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Home My WebLink AboutMelrose Historic District NPS Form 1~ (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior NatIoIIIII Park Service JUl 15 2004 OMS No. 10024-0018 National Register of Historic Places Registration Form :::;::"'-:..' ..~==-.....::::::._.:::.=.::::=:::~.~~~ =..""!*_r.....l...."=":':~=:..'=~....._.::::-=- ._ ............1IId........1III'...........~,.."-1NOOIIt. ..................-.,........, .-..-...... 1. Name of Prouertv historic name Melrose Historic District other namesfsite number 2. location street & number Portions of Melrose Ave.. Melrose Ct.. Melrose Circle. Brookland NIA U not for publication Park Drive. Brookland Place. and Mvrtle Avenue city or town Iowa City NIA U vicinity state Iowa code IA county Johnson code 111 zip code 52246 3. StatelFederal c..tlfIcr'- Aa !he deSIgnated authority under the National HIs1ark: "'-ervatlon Act, as amended, I hereby certify tha1 this W nomination U request for determlna1lon of ell¡lbilily m.1s !he documentation standalda for reglstenng proper1lea in !he National Regillllr of Historic Places and m.1s the procedural and professiona1 req'"-nts 181 forth In 38 CFR Pan 80. In my opinion, !he property W m.1s U doea not meat !he National ReglSlar ClIterIa. I racommend tha1 this property be conaidered significant U na1Ionally I1U statewide U locally. ŒJ see continuation sheet for additional commenta). SIgnature of certifying oIIiciaVTilla Date State or Fade..1 agency and bureau In my opinion, !he property U m.1s U doea not meat the Na1ional Register CritetIa. ŒJ Sea continuation sheet for addillona1 commanta.) SIgnature of certifying oIIiciaVT"dIa Date SIa1e or Federal 88IIey and bureau 4. ~ Park Sa Ice CIII1ItIcatIðn I hereby ce tha1 the property Is: U entered In tha National Register. U Sea contInua1lon Iheel Signa1ure of the Keeper Da1a of Action U cMIomtined oJöu_ for tho National RegIster. U Sea continuation sheet. U determined not allglbla for the National RegISlar. U removed from tha National Register. U other, (expteln:) Melrose His!pIiI:; District Name of Property I. C....1ftcatIon OwnelShlp of Property (Chack as many _ as apply) [2g private U public-locel U public-Slate U public-Federal John~ Countv. IA COunty and Stale category of Property (Check only one box) U building(s) [2g district Usite U structure U objeCt Number of Reeourc.. within Property (Do not inClude previously listed rasourœs In tha count.) Contributing Noncontributing 112 20 buildings 1 1 sites structures objects Total 113 21 Name of related multiple property listing EnIar "NJA" . property Is not part of a multipla property listing.) HiIdðrIe RMOUIC8I of IðW8 CitY Iowa MPS 11994 amended 200Q} Number of contributing reeources prevlouely IiñId In the National Reglst8r 3 8. FIJ!!CIIon or Uee HIetorIi: FullCClone (Enter CII1egortaaflam inIIJudIona) DOMESTlClSingIe DweHinas DOMESTICISecondarv Structures DOMESTIClMultiDIe Dwelllnas RECREATION & CUL TURElOutdoor Recreation Current Functlone (Enter categor1at flam InaIrudIona) DOMESTIC/Sinale Dwelllnos DOMESTIC/Secondarv Structures COMESTlClMultiDle Dwellinas REÇREATION & CUL TURElOutdoor Recreation 1. DeKrlDIion An:hltectulSl Classification (Enter Ca1egortea flam Ins1nIdIons) LATE VlCTORlANlltalianate LATE 19'" & EARLY 20" CENTURY REVIVALS! COlonial Revival Materials (Enter categorIea from Instrudlons) foundation STONElUmestone walls WOODlWeatherboard BRICK roof ASPHALT other NarratIve Description (DeScrIbe the hislDric end currant condition of the property on one or more continuation s_.) Melrose Historic District Name of Property Johnson County. IA county and SIa1e 8. Statement of SlanlflqnC8 Applicable National Register Criteria (M,,", ">(' In one or mora ~ for the crtIar1a quarñylng the property for Na1ional Register listing.) Areas of SlgnlÌlcance (Enter Ca1egor1ea from Ins1ructions) ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT [X) A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattems of our history. [2g 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 WO/1( of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. Period of Significance 1870-1955 U D Property has yielded, or is likety to yield, information important in prehista!y or history. Criteria Conskleratlona (Marl< ">(' In all the _ that apply.) Slgnlftcant Datee NIA Property is: 129 A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. U B removed from its original location. U C a birthplace or grave. U D a cemetery. U E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. U F a commemorative property. U G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Slgnlftcant Person (Complete W Cr1Iarlon B Is marked abow) Lambert. BYron J. Cultural AffIliation NIA lExDtain the sJanlficanCll of the DlDDArtv on one or more continuation sheets.) Narrative Statement of SlgnlflcanC8 9. Malor BlbIIoaraDhlCll1 RAf."...,,_ Bibliography (Cite the books, artides, and other sources used in prepanng this form on ona or mora COntlnUa1ion sheeI$.) Prvvtous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: U preliminary determination of individual listing L2U State Historic Preservation Office (36 CFR 67) has been requested U other Slate agency [2g previously listed in the National Register U Federal agency U previously determined eligible by the National [2g Local government Register U University U designated a National Historic Landmark U Other U recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Name of repository: if. U recorded by Historic American Engineering Record if. ArchltectlBullder Frever. Frank X.. architect & builder WICkham. B. A. architect & builder Melrose Historic Distria Johnson County. IA Name of property COunty and SIa1e 10. GeoaraDhIcal Data AclS8ge of Property 34 acres UTM Referen_ (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) 1l1lID ~ Zone Easting 3l1lID ~ ~ Northing ~ 2l1lID ~ Zona EastIng 4l1lID ~ w Sea continua1lon sheet ~ Northing ~ Verbal Boundary Description (Dascrt)e the bounden.. of the property on a contInua1ion sheal.) Boundary Justification (E>lplaln why the boundàrias __ oalacted on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Preoared BY namellitle Mar1vs A. Svendsen. SVendsen Tvler. Inc. organization for Melrose Neiahborhood Association. Inc. street & number N3834 DeeD Lake Road city or town Sarona state WI date Mav. 2004 telephone 7151469-3300 zip code 54870 Additional Documentation Submit the foIiow'.l items with the complalll form: Continuation Sheets Mapa A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. A Sketch mep fOr historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resourœs. PhotoglSp'" Representative black and white photographs of the property. Addltlonalltems (Chack with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Proøertv Owner (Cornplate this item 11 the request of SHPO or FPO.) name Various - see continuation sheets street & number telephone city or town state zip code rlll&~ RaducIIon Act a_ant: ThilInforma1Ion Is being collacted for appl_ns to the Na1ional RegISlar of HIs1ark: Pl8cas 10 nominate propertias for IIating or determine eligibility for listing, 10 list proper1lea, .nd to amend eJCIstlng listings. Raspo_1O this request Is req~lred 10 obtain a benelllln acc:ord8nce with the National Historic Preservation Al;I, .. amended (18 U.S.C. 470 et saq.). EatlmaØd Bunten __ Public IIIpOrting bunlen for this form Is M\1maled 10 average 18.1 hours par __ inclUding time for rav-.g 1nstnH:tions, gathering and maintaining date, and completing and ravfewing the form. Direct commenta regarding this bunlen _ or any aspec:t of this form to the Chief, AdmfnIalralNe S8tvfces Division, N_I Park Sarvice, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the 0IIIce QfM8nagement and Budget. Paperwork Raduc:lfons I'rojecœ (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 Melrose Historic DisIricI Name of Propenv Johnson Countv.1A COunty and State 7. Description: Architectural Classlllcatlon (continued) LATE VICTORIAN/Queen Anne LATE 19'" &20" CENTURY REVlVALSlTudor Revival LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MOVEMENTSlBungalow/Craflsman OTHER/Four-Square OTHER/Ranch OTHERlCape Cod Description: Materials (continued) foundation: CONCRETE walls: STUCCO walls: MET AUaJuminum walls: ASBESTOS walls: SYNTHETIClvinyl root METAL root STONE/Slate root TERRA COTTA 7. Narrative DescrlDtlon: The Melrose Historic District is an irregularty shaped neighborhood Iocatød on the west side of the Iowa River in the area south of Melrose Avenue and north of the right-of-way of the Iowa Interstate Railroad. The Melrose Historic District is immediately adjacent to the west campus of The University of Iowa (historically referred to as the State University of Iowa or SUI In this nomination). The District contains portions of Melrose Avenue (300 to 700 blocks), Melrose Court, Melrose Circle, Brookland Park Drive, Brookland Place, Lucon Drive, and Myrtle Avenue. Brookland Park, a municipal park that extends diagonally along the railroad right-of-way at the southem edge of the District, is also included within the District. The Melrose Historic District is contained within portions of several additions and subdivisions to Johnson County and Iowa City. They includad Custer's Addition in 1881, which was later subdivided into Paden's Addition in ca. 1913 and Lambert's Addition in 1921; Crowley's Rlverview Addition in 1908; Brookland Park Addition in 1924; and Oak Park Court Addition in 1952. Lambert's Addition created the lots along Melrose Circle with Paden's Addition forming the north end of Melrose Court. Lucon Drive, a private street along the eastem adge of the District, was formed when a large parcel acquired in 1935 by a single owner was divided into separate building lots in the earty 19608. Houses sited on lots in the portions of Custer's Addition located along Melrose Avenue and the north end of the east side of Melrose Court were never further subdivided. Street widths in the District vary considerably. Melrose Avenue, originally laid out as Snook's Grove Road in 1853 with a width of 30 feet, has a cunent width of 48 feet after a widening completed in ca. 1995. Melrose Court was laid out with widths varying from 25 feet (north end) to 30 feet (middle and south end along the north-south stretch) and a 35-foot width along the east-west section that con~ to Myrtte Avenue. The paved surface originally covered only 16 feet of Melrose Court's width. In ca. 1991, the paved area was extended to a width of 22 feel Melrose Circle was originally estabtished with a width of just 18 feet on the north-south section and 24 feet on the circle. Tha portion of Brookland Park Drive west of Melrose Court has a width of just 20 feet with the block east of Melrose Court widening to 40 feet. The north-south section of Brooktend Place widens slightly to 44 feel A separate section of Luean Drive Iocatød to the north occupies a width of just 16 feet. The only alley in the District has a width of 16 feet and extends between Brookland Park Drive and the east-west stretch of Melrose Court. Blocks are not laid out on a grid format due to the diagonal course of the railroad right-of-way along the south edge of the neighborhood and the presence of two cul-de-sacs, two short no-outlet streets. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 7 Page 2 MeIrout HIItmic DIBtrict Nama of Property Johnson Countv IA County and SIa1e and only two through streets in the District. All of the streets in the Di\WiCt are paved in concrete or asphalt, with 4-foot wide cement walks along Meirose Avenue, narrower walks along the east side of Melrose Circle and the west side of Melrose Court for most of its length, but no walks along the other streets. Melrose Avenue serves as a two-way arterial street with Melrose Court providing a connecting route belwaen Melrose Avenue and Myrtte Avenue. A signaled intersection is located at the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Melrose Court. Terrain of the District is generally level along the northern and westem sectiOns of the District. A ravine visually and topographically dissec!s the neighborhood extending from midway along the south side of the 500 block of Melrose Avenue diagonally to the southeast before crossing Lucon DrIve and heading to'Nard the Iowa River. The ravine serves as a natural "green belt conteining remnants of nll\ive woodland. vegetetion including young and mature examples of bur oak, white oak, red oak, sugar maple, silver maple. basswood. hackberry. sycamore, and black walnut"' It functions as a dry run except When storm run-off temporarily fIoo<s the area including a sectiOn of Lucon DrIve's road surface \hilt It crosses. The other major terrain change Is along the southwest edge of the District in BrookIand Parle The park was established in 1924 prior to construction of nearly an of the houses in the neighborhood. Its terrain slopes to the south towards the right- of->Nay of the Iowa Interstate Railroad. The park originally contained a small meandering brook that has now been straightened somewhat. Planted trees surround the park'S central grassy area. Some indivlduellots in the District have slight rises, terraces. and short retaining walls fashioned of stone or concrete block. Melrose Avenue has a concrete sidewalk with a wide brick border. Due to the width of the streets south of Melrose Avenue, very narrow sidewalks frequently line only one side of the street with several blocks built without walks. Streets without walks include aU of Lucon Drive, Brookland Place, and Brookland Park Drive. Historic aerial photos of the balance of the Irea south of Melrose Avenue show It to have been largely grassland meadows and CUltiveted fields prior to the 19308. As.thisaræ was developed It contained smaH groupings of houses on "CÍR:IE!s," "couttS," and streets with "no outIel", which frequently resuitedin spacious lots \hilt have tent themselves to atba...tille park- like landscaping treatments employing massed herbaceous perennials such as hostas and ferns as well as a Wide assortment of decorative conifers. flowering trees. and shrubs. Notable gymnospermous trees include mature white pine, Norway spruce, blue spruce, hemlock, and ginkgo. The flowering trees and shrubs include noteworthy examples of Florida dogwood. weeping crabapple. trae peony, trae hydrangea. beauty bush, rhododendron, azalea, high bush cranbeny. and bridal wreath. The age of the District's trees confirms \hilt consjderabfe planting took place before World War II at the time the majority of houses were construcIed. Because of the narrow streets and drives in the DistriCt. trae planlings are generally reserved for front yards rather than curb areas.2 The building stock in the Melrose Historic District includes a mix of b\Jildlngs originally constructed as single-farnily residences, duplexes, and one multi-family apartment building. These buildings mostly refled the historical development and resldentialland-uae pattema that evolved beginning in the decades 1OIIOWing the Civil War when country residences and farms were built along Snook's Grove Road, now Melrose Avenue. After the tum of the 20" century a gradual infiU of new houses occulTed along Melrose Avenue. Following establishment of the SUI Hospital complex and West Side Campus after World War I. residential subdivisions cohtaining a mix of small and moderate size lots were laid out along narrow straets and cukle sacs. Gradually, the neighborhood saw full development By the end of the 20"' century, a number of residences immediately along the south sjde of Melrose Avenue were acquired by the SUI and severat churches for ancillary uses \hilt include daycare facilities, offices. student cultural centers, and apartments. In 2004, the beIance of the District Includes priVately owned duplexes and single-family dwellings \hilt date from the 18708 through the 19508, and secondary structures erected during the same period. The District contains a total of 137 resources including one site (Brookland Park. contributing). one structure (park shelter in BrookIand Park), and 135 buildings, which are divided into 85 primary buildings end 50 secondary buildings. The park Is considered a contributing site because It was an integral part of Brookland Park Addition, which was platted in 1924 when 'Information regarding the neighbolhood pJanIings __ provided in an ernaiIlnIenIiew with JeIIiy Schabillon, prete ISOI', De_ of Biological Scienc:es, UniveIdy of 'OWl!. May 11, 2004. ' m u 2íbid. Uni18d States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 7 Page 3 Melrose Histaric DIstrtcI Name of Property JohlllOll COuntv, IA COunty and S1a1a the area was first being developed, and has not physically changed substentially since that till1è. The park shelter structure was added within the last several decades and though it is non-contributing due to its age, does not substentially cfatract from the park. Of the 85 primery buildings, 88 percent are considered contributing resources with 31 buildings or 36 percent of the 85 primary buildings qualifying as key contributing resources. The District also contains 50 secondary buildings originally constructed as garages, a carriage house. and a barn. Of these, 38 buildings or 76 percent are considered contributing while 12 have been determined non-contributing due to aiterations or age. Most of the contributing secondary buildings are well-preserved examples of pre-World War II garage designs, which were built to match the designs of the accompanying residences. As might be expected for such early garages, 25 buildings or 50 percent were built with a single vehicle bay. The Melrose Historic District contains a mix of one and two story houses constructed of brick, wood, and stucco. Frame residences were the most popular In number while brick and stucco were favored for most of the largest structures. The eariiest frame dwelfing dates from 1870 with others dating from the decade of the 1890s through the 19508. They include a range of narrow, medium, and wide-width clapboard styles along with weatherboard and board and batten siding found on more than a dozen secondary buildings. Several instances of decorative shingles are seen in houses built before World War with a larger, square-cut shingle style used as a siding material for houses and garages built during the 19208 and 19308. A wide range of wood mOldings. brackels. spindles, and fretwork are used as trim meteriais. Masonry materials for several pre-1900 residences include locally quarried limestone. both ashlar and dressed, for foundations and trim and IocaHy menufactured brick. Mass-produced pressed brick prodUCIs are seen in the District's largest apartment building. a brick duplex on Melrose Court, and residences scattered through the neighboltlood, all dating from the 19208 and 19308. Pressed brick is also used as an important decorative trim material and for prominent exposed chimneys for cottages built during the same decadØ$. Stucco is used infrequently in the District. Examples include one cottage, one large primery residence, and several contributing garages. The Melrose Historic District exhibits a variety of late 19"' and 20" century architectural styles and vernacular forms. Good examples of the ltalianate. Colonial Revival. Georgian. Tudor Revival. and Craftsman styles are found throughout the District. Most of the District's residences, however, are examples of vernacular house forms and domestic architecture design trends popularized through pattem books and house plan services after 1900. Examples of the Gable-Front and Wing form and the tw<>-story side-gable I-House form were built prior to 1900 along the southem edge of the District in an area known as "Myrtle Grove." House forms that appeared most frequently between 1905 and 1955 included the American Four-8quare. the Side-GabIe, the Front-Gable, the Gambrel Cottage, the English Period Cottage (Tudor Cottage), the Minimal- Traditional. the Cape Cod, and the Ranch. Roof forms, the major features defining these vernacular forms, include various examples of side-gable roofs with and without eaves or exposed rafters, low and moderate pitched front-gable roofs, clipped gable roofs, gambrel roofs with the ridge parellel or perpendicular to the front, and low and moderate pitched hipped roofs with both shallow and deep eaves. The ltalianate Style houses in the District are clustered along Melrose Avenue. Two of these houses, the BilHngsley-Hills House (629 Melrose Avenue, contributing. NRHP, Photo #1) and the A.W. Pratt House (503 Melrose Avenue, contributing, NRHP, Photo #2) are examples of IargEHlCale ItaJianate Style residences built in the Gable-Front and Wing form. The Iow- pitched Intersecting gable roofs of both houses are Oned with brackels while porches fill elis and wrap the fronts and sides. The earlier of the two houses, the Billingsley-Hills House built in 1870, btends Greek Revival elemenls in its design as well. a practice typical of Iowa City residences built after the CivO War that were more eclectic in nature. This house, along with the Pratt House and a third ltalianate Style brick house located just outside of the District, the Wilbur and Hattie Cannon House (303 Melrose Avenua, NRHP), were originaHy Widely spaced along Melrose Avenue. After the tum of the 20" century, as new houses were erected along present day Melrose Avenue, these large ltalianate Style houses retained their spacloU$ sites despite being absorbed Into more densely deveIopecJ city blocks. Alter the tum of the 20"' century. meny of the largest houses built In the District were built in variations of the Colonial Revival Style incorporating classical design motifs into their symmetrical façades. The Colonial Revival Styte houses had hipped and slde-gable roofs of various heighls and pitches frequently èOntaining attic dormers and clipped gable peaks. The Dutch Colonial sub-type using the Gambrel Cottage form in either the front or side variation was used for both small Unlt8d States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 7 Page 4 Melrose HIsIor1c DIaIrIcI Name of Property Johnson COuntv IA County and State and large houses scattered through the District. Another house form that frequenlly appears throughout the District has its origins in the TudOr Revival Styte. Examples of TudOr Revival Styte cottages and the successive generation of English Period Cotteges were built during the 19205 and 19308. This basic side-gable cottage form incorporated prominent front gable projections, steeply pitched roofs and dormers. and dominant exposed chimneys on front or side end walls. Like the revival style houses. Craftsman Style dwellings were built throughout the District. Examples of the Gable-Front, Sic:Je.GabIe, Bungalow. and American FouroSquare forms rendered in the Craftsman Styte are scattered atong Melrose Avenue, Melrose Court and BrookIand Park Drive. Their recliUnear plans have the prototypical Craftsman window - a double-hung sash with a vertical light configuration in the upper half - in singles, pairs. or groups. Exposed rafter tails, pullins, and knee-brace bnsckets line prominent gables. comices, and porch roofs. Well-preserved garages constructed using Craftsman design elemenls such as sliding or bi-fold doors and multi-light windows accompany many of the Craftsman dwellings In the District. Typical cladding finishes for Creftsman Styte houses and garages In the District include pressed brick, clapboard, stucco. and aitemating narrow and wide courses of square-cut shingles or rendom square-cut shingle applications. Several Craftsman Style houses were originally constructed with metel tile roofs but only one garage roof using this mateñal survives. The newest group of house forms to appear in the Melrose District began appearing before World War II and continued in the post-War boom peñod. These forms included the one-story Cape Cod. Minimal- Traditional, and Ranch house forms with both attached and matching detached garages. The earliest examples of these house forms (Cape Cod) generally had an economical arrangement of four muJti..purpose rooms on the first floor and small second floor bedroom areas. They were typified by low to moderate pitched side-gable roofs. The Ranch houses in the District began appearing In 1949 and continued to be built through the early 19608. These Ranch houses hed a more open interior plan with private areas clustered at one end, a living room in the center, end a garage connected to the kitchen and dining areas at the other end. All of these house forms had a mix of window sizes and styles. and virtually no exterior omamentation. Some of the best examples of residential architectural styles and vernacular house forms in the Melrose Historic District are listed below. A complete list of contributing and non-contributing resources begins on page 47. Archltectu,., Stytes and Vernacular House Forms · ItalianatelGreek Revival: BiHingsJey-Hills House, 629 Melrose Avenue (Photo #1, 1870) A. W. Pratt House, 503 Melrose Avenue (Photo #2, 1885) · l-House Form: Clarence & Frances Huffman House, 412 Myrtte Avenue (Photo #3, ceo 1890) L.E. Elliott House, 402 Myrtle Avenue (ca. 1890) · Queen Anne: Wrn. & Virginia Shuck House, 309 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1905) · Colonial Rellival: Robert & Luverne Wales House. 401-407 Melrose Avenue (Photo #4, ca. 1910) Smith Rental House, 607 Melrose Avenue (Photo #5. ca. 1927) Byron & Helen Lambert House, 4 Melrose Circle (ca. 1922) Rudolph & Ruth Kuever House. 5 Melrose Circle (Photo #16, 1925) Nelson Duptex, 402-404 Melrose Court (ca. 1939) Ernest & Myrtle Anthony House, 605 Brookland Pari< Drive (ca. 1927) · Georgian: Hicks-Andrews House, 2 Melrose Circle (1924) Unnamed Duplex. 216-218 Melrose Court (Photo #21, 1929) · Dutch CoIonIaV Floyd & Marian Nagler House, 6 Melrose Circle (Photo #7. 