT AL ...J :::J MARKET u 0 Eel I BJ I 6 12 IOWA - ~,_._---"..--- -----.--- GILBERT-LINN STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT .... --..-....- ..------~-... --,.... ._-- .-,---.---------- "1 MAR 2 3 2004 . OMS No. 10024·0018 NPS Form 10-900 (Oct.1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form ThilIomI.rorIlWIoMO!I'OMIIIn\lor·GqlHM'illO~M"""""forIM~propertieo""ddi8lricta. $øeinslructio"'InHuwk>Complfl.tMNe6ontI/R~u.rotHirloricPlðœ'Reg/sirøöor¡F-orm(NatioMalR~'Bu!e\irI 1eA) Compllll.MChltøm ~mwldngYiM""'appropnaœ bœ orbyeflWlnglhaloformllllorll9qUasted_1I an hm doea Mot appylolha proparty beingdocumtH'll<ld, efllolr"NiA"lor"nol appIcebk!," for ful\C1lOos., IIfChltect\nl cI88sIfJcaIioo, mlllari8l51N1d 81.... O'IOIIMilicB/\œ, er>tar 00y ca\ao<>rillfl Md BUbcataoones from ""'1r181Nctiona. Placa tod<iIk>n-aIanlrieeandMa"..............""C<I"~"uatio"w._(NPSFcnn1o--9OOe), u...a~,word~r.or<,ompu\ðr.to<:om¡Jleta...II...... Name of Property historic name Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District other names/site number 2. Location street & number Portions of 200-600 Blocks of N. Gilbert & N. Linn Streets N/A U not for publication city or town Iowa City N/A U vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52242 3. State/Federal Aaencv Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this W nomination U 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 W meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant U nationally U statewide Lx.] locally. (U see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying officialffitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property U meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. (U See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying officiallTnle Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Keeper Date of Action U entered in the National Register. U See continuation sheet. U determined eligible for the National Register. U See continuation sheet. U determined not eligible for the National Register. U removed from the National Register. U other, (explain:) n_.._ .------- ---' U~m____.~_..__'_ _H' _ .~_._"..-"..-.-- " , Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA ,; Name of Property County and Stale 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) [2g private U building(s) Contributing Noncontributing U public-local [2g district 111 27 buildings [2g public-State Usite LJ public-Federal LJ structu re sites LI object 1 structures objects 111 28 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register Historic Resources of Iowa Citv. Iowa 4 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/Sinale Dwellinas DOMESTIC/Sinale Dwellinas DOMESTIC/Secondarv Structures DOMESTIC/Secondarv Structures DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellinas DOMESTIC/Multiple Dwellinas COMMERCEfTRADE/Restaurant COMMERCEfTRADElSoecialtv Store COMMERCEfTRADElRestaurant 7. DescriDtion Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne foundation STONE/Limestone MID-19th CENTURY/Greek Revival walls WOODlWeatherboard LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial WOOD/Shinale Revival roof ASPHALT other see continuation sheet Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets,) ,.." - -~------ _,,__,___,_________m' __m...'..__'__m____.._~··_______"_ . .. , . Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Sianificance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) ARCHITECTURE [X] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of COMMUNITY PLANNING AND our history. DEVELOPMENT U B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [2g C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses Period of Significance high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack 1850-1954 individual distinction. U D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations Significant Dates (Marl< "x" in all the boxes that apply.) N/A Property is: U A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person U B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marl<ed above) N/A U C a birthpiace or grave. Cultural Affiliation U D a cemetery. NIA U E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. U F a commemorative property. U G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. Camenter.O.H. Narrative Statement of Significance Sheets & Frevder CExDlain the sianificance of the DroDertv on one or more continuation sheets.) 9. Maior BlblioaraDhical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this fonn on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Pñmary location of additional data: U preliminary determination of individual listing !2U State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested U Other State agency U previously listed in the National Register U Federal agency U previously determined eligible by the National fl9 Local government Register U University U designated a National Historic Landmark UOther U recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # U recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # - -....--.....----...--- -.-..,-.--..-- -_..__.,,~"-'''..........-..- - --------.....,... .......-----..' , Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA . Name of Property County and State 10. GeoaraDhlcal Data Acreage of Property 22 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1 L1l.§1 ~ ~ 2L1l.§1 ~ ~ Zone Easting Northing Zone Easling Northing 3L1l.§1 ~ ~ 4 L1l.§1 ~ ~ U See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form PreDared Bv nameltitle Marlvs A. Svendsen. Svendsen Tyler. Inc. organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date Januarv. 2004 street & number N3834 DeeD Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state WI zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any add~ional ~ems) Prooertv Owner (Complete this "em at the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number telephone city or town state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the Natio,nal Historic Preservation Act. as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). EstImated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this fann is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Chief. Administrative Services Division. National Part< Service. P.O. Box 37127. Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget. Paperwort< Reductions Projects (1024·0018), Washington, DC 20503. , .. , United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 1 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 7. Description Architectural Classification: (continued) LATE VICTORIAN/IT ALlANA TE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman OTHER Materials: (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: BRICK walls: STUCCO roof: METAL .. . United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 2 Gilbert-linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 7. Narrative DescriDtion: The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is an irregular shaped neighborhood that begins approximately three blocks north of the downtown and the east campus of the University of Iowa (historically referred to as the State University of Iowa or SUI in this nomination) and extends north approximately five blocks along N. Gilbert and N. Linn streets from E. Market and E. Bloomington streets, respectively, to Fairchild and E. Ronalds streets, respectively. District boundaries along the west and east edges generally extend only one or two lots west of Linn Street and east of Gilbert Street depending on the condition of buildings and the presence of parking lots or vacant parcels. Properties facing the intersecting streets of E. Davenport Street, E. Fairchild Street, and E. Church Street are also included within the District. The District comprises a portion of the commercial and residential section of Iowa City known historically and today as the "North Side." All of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is contained within the Original Town Plat of Iowa City that was laid out in 1839 when the town was established as the territorial capital of Iowa Territory. Streets in the District were laid out with standard 80-foot widths with east-west alleys measuring 20 feet. Blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet with eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the North Side residential blocks through the years saw numerous instances of subdividing of lots into smaller building parcels with a handful of full size lots retained intact for larger buildings. Unlike most of the North Side, the north-south routes of both Gilbert and Linn streets had the primary façades of buildings facing these streets rather than the intersecting east-west streets. Street paving within the District is a mix of brick and asphalt. N. Linn Street, E. Davenport Street, and E. Fairchild Street are paved in brick with 12- inch limestone curbing along abutting blocks. The balance of the District has concrete curbing and asphalt paving. All streets in the District carry two-way traffic with parallel parking on alternating sides of the streets on a daily basis. The terrain of the District is generally flat with a gradual upward slope from south to north of approximately 35 feet over five blocks with the highest point in the District near the intersection of Ronalds and Linn streets. Houses throughout the District are sited level with the street or on slight upgrades with no major retaining walls present. Setback of houses varies markedly throughout the District with older buildings generally set closer to the street. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak, ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings within private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features within the District and no city parks or playgrounds. The nearest municipal parks are City Park located adjacent to the Iowa River and N. Dubuque Street approximately a mile northwest of the District and Happy Hollow Park located a half- mile northeast of the District along Brown Street between Lucas and Govemor streets. The historic building stock in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District includes single-family dwellings that date from the 1850s through the 1930s and secondary structures erected from the late 19th century through the 1940s. Approximately 42 percent of the 103 buildings originally constructed as single-family dwellings, double-houses, or apartment houses (primary buildings) are significant individually or key contributing structures. Another 53 percent qualify as contributing structures within the District but are not individually significant. A total of 10 primary buildings or 9 percent are non-contributing due to their date of construction or significant alterations. The District contains 40 secondary buildings originally constructed as garages, carriage houses, or barns. Of these, 55 percent are considered key or contributing and the remaining 45 percent have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or date of construction. The dense residential blocks in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District contain a mix of small, moderate and large-scale houses constructed over a period of a nearly a century. Though the platting of lots favored construction of primary façades 'Email interview with Terry Robinson. Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City re: species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. ..-. _. ---. -.----- m'_. -- ._~..__..,. --~~----'~----------------~'-'''-----'-- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 3 GilbertMLinn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State fronting on east-west streets, historic factors strengthened the importance of both Gilbert and Linn streets. During the early years the route of the Military Road along N. Gilbert Street drew houses to this corridor. In another case, the brick paving that took place along N. Linn Street at the turn of the 20th century drew development to this route. Paving of Linn Street was done as part of an effort to provide ready access between North Side churches and local cemeteries. Whatever the reasons, the paved street prompted houses built after the paving to face Linn Street. Corner lots tended to have designs with prominent façades facing both directions and because the east and west edges of the District extend several houses deep along intersecting streets, a number of houses face these streets as well. Building parcels located along Gilbert and Linn streets are generally quite shallow while those facing Bloomington, Davenport, Fairchild, and Church streets are deep except for corner lots where rear portions have been divided to provide housing sites facing onto Gilbert and Linn streets. The District's one, two, and two-and-half-story-houses are constructed of stone, brick, wood, and stucco with frame structures being the most popular. Both dressed and ashlar stone was used for two of the neighborhood's earliest Greek Revival residences as well as foundations on most 19th century houses. Locally manufactured brick was used for several ltalianate Style houses while pressed brick was incorporated into foundations and decorative porch pedestals in later dwellings. Frame houses dating from the Civil War on included a range of narrow, medium and wide width clapboard styles, and both decorative and square-cut shingles, The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District exhibits a variety of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles including good examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School style houses. For earlier houses in the District, it is common to see eclectic combinations of these styles. Many of the houses are also examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City during that period. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District include the Side-Gable - both one-story and two-story or I-house forms, the Front-Gable, the Gabled Front and Wing, the American Four-Square (most popular), and the Gambrel Cottage. Greek Revival influenced houses in the District display symmetrical façades with prominent entrances surrounded by flat transoms and rectangular sidelights. Italianate Style houses most often appear in the Front-Gable form with prominent decorative brackets lining the eaves and ornamented window hoods and porches. More than 20 houses display design features from the Queen Anne Style. These houses have asymmetrical façades, decorative scroll-cut and turned trim, and varied shingle detailing used on the main body of the house as well as porches and gabled dormers. An irnportant design element that was rarely built on Queen Anne Style houses in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District or has been lost through attrition is the tower or turret. After the turn of the 20th century, many of the largest houses built in the District were built in the Colonial Revival Style incorporating classical design rnotifs into their façades, varied window forms, sweeping verandas, and in several cases, their carriage houses. By World War I, houses were being constructed that favored the more rectilinear design elements of the Craftsman and Prairie School styles. Paired, grouped, or banded windows appeared with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double-hung windows in Craftsman Style houses while exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee-brace brackets lined cornices and porch roofs. Isolated examples of the Prairie School Style also appear in the District. These houses contained hipped roofs with lower pitches, horizontal window groupings, and other design features intended to emphasize the horizontal look of the buildings. The vernacular housing that appeared during the ten decades that the District was under development included modest one and one-and-half-story cottages based on both the Front-Gable and Side-Gable forms during the earliest years. A later generation built residences in the Two-Story Side-Gable or I-House form. This form continued to appear in the years leading up to the turn of the 20th century along with even larger Gabled Front and Wing houses. Both forms are scattered throughout the District. After 1900 the most common form used for vernacular housing in the District was the American Four-Square, which could be sized to fit virtually any size lot in the District. Nearly 30 Four-Squares were built by 1930, many with Craftsman or Colonial Revival detailing. At least one example of a Gambrel Cottage was also built after 1900. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 50me of the best examples of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District are listed below. Residential Architectural Styles · Greek Revival: Jacob Wentz House, 219 N. Gilbert 51. (NRHP, Photo #1, ca. 1850) Henry C. Nicking House, 410 E. Market 51. (NRHP, Photo #2,1854) · Ita/ianate: Conrad & Anna Graff House, 319 E. Bloomington 51. (Photo #3, 1872) Gustave Strub House, 309 E. Church 51. (Photo #4, ca. 1865) · Queen Anne: Anna 5aunders House, 217 E. Davenport 51. (ca. 1895) John & Alice Kessler House, 222 E. Davenport 51. (ca. 1895) 5chmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild 51. (Photo #5, 1895) John Thomas McClintock House, 230 E. Fairchild 51. (ca. 1895) Joseph & Mary Chudacek House. 210 N. Gilbert 51. (Photo #6, 1900) Harry & Goldie Miller House, 418 N. Gilbert 51. (Photo #7, ca. 1896) Mathilda Hotz House, 522 N. Linn 51. (Photo #8, ca. 1895) Mary McKinley House, 526 N. Linn SI. (Photo #9, ca. 1895) · Colonial Revival: Emma Harvat and Mary 5tach House, 332 E. Davenport 51. (NRHP, Photo #10, 1918) Frank & Anna Larkin House, 416 N. Linn SI. (Photo #11, 1905) John & Barbara Koza House, 619 N. Linn 51. (Photo #12, 1906) · Craft$man: William & Anna Hoffelder House, 322 E. Bloomington 51. (Photo #13,1916) Joseph & Mary Brumm House, 225 E. Church 51. (1923) George & Pearl Falk House, 225 E. Davenport 51. (Photo #14,1918) John & Ida Yokum House and Garage, 402 E. Davenport 51. (Photo #15, 1925) William and Mayme Fryhauf House, 419 N. Gilbert SI. (Photo #16, 1914) Eva 51ezak House, 311 N. Linn 51. (ca. 1915) · Prairie School: Lavinia & Martin Bridenstine House, 404 E. Davenport 5treet (Photo #17, 1924) Vernacular House Forms · Front-Gable: Frederick & Louisa Rothweilder House, 310 N. Gilbert SI. (ca. 1875) · Side-Gable Roof One Story: Unnamed house, 316 E. Church 51., (Photo #18, ca. 1870) Adam Ohnhaus House, 321-323 E. Davenport SI. (1870) · Side-Gable Roof Two Story/l-Hou$e: Maden House, 312 E. Fairchild 51. (ca. 1912) · Gabled Front & Wing: Cemy House, 214 N. Gilbert 51. (ca. 1899) Edward & Edna Miller House, 311 N. Gilbert 51., (1908) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7&8 Page 5 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State . American Four-Square: [Note: most examples have Colonial Revival, Craftsman, or Prairie School attributes] Henrietta & George Freyder House, 320 E. Davenport St. (1907) G. Adolph & Dorothy Brenner House, 309 E. Fairchild St. (Photo #19, ca. 1908) Edward Ebert House, 311 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1898) Louis F. Cerny House, 317 E. Fairchild St. (ca. 1908) Albert Husa, Jr. House, 324 E. Fairchild St. (1916) Joseph & Theresa Stach House, 325 N. Gilbert St. (1907) Nancy Graham House, 413 N. Gilbert St. (Photo #20,1919) William & Emma McRoberts House, 313 N. Linn St. (ca. 1916) Lemmuel Hunter House, 411 N. Linn St. (ca. 1906) William & Julia Schneider House, 514 N. Linn St. (Photo #21, 1902) . Gambrel Cottage: William & Susan Morrison House, 314 E. Fairchild St. (Photo #22, ca. 1908) The condition of houses in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District ranges from fair to excellent. A substantial number of dwellings continue as single-family homes with subdivision into duplexes or apartments most common in the blocks closest to the University of Iowa east campus. The most likely alteration to houses in the District is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. An analysis completed by the staff of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission shows that approximately 36 percent of the primary buildings in the District have this alteration. Other changes include the removal, alteration, or enclosure of porches with screening or fixed walls, the modification or addition of entrances, the addition of fire escapes in multiple-family buildings, and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. Four single-family houses were constructed as infill buildings during the 1950s while a wave of North Side apartment building construction that took place from 1960 through the mid-1980s, saw three apartment buildings constructed in the District. 8. Statement of Sianificance: General: The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance under the category "Community Planning and Development." The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is associated with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Much of this population growth was associated with the expansion of the State University of Iowa and its hospitals located several blocks south of the District. Other residential development paralleled expansion of the city's commercial district with some of the Districfs most elaborate residences erected by downtown business owners. Residential building stock in the District is related to two historic contexts previously developed in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" -the "Railroad Era, 1856-1900" and "Town and Gown Era, 1900-1940." Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door or across the street from working class families. The N. Gilbert Street and N. Linn Street neighborhood also became one of the sections of the North Side to play host to socially mobile German and Bohemian-American families, groups that grew as a result of continued immigration from Germany and Bohemia as well as settlement patterns within Johnson County immediately before and after 1900. Under Criterion C the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. The District also spotlights the work of one of Iowa City's most prolific and important residential architects, Orville H. Carpenter, with at least eight houses identified as his commissions in the District. Together the District's buildings tell the story of how national architectural styles and vernacular building forms were adapted through local building practices immediately before and after the turn of the 20th century. Although a number of individual properties in the district are associated with important local business leaders and educators, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the District. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. Three properties within the District are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Jacob Wentz House (219 N. Gilbert Street), the Henry C. Nicking House (410 E. Market Street), and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House (332 E. Davenport Street). The first two properties each contain one contributing resource and the last property contains two contributing resources. The period of significance for this locally significant historic district extends from 1850 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest contributing resource and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for NRHP eligibility. North Side Historical Survey Recommendations: The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northem tiers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1981 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts - one commercial properties and one residential properties - were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the National Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1984 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: · Dubuque/Unn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) · Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase I) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) · Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase II) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) · Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) · Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase II MPD have been listed on the NRHP, In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Iowa City. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, architectural significance, andlor historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa City neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 7 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County fA Name of Property County and Stata geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca. 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples of the architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: · Jefferson Street Historic District - This four-block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches, residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State University of Iowa Medical School and the University Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, reli\lion, and community planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19th and early 20 century institutional and residential building styles. · Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District - This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north-south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick-paved course of Linn Street and the north-south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa City's most important tum of the century architects, O.H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximity to employment generators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. · Brown Street Historic District and Ronalds Street Extension - The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa City's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub-themes; its affiliation with the growth of the State University of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four-block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. · North Clinton Street Historic Street - This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa City's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition the houses are well-executed and well-preserved examples of the architectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 21 st century, the area adjoins the State University of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternity houses and rooming houses. A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preserved, but scattered, collection of University of Iowa fraternity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian-American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District included in this nomination, they include the Jefferson Street Historic District and the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street section, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 8 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State The Historical and Architectural Development of the N. Gilbert Street and N. Linn Street Neighborhood: 2 Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its river city population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is located in the northwest corner of the Original Town Plat. This plat, which appears on the following page with the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and reserves set aside by the territorial legislators for churches and a school. Primary access into the capital city from the north was via Territorial Road along N. Gilbert Street. The first sections of the new city to be developed were near Capitol Square with the earliest commercial blocks located along Clinton and Washington streets. This area and the blocks to the east and south would become Iowa City's central business district. Within twenty years of Iowa City's founding, a second commercial and industrial district began to appear several blocks north of the downtown along a stretch Market Street between Linn and Gilbert streets. The area, which became known as the 'North Side: eventually contained three breweries (one building extant), a hotel, grocery stores, meat markets, and a number of small retail establishments. In the years before and after the Civil War, a residential neighborhood grew up in the blocks surrounding the North Side commercial area. In the decades leading up to the tum of the 20th century, the area saw a second wave of development associated with general population increases in the Third Ward and.growth directly associated with the expansion of the State University of Iowa. The residential blocks that extend along N. Linn and N, Gilbert streets and the intersecting routes of Bloomington, Davenport, Fairchild, and Church streets that have the most physical integrity at the turn of the 2151 century form the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District. One of the earliest views of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is contained in the 1868 8irel's Eye View of Iowa City that appears on page 10. A prominent landmark in this view is Old Capitol, the former territorial capitol located at the center of Capitol Square, what is today part of the University of Iowa and the Pentacrest Historic District (NRHP). The North Side commercial area shown here stretching along E. Market Street shows the collection of breweries and commercial enterprises that had become well established south of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District by the end of the Civil War. Other landmarks visible here include the spires of churches located along Jefferson Street. The bird's eye view depicts the blocks in the District containing one and two-story houses scattered among vacant lots with the blocks north of Davenport Street the most sparsely developed. The oldest houses to survive in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District are located along or near the major access route into the capital city - Military or Territorial Road along N. Gilbert Street. The two oldest dwellings in the District, the Jacob Wentz House and the Henry Nicking House, are both highlighted above. The Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #1) was constructed in ca. 1850 and is representative of the many vernacular stone houses constructed in Iowa City during the decades prior to the Civil War. Wentz, a farmer and landowner, had the house constructed in a simple, two-story side-gable form with coursed rubble stone walls and dressed stone lintels for the openings. The other stone house in the District was built In a similar fashion in 1854 for Henry Nicking, a barber. The stone for one or both houses may have been quarried about a half-mile away at an important quarry that was located along the Iowa River at the west ends of Ronalds and Church streets. It was labeled on the 1839 Original Town Plat map (see page 9) as simply "quarry" and designated as the 'public quarry' on an 1854 map.3 Other quarries were located upstream along the river and what is now N. Dubuque Street. There are at least a dozen extant houses of similar stone construction scattered throughout Iowa City including another North Side house previously listed on the National Register - the Schindhelm-Drews House constructed in ca. 1855 at 41 0 N. Lucas Street. The use of stone for this pair of early houses in 2Portions of this section are taken from 'Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, 'Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase 11),1845- 1945," listed in 2000. Additional material was taken from a secon¡ amendment to the MPS prepared in 1997 titled 'Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa, 1839 - ca. 1910" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The first two documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen and the third by Jan Olive Nash. 3/0wa City and Its Environs, drawn by J.H. Millar. Byran & Millar. Guthrie County. Iowa. 1854. ---- --......-.-..- ..._-- - _.-------~._---"-- _".. .._ .,.....___._,.__... ....__.......___...~. ....___.~....__.M. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District likely reflects the availability of competent masonry workers during the town's early years. The continued presence of skilled stone masons and cutters after completion of the stone capitol (a total of 85 in 1856) encouraged a continuation of stone construction. Map of Iowa City, 1839 1 (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N 'II CJ\.l'ITO~ > :>I ~m oS'Q U A1\-1'> ~m fiB "',' i ~ 5 G 1 ft 5 oj 7 ð .-~~m~8G .. . .- - -------"--- .--.------- -~ _ ---...-...---.---.--...---- ------------------~.._-- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Population figures for Iowa City as a whole and the Third Ward, which included the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, demonstrate periods of growth and decline in the North Side. A population table summarizing state and federal census figures appears on page 11. Prior to 1870 Iowa City's population was recorded as a single, citywide number. Popuiation stood at 1.250 in 1850 when the first residents were building homes in the North Side and by 1860 when the two houses just mentioned were in place, it had grown dramatically to 5,214. This quadrupling of population occurred despite the removal of the state capital to Des Moines. Positive factors outweighing this event were the establishment of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and the arrival of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad in the mid-1850s. Declines in population growth during the early 1860s reflected losses due to the dislocation caused by the Civil War and temporary immigration decreases. from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 1868 "- (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N By the mid-1860s census figures show that Iowa City's population was already beginning to recover. Growth resumed at a more moderate pace than the previous decade, reaching 5,914 by 1870. This was also the first census to record the geographic dispersal of Iowa City's population. It showed 2,295 people residing in the Third Ward, a section of the city that extended from N. Linn Street on the west to east of Reno Street on the east and from Washington Street on the south to Brown Street on the north. Five years later in 1875 the city's population rose to 6,371 while numbers in the Third Ward declined slightly to 2,026. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 11 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv, IA Name of Property County and State Population for Iowa Cit1 & Third Ward Year Iowa City Third Ward 1850 1,250 - 1854 2,570 - 1860 5,214 - 1863 4,417 - 1865 5.417 - 1867 6,418 - 1869 6,583 - 1870 5,914 2,295 1873 6,454 2,026 1875 6,371 2,026 1880 7,123 - 1885 6,748 1,842 1890 7016 1,755 1895 7,526 1,475 1900 7,987 . 1905 8,497 - 1910 10,091 1,599 1915 12033 1,914 1920 11,267 1,721 1930 15,340 - 1940 17182 1870 1950 27212 2101 1960 33,443 - 1970 46 850 - 1980 50,508 - 1990 59,735 - 2000 62,220 - A dozen houses survive from the 1860s and early 1870s in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District including five clustered along E. Church Street. Houses from these years range from small frame dwellings such as the simple one-story house at 316 E. Church Street (Photo #18, contributing) built in ca. 1870 and the slightly larger frame house built by Frank and Rose Schmidt next door at 318 E. Church Street (contributing) at about the same time to more substantial brick houses such as the Gustave Strub House built in ca. 1865 across the street at 309 E. Church Street (Photo #4, contributing). Occupants of the Church Street houses during these years included a pottery manufacturer, a stonecutter, several laborers, and a carriage painter. The contrast seen in size, material, and design reflected the diverse socioeconomic make-up of the neighborhood during this period. The diversity seen here and elsewhere in the District during these years resulted in part from the presence of three operating breweries in the North Side. Before the Civil War the pioneer brewers who established operations along Market Street between Dubuque and Gilbert Streets recognized the transportation advantage offered by N. Linn and N. Gilbert streets. The Englert or City Brewery (non-extant) was established on the south side of E. Market Street in 1853. The Union Brewery (extant, NRHP) was built at the southwest corner of Market Street and N. Linn Streets in 1856. The Great Western Brewery, later known as the Dostal Brewery (non-extant), was built on the north side of Market Street between N. Linn Street and N. Gilbert Street opposite the City Brewery in 1857. - ----- ---. ----.'^ .. _.._.^---~-~"._...._- _...~-.----_. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 6 Page 12 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State These three breweries prospered in the years leading up to national prohibition in 1916 with early buildings periodically expanded, razed, burned, and rebuilt. Their Market Street location just south of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District gave employment to hundreds of North Side residents through the years. Owners of all three breweries also built North Side residences. The substantial brick house built for brewery owner Conrad Graf and his wife Anna was constructed at 319 E. Bloomington Street (Photo #3, contributing) in 1878. Graf came to Iowa City from Bavaria in 1874 and went to work in the brewery industry. The following year he married Anna Hotz, daughter of Simon Hotz. owner of the Union Brewery. Graf became proprietor of the Union Brewery located at 127-131 N. Linn Street (NRHP) and had this house built for his new family just a block to the northeast. The house was later occupied by Grafs daughter, Anna, and son-in-law Christian Senner, the brewmaster at the Union Brewery. Like other North Side German-Americans, Senner was active in the Gennan Aid Society in Iowa City. Despite the close proximity of employment centers such as the breweries, population in the Third Ward declined during the 1880s and early 1890s, dropping to 1,475 by 1895. This drop contrasts with changes in the overall population in the city that showed increases in both 1885 and 1895 to 6,748 and 7,526 respectively. The decline in Third Ward population during the 1870s through the 1860s paralleled a drop in the number of houses surviving from the same years with only five dwellings surviving from the 1860s. This apparent declining trend in homebuilding (see page 14) reversed itself in the following decade. During the 1890s the Third Ward remained the most "foreign" of any in Iowa City with 1,215 residents (82% of the Third Ward's total residents) claiming foreign-born parents in 1895. The foreign-born population largely consisted of a mix of Gennan and Bohemian immigrants. The surnames of households in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District responsible for building new houses in the two decades prior to 1900 confinn the presence of first and second generation immigrant families - Strub, Schmidt, Ohnhaus, Graf, Rothweilder, Wydenkoff, Cerny, Haberstroh, Hervert, Zimmerli, Husa, Novak, Maresh, Kessler, Kurz, Hotz, Senner, and Hohenschuh. This pattern would continue well into the 20th century with German and Bohemian-American families continuing to build new homes and occupy existing homes in the District. The resumption of homebuilding during the 1890s is reflected in the 20 houses dating from the decade that survive in the District today. Addresses for these houses are widely distributed throughout the neighborhood suggesting a general infill pattern for development of the neighborhood taking place. An examination of city directories indicates that merchant families were completing much of the building. Examples include: · William Willis, superintendent of Iowa City Academy and School of Shorthand, built a house at 308 E. Church Street in ca. 1690. · Frederick Zimmerli, a cigar manufacturer, built a house at 324 E. Church Street in ca. 1890. · John Flannagan, a boot and shoe store owner, built a house at 223 E. Davenport Street in ca. 1895. · William Maresh, co-owner of Maresh Brothers Hardware Store, built a house at 312 E. Davenport Street in 1893. · W.G. Schmidt, co-owner, Dalscheid & Schmidt Machine Shop, built a house at 225 E. Fairchild Street in 1895 · Albert Husa, Sr., a merchant tailor with Husa & Sons, built a house at 326 E. Fairchild Street in ca. 1890. · Joseph Hervert, a saloonkeeper, built a saloon next door to his house at 402 E. Market Street in 1892. · Christian Hohenschuh, co-owner of Hohenschuh & Wieneke Book Store, built a house at 229 N. Gilbert Street in 1897. Other houses constructed during the decade were built by widows with large families, several retired Johnson County farmers, and physicians associated with the SUI Medical School. Matilda Hotz, a widow with four adult children boarding at home and either attending the University or working downtown, bui~ a large house at 522 N. Linn Street in ca. 1895. Mary McKinley, another widow, built a house next door at 526 N. Linn Street for herself and her working daughter at about the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 13 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Counlv. IA Name of Property County and State same time. At the dawn of the 20th century, the North Side comprised the city's principal residential neighborhood - a collection of houses described in a contemporary account as "well designed and constructed,...[with] ample room, some of them being highly omamental.'" The houses had accrued over a 50-year period representing virtually every architectural style and vemacular house form popular in Iowa. The next century would see the North Side continue to maintain its important role as a residential district while continuing to evolve in response to local population growth. changes in student population, shifts in housing patterns, and changes in real estate development practices. In 1900 citywide population stood at 7,987, a modest increase from a decade earlier. The lack of available ward census figures for this decade prevents a comparison with earlier population figures for the neighborhood. By 1910 when ward population figures are available once again, they show 1,599 people residing in the Third Ward and 10,091 in the city as a whole. One explanation for the relatively low number of ward residents in census figures before and after 1900 might be a reduced number of households or size of households. Since the overall population of the city grew during this time period, a more likely explanation is that the type of occupants - resident students - were not being recorded in the figures. This factor could also explain fluctuations in ward popular through the Depression years. In 1915 the ward's population rebounded to 1,914 while citywide figures totaled 12,033. The number of residents in the Third Ward continued to rise following World War I with 1,721 in 1920 and 1,870 in 1940. This is the last year that records are kept without including students at the State University of Iowa. Citywide population figures continued to trend upward throughout this period with 11,267 in 1920, 15,340 in 1930, and 17,182 in 1940. The most likely factor related to the population increase was growth of enrollment at the State University of Iowa during this period. Even though students were not officially recorded in census figures, the increased number of University employees were. Another related group would be the family members of students, especially married students in the growing graduate school. In 1900 student enrollment stood at just under 1,500 and by the end of the 1920s had grown to more than 8,500. This period of University growth gave rise to parallel expansion in the central business district and nearby residential neighborhoods such as those in the North Side. It is more fully described in the historic contexts "Town and Gown Era (1899-1940)" and "University of Iowa (1855-1940)" in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS. Growth of the State University of Iowa spurred residential development of several sorts in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District. Student housing had traditionally been accommodated in rented rooms in private homes, rooming houses, boarding houses, sorority houses, and fraternity houses, all within a few blocks of the east campus of the University. This pattern grew at an even faster pace as the North Side gradually played host to more resident students as enrollment experienced a nearly six-fold increase by 1930. An even more significant change in housing in the District was the construction of new single-family dwellings on vacant lots or in place of earlier, smaller houses. Construction dates of surviving building stock show 54 houses erected between 1900 and 1930, an average of nearly eight houses per block. The most dramatic growth came in the years leading up to World War I when 80 percent of these houses were constructed, an average of just under three houses per year between 1900 and 1916. 'Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa, (Davenport, Iowa: Huebinger Survey and Map Publishing Co.), 1900. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 14 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State The table below shows the numbers of surviving houses by decade based on dates researched during earlier surveys. Houses Built bv Decade Decade Number of Houses Pre-1860 2 1860-1869 4 1870-1879 8 1880-1889 6 1890-1899 21 1900-1909 27 1910-1919 18 1920-1929 9 1930-1939 1 1940-1949 0 1950-2000 7 TOTAL 103 An examination of Sanborn maps for the years 1899, 1906, 1912, 1920, and 1926 shows several housing development patterns during these years. The first involved the replacement of smaller one-story houses with larger two-story dwellings. Sanborn maps document this occurring on corner lots and mid-block lots. The second development pattern saw previously vacant lots subdivided and infilled with two or more new houses. In many cases construction of these houses was accompanied by the building of garages. In all cases, new houses were established with a more regular setback and the size of the houses became more uniform. A third pattern saw existing dwellings updated with the addition of rear additions and new larger front porches. A fourth pattern documented in at least one case and likely seen in others involved the moving of buildings. This was a common practice documented in one neighborhood survey that involved portions of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District. It showed that approximately 10 percent of the housing stock was moved. House moves followed several common practices. Some house moves were done to create new building parcels. In these cases, houses might be moved short distances of less than 100 feet to allow a lot to be divided into two or more new building sites. An example in the District involved the Issac Fuiks House originally built in ca. 1880 on a full corner lot at 304 E. Davenport Street. In 1906 a rear section of the lot adjacent to the alley was sub-divided and a new house built facing N. Linn Street. By 1912 the original parcel was further sub-divided and the Fuiks House was turned 90 degrees to face N, Linn Street. Two additional houses were added facing E. Davenport Street. As a result of these actions, a prominent corner lot that once held a spaciously sited moderate sized house became a densely developed area with four closely spaced houses. The overall impact of all of these housing development patterns was to establish the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District as a dense urban residential neighborhood. This was done while the neighborhood grew in uniformity of building size and setback. A third important result was the strengthening of the importance of both of the north-south streets extending through the District. The three-block stretch of N. Gilbert Street had 24 facing houses in 1899 and by 1926 had 34 houses. A similar growth was seen along the four-block stretch of N. Linn Street where 18 houses present in 1899 grew to 35 in 1926. Private construction projects involving new homes, moved homes, remodeled houses, and new garages were mirrored by public improvement projects. The growing popularity of the automobile after the tum of the century brought complaints about the existing macadamized streets that became rivers of mud during wet weather. Difficult to negotiate by wagon, ---- '. - ,-- --~ ----~_.._._-~_._-_.,.,- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 15 Gilbert~Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State these routes were impassible for automobiles. As with street railways, however, Iowa City was slow to undertake street . paving. Brick paving was not introduced in the downtown until 1895 and the commercial section of E. Market Street south of the District was not paved until 1904. Paving of Linn Street north to Brown Street was completed in 1907 in order to provide a more suitable route for funeral processions from North Side churches.5 Another major brick paving project in the District involved N. Gilbert Street from Market Street to Brown Street in 1912. Although brick paving did not give rise the initial development of areas such as the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District, it is likely that it enhanced the value and reputation of the residences along these particular streets. The turn-of-the-century housing boom in the District continued to see members of the merchant class, lawyers, and physicians building spacious modem homes alongside railroad workers, carpenters, shop clerks, and other working class families. SUI faculty members built homes along the same blocks that SUI su¡jport staff rented or built homes. And at least a half-dozen Johnson County farmers traded their farms for retirement homes in the District within a few decades. Information from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources provides a sampling over time of the District's residents, their occupations or professions, and business affiliations. Students are generally not represented in these figures because they were not the heads of households and, therefore, were not listed in city directories. It should be noted that because this list generally represents the earliest resident associated with a property, it does not demonstrate the growing importance of major employers such as the State University of Iowa in later years. East Bloomington Street 319 E. Bloomington St, Conrad Graff, brewer, 1872 322 E. Bloomington St, William Hoffelder, co-owner and clerk, respectively; New York Store, 1916 412 E. Bloomington St, Carl Stach, electrical contractor & supplier, 1924 East Church Street 225 E. Church St, Joseph Brum, dishwasher, SUI, 1923 228 E. Church St, Elisha Moore, merchant, ca. 1860 308 E. Church SI., William Willis, superintendent of Iowa City public schools, ca. 1890 309 E. Church St, Gustave Strub, stonecutter, ca. 1865 317 E. Church St, George Kurz, plumber, ca. 1897 319-323 E. Church St, Sarah Edwards, librarian, Iowa City Public Library, 1920s 324 E. Church St. Frederick Zimmerli, cigar manufacturer, ca. 1890 East Davenport Street 214 E. Davenport St, George McVey, agent, U.S. Express Co., ca. 1903 220 E. Davenport St, James Kane, harnessmaker, Francis Kane, ca. 1865 222 E. Davenport St, John Kessler, physician & dermatology lecturer, SUI, ca. 1895 223 E. Davenport St, John Flannagan, boot & shoe store owner, ca. 1895 225 E. Davenport St, George Falk, cashier, Johnson Co, Savings Bank, ca. 1914 308 E. Davenport St, Clarence Wassam, professor of economy, SUI, ca. 1906 51rvin9 Weber, Irving Weber's Iowa City- Volume 6. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1987, pp. 109 -110. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 16 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 311 E. Davenport St., Emil Ruppert, mechanic, SUI, ca. 1920 312 E. Davenport St., William Maresh, co-owner, Maresh Brothers hardware, 1893 314 E. Davenport St., Frank Larkin, retired farmer, 1893 315 E. Davenport St., John Wydenkoff, laborer, 1880 320 E. Davenport St., George Freyder, carpenter, 1907 321-323 E. Davenport St., Adam Ohnhaus, pottery manufacturer, 1870 332 E. Davenport St., Emma Harvat, merchant & mayor; Mary Stach, owner, clothing store, 1918 402 E. Davenport St., John Yokum, signal foreman, Rock Island RR, 1925 404 E. Davenport St., Martin Bridenstine, watchman, SUI, 1924 East Fairchild Street 225 E. Fairchild St., George W. Schmidt, owner, Iowa City Iron Works, 1900 230 E. Fairchild St., John Thomas McClintock, professor of physiology, SUI, ca. 1895 309 E. Fairchild St., G. Adolf Brenner, business manager, Iowa City Citizen Pub. Co., ca. 1908 311 E. Fairchild St., Edward Ebert, barber, ca. 1903 312 E. Fairchild St., Patrick Maden, driver, CA Murphy, ca. 1912 314 E. Fairchild St., William Morrison, proprietor, Crescent Pharmacy, ca. 1908 317 E. Fairchild St., Louis F. Cerny, co-owner, University Book Store, ca. 1908 320 E. Fairchild St., John Husa, tailor, Husa & Sons, ca. 1925 324 E. Fairchild St., Albert Husa, Jr., tailor, Husa & Sons, 1916 326 E. Fairchild St., Albert Husa, Sr., merchant tailor, Husa & Sons, ca. 1890 328 E. Fairchild St., Jessie Booge, widow; James Booge (son), asst. instructor of chemistry, SUI, ca. 1910 North Gilbert Street 204 N. Gilbert St., Joseph Hervert, saloon owner, ca. 1885 210 N, Gilbert SI., Joseph Chudacek, carpenter, ca. 1900 219 N. Gilbert SI., Jacob Wentz, farmer & land owner, ca. 1850 229 N. Gilbert St., Christian HohensChuh, owner, Hohenschuh & Wieneke, bookstore, 1897 310 N. Gilbert St., Frederick Rothweilder, carriage painter, ca. 1875 311 N. Gilbert St., Edward Miller, co-owner, Miller & Miller, stoves dealers, 1908 324 N. Gilbert St., Julius Haberstroh, carpenter, ca. 1881 325 N. Gilbert 51., Joseph Stach, owner, Stach's Shoe Store, ca. 1908 331 N. Gilbert St., Zaccheus Seeman, bookbinder, ca. 1901 409 N. Gilbert St., Daniel Peters, real estate and county supervisor, 1920 413 N. Gilbert 51., Nancy Graham, widow, 1919 419 N. Gilbert St., William Fryauf, barber, ca. 1914 420 N. Gilbert St., Charles Schmidt, barber, 1908 421 N. Gilbert St., George Fahey, & Mary, ca. 1916 North Linn Street 311 N. Linn St., Eva Sle~k, widow, ca. 1915 313 N. Linn St., William McRoberts, retired farmer, ca. 1916 318 N. Linn St., George Servoss, mason, SUI, ca. 1916 319 N. Linn St., John Roessler, retired farmer, ca. 1910 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 17 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 322 N. Linn St., Emory Wescott, retired farmer, former postmaster, ca. 1910 323 N. Linn St., Oscar Stimmel, plumber, ca. 1914 326 N. Linn St., Jacob Kramer, collector, ca. 1910 411 N. Linn St., Lemmuel Hunter, retired farmer, ca. 1906 412 N. Linn St., Issac Fuiks, jeweler, ca. 1880 416 N. Linn St., Frank Larkin, retired farmer and campus man, SUI, 1905 506 N. Linn St., William Baldwin, lawyer, Baldwin & Baldwin, ca. 1900 507-513 N. Linn St., Edwin Joy, bookkeeper, ca. 1892 514 N. Linn St., William Schneider, co-owner, Schneider Brothers, furniture, 1902 522 N. Linn St., Matilda Hotz, widow with four adult children, ca. 1895 526 N. Linn St., Mary C. McKinley, widow, and daughter Mary K., music teacher, ca. 1895 527 N. Linn St., Henry Walker, attorney, city solicitor, ca. 1905 615 N. Linn St., Clark Roup, retired farm and justice of the peace, ca. 1925 619 N. Linn St., John Koza, owner, John Koza & Son Meatmarket, 1906 620 N. Linn St., Joseph Slavata, merchant tailor, ca. 1903 624 N. Linn St., Frank Messer, lawyer, Messer, Clearman & Olsen, ca. 1900 628 N. Linn St., Charles and Minnie Baker, lawyer and teacher, ca. 1908 East Market Street 402 E. Market St., Joseph Hervert Saloon, 1892 410 E. Market St., Henry C. Nicking, barber, 1854 Architectural Background and Significance Houses constructed in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vernacular building forms that swept the country from the mid_19th century through the early-201l1 century. As design trends had no hard and fast beginning and ending dates in this part of the Midwest, it was common to find two or more styles incorporated into the same house. Styles that influenced the designs of building in the District in either singular examples or in eclectic mixes include the Greek Revival, ltalianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School. The Greek Revival was the first formal architectural style introduced to Iowa City when architect John Francis Rague designed Iowa's Territorial Capitol building (NHL) in 1839. Construction was completed on the capitol by 1842 and dozens of private residences and commercial blocks in the Greek Revival Style were rendered in stone, brick and clapboard finishes during the next 25 years in Iowa City. Houses such as the Jàcob Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #1) built in ca. 1850 and the Henry Nicking House built in ca. 1854 at410 E. Market Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #2) employed Greek Revival elements such as flat stone window lintels and entrance transoms in their simple two-story side-gable forms. As noted above, historical and architectural survey work completed in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District has identified fewer than two dozen houses constructed during the two decades during and following the Civil War. Early city directory listings showing the presence of a significant number of houses in the District during these years contradicts this pattern. The attrition of earlier houses is more likely a result of the wave of redevelopment in the neighborhood that took place after the turn of the 20111 century resulting in the replacement of earlier houses with newer ones. As a result, there are few ltalianate Style houses surviving in the District. Two of the better preserved examples discussed above are the Strub House built in ca. 1865 at 309 E. Church Street (contributing, Photo #4) and the Graf House built in 1872 at 319 E. Bloomington United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 18 Gilbert~Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Street (contributing, Photo #3). Both brick houses have Front-Gable forms, bracket lined eaves, and side-hall plans. During the 1890s and subsequent decades, an abundance of late Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses were built in a wide range of vernacular forms to replace earlier residences. Late Queen Anne Style dwellings built along N. Gilbert and N. Linn streets were frequently examples of the Cross-Gabled Roof, Front-Gable, Gabled-Front and Wing, or Hipped Roof with Lower Cross Gables forms with asymmetrical façades and various combinations of roof projections, wall dormers, and attic dormers. Houses in the District included several instances of towers, decorative millwork and spindlework, and fashionable verandas, balconies, and porches. Examples of the late Queen Anne Style typical of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District include the Schmidt House at 225 E. Fairchild St. (contributing, Photo #5) built in 1895, the Joseph and Mary Chudacek House at 210 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #6) built in 1900, the Harry and Goldie Miller House at 418 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #7) builtin ca. 1896, the Matilda Hotz House at 522 N. Linn St. (contributing, Photo #8) built in ca. 1895, and the Mary McKinley House at 526 N. Linn St. (contributing, Photo #9) also built in ca. 1895. Approximately 20 houses in the District exhibit Queen Anne Style designs and/or detailing. After the turn of the 20'" century, a new architectural style gradually displaced the Queen Anne Style. The classical vocabulary was reintroduced to academic halls on the campus of the State University of Iowa, in the new public library and post office buildings, and several banks and commercial blocks in downtown Iowa City in various examples of the Neo- Classical and Beaux Arts styles. A parallel movement saw classical elements and design features incorporated into single- family houses in what came to be known as the Colonial Revival Style. Variations of the style were built over several decades in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District with several well-preserved examples surviving. Most have symmetrical façades, hipped roofs, prominent doorways with fanlights or pedimented frames, and porches or porticos trimmed in classical decoration. Other Colonial Revival examples within the District included embellished American Four-Square house forms with columned porches, multi-light window sash, modillions and dentils lining eaves and belt courses, and other classical ornamentation. Colonial Revival Style designs in the District include the Frank and Anna Larkin House at 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) built in 1905 and the John and Barbara Koza House at 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12) built in 1906. The William and Susan Morrison House at 314 E. Fairchild Street (contributing, Photo #24) is an example of a variation of the Colonial Revival with a Gambrel Roof form, sometimes referred to as the Dutch Colonial Revival. One of the most important houses in the District in terms of both historical and architectural significance was built by Emma Harvat and Mary Stach at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, NRHP, Photo #10) in 1918. Harvat began her career in local business as a shop clerk in the late 1880s and eventually came to own a local book store, a ladies clothing store with her partner Mary Stach, and several businesses of her own in Missouri towns. Harvat and Stach retained Iowa City architect OH Carpenter in 1916 to design a residence for the two to share. By that time, the two were involved in numerous real estate investments together as well. In 1921 shortly after national women's suffrage was passed, Harvat was elected to the city council. She served as Iowa City's first woman mayor from 1924 to 1927. In this position she was also the first woman in the United States to serve as chief executive of a municipality with a population of over 10,000. Architecturally speaking, the Harvat House is an eclectic blend of elements of several architectural styles including the Colonial Revival, the Georgian Revival, and the Prairie School. It features a low-pitched hipped roof, a pair of hipped multi-light attic dormers, a wide symmetrical front facade, 15/1 double-hung sash, an eye-brow arched portico, and multi-light sidelights and transom surrounding the front entrance. It faced the newly brick paved Gilbert Street when it was completed. The Craftsman Style was the next architectural style to appear in the District. This style grew out of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America and was strongly promoted by native Wisconsin architect and fumiture designer Gustav Stickley in his magazine The Craftsman published between 1903 and 1916. The Craftsman Style was predisposed towards utilitarian forms and designs and experienced great popularity in the N. Gilbert and N. Linn street area. The Craftsman Style developed a multiplicity of forms adaptable to both prominent mid-block lots and smaller sub-divided lots fronting on side streets. More than a dozen Craftsman Style houses were built in the District during the years before and after Wortd War I. · . United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 19 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and Stata Craftsman Style houses in the District were built in various forms and sizes. Exterior cladding included narrow and wide clapboard siding and A.RTISTIC HOMES square-cut shingles, frequently alternating between floors on multi-story houses. Exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee-brace brackets lined window bays, wide eaves. and porch roofs. Windows frequently appeared in pairs and groups of three with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double-hung windows in most cases. Porches had either closed, clapboard clad balustrades or geometric patterns with ---'" battered columns for corner supports. The overall effect was strikingly - different from the spindlework of the Queen Anne houses and classical - omamentation of the Colonial Revival residences of just a decade earlier. A number of well-preserved examples of the Craftsman Style survive in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District spanning the period 1914 to 1925. The William and Anna Hoffelder House at 322 E. Bloomington SI. (contributing, Photo #13) was constructed in 1916. It is one of two examples of an unusual two-story, hipped roof Bungalow form found in District. It features a low-pitched hipped roof on the main house with \3-h!~ wide eaves, exposed rafter tails, hipped attic and wall dormers, and a L=J recessed front porch. Geometric designs decorate the pillars and mark the floor rafters between the first and second floors. The design of the '~O'pU"~ H"" 11 ¡hll ..11 Hoffelder House closely resembles that of the "Erlanger design" shown H_ß1<11' -~ at the right that appeared in the 1910 edition of Artistic Homes compiled "'L{~'-; by Herbert C. Chivers Company of SI. Louis. 1t'>1.,;-~ .- 'J.r..n~. The other example of a hipped roof Bungalow is the Eva Slezak House - -. . -. , (contributing) at 311 N. Linn Street built in ca. 1915. Like the Hoffelder House, it has a low-pitched hipped roof with exposed rafter tails and 1'~~1.1\:8S OM~_'''K''''AT'O.. ..... _ "'''' ....... ..",._~.". .....,... Of __ .........._ hipped wall dormers. Instead of a recessed front porch, however, it has _of __... _ .,..,." """,,,. ......... whl<....... ..-......_ -171- :::-:-........::.t;~ ":~7, ~ :~t·:.. .-1~;'~:- .:~:.~'.~':: a two-story porch with square columns and closed balustrade clad in .............'.,..... ......~. .''''- ,'~'~·"'rof. _'p...__........ _......._.. ....II... ....,.'~...~......_'"".... narrow clapboard siding, Windows have the standard Craftsman Style HERBERT C. CHIVERS CO. A.RCHITECTS 5/1 vertical upper light configuration. The Craftsman Style house at 225 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #14) is an example of the Front-Gable house form. It was built in 1918 for George Falk, a local banker, and his wife Pearl. Falk retained local architect a.H. Carpenter for at least one other house he built for rental purposes so it is possible that Carpenter also designed this residence. The Craftsman Style features of the Falk House include the overall organization of the front façade, the wide belt course between levels, the knee-brace brackets along the wide eaves, paired and grouped 9/1 double-hung windows, a bracketed window box, and a bracketed eyebrow-shaped entrance roof. Craftsman Style house plans were among several house designs that were adapted to multiple locations in the North Side neighborhood. The William and Mayme Fryhauf House constructed in 1914 at 419 N. Gilbert SI. (contributing, Photo #16) is an example of this practice. Identical houses were built in 1915 at 819 E. Market Street for Jennie Woltman and 402 N. Dodge Street for Charles Benda" Like the Falk House, the Fryhauf House and its mates featured a Front-Gable form. It "Marlys Svendsen, "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 -1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPSì prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999: listed in t~e NRHP, 2000, pp. 43-44. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 20 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State has belt courses separating wide and narrow clapboard levels and a full-width front porch with battered columns typical of Craftsman Style houses. The distinguishing design element of this shared plan is the group of three 4/1 vertical light double- hung windows on the second floor that is flanked by single fixed four-light sash. The belt course between the second level and the attic forms the header for the flanking windows. The Craftsman Style also influenced, to a greater or lesser extent, many of the examples of another important vernacular house form found throughout the North Side - the American Four-Square. Many of the North Side's best preserved examples, 30 in all, are concentrated in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District. Built between ca. 1900 and ca. 1925, common characteristics of this form include a two-story, three-bay front facade; a hipped roof of various pitches; hipped or gable roof dormer(s) on one or more façades; porches across the entire front façade or off-set entrance porticos; asymmetrically placed entrance doors (common); cottage windows on the first floor (common); double-hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary façades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 vertical light configurations; and belt courses separating first and second floors. Though Four-Squares are distributed throughout the District they are most concentrated along N. Linn Street (11), E. Fairchild Street (7), and N. Gilbert Street (7). A list of the most significant examples of this vernacular form is found on page 5. The earliest Four-Squares in the District were more likely to incorporate Colonial Revival Style features such as classical omamentation, porch columns, balustrades, entrance treatments, and window trim. The Craftsman Style began appearing in Four-Squares built closer to World War I. The style's influence was evident in the popular vertical light configuration in the upper sash of double-hung windows, the alternating siding types on first and second levels, and interior finishes that favored Arts and Crafts motifs. Prior to 1900 it is likely that many homebuilders in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District began tuming to pattem books and design catalogues for design inspiration. These would have been available from local lumber companies such as the William Musser Lumber Co., the Iowa Lumber Co. and its successor the Ditmars & Ayers Co., the Hawkeye Lumber Co., or from local planing mills such as J.M. Sheets and Co.. In such cases a single house plan with variations in ornamentation or floor plan may have been used for multiple houses such as the example cited previously for the William and Mayme Fryhauf House at 419 N. Gilbert St. (contributing, Photo #16). After the turn of the 20th century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut or "kit houses" such as those offered by a number of Midwest manufacturers. Kit houses included materials for the entire house with numbered parts and instruction booklets as well as shingles, paint, and nails. Among the companies offering homes in the Midwest were three Bay City, Michigan manufacturers - the Aladdin Company began in 1906 and offered 450 models between 1910 and 1940; Lewis Homes/Liberty Homes; and Sterling Homes/International Mill and Timber. Three Chicago firms included Sears Roebuck and Company, Montgomery Ward Company, and Harris Brothers. The best known of these was Sears, the nation's premier merchandiser at the turn of the 20·h century. The company began offering house plans in 1895 and by 1908 had begun operations of a "Modern Homes" division that supplied building plans, materials, and kit houses that were shipped by rail around the United States. The first catalogue was limited to several dozen plans for medium size houses but by 1916 the first Sears kit houses with numbered parts were available. Incomplete records make the total output of kit homes difficult to estimate; however, it is likely that by World War II, Sears had sold more than 100,000 homes nationally. Soon after Aladdin and Sears began manufacturing homes, an Iowa company joined their ranks. Located just 60 miles east of Iowa City in Davenport, the Gordon-Van Tine Company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 they offered house designs and were among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre- cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon-Van Tine Company likely knew of the brisk market for residential United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 21 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State construction in Iowa City during this period. Several houses have been identified within the District during previous historical surveys as likely Gordon-Van Tine Company kit houses. They include the Woodford House at 404 E. Bloomington Street (contributing) built in 1921. The Woodford House is an example of an American-Four Square design, the most popular house form in the District and also among the most popular designs offered by the Gordon-Van Tine Company. The company's 1923 catalogue included 18 separate plans in the Four-Square house form designed to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price," "A Big Square Home - Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two-Story Home," "An Ever Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home - A Space and Money Saver,""A Substantial Seven Room House," and"A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms."7 The Woodford House closely resembles the 26-foot wide "Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 549" advertised as a "Conservative 2-5tory Stucco House.,,6 The design appears on the fOllowing page. Whether or not other American Four-5quares in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District were built from Gordon-Van Tine Company plans, they were typical of the designs sold by the company. These plans featured four rooms on the first floor usually including a large entrance hall with stairs to the second floor, a "cased opening" (one featuring pillars, shelving, or other trim) between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the 1923 catalogue were sized for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor, moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and one large house containing 1,100 square feet per floor. A second Gordon-Van Tine Company house is located immediately next door to the Woodford House at 412 E. Bloomington Street (contributing). It was built in 1924 for Carl Stach, an electrical contractor and supplier, and his wife Celesta. It is an example of a Side-Gable Bungalow form with a shed roof attic dormer, wide eaves with exposed rafter tails and purlins, and square-cut shingle siding. The asymmetrical front façade has an offset entrance porch with a low-pitched gable roof with knee-brace brackets, exposed rafter tails, and short battered columns. A third Gordon-Van Tine Company house in the District is located a block north along Gilbert Street at 402 E. Davenport Street. It was built in 1925 for John Yokum, a signal foreman for the Rock Island RR at the time, and his wife Ida. The "Gordon-Van Tine Plan No. 605" that appears on the following page closely matches that of this prominent two-story frame house at the comer of Davenport and Gilbert streets. It was built in the Craftsman Style with a clipped gable roof and dormer plan. Double-hung 5/1 windows with vertical light upper sash are paired on the second floor and appear in bands on the first floor. The enclosed sun porch positioned beneath an extended slope of the main roof was part of the original plan. The garage located immediately adjacent to the house is similar to "Gordon-Van Tine Garage No. 106" also shown on page 23.· Another variation on the Four-Square form resulted from the influence of the Prairie School Style. The Lavinia and Martin Bridenstine House at 404 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #18) was constructed in 1924. Like several other North Side Four-Squares influenced by this style, the Bridenstine House has an extremely low-pitched hipped roof, broad eaves, banded window groupings, and a raised belt course that give the house a horizontal feeling typical of Prairie School buildings. 7117 House Designs of/he Twenties, Gordon-Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon-Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon-Van Tine Co" Davenport, Iowa, 1923), pp. 37, 52, 66, 81, 82, 86, 87, and 99. 6,bid, p. 79. "Ibid, pp. 74 and 117. -----~...- .- - ,__..____..__n_ ~.__.__ __..__. .._.__._._n.~_' '·..___..··_·e___________···- .----.....------ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 22 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 549'· Guaranteed Prices-No Extras C'?~0 ~~ §J ~. _ _. _ .__~ . _----' L____.___--' c..._____._ ._..-"_._. ._~ __ _(\' __ /_ >,,)L )~~'-ñ'-'"'jj .(.!~1( , Page 79 Gurdol1- Vun Tine Home No. 549 Conservative 2-Story Stucco Home The architectural story of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District would not be complete without a discussion of the architectural contributions of two Iowa City architectural and contracting firms - Sheets & Freyder and Orville H. Carpenter. The older of the two firms, Sheets & Freyder, was a long-standing Iowa City building firm that traced its roots to the carpentry shops of J.M. Sheets and partners Bernard Gesberg and August Hazelhorst in the mid-1 91h century. The men eventually merged operations as Sheets & Co. and became noted for their millwork production and contracting services. By 1897, the firm included partners J.M. Sheets and Frank X. Freyder and operated as Sheets & Freyder. Freyder listed himself as an architect in city directories beginning in 1909 through World War 1. The firm completed construction and/or design contracts for a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including at least five Iowa City churches. ·'bid. p. 79. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 23 Gilbert~Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 3'-~::rvC~~~~-_!~_~ Gord£Q-~J:l.llne Homes Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 605 and Garage No.1 06 -:1&~~~::~-- Garage No_ 106. Double Garnlle this design, No. 107 Gonlon-\',¡n Tine Ilorne No. b05 Sin¡le G..rag.. with St\n'o Finish, No. 10S; Double, 1\'0. 109 One house in the District has been ciearly identified as the work of Sheets & Freyder with a second attributed to the firm. The Schmidt House at 225 E. Fairchild Street (contributing, Photo #5) was constructed in 1895 for W.G. Schmidt, partner in Dalscheid & Schmidt, a local machine shop. At the turn of the 20th century George W. Schmidt, owner of the Iowa City Ironworks, and his wife Augusta occupied it. The Schmidt House was featured in a published advertisement for Sheets & Freyder that appeared in 1898, The house is a good example of a late Queen Anne Style residence that was modified with the addition of an updated porch prior to 1912. The house has an asymmetrical plan with a steeply pitched hipped roof and highly decorated projecting wall gables. wings, and dormers. A mix of narrow and medium width clapboard and decorative shingles adds to the house's ornamental appeal. A major historic alteration occurred when the house's small but highly decorated porch was replaced with the present full-width porch in ca. 1910. It has a flat roof with broad arches supported by paneled half-columns at the outer corners. The columns rest on a continuous paneled balustrade with offset entrance stairs. Changes in the house design are documented in historic views of the house that appear below. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 24 Gilbert·Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Historic Views of Schmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild Street: 1898 (top) and 1912 (bottom)" The second house in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District associated with Sheets & Freyder is the Henrietta [Schmidt] and George Freyder House at 225 E. Davenport Street. Henrietta Schmidt acquired this property in 1892 when a smaller house was located on the lot. Sometime after Henrietta married George Freyder at the turn of the century, the two replaced the older house with the current dwelling. George, the son of Frank X. Fryeder, worked as a carpenter in the family-owned business which operated under various styles: Sheets and Freyder (1899-1904) and Frank X. Freyder (1909 -1928). Beginning in 1909. Frank X. Freyder also was listed in city directories as an architect so it is possible that his firm designed this house depending on when it was actually built. It is likely that George participated in some elements of the construction. The second, more important architect to practice in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District was Orville H, Carpenter. A;though at least three other buildings designed by Carpenter are already listed on the NRHP, most of what is known about his life and professional career has been uncovered only recently by historian and Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner Richard Carlson. Examinations of local newspapers and issues of American Contractor magazine for the years 1897-1908 and 1897- 1930 respectively have identified at least eight residences designed by Carpenter in the District and one additional house attributed to him." The buildings span the period 1897 to 1918 and their designs provide a showcase of Carpenter's work and demonstrate its transition in style during this period. Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938) was born and grew up in rural Camanche in Clinton County, Iowa about 70 miles east of Iowa City. He attended public schools and one or more business cOlleges before beginning a career doing survey work for a civil engineering company in western Iowa in 1885. During the next decade he traveled extensively, working for "some of the largest architectural cîties.,,13 firms in Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large It is not known whether or not Carpenter received any formal training in architecture or engineering. By 1895 he "Top photo: "Iowa City, Iowa," The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No.1. (January, 1898), p. 43; bottom photo: Charles Ray Aurner, Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Volumes 1 and 2 (Cedar Rapids: Western Historical Press, 1912, p. 220. 12Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner, Email interview re: study of Iowa Cijy buildings as recorded in Iowa City newspapers, 1897-1908, and study of O.H. Carpenter buildings, 1897 -1930. November. 2003. "Richard Carlson, Iowa City Historic Preservation Commissioner. "Orville H. Carpenter (1865·1938). Iowa City Architect," United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 25 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State had returned to Clinton County where he was apparently working as an engineer, architect. or both. In late 1898 Carpenter moved to Iowa City to open an architectural practice. A published account of his work in The Commercial Magazine in 1898 featured photographs of five completed residences in Iowa City suggesting that his work had likely commenced in Iowa City sometime before he made the decision to relocate there. The dearth of professional architects in Iowa City at the time was a likely factor in drawing Carpenter to Iowa City, This was coupled with the fact that in Clinton County, several competent architects already had established practices and the local economy was experiencing a decline The Christian and Clara Hohenschuh Historic Views of a.H. Carpenter Houses House at 229 N. Gilbert Street (contributing) Christian & Clara Hohenschuh House, 229 N. Gilbert Street, 1898 (lower right)" was among the houses included in The Commercial Magazine's photographic resume, which appears at the right. r""' Hohenschuh, co-owner of the Hohenschuh (;J , t & Wieneke news depot, bookstore, and ~~'='""~. . stationery shop, was typicai of the upper , .- fi>,.1 middle-class clients for whom Carpenter "". r;; r~' .,.J; ì worked during his career. The house plan /~ .\!p:"':' he completed for the Hohenschuh family is a f l~lli' ~, :'" : ! :1' , late Queen Anne design stripped of ...,. /'11:"" ' elaborate spindlework ornamentation but retaining classical elements. hence the name "Free Classic" for this Queen Anne sub.type.15 Classical ornamentation used here included paired and clustered half- columns extending along the veranda and a distinctive Palladian window group in the attic dormer. The house's two-story mass has a steeply pitched hipped roof with shallow projecting wings that have canted . walls. (Judge M.~. Wadt': Rc~_ ',~... The overall concept and plan for the i ~I" ,\\ I~ . Hohenschuh House are typical of other late .,' .JI . . I!~.,,:~~~ Queen Anne Style house plans that ¡~,." '.-..;¡¡ Carpenter prepared prior to ca. 1905 for ' '-1 .-'~ .~'. ., !¡~' - (. Iowa City clients. Another house in the I,~U I j' ffJ. District shows how the same basic plan ". ,'J could be adapted to provide a client with a ':.í-: i ~.~~. unique house plan while at the same time ,~,~-,~, " replicating popular features. The house designed for Frank and Anna Larkin at 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) in 1905 has a steeply pitched hipped roof with large gable attic dormers and a full- width front porch. This overall design as well as special features such as the stair-stepped windows on the side façade are November 18. 2003 draft: "O.H. Carpenter," Daily Iowa State Press (Iowa City. Iowa), Special Edition, May 31,1899, p. 6. ''''Iowa City. Iowa," The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No.1, (January, 1898), p. 39. "Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (New York: Alfred A Knopf), 1992. pp. 264-286. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 26 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State identical to those of the Hohenschuh House. Carpenter gave the house's large footprint even more space on the second floor by adding rectangular and canted oriels. The primary difference between the two house plans and others Carpenter designed based on this prototype was the feature that the client would most identify with - the front porch. The Larkin House's porch has turned balusters rather than the closed clapboard clad balustrade in the Hohenschuh House. Heavier full-height Ionic columns line the Larkins' pedimented porch. Other features that Carpenter would vary on his porch designs included placement of the entrance steps, inclusion or exclusion of a roof pediment, design and ornamentation of the pediment, balustrade components, column order and height, pedestal material or cladding, and assorted millwork details. After the turn of the century Carpenter's designs in the District show that he developed a Four-Square house plan, which could be built with a narrower footprint to deal with the smaller mid-block lots frequently forced upon homebuilders in the North Side during this period. When a lot allowed, however, Carpenter's Four-Square plan could be widened. Like the Free Classic Queen Anne plan, the two-story Four-Square house plan featured a steeply pitched hipped or pyramidal roof. Tall attic dormers and canted bay windows or oriels were used to provide added interest in the cubical house mass. The plan did not have a front projection and dormers were centered and set back on the front roof slope rather than asymmetrically arranged along the roof edge as in the Free Classic house plan. Full width porches with various combinations of classical omamentation continued to be used in the new plan as well. Examples of Carpenter's earliest Four-Square houses in the Gilbert-Linn Historic District include the Frank and Kate Strub House built in 1900 at 221 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) and the William and Julia Schneider House at 514 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #21) built in 1904. The Strub House has a width of just 26 feet with a bay projection on one side while the Schneider House sized for a slightly larger lot has a width of 28 feet and bay projections on both sides. Both houses have offset entrances and cottage windows. The more intact Schneider House retains its full-width porch with paired half-columns set on stone pedestals. Its tall gable attic dormer features a Palladian window grouping with a returning cornice that forms the window arches. As the decade progressed Carpenter appears to have continued to take on both middle class and upwardly mobile clients. The John Heck House was constructed in 1906 at 319 E. Davenport Street (contributing). Unlike most of Carpenter's other designs, the Heck House had a two-story Side-Gable form with minimal classical ornamentation. Heck lost the house to foreclosure by 1911. Another house design attributed to Carpenter was completed in 1908 for Louis Cerny at 317 E. Fairchild Street (contributing). The house design was a blend of the Four-Square form with simplified Queen Anne detailing such as canted corners, projecting bays, and decorative shingles in the attic gables. The modest treatment of the Cerny House can be contrasted with one of Carpenter's most accomplished designs in the District, the John and Barbara Koza House at 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12), which was also constructed in 1908. Koza owned a well-established meat market at the time. The large house the family comrnissioned for a prominent lot along a newly brick paved-stretch of N. Linn Street made a statement of the family's economic prosperity as well as smart advertising for the business. When John and Barbara Koza, both Bohemian immigrants, moved from the flat above their meat market to this house it marked an important immigrant success story. From an architectural perspective, the Koza House design demonstrates Carpenter's skill in manipulating the Four-Square plan to accommodate the client's demand for a very large house. The house has a 32 foot-wide front with a depth of 36 feet. The flat-roofed front porch overhangs the sidewalls that span the full-width of the front. Its cut stone foundation in lieu of frame skirting gives the house a substantial appearance. Streamlined classical ornamentation on the porch includes heavy paneled columns clustered with slender curved columns for roof supports and a spindled balustrade. The main house's hipped roof has a lower pitch than Carpenter's earlier Four-Squares with wide eaves and low attic dormers on each side. The house's two-story carriage house reflects the house's design with its matching narrow clapboard siding, hipped roof, and hipped roof attic dormer. In the years leading up to and following World War I, Carpenter continued to design North Side houses based on the popular Four-5quare plan. Two houses in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District show subtle but important changes, however. The Albert Husa, Jr. House at 324 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) was built in 1916. The house was one of three Husa houses adjacent to one another occupied by Albert, Sr., son John, and son Albert, Jr. - all tailors. Located on a narrow mid-block United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number B Page 27 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State lot, the house has a width of just 26 feet. Design treatments such as the low-pitched bell-cast hipped roof, wide eaves, low- pitched hipped roof attic dormers, and a full-width front porch with a flat roof that projects beyond the house's edges contribute to a more horizontal look for the house. This horizontal emphasis was associated with Prairie School Style buildings designed during this period and appeared on other American Four-Squares in the District that were based on pattern book plans or designed by Carpenter. The same year that the Husa House was under construction, Carpenter prepared plans for another important residential commission in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District - the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10, NRHP). Construction on the house was delayed for two years until 1918, perhaps due to war shortages. As noted above, Harvat and Stach bought and sold real estate and operated several local businesses together with Harvat gaining importance for her political activities. Like many other designs by Carpenter, this design is an eclectic blend of styles including the Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and Prairie School. This house has a center-hall plan rather than the side-hall Four-Square plans Carpenter was frequently designing during this period. It has a low-pitched hipped roof, wide projecting eaves, and a pair of hipped attic dormers with 15-light horizontal sash. A curved pediment supported by square columns resting on a high brick balustrade is centered on the front. The entrance has a Colonial Revival treatment with a single door flanked by multi-light sidelights and topped by a divided light fanlight. Fenestration includes 15/1 double- hung sash to either side of the center bay on both levels of the front façade, a bay window above the portico, and 9/1 sash on the other façades. A chronological list of the a.H. Carpenter houses in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District appears below. · Christian & Clara Hohenschuh House, 229 N. Gilbert Street (contributing) in 1897 · Frank & Kate Strub House, 221 E. Fàirchild Street (contributing) in 1900 · Frank & Anna Larkin House, 416 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #11) in 1905 · William & Julia Schneider House, 514 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #21) in 1904 · John Heck House, 319 E. Davenport Street (contributing) in 1906 · John & Barbara Koza House, 619 N. Linn Street (contributing, Photo #12) in 1908 · Louis F. Cerny House, 317 E. Fairchild Street- attributed (contributing) in 1908 · Albert Husa, Jr. House, 324 E. Fairchild Street (contributing) in 1916 · Emma Harvat & Mary Stach House, 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10, NRHP) in 1918 Two other a.H. Carpenter residences near the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District are individually listed on the NRHP - the Benjamin F. and Bertha (Horack) Shambaugh House built at219 N. Clinton Street in 1902 and moved to 430 N. Clinton Street in 2002 and the Arthur Hillyer Ford House (NRHP) completed in 1908 at 228 Brown Street. The Shambaugh House is an example of the Free Classic Queen Anne form favored by Carpenter for his earlier designs while the Ford House is an example of the Mission Style. Three additional Carpenter houses have been identified in the proposed Jefferson Street Historic District. a.H. Carpenter's architectural career included more than residences such as those documented in and around the Gilbert- Linn Street Historic District. Commercial and institutional projects completed in Iowa City included the CSPS Hall, a Bohemian fraternal hall at 524 Johnson Street (NRHP) built in 1900; the Phoenix Block (non-extant), a Romanesque Revival Style commercial block built in 1902 on Washington Street; the B.p.a.E Hall at 325 E. Washington Street in 1909; and several schools including the Kellogg School (non-extant) built at the south end of Woolf Avenue in 1916-1917. Carpenter's obituary in 1938 noted that he had designed "many large buildings throughout the state during his career, especially school houses' with more than a dozen schools, primarily consolidated schools in rural communities in Iowa, listed in advertisements in The American Contractor between 1908 and 1918.'6 Carpenter's architectural practice continued 160.H. Carpenter Obituary, Iowa City Press-Citizen, March 10, 1938, p. 13. as cited in Richard Carlson's, 'Orville H. Carpenter (1865-1938), Iowa City Architect," p.3. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 28 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State through the 1920s and early 1930s though examples of his work became more rare, perhaps due to his age. In 1938 he died while continuing to reside in Iowa City. Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources: The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District contains a total of 143 resources including 115 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 52 are key or individually significant (41 primary and 11 secondary). The balance of the District includes 9 non-contributing primary buildings, 18 non-contributing secondary buildings, and one non-contributing structure (pedestrian shelter). Three properties containing four resources are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the District: the Jacob Wentz House at 219 N. Gilbert Street (contributing, Photo # 1) listed in 1974, the Henry C. Nicking House at410 E. Market Street (contributing, Photo #2) listed in 1975, and the Emma Harvat and Mary Stach House at 332 E. Davenport Street (contributing, Photo #10) listed in 2000. The Harvat-Stach House also contains a contributing garage. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District were developed using National Register Bulletin 16A: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994, 1997, and 1999-2000 listed below: · "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS: prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 - 1945," prepared 1999, listed NRHP 2000 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1997 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi-block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District meets these requirements. Individual resources were then evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing, or 3) non-contributing. Single or multi-family buildings (including rooming houses and apartment buildings) designated as "key contributing," are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportion, and roofline. Principal façades remain intact and largely unchanged, If synthetic siding has been installed it is considered acceptable if the width matches that of the original surfaces and few architectural features are compromised by its installation. Original or historically altered porches are intact, windows remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi-family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure is easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. More permanent porch enclosures that are more than 50 years old are also considered acceptable. The majority of window openings remain unchanged but, if altered, the sizes of window openings conforms to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant architectural detailing. Acceptable synthetic sidings on District buildings include asbestos shingles, asphalt brick, aluminum, and vinyl. .- - u,_. .--.-- -..-......------.---------... ------- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 29 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State For secondary structures associated with residential buildings such as garages or barns, designation as "key contributing" requires the retention of original size, shape, proportion, and rooftine. Original windows, siding, passage doors, and vehicle bay opening doors are also retained. Replacement of the vehicle bay door with a contemporary door disallows a secondary structure from being evaluated as having key status. "Contributing" secondary structures include garages and barns that are at least 50 years old but may have been altered through the addition of synthetic siding compatible to the original finish or replacement of garage doors. For contributing structures, the location of vehicle and passage doors as well as windows is consistent with the original building design. Residential buildings, both primary and secondary, designated as "non-contributing" include all resources built outside of the period of significance - 1850 to 1954. Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable should also be considered non-contributing regardless of age. Examples of significant changes include major changes in rooftine, incompatible porch enclosures of a non-reversible nature, and major additions or modifications of primary façades inconsistent with the proportion, rhythm, materials, and finish of the balance of the building. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings, National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A complete list of buildings in the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District appears below. Buildings are separated into primary (single-family house or multi-family building) and secondary (barn, carriage house, or garage). If the box is blank under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage, carriage house, or barn is currently present. Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District - Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources # STREET ORIGINALJ LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non-Contributing Contributing Non-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 228- E. Bloomington 81. Unnamed Rental ca. 1870 C No Style 232 Double House 319 E. Bloomington 51. Graff, Conrad & Anna 1872 Key ItalianatelFront- Gabled Roof 322 E. Bloomington 51. Hoffelder, William & 1916 Key C Craftsman/Bungalow Anna House 404 E. Bloomington St. Woodford House 1921 C Am. Four-Square 412 E. Bloomington St. Stach, Carl & Celesta 1924 C Craftsman/Bungalow 225 E. Church St. Brum, Joseph & Mary 1925 Key Craftsman/Side- Gabled Two StorY 228 E. Church St. Moore, Elisha & ca. 1860 C Italianste Annette 308 E. Church St. WIllis, William ca. 1890 C Queen Anne 309 E. Church St. Strub, Gustave ca. 1865 Key Italianatel Front-Gabled Roof 314 E. Church St. Michael, Joseph ca. 1890 C NC Queen Anne 316 E. Church St. Unnamed House ca. 1870 Key C.C Side-Gabled Two StorY - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 30 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State /I STREET ORlGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non-Contributing Contributing Non·Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 317 E. Church St. Kurz, George & Anna ca. 1897 C NC Queen AnnelHipped RoofTwo SloN 318 E. Church St. Schmidt. Frank & ca. 1870 Key NC Front-Gabled Roof Rose Two StON 319- E. Church St. Edwards. Sarah ca. 1860 C , S~t-Gabled Two 323 Sto 324 E. Church St. Zimmerli, Frederick ca. 1890 C Key Queen AnneJGabled- Front and Winn , 214 E. Davenport St. McVey. George & ca. 1903 C Key Am. Four-Square Malinda 217 E. Davenport St. Saunders, Anna ca. 1895 Key NC Queen Anne 220 E. Davenport St. Kane, James & ca. 1865 C Italianate/Queen Anne Elizabeth 222 E. Davenport St. Kessler, John & Alice ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne 223 E. Davenport St. Flannagan, John & ca. 1890 C Queen Anne Honora 225 E. Davenport st. Falk. George & Peart ca. 1914 Key CraftsmanlFront- Gabled RoofTwo StON 304 E. Davenport St. Unnamed house ca. 1910 NC Am. Four-Square 308 E. Davenport St. Wassam, Clarence & ca. 1906 C Am. Four-Square Minnie 311 E. Davenport St. Ruppert, Emil & ca. 1920 C NC CraftsmanlBungalow Blanche 312 E. Davenport St. Novak-Maresh House 1893 C Queen Anne 314 E. Davenport St. larkin, Frank & Anna 1893 C NC Fronl-Gabled Roof 315 E. Davenport St. John & Francis 1880 C NC Gabled-Front and Wvdenkoff House Winn 319 E. Davenport St. John Heck House 1902 C Side-Gabled Two- Sto~ 320 E. Davenport 81. Freyder. Henrietta & 1907 Key C Am. Four-Square Geome 321- E. Davenport St. Ohnhaus, Adam 1870 Key NC Side-Gabled One 323 StON 324 E. Davenport 51. Cerney-Brockman 1880 C Hipped Roof Two House St;';" 332 E. Davenport St. Harvat. Emma & Mary 1918 Key Key (same Colonial RevivaV Stach NRHP garage as at GeorgianlPrairie 409 N. Gilbert) 402 E. Davenport St. Yokum, John & Ida 1925 Key Key Craftsman 404 E. Davenport St. Bridenstine, Lavinia & 1924 Key Prairie/Am. Four~ Martin Sauare 221 E. Fairchild SI. Strub, Frank & Kale 1902 C Key Am. Four-Square 225 E. Fairchild St. Schmidt. W.G.lGeorge 1895 Key Key Queen Anne W. & Auausta 230 E. Fairchild St. McClintock, John ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne Thomas 301- E. Fairchild 51. Unnamed Double 1986 NC No Style 303 House United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 31 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State . STREET ORIGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non~Contributing Contributing Non~Contrjbuting VERNACULAR FORM 309 E. Fairchild SI. Brenner, G. Ado~ & ca. 1908 Key C Colonial Revival/Am. Dorothv Four-Snuare 311 E. Fairchild SI. Ebert, Edward & Rose ca. 1903 Key Key Hipped Roof Two StoN 312 E. Fairchild St. Maden House ca. 1912 Key NC Side-Gabled Two StON 314 E. Fairchild St. Morrison, William & ca. 1908 Key NC Colonial RevivaV Susan Gambrel Roof 317 E. Fairchild SI. Cerny, Louis F. ca. 1908 Key Am. Four-Square 320 E. Fairchild St. Huss, John ca. 1925 C NC Craftsman/ Front-Gabled Roof 324 E. Fairchild SI. Husa. Albert Jr. 1916 Key Key Am. Four-Square 326 E. Fairchild SI. Husa, Albert. Sf., & ca. 1890 C C Side-Gabled Two Eleanor StoN/I-House 328 E. Fairchild St. Booge, Jessie ca. 1910 C Am. Four-Square! Queen Anne 204 N. Gilbert SI. Hervert. Joseph ca. 1885 C Front-Gabled Roof 210 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek .Joseph & ca. 1900 Key Queen Anne Marv 214 N. Gilbert St. Cerny House ca. 1899 Key Key Queen AnnelGabled- Front and Winn 219 N. Gilbert SI. Wentz, Jacob ca. 1850 Key Greek RevìvallSide- NRHP Gabled Two Story/I· House 225 N. Gilbert SI. I ~ohenschuh House 1903 C Hipped Roof One second\ StcN 229 N. Gilbert SI. Hohenschuh, 1897 C Queen Anne Christian & Clara 230 N. Gilbert SI. Mercy Hospital 1998 NC No Style Pedestrian Shelter 305 N. Gilbert SI. Russ's Amoco Station ca. 1955 NC No Style 310 N. Gilbert SI. Rothweilder, Frederick ca. 1875 Key C Greek Revival! & Louisa Gabled~Front and Winn 311 N. Gilbert SI. Miller, Edward & Edna 1908 Key C (same Gabled·Front and garage as at Wing 315N. Gilbert) 315 N. Gilbert SI. Miller, Peter & Matilda ca. 1907 C Am. Four-Square 318 N. Gilbert St Unnamed house 1958 NC NC Ranch 324 N. Gilbert St. Haberstroh, Julius & ca. 1881 C Side-Gabled Two Veronica Storv/I-House 325 N. Gilbert St. Stach. Joseph & 1907 Key Am, Four-Square Theresa 330 N. Gilbert SI. Unnamed house 1953 NC No Style 331 N. Gilbert SI. Seeman House ca. 1901 C Am. Four-Square 409 N. GilbertSI. Peters, Daniel & Alice 1920 C Am. Four-Square 413 N. Gilbert SI. Graham, Nancy 1919 Key C Am. Four-Square 414 N. Gilbert SI. Schneider, Mary 1939 C Colonial Revival! Hipped RoofTwo StON - - ------ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 32 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Counlv. IA Name of Property County and State . STREET ORIGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYlE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non-Contributing Contributing Non-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 418 N. GilbertSt. Miller, Harry & Goldie ca. 1900 Key C Queen Anne 419 N. Gilbert St. Fryauf. William & ca. 1914 Key Key Craftsman! Mavme Front-Gabled Roof 420 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt. Charles & 1908 C Am. Four-Square Lillie 421 N. Gilbert St. Fahey. George & Mary ca. 1916 C Am. Four-Square 426 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt rental house ca. 1895 C Gabled-Front & Wing One Storv 429 N. Gilbert St. Unnamed Apartment ca. 1960 NC NoSty1e Buildina 430 N. Gilbert St. Schmidt rental house ca. 1898 C Hipped Roof Two Storv 311 N, LinnSt. Slezak, Eva ca. 1915 Key Craftsman 313 N. Linn St. McRoberts, William & ca. 1916 Key NC Am. Four-Square Emma 318 N. Linn St. Servoss, George & ca. 1916 C Gabled Front and Sadie Wino 319 N. Linn 8t. Roessler, John & ca. 1915 C Am. Four-Square Emma 322 N. Linn St. Wescott, Emory & ca. 1910 C C Gabled Front and Eliza Wino 323 N. Linn St. Stimmel, Oscar & ca. 1914 C NC (same Am. Four-Square Edith garage as at 225 E. Davenoort1 326 N. Linn St. Kramer, Jacob & ca. 1910 C Gabled-Front and Barbara Wino 328- N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1900 C Gabled-Front and 330 double-house Winos 40~ N, LinnSt. Unnamed rental ca. 1910 C Gabled-Front and 405 double-house Winos 411 N. Linn St. Hunter, Lemmuel ca. 1906 Key Am. Four-Square/ Queen Anne 412 N. LinnSt. Unnamed house ca. 1880 C Side-Gabled Two moved Story/I-House 1912 416 N. !.inn St. Larkin, Frank & Anna 1905 Key Colonial Revival/Am. Four-Sauare 418- N. Linn St. Unnamed rental ca. 1890 C Side-Gabled Two 422 double-house Storv 506 N, LinnSt. Baldwin, William & ca. 1900 C Front-Gabled Roof Ella 507- N. LinnSt. Joy, Edwin & Jane ca, 1892 NC Queen Anne/Ranch 513 /ca. 1970 514 N. LinnSt. Schneider, William & 1902 Key Classical RevivaV Julia Am. Four-Sauare 521 N, !.innSt. Unnamed apartment ca. 1980 NC No Style buildina 522 N. LinnSt. Hotz. Matilda ca. 1895 Key Queen Anne 526 N. !.innSt. McKinley. Mary ca, 1895 Key Queen Anne 527 N. Linn St. Walker, Henry & ca. 1900 C Queen Anne Sioney United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 33 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State # STREET ORIGINAU LONG- DATES PRIMARY BLDG. STATUS SECONDARY BLDG. STATUS ARCH. STYLE- TERM OWNER(s) Contributing Key Non-Contributing Contributing Non-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 533 N. Linn St Soya, Julia ca. 1870 C Gabled-Front and Wino 612 N. Linn St. Unnamed house ca. 1955 NC NC Side Gabled One StON 615 N. Linn St. Roup, Clark & Rachel ca. 1925 C NC Am. Four-8quare 619 N. Linn St Koza, John & Barbara 1906 Key Key Classical Revival! Am. Four-Souare 620 N. Linn 81. Slavata, Joseph & ca. 1903 C NC Am. Four-Square Louisa 624 N. Linn St. Messer, Frank ca. 1900 C NC Am. Four-Square 626 N, Linn St Baker, Charles & ca. 1908 C Am. Four-Square Minnie 629 N. Linn 8t. Unnamed house 1870 C Front-Gabled Roof 402 E. Market St Joseph Hervert 1892 Key No Style Saloon 410 E. Market 51. Nicking, Henry C. 1854 Key Greek RevivaVSlde- NRHP Gabled Two StolV Summary In summary, the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential area at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. The Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to middle income and working class families. Individuals who resided in this neighborhood highlight several important themes in the city's history in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Primary among these were the growing prosperity of Iowa City's German-American and Bohemian-American communities and the growth in importance of the State University of Iowa. The construction of new houses, the brisk rental of existing houses, and the infill construction pattern that produced an extremely dense residential district from ca. 1895 through ca. 1925 testifies to the neighborhood's significance. Under Criterion C the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. From modest Bohemian cottages to pattern book houses and elaborate multi-story mansions, the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District reflected the architectural character and best local residential building practices of the period. The District derives added architectural significance because of the large number of well-preserved residences designed by Iowa City's most productive early 20th century architect, a.H. Carpenter, between 1897 and 1918. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District its distinct identity and significance. 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"Certain Stylistic Trends in Architecture in Iowa City." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1947. Gebhard, David, and Gerald Mansheim. Buildings of Iowa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-264. Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870 - 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc., ca. 1973, 1883. United States Department of the Interior NaUonal Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 35 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. 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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Page 37 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County IA Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data Verbal Boundary Description: Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Beginning at the northwest corner of Lot 1 in Block 72 of the Original Town Plat; thence south along the west side of said lot across the alley and continuing south along the west side of Lot 8 in Block 72; thence south across East Church Street to the west property lines of the buildings fronting on North Linn Street in Block 71; thence south across East Fairchild Street to the west property line of the house at 221 East Fairchild Street; thence south to the center line of the alley in Block 70; thence west along said line to west property line ofthe house at 214 East Davenport Street; thence south along the west property line of said property across East Davenport Street to the west property line of the house at 217 East Davenport Street; thence south along the west property line of said property to the center line of the alley in Block 69; thence east along the center line of the alley to the west property line of Lot 8 in Block 69; thence south along said line to the south property line of Lot 8; thence east along said line to the east property line of Lot 8; thence north along the east property line of Lot 8 to the center line of the alley in Block 69; thence east along the center line of the alley across North Linn Street continuing east along the center line of the alley in Block 57 to the west property line of the house at 322 East Bloomington Street; thence south along said line across East Bloomington Street to the west property line of Lot 2 in Block 58; thence south along said line to the center line of the alley in Block 58; thence east along the center line of the alley across North Gilbert Street to the west property line of Lot 5 in Block 47; thence south along said line to the south property line of Lot 5 or the north edge of East Market Street; thence east along the north edge of East Market Street to the east property line of the house at 410 East Market Street; thence north along said line across East Bloomington Street to the east property line of the house at 412 East Bloomington Street; thence north along said line across the alley and along the east property line of Lot 4 in Block 48; thence north across East Davenport Street along the east property line of Lot 5 in Block 49 to the center line of the alley; thence east along the center line of the alley to the east property line of the houses fronting on North Gilbert Street; thence north along said line to the south edge of East Fairchild Street thence west along said line to the west edge of North Gilbert Street; thence north along said line to the center line of the alley in Block 55; thence west along said line to the east property line of Lot 2 in Block 55; thence north along said line across East Church Street and continuing along the east property line of Lot 8 in Block 54 to the center line of the alley in Block 54; thence west along the center line of the alley to the east property line of the houses fronting on North Linn Street; thence north along said line to the south edge of East Ronalds Street; thence west along the south edge of East Ronalds Street across North Linn Street to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The boundary of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District has been drawn to include a multi-block area extending principally along N. Gilbert and N. Linn Streets containing residential buildings of similar scale and materials with a common period of development. The boundaries have been drawn to exclude blocks or portions of blocks that contain major intrusions such as apartment buildings and parking lots while including residences with a higher level of physical integrity. The north edge of the District is close to another North Side residential district, the Brown Street Historic District (NRHP). The west and east edges of the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District contain houses that have lost a substantial level of integrity and therefore are not part of the District. The nature of the blocks along the south edge is commercial rather than residential. This North Side commercial area may qualify for separate historic district designation at a future date. United Slates Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Photoaraohs Page 38 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv.IA Name of Property County and State PhotoaraDh Kev for Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District: (See Photo Map, page 44) Shelley McCafferty and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Wentz, Jacob, House, 219 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 2. Nicking, Henry C., House, 410 E. Market Street, looking north 3. Graff, Conrad & Anna, House, 319 E. Bloomington Street, looking southeast 4. Strub, Gustave, House, 309 E. Church Street, looking south 5. Schmidt House, 225 E. Fairchild Street, looking southwest 6. Chudacek, Joseph & Mary, House, 210 N. Gilbert Street, looking east 7. Miller, Harry & Goldie, House, 418 N. Gilbert Street, looking southeast 8. Hotz, Matilda, House, 522 N. Linn Street, looking east 9. McKinley, Mary, House, 526 N. Linn Street, looking southeast 10. Harvat, Emma and Mary Stach, House, 332 E. Davenport Street, looking west 11. Larkin, Frank & Anna, House, 416 N. Linn Street, looking southeast 12. Koza, John & Barbara, House, 619 N. Linn Street, looking west 13. Hoffelder, William & Anna, House, 322 E. Bloomington Street, looking northwest 14. Falk, George & Pearl, House, 225 E. Davenport Street, looking south 15. Yokum, John & Ida, House, 402 E. Davenport Street, looking northeast 16. Fryhauf, William and Mayme, House, 419 N. Gilbert Street, looking northwest 17. Bridenstine, Lavinia & Martin, House, 404 E. Davenport Street, looking north 18. Unnamed house, 316 E. Church Street, looking north 19. Brenner, G. Adolph & Dorothy, House, 309 E. Fairchild Street, looking south 20. Graham, Nancy, House, 413 N. Gilbert Street, looking west 21. Schneider, William & Julia, House, 514 N. Linn Street, looking east 22. Morrison, William & Susan, House, 314 E. Fairchild Street, looking north ~ m.__. United States Deparbnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 39 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State Property Owners within the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT ADDRESS BUYERfS) 228-232 E. Bloomington St Thomas M. & Joan M. 2835 Friendship St Iowa City IA 52245 Cook 319 E, Bloomington St. Smith-Rust Properties 915 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 LLP 322 E. Bloomington St. Howard E. Carroll 322 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 404 E. Bloomington 51. John K. Kammermeyer 404 E. Bloomington St. Iowa City IA 52245 412 E. Bloomington St John K. Kammermeyer 404 E. Bloomington St Iowa City IA 52245 225 E. Church St. James B. & Becky J. 1811 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 Buxton 228 E. Church St Jack Lageschu"e 3 Marbury Ln. Barrington IL 60010 308 E. Church 81. Carney Enterprises 3725 Forest Gate Dr. NE Iowa City IA 52240 Comoanv L TD 309 E. Church St. Peter J. Craig & Amy L. 309 Church St Iowa City IA 52245 Scattemood 314 E. Church St. The Delta Chi Fraternity PO Box 1817 Iowa City IA 52244 Inc. 316 E. Church St. Judith S. & Franklin 316 Church St. Iowa City IA 52245 Miller 317 E. Church St. Catherine A. Schneider 317 Church St. iowa City IA 52245 318 E, Church St. Tina M. & Larry R. 318 Church St. Iowa City IA 52245 Woodsmall 319·323 E. Church St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 MarketSt. iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Church St. Molly R. Ramer 211 Friendship St. Iowa City IA 52245 214 E. Davenport 8t. H&G 10 Heather Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 217 E. Davenport St. Joseph L. Dobrien clo 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 Kevstone Proe. Mcmt. 220 E. Davenport St. Hodge Construction 711 S. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52240 Comnanv 222 E. Davenport St. IC Rentals LC 741 Oakland Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 223 E. Devenport St. Donna M. Laun,pach PO Box 1306 Iowa City IA 52244 225 E. Davenport St. Jill R. Gaulding & Marc 225 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 N. Licht 304 E. Davenport St. Peter J. Ammentorp & 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefieid WA 98642 Michelle Lampe· Ammentom 308 E. Davenport St. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 98642 LLC 311 E. Davenport St. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 326 N. Linn St. lowaCiIy iA 52245 Nancv L. Parker 312 E. Davenport St. Katherine Johnson 203 W. 20th St. #4W New York NY 10011 314 E. Davenport St. Hubert L & Leona H. 314 Devenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 Rummelhart 315 E. Davenport St. Joel D. & Melissa C. 155 Columbia Dr. Iowa City iA 52245 Schintler 319 E. Davenport St. EveriU & Jean Ann 320 Park Rd. Iowa City IA 52246 Daters 320 E. Davenport St. Walter J. Kopsa 130 Ashwood Dr. Iowa City IA 52240 321-323 E. Davenport St. Frank G. Person 321 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 324 E. Davenport St. Walter J. & Jane A, 130 Ashwood Dr. Iowa City IA 52240 Koese 332 E. Davenport St. Carol S. De Saint Victor 332 Davenport St. Iowa City IA 52245 402 E. Davenport St. Dale Mo Yocom 402 Devenport St. 10weCity iA 52245 404 E. Davenport St. Lake & Lake LC 403 S. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52240 - ........ .-- -.....-... -.... ~- .._--_.-_.-_.----~----_..--,. --'--"'-'- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 40 Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRACT ADDRESS BUYER'SI 221 E. Fairchild St. F. George & Wilma M. 225 Fairchild St. Iowa City iA 52245 Blair 225 E. Fairchild St. F. George & Wilma M. 225 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 Blair 230 E. Fairchild 81. James D. Pohl & Ryan L, 603 S. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52240 Roonev 301-303 E. Fairchild St. Greg J. Allen 2427 Hwy 6 NW Tiffin IA 52340 309 E. Fairchild St. Shirley A. Harrison 1713 S. Ave. South Amana IA 52334 311 E. Fairchild St. Susan K. Futrell & 311 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 William J. Jenninas 312 E. Fairchild St. Wi~red E. & Patricia A. 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Eckhardt 314 E. Fairchild St. Roy E. Reynolds & 314 Fairchild St. Iowa City IA 52245 Marcv E. Rosenbaum 317 E. Fairchild St. Thomas E. & Julianne K. 317 Fairchild 81. Iowa City IA 52245 McNallev 320 E. Fairchild St. Miller and Hawkins 673 Westwinds Dr. Iowa City IA 52246 324 E. Fairchild St. Douglas 8, Critser & Lisa 328 Fairchiid St. Iowa City IA 52245 C. Koizumi 326 E. Fairchild St. Harry Hinckley 886 Park PI. Iowa City iA 52246 328 E. Fairchild 81. Jeffrey L. & Beth M. Dill 720 Rosebud Ct. Coralville IA 52241 204 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 210 N. GilbertSt. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 214 N. Gilbert St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 219 N. Gilbert St. Mark K. Brookfield & 219 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 Melissa J. Murchv 225 N. Gilbert St. Thomas E, Conway 225 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 229 N. Gilbert St. Mary E. Keating cia M. 940 Prairie Ridge Rd. North Liberty IA 52317 Blaklev 230 N. Gilbert St. Mercy Hospital 500 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 305 N. Gilbert St. RSNV. INC 305 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 310 N. Gilbert St. Don C. & Dorothy L. 609 Granada Ct. Iowa City IA 52246 Fowles 311 N. Gilbert St. Patricia Ann Fisher 315 N. GilbertSt. Iowa City IA 52245 315 N. Gilbert St. Patricia Ann Fisher 315 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 318 N. Gilbert St. William C. & Julia E. 3084 130th St. Spirit Lake IA 51360 Leuoold 324 N. Gilbert St. John R. & Erma,':;, 1150 Jefferson St. Iowa City IA 52245 Alberhas 325 N. Gilbert St. Eugene F. Fisher 3485 G. Richard Cir. SW Iowa City IA 52240 330 N. Gilbert St. Arthur W. & Renetta A. 330 N. Gilbert SI. Iowa City IA 52245 Webster 331 N. Gilbert St. Emergency Housing 331 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 Proiect Inc. 409 N. Gilbert St. Spaight Services LLC clo 1185 Forevergreen Rd. Iowa City IA 52240 Thomas N. SDaiaht 413 N. Gilbert St. Jeffrey Porter & Claire 413 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 Snonsler 414 N. Gilbert St. Frank M, Wilcox 7241218th Way N. Forest Lake MN 55025 418 N. Gilbert St. Benjamin & Carolyn 418 N. Gilbert SI. Iowa City IA 52245 Barrientes 419 N. Gilbert St. Amelia R. Baum & 419 N. Gilbert SI. Iowa City IA 52245 Michael R. Slnoer 420 N. Gilbert St. Keystone Property 533 Southgate Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 Manaoement 421 N. Gilbert St. Melvin D. & Alice L Roth 1340 12th Ave. Coralville IA 52241 426 N. GilbertSt. Waltraud Maierhofer 426 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 - - -......- ~._.. .-"_......_.__._..----~~-----..--- .. United State. Department of the Interior National Pari< Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number ProDertv Owners Page 41 Gilbert-Unn Street Historic District Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOLDER CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRA~;r ADDRESS BUYERIS 429 N. Gilbert 5t. Melvin D. & Alice L. Roth 1340 12th Ave. Coralville IA 52241 430 N, Gilbert St. Victoria A. Walton 430 N. Gilbert St. Iowa City IA 52245 311 N. Linn St. Iowa City Monthly 311 N. Linn 5t. Iowa City IA 52240 Meetina of Friends 313 N, Unn 51. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 98642 LLC 318 N. LinnSt. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 326 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Nancv L. Parker 319 N. Linn 51. Ammentorp Properties 2709 163rd St. NE Ridgefield WA 68642 LLC 322 N. Linn St. Mal)' K. Palmberg 1718 Wilson St. Iowa City IA 52245 323 N. Unn 81. Donald L. Stumbo & 3082 Running Deer Rd, Iowa City IA 52240 Janene Elavne Panfil NE 326 N. Linn 81. Dwight A. Dobberstein & 326 N, Linn 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 Nan"" L. Parker 328·330 N. Linn St. Eugene F. Fisher 3485 G. Richard Cir. SW Iowa City IA 52240 403-405 N. Linn St. James B. & Becky J. 1811 Muscatine Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 Buxton 411 N. Linn 81. RMB Investments LLC 3286 Hwy 1 SW Iowa City IA 52240 412 N. Linn 5t. Arthur K. & 5hari 2026 130th St. Riverside IA 52327 Sweetina 416 N. Linn St. Sarah Buss & Henl)' L. 416 N. Linn 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 Paulson 418-422 N. Linn St. H&G 10 Heather Dr. Iowa City IA 52245 506 N. Linn St. Wilfred E. & Patricia A. 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Eckhardt 507-513 N. Linn St. Michael Allen & Debra 1415 Franklin Ave. West Branch IA 52358 Kav Coooer 514 N. Linn St. Wilfred E. & Patricia A. 514 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Eckhardt 521 N. LinnSt. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 522 N, Linn 81. T. David Egenberger & 1102 College 5t. Iowa City IA 52240 Wendv èa~ Moses 526 N. LinnSt. Timothy D. Toomey & 526 N, Linn 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 Ruth A. Fuglsang- Toomev 527 N. Linn St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market St. Iowa City IA 52245 533 N. Linn5t. Gregol)' J. & Leann D. 1635 Larch Ave. Washington IA 52353 Hassman 612 N. Linn St. Matthew D. Leplc 1849 Hollywood Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 615 N. LinnSt. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane 619 N. Linn 5t. Clarence J. & Dorothy E. 619 N. Linn St. iowa City IA 52245 HaverkamD 620 N. Linn St. Thomas D. & Teresa P. 420 Ronalds 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 Kane 624 N. Linn St. John A. & Kayla K. Cress 4506 DI)'den Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 628 N. Linn St. Hawkeye Property 3575 Hanks Dr. SE Iowa City IA 52240 Management c/o Bill Terrv 629 N. Linn St. John S. Mann & Tama J. 629 N. Linn St. Iowa City IA 52245 Batdwin 402 E. Market St. Chudacek Partnership 34 Bedford Ct. Iowa City IA 52240 410 E. Market St. James A. & Loretta Clark 414 Market 5t. 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State/Federal Aaencv Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this (x] nomination LJ 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 W meets Ll does not meet the National Register criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant Ll nationally Ll statewide llLJ locally. (U see continuation sheet for additional comments). Signature of certifying officialfTitre Date State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property U meets U does not meet the National Register criteria. (U See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying officialfTitle Date State or Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that the property is: Signature of the Keeper Date of Action LJ entered in the National Register. Ll See continuation sheet, LI determined eligibie for the National Register. U See continuation sheet. LJ determined not eligible for the National Register. LJ removed from the National Register. LI other. (expiain:) ,----. - Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv. IA Name of Property County and State 5. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) [25J private U building(s) Contributing Noncontributing U public-local [25J district 74 18 buildings U public-Slate Usite U public-Federal U structure sites U object structures objects 74 18 Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing.) in the National Register Historic Resources of Iowa City Iowa 91 (see p.18 for corrected number count) 6. Function or Use Historic Functions Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) DOMESTIC/SinQle Dwellinas DOMESTIC/SinQle DwellinQs DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIC/Secondary Structures DOMESTIClMultiple Dwellinas DOMESTIClMultiple DwellinQs 7. Description Architectural Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions) (Enter categories from instructions) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne foundation STONElLimestone MID_19th CENTURY/Greek Revival walls WOODlWeatherboard LATE_19th & Earlv 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WOOD/Shinale MOVEMENTSlPrairie School roof ASPHALT other see continuation sheet Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) -- .- --.-.- Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of Sillnificance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) ARCHITECTURE [X] A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of COMMUNITY PLANNING AND our history. DEVELOPMENT U B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. [29 C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance individual distinction. 1847-1954 U D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Criteria Considerations Significant Dates (Marl< ">I' in all the boxes that apply.) NIA Property is: U A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person U B removed from its original location. (Complete jf Criterion B is marked above) NfA U C a birthplace or grave, Cultural Affiliation U D a cemetery. NfA U E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. U F a commemorative property. U G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Architect/Builder within the past 50 years. Unknown Narrative Statement of Significance fExclain the sianificance of the Drooertv on one or more continuation sheets.) 9. Maior BibliollraDhical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: U preliminary determination of individual listing [Xl State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested U Other State agency U previously listed in the National Register U Federal agency U previously determined eligible by the National [29 Local government Register U University U designated a National Historic Landmark U other U recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: # U recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County. IA Name of Property County and State 10. Geoaraphical Data Acreage of Property 15 acres UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1 fJ.lli ~ ~ 2fJ.lli ~ ~ Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing 3ill.Ql ~ ~ 4 ill.Ql ~ ~ LJ See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared Bv nameltitle Marlvs A. Svendsen. Svendsen Tvler. Inc. organization for Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission date Januarv. 2004 street & number N3834 DeeD Lake Road telephone 715/469-3300 city or town Sarona state WI zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the complete form: Continuation Sheets Maps A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Photographs Representative black and white photographs of the property. Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Propertv Owner (Complete this nem at the request of SHPO or FPO,) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number telephone city or town state zip code Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate properties for listing or determine eligibility for listing, to list properties, and to amend existing listings. Response to this request is required to obtain a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U,S.C, 470 et seq,). Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the fonn. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this fonn to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503. ..- - ,-- -,---_.~--~_.- ~ ---------~"._"----~.