1926) Gambrel Cottage: Dolorosa Richey House, 421 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1918) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 7 Met""'" Historic DIsIr1cI Name of Property Page 5 Johnson CountY. IA County and SIa1e · Craftsman! American Four-Squarø: · CraftsmanIFront-Gable: · CraftsmanlSide-Gable: · CraftsmanlBungalow: · CraftsmanIM~family: · Tudor RevivaV English Period Cottage: · Cape Cod! Minimal Traditional: Christian & Eva Nagy House, 605 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1918) David & Edna Armbruster House & Garage, 331 Melrose Court (Photo #24, 1932) Don & Margaret Munger House, 521 Melrose Avenue (Photo #8, ca. 1911) Manley-Mahan House. 303 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1909) Theron & Lefa Hill House, 229 Melrose Court (Photo #9. 1931) Clarence & Francis Huffman House, 408 Brookland Place (ca. 1924) John & Mary Miller House, 315 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1925) Fred & Anna Mißer House, 707 Melrose Avenue (Photo #10, 1918) Miller-Johnson House & Garage, 508 Melrose Court (Photo #25, 1915) Jeremiah & laura Mclaughlin House, 223 Melrose Court (1926) Leslie & Wilma SWitzer House. 422 Melrose Court (Photo #11, ca. 1924) Frederick & Nellie Fry House, 506 Brookland Park Drive (Photo #12, ca. 1926) Howard Duplex. 401-403 Melrose Court (Photo #13, 1924) Robert & Ethel Hunter House, 316 Myrtle Avenue (ca. 1915) EIza & Mary Means House, 520 BrookIand Park Drive (ca. 1926) George S. & Anna Randall House, 701 Melrose Avenue (ca. 1919) Melrose ApartmentslCaywood Apartments, 741 Melrose Avenue (Photo #22, 1929) Chester & Lois Miller House. 311 Melrose Court (Photo #14,1929) Wdliam & Betty HOiland House, 325 Melrose Court (Photo #15, ca. 1932) Irving & Martha Weber House, 421 Melrose Court (Photo #16, 1929) Erwin & Eva Gross House, 622 BrookIand Park Drive (Photo #17, 1930) John & Rose Brady House, 513 BrookIand Park Drive (1932) Charles & Louise Kennett House, 517 Brookland Park Drive (ca. 1928) Emest & Myrtle Anthony House, 605 Brookland Park Drive (ca. 1927) Albert & Dorothy Erbe House. 409 Melrose Court (1939) George & Leona Rebel House, 614 BrookIand Park Drive (1941) Gretchen & C. Merton Spicer, Jr. House, 624 BrookIand Park Drive (Photo #18. 1939) Ostdelk Ren1al House, 424 Melrose Court (PhOto #19, 1940) F. Neal & Ruth Miller House, 6O~03% Brookland Park Dr. (ca. 1949) Thelma & Donald Lewis House, 300 Lucon Drive (Photo #20, 1951) Davis-Walker House. 335 Lucon Drive (1953) The condition of buildings in the Melrose Historic District ranges from good to excellent Most of the residences originally used as Single-family homes have been retained as such with several exceptions where they have been converted to duplexes. In several instances garages have been converted to rental units as well. The most likely aiteration to houses in the District has been the addition of synthetic siding including aluminum siding or vinyl siding beginning in the 1960s. Other changes include the enclosure of front porches, the addition of breezeways to connect to previously detached garages, alteration of some dormer areas to create large second floor rooms. and the construction of rear kitchen and family-room wings generally not visible from the public right-of-way. Historic rehabilitations were completed for a number of buildings within the District during the 19908. · Ranch: Unit8d states Department of the ln1erlor National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 6 _ HIs1ark: Diotrid Name of Proper1y Johnson CaunIv. IA County and Sta1e 8. S1atement of Significance: Sk¡niflcant Person (continued) Kuever, Rudolph Nagler, Floyd Jones, Howard Armbruster, David Johnson. Wendell Weber, Irving Lewis, Thelma 8. Statement of Significance: Arc"lt8ctIBul/Chlr (continued) J.H. Hunzinger & Co., builder Hunzinger-Wagner Co., builder Hunzinger, Frank E., builder Wagner, W.H., builder Mclaughlin, Jeremiah, architect and builder Anthony, Mark, architect Rust, J. Bradley, architect Paulson, Wayne, architect Miller, F. Neal, builder 8. Narrative Statement of SiGnificance: General: The Melrose Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A, B, and C. Under Criterion A, the Melrose Historic District derives significance under the category of "Community Planning end Development" Resources within the District draw attention to the growth of Iowa City's West Side both prior to 1900 when the houses along Snook's Grove Road (Melrose Avenue) comprised a sparsely sellled country neighborhood and to the period following World War I, and extending through World War II when the neighborhood transitloned to an early automobite suburb. Under the category of "Education" the District is closely associated with the development of the State University of Iowa's West Side Campus, which included its teaching hospital and clinic complex and its a1h1etic facilities, aU built north of Melrose Avenue in the decades following World War I. This period was significant for the University's primary education mission because these years saw a five-fold increase in student enrollment and a major expansion in physical plant The provision of housing for University faculty members, physicians, administrative staff, and students was a critical private sector initiative that suppolted the West Side Campus development between and following the World Wars. Under Criterion B. the Melrose Historic District is significant for its association with the lives of prominent Iowa City residents, several with affiliations to the state University of Iowa. Byron J. Lambert, head of the Department of CivU Engineering at the University was an important Iowa engineer whose career Included the design of steel stadiums, bridges, hydroeleçtric dams and plants, and water systems throughout the state. Floyd Nagler gained prominence as the founding director of the SUI Hydraulics Laboratoly and for a range of findings in the engineering field. Rudolph Kuever. Dean of the College of Pharmacy, had an outstanding career in both ecademic pharmacy and as a consulting phannaceutica chemist and patent holder. Howard Jones was the SUI footbaU coach in the early 1920s who developed a highly suc:cessful national football program. David Armbruster was a nationally prominent swimming coach and researcher at SUI. Wendell Johnson was a nationally kllQWll speech pathologist, Clinical psychologist, and pioneer in treatment for stuttering. Irving Weber, SUI's first All-American swimmer. resided in the District throughout his rife. He was a leading Iowa City dairy company executive and a much-loved local historian and newspaper columnist Thelma Lewis. a feader in the campaign United States Department of the Interior NatIonal Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 7 Melrose HådDric Diøtrid Name of Property Johnson ("'.."linN tA COunty and SIa1e to establish the mayor-city manager form of govemment for the city in the 1950s, became Iowa City's second female mayor. Under Criterion C. the Melrose Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the residential architectural styles and vemacular house forms that appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods during the years that the area was transformed from a counby neighborhood to an early automobile and post-war residential suburb. The neighbort100d contains a subdivision pattern that mixed curvilinear. cuJ..de-eac, and grid pattern streets with a city park along a major town and counby highway. The shift in domestic architecture during this period from large. multHtoried and richly ornamented houses to smaller scale. less expensive residences with garages integrated onto the site is evidenced by the homebuilding that took place in the ~ Historic District. Together the District's subdivision plans and buildings leU the story of suburban style architectural design and vernacular building pradices during the first half of the 20'" century In Iowa City, displaying more than a dozen different architectural styles and house forms. Two resources in the District are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the BiHingsJey-Hills House (contributing. 629 Melrose Avenue. Photo .1) and the A.W. Pratt House (contributing. 503 Melrose Avenue, Photo f#2). The first property contains two contributing resources. The Pratt House is also owned by a religious organization and used as a student center. No reconnaissance or Intensive level archeological surveys were conducted for properties within the District. As a result. no signillcanœ is claimed under Criterion D. The period of significance for this locally significant historic District is 1870-1955. The first dale marks the conslructlon of the earliest architecturally significant resource in the District and the last dale marks the 5O-year cut-olf for National Register eligibility. The HlstotIclll DevèIopment 01 Melrose NelghbotfJood:" Iowa City was laid out as the ~ capital city for Iowa Territory In 1839. lis location 50 miles west of the Mississippi River and lis population centers aI~ the state's westNard expension. Over the next 15 years, the territorial and then stale Ieg~ sought to connect Iowa City to the balance of Iowa through the establishment of military, teniIo.1aI and state roads. One of thesII roads, Snook's Grove Roacf. forms the northern boundary of the Melrose Historic DIstrict. It was laid out in 1853 along the route of pI8SeI\t day Melrose Avenue to connect Iowa City with Snook's Grove, an early town site in Poweshiek County, the second county west of Johnson County. The road was connected to the balance of Iowa City. which was IOCltl.d east of the· Iowa River, via a curving route that desœnded the hillside, and connected to the bridge that crossed the river at BurlIngton Street. Early development along Snook's Grove Road is depIc;ted in the 1868 BItrJ's Eye View of Iowa City. Johnson County, Iowa that appears on the following page. Scattered residences are located along the road with the grid-like Spacing of trees suggesting at least one orchard along the north side of the road northeast of the District The undulating open space south of Snook's Grove Road appears to be doIted by trees and P'Stureland. The tree-covered ravine located midway between Melrose Avenue and Myrtle Avenue in the vicinity of present day lucon Drive appears also. The clearly depicted right-of-way of the MISSissippi & MIssouri Railroad (later. the Chicago, Rock Island & PacIfic RR) CUIVeS along the southwest edge of the District. The railroad was completed to Iowa City In the mid-1850s but not completed westward until after the Civil War. Myrtle Avenue is shown on the BltrJ's Eye VIØW Map as a dead end road that paralleled. but did not cross. the raßroad. A cluster" of buildings including a farmstead and several other dwelUngs appears on both sides of the road. This collection of structures i$ actually at the crest of a hili that the map does not depict. The change in grade traversed by the reilroad route i$ similarly minimized in this view. The crest of the hilI at the west end of Myrtle was identified in an 1854 map of Iowa City as the location of "Myrtle Grove,' the site of a prominent Greek Revival residence (non-extant) owned by James 'Portions of this section ftom "Historic Resources of Iowa City. Iowa MPS" 11s1ed In 1he NRHP: au1hored by Mar1ys Svendsen. United States Depar1ment of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 8 _ HIs10rtc DIstrict Name of Property Johnson COuntv IA County and S_ Robinson that looked out over the Iowa River. The pattern of building and the present day density of the Melrose Historic District are a result of the organic manner in which the area grew as well as conscious planning decisions made by formeI subdivision development. Residential building occurred in multiple waves. No evidence of the first wave of setttement, that which is depicted in the BirrJ's Eye View Map. survives although the cluster of houses at the crest of Myrtle Avenue where several of the District's oldest dwellings are currently located may be Hnked with the settlement shown on the BirrJ's Eye View Map. These frame 1- houses, the LE. EUIott House (contributing. 402 Myrtle Avenue) and the Clarence and Frances Huffman House (contributing, 412 Myrtle Avenue. Photo 11'3) date from ca. 1890 or earlier. In later years Myrtle Avenue passed this pair of houses before tuming southwest and crossing the tracks of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. from SlnI'. E..- VIew alloW8 c;ty, Joh".on County. 10_. 1868 , (from the S1ate Hlator1caI SOGiety of Iowa - Iowa City) N I ~.. ø..... Road or MaIrœe AVIIIIUII Unlt8d Sta1n Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 9 _ tfostoriC DIsIrfd Name of Property Johnson Countv IA COunty and Stete A Country NeJghbodJood along Snook'. Grove Road The second wave of setuement in the Melrose Historic District took place in the decades immediately following the Civil War. House sites were established on small acreages located along Snook's Grove Road (Melrose Avenue) with the formal subdivision of Govemment Lot 1, Sec.16-79-6 in this area of Johnson County. The ear1iest surviving house in the District is the country estate of landowner William Billingsley (629 Melrose Avenue. contributing, NRHP, Photo #1). Built in 1870, the multi-acre site originally had a small bam (non-extant)es well as the 16-room house. A two-story garage (contributing) with servants' quarters on the second ftoorwas added to the property in the 1920s. Hlstortc VIew of Blmngeley-H111a Houee and Garage, 828 Melrose Avenue. ca. 1925 (photo COUI1eay of Mk:haelanne Widnesa. Iowa CIty) Subdividing of the area south of Snook's Grove Road began in March 1881 when William Billingsley sold Paul Custer and his wife Gabriella 18 acres of land In the west half of Govemment Lot 1 that surrounded Billingsley's house site. Nine months later Paul Custer fonnally subdivided this parcel into rectangular multi-acre lots fronting on Snook's Grove Road. the state road that connected Iowa City with points west. Custer's Subdivision extended along the south Side of Snook's Grove Road from near where Lucon Drivé and Brookland Place are located on the east to just west of Melrose Place (outside of the District). The Custers sold off these lots slowly over the next seven years with the first two going to A W. Pratt. The other lots changed hands several times before houses were built after 1900. The A W. Pratt House (503 Melrose Avenue. contributing, NRHP, Photo #2) was built a quarter mite to the east of the Billingsley-Hills House in 1885. Pratt was a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 ~~ Page 10 Johnson Countv. IA County and S1a1e partner in the Pratt & Strub Drygoods Store, a successful Iowa City department store. A third surviVing house from this period is located just outside of the District, the Wilbur and Hattie Cannon House (320 Melrose Avenue, NRHP) built in 1884. Sons of the Cannon family and the Pratt family were eventually partners in WA Cannon, Jr. & Co., a peñume and cosmetics manufacturer at the tum of the 20" century. Historic VIew of A.W. Pratt House, 503 Melroee Avenue, ca. 1910 (photo courtesy of Chun:h of Jesus Chris! of L.a1ter-Day Saints, Iowa City) The next subdivision platted within the Melrose Historic District wes east of Custer's Subdivision at the eastem edge of the District. Named ·Crowtey's River View Addition: this subdivision was surveyed by J.C. Watkins and platted by Edward Crowley in February 1908. The lots were laid out along the bluff top facing the Iowa River, along River Road below the bluff, and with a few lots away from the bluff laid out along the south side of Snook's Grove Road (Melrose Avenue) before it tumed north to descend the hill and connect to the Burlington Street Bridge. Crowley appears to have been unsuccessful with this platting effort, however. selling only a few lots including one below the hill for use as a send and gravel site (outside of the District) and several along Melrose Avenue for house sites that were built on in the decades immediately following 1900. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 11 Melrose H_ DIaIrIc:I Nama of Property Johnson CounIv IA County and sœte The third wave of development in the Melrose Historic District began shortly after the tum of the 20" century. Iowa City population stood at 7,987 in 1900 with another 1.500 Slate University of Iowa students not Included in this figure. A$ the 'Historic Resources of Iowa City. Iowa' MPS states, this population was housed largely in the blocks that comprised the original town plat and later additions along the eas!em and southem edg.. of the city. Once the Iowa River was breached with the approval of a..-westem city limit in the referendum vote held on March 21,1910, new houses were rapidly constructed west of the river. This section of town became known alternately 88 'West Iowa City" and the 'West Side' on published maps and in city directories. Between ca. 1905 and the and of World War I. more than a dozen..- houses were completed in the District. Their location was confined to the 300-700 blocks along the south side of Snook's Grove Road (Melrose Avenue) and a single house on Myrtte Avenue. The houses ranged from smaD two-etory frame cottages to large two-story houses fitted out with elaborate entrance porches and rear sleeping porches. These residences were built and occupied by Iowa City merchants (hardware dealer, seed and feed dealer. agricultural Implement dealer. blacksmith) and manufacturers (perfume and gloves), retired farmn. building tradesmen (carpenters and plumbers), and several widows. City directories Show that no individuale with connections to the State University of Iowa were included in this third wave of homebullders. Iowa City "Weet æ.... from Aft.. of Johnson Counfy,lowa. 1917 l ,'J . - " , . : ....., ...... Ii' ,,:."! .... .,.-.,.. . ... < ':.' ,- ..... T. r ';'"r. .. ..~ ." ~¡ . ..-. ~.' ~ '. r I .:". .. :'. . . .." , ï.,. ~. ",. ,.t.'" 1 , .....'·~1·- -. ~. . . · . . , -' -- " . . ·."~r ,. 'I~ .T.N:"..¥, : ....' . '," .. ." . I "" -. ". . '~: . ..... I ...J,.... I .' ..- . f I .. .a;: . . -. ·"T._ . . . ,.... ". - . , - , . .~. , -.- '1 . t ~...òI. '!. ~ 1 ,'./. W UI I . -. - -/' - - ;t- o - ;. ~. 'I,. < ..' .~ 5~," · J' ".. ~ '. · ~ ...... I e" ~ ! ..' ¡... . .-- ";.:.: .:¡ Melroee Historic District United States Deparbnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 12 Mat:...~~ Johnson COuntv. IA County and Stale Establishment of the SUI Hosp/tlII Cotnplex and the West Side Campua The fourth and most important wave of residential development in the Melrose Historic District began after World War I and continued through the 19308. These two decades were marked by the platting of four subdivisions in the District and construction of nearty half of the single-family dwellings, all of the dUplexes. and the only apartment building. The single factor that prompted this swift development was the decision by the State University of Iowa to expand its campus to the west side of the Iowa River. Prior to this time as noted above. SUI and the SUI General Hospital were situated on the east side of the Iowa River north of the central business district. Shortly before World War I, SUI made the decision to acquire a substantial parcel of ground on the west side for purposes of developing a new hospital complex. This decision was made in the wake of two important events. The first was the publication in 1910 of the Carnegie Foundation·s FIexner Report. a national study of medical colleges in the United S1ates and Canada that recommended that the SUI College of Medicine and SUI Hospital either make serious reforms or shut dcMn because of deficiencies. The second event was the passage of the Perkins Act in 1915 by the Iowa General Assembly, which mendated that the SUI College of Medicine provide care for the state's indigent children. In separate action later that year. the General Assembly established funding for a iSO-bed 'Hospital for Indigent, Dlnas9d & Crippled Children." These legislative actions togather with the Impetus of the Flexner Report set the course for major reform and hospital expansion. The site selected for the new Children's Hospital was part of an 8O-acre campus expansion located on the bluffs west of the Iowa River and about a haIf-mile north of the present day Melrose Historic District. When the Children's Hospital opened in 1919 it was the first SUI building on the new West Side Campus. It was soon followed by completion of the Psychopathic Hospital in 1920 and WestIawn (nurses dormitory) in 1921. The same year that the Children's Hospital opened the Iowa General Assembly palled the Haskell-Klaus Þd, which extended the benefits of free medical care to indigent adulls. As a result of the Perkins Act and the Haskell-Klaus Act. more than half of the SUI Hospital's admissions were made up of indigent patients by the earty 19205. To address the growing demand for hospital beds, a lengthy process of negotiation was begun to secure funding for the conatrucIion of a new general hospital on the West Side Campus. Abraham Flexner, author of the report that had severely criticized the SUI Hospital and College of Medicine in 1910. was Impressed with the subsequent efforts of the Iowa legislature and the College of Medicine to deal with the problems. As a result, Flexner became SUI's champion in his new position with the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. FIexner proposed that the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation help SUI build a new medical center across the river from the facility he had described in his 1910 report as small and outmoded. He noted to the General Education Board 'that the state legislature had dramatically increased its support of the medical school from less than $70,000 in 1912-1913 to more then $1 million in 1922-23. But generous though it was to the medical school, the legislature would not appropriate the whole $4.5 million needed to build a new medical center." Flexner proposed that the Rockefeller philanthropies provide $2.5 million with the balance to come from taxes. Despite efforts by opponents within the Rockefeller Foundation who did not favor funding tax-supported entities, the SUI hospital proposal was approved. The project's significance on a national scale was that it combined state tax dollars with Foundation resources breaking the Iong-s1anding position of the Rockefeller philanthropies to not fund tax supported institutions. The Iowa General Assembly approved funding for the new General Hospital and Medical Laboratories Building in 1924. Construction was planned for four years with the opening of the laboratories Building in 1927 and the 77G-bed General Hospital in 1928. Representatives of major state and national medical organizations and medical schools from throughout the country attended the three-day long dedication celebration held In November 1928. 'E. Richard Brown, RockefeHer fÌfedictne Men: Medicinø and Capita/i8tTI in Ameñca (BetkIey, CA: University of CaIifomia Press), 1979, p. 177. Unlt8d States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 13 M_ HisIor1c DIaIrId Name of Property Johnøon Countv. IA COunty and Stete Subdlvtalon Platting In the tea Once the decision was made regarding the establishment of a new West Side Campus for the $tate Univelsity of Iowa. the diraclion of Iowa City's future growth west of the Iowa River was assured. The future campus as well as the area to the north and south were annexed and city services for water and sewers were extended wast of the river. Next came the platting of additions and subdivisions to spur residential construction. One of the first areas favored for developer attention was the area south of Snook's Grove Road, which was renamed 'Melrose Avenue' following submittal of a petition by residen1s along Snook's Grove Road to the Iowa City City Council on December 3, 1915. The road retained its name on some maps for a time. The platting of four subdivisions and the establishment of a new city park took place between 1921 and 1925 in the blocks south of Melrose Avenue. These actions were followed shortly by the construction of dozens of new houses, a handful of duplexes, and one large apartment building. The first land to be platted along the south edge of Melrose Avenue - the boundary of the new West Side Campus - was Lambert's Subdivision of Lot 4 of Custer's Subdivision. this plat was laid out in April 1921 by Byron J. Lambert, head of the SUI Department of Civil Engineering, and also a registered land surveyor. The approximately 600 by 200 foot tract was owned by Lambert and Dr. Samuel Orton, the resident owner of 629 Melrose Avenue. Lambert had acquired his portion of the land in the new subdivision shortly before the plat was filed. The relatively small subdivision contained only six lots laid out along a cul-de-sac named 'Melrose Circle' that measured just 18 feet at the north end. The portion of the street that looped the circle at the south end of the cul-de-sac widened to 24 feel Lambert selected Lot 4 for construction of his own residence and sold off the other lots by early 1923. Substantial houses were completed on all but one lot within a few years. In addition to Lambert, Itomebuilders included the SUI Athletic Director, the dean of the SUI College of Phannacy, the director of the SUI Institute of Hydraulic Research, and the SUI news director. With houses under construction or nearing completion along Melrose Circle, in January 1923 James and Augusta Paden retained J.C. Watkins. a registered land surveyor and civil engineer, to layout Paden's Addition in Lot 3 of Custer's Subdivision. The Padens retained Lot 1 that contained their personal residence (215 Melrose Court, contributing) and laid out a group of small lots (50 by 100 feet) facing onto a narrow private drive that joined Melrose Avenue at aT-intersection. The plat for Paden's Addition appears on the following page. Plat øf IMIIIert'a 8ubdIvIeon øf Lot 4, Cuatar's Subdhrlalon. flied AprIl 1, 1821, Joh_ COllllly Rac:onIer , ~ NÂ " V£Nu~ --t- - / I 1i. ~ . J1oSo._ . " ~ .!; * ri"· ~o.' . , ;::' ¿, , .. , II ,.., J I. ~.,S" , /ß'" , ',T~_ ....-:-,..... United States DeparÞnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page Melrose HIsIor1c District _ ofPIOp8ftJ 14 Johnson Countv. IA County and Stele Before the end of January 1923. a second addition was laid out on land adjoining Paden's Addition on the south taking up the balance of Lot 3 and a portion of Lot 2 of Custer's Subdivision, The name of this subdivision, Melrose Court Addition, gave the 20 foot wide private drive its name - 'Melrose Court." The Melrose Court Addition contained 14 sman lots (50 by 100-120 feet) on either side of Melrose Court. Like Paden's Addition. Melrose Court Addition was laid out by J.C. Watkins. The pial for the Melrose Court Addition appears below. Occupants of the houses built in Paden's Addition and Melrose Court Addition included a mix of working and middle class households, which conönued through the years. In addition to SUI faculty, coaches. physicians. and an SUI janitor, homes and dUplexes ware occupied by several carpenters, a truck gardenar, a bookkeeper, an auto mechanic, and several commercial travelers. PIal 01 hœn·. AddItIOn 01 Lat 3, ~. SubdMalon, IlIed January .. 1823. Johnson County RaconIer , ~&i__ , L,..... ~. Pf <!!' ¡ Ir ,a .. J{.,........ 1.. g..,... ~,.... ...... .s~ - ",- - (.... ft\ . . / " , .. ~ ... . .... ... ';I ~ L~ ,.. , h ~ .. · ..J .. . · /'7 ' . -4 .. . ,t \ (l II .. .. . ~ :-;: .3 ... II- t , ... " .t '> ~ ~ · ~ . Ñ ~ "-' '. ",- ~ :,. 1-7 2r 1-,.......-.-... .". .s..._. ~'If" ¿.r6 PIal 01....... Court AddIIIon 01 Lat 3, C...... ~ IlIed January 1'.1823, J_ County RaconIar N. ..1..... A.... Lo~ , Lot 2· Cut.~1 . Cuat.., . s..1>-U.. SUb-U... iI'107' 1 I , ~ ~ = .. &1' I II 5 ;\ . .. 51- 6 I! .. t 1'2' 14 l' 12 11 ,- IIII.·~ . United States Deparlment of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Pep 15 _ Historic DIsIrId Name of Property Johnson COunlv IA County and Stale The last major subdivision laid out in the Melrose Historic District was the BrookIand Park Addition platted in November 1924 by three Iowa City couples - Frank E. and Effie Hunzinger. Mary and J.P. ConneD. and W.H. and Mayme Wagner- who had acquired the land through various purchases and transfers in the months Immediately preceding filing of the plat. The group retained engineer Byron J. Lambert to lay out the addition. In addition to firing the joint plat. the Hunzingers and Wagners shared another important business relationship - ownership and operation of J.H. Hunzinger & Co. and an invesbnent interest later in the Hunzinger-Wagner Co., both construction and development firms that operated in Iowa City between the World Wars. The work of these companies is described in greater detail below. Plat of ~nd Parte AdcIItIqn, filed Novwnber 1,1924, Johnson CcIunI¥ Recorder " .L.i.·'..,t'7,~ . . i~'!~~~ ",>':. ,. ".'.';';;f:., . / ..9'\1, '.:.1 ·,t;s;l~ "~',~j.~..,.,,:.~~1;';;::C '. " ..' ~ nW- '.t" ,.,...}.....a..... . ,.¡. ."" ',-"": "~ ~> ", ';, - , .LJt':.... _'~~:c2...:.:"4.,~~~.., ~ ':. . \' ~. - ----. - \' -¥.-"""" '':'-:~,:7 . .::l~;,~.'" *' "'-_A' '#-~:-".r.~ ~.~ -~_" ... r\. .'~~' f""-N':'"'-"-- '~=..:::J. i __ i\ I 11 I i " . I i I' I! ~ I II 1 i I' , ! I~ _./ ï:J.'ð."I.~Þ ~ . t~_"cJ {--..~. .f......",~.... / // b.4i-'-·?-_ " ,. ,,~~~ J" b,,_ ~...c. ~4J.- ~...,,,*":;'...::,,~ _ _~4---'_.... _~'.~ ."'';}' (&..7/,,-¡ Q 1'/...£. '.-. " . . United SI:ia'" Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 16 _ HIIIoricDiolrk:t Name of Property Johnson COunlv IA COunty and SIa1e The BrookIand Par1t Addition was the tergest modem subdivision in the Melrose Historic District measuring approximately 850 by 300 feel It included 22 lots laid out along two streets and, like the adjacent Lambert's Subdivision laid out by B.J. Lambert, contained an intersecting cul-de-sac with a 40 foot diameter circle. Streets in the addition ranged from 20 to 30 feet wide with a short alley measuring 16 feel The most significant featura of the addition was the inclusion of Brookland Par1t (contributing) that was formally transferred to the City of Iowa City in December 1924 for use as municipal parkland. The construction of hou_ in the Brookland Par1t Addition proceeded at a steady pace through the balance of the 19208 with 14 new dwellings and one duplex completed between 1925 and 1927. These same three years mar1ted the period of construcIion for two major SUI facilities north of Melrose Avenue - the SUI Fiekf House completed in 1927 and the SUI General Hospital completed in 1928. As might be expected, following the development of the West Side Campus. and the SUI General Hospital in particular. SUI faculty. staff. and students occupied a major portion of the new housing in the Brookland P8I1I: Addition. A surpriSingly large share of the new residences, however, was occupied by working class and middle class families whose livelihoods were not connected to SUI. These included several carpenters and contractors, a number of grocers and other merchants. several bank employees. and several salesmen. The result was a socially and economically diverse neighborhood where a profes$or of philosophy might reside next door to a carpenter and a grocer might share a backyard fence with a physician. The poor economy of the Depression slowed construction of new hou_ at the beginning of the 19308 but by the end of the decade another 15 hou_ had been added along Brookland P8I1I: Drive and Melrose Court (including the north end). The last area settled in the District along Lucon Drive is discussed as part of the post-World War II development below. west Side Campua Grows The development of the Melrose neighborhood is important under the category of Education because its growth paralleled a period of general expansion at SUI. Student enrollment of just 1,500 in 1900 grew to more than 8.500 at the end of the 19208. Citywide population neerty doubled during the same period to 15,340 by 1930. General growth of the University and its local impact are 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. In addition to the SUI HospItal facilities described above, the West Side Campus's wic:te-open expan_ and level terrain proved suitable for construction of a sertes of buildings and athletic faciU\ies that required substantial space. One of the first facilities completed during the decade of the 1920s was the Armory (non-extant) erected in 1921. It was Originally a free-standing building located approximately one block north of Melrose Avenue opposite Melrose Circle. The second major building to be completed was the SUI Field House (extant) in 1927. It was connected to the east side of the Armory with its over-slzed swimming pool incorporated into the fire protection system for the SUI General Hospitel that was under construction at the same time. The third major facility completed during the decade was the new football stadium located north of Melrose Avenue opposlta Melrose Place and the Melrose Apartments. Originally dubbed Iowa Stadium (extant) when it was completed in 1929, it was renamed Kinnick Stadium in honor of SUI Heisman trophy winner Nile Kinnick. During World War II Kinnick died in a training flight and his death was moumed as a national tragedy. Vacant land surrounding the Armory and the athletic facilities was taken over for practice fields, tennis courts, running track, and parking lots. During the Great Depression years. construction on the SUI West Side Campus came to an abrupt stop. Growth of the West SIde Campus during the 19208 and 1930s along with general growth of the University created a demand for student housing. Though construction of single-family dwellings dominated housing development in the Melrose Historic District during this period. provision of student housing was not overlooked. Zoning laws did not regulate the location of multi-family buildings until the mid-1930s in Iowa City. giving property owners the opportunity to locale duplex.. and apartment buildings on lots that could accommodate larger buildings. As a result, four duplexes were built along Melrose Court at 410.403 (1924), 216-218 (1928), 220-222 (1928), and 402-404 (ca. 1939). Through the years, the tenants in these buildings changed frequenlly, but they nearly always had an affiliation with the SUI as junior faculty or at the SUI General Hospital as medical residents, nurses. or staff. For example, in the four decades between the construction of 220-222 Melrose Court in 1928 and 1967, 17 different tenants were affiliated with SUI. Beginning in the 19408, several single-family residences saw apartments added. This was most common in cases where a surviving Unlt8d States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 17 MelI'DM Historic DIsIrtct _ of Property Johnson County. IA County and Stete widow chose to supplement her income. Though no investigation was done for this nomination to determine the occurrence of sleeping rooms in houses in the neighborhood, this, too. was a likely practice. given the proximity of the neighborhood to the SUI West Side Campus. The largest multi-family building in the District is the Melrose Apartments building at 741 Melrose Avenue, also known as the Caywood Apartments. Construction of the building was completed In 1929, according to local historian Irving Weber who, with his wife, Martha, had an apartment thera.s The 12-unit building was built end owned by Thomas Caywood, a pi nte ssor of enginaering at SUI, and his wife, Sophronia. Through the yaars apartments were rented primarily to junior faculty and students at SUI. with medical interns. residents, nurses. and other ho6pitaI workers accounting for a substantial number of apartment occupants. Architects, COntnIc:fDta, EnfIn.-. and Deve/opeIs of the 19208 and 1930s The visual attributes that characterize the Melrose Historic District ara a result of the original layout of the subdivisions and additions that comprise the neig/IboItIood as well as the design and craftsmanship evidenced in individual buildings. Individuals known to have perIIcipated in the development of the Melrose Historic District in one fashion or another include thosa in the following chronological"st. The year or span of years for their contribution is included: · Frank X. Freydel', architect and contractor (ca. 1910) · B. A Wickham. architect and contractor (ca. 1911) · Byron J. Lambert. engineer and land surveyor (1921-1924) · J.C. Watkins. engineer (1923) · Frank E. Hunzinger and W.H. Wagner. builders and developers with the firms J.H. Hunzinger & Co. and Hunzinger- Wagner Co. (1924-ca. 1940) · Jeramiah Mclaughlin. foreman carpenler and designer with J.H. Hunzinger & Co. and Hunzinger-Wagner Co. (1925) · Marl< Anthony, Cedar Rapids architect (1924-1925) · J. Bradley Rust, architect (1950) · Wayne Paulson (1950) · F. Neal Miller, contractor (1949-1962) FlSnk X. Freyder was a partner in the linn Sheets & Freyder, a long-standing Iowa City building firm that traced its roots to the carpentJy shops of J.M. Sheets and partners Bernard Gesberg and August Hazelhorst in the mid-is'" century. The men eventually merged operations as Sheets & Co. and became noted for their millwork production and COI,b acting servìces. By 1897, the linn Included partners J.M. Sheets and Frank X. Freyder and operated as Sheets & Freyder. Freyder listed himself as an architect in city directolies beginning in 1909 through World War I. The firm completed constnIction and/or design contracts for a number of major commercial and institutional buildings including the Iowa City Public Ubrary in 1903 and at least five Iowa City churches. Freyder was identified by local historian Irving Weber as the architect for the Robert & Luveme Wales House at 407 Melrose Avenue.· The house was constructed ca. 1910, a time period that coinckles with city directory listing$ for Freyder that identify him as an architect. It is also likely that Freyder's company completed conslnJction of the hoIme. The Wales House is a good example of an Amelican Four-8quare design that has been widened $lightly to provide a more generous interior floor plan. It 18 set well back from the street on a spacious lot gMng the house an even greater presence on Melrose Avenue. The house contains two modem features for houses of the period - a large rear sleeping porch and a lwtHtory garage. An historic photograph of the house from ca. 1928 appears on the following page. inlelview via emaiI withLollyEggers(lNingWeber.sbloglapher) by MarIys SVendsen, April 4. 