- United states Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 5&7 Page 1 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv IA Name of Property County and State 5. Classification: Related Multiple Property ListinQ (continued) "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS (as amended 2000) 7. Description: Architectural Classification (continued) LATE 19th & 20th CENTURY REVIVALS/Colonial Revival LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTS/Bungalow/Craftsman OTHER Description: Materials (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: STUCCO SYNTHETICSNinyl METAUAluminum roof: METALfTin - -- ----- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 2 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv Încrease) Johnson County Name of Property County and State 7. Narrative Description: The boundary of the Brown Street Historic District is being amended to include a section of Ronalds Street hereafter referred to as the "Ron aids Street extension" located southeast of the original district boundary. This new area included in the Brown Street Historic District extends for four blocks along East Ronalds Street from North Van Buren Street on the east to North Governor Street on the west. The Ronalds Street extension adjoins the former Brown Street Historic District along the alley between Brown and Ronalds streets - the northern boundary of the new area. The southern edge of the new area generally follows the alleys to the south of Ronalds Street. The Ronalds Street extension also includes properties facing the intersecting streets of North Johnson Street, North Dodge Street, and North Lucas Street between the alleys north and south of Ronalds Street. All of the Ronalds Street extension is contained within the Original Town Plat of the city of Iowa City laid out in 1839 when the town was established as the capital city of Iowa Territory. Like Brown Street, Ronalds Street was laid out w~h a standard 80-foot width with alleys measuring 20 feet and intersecting streets also measuring 80 feet. Adjacent blocks measured 320 feet by 320 feet w~h eight large lots in each block containing 80 feet of street frontage and a depth of 150 feet. Development of the North Side residential blocks through the years included instances of subdividing lots into smaller building parcels with a handful of full size or combined lots retained for large residences. All of the streets in the Ronalds Street extension are paved in asphalt. Dodge and Governor streets serve as south and northbound one-ways, respectively, while other streets in the Ronalds Street extension function as local two-way streets. All streets in the Ronalds Street extension except Governor and Dodge streets carry two-way traffic with parking on alternating sides of the streets on a daily basis. The terrain of the Ronalds Street extension is generally level with a slight upward slope from south to north and a similar modest slope from west to east between Lucas and Governor streets at the east end of the Ronalds Street extension. Several lots contain modest slopes with stone retaining walls built for leveling purposes. Houses throughout the Ronalds Street extension are sited level with the street or on slight upgrades. The neighborhood has a dense covering of deciduous trees. Their age suggests that considerable planting took place before World War II. Street plantings include maple, oak. ash, hackberry, American elm, and a few catalpas with conifers generally reserved for settings w~hin private lots. Dutch elm disease decimated most of the elm trees by the 1970s. Today streets in the Ronalds Street extension are lined by a mixture of 60 to 80 year old trees measuring 40 to 75 feet in height.' There are no natural water features w~hin the Ronalds Street extension and no city parks or playgrounds. The nearest city parks are Happy Hollow Park located a block north of the Ronalds Street extension between Lucas and Governor Streets within the original Brown Street Historic District and North Market Park located one and a half blocks south along Johnson Street. The historic building stock in the Ronalds Street extension includes single-family dwellings that generally date from the 1850s through the 1930s and secondary structures erected from the late 19th century through the 1940s. Approximately 48 percent of the buildings originally constructed as single-family houses (primary buildings) are arch~ecturally or historically significant individually or key contributing structures. Another 46 percent qualify as contributing structures within the Ronalds Street extension but are not individually significant. A total of 4 primary buildings are non-contributing due to their date of construction or significant alterations. The Ronalds Street extension also contains 33 secondary buildings originally constructed as garages or barns. Of these, 58 percent are considered contributing and the remaining 42 percent have been determined non-contributing due to alterations or date of construction. The Ronalds Street extension exhibits a variety of late 19th and early 20th century historic arch~ectural styles including excellent examples of the Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses. Most houses in the Ronalds Street extension are examples of vernacular house forms commonly found in Iowa City during that period. The vernacular forms that appear most frequently in the Ronalds Street extension include the Side-Gabled Roof (both one- 1 Email interview with Terry Robinson, Park & Recreation Department, City of Iowa City re: species and size of neighborhood trees December 2003. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 3 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State story and two-story or I-house forms), the Front Gable Roof, the Gabled Front and Wing, the American Four-Square, the Bungalow or Bungalow Cottage. and the Gambrel Roof Cottage. The residential blocks in the Ronalds Street extension are distinguished by a mix of densely spaced houses of all sizes constructed over a period of seven to eight decades. In most cases, the earliest houses were oriented towards Ronalds Street with infill houses built on rear, subdivided parcels facing the side streets in later years. A reflection of the organic development of the neighborhood is seen in the varied setback of buildings along the length of Ronalds Street. Building parcels are deep except for most corner lots where rear portions have been divided to provide housing sites facing onto the intersecting streets. Exceptions include three of the corner lots at the intersection of Lucas and Ronalds streets where rear sections are retained with the primary dwellings facing Ronalds Street. The pattern of building and the density of the Ronalds Street neighborhood are a result of the organic manner in which the area was developed and is discussed in greater detail in Section 8 below. Depictions of buildings in the 1868 B;rd's Eye View of Iowa City and Sanborn maps from various dates reveal the construction of earlier buildings on some lots and their replacement by larger, more substantial buildings as the decades passed. In several cases, frame dwellings were moved to nearby lots to make room for larger buildings. The practice of moving buildings was a long-standing tradition in Iowa City identified in the study of the Original Town Plat neighborhood2 More than 10 percent of the primary buildings in the North Side neighborhood under study were moved to their current sites during the period 1904 - ca. 1935. The Ronalds Street extension's one, two and two-and-half-story houses are constructed of frame, brick, stone, and stucco with frame being the most popular. Wood cladding includes narrow and medium width clapboard or decorative shingles. Masonry materials include dressed and ashlar stone, rusticated concrete block (foundations), and locally manufactured brick. The earliest houses in the Ronalds Street extension were vernacular brick and stone houses with simple Greek Revival designs featuring side-gable forms, flat arches, and flat-arched transoms above their entrances. These were followed by simplified Queen Anne Style houses built in popular vernacular forms such as the Front-Gable and Gabled Front and Wing. They featured asymmetrical façades, decorative trim, and varied shingle detailing in house, porch, and dormer-gables. From 1900 through World War I, residents favored construction of American Four-Square houses to the virtual exclusion of all other forms. These houses were the first to introduce Craftsman Style, Colonial Revival, and Prairie School Style features. The 1920s and early 1930s saw the Craftsman Style continue its popularity but with the Front-Gable Roof nearly always the choice for house plan. These Craftsman houses typically used knee-braced brackets and exposed rafter tails along their eaves for simple ornamentation and nearly always used vertical upper light sash in windows. The styles and vernacular forms popular in the Ronalds Street extension are discussed in greater detail in the amendment to the "Iowa City Historic Resources MPS" for the historic context "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 - 1945" approved by the National Park Service in 2000. Some of the better examples of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms in the Ronalds Street extension are listed below. A complete list of contributing and non-contributing resources appears on pages 19-20. Residential Architectural Styles . Greek Revival: Barnes House, 614 N. Johnson St. (Photo #1, ca. 1847) Maria Welch House, 630 N. Van Buren St. (Photo #2, ca. 1860) . Queen Anne: Frank & Mary Lechty House, 719 E. Ronalds St. (Photo #3, ca. 1896) Selkirk-Palik House, 628 N. Lucas St. (Photo #4, ca. 1900) Frank & Frances Nesvacil House, 611 N. Johnson St. (ca. 1905) 2"Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 - 1945," Amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," National Register of Historic Places, 2000, pp. 49-50. ..- - -..---- -.... .._..__.._--------~---.._----._---- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 7 Page 4 Brown Street Historic District lboundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State · Colonial Revival: Emil & Albia Miller House, 814 E. Ronalds (Photo #5, ca. 1909) · Craftsman: Peter & Florence Prizler House, 715 N. Dodge SI. (Photo #6, ca. 1927) Tobin Rental House, 621 N. Johnson SI. (Photo #7, ca. 1925) Emil Rongner House, 628 N. Johnson SI. (ca. 1925) Thomas & Agnes Carroll House, 608 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1928) Robert & Mabel Burger House. 620 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1925) Ulmer & Amelia Ries House, 620 N. Van Buren SI. (ca. 1923) · Prairie School: Eugene & Myrtle Hubbard House, 616 N. Johnson (ca. 1925) Vernacular House Forms · Front-Gable: Charles & Mary Grissel House, 631 N. Dodge SI. (ca. 1890) Herman Bonorden House, 530 E. Ronalds SI. (Photo #8, ca. 1878) Anton & Vlasta Soucek House, 813 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1913) John Kadlec House, 830 E. Ronalds SI. (Photo #15, ca. 1913) · Gabled Front & Wing: Frank & Clara Rummelhart House, 510 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1902) Lux House, 619 E. Ronalds SI. (Photo #9, ca. 1899) Joseph & Josephine Katzenmeyer House, 622 N. Van Buren SI. (Photo #10, ca. 1905) · American Four-Square: [Note: most examples have Colonial Revival. Craftsman, or Prairie School attributes] Frank & Agnes Spevacek House, 714 N. Johnson SI. (ca, 1915) Wilfred & Mary Cole House, 715 N. Johnson SI. (Photo #11, ca. 1927) Joseph & Agnes Grimm House, 524 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1908) Leo & Mae Grimm House, 604 E. Ronalds SI. (Photo #12, ca. 1913) George & Ed~h Hanley House, 618 E. Ronalds SI. (ca. 1923) Carl & Rose Gaulocher House, 804 E. Ronalds SI. (Photo #13, ca. 1908) Grace & Henry Urban House, 702 N. Van Buren SI. (Photo #14, ca. 1918) Margaret Canon House, 714 N. Van Buren SI. (ca. 1919) George & Sadie Pudil House, 716 N. Van Buren SI. (ca, 1917) The condition of houses in the Ronalds Street extension ranges from fair to excellent. A substantial number of residences continue as single-family homes with subdivision into duplexes or apartments more common in the blocks at the west end of the Ronalds Street extension closer to the University of Iowa east campus. The most likely alteration to houses in the Ronalds Street extension is the addition of synthetic siding including asbestos shingle siding dating from the 1940s and aluminum siding or vinyl siding added beginning in the 1960s. Approximately 22 percent of the primary buildings in the Ronalds Street extension have this alteration. Other changes include the removal, alteration, or enclosure of porches with screening or fixed walls, the modification or addilion of entrances, and the construction of rear wings and attached garages. The wave of North Side apartment building construction that took place from the late 1960s through the 1970s saw only one building constructed in the Ronalds Street extension in 1972. -..... United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 6 Page 5 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State 8. Statement of SiQnificance: General: The area included in the Ronalds Street extension of the amended Brown Street Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance under the category "Community Planning and Development." Residential development in the Ronalds Street extension is associated with an important era of population growth and intehse residential development in Iowa City's North Side atthe end of the 19'h century and the beginning of the 20th century. As with the original Brown Street Historic District, population growth was encouraged by expansion of the State University of Iowa, SUI hospitals, and several local manufacturing concerns immediately before and after 1900. These trends were reflected in the residential growth of the Ronalds Street extension as well. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Ronalds Street extension represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with prominent business and professional leaders living next door to working class families. Unlike other sections of the North Side located further west, Ronalds Street became one of the sections of the North Side to play host to socially mobile Bohemian-American families, a group that grew as a result of continued immigration from Bohemia as well as settlement patterns in Johnson County. Under Criterion C the Ronalds Street extension is significant as a collection of representative examples of residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s. Together the buildings in the Ronalds Street extension area add to the story of architectural design and vernacular building practices told in the balance of the Brown Street Historic District. The Ronalds Street extension displays variations of eight different American architectural styles and vernacular house forms. No properties within the Ronalds Street extension are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although a number of individual properties along Ronalds Street are associated with important local business and political leaders, no significance is asserted under Criterion B. No reconnaissance or intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the Ronalds Street extension. As a result, no significance is claimed under Criterion D. The period of significance for the Brown Street Historic District previously was 1651 to 1929, With the addition of resources within the new section of Ronalds Street, the revised period of significance for the expanded district will be 1647 to 1954. The first date marks the construction of the earliest contributing resource in the expanded District and the last date marks the 50-year cut-off for National Register eligibility. North Side Historicai Survey Recommendations: The amended Brown Street Historic District that includes the Ronalds Street extension is one of four existing or proposed historic districts located in a section of Iowa City known as the "North Side." This area is located in the northern tíers of blocks in the Original Town Plat and contains approximately 50 city blocks. Historic preservation surveys of portions of the North Side were first completed in 1977 and again in 1961 by City of Iowa City planning interns. In 1982 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for two contiguous North Side historic districts - one commercial properties and one residential properties - were prepared and submitted to the local historic preservation commission and the SHPO. Both districts were eventually approved at the state level but final submittal to the Natíonal Park Service was withheld pending adoption of a local historic preservation ordinance. The nominations were eventually redrafted in 1964 but due to contentious local debate at the time, they were not resubmitted to the SHPO. Following completion of a comprehensive historic preservation plan by the City of Iowa City in 1992, a more complete historical and architectural survey was begun in multiple phases in the North Side. Sections of the North Side were included in each of the following studies: . DubuquelLinn Street Corridor Survey by Molly Naumann (1996) . Original Town Plat of Iowa City (Phase I) Survey by Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians L.C. (1997) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 6 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State · Original Town Plat of Iowa CitY (Phase 11) Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (1999) · Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III) Survey by Marlys Svendsen. Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) · Iowa City Central Business District Survey by Marlys Svendsen, Svendsen Tyler, Inc. (2000) Once these survey efforts were underway, two NRHP nominations were prepared using the multiple property documentation (MPD) and historic district format. To date, the Brown Street Historic District nomination and the Original Town Plat Phase 11 MPD have been listed on the NRHP. In 2000 a reexamination of the various North Side surveys was completed and recommendations for future NRHP nomination work were made by Marlys Svendsen to guide the efforts of the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission and the CitY of Iowa CitY. In addition to the already listed Brown Street Historic District (listed 1994), Svendsen recommended that nominations be considered for several other North Side areas that contained sufficient integrity, arcMectural significance, andlor historical associations that helped to represent this important Iowa CitY neighborhood. The North Side was developed over 16 decades beginning in the 1840s. Historic resources survive from throughout this period and are scattered over the entire geographic area. Several generations of development and redevelopment took place throughout all sections of the North Side in subsequent years. As a result, each of the potential North Side historic district areas has a similar period of historical significance extending from the late 1840s or early 1850s through ca. 1950. Architecturally speaking, all of the potential districts recommended contain good representative examples ofthe architectural styles and vernacular house forms that became popular during this period. For comparison purposes, each district is briefly described below: · Jefferson Street Historic District - This four-block section of Jefferson Street contains an important collection of Iowa City churches, residences, and institutional buildings associated with the State UniversitY of Iowa Medical School and the UniversitY Hospital. The district's buildings are historically significant under the themes of education, religion, and communitY planning as well as architecturally significant for the good examples of late 19th and early 20th century institutional and residential building styles. · Gilbert-Linn Street Historic Distñct - This well-preserved group of large-scale, single-family residences extends along the north-south routes of two important North Side streets - the brick-paved course of Linn Street and the north-south route of the Old Military Road known today as North Gilbert Street. The district is architecturally significant for the representative collection of architectural styles and vernacular house forms dating from the 1880s to 1920s. The district also contains a good set of examples of the work of one of Iowa CitY's most important turn of the century architects, O,H. Carpenter. Historically, the district demonstrates the importance of development factors such as street paving and proximitY to employment generators in stimulating residential growth in existing neighborhoods. · Brown Street Historic District and Ronalds Street Extension - The original Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP in 1994. It qualified for listing under Criteria and A and C for its association with Iowa CitY's neighborhood settlement patterns; the development of a major transportation corridor and its related sub-themes; its affiliation with the growth of the State UniversitY of Iowa in the decades immediately following 1900; and its collection of representative examples of architectural forms and styles from the period extending from the 1850s through the 1920s. The original district extended along seven blocks of Brown Street and several blocks of the adjoining private drive, Bella Vista Place. A proposed amendment to the Brown Street Historic District includes a four-block stretch of Ronalds Street that was not intensively surveyed until several years after the Brown Street Historic District was listed in the NRHP. The Ronalds Street extension contains similar building stock in terms of form, scale, material, and architectural style. Its historical development occurred during a similar period as the Brown Street Historic District and was prompted by similar factors. These facts make the Ronalds Street extension appropriate for amending to the existing Brown Street Historic District. . North Clinton Street Histoñc Street - This potential district contains well-preserved, large scale residences associated with some of Iowa CitY's most prominent business and professional leaders from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition the houses are well-executed and well-preserved examples of the arcMectural styles popular during this era. At the turn of the 21 $t century, the area adjoins the State UniversitY of Iowa Campus. After World War I, several of the houses served as examples of adaptive use as fraternitY houses and rooming houses. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 7 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State A number of the occupants of residences in the district had strong links to the State University of Iowa as faculty members and administrators. In addition to these four historic districts, Svendsen recommended two thematic nominations for resources under separate historic contexts. They include a well-preselVed, but scattered, collection of University of Iowa fraternity houses and a group of resources connected to the historical development of the Bohemian-American community. Based on the recommendations made in 2000, the Iowa City Historic PreselVation Commission obtained a Certified Local Government grant in 2003 to nominate three of the identified North Side historic district areas to the NRHP. In addition to the amendment to the Brown Street Historic District that increases its boundary with the addition of the Ronalds Street Extension included in this nomination, they include the Jefferson Street Historic District and the Gilbert-Linn Street Historic District. The Historical and Architectural Development of Ronalds Street: 3 Iowa City was laid out as the new capital city for Iowa Territory in the summer of 1839. Its location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and its population centers anticipated the state's westward expansion. The Ronalds Street extension is located along an east-west stretch of Ronalds Street, which is located along the northern edge of the Original Town Plat adjoining East Brown Street. This plat, which appears on the following page with the Ronalds Street extension to the Brown Street Historic District outlined, included 100 blocks with eight lots per block, 31 out lot blocks, two public squares, three market squares, two public parks, and several reselVes set aside by the territorial legislators for churches and a school. Two of the half-blocks containing church reselVe lots were located along the north side of East Church Street abutting the Ronalds Street extension. In a separate private property transfer, Block 32 was acquired by the Bishop of the Dubuque Catholic Diocese in 1854 for the purpose of constructing a German-speaking Catholic church.' Neither the church reselVe nor Block 32 was used for their intended purpose, the construction of churches. In the case of Block 32, a plan in the 1870s to build a convent for the Sisters of St. Francis was also abandoned. One of the open space features in the Original Town Plat was located near the Ronalds Street extension - North Market Square - at the intersection of Johnson and Fairchild streets. North Market Square appears to have played a role in attracting Bohemian-American institutions to this section of the North Side and as a result, had an important impact on the Ronalds Street extension. This role is discussed in greater detail below. During Iowa City's early years, Ronalds Street suffered several misnomers at the hands of mapmakers and city directory compilers. These included "Reynolds Street" and "Donald Street" with the correct street name not consistently used until the end of the 19th century. This fact may be an indication of the street's relative unimportance early on. One of the earliest views of Ronalds Street is in the 1868 Bird's Eye View of Iowa City that appears below with Ronalds Street mislabeled "Donald Street." The bird's eye view shows the presence of small dwellings scattered along Ronalds Street from Van Buren Street to Lucas Street in the Ronalds Street extension. Several blocks remained vacant selVing as pastures or wood lots; they are devoid of buildings. The three oldest dwellings in the Ronalds Street extension - the Barnes House, the Welch House, and the Denneny House - are highlighted on a section of the bird's eye view map that appears below on page 9. The Barnes House at 614 N. Johnson Street (contributing, Photo #1) was constructed in ca. 1847 and is an example of a vernacular house form described by architectural historian Jan Nash in her study of folk housing in the northernmost blocks of the Original Town Plat as the "Hall-and-Parlor" form. This one-story example is typified by end gables, a central 3Portions of this section are taken from "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" listed in the NRHP in 1994 and an amendment to this MPS nomination, . Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845- 1945," listed in 2000. Additional material was taken from a second amendment to the MPS prepared in 1997 titled 'Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa, 1839 - ca. 1910" that has not been submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for listing. The first two documents were authored by Marlys Svendsen and the third by Jan Olive Nash. 'Property Abstract for South Hall of Lot 5 in Slock 32 belonging to Kevin and Helen Burford, examined October 2003. -"'- - .~-- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 8 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State chimney, and a floor plan that is two rooms wide and one room deep. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with dressed stone lintels for openings. The stone used here may have been quarried less than a mile away at an important quarry that was located along the Iowa River at the west ends of Ronalds and Church streets. It was labeled on the 1839 Original Town Plat map (see below) as simply "quarry" and designated as the "public quarry" on an 1854 map.5 Other quarries were located upstream along the river and what is now North Dubuque Street. There are at least a dozen houses of similar stone construction scattered throughout Iowa City including three North Side houses previously listed on the National Register - the Jacob Wentz House built in ca. 1850 at 219 N. Gilbert Street, the Henry C. Nicking House built in 1854 at 410 E. Market Street, and the Schindhelm-Drews House constructed in ca, 1855 at 410 North Lucas Street. Nash's study of folk housing describes the Maria Welch House at 630 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #2) as a "Side-Gable, Double-Pen" type. It is constructed of brick and has a side-gable form with a floor plan that is two rooms deep and presents its long side to the street. The house has previously been dated as early as 1858 and as late as 1875, but its appearance on the 1868 bird's eye view map suggests that it was in place sometime prior to the map's publication. Welch owned nearly the entire block at one time selling off individual lots during the pre and post-Civil War period. Nash attributes additional significance for the house to its innovative use of cavity brick wall construction for the front façade. She also points out that the solid brick end walls are reminiscent of rowhouse residences in Boston and Philadelphia. Ronalds Street Extension on Map of Iowa City, 1839 I (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N t I ,-.-- --- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 9 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) ____ Johnson County --- Name of Property County and State from Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, 18686 "- (from the State Historical Society of Iowa - Iowa City) N Governor Street Van Buren Street The use of masonry materials for this pair of early houses in the Ronalds Street extension likely reflects the availability of competent masonry workers during the town's early years. The continued presence of skilled stone masons and cutters after completion of the stone capitol (a total of 85 in 1856) encouraged a continuation of stone construction. A commensurate number of skilled brick makers and bricklayers (a total of 80 in 1856) combined wilh good sources of local clay to encourage the continued construcTIon of brick dwellings, churches, and commercial buildings. One of these early brick yards was located a block north of the Ronalds Street extension within the original Brown Street Historic District between Lucas and Governor streets, The third folk house identified by Nash along Ronalds Street was the Lawrence Denneny House at 613 Ronalds Street (contribuTIng). Built in ca. 1860 in the Gable Front and Wing form. this frame building is more typicai of the early housing stock in the Ronalds Street extension. The original occupants of the house are unknown but by the early 1890s it was occupied by members of the Denneny family including Lawrence who was reTIred and Homer who worked for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad. Population figures for Iowa City as a whole and the Third Ward. which included East Ronalds Street, demonstrate periods of growth and decline in the North Side. A population table appears on page 11. Prior to 1870 Iowa City's population was recorded as a single, citywide number. Population stood at 1,250 in 1850 when the first residents were building homes in the North Side and by 1860 when the three houses just mentioned were likely in place, it had grown to 5,214. This quadrupling of populaTIon occurred despite the removal of the state capital to Des Moines. PosiTIve factors outweighing this event were the establishment of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City and the arrival of trackage for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad in the mid-1850s. Declines in population growth during the early 1860s reflected losses due to displacement caused by the Civil War. By 1870 census figures show Iowa City's population had recovered. This was the first year census records were recorded for the Third Ward, a seCTIon of the city that extended from North Linn Street on the west to east of Reno Street on the east and from Washington Street on the south to Brown Street on the north. In that year the city's overall populaTIon stood at 5,914 with 2,295 individuals residing in the Third Ward. The high figure for the ---~~-- 6 Approximate boundaries of Ronalds Street extension ou~ined by dotted iine. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 10 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State Third Ward likely reflects the large influx of Bohemian immigrants during the previous decade in conjunction with efforts of many young men to avoid milijary service in the Austro-Prussian War. Five years later in 1875 the city's population rose to 6,371 while numbers in the Third Ward declined slightly to 2,026. Population figures in the Third Ward continued to decline in succeeding decades with population dropping to 1 ,842 in 1885 and 1,475 in 1895. These figures contrast with changes in overall population figures in the city that showed increases in both 1885 and 1895 - 6,748 and 7,526 respectively. The decline in Third Ward population during the 1870s through the mid-1890s parallels a drop in survMng houses from the same years in the Ronalds Street extension. Only three survive from the 1870s, none from the 1880s, and one from the early 1890s. The most substantial of these was the Herman Bonorden House at 530 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo # 8). This large Front-Gable frame house was constructed in 1878 for Bonorden while he was serving as a trustee for the Third Ward on the City Council. Bonorden, a lawyer, was one of several elected officials to reside along E. Ronalds Street before and after the turn of the 20th century, During the 1890s the Third Ward remained the most "foreign" of any ward in Iowa City with 1,215 residents (82% of the Third Ward's total residents) claiming foreign-born parents in 1895. Most of these were Bohemian immigrants or children of immigrants who resided in the northeast section of the Original Town Plat and in several additions located to the east in a neighborhood that was known as "Goosetown." The cultural center for Goosetown's Bohemian-American residents eventually became centered around North Market Square, which was located at the intersection of N. Johnson and E. Fairchild streets just a block south of the Ronalds Street extension. The 3'" Ward School (non-extant) attended by Bohemian-American students was located opposite the southwest corner of the square. The Cesko-Slovanska Podporujici Spolku (Czecho-Slovak Protective Society) Hall (NRHP) was built at 524 N. Johnson Street in 1899-1901. Two churches with ethnic affiliations were located south of the North Market Square. Zion Evangelical German Lutheran Church built its first building (non-extant) at Johnson and Bloomington streets in 1861 and SI. Wenceslaus Bohemian Catholic Church was constructed at 630 E. Davenport Street in 1893. These cultural and social institutions near North Market Square tended to draw second and third generation German- Americans and Bohemian-Americans to the blocks west and north of the original Goosetown neighborhood. As a result, this group accounted for a number of the new houses built in the Ronalds Street extension from the 1890s through World War!. In 1900 citywide population stood at 7,987 reflecting a modest increase from a decade earlier. By 1910 when ward population figures are available once again, they show 1,599 people residing in the Third Ward and 10,091 in the city as a whole. Five years later in 1915 the ward's population rebounded to 1,914 while citywide figures totaled 12,033. The number of residents in the Third Ward fluctuated following World War I with 1,721 in 1920 and 1,870 in 1940. This is the last year that records are kept without including students at the State University of Iowa. Citywide population figures trended upward throughout this period with 11,267 in 1920, 15,340 in 1930, and 17,182 in 1940. Several factors likely led to this population increase within the ward. One was related to the growth of enrollment at the State University of Iowa during this period. In 1900 student enrollment stood at nearly 1,500 and by the end of the 1920s grew to more than 8,500. This period of University growth gave rise to parallel expansion in the central business district and nearby residential neighborhoods such as those in the North Side. It is more fully described in the historic contexts "Town and Gown Era (1899-1940)" and "University of Iowa (1855-1940)" in the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa" MPS. Growth of SUI spurred residential development of several sorts in the Ronalds Street extension. Student housing had traditionally been accommodated in rented rooms in private homes, rooming houses, boarding houses, sorority houses, and fraternity houses within a few blocks of the east campus of the University. Sections of the North Side such as the west end of the Ronalds Street extension gradually played host to more junior faculty, SUI employees, and resident graduate students as enrollment experienced a nearly six-fold increase by 1930. -- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 11 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name ot Property County and State A more significant change in housing in the Ronalds Street extension was the construction of new single-family dwellings on vacant lots or in place of earlier, smaller houses. Construction dates of surviving building stock show more than 40 houses erected between 1895 and 1930. Corner lots were frequently divided with smaller houses moved to the rear of a lot facing a side street and a more spacious house erected at the intersection. In other cases, small-scale real estate development efforts by neighborhood residents such as the Vacek family and the Nesvacil family resulted in new dwellings being erected for use as rental housing. Frank and Joseph Vacek built and either resided in or rented houses at 815 E. Ronalds Street, 823 E. Ronalds Street, and 629 N. Governor Street. Frank and Frances Nesvacil did the same for houses at 611 N. Johnson Street and 617 E. Ronalds Street. Other rental houses were built by members of the Tobin family, Lux family, and Cerny family. These houses frequently provided short term housing for married graduate students, faculty members, and SUI administrative support staff for SUI's growing physical plant. The result was a mixed neighborhood in terms of rental houses and owner-occupied houses. Social make-up was further mixed by the presence of households headed by SUI employees, downtown workers, shop owners, and professionals in every block. The first table below shows the numbers of surviving houses by decade based on research conducted during earlier surveys. Population figures in the second table for Iowa City and the Third Ward are taken from U.S. and Iowa State Census figures. Houses Built by Decade Population for Iowa City & Third Ward Decade Number of Houses Year Iowa City Third Ward Pre--1860 1 1850 1,250 - 1860-1869 2 1854 2570 - 1870-1879 3 1860 5214 - 1880-1889 0 1863 4,417 - 1890-1899 7 1865 5417 - 1900-1909 13 1867 6,418 - 1910-1919 16 1869 6,583 - 1920-1929 14 1870 5914 2,295 1930-1939 1 1873 6,454 2,026 1940-1949 0 1875 6,371 2,026 1950-2000 2 1880 7123 - TOTAL 59 1885 6748 1842 1890 7,016 1,755 1895 7526 1,475 1900 7,987 - 1905 8497 - 1910 10091 1.599 1915 12,033 1.914 1920 11,267 1721 1930 15340 - 1940 17182 1,870 1950 27212 2101 1960 33 443 - 1970 46 850 - 1980 50 508 - 1990 59 735 - 2000 62 220 - - ,.-- -<_.-. ..--..- _.---,--~-_._.-_...._"-_._,-~--------._- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 12 Brown Street Historic District (boundary increase) Johnson County Name of Property Counfy and State Information from biographical histories, city directories, obituaries, and other sources provides a sampling of the Ronalds Street residents, their occupations or professions, and business affiliations. Students are generally not represented in these figures because they were not the heads of households and, therefore, not listed in city directories. Nor were they usually responsible for construction of a house or its long-term occupation. Because this list generally represents the earliest resident associated with a property, it does not demonstrate the growing importance of employers such as the University of Iowa in later years. North Dodge Street 630 N. Dodge, Joseph Brum, cashier, Rock Island RR, ca. 1909 631 N. Dodge, Charles Grissel, teamster, ca. 1890 707 N. Dodge, Frank Mott, English professor, SUI, ca. 1926 715 N. Dodge, Peter Prizler, truck driver. Lenoch & Cilek Hardware Store, ca. 1927 North Johnson Street 611 N. Johnson, Frank Nesvacil, railway mail clerk, ca. 1905 616 N. Johnson, Eugene Hubbard, instructor, SUI Dental College, ca. 1925 628 N. Johnson, Emil Rongner, tailor and dry cleaner, ca. 1920 714 N. Johnson, Frank Spevacek, musician, ca. 1915 715 N. Johnson, Wilfred Cole, bookkeeper. Lenoch & Cilek Hardware Store, ca. 1927 North Lucas Street 628 N. Lucas, Selkirk-Palik House, Frank Selkirk, laundry worker, ca. 1900 713 N. Lucas, Frank Abbott,lather, ca. 1914 East Ronalds Street 510 E. Ronalds, Frank Rummelhart, grocer, ca. 1902 511 E. Ronalds, Edward John Schuppert, tinner for Schuppert & Koudelka, ca. 1912 515 E. Ronalds, John Schuppert, co-owner of Schuppert & Koudelka, 1930 516 E. Ronalds, James Mott, works Reichardt's, confectionery & fru~s1904 518 E. Ronalds, Ludwig Bettag, clerk, Breece Bros., soft drinks, ca. 1909 524 E. Ronalds, Joseph Grimm, bookkeeper, Johnson Co. Savings Bank, ca. 1908 530 E. Ronalds, Herman Bonorden, lawyer, ca. 1878 604 E. Ronalds, Leo Grimm, letter carrier, ca. 1913 613 E. Ronalds, Lawrence Denneny, engineer, Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Rwy., ca. 1860 617 E. Ronalds, Frank Nesvacil, laborer, ca. 1918 620 E. Ronalds. Robert Burger, carpenter, ca. 1925 704 E. Ronalds, Edward Sulek, lawyer, ca. 1910 712 E, Ronalds, Ferd Goss, brick manufacturer, ca. 1908 713 E, Ronalds, Ida Kasper, widow, retired farmer, ca. 1896 719 E. Ronalds, Frank Lechty, laborer, SUI, ca. 1896 724 E. Ronalds, James Kriz, teamster and Joseph Kriz, merchant tailor 729 E. Ronalds, Joseph Bock, tinner, Maresh Brothers, ca, 1895 804 E. Ronalds, Carl & Rose Gaulocher, co-owner, Gaulocher Brick Yard, ca. 1908 809 E. Ronalds, Joseph Krolla, meat cutter, Messner & Koza Meat Market, ca. 1915 ----- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 13 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State 813 E. Ronalds, Anton Soucek, linotypist, Athens Press, ca. 1913 814 E. Ronalds, Emil Miller. co-owner, Emil Brothers Monuments, ca. 1909 820 E. Ronalds, Lee Windrem, baker, ca. 1912 823 E. Ronalds, Frank Vacek (Wacek), laborer & teamster, ca. 1895 830 E. Ronalds, John Kadlec, Johnson County Recorder, ca. 1913 North Van Buren Street 620 N. Van Buren, Ulmer Ries, clerk, Ries Iowa Book Store 622 N. Van Buren, Joseph Katzenmeyer, printer, Economy Advertising Co., ca. 1905 630 N. Van Buren, Maria Welch, real estate owner, ca. 1860 702 N. Van Buren, Drs. Grace & Henry Urban, osteopathic physicians, ca. 1918 714 N. Van Buren, Margaret Canon, child welfare nurse, SUI, ca. 1919 716 N, Van Buren, George Pudil, janitor, SUI Men's Gymnasium, ca. 1917 Architectural Background and Significance Like other section of Iowa City's North Side. the houses constructed in the Ronalds Street extension of the Brown Street Historic District drew inspiration from architectural styles and vernacular building forms that swept the country from the mid- 19th century through the early-20th century. Styles that influenced the designs of building in the Ronalds Street extension include the Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and Prairie School. As design trends in Iowa City had no hard and fast beginning and ending dates, it was common to find two or more styles incorporated into the same house. The Greek Revival was the first formal architectural style introduced to Iowa City when architect John Francis Rague designed Iowa's Territorial Capitol (NHL) in 1839. Construction was completed on the capitol by 1842 and dozens of private residences and commercial blocks in the Greek Revival Style were rendered in stone, brick and clapboard finishes during the next 25 years in Iowa City. Houses such as the Barnes House at 614 N. Johnson Street (contributing, Photo #1) and the Welch House at 630 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #2) employed simple Greek Revival elements such as flat stone window lintels and entrance transoms in their Side-Gable forms. As noted above, historical and architectural survey work completed in the Ronalds Street extension area has identified few surviving houses constructed during the three decades following the CMI War. This may be a result of a modes! amount of building that took place during this time due to slow population growth. A more likely contributing factor is the wave of redevelopment in the neighborhood that took place after the turn of the 20th century that resulted in the replacement of earlier houses with newer ones. As a result, there is a dearth of houses built in styles popular during the post-Civil War period -Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, and early Queen Anne style houses - in the Ronalds Street extension, In their place are late Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman style houses built in a wide range of vernacular forms. The late Queen Anne Style dwellings built along Ronalds Street were examples of the Gabled Front and Wing form with asymmetrical façades and various combinations of roof shapes, wall dormers, and attic dormers. Defining features included ornamental bargeboards, decorative millwork, and fashionable verandas and porches. Examples ofthe less exuberant forms of the Queen Anne Style typical of the Ronalds Street neighborhood include the Frank and Mary Lechty House at 719 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #3) built in ca. 1896, the Selkirk-Palik House at 628 N. Lucas Street (contributing, Photo #4) constructed in ca. 1900, and the Frank and Frances Nesvacil House at 611 N. Johnson Street (contributing) built in ca. 1905. A variation of the late Queen Anne Style in the Ronalds Street extension incorporates more formal Neo-Classical ornamentation in façades and porches. The result is a Colonial Revival Style design such as the house built in 1905 by Emil and Albia Miller located at 814 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #5). The most common architectural style adopted by homebuilders in the Ronalds Street extension was the Craftsman Style. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 14 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State This style grew out of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America and was strongly promoted by native Wisconsin architect and furniture designer Gustav Stickley in his magazine The Craftsman published between 1903 and 1916. The Craftsman Style was predisposed towards utilitarian forms and designs and experienced popularity in the Ronalds Street area as a result. The Craftsman Style developed a multiplicity of forms adaptable to both prominent mid-block lots and smaller sub- divided lots fronting on side streets. Approximately 20 Craftsman Style houses were built in the Ronalds Street extension during the years before and after World War I. The most clearly Craftsman Style houses in the Ronalds Street extension were built in the Front-Gable form. Constructed in one, one-and-half, and two-story sizes, the Front-Gable house form was distinguished by a moderate-pitched gable end oriented towards the street. In some examples the asymmetrically placed entrance porch would have a contiguous gable roof but in most cases, a broad gable roofed porch would span the front. Clapboard siding and square-cut shingles would frequently alternate between floors and exposed rafter tails, purlins, and knee-brace brackets would line eaves. Windows would appear in pairs and groups of three with vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double-hung windows in most cases. Six well-preserved examples survive in the Ronalds Street extension of the Craftsman Style Front-Gable form. All were built during the decade of the 1920s. The Ulmer and Amelia Ries House at 620 N. Van Buren St. (contributing) was built in ca. 1923. It is a very small one-story stucco-clad cottage with a contiguous gable for its offset entrance porch. Its windows contain a geometric pattern rather than the traditional vertical light configuration. A larger house more typical of the Craftsman Front-Gable houses found in the Ronalds Street extension is the Peter and Florence Prizler House at 715 N. Dodge St. (contributing, Photo #6). Built in ca. 1927 it incorporates most of the standard features of Craftsman Style houses in the Ronalds Street extension including exposed rafter tails, knee brace brackets for the side entrance, contrasting narrow clapboards and square-cut shingles for the siding, and vertical light configurations in the upper sash of double-hung windows. A third example with proportions similar to the Prizler House, is the house at 621 N. Johnson St. (contributing, Photo #7). Constructed in ca. 1925 by the Tobin family for rental purposes, it combines the extremely narrow 22-foot wide footprint of the Ries House with the full two-story height of the Prizler House. Its upper story shingles are laid in alternating narrow and wide bands giving the house a horizontal feeling and an illusion of greater width than similar sized houses in the Ronalds Street extension. Other Craftsman Front-Gable Houses in the Ronalds Street extension include the Emil Rongner House at 628 N. Johnson SI. (contributing, ca. 1925), the Thomas and Agnes Carroll House at 608 E. Ronalds St. (contributing, ca. 1928), and the Robert and Mabel Burger House at 620 E. Ronalds SI. (contributing, ca. 1925). The Craftsman Style influenced the look of another important vernacular house form found in the Ronalds Street extension - the American Four-Square. Nearly 20 such houses survive in the Ronalds Street extension having been built between ca. 1905 and ca. 1930. Common characteristics of this form include a two-story, three-bay front facade; a hipped roof of various pitch; hipped or gable roof dormer(s) on one or more façades: porches across the entire front façade or off-set entrance porticos; asymmetrically placed entrance doors (common); cottage windows on the first floor (common); double- hung windows or groups of windows on upper floors and secondary façades with either 1/1, 4/1, 5/1 or 6/1 configurations; and belt courses separating first and second floors. Four-Squares are distributed relatively evenly throughout the Ronalds Street extension. The earliest Four-Squares in the Ronalds Street extension are more likely to incorporate Colonial Revival Style features such as classical ornamentation, porch columns, entrances, window trim, and balustrades. The Craftsman Style appeared in Four-Squares built after World War I. The style's influence was evident in the popular vertical light configuration in the upper sash of double-hung windows, the use of alternating siding types on each level, and interior finishes that favored Arts and Crafts motifs. None of the houses in the Ronalds Street extension have been identified as the work of individual architects though it is possible that continued research on local architects might uncover a few commissions. Alternatively, home builders frequently turned to pattern books and design catalogues available from local lumber companies such as the William Musser Lumber Company, the Iowa Lumber Company and its successor the Ditmars & Ayers Company, or to local planing mills such as J.M. Sheets and Company. In such cases a single house plan with variations in omamentation or floor plan United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 15 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv ìncrease) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State may have been used for multiple houses. One such plan was for a modified Gabled Front and Wing design with a central hipped block. This design was used for three nearly identical houses in the Ronalds Street extension. They include the Lux House, a rental house built in ca. 1899 at 619 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #9); the Joseph and Josephine Katzenmeyer House built in ca. 1905 at 622 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #10); and the Edward and Stella Sulek House built in ca. 1910 at 704 E. Ronalds Street (contributing), The porches of the two most intact houses vary. The Lux House has a closed balustrade and paneled square columns for porch supports while the Katzenmeyer House has slender curved columns and turned spindles for its balustrade. The two also have reverse floor plans. Another example of the Gabled Front and Wing house form is the Frank and Clara Rummelhart House at 510 E. Ronalds Street (contributing) built in ca. 1902. Like the three Queen Anne Style houses discussed on page 13 - the Lechty House, the Selkirk-Palik House, and Nesvacil House - the size and location porch was a major design element. After the turn of the 20" century, residents may have turned to manufacturers of pre-cut or "kit houses" such as those offered by a number of Midwest manufacturers. Kit houses included materials for the entire house with numbered parts and instruction booklets as well as shingles, paint, and nails. Among the companies offering homes in the Midwest were three Bay City, Michigan manufacturers - the Aladdin Company began in 1906 and offered 450 models between 1910 and 1940; Lewis Homes/Liberty Homes: and Sterling Homesllnternational Mill and Timber. Three Chicago firms included Sears Roebuck and Company, Montgomery Ward Company, and Harris Brothers. The best known of these was Sears, the nation's premier merchandiser at the turn of the 20'h century. The company began offering house plans in 1895 and by 1908 had begun operations of a "Modern Homes" division that supplied building plans, materials, and kit houses that were shipped by rail around the United States. The first catalogue was limited to several dozen plans for medium size houses but by 1916 the first Sears kit-houses with numbered parts were available. Incomplete records make the total output of kit homes difficult to estimate; however, it is likely that by World War II, Sears had sold more than 100,000 homes nationally. Soon after Aladdin and Sears began manufacturing homes, an Iowa company joined their ranks. Located just 60 miles east of Iowa City in Davenport, Iowa, the Gordon-Van Tine Company advertised nationally selling construction materials to builders beginning in 1906. By 1910 the company offered house plans and was among the first companies in the country to offer fully pre-cut houses. The company's catalogues allowed the homebuyer to select from among dozens of floor plans, finishes, design features, and equipment choices. The Gordon-Van Tine Company likely knew of the brisk market for residential construction in Iowa City during this period. One example of a Gordon-Van Tine Co. house has been tentatively identified within the Ronalds Street extension - the John Kadlec House at 830 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #15). The house was built in ca. 1913 for Kadlec who occupied the elected post of Johnson County Recorder at the time. The Gordon-Van Tine Plan No. 702 that appears on the following page matches that of the two-story frame house at the corner of Governor and Ronalds streets. It was built with a steeply pitched, intersecting gable roof plan, and a flat roofed porch spanning the front. Double-hung 1/1 windows were paired on the second floor. The most popular house form in the Ronalds Street extension - the American Four-Square - was also among the most popular designs offered by the Gordon-Van Tine Company. The company's 1923 catalogue included 18 separate plans in the Four-Square house form to capture the interest of homebuilders with such descriptive phrases as "An Impressive Colonial Home," "A Big 6 Room House at a Low Price," "A Big Square Home - Four Bed Rooms," "Substantial Two-Story Home," "An Every Popular Home of Fine Proportions," "Impressive Home - A Space and Money Saver," "A Substantial Seven Room House," and "A Square House with Big Comfortable Rooms."' 7117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon-Van Tine Co., (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia), 1992. (reprint of Gordon-Van Tine Homes, originally published by the Gordon-Van Tine Co., Davenport, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 16 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State The American Four-Squares built in the Ronalds Street extension were typical of plans sold by the Gordon-Van Tine Company. They featured four rooms on the first floor usually including a large entrance hall with stairs to the second floor, a "cased opening" (one featuring pillars, shelving or other trim) between the living room and dining room, and a spacious kitchen. The upper level contained a bathroom and either three or four bedrooms. Examples in the 1923 catalogue were sized for a range of budgets with the smallest examples containing less than 700 square feet per floor; moderate examples sized from 800 to 900 square feet, and one large house containing 1.100 square feet per floor. Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 7028 G~ 0.'-'--::'j G.ordItQ-~n 11M Homes--51 ~t~.__ '-. -~---> _') }'111;" 88 P"g,·. "11>1.",,,'<1$10. ---_..._-~ -.._- ._---~- ------ ~, Iowa, 1923), pp. 37. 52, 66, 81, 82. 86, 87, and 99. 8117 House Designs of the Twenties, p, 88. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 17 _ _Brown Street Historic District iboundarv increase) -~ Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State American Four-Squares built in the Ronalds Street extension ranged from narrow-front plans (22 to 24 feet wide) suitable for small mid-block lots to plans that were both wide and deep (26 to 31 feet wide) for full lot corner sites. Two nearby examples show how the same house form could be easily sized to f~ lots with dramatically different dimensions. The Eugene and Myrtle Hubbard House at 616 N. Johnson Street (contributing) has a width of just 22 feet. Built in ca. 1925, it is an example of how design elements such as an extremely low-pitched hipped roof, the omission of an attic dormer, and the inclusion of a raised story-board between contrasting cladding on the first and second floors can give a house a wider, and therefore larger, appearance. These features also added a Prairie School Style feel to the house. The Hubbard House closely resembles the 22-foot wide "Gordon-Van Tine Home No. 555"9 and the "The Cornell," a Sears, Roebuck and Company house plan shown below that was specifically advertised for narrow lots. A half-block to the north, a more typically sized Four-Square with a 26-foot wide front façade was built by Leo and Mae Grimm at 604 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #12) in ca. 1913. The large corner lot on which it sits gives the Grimm House an even more substantial presence. In this particular plan, the wider front façade is largely taken up by additional windows (pairs on the upper level and a triple window on the lower level). Other corner lot Four-Squares include the William and Augusta Theobold House at 730 E. Ronalds Street (contributing) built in ca. 1910, the Carl and Rose Gaulocher House at 804 E. Ronalds Street (contributing, Photo #13) built in ca. 1908 and the Henry and Grace Urban House at 702 N. Van Buren Street (contributing, Photo #14) built in ca. 1918. Sears, Roebuck and Company House Plan, "The Cornell" 10 THE CORNELL 9lbid. p. 92. 10Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward Jandl, Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears. Roebuck and Company (Washington, DC.: The Preservation Press), 1986, p, 292. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 18 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources: The Ronalds Street extension to the Brown Street Historic District contains a total of 92 buildings with 74 contributing primary and secondary buildings. Of these, 32 are key or individually significant (28 primary and 4 secondary). The balance of the Ronalds Street extension includes 4 non-contributing primary building and 14 non-contributing secondary buildings. No buildings in the extension area were previously listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The original Brown Street Historic District nomination identified 90 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (Brown Street itself), and 9 non-contributing buildings. This number count was in error, however, because it included only primary buildings and no garages or barns. As a part of amending the Brown Street Historic District to include the Ronalds Street extension, a revised evaluation of the buildings in the original district was completed using the extended period of significance for the Ronalds Street extension and a full count of primary and secondary buildings. This count indicates that there are 127 contributing primary and secondary buildings within the original boundary, 1 contributing structure within the original boundary, and 26 noncontributing buildings within the original boundary. The revised and combined number counts for the Brown Street Historic District with the boundary increased to include the Ronalds Street extension are as follows: a total of 246 resources with 1 contributing structure (Brown Street) and 245 buildings (primary and secondary) including 201 contributing buildings and 44 non-contributing buildings. Tables listing the contributing and non-contributing resources in the new Ronalds Street extension and the original Brown Street Historic District appear on pages 19-23. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Ronalds Street extension were developed using National Register Bulletin 16A: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. Individual building evaluations were consistent with local standards further refined as a part of surveys and multiple property documentation forms completed in 1992-1994. 1997, and 1999-2000 listed below: · "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS," prepared 1992, listed NRHP 1994 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase 11),1845 -1945," prepared 1999, listed NRHP 2000 · Amendment to "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS" for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa," prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1997 (not submitted to the National Park Service) By definition, historic districts are collections of buildings that when considered as a group rather than individually possess a sense of time and place. They may have a shared building type, style, form, or material. They have a common period of significance that may extend over a few years or decades. They consist of contiguous properties or multi-block areas with relatively few intrusions. Integrity for individual buildings as well as the setting as a whole should be high. The Ronalds Street extension meets these requirements. Buildings were evaluated and ranked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing or 3) non- contributing. For single or multi-family buildings (including rooming houses and apartment buildings) to be designated as "key contributing," they are substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportion, and roofline. Principal façades remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic siding has been installed it is considered acceptable if the width matches that of the original surfaces and few architectural features are compromised by its installation. Original porches are intact, windows remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm windows, and primary entrances remain consistent with the original design. Single-family or multi-family buildings designated as "contributing" retain their original form and massing. Examples of - -- - .--- -... ---...--........- .. -".~.. ,.---...--.-.----- ---..-.---..---------.- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 19 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson CountY' Name of Property County and State acceptable alterations are as follows. Porches may be enclosed but the original columns remain visible or the enclosure easily reversible with little or no damage to the massing and proportions of the original porch. More permanent porch enclosures that are more than 50 years old are also considered acceptable. The majority of windows remains unchanged but if they are altered, the sizes of window openings conform to those of original openings. Any wings or additions made to a house are subordinate to the original structure and do not cover significant arcMectural detailing. Acceptable synthetic sidings include asbestos shingles, asphalt brick, aluminum, and vinyl. For secondary structures associated with residential buildings such as garages or barns, designation as "key contributing' requires the retention of original size, shape, proportion, and roofline. Original windows, siding, passage doors, and vehicle bay openings doors are also retained. Replacement of the vehicle bay door with a contemporary door is not acceptable for key status. "Contributing" secondary structures include garages and barns that are at least 50 years old but may have been altered through the addition of synthetic siding compatible to the original finish or replacement of garage doors. Location of vehicle and passage doors as well as windows is contributing secondary structures is consistent with the original building design. Residential buildings, both primary and secondary, designated as "non-contributing" include all resources built outside of the period of significance -1847 to 1954. Buildings altered to such a degree that the original structure is no longer readily identifiable are considered non-contributing. Examples of significant changes include major changes in roofline, incompatible porch enclosures of a non-reversible nature, and major additions or modifications of primary façades inconsistent with the proportion, rhythm, materials, and finish of the balance ofthe building. The final issue of building integrity involves moved buildings. National Register standards generally preclude moved buildings from being considered either key contributing or contributing. The assumption is that a move detracts from a building's significance by destroying its original setting and context. On the other hand, moves made during the period of significance are treated as historic alterations if the settings and context are similar to original locations. The moving of buildings in North Side neighborhoods in Iowa City in the decades prior to World War II has been documented as a common residential development practice. Building alterations considered acceptable for moved buildings include changes in foundation materials, changes in porches built after a move, some entrance modifications, and some changes in building orientation. Moves were considered detrimental if they resulted in the loss of significant architectural elements. A complete list of buildings in the Ronalds Street extension appears below. Buildings are separated into primary (single- family house or multi-family building) and secondary (barn or garage). If no box is checked under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no garage or barn is currently present. Ronalds Street Extension - Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources .# "'"",0;' ~ØI\f.<\yq:')NØ- .~tt~~ "~~.<\.~"'I3L~S,.'<\"'II~,C·.,'. I!EÇ9f\1tm~....~;~,.A"rQj¡ c.<\FlÇIf'~l~I..E'~M.. ...,'. TERMOWNeftl.r q<IDlriÞ4tIO!l.·,..C.'.Kci>(·',..',NØniçø6\~ ç¡,i)tiit¡ijt¡Mi:¡,N~Ö!1!I1Q\!tiOO VÈftNAÇIJU\cFO~ 630 N. Dodge Srurn. Joseph & Mary ca. 1900 C C Gabled-Front & WinalQueen Anne 631 N. Dodae Grissel. Chartes & Marv ca. 1890 Kev Front Gable 707 N. Dodae Matt Frank ca. 1922 C C Am. Four·S uare 715 N. Dodge Prizler, Peter & Florence ca. 1927 Kev Craftsman :- :- '> ...". :- .', ¡ 629 N. Governor Vacek Rental House ca. 1895 C Queen Anne :- ·c :- .,.,'., :- .'.',.. :- ',,',',....."." ,.',,".':-. :- :-:-:-.' :->C C C :- .,".,'C:-, 611 N. Johnson Nesvacil, Frank & ca. 1905 Key Gabled-Front & Frances WlnalQueen Anne 614 N. Johnson Barnes House ca. 1847 Key NC Sid...Gabled One Storv/Greek Rev. 616 N. Johnson Hubbard, Eugene & Moved Key Am. Four-Square/Prairie Myrtle ca. 1925 ,- - ----.--- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 20 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson CountY' Name of Property County and State ., STREET ORlØII,lAI..I.O:~- OATeS PR!MARY BLOG. STATUS SECol,IDARY BLDG' STATUS ARCH. STYLf- TERM OWNER. QontribQ\ln<i Kev Non"Contrii>Utino Contnbytina Non~ContriQlJtinå VERNACULAR FORM 617 N. Johnson Unnamed house ca. 1900 C Am. Four·Souare 619 N.Johnson Kepler ,John & Emma ca. 1900 C Pyramidal One Starv/Queen Anne 621 N. Johnson Tobin rental house ca,1925 Key C Craftsman/Front Gable 624 N. Johnson Platzer, Adelbert & ca. 1910 C C Front Gable Sonhrona 628 N. Johnson Ronaner Emil ca. 1925 Kev C Craftsman/Front Gable 714 N. Johnson Spevacek, Frank & ca. 1915 Key NC Am. Four Square A~nes 715 N. Johnson Cole, Wilfred & Mary ca. 1927 Key C Am. Four Square 628 N. Lucas Selkirk-Palik House ca. 1900 Kev Queen Anne 713 N.Lucas AbboU. Frank & Marv ca. 1914 C Side-Gabled One StOnl 510 E. Ronalds Rummelhart, Frank & ca. 1902 Key C Gabled Front & Wing Clara 511 E. Ronalds Schuppert, Edward John ca. C Side-Gabled, One Story & Opel 1912, 1920 515 E. Ronalds Schuppert,John 1930 C Colonial Revivall Gambrel Cottane 516 E. Ronalds Mott, James & Theresa 1904 C Gabled Front & Wing 518 E. Ronalds Bettag, Ludwig & ca. 1909 C Am. Four~Square Elizabeth S24 E. Ronalds Grimm. Joseph & Agnes ca. 1908 Key NC Am. Four~Square 527 E. Ronalds Unnamed Apt. 8uilding 1972 NC Apt. 8uilding 529 E. Ronalds Unnamed house ca. 1870 C Side-Gabled, Two Story 530 E. Ronalds Bonorden, Herman ca. 1878 Key NC Front-Gabled 604 E. Ronalds Grimm, Leo & Mae ca. 1913 Key Key Am. Four-Square 608 E. Ronalds Carroll, Thomas & Agnes ca. 1928 Key C Craftsman 610 E. Ronalds Mocha rental house ca. 1920 C C Gabled Front & Wing 613 E. Ronalds Denneny, Lawrence ca. 1860 C Gabled Front & Wing 617 E. Ronalds Nesvacil, Frank & ca. 1918 C NC Side-Gabled, Two Story I· Frances House 618 E. Ronalds Hanley. George & Edilh ca. 1923 Key C Am. Four-Square 619 E. Ronalds Lux House ca. 1899 Key Queen Anne 620 E. Ronalds Burger, Robert & Mabel ca. 1925 Key NC Craftsman 629 E. Ronalds Unnamed house Moved NC C No Style 1924 630 E. Ronalds Unnamed house ca. 1955 NC Ranch 704 E. Ronalds Sulek, Edward & Stella ca,1910 C NC Queen Anne 712 E. Ronalds Sibemagle-Goss House 1866/ca. NC NC No Style 1915 713 E. Ronalds Kasper, Ida ca. 1896 C NC Gabled Front & Wino/Queen Anne 714 E. Ronalds Cerny rental house ca. 1915 C See 712 Front Gabled 719 E. Ronalds ~~) Frank & Mary ca. 1896 Key Key Gabled Front & Novak Wi~;;¡Queen Anne 724 E, Ronalds Kriz, James & Catherine ca. 1870 C NC Side-Gabled, One story 729 E. Ronalds 8ock, Joseph & Anna ca. 1910 C C Gabled Front & Wing 730 E. Ronalds Theobald, William & ca. 1895 C Am. Four-Square/ Aunusta Colonial Revival ~ ._-_..._-~_... United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 21 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State # ST~E;T OR)GINAU LONG- DATE$ PRIMAAYaLOO. $TATUS SECONDARY SlOG. $TATUS ARCtj. STYLE- TERM OWNE~I$\ CP!1tribulina -K;,- Non"Contrtbutina Contributina Noli-Contributing VERNACULAR FORM 804 E. Ronalds Gaulocher, Cart & Rose ca,1900 Key Key Am. Four-SquareJ Colonial Revival 8O9 E. Ronalds Krona. Joseph & Anna ca.1915 C NC Front Gabled 813 E. Ronalds Soucek, Anton & V1asta ca. 1913 Key Front Gabled 814 E. Ronalds Miller, Emil & Albia ca. 1909 Key See 804 Colonial Revival 815 E. Ronatds Vacek rental house ca. 1900 C NC Front Gabled 820 E. Ronalds Wind rem, Lee & Mayme ca. 1912 C Key Am. Four~Square 823 E. Ronalds Vacek (Wacek), Frank & ca. 1895 C NC Gabled Front & Wing JoseDh 824 E. Ronalds Shimon, Mary ca. 1923 C NC Am. Four-Square/Prairie 830 E. Ronalds Kadlec, John ca. 1913 C Front-Gabled 620 N. Van Ries, Ulmer & Amelia ca. 1923 Key C Craftsman Buren 622 N. Van Katzenmeyer, Joseph & ca. 1905 Key C Queen Anne Buren JoseDhine 630 N. Van Welch, Maria ca. 1860 Key Side-Gabled, One Buren StaN/Greek Rev. 702 N. Van Urban, Grace & Henry ca. 1918 Key Am, Four-Square Buren 714 N. Van Canon, Margaret ca. 1919 Key C Am. Four-Square Buren 716 N. Van Pudil, George & Sadie ca. 1917 Key Am. Four-Square Buren Brown Street Historic District before Ronalds Street Extension - Contributing and Non-Contributing Resource Status ·'.··i#.·i··· .,cŸ/ 0~i>i '.0'0¡i0~' :_i;Ó;i.C;"i_ ;·i'Ci 215 E. Brown 1916 C C 222 E.Brown 1900 C 228 E. Brown 1908 C 304 E. Brown 1909 C N 311 E. Brown 1893 C 314 E. Brown 1892 C N 315 E. Brown 1896 C 318 E. Brown 1905 C N 323 E. Brown 1890 C N 325 E. Brown 1896 C C 328 E. Brown 1892 C C 329 E. Brown 1851 C 401 E. Brown 1916 C N 404 E. Brown 1916 C 407 E.Brown 1917 C C 409 E. Brown 1903 C C 414418 E.Brown 1866 C N 415 E. Brown 1899 C 417 E. Brown ca. 1896 C C 422 E, Brown 1916 C 427 E. Brown 1921 C 430 E. Brown 1913 C 431 E. Brown 1920 C C - --.., ----_..-....+.._-_.."----+.._-_._._--_._".__.~._.._---~ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 22 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name ot Property County and State # $TFtE/!'t QA'mS P~I\WtYIII..bØ; eÖ()I\ID~Y.(.I)O. $TATII& &TATUS 502 E. Brown 1899 C 508 E.Brown 1882 C 509 E, Brown ca. 1895 C N 510 E. Brown 1938 C 514 E. Brown 1920 C C 519 E. Brown 1890 C N 520 E. Brown ca. 1905 C C 523 E. Brown 1902 C C 528 E. Brown ca. 1887 C C 529 E. Brown 1893 C C 530 E.Brown 1901 C N 603 E. Brown 1910 C 509 E. Brown 1921 C 617 E. Brown 1915 C N 618 E. Brown 1922 C C 619 E. Brown 1914 C C 621 E. Brown 1922 C 629 E. Brown 1922 C C 632 E.Brown 1912 C 707 E. Brown 1949 C 713 E. Brown ca. 1912 C C 714 E. Brown 1922 C C 717 E. Brown ca. 1912 C C 721 E. Brown 1910 C C 727 E. Brown 1900 C 728--730 E. Brown 1979 NC 601 E. Brown 1963 NC 811 E. Brown 1922 C N 815 E. Brown ca. 1925 C 827 E. Brown ca. 1916 C C (9arage) N"íbam\ ' 831 E. Brown 1916 C >: ";';>+, />'X,':;>,'".( '/:;'(;(/"X<" ',!/, ""'X,":'/"'/',,'/',,,,' 721 N, Linn 1924 C N 725 N. Unn 1891 C 729 N. Linn 1896 C C 730 N. Linn 1891 C 810 N. Linn 1899 C N 811 N. Linn 1900 C 814 N. Linn 1922 C 815 N. Linn 1915 C 817 N. Linn 1882 C 81B N.lInn 1916 C 819 N. Linn 1922 C N (shared ~;\B21 E. Brown 821 N.Linn 1912 C / /",/,"/. ;;iT '3 T,··'/ -//>" iX/>';"''''/,,//: ;·,",:U(//."/E-/i:(' 1 Bella Vista Dr. ca. 1920 C 2 Bella Vista Dr. 1923 C 4 Bella Vista Dr. ca. 1921 C 5 Bella Vista Dr. 1924 C 6 Bella Vista Dr. 1912 C 8 Bella Vista Dr. 1922 C N 10 Bella Vista Dr. 1910 C C United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 23 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State n STÞ.¡;ET [jAT¡$ Prtl"'AR"'.Bi..DØ. $ECQNOA~Y 13LJ)~, " $TATl./S' $TATU!i 12 Bella Vista Dr. 1911 C C , '., 715 N.Gilbert ca. 1900 C C 718 N. Gilbert 1891 C 817 N. Gilbert 1934 C 821 N.Gllbert 1901 C 824 N.Gllbert 1924 C 825 N.Gilbert ca. 1900 C 828 N, Gilbert 18851moved NC C ca. 1922 ", . ... 720 N. Van Buren 1913 C 721 N, Van Buren 1922 C C 726 N. Van Buren 1904 C N 730 N. Van Buren 1904 C C 800 N. Van Buren 1889 C N (garage) c"{bar~) .. , "..' , 718 N. Johnson 1920 C 719 N. Johnson 1962 NC 810 N. Johnson 1918 C 815 N. Johnson 1918 C N 821 N, Johnson 1956 NC 825 N. Johnson 1925 C 833 N. Johnson 1923 C C 834 N. Johnson 1854 C N 900 N. Johnson 1915 C ..' '. ... .,.,', . .. ,"".' 707 N. Dad e ca. 1900 C 720 N. Dad e 1930 C 724 N. Dad e 1929 C 727 N.Dodc 1923 c:: C 802 N. Dade e 1875 C 'J ' . ..',.. . 722 N. Lucas 1865 C N 727 N. Lucas 1875 C C "'.,. ,.y . .. .. ..... .' .'.. .. 200 to E. Brown Street C 800 (StNcture) Blocks Summary: In summary, the Ronalds Street extension is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of population growth and intense residential development in Iowa City's North Side residential areas at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Iowa Citians built private residences for their growing families while small-scale developers constructed housing to meet the demand of a brisk rental market during these decades. Ronalds Street's organic development followed this pattern of residential development. Additional significance under Criterion A derives from the fact that the Ronalds Street extension represented a cross section of middle and upper income households with business and professional leaders IMng next door to middle income and working class families. Individuals who resided in this neighborhood highlight several important themes in the city's .~ ---..-.. --..--.. ,..--'......---- ,-_._--..,._--"....".._-~--_. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 24 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State history in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Primary among these were the growing prosperity and social mobility of Iowa City's Bohemian-American community and the growth in importance of the State University of Iowa. The construction of new houses, the brisk rental of existing houses, and the infill construction pattern that produced an extremely dense residential district testify to the neighborhood's significance. Under Criterion C the Ronalds Street extension is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods from the 1850s through the 1930s, From modest Bohemian cottages to pattern book houses and elaborate multi-story mansions, Ronalds Street reflected the architectural character and best residential building practices of the period. The combination of visual qualities and historical associations gives the Ronalds Street extension its distinct neighborhood identity and significance. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 25 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State 9. Maior Biblioaraphical References: 117 House Designs of the Twenties, Gordon-Van Tine Co. 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Carpenter buildings, 1897 - 1930, November, 2003. The Census of Iowa for the years 1856, 1873, 1875, 1880, 1885, 1885, 1887, 1889,1895,1905,1915, and 1925 as printed by various State Printers. Census of the United States for 1850 to 2000. City Directories of Iowa City, Iowa. Multiple years. Combination Atlas and Map of Johnson County, Iowa. Geneva, Illinois: Thompson & Everts, 1870. Drury, John. This is Johnson County, Iowa. Chicago: The Loree Company, 1955. Ellis, Edwin Charles. "Certain Stylistic Trends in ArcMecture in Iowa City." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1947. Gebhard, David, and Gerald Mansheim, Buildings of Iowa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 259-264. Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1988. Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870 - 1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985. History of Johnson County, Iowa containing a history of the county and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882. Evansville, Indiana: Unigraph, Inc., ca. 1973, 1883. Insurance Maps of Iowa City, Iowa. (New York: The Sanborn Map Company and the Sanborn and Perris Map Company; United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 26 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State 1874,1879,1883,1888,1892,1899,1906.1912,1920, 1926. 1933, and 1933 updated to 1970). "Iowa City. Iowa". The Commercial Magazine, Vol. 1, No.1, (January 1898). Iowa City, Iowa, Souvenir and Annual for 1881-82. Iowa City, Iowa: Hoover, Kneedler & Faust, 1882. Iowa City and Her Business Men; Iowa's Most Enterprising C;ty. Iowa City, Iowa: Moler's Printery, [Date Unknown]. Iowa City, Iowa, a City of Homes. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Commercial Club, 1914. Iowa Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration. Johnson County History, Iowa City, Iowa: Johnson County Superintendent of Schools, sponsor, 1941. Jacobsen, James. "North Side Neighborhood, Iowa City, Iowa". Draft National Register of Historic Places nomination prepared for Iowa City, Office of Planning and Program Development. Iowa City, Iowa, 1981. Keyes, Margaret N. Nineteenth Century Home Architecture in Iowa City. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1966. Lafore, Laurence Davis. American Classic. Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1975. McAlester, Virginia and Lee MeAl ester. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, Magnuson, Linda Westcott. "Sheets and Company, an Iowa City Builder/Architect Firm, 1870-1905." Masters thesis, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1980. Mansheim. Gerald. Iowa City: An Illustrated History. Norfolk, Virginia: The Downing Company, 1989. Map of Iowa City, Iowa, with Description of Resources and Natural Resources and Advantages, Des Moines, Iowa: The Iowa Publishing Co., 1910. Nash, Jan Olive. "Survey and Evaluation of the Portion of the Original Town Plat of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa". (contains proposed MPDF amendment for "Historic Folk Housing of Iowa City, Iowa) Draft report prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, April 1997. Petersen, William John. "Iowa City - Then and Now." The Palimpsest, Vol. 48, NO.2 (February 1967). Porlrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa Counties, Iowa, Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893. Ruger, A. "Bird's Eye View of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa." Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1868. "Semi-Centennial Edition." Iowa City Republican, October 20, 1890. Shambaugh, Benjamin F. Iowa City: A Contribution to the Early History of Iowa. MA Thesis, University of Iowa, Published by State Historical Society of Iowa, 1893. Shank, Wesley I. Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary. Nevada, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1999. Slonneger, Marybeth. Small But Ours. Iowa City, Iowa: By Hand Press, 1999. Stevenson, Katherine Cole and H. Ward Jandl. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company. - -.----..--._-~- ------....--..---- -_._",. ..---..-..---'.--.----'--.------. ------ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 9 Page 27 Brown Street Historic District lboundalV increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press, 1986. Svendsen, Marlys. "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS." National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1992; listed in the National Register of Historic Places, 1994. Svendsen, Marlys. "Survey and Evaluation of the Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III)" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of the Goosetown Neighborhood (Phase III), 1855-1945" National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 2000; not submitted to the National Register of Historic Places. Svendsen, Marlys. "Survey and Evaluation of the Original Town Plat Phase II Area" and "Architectural and Historical Resources of Original Town Plat Neighborhood (Phase II), 1845 - 1945," (amendment to the "Historic Resources of Iowa City, Iowa MPS") prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1999; listed in the National Register of Historic Places, 2000. Weber, Irving. Irving Weber's Iowa City - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa City Lions Club, 1976, 1979,1985,1987,1989 and 1990. .- _,·._....w.._. --------.-..--.--.- -.-,-...-.,--..-""-,---.-.-----...---------------- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 10 Page 28 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State 10. GeoQraphical Data Verbal Boundary Description: The amended section of the Ronalds Street Extension of the Brown Street Historic District within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa: Beginning in Block 33 of the Original Town Plat at the intersection of east side of North Van Buren Street and the south side of the alley; thence south along the east side of North Van Buren Street to the north side of the alley in Block 34; thence east approximately 260 feet to the rear property line of the house adjacentto the south side of the alley facing North Johnson Street (611 North Johnson Street); thence south along said line approximately 55 feet; thence west across North Johnson Street along the south property line of the house located on the north 55 feet of Lot 5 of Block 31 (614 North Johnson Street) to the west line of Lot 7; thence north to the north edge of the alley in Block 31; thence east to the west property line of the house in the south half of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 10 (621 North Governor Street); thence north along the west property line to the north property line of said house; thence east to the west side of North Governor Street; thence north along the west side of North Governor Street to the south side of the alley in Block 12; thence west along the south side of the alley through Block 12, Block 32, and Block 33 to the point of beginning. Boundary Justification: The extended boundary of the Brown Street Historic District has been increased to include a four block section of Ronalds Street that contains residential buildings of similar scale and materials with a common period of development to that of the original Brown Street Historic District. The north edge of the Ronalds Street extension is adjacent to the original Brown Street Historic District. The east boundary of the Ronalds Street extension is formed by aT-intersection along North Governor Street. Oakland Cemetery extends along the east side of Governor Street beyond the District. The areas to the south and west of the Ronalds Street extension consist of similar residential areas in terms of building type, material, scale, and age but without the high level of physical integrity found within the Ronalds Street extension and are therefore excluded. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Photoaraphs Page 29 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State Photoarach Kev for Brown Street Historic District - Ronalds Street Extension: (See Photo Map, page 31) Shelley McCafferty and Jessica Hlubek, photographers 1. Barnes House, 614 N. Johnson Street, looking east 2. Maria Welch House, 630 N. Van Buren Street, looking east 3. Frank & Mary Lechty House, 719 E. Ronalds Street, looking south 4. Selkirk-Palik House, 628 N. Lucas Street, looking south southeast 5. Emil & Albia Miller House, 814 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 6. Peter & Florence Prizler House, 715 N. Dodge Street, looking northwest 7. Tobin Rental House. 621 N. Johnson Street, looking southwest 8. Herman Bonorden House, 530 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 9. Lux House, 619 E. Ronalds Street, looking south 10. Joseph & Josephine Katzenmeyer House, 622 N. Van Buren Street. looking east 11. Wilfred & Mary Cole House, 715 N. Johnson Street, looking west 12. Leo & Mae Grimm House. 604 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 13. Carl & Rose Gaulocher House, 804 E. Ronalds Street, looking north 14. Grace & Henry Urban House, 702 E. Ronalds Street, looking northeast 15. John Kadlec House, 830 E. Ronalds Street, looking northwest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 30 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson Countv Name of Property County and State Property Owners within the Brown Street Historic District - Ronalds Street Extension # STREET TIT\.EHOlØE~ TITI..E!iQLPER Clrv stATE ZIPCOOE cONtRAcT AOO~eSS !lUYE~ISI 630 N. Dodge Joan E. Burke & Adam Burke 2809 12th Ave. #203 Rock Island IL 61201 631 N. Dodge David L. Tingwald 631 N. Dodge. St. Iowa City IA 52245 707 N. Dodge Craig A. Kletzing & Jeanette S. Welch 707 N. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52245 715 N. Dodge Jennifer L. Glanville 715 N. Dodge St. Iowa City IA 52245 629 N. Governor John T. Nothnagle III 629 N. Governor 51. lowaCiIy IA 52245 611 N. Johnson Dorts M. Houser 3580 Vista Pari< Dr. lowaCiIy IA 52245 614 N. Johnson Roger R. & Baerbel R. Anderson 1310 Cedar SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 616 N. Johnson Eugene F. & Erin K. Fisher, 3485 G Richard Cir. SW lowaCiIy IA 52240 617 N. Johnson Debra L. Kendall 2585 Bluffwood Ln. lowaCiIy IA 52245 619 N. Johnson Marl< Alan Holtkamp PO Box 3284 10waCiIy IA 52244 621 N. Johnson Timothy Walker 621 N. Johnson 51. lowaCiIy IA S2245 624 N, Johnson John H. & Joy L. Kerr 624 N. Johnson SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 628 N. Johnson Loren E. & Terri R. Deetz 628 N. Johnson SI. 10waCiIy IA 52245 714 N. Johnson Jacquiline M. B. Briggs & Eric Gidal 714 N. Johnson SI. Iowa City IA 52245 715 N. Johnson Ira John III & Elizabeth A. Rapson 715 N. Johnson St. Iowa City IA 52245 628 N. Lucas John W. Palik 628 N. Lucas SI. Iowa City IA 52245 713 N. Lucas Jeffrey S, & Carol A, Edberg 2041 Rochester ct. lowaCiIy IA 52245 510 E. Ronatds Todd A. Dvorak & Margaret C. Klawiter 510 Ronalds St. 10waCiIy IA 52245 511 E Ronalds Christopher E. & Amy L Kahle 511 Ronalds St lowaCiIy IA 52245 515 E. Ronalds Jay Nelson 811 Orchard St Iowa City IA 52246 516 E. Ronalds James J. Dooley 516 Ronalds 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 518 E. Ronalds Mary E. Soo-Jackson 15 Wakefield CI. Iowa City IA 52245 524 E. Ronalds Kari & Elizabeth Kahler 524 Ronalds St. lowaCiIy IA 52245 527 E. Ronalds James E. & Victolia l. Struzynski Olson 2446 260th 51. Tiffin IA 52340 529 E, Ronalds James Reed Finney 5 NE 139th Ave. Portland OR 97230 530 E, Ronalds Laura Gotkowitz & Michel Gobal 530 Ronalds 51.. Iowa City IA 52245 604 E. Ronalds Kevin S. & Helen S. Burford 604 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 608 E. Ronalds Steven C. Bernhardt 27 Glendale Ct. Iowa City IA 52245 610 E. Ronalds Patricia A. Farrant & Winifred l. Farrant 1 050 Woodlawn Ave. lowaCiIy IA 52245 613 E. Ronalds Donna O'Brien 613 Ronalds SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 617 E. Ronalds Margaret F. Bauserman 617 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 618 E. Ronalds Linda A. McGuire & Anne G. Burnside 618 Ronalds 5t. Iowa City IA 52245 619 E. Ronalds Ronald F. & Lydia Spagnolo et al 12232 S. 70th Ave, Palos Heights IL 60463 620 E. Ronalds Ryan A. & Jessica E. Maas 620 Ronalds SI. Iowa City IA 52245 629 E. Ronalds Cory L. Raitt 629 Ronalds St. lowaCiIy IA 52245 630 E. Ronalds John D. & Mary M. Dougherty 718 Oakland Ave. Iowa City IA 52240 704 E. Ronalds Richard W. Finley 704 Ronalds St 10waCiIy IA 52245 712 E. Ronalds Ryan C. Braun 712 Ronalds SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 713 E. Ronalds Thomas M. & Pam Miller 112 33rd Ave. SW Cedar Rapids IA 52404 714 E. Ronalds James A. Cramer & Elizabeth Miller 714 Ronalds SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 719 E. Ronalds Richard M. & Barbara J. Feeney 2725 Linden Rd. lowaCiIy IA 52245 724 E. Ronalds Kent H. Gregg 1208 S. Gilbert CI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 729 E. Ronalds Johanna Schoen & Elizabeth D, 729 Ronalds 51. lowaCiIy IA 52245 Heineman 730 E. Ronalds Martha M. Ribble Milani 730 Ronalds SI. Iowa City IA 52245 604 E. Ronalds Jack A. Klapper & Elizabeth F. Ford 804 Ronalds SI. lowaCiIy IA 52245 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number Property Owners Page 31 Brown Street Historic District (boundarv increase) Johnson County Name of Property County and State # STREET TITLEHOLDER TITLEHOi.PER CITY STATE ZIPCODE CONTRA~; ADDReSS Q\JyeRIS 809 E. Ronalds James R. & Carly M. Netolicky 809 Ronalds 8t. Iowa City IA 52245 813 E, Ronalds Wilma D. Kinney 813 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 814 E. Ronalda Patli A. Marolf 2230 11th Ave. Marion IA 52302 815 E. Ronalds Lyneda A. Masana 530 Oakwood Dr Hamilton OH 45013 820 E. Ronalds Steve Anderson & Julie Myers 820 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 823 E. Ronalds Lucas R. Davisson 823 Ronalds 8t. Iowa City iA 52245 824 E. Ronalds Edwin P. & Dorothy Dlouhy 824 Ronaldo St. Iowa City IA 52245 830 E. Ronalds Eric M. & Dalayne C_ Williamson 630 Ronalds St. Iowa City IA 52245 820 N. Van Buren Joyce A. Daniels 622 N. Van Buren 81. Iowa City IA 52240 622 N. Van Buren Joyce A. Daniels 622 N. Van Buren 8t. Iowa City IA S2240 630 N. Van Buren Wayne S. & Ruth E, Osborn 630 N. Van Buren St. Iowa City IA 52245 702 N. Van Buren Craig Ä. & Cynthia L. Abraham 2190 Hwy 6 NW Oxford IA 52322 714 N. Van Buren Julie C. & Chris W. Schmidt 4710 Sierra Vista Rd. Alamosa CO 81101 716 N. Van Buren Michael T. & KeUey A. McLaughlin 614 Pine Ridge Rd. 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Bloomington Allergist Phone (319) 354·7014 Iowa City, Iowa 52245-2800 Fax (319) 354·3196 June 8, 2004 0 ,.,.-,~ C;1 c·..1 <e:- - Elizabeth Foster Hill <c) ~~ ""1> __ Tax Incentive Programs Manager/National Register Coordinator - --j T¡ C-;--, - State Historical Society ofIowa - a '- .~ 600 East Locust Street . , ,i] rì' :E! ej ;¿:; '-'~-, Des Moines, IA 50319 ~/, r:-,> ,...I » c..~ Dear Ms. Hill: 0) In response to your letter of June 2, 2004, first of all my name is spelled Kammermeyer, not Krammermeyer. More importantly, I again state that no public hearings or meetings were held here in Iowa City to allow property owners to voice objection to having their property nominated for placement on the National Registry of Historic Places. The two means of notification reportedly used to notify property owners were totally ineffective. The Northside Neighborhood Newsletter is not distributed to all of our commercial area near Mercy Hospital and those individuals in the commercial area that do get it do not read it but just throw it away. Even in the Northside residential area many property owners never see this newsletter since it is delivered to the local address and seen by the renters but not the owners since many property owners live elsewhere. In addition, even many property owners would only glance at the newsletter and then throw it away. There was no official mailing by the city to any property owner notifying them concerning the proposed nomination of their property to the National Registry of Historic Places. Concerning the letter we received dated April 23,d about the Historical Preservation Commission's annual awards program, it was just that. We thought this was an "internal program" for friends of historic preservation and were not interested. Also, this letter suggested only a question and answer opportunity and we were waiting for a public hearing which never came. However, in retrospect, based on the minutes of the April 8th meeting ofthe Iowa City Historical Preservation Commission, the commission actually voted on April 8th to submit our properties, without our knowledge, to be nominated for placement on the National Registry of Historic Places. Therefore the awards program on May 6th was "after the fact" and attending this would have been worthless as far as any objection to having our properties nominated, Again I state that the proposed Gilbert Linn Historic District (and the other proposed Historic Districts) are non-existent and not established at the present time. There have been no public hearings or votesby any commissions or the Iowa City City Council to establish them. Also the commercial area near Mercy Hospital is a separate area from the Northside residential areas and should be considered separately. If you apply your _.._'._'~---'-- · Elizabeth Foster Hill - Page 2 "50% +1" rule, 8 of the 10 property owners (or 80%) in the commercial area whose properties have been nominated, have sent you letters objecting to having their properties nominated. Please remove my properties (and the other commercial properties whose owners have objected) from any further consideration. Please note, the Iowa City City Council has unanimously requested that you cease any further action on the Iowa City properties nominated for placement on the National Registry of Historic Places, including our commercial properties, until local review of the situation is accomplished. 1 hope and assume you will abide by their request. Sincerely yours, ~~ John Kammermeyer, M.D. JK:km cc: Iowa City City Council Philip Leff, Attorney STATE OF "'''''U1Þ. , COUNTY OF ,Jo~.so'" , S8: On this-Lday of -.J &.t.nEiï , A.D. 20.Q;-before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said state, personally appeared-Jo Ioh.,) ¡'¿JI'rYOm~r tY\1Ute Q. , to me known to be the person named in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the sam act and ed. ". '. PHIUP A. LEFF , Notary Public in and for sa~state. ~ ~ Commission Number 201707 ",,:() c. j> =::~; C': C)- í í - -_. 0 :- - / 'T¡ , , ~ '--' 0 '.......j :> ry :f> w CO City of Iowa City ]I[] MEMORANDUM Date: June 7, 2004 To: Rick Fosse, Public Works Director From: Ross Spitz, Civil Engineer ~ / Re: Burlington Street Bridge Construction Update tF!f\ ~~ As planned on May 17th, Schmidt Construction closed the bridge on Burlington Street between Gilbert Street and VanBuren Street. A temporary pedestrian bridge was placed on the north side of the project site to allow pedestrians to cross the creek while the bridge was closed. The temporary crossing has been working very nicely and allows pedestrians to safely bypass the construction site with very little disruption. Work continues to progress nicely. At this point the bridge deck as been removed and restoration work has begun on the support structure for the bridge. The proj ect is on schedule and should be completed by mid August. Representatives from MidAmerican, as well as the Iowa Department of Transportation have been on site during all excavation activities checking for the soil for possible contamination. The contractor found some questionable material while excavating soil underneath the west span of the bridge. MidAmerican took a sample of the material and had it tested. Only trace amounts of naphthalene were found in the sample. According to DNR standards, the soil was fit for landfill disposal and no special worker protection was necessary. Earlier this week, while working on the south east bridge abutment, the contractor encountered another area with suspicious soil. A sample ofthe material was taken and is currently being test to determine to see if it contains coal tar contamination. Ifthe sample contains coal tar, MidAmerican will remove and dispose the material. Cc: Ron Knoche, City Engineer . ._-- ---....- - ,..____,_...______,_,_ ,n". ........ _,___...__._~__.__,__._. --..-,-.. ! ¡ CITY OF IOWA CITY ]IT] --= -~ !~~~tt MEMORANDUM ,,--- ~IIIII' ...,.. ... - DATE: June 9, 2004 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Marian K. Karr, City Clerk fV,..i~ RE: Electronic Packet Distribution At your work session of April 5th you agreed to discontinue distribution of weekly packets via CD's, and access using hard copy or the internet. Harvat Hall has been wired to ailow access to internet at your meetings. Therefore, we will discontinue the CD distribution effective with this packet. YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR CITY LAPTOPS TO THE MEETINGS for access. Hard copies will be offered to provide a smoother transition while you learn to navigate the internet from your home. The attached instructions may be helpful. In addition if you are interested in getting some additional help in your home please contact our ITS department at 356- 5411 to schedule an appointment. A $60 stipend to cover cost of either a dedicated phone line to your residence or high- speed internet access was approved by resolution in April. Please let me know if you are interested in receiving that stipend. Thanks for your patience on this matter and feel free to contact me with any questions. U:internet.doc / Accessing the Agenda Online Step-by-step instructions for opening the meeting agenda online: 1. Connect to the Internet - this can be via dial-up modem connection, or you might have an "always-on" solution like DSL or cable modem. If you only access 2. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer is the City standard, and is usually located on your "desktop" identified as a large, blue, lower case "e") 3. Once open, click in the address field 4. Type http://www.icgov.org/councilagendas.asp 5. Press enter or click Go with your mouse 6. Scroll down the page to find the agenda you would like to view 7. Click the "Acrobat" icon to open the agenda file Once the agenda file is open, you may click the blue "hyperJinks" to jump to the supporting documentation in Laserfiche. Revised 4/7/2004 Agenda for June 22, 2004 meeting Page 1 of 1 Marian Karr -.. .. "". ---- From: Mike Sullivan [msulliva@co.johnson.ia.us] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:40 AM To: Alburnett; Arnold-Olson & Associates; Board Of Supervisors; CedarRapids; Center Point; Central City; ECICOG; Ely; Fairfax; Hiawatha; Hills; Howard R. Green; Iowa City Clerk; Iowa City Manager; Iowa Environmental Education Project; JCCOG; KellyHayworth; Linn County Supervisors; Lisbon; LoneTree; Lu Barron; Marion; Mount Vernon; North Liberty; North Liberty City Administrator; Palo; Priority One; Robins; Sharon Meyer; Shueyville; Solon; Springville; Tiffin; University Heights Subject: Agenda for June 22, 2004 meeting Attached you will find the June 22, 2004 meeting agenda for the Public Leadership Summit We look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting. Best Regards, «Public Leadership Summit agenda for June 22,22004 meeting. doc» Mike Sullivan Executive Assistant-Johnson County 913 South Dubuque Street. Suite 201 Office (319) 339-6198, extension 309 Fax (319) 356-6036 msulliva@cojohnson.ia.us *** eSafe scanned this email for malicious content *** *** IMPORTANT: Do not open attachments from unrecognized senders *** 6/10/2004 --.'''- ~ ---. .--- --.--- --- . --"-_.._-----'-_..._----_._"--'- Johnson County \ IOWA) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS - Terrence Neuzil, Chairperson Pat Harney Mike Lehman Sally Stutsman Carol Thompson Public Leadership Summit Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Howard R. Green Co. - Conference Room 8710 Earhart Lane SW, Cedar Rapids (East ofI-380/Airport exit - north off of Wright Brothers Blvd.) 1. Welcome · Terrence Neuzil, Chair - Johnson County Board of Supervisors · Lu Barron, Chair - Linn County Board of Supervisors 2. Introduction of Attendees 3. Overview of Trail linkages in Linn and Johnson counties (trails map and status of Hoover Nature Trail) -Jeff Davidson, Johnson County Council of Governments (JCCOG) 4. Presentation oflabor shed study information and Skills 2006 results- Dee Baird and Joe Raso 5. Iowa City Area Development presentation - Joe Raso 6. Common phone book/city directory 7. Identify Action Items · Facilitated Discussion 8. Next Meeting Date - · Hosted by Linn County 913 SOUTH DUBUQUE ST. SUITE #201 IOWA CITY, IOWA 52240-4207 TEL: (319) 356-6000 FAX: (319) 356·6036 -..--.." -' .-.. - -_.._~_...-----.-~---_.._..- ... -.--- ~ MINUTES DRAFT CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2004-NOON LOBBY CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL Members Present: John Balmer, Andy Chappell, Penny Davidsen, Karen Kubby, Vicki Lensing, Naomi Novick, Lynn Rowat, William Sueppel, Chair; and Kevin Werner Staff Present: City Atty. Eleanor Dilkes, City Clerk Marian Karr INTRODUCTIONS Chair Sueppel called the meeting to order at 12:02 PM. He asked that members introduce themselves, and say something to the others in light of being on this newly formed commiSSIOn. John Balmer - former Council member and Mayor, Chair of 1984 Charter Review Commission. Vicki Lensing - served on other City Review Committees in past; State Representative. Andy Chappell- works for County Attorney's office; civil and municipal work. Kevin Werner - works for Iowa State Bank; life-long Iowa City resident; U of I grad. Naomi Novick - former Council member and Mayor; involved in last review. Lynn Rowat - works for West Bank; U of! grad; worked in banking for over 30 years in Iowa City; involved in community service groups; served on task force in 1994. Penny Davidsen - former Council member and Mayor Pro tern; served on Charter Committee that originally devised the current review system. Karen Kubby - citizen activist and former Council member. Bill Sueppel- of Counsel with Meardon, Sueppel & Downer; former City Attorney; General Counsel to the Iowa League of Cities. FUTURE MEETING SCHEDULE Marian Karr reported on survey results, 7:30 AM meeting time is the favored time, and Thursdays and Fridays were favored days. Chair Sueppel stated that tentatively the Commission would plan to meet at 7:30 AM, with meetings running hopefully around 1 hour. Discussion continued on which day or days of the week would work best for everyone. It was decided that meetings would take place on Thursdays. Chair Sueppel then stated that the 3rd Thursday of each month would be the tentative meeting time, with June 17th being slated as the next meeting. Sueppel stated that he would like to have the ." ----........--". '- - - -~"_._"._,-~,~--, --- -~--------------- Charter Review Commission May 19, 2004 Page 2 Commission meet once every two weeks, if possible, so they can keep moving along on the process. Davidsen stated that she would like to see everything wrapped up by October, and Balmer agreed, stating that multiple meetings would be fine with him. Next the members discussed the July meeting. July 15th is the 3rd Thursday, but there are several members out. It was decided to move the meeting in July to the 29th. Several members voiced their desire to schedule as many meetings as possible, now, so they can plan ahead as needed. August 26th was scheduled, as well as August 11 th Karr stated she would have this schedule posted on the Charter Review Commission agenda so members will know when all meetings are scheduled. Sueppel then asked that the fall schedule be placed on the next meeting's agenda, and discussion turned to going ahead now and setting up the following dates for meetings: September 8 and 29; October 13 and 27. All meetings will be at 7:30 AM, and will be in either the Lobby Conference Room, or Harvat Hall. Sueppel reiterated that this is a tentative schedule, and as things progress they can always reschedule. SELECT CHAIR PRO TEM Sueppel stated that when the Council selected the 9 members on the Charter Review Commission, they named him as Chair. He asked if this was an issue with anyone on the Commission. Hearing none, he stated that a Chair Pro tem needed to be selected. Kubby stated she would like to nominate Lensing. Lensing declined at first due to her schedule, but then relented. No other nominations were made. MOTION: Kubby moved to elect Lensing at Chair Pro tern. Rowat seconded the motion. All in favor; motion passed. MATERIALS AVAILABLE Chair Sueppel stated that he would next like to turn the Commission's attention to available materials for the Commission to review while they go through this process. Minutes of all past commissions, including amendments, was the first item discussed. Karr stated that the Charter the members currently have does include these amendments. She said she could get copies of the ordinances that amended the Charter, to give further explanation. Sueppel stated he would also like a copy ofthe original Charter. Karr will get packets ofthe requested info to all of the members as soon as possible. It was also mentioned that a contact sheet with all of the members phone numbers, emails, etc., would also be helpful. Dilkes stated that emails are considered public record, and members need to be aware of the open meeting issues. Members were told to contact the City Clerk's office with any requests for information. -~.., ,---~. - .._--- - ---------_._-"-,,,-----_.-._---------+--- ----- "'"~'-'-'''--"--''--'-'- ----...- Charter Review Commission May 19, 2004 Page 3 Sueppel stated that he has written to the League, asking for a list of charter cities in Iowa. Discussion turned to the "Clinton case", and Sueppel asked Dilkes to get copies of the Clinton case for members to review. He stated that the case deals with the town of Clinton's charter and an ensuing lawsuit. Discussion turned to the right of home rule, and various rulings that have taken place in Iowa. Dilkes also shared some legal background ofthese various cases. Members discussed the various pieces of information they would like to have available to them. Discussion turned to initiative and referendum petitions, and the significance of their language. Sueppel wrapped up this part of the discussion by asking members to read through the info they receive, and to ask for information they feel would be helpful. He stated they could contact Marian Karr or Eleanor Dilkes with any questions. (TAPE ENDS) STRUCTURE Sueppel asked the members how they would like to proceed with the review of the Charter, what they would like to use as the "starting" point. Davidsen asked if going article by article by article was too simplistic. Chappell stated it isn't too simplistic for the part of review they are doing. However, when the public input is built into it, he feels they should be less constrained, and allow more broad discussion or presentation of issues from the public. Sueppel stated that they will need to schedule public hearings as they go along, and also reiterated that all of their meetings are open to the public. He said he would also like input from the City staff, the City Manager, and see how they think the Charter is working. Chappell asked if a work session with the City Council would be beneficial, and Sueppel replied that asking for their input would definitely be beneficial, but that he did not feel a meeting was necessary. Karr gave a brief history of past commissions, and how each has chosen to address this review. Some have chosen to do a preliminary review ofthe entire Charter, make some preliminary observations and recommendations, and then had the public respond to "something". Others have preferred to get public input first thing, and then they reviewed the charter, with a final public hearing at the conclusion ofthe review. She suggested the Commission decide how they want to structure this input. Kubby said she likes the idea of going through the entire Charter first, with everyone listing their concerns. Then they could go through a process of picking the most important issues. Novick stated that public input should be fÌom evening meetings, and not the early morning. She feels that they need to plan these well for public attendance. Lensing asked Karr if she has a file of notes or correspondence from the public on these types of issues. Karr responded that she does not have a specific file, but has the knowledge of what has taken place with initiatives and referendums in the past. Rowat feels that when it comes to public input, they may need to put something in the newspaper or have the City Council announce for them that they want input. Sueppel followed up with saying that he would like to set as a goal for their June 17th meeting, that they all be prepared to discuss any issues they may have with any section of the Charter. He feels they should start at the beginning ofthe Charter, and go piece by piece, Charter Review Commission May 19, 2004 Page 4 with each member giving their concerns. This will help them create a list of issues to be further discussed. Discussion turned to putting something out to the public now, letting them know of the Commission, and soliciting any issues the public may have. City staff will be contacted by the City Clerk and City Attorney. Karr encouraged all public comments be made in writing. She asked for clarification on the agenda item of Public Comment, and whether they want everything to be in writing at this time, or if verbal comments would be accepted at this point in time. Sueppel stated that he feels both written and spoken comments should be encouraged. Davidsen asked if the minutes would be detailed enough to cover these comments, and Karr responded they would. Chappell asked if they would be setting up subcommittees. Sueppel said that he had discussed this issue recently, and he would be open to this ifthey see a real need for it. Sueppel said as they work through each part of the Charter, they can tackle whatever questions arise, and the more familiar they become with it, the more issues could be raised. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 1 :10 PM. -.-. .. -,- ,. -,----,--- ,._..._._-----~..._.... _.,~-----".._"- .'-'-.-- . ~ MINUTES Preliminary HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MAY 27,2004 - 7:00 P.M. EMMA HARV AT HALL - CIVIC CENTER MEMBERS PRESENT: Michael Gunn, Michael Maharry, Mark McCallum, Jim Ponto, Paul Sueppel, Justine Zimmer MEMBERS ABSENT: James Enloe MEMBERS EXCUSED: Amy Smothers, Tim Weitzel STAFF PRESENT: Shelley McCafferty, Tokey Boswell OTHERS PRESENT: none CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Maharry called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. He welcomed a new at-large member to the commission, Justine Zimmer. She will serve a three-year tenn. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: None ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION: Historic Review: 427 Brown Street: McCafferty stated that the applicant originally wanted to remove the ITont porch, and construct a porch that is more typical to Iowa City. The applicant proceeded to repair the porch and once the round columns on the porch were removed for repair, decided that she preferred not to reinstall them. McCafferty's research regarding the house showed that the porch is most likely historic, but that the columns in question were added in the 1980s. The owner also wishes to had a clapboard baluster, but because the porch is not 30 inches high, a building pennit, and historic review are not required. Maharry asked if the porch could have featured columns when it was originally built. McCafferty responded that that is unknown, but based on the manner in which these columns were installed, it is unlikely that these columns were original She could find no evidence either for or against the historic nature ofthe columns at the State Historical Society. Ponto asked if architecturally if there was a structural need to have the columns. McCafferty said it is unlikely. The only evidence she has relative to the columns is ITom Amy Smothers who remembers the columns being added in the 1980s. _+....,. ,__...... _....____.._ ..n '- . _··..·_____·___.....__n_._'___, ........._-+_._. -~.._----_. -. Zimmer noted that in the photos, the finials had been removed from the home, as well. McCafferty said that she noticed that as well. She suggested that they may request the finials be returned, but it is also likely that the finials were added at the time of the columns, and there is no other architectural details that support the historic nature of the finials or the columns. MOTION: Ponto moved to approve a certificate of appropriateness for the removal of two columns on the porch ofthe home at 427 Brown Street, with a recommendation that the columns be donated to the Salvage Barn. Sueppel seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. 1152 Court Street: McCafferty stated that this house is a Foursquare in a historic district. The applicants are rehabilitating the property. They are replacing windows, building a rear wooden stoop and steps, and replacing an existing door and window with a patio door. The applicants are repairing and reusing most of the windows in the home, but they felt these few were beyond repair. They will be replaced with Marvin metal clad windows of good quality that resemble the existing windows. The applicants are requesting permission to use a sliding glass patio door in an addition to the rear of the house. French doors are usually required, but are not feasible in this case due to space concerns in the small dining area. Ponto added that the guidelines say sliding doors that are highly visible are disallowed. Maharry asked if the addition was historic. McCafferty said it is likely a post-war addition from the 1950s. McCallum stated that the addition blends in quite well with the house, and that the rear yard is fairly secluded. Even though the addition may be fifty years old, and therefore somewhat historic, it is not visible from the street. McCafferty reiterated that while the addition is consistent with the style of the home and old, it is not historic. Where the patio door is proposed, there was formerly a small door and small window. Ponto stated that requiring out-swinging French doors in this case would require a larger deck, which is not preferable to the sliding door. Gunn noted that a sliding door would be compatible with an addition of this age, and that ifthe commission was looking at a new addition. He asked if there were other issues than the door. McCafferty responded that the wood stoop and stair meet all guidelines and that the railing will have spindles and both top and bottom rails as required. Ponto asked if the windows to be replaced are in the old structure, and Maharry answered that they are in both the historic structure and the addition. McCafferty stated that there are three projects to be approved - construction of a wooden stoop with stairs and railing, replacement of three windows, and approval of a sliding patio door. She noted that the sliding door is manufactured to resemble French doors because it has wider rails and stiles than typical patio doors have. MOTION: Gunn moved that the commission approve a certificate of appropriateness for the constrnction of the stoop and stairs, replacement of three windows, and use of a sliding patio door, provided that no muntins are used in the door panes, and that the door is trimmed out to match the existing features. McCallum seconded the motion. ---."".--- .-..- --,--,-------."".- .,_...---".._-~ ._~-~_.._,._- Sueppel wanted to confirm that decks/stoops are allowed, and McCafferty responded that they are treated as an addition, and must meet the guidelines in the handbook, and that this one does. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. 1011 Sheridan Avenue: Michael Gunn was allowed to present his application. He stated that his garage was previously coated with asbestos siding, and that when it was removed it revealed that used barn board-type was used sheathing. He said that some of the old wood is rotting, that it doesn't hold paint well, and that now he would like to put doors in the garage and reside it. He prefers Dutch lap siding but hasn't yet found any. Regular lap siding would match the house and be acceptable. The old sashes would be reinstalled, he said, but he would like some guidance with doors. McCafferty said that asbestos siding was at its peak of use after WWII, so the garage is probably not historic. She stated that ifGunn couldn't find appropriate doors, he could buy flush doors and apply the wainscoting or use simple panel doors. Gunn said there would be two separate doors on the alley side, and he isn't sure what he'll do with the house-side opening. McCafferty said two double swing doors would be appropriate, sided in the fashion of the garage. MOTION: Ponto moved that the commission approve a certificate of appropriateness for siding ofthe garage at 1011 Sheridan Street with either clapboard siding to match the house or Dutch lap siding, provided that the house is trimmed to match the house and the garage doors comply with the Iowa City Guidelines. Sueppel seconded the motion. Gunn recused himself ITom discussion and left the room. McCallum stated that the applicant is trying to save an old structure, and that this project would be approved for anyone who presented his case before the commission. The motion carried on a vote of 5-0. Section 106 Review for 410 Iowa Avenue: McCafferty explained that for a 106 review, the commission needs to determine if the alteration in question will have an adverse affect or change anything about the residence that qualifies it for the National Register of Historic Places. She has requested clarification ITom the State because the alteration is proposed to the non-historic addition of a building.. The addition would not contribute to qualifying the building to the NRHP, but it doesn't disqualify the rest of the home. The applicant proposes to fill in the current porch area, and extend it somewhat to the north, to create a reception area. Had this alteration been in place before the historic survey was completed, it likely would not have decreased its eligibility. Sueppel asked if the portion to be altered is the addition, or if it is the significant historic portion. McCafferty replied that is the addition and that the addition was likely constructed in the 1980s, and what this commission needs to do is determine whether these proposed changes will have an adverse affect on the property with respect to inclusion to the NRHP. MOTION: Sueppel moved that the commission find this proposed alteration would have no adverse effect on the property's eligibility for the nation register. Zimmer seconded the motion. McCallum noted that the architectural drawing shows a couple of different windows, and was that part of the project. Maharry said it might be an inaccurate drawing. McCafferty stated that she does not have a fonnal historic review application, because this project goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. The State may use the commission's finding as guidance, but they will still have to conduct their own review. This building is potentially eligible for the NRHP - which means that it has been surveyed, but not nominated. The question is, would this alteration change its eligibility for the NRHP. All alteration are proposed for the addition. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. Approval ofMav 13.2004 Minutes: Several amendments to the previous minutes were proposed. They will be recorded with the original minutes. MOTION: Gunn moved the commission approve the minutes, as amended. McCallum seconded the motion. The motion carried on a vote of 6-0. Design Review Subcommittee: McCafferty reminded the commission that the bylaws had recently been amended to allow for a subcommittee to improve the design review process for certificates of appropriateness. The subcommittee would consist of three commissions, plus an alternate, and staff. The idea is that this group would review applications and make recommendations before going to the full commission. By having many of the questions about the proj ect answered before the Thursday night session, hopefully the meetings would be more efficient. This would be especially appropriate when there are many or complex items on the agenda. Discussion followed about the role of the subcommittee and the efficiency of a separate group. A general consensus emerged that such a subcommittee would probably not reduce the burden of McCafferty's workload. She mentioned that the bylaws simply allow for this group, but do not require it. The commission suggested requesting more staff time from the City Council for the historic preservation effort, but decided that some data is needed first. Maharry suggested that they do some research on other cities with historic preservation efforts, to see how many staff hours are allotted per property, etc. McCafferty noted that in her three years on staff, many properties had been added, and that number may increase up in the future. The conservation districts actually create more work than the historic districts, she said, because there are more proj ects in those areas. The commission requested that McCafferty log her hours to detennine how much time she is spending on these issues. The subcommittee has been set, with Gunn, Maharry, and Weitzel as members, with Zimmer as alternate. McCafferty said that at this point, the subcommittee will be ___....,_...._._._..___.m.._._ -._..~ , ._~--"---_.._---..._."_.__.._-.~ ..._---.... _m.._m_m_.___ invoked on an as-needed basis, and she will detennine when that is. The subcommittee did not decide on a time to meet. A final point of discussion revolved around the City charging for time for work completed for citizens. The commission noted that the Attorney's office, Engineering office, and Building department have all charged citizens who utilize city services beyond what is appropriate. Commissioners felt that perhaps it would be possible for McCafferty to charge the clients who require extensive design work, as well. McCafferty cautioned that the City did not want to get into the business of design, however. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION: Certificate of No Material Effect for 1027 Court Street: Maharry said that this was a very easy certificate to award, they were simply replacing old windows with new ones that look exactly like the old. Certificate of No Material Effect for 529 Brown Street: Maharry stated that this case was much more interesting, as it involved an old house with an original window that had been covered by siding. The owner wanted to restore the window and remove the siding. Maharry said that the applicant could have replaced the window from the inside and then removed the siding to expose it without requiring a pennit. Maharry felt the certificate was appropriate, even though it will have some material effect. However, the end result will be more historically appropriate. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 8:48 p.m. Minutes submitted by Tokey Boswell Data on citynet: tlpcd/minuteslhpclhpc05-27-04.doc --------- ---------- -. I Board or Commission: Historic Preservation Commission ATTENDANCE RECORD YEAR 2004 May 27, 2004 TERM NAME EXP. 1/8/04 1/22/04 2/12/04 2/26/04 3/11/04 4/8/04 4/22/04 5/13/04 5/27/04 6/10/04 I Amy Smothers 3/29/05 NM NM X OlE X X X X X I James Enloe 3/29/06 NM NM OlE X X X 0 0 0 I Michael Gunn 3/29/07 NM NM OlE OlE X OlE OlE X X I Michael Maharry 3/29/05 NM NM X X X X X X X I Mark McCallum 3/29/06 NM NM X X X X X X X I ! I James Ponto 3/29/07 NM NM X X X X X X X i i i Paul Sueppel 3/29/06 NM NM OlE OlE X X X X X I I Tim Weitzel 3/29/05 NM NM X X X X OlE X X I I Justine Zinuner 3/29/07 OlE OlE OlE X -- -- --- -- --- i I i KEY: X = Present o = Absent I OlE = AbsentJExcused I NM = No meeting I 1 MINUTES APPROVED SCATTERED SITE HOUSING TASKFORCE APRIL 29, 2004 - 5:00 P.M. CITY MANAGER'S CONFERENCE ROOM, CITY HALL Members Presents: Don Anciaux, Jerry Anthony, Darlene Clausen. Matthew Hayek. Jan Leff, Jan Peterson, Joan VandenBerg Members Absent: Sally Stutsman Staff Present: Steve Long, Steve Nasby, Steve Rackis Others Present: Bob Bums, Charlie Eastham, Garry Klein CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Hayek called the meeting to order at 5:03 PM. INITIAL REMARKS Hayek started the meeting by outlining the genesis of the Scattered Site Housing Taskforce. He referred to a letter from the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD) concerning the location of assisted housing units which was sent to the City Council in November 2003. In response to this inquiry the City Council requested that this citizen, ad hoc taskforce be created. Hayek noted that the Council resolution, two memorandums and the letter from the ICCSD were in the packets provided to the taskforce members. Hayek outlined the purpose and scope of the Scattered Site Housing Taskforce. He said that numerous factors, perceptions and myths exist about assisted housing and he urged members to approach the process with and open mind. Hayek said that depending on the work of the Scattered Site Housing Taskforce there mayor may not be policy recommendations for the City Council. Hayek asked Nasby about the definition of "assisted housing" the Scattered Site Housing Taskforce is using as their guide. Nasby said it came from information collected from the cities of Raleigh, NC and/or Charlotte. Hayek also noted that this is a public body and as such will be open to the public and press. He asked Nasby to elaborate. Nasby said that as this is a public body all of the Iowa open meeting laws would apply. This meant that agendas, minutes and materials would be available to the public and that all of the meetings are open to the public. He noted that there will be set opportunities for the public to participate through public hearings or presentations, but these things need to be on the agenda so everyone has the same opportunity to participate. Nasby said that if the members had questions or information to pass it through the chair. VandenBerg asked about how the members should handle calls from the media and if any policy existed. Nasby said there is not a policy and each member can determine for himself or herself if they wish to respond to questions from the media. He noted that each commission handles it differently and if the member(s) did not want to comment to the press they could decline or refer the questions to the chair. Hayek said that if members do talk with the press they should let the reporter know that any response is their opinion and not a formal position of the taskforce. INTRODUCTIONS Hayek asked everyone to introduce himself or herself and tell the group a little about their backgrounds. Clausen said that she works at the University and is a representative of the Northside Neighborhood. Jan Peterson said she is with the United Way of Johnson County. Anciaux said he is the chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission, is active in the Wetherby Friends & Neighbors Neighborhood Association. sports organizations and he works at NW Junior High (day) and City of Iowa City Parks & Rec (night). Rackis said he is the Iowa City Housing Authority director and he is relatively new to the job and he lives in Cedar Rapids. Anthony said ---_.---.__.~---~-,----- 2 he is a professor at the University in Urban and Regional Planning and is on the board of the Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County. Anthony noted that he also advises several national organizations on housing policy. LeI! said that she is a life long resident of Iowa City, on the school board and a retired teacher. Nasby said that he is the Community and Economic Development Coordinator for the City and his office does the administration of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME). DISTRIBUTION OF BINDER MATERIALS Hayek asked Nasby to briefly review the items in the taskforce's binders. Nasby said that section one was the introductory material Hayek reviewed earlier. Nasby said the next section contained reference materials on the programs that the taskforce would be hearing about. He mentioned the CDBG and HOME programs. The next set of materials focused on the Iowa City Housing Authority so Nasby asked Rackis to highlight this information. Rackis said there was basic program descriptions from HUD regarding the Housing Choice Voucher program and essentially everyone knows this as "Section 8". Rackis said that the next few pages contained speciflc statistics and information about the program operated by the Iowa City Housing Authority. Rackis said the last piece of information was a descrlption of the public housing program. Peterson asked how many public housing units were in Iowa City. Rackis said 93. Nasby said the next pages were maps of the assisted housing locations in Iowa City. He said Map 1 showed the physical units that received CDBGIHOME funds and/or project based HUD funds. Map 2 was completed by the Iowa City Housing Authority and showed a "snapshot" of the locations of the Housing Choice Voucher holders in Iowa City as of March 1, 2004. Nasby said that Map 3 was a combination of both maps to show the overall picture. The last item in the binder was a copy of the 2003 Iowa City Community Profile. Nasby said this was a reference item that contained statistical information on demographics, housing, empioyment and income. Hayek said that the last tabs in the binders were for research. He said that he expects this to be the bulk of the taskforce's work, but wanted to get the group started with a solid background on the programs before it started doing research. Hayek noted that the research will come from a variety of sources and encouraged the members to do their own and share it with the group. MEETING SCHEDULE Hayek asked if the group would be interested in a tour of assisted housing units now that they had seen the maps. He thought it would be important to see these units in context with the neighborhoods. There was consensus by the group that a tour would be helpful. Rackis said that some of the larger "bubbles" shown on the maps may not be concentrations but rather density so that was important to consider. Hayek asked what date would be available to do the tour and next meeting. He noted that in his polling of the members, either Monday or Wednesday worked the best for everyone. Hayek said that after the tour the group could set up presentations from the "players" in the housing market, which would be the third meeting. This would include assisted housing providers, human service agencies and market rate housing professionals. VandenBerg said that the presentations could get to be very long so she suggested a very focused approach and time limits. Several members agreed with this suggestion. Hayek said he could start contacting people or organizations and that if the taskforce members had suggestions to let him know and they could communicate via e-mail. Nasby said that the e-mail brought up a question about how the packets would be distributed for the meetings. He asked if anyone wanted it eiectronically versus hard copy. Nasby also noted that it would be on the web. Everyone wanted to continue to get hard copies. As long as they - --~-----~...- 3 were talking about electronic communications, Nasby said that e-mail discussions should be kept to a minimum since this is a public body and having a quorum of them having discussions or decisions via e-mail could violate the open meeting law. Hayek suggested that Mondays be the regular meeting date and that the group meets twice per month. After some discussion the group settled on the first and third Mondays of each month. Nasby said that since first Monday in May was only a few days away it would be hard to get a tour arranged. The group agreed and decided to meet on May 12 at 5:00 p.m. for the bus tour and then start the regular schedule on May 17. Anthony asked when the deadline was to have their work completed. Hayek said he would like to have it finished by the end of the year. Nasby said that ideally, he would like it done by November so any policy that may come out of this discussion could be included in the Consolidated Plan (a.k.a. CITY STEPS). Anthony and VandenBerg said that this would be a good goal for the group. Hayek reminded the group that anything they came up with would be a recommendation to the City Council and would have to go through their process as well. ADJOURN Anciaux moved to adjourn. VandenBerg seconded. Motion passed 7-0. Meeting adjourned 6:00 p.m. _... "-.,.r-'" ._,~-- .-..- ..., -.... -- -,---...__._..~-----------_._---..- ______________-..-m-m+--..--...--__ 4 Board or Commission: Iowa City Scattered Site Housing Taskforce ATTENDANCE RECORD 2004 Aoril 29, 2004 i NAME 4/29 Don Anciaux X I Jerry Anthony X Darlene Clausen X Matthew Hayek X J an Leff X Jan Peterson X Sally Stutsman OlE Joan V andenBer~ X KEY: X = Present 0 = Absent OlE = AbsentlExcused NM = No meeting - = Not a Member 1~ MINUTES Apþrov~d SCATTERED SITE HOUSING TASKFORCE MAY 12, 2004 - 5:00 P.M. BUS TOUR Members Presents: Don Anciaux, Darlene Clausen. Matthew Hayek, Jan Leff, Jan Peterson, Sally Stutsman, Joan VandenBerg Members Absent: Jerry Anthony Staff Present: Steve Long, Steve Rackis Others Present: AI Axeen, Jerry Hanson CALL TO ORDER Chairperson Hayek called the meeting to order at 5:03 PM. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM APRIL 29. 2004 MEETING MOTION: Left moved to accept the minutes; Anciaux seconded the motion. All in favor; motion passed 7-0. BUS TOUR OF ASSISTED HOUSING IN IOWA CITY Long and Rackis gave a narrated tour of subsidized rental housing and emergency housing units throughout Iowa City. ADJOURN MOTION: Anciaux moved to adjourn. Left seconded. Motion passed 7-0. Meeting adjourned 7:00 p.m. -~~- .._., ".'..__n._U. - -,--._.,--- -- - ----~_._----".._---- 2 Board or Commission: Iowa City Scattered Site Housing Taskforce ATTENDANCE RECORD 2004 Mav 12. 2004 ! NAME 4/29 5/12 Don Anciaux X X Jerry Anthonv X OlE Darlene Clausen X X Matthew Havek X X Jan Leff X X i í Jan Peterson X X Sally Stutsman OlE X Joan VandenBerg X X ! KEY: X = Present o = Absent OlE = AbsentlExcused NM = No meeting - = Not a Member