2004. "trving Weber gave crec11110 Freydel' for dealgnlng 1he house 81407 MellOle Avenue. Though he cited no sourœ for this informetion, It may have come In pert from 1he fact th81 Weber was related by marriage 10 Freyder's predec B ! ßor in 1he finn Bernard Geeberg, who was married 10 Weber's sum. This genealogicallnforma1fon was provided by Weber's biographer, Lolly Eggers. United S..... o.parlrnent of the Interior NatIonal Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 18 MøIroIa HIstoric DhdricI: _ at Property Johnson Countv IA COunty and S1aIa Robert & w- WIlles "-. photograph ....., ca. 1928 when owned by Dr. EvenIIt & UIIIan Plass (p/1oIogIaph courtesy of Jane PIaas, L.awrenœviIIe, NJ) The second architect-contractor connected to a hOUse in the neighborhood is B.A. WIckham. WlCkham's company traced iIs roots to carpenter George WICkham. who $farted the firm in ca. 1890. By 1893 the firm operated as WICkham & BrothenI. Shortly after the tum of the 2ei" century the firm became WlCkhllm & Diehl for a short time. Sometime between 1904 and 1909 BA Wickham took .over the firm and began advertising hiS serviCeS as an architect as well as a contractor. In 1907, WIckham suÇCeSsfully out bid Freyder to construct the SUI Pre$ident's House. Among the carpeutera ~ by BA WIckham was WIllIam H. Wagner, who later would become a partner in the most important deveIoper..contracting ~..... in the Melrose Histofic District - J.H, Hunzinger & Co. and iIs successor, Hunzinger-Wagner Co. B.A. WICkham has been identified as the designer and contractor for the Donald and ....argaret Munger House al521 Melrose Avenue. This attribution is based on a notiCe that appeared in The American Contractor in August 1911. one month after the Mungen¡ had purchased this paIœI, staling that Iowa City carpenter and architect BA WICkham had plans in progress for a 2-sto1y frame residence for DA Munger costing $4,000. This house price coincides with the price paid for the property several years later when the Mungers BOld it. The potential employment of William Wagner on construction of this hQuse suggests an opportunity for Wagner to become familiar with this developing West Side site a decade before he became a personal investor in iIs development. The fiIst step in establishing the appeørance of a neighborhood typically invotves the formal platting of iIs constituent subdiVisions and additions. The platting of the subdivisions in the Melrose neighborhood was the responsibility of both the landowners and any engineer or land surveyor involved in preparation of the actual plat. Byron J. I.ambeIt, head of the civil anglneering deparbnent at SUI and a l8Qislered land surveyor, took on this role for the creation of two of the modem subdivisions within the Melrose Histofic District described previously - Lambert's Subdivision (Melrose CiroIe) in 1921 and BrookIand Park Addition in 1924. The adjoining additions included common design elements such as cukle sacs with 40 foot diameter circles. irregularly narrow streets (18 to 30 feet wide), angled street righ1s of way to accommodate both existing natural and man-made featul'8$. and designated building setbacks. In the case of one subdivision (Lambert's Subdivision) the cin:te of land at the center of the cukte-saC was dMded into fOur quarters and made part of the abutting 1oIs. In the case of the second cul-de-sac. cr.rmershlp appears to have been transfelled to the municipality along with 8dacant parkland and a park access road. United States Department of the IßterIor National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 19 MeI"""'H~ Name of rty Johnson Countv IA County and SIa1e Lambert's layout for the two additions resulted in a variety of lot sizes and shapes that tended to ignore the mandates of specific comþaSS points in their design. They also built on the growing popularity for Garden Suburbs in the 19208. Laid out along majOr automobile arteries. Garden Suburbs such as those laid out in the Melrose Historic District by Lambert emphasized the use of traffic circles, residential courts. community parks. and planned open spaces suitable for the planting of trees and other landscape features.7 The fact that Lambert chose to build his family's residence at 4 Melrose Circle is evidence of his belief in the Garden Suburb concept. Located at the end of a cukIe-sac with a spacious Irregular lot radiating frOm a circie of open space suiteble for landscaping. Lambert's personal choice said a great deal about his land development philosophy. Lambert played multiple roles in the development of Lambert's Subdivision -land owner. engineer. plat filer. and real estate developer. Retaining Lot 4 for himself, he proceeded to seH off all of the other lots along Melrose Circie within less than two years. After Lambert's successful involvement with Melrose Circie, the póncipals of J. H. Hunzinger & Co.. a local construction company. hired him to lay out the adjacent Brookland Park Addition. Based upon an examination of property transfer records that identify real estate acquisitions and subsequent transfers to the parent corporation prior to resale to private parties, it appears that J.H. Hunzinger & Co. played the multiple roles of developer, real estate agent. and building contractor. BrookIand Park Addition's similarity to Lambert's Addition was noted above. but the larger size of the BrookIand Park Addition and its required connection to the existing route of Melrose Court put several restrictions on its spatial arrangemanl The result was the inclusion of a series of smaller. recblinear lots along Melrose Court that repeated the pattern already established in the adjoining Paden's Addition and Melrose Court Addition located between Melrose Avanue and the Brookland Park Addition. Both of these smaH additions had been laid out in 1923 by J. C. WatIdne. a local civil engineer in private practice in Iowa City from ca. 1922 to 1938. As a result of the mix of size and shape for lots in the Brookland Park Addition. J.H. Hunzlnger & Co. and its successor. the Hunzlnger-Wagner Co.. MAl able to market lots to a diverse group of buyers frOm the prosperous 19208 into the economically depressed period of the following decade. Substantial houses on spacious lots. moderate sized homes on medium sized lots, and small cot1ages on narrow. shallow lots along Melrose Court and the west end of BrookIand Park Drive were readily sold. An examination of property transfer and OCCI tpancy records suggests that up to nine houses and two duplexes were built by either J. H. Hunzinger & Co. or Hunzinger-Wagner Co. between 1925 and 1941. J. H. Hunzlnger & Co. had its origins when John H. Hunzinger (1882-1947), a native of rural Johnson County, began work as a carpenter in Iowa City in 1907 after several years of practicing the trade throughout the MIdwe$l His brother. Frank E. Hunzinger, also a carpenter, joined him two years later. The two continued in partnership unb11915 when they were joined by WIlliam H. Wagner. another local carpenter. to form "J.H, Hunzinger & Co.' John Hunzinger moved with the company to Burlington in 1916 While Frank Hunzinger and WIHiam Wagner remained in Iowa City. References to IOwa City projects by the firm in The American Contractor begin in 1914 and over the next 12 years inciude new construction and remodeling work for a variety of clients. Work included dozens of new houses, several apartment buildings, store construction and remodeIings. a major church remoderlOg, a new downtown mortuaIy, a fratemity house. a hotel remodeling, SUI hospital remodeling, and a stock pavilion. In 1922 John HUnzinger reloaded the company and his personal residence frOm Burlington to Davenport, Iowa. Another brother, Fred, joined the company's Iowa City operation that year. In March 1923 J.H. Hunzinger & Co. formally incorporated in Johnson County with John Hunzinger as president, Frank Hunzinger as ~ent, and William Wagner as secretary and treasurer. The company was described in its incorporation papers as a general contracting and building business with a wide range of specific business activities al(owad including the buying and seUing of real estate. Capital stock of $100,000 was authorized for the company. It is likely that one of the reasons for incorporation of the company was the anticipated development of the BrookIand Park Addition. 7David L. Ames and Linda FUn1 McCleUand, NstionaI Regist&r BuI1etin: Hisioric Residenlial Subulbs, Guidelines for EveluB/ion and Documentation for the Nelionel Register of Histotic Places (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior. NatIonal Park Senr1ce, National Register of Historic Places), September 2002. p. 41. Unlt8d states Department of theln1ørlor National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 20 Melmsa Historic DíIIrict NanIa of Property Johnson~ COunty and J.H. Hunzlnger & Co. AdvertI8ement (fiom Iowa City Pr8ss-CItizen, o--.Iber 31. 1923, p.4) ..~. place tik ^ Jwmt" . BUILD A HOME! The first step iÎi home buiIdhtg is to Hunzinger & . Co. . , . . ~ ' , ........ : .' '., ...., We arc prepared to draw your plans,Show you the quality of lumber and materials figured ÎJë1 yo~ l~ber bill, -tab you',to..hùndreds of . 1 1\atisfied home builders who will at~t to our ability to save money for you without Sacrificing quality of lumber o. y.>:Ol'kmanshfp. . . . Whether it is your'purpose to build a batn, or a factory, a bQ.ngalow or a skyscraper, consult with us on the¡>¡,àject-; as notÎunø: is too small _~ ~toolargeforustohandle-andyou'llgetthesameexpertâdYice. :.. '. .' . : , ConSultation J.s Free . .... 7 From the first work of excàvation to the fin~ touch of the artist's brush. -all is dolPe under our þer~nal supervision. 'Thb'ls ~ur'safe':':, . guardag<Ünstinlerï9rmat~ia1sorworkmanship. . : - . '..'. ",': :.\. --: .4 . . 1924,:ill be}he greatest building y~r Iowa City ?as had. m many years. :. '/ . . , Afe you, oné ~o wiÌl-buiJd your own' }tome? .:¡ '~_ .~ . J. ·R Híìnzii1g~er '8{ .CO~_:, ~. '. Office ~tner Governor. and'.]e£{erson Streets ~., P1ioDe60S . ~'''_~/ CONT.¡¡ACTING ..~ -- . BU¡WING., <';\;. :',. ... .... . . ,AJ!Ç~. Beginning in October 1924 real estate in the area that would be the Brooldand Park Addition was transferred to two couples who were connected to J.H. Hunzinger & Co. - Frank Hunzinger and his wife Effie and William Wagner and his wife Mayme. A third couple. J.P. Connell and his wife Mary, also were partnera in the initial real estate transfer. Connell had. plumbing and heating business that likely did work with the Hunzinger Co. and the couple built the house at 511 Melrose Avenue (contributing) as their personal residence in ca. 1917. Over the next twenty years, the three couples along with J.H. Hunzinger & Co. Inc. and its successor firm, Hunzinger-Wagner Co., made 29 separate real estate transfers for lots in the BrookIand Park Addition. An evaluation of property transfer records SUggesls that the company buRl as many as seven houses for the buyers and built another four buildings, renting them until they were sold a few years later. The construction boom for J. H. Hunzinger & Co. in the Melrose neighborhood was so important that several of the company's employees decided to live in nearby houses. Theodore Simmons, a carpenter with J.H. Hunzinger & Co., rIVed for a short time at 303 Melrose Court beginning in 1924. Another employee who resided In the District was ",-"lah lIcL.aughUn, foreman carpenter for J.H. Hunzinger & Co. from ca. 1926 - 1929. a carpenter for Hunzinger - Wagner Co. from ca. 1929-ca. 1940. and a carpenter for Wagner Builders from ca. 1940-1958. He designed and buRl a house for his wife, Laura. and family at 223 Melrose Court (contributing). McLaughlin's pencil drawing for the house's front elevation along with an historic photograph survive and appear on the fotlowing pages. The wel!-executed drawing with Ita fine detailing sugges1s that Mclaughlin may have had some training in drafting and design. The Craftsman Style slcfe.gable house remains largely unchanged except for the removal of the metal Spanish tile roof and the addition of windows in the front Øf,Þance porch. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PlACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 21 Melrose Historic Distr1ct Name of Property Johnson Countv IA County and Stale Pencil drawing, "Front EJew1Ion" for the Mclaughlin Howe, 223 MellON Court, drawn by Jeremiah Mclaughlin. carpen18r foreman with J.H. Hunzlnger & Co.. 19215. Roof detailed .. ......, Slltnleh Tile" (drawing courtMy 01 Mark & Carole R8JMey, h_ _) Frank and Fred Hunzinger and Wdliam Wagner continued as officers and employees of J.H. Hunzinger & Co. throughout the 19208. selling lOts and buitding houses in the Brookland Park Addition. Construction and especially homebuilding boomed throughout Iowa City. According to year-end summaries of construction activity published in the Iowa City Pf'6I5S- Citizen for the years 1921-1924. J.H. Hunzinger & Co. led local building contractors in tenns of the total value of completed construction projects and the number of houses buill Their construction work rose from $177,600 in 1921 to $320,000 in 1922 and $415,870 in 1923 before dropping back slighUy to $317,000 in 1924.a "year end construction 8UII1maries published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, December 31, 1921, December 30, 1922, December 31,1923. and December 31.1924. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation ShHt SectIon Number 8 Page 22 _ HIs1ark: DIstrict Name of property Johnaon Countv lA County and Stale Jeremiah & uwa Mcuughlln Houu, 223 Melroee Court, 1940. (photo cour1llay of MartI R. & Carole L R8m8ey, houM _IS) In 1929 the Hunzinger brothers moved to MltNaukee to carry on J.H. Hunzinger & Co'-a contracting business. William Wagner joined with Ralph Wagner and Clarence Farr to incorporate the Hunzlnger-Wagner Co. in Johnson County in February 1929. William was president, Ralph was vice-president. and Farrwas secretary and treasurer. Like J.H. Hunzinger & Co., the new firm was described in lis incorporation papers as a general contracting and building business with a Wide range of specific business activities allowed including the buying and selUng of real estate. Capital stock of $40,000 was authorized for the company. Because of the continued use of the name "Hunzinger" in the companýa name. it is likely that at least Frank and/or Fred Hunzinger retained some ownership interest in the successor company, which continued to be IistBd in local city directories until 1938. In 1940 following the death of William Wagner. Ralph assumed responsibility for the contracting business forming a new firm. Wagner Builders. The last lot in the Brookland Park Addition owned by Hunzinger-Wagner Co. was sold in 1941. C.B. Mark Anthony served as the architect for one or possibly two houses in the Melrose Historic District - the Lambert House (contributing) at 4 Melrose Circle and the Kuever House at 5 Melrose Circle (contributing. Photo # 6). Extant architectUral plans (see front elevation on following page) bearing Anthony's name and a drafting date of March 6. 1925 document his design of the Rudolph and Ruth Kuever House. The slighUy earlier Lambert House was the first house constructed on Melrose Circle in 1922, and although plans have not been reviewed Anthony's connection has been attributed based on an interview with the owners of the Kuever House who have previOusly seen the Lambert House drawings. United Statea Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 23 Melrose HIaIaric DIsb1c:I Name of Property Johnson Countv iA County and SIa1e Anthony maintained an architectural practice in Cedar Rapids. Iowa. which is located approximately 25 miles north of Iowa City, from 1918 to ca. 1948. Anthony graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1914. He worked in Chicago for the firm of Huehl & SChmidt as a draftsman and designer during the period in which the firm was commissioned to complete a major remodeHng of buildings along Michigan Avenue as part of the viaduct project along the Chicago River. In ca. 1917 Anthony joined the firm of Walter Ahlschlager, Where he completed the design for the Oklahoma City Athletic Club. His first Iowa commission was in Cedar Rapids in 1918, wheIe he was the designing engineer for various building projects for the Quaker Oats Company and the Douglas Starch Works. Front Elewtlon from original blueprlnta drawn by Merit Anthony for Rudolph & Ruth K_ Houae. 5 Melron Circle, 1925 (plan cour1esy of Edward & DonIIIna Muon, Iowa CIty) q ,:f;¡'-""'''''-A' ..-'2""-'"tilVNý -~-_. .- --~..- ....",.-.. C IÚ;T'~i.ÞGE. V" ïc- .... 'c..__.. "-r.N<-""£ ð':e/~""- _--.P./.6E./ro../ ~/N¡¿E../ ~ ".,,- ~NÞOM /IfIIDTI/.s} $m~¡fJU ÞII~ -... é~,!JE ./ro-J cÁ$o"IAJ'k'FJ: ··t--- I ! , i i I .Jilt ~PFte'.fl ~rrrA II ·1 II II 1 I- .....-::rl "=,<='04 ...... Uni18d Sta_ Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 24 Mal""'" Historic DIsIr1d Name of Property JOhnson Countv IA County and SIa1e Likely impressed with the opportunity for design work in Cedar Rapids' bustling economy, Anthony stayed and joined the Cedar Rapids office of Chartes A Dieman as an engineer and architect. In ca, 1920 he left Diernan to form the partnership of Hatton, Holmes and Anthony, architectural engineers. Within two years, Anthony had purchased his partners' inteIests and was practicing on his own. Anthony's clients included a number of Cedar Rapids' largest industrial firms, such es Hutchinson Ice Cream, Ideal Yeast Company, and Penick and Ford. Other large-scale commissions were for area schools and churches. By the micl-192Os, Anthony had designed more then thirty houses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and other nea!'bY towns that. according to a writer for the Cedar Rapids Republican, "bear the stamp of Mark Anthony's genius..e One of Anthony's Colonial Style house designs was widely publiShed In architectural magazines with copies built in several American cities. The last designers of houses in the Melrose Historic District were J. Bradley Rust (1908-2000) of Iowa City and Wayne Paulson of West Branch, which is located about 15 miles east of Iowa City. Little is known about Paulson except that he had a design and building business that included residences in ca. 1950. He was not a registered architect in Iowa at the time nor did he have a membership in the Iowa Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. A good deal is known about Rust, on the other hand. He had a design practice in Iowa City from 1932 until 1987 that included residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Rust was born in Grinnell, Iowa and attended both Iowa State University and the University of Illinois. He opened a practice in Iowa City in the early 1930s and between 1939 and 1943, he and his wife rented an apartment in the Melrose Historic District at 402-404 Melrose Court. After a brief stint in the U.S. Navy during the war, he retumed to Iowa City to resume his design practice. The post-war years saw Rust's residential design practice flourish. While his pre-war practice was largely confined to Iowa City, during the late 19408 and 19505 he designed residences not only in Iowa City but also in Coralville, University Heights, Cedar Rapids, West Liberty, Ft Madison, Kalona, the Amana Colonies, Tipton, Marion, Vinton, Newton, Knoxville, and Wever - virtually all in eastem Iowa. Of the dozens of houses designed by Rust, one is located in the Melrose Historic District -the Thelma and Donald Lewis House at 300 Lucon Drive. Designed and constructed in 1950, the house is typical of many of the Ranch Style houses that Rust designed during this period. Its functional floor plan offers fine vistas of the natural ravine nearby and the garage is hidden in the building's horizontal elevation. A view of the west elevation of the Lewis House appears on the following page. A second Rust house located near the Melrose Historic District is the Claussen House located at 3 Oak Park Court built by former residents of 308 Melrose Court within the District. One of the last contractors identified in the District during its period of significance was Frederick "Near' Miller (1909- 1999). MHIer lived in two houses in the neighborhood and headed up a small firm that built houses nearby and in other parts of the city. Neal was born in Nebraska and moved to Iowa City in 1923 with his family to put a brother through engineering school at the University. Neal started out In business working for his father, William Frederick "W.F." Miller. During World War II Neal gained further experience in the consbuction trades white serving in the U.S. Navy Construction Battalion stationed in the South Pacific. In 1941 W.F. Miller acquired threa building sites at the west ènd of Brookland Park Drive. After the end of the war when Neal retumed home to Iowa City to resume his work in the family construction business, houses were built on each of these lots - 603 Brookland Park Drive (contributing) in 1949, 625 Brookland Park Drive (contributing) in 1950, and 611 BrookIand Park Drive (non-contributing) in 1962. Neal Miller and his wife Ruth resided in two of these houses for a time. Miller's firm also built two of the last houses on Melrose Court - the houses at 219 Melrose Court (contributing) in 1953 and 300 Melrose Court (non-contributing) in 1957. The oldest house built by Miller's firm in the District was the first Ranch Style house constructed in the Melrose neighborhood in 1949 at 603 BrookIand Park Drive (contributing). The other houses built were examples of the Ranch Style or modified versions of the MinimaVTraditional Styte sized to lit smaller lots. · J.S. Farquhar, "Mark Anthony - Arçhilect; Cedar Rapids RepubHc8n, Cadat Rapids, Iowa, September 12, 1926. United Staf88 Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 25 Melrose HIs1ark: DIsIrtcI Name of Property Johnson County IA County and SIa1e Waat EltwatIon. Thelma _ Donald Lewis Houft, 300 Lucon Drive, 1950 Alchileclural Plans CoIIecIion, J. Bradley Rust, S1aIa HistDricaI Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa ~,u""~ ---+ ï- '. ~ " I ~ . :t : "7! .-:. , ,. }..' )"V t ll'l / Dodot8. Coach... and Profeaors Once the West Side Campus was substantially in place In the 19208, the Melrose Historic District became the neighborhood of chòice for many of the docIrirs. coaches, 8nd professors connected to the SUI College of Medicine and the SUI Athletic Departmenl Dr. S. Orton. head of SUI Psychopathic Hospital from 1920-1932. bought the Billingsley House at 629 Melrose Avenue (contributing, NRHP). Dr. Paul Huston held the same position from 1955-1971. He built a house in 1950 at 223 Lucon Drive (contributing) while teaching in the College of Medicine. Dozens of other physicians resided throughout the neighborhood. Proximity to nearly all of SUI's athletic facilities drew 8 number of coaches to the Melrose neighborhood. Howard Jones, the football coach and athletic director for the great Hawkeye teams of the early 19208, lived at 3 Melrose Circle (contributing). The same house was occupied by Høwkeye track coach Francis X. Cretzmeyer, Jr., from 1952-1985. Charles Kennett. the English-born golf course architect who designed SUI's Flnkbine Golf Course in 1923 8nd served as coach for the SUI golf team, lived at 517 Brooktend Park Drive (contributing) from ca. 1927-1946. Nationally prominent SUI swimming coach David Armbruster built the house at 331 Melrose Court (contributing) just down the street from the SUI Field House that housed the SUI pool. James Harris, a footbaN line coach and the acting head coach for the Hawkeyes during World War II, lived at 424 Melrose Court (contributing). WiUiam "Ted" SWenson. assistant track coach United StatH Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 26 _ HIsIor1c DIstrtcI Name of Property Johnson COuntv IA County and SIa1e during the 1930s and 19408. resided at 228 Melrose Court (contributing) during Wor1d War II. Frederic Beebee. director of intramural sports and recreation as well as academic advisor to SUI athletes from 1926-1966. resided at 400 BrookIancl Place (contributing) from 1949 untIl his retirement. Paul Brechler. a highly successful athletic director for SUI. resided at 331 Lucon Drive (non-<:ontributing) from 1950 until 1953. And finally. Max Hawkins, a member of the famous 1939 "Ironmen" football team at SUI, resided at 607 Melrose Avenue (contributing) during his post-collegiate year When he served as director of field activities for SUI. Dozens of SUI professors from virtually every discipline resided In the neighborhood. rising through the ranks from instructor to professor and. in some cases. department head. The disciplines ranged from philosophy to dermatology. history to economics, with the especially large number of engineering professors most notable. The neighborhood had several deans including B.J. Lambert. Dean of CivillStructural Engineering. who resided at 4 Melrose Circle (contributing); Rudolph Kuever. Dean of the College of Pharmacy. who lived next door at 5 Melrose Circle (contributing); and Marion Huit, Dean of Student Affairs for more than thirty years. who resided at 626 Brooklancl Park Drive (contributing). AettIII vr.w In 1Ø7 of IIIaIroae HIñødt: DIIII1fct (outlined a,."j willllIppIOIC~ 1fS pen;ent of _ ctwll",*, Uniwrsi1y aIlowa Library. Map Collection, Iowa City, Iowa NÁ United S...... Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 27 _ Historic DIsIrtcI Name of property Johnson~ COunty and World War " and Post-War PerIod The last phase of development in the Melrose neighborhood began during the decade of the 19408 and continued through the mid-1950s. The devetopment of the Melrose Historic District between the World Wars had reftected a boom in West Side growth prompted by the establishment of the SUI West Side Campus and the SUI General Hospitel complex. Whereas allerthe war, the construction of homes reflected the citywide population growth. Eighteen houses (approximately 20 percent of the Melrose Historic District's primary buildings) were built between 1940 and 1955. Eight of these houses were built on lots located on Melrose Court, mainly along the east side, with the balance scattered along Lucon Drive in the Lucon Subdivision and the west end of Brooktend Park Drive. Nearly half of the first owners and renters of these houses were SUI faculty, physicians, and coaches. with the balance of the homes occupied by businessmen and retirees. The Lucon Subdivision was platted in November 1949 by the two owners of the property - Louise Pratt and George and Constance Frohwein. The subdivision was actuaRy a replatting of Lo11 of Custer's Subdivision and a parallel strip of on subdivided land along the eastern edge of the 1881 subdivision. A single private street - Lucon Drive - named for Louise Pratt and Connie Frohwein extended from Melrose Avenue South for approximately one block crossing the east-west ravine that paralleled the avenue. This natural feature had previously restricted homebuilding in the area but with the construction of a private drive, the occasional high-water situations were dealt with by the resident occupants. Five houses were built along Lucon Drive between 1950 and 1953, including that of future Iowa City Mayor Thelma Lewis at 300 Lucon Drive (contributing) and an early example of the Shed Style, the Huston House at 223 Lucon Drive (contributing), both constructed in 1950 shortly after the area was subdivided. Unsuccessful efforts in subsequent years have been made to connect Lucon Drive to Brookland Place. In operation, the drive remains a cuJ..de..sac for its occupants. Tables appear below and on the following page showing the decade of construction for Melrose Historiè District houses and citywide population figures (with the period of significance for the District highlighted in bold face type). Melrose Historic DIstrict - Houses Built bY Decade Decade Number of Houses 1870-1900 4 1900-1909 4 1910-1919 12 1920-1929 25 1930-1939 16 1940-1949 10 1950-1959 8 196o-Present 6 TOTAL 85 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 28 Melrose HiItøric DiIdrict Name of Property Johnson County IA County and Stete Population of Iowa City Period of S nlftcanC8 Shaded Vear Persona 1850 1250 1854 2570 1860 5214 1865 5417 1960 33 443 1970 46 850 1980 50 508 1990 59 735 2000 62 220 *First year tha1 S1udenI popula1lon Is counted In city popula1lon figura Who LJved Whet8 By the time the Melrose Historic District was nearly fully developed in the mid-1950s, the neighborhood consisted of a mix of middle and upper income households in owner-occupied and rental houses, duplexea. and one apartment building. Through the years, faculty and staff at SUI made up more than 60 percent of residents in single-family houses built or occupied during the 19208 or after. Many of the owner-occupied houses saw their head of household progress from instructor to full professor, department head. or dean. Some of these faculty members obtained national prominence for their research. discoveries. and technical advancements. The Districfs smaller houses. duplexes, and sole apartment building were frequenUy occupied by SUI junior faculty, SUI staff, and SUI students. Though individuals with SUI connections estabfishad the dominant social pattem of the Melrose neighborhood, there were a substantial number of exceptions, including retired farmers. bank employees, grocers. doctors, lawyers. store clerks. commercial travelers, members of the building trades, and many others. The District occupants in the list on the following pages have been gleaned from biographical histories, city directories (ca. 1900 - 1966),'0 obituaries, and other sources. It provides a sampling - but not a complete list - of the District's residents. their occupations, business affiliations, and the location of the houses they occupied. Dates shown are estimates for initial building construction and subsequent periods of occupancy. Individuals employed by the State University of Iowa or the SUI Hospitals are highlighted in italic. "'Exceptions to this time period include a random sampling 01 known occupan1s from more reœnt years. United Stataa Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 29 Melrose H"ostorIc DIIIr1ct Name of Property Johnson Countv. IA County and State Brookland Park DrIve 505 Brook/and Pm Dr., RichstrJ & MBlian Nelson, SUI. assoc. professor, economics, ca. 1926-1930; WIlliam & Mildtød Motgan. SUI, IIS8t. professor, 1932; Ftød & Evelyn Fehling. SUI. instructor, 1938-1943; Dr. Frederick & Josephine S1aab, SUI HospiteI, physician, 1949. 506 BnIokland Part Dr., Frederick & Nellie Fry, Fry BIOIhers Grocery. ca. 192Ck:a. 1966. 513 BrookJand Pm Dr.. Kennelh & Margaretta JoMs. Boyea Plumbing & Healing, 1932; John & Rose Brady, grocer. 1938- 1958; Paul & Dedra Diehl, Pøu1-SUI, asst. & assoc. professor, Eng/iBh. & Delh-SUI Hospital, medicallibrarian. 1977-jJfØ88f1t. 516 BrookIand Park Dr., Eldon & Marie Fry. printer, Economy AdveI1Ising Co., 1953-ca. 1965. 517 BrookIand Pm Dr., ChatI&s & LOf.Iisa Kønneit. SUI, go/fcoach. ca. 1927-1946; Robed & Ann Evans. SUI. instructor, ca. 1952-1957. 520.520'h BrookIand Park Dr., EIza & Mary Means. MeIIns BI'OII1Øf8 Grocery, 1927-ca. 1955. 603-603% BrookIand Pm Dr., F. Neal & RullI Miller (first house), general c:ontracIor. 11149-1961; Jack & Lois Layton, SUI, assoc. professor, 1949; Robed & Jo Richardson. SUI, profNsor. 1954-1956; Dr. Broœ & Marian Wohlwend, SUI HospItal. physician, 1968- 606 BrookIand Pm Dr.. Dr. Ernest & Myt1Ie Anthony, ca. 1927-1942; Dr. Adolph & A1Ice Salls. SUI HospItal. physician, 1943- 1949; Dr. Maurice & Janet Van Allen, VA HoapitaI, 1954-1980. 611 BrookIand Pm Dr., Neal & Ru1h Miller (second house), general c:ontracIor. 1982-1966. 614 BrookIand Part Dr., George & Leona Rebel, Rebel's Food Markel. 1942-1966. 618 BrookIand Pm Dr., Irvine & Mayne NIckoIa, Self Serve Grocery, 1937-1944; Dr. WIn. & Bertha Boller, physician, 1946- 1961. 622 BnIokIand Pm Dr., ElWIn & Eva GlOSS. sui. assoc. professor & professor, 1931-1943; Katherine & James Bradbury. SUI HospiteI, professor, 1945-1948; Frank & Patricia Kønnedy, SUI. professor, 1952-1961; Dr. Ph1Hp & Shitl&y H-. f88ident, SUI HospiteI, 1962-1/HU. 824 8rookJand Pm Dr., C. Merton, Jr. & Gretchen Spicer. manager, GIeat AIIantic & Pacific Tea Co.. grocery, 1939-1982; Gregg & Louise !<ruse, rnedlcal1echnlclan, VA Hoepllal, 1964-ca. 1966. 825 BrookIand Pm Dr., Dr. R. Byran & Edi1h 1.fIch-r. SUI HospiteI, physician. 1950-19f16. 826 8rookJand Pm Dr., M81ion & J_ Huit, Dean 01 Student8. 1946-19f16 Brookland Place 400 BrookIand PIaœ,Tressa Kresensky. widow, ca. 1927-1936; F18d81ick 8aebee, SUI. coach & 1ISIIt. professor. 1949-1966. 402 Brookland Place. Notman & CIea MeIer, SUI. IIS8t. professor-professot; Psychology, ca. 1927-1966. 408 8rookJand Place, CIarenca & Frances Huffman, carpenter, ca. 1925, 1936-1946; Charles & Marian Ml1cheØ, laborer, 1930-1933. 412 8rook1and Place, Jack & Anna Vandenburg. driver, Parle CIeaners,1960-1966. Lucon Drive 223 Lucon Dr., Dr. Paul Huston, SUI, professor and head, Deparlment 01 Psyr:hIatry in College oI~, 195O-ca. 1971. 300 Lucon Dr.. Donald & 7heIma Lewis, Donald - SUI, professor, 1951-ca, 1977 and Thelma - Iowa City Mayor, 1961-1964. 320 Lucon Dr., Carlyle & Joan Parsons. salesman. Frohwein's OffIce SUpply, 1951-ca. 1980; George & Conatanœ Frohwein, presiden1, Frohweln 01IIce Supply, 1961-ca. 1969. 331 Lucon Dr., Paul Brech1«; SUI. profrtssor and athI9tlc director, 1950-1953; Wm. & Henrietta Huffman. SUI. profrtssor. 1954-ca. 1967; James & Carolyn LeonatrJ. SUI. asst. proINsor; 1968; Hal & Suzanne Richerson. SUI, professor, 197().ptesant. 335 Lucon Dr., WaIIøce & Helen Davia. manager. NMv Process Laundry & Cleaners, 1953-1972; Donald & Jean Walker, Donald - SUI. ptoIessor miCtobioIogy, 1973-1991, and Jeán - SUI. I8S88roh scJantist, 1973-1991 and Univen1ity Alumni omce. 1991-1997. Melrose Avenue 303 Melrose Ave., Ralph & Dorothy Manley, carpen1er & foreman. E. F. Ra1e & Sons glove mfg., ca. 191»-1915; Broœ & Edna Mahan, løacher, assoc. editor, Stata fNstorical Sociaty, SUI. extension director & dean, 1919-ca. 1960. Unl1ed States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 30 Melrose Historic Dådrk:t Name of Property Johnson COuntv IA County and Stale 309 Melrose Ave., Wm. & Virginia Shuck, agricultural implemente, ca. 1905; E.D. & Mary Murphy, fumilure & undertaker. ca. 1907-1913; August & Minnie Helm, retired, ca. 1914-1946. 315 Melrose Ave.. John & Mary MHIer, farmer & widow. ca. 1925-1962. 407 Melrose Ave., (Includes garage at 4(1) Robert & Luveme Walell, poultry fancier. ca. 191G-1914; James & Vema Records, Brenard Mfg. Co.. 1915-1926; Dr. Evel!Jft & Lillian Plass. SUI, professor of obsIetrics. 1928- ca. 1945- 421 Melrose Ave., DoIoroea Richey. widow. ca. 1918-1932; George & Cona1llnca Frohwein, Frohwein Supply Co.. o1IIc:e supplies, 1936-1958; Carlyle & Joan Parsons, aaIeaman. FrohweIn's 0fIiœ Supply. 1962-œ. 1967. 503 Melrose Ave., A, Wallar PnIIt, partner, Pratt & S1JUb Dry Goods Store, 1885; Wallar I. Prall, partner, W.D. Cannon Jr. & Co.. perfume manufacturer, 1900. 511 Melrose Ave., James & Mary ConnaU. Connel Plumbing & Haating Co., ca. 1917; Jacob & Mery Hartsock, mechanic & retired. 191&-1958. 521 Melrosa Ave., Don & Mergaret Munger, retired, ca. 1911-œ. 1917; Ray & Lois Carsen, manager, MerdIan1s United Delivery, 191&-1926; Frank & l.8Ita Snider, county superlntandent of achooIs, ca, 1946-1962. 601 Melroae Ave., James & Augusta Paden. Smith & Paden Hardware and faJm produce gardener. ca. 1914-1936. 6ò5 Melrose Ave., Christian & Eva Nagy, retired farmerlWldow. ca. 1918-1936 607 Melrose Ave.. Irving & Miriam Barron. insurance. ca. 1925-1929; WIn. & Lucie Gibbon. SUI HospItal. IJ88t ptoføS8Ol', ca. 193t).1935; Alex & DoIoI88 HawIdns. SUI. dit8ctorf/ø/d actMtieB, aIumnll8COR1B, ca. 1955-1967. 609 MeIroae Ave., Ralph & DoroIhy Manley, foreman, E.F. Rate & Sons, glove mfg., ca. 1910; Fred & Josephine Egganberg. fanner and WOI1Ier at Sidwell Dairy, 1912-1922. . 829 Melrosa Ave.. WHIIam Billingsley, Iandownerlfanner. 1870; George Kettlewell. blackamilh. 1901-1912; Dr. S. Otton. head of SUI Psyr;hopathic HospItal. 1920-1932; E/m8r Hills, SUI, head of Deparlmlmt of G_raI Bu8ine8B. 1932-1974; Dr. John and Michaelanne INIctneBB. John.. SUI, ptoIeS$/Jf. ~ of -k;a, College of _, & Mlc:haelanne- -'1988 p-' 701 Melrose Ave., George S. & Anna Randal, George S. Randall & Co.. agriaJllurel implements, wagons & buggie8, ca. ca. 1915-1928; LyBIe & MaJ1ha FruItIg. mgr. WeateITI Union Telegraph Co., 193t).1932; James & HøzaI Jonæ, SUI, 8B8OC. profeBsor, p/IIIrmacy, 1932-œ. 1938; Edmond & Cella Cole, SUI. gt8fHIB wodcer, ca. 1958-1962; Melrose Day Care CanIer. ca. 196710 prasent. 707 Melrosa Ave.. Fred & Anna Millar. W & F. MUIer, ftourand feed1wIdow. 1918-ca. 1952. 711 Melrose Ave., Albert & Augusta Wiese, retired farmer & cemen1 contrac:tor, ca, 1911-1940; WlI/j8Iß Wleæ,jsnItor& watchtmm, SUI Annofy. 192+1928; HoldIng WieBe. clerk. SUI Hospita/B. 193O-ca. 1955. 727 Melrose Ave., Wm. & Jana Rohrat. retired farmer, ca. 1905-1922; Cspt. Earl & Beth Paynler, SUI, inBtn.HJtor, 1932; Come1/us & Lucca de KIaw1et, SUI. 118Bt. profeBsor, 1934; Luther & Gladys NcIf. SUI. aBBOC. profeBsor, 1936. 741 Melrose Ave., Melrose Apar1mentsI Caywood Apartmenta, 12 units willi subs1antial majority either SUI instnJctonJ. SUI HoBpitaI nu/888, SUI medical INIdentB. varlouB SUI HoBpitaI wodcers, or SUI BIucIent$. 1929-1967. Melroae CIrcle 1 Melrose Cirda, Joseph & IIf/fIØ Montgomety, SUI, ditøctor of Sodal Work and SUI nUnIB cHnIc, 1977-1988; Julia Montgomety, SUI, clerk, general B1oI8B, 1977-1988; James & Carol Moore, Northwes1 Airlines employee. 1969- 1993; Carol Moore, 1994-preaen1. 2 Melrose Circle. FTMIc & Romola HIck8, SUI, news editor, 1923; GØOIg8 & EttB AndI8WB, SUI, 8S8OCÍaœ profeS8Ol', 1932-œ. 1940; J_ & BarbBI8 Andt8wB, SUI, BBBt. profeS8Ol', 8BSOC. professor & profeBBOl', Engineéffng. 1966- 1999.1Ø/1red, 200(}.ptuænt 3 Melrose Circle. Haward & Leah Jones. SUI, athl6lic dil8C1or, ca. 1922-1925; Fl8nci$ Cretzmeyer, Jr. & Marlsn, SUI, IJ88t ptoføB8Of' & trBck OOBCh, 1952-1985; AnneItB Schluater, SUI, aBBt. ptoføBBOl', Pathology, Collage of Madicine, 2001- pf8B8l'1l. 4 Melrose Circle. Byron & He/eII Lambed. SUI, professor sbucturel øng/nBerlng and head, ~ Dept., ca. 1922-1949; Dr. ChriBt/a1I & M8xine R8dcIIff. SUI. BBBt. profeBBOl', a$BOC. profeBsor, and ptoføBBOl', dermatology. 1952-1976. 5 Melrose Circle. Rudolph & Ruth Kuever, SUI, profe8BOf' of phannscy, dean of CoI/egB of Pharmacy. pharmacy product COIJBUlIant, 1925-1971; Dr. Edward & DorrIsna MBBon, EdwarrJ..SUI, ptoføB8Of' of SUTgBry. 1972-ptÐB81'1t and Dordana-dietician. 1973-1986. 6 Melrose Cirda, Floyd & Ma/Í811 Naglar, SUI. professorofmech81lÍC$, 1926-1936; Lulhør& Gladys NcIf. SUI. aBBt. profeBsor, 1938; Hunler & DotthH Rouse. SUI. dif8C1or, Institute of HydrauIIa Reæarch. 1940; Arthur & Bertha M11Ier, SUI, profeBsor of geology. 1942-1973. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 31 M81rose Historic DIaIr1ct Name of Property Job""",, COunlv IA County and SIa1e UeJroee Court 215 Melroae Court, James & Augusta Paden, gardener. ca. 1938-1952; Alfred & MikInId S1ahIe. carperrter; H8ZBI BIllett, SUI Hospital. chief cIedc, 1967. 216-218 Melroae Court, HerlIett & Eva Marlin, SUI, p¡ofæsor of phi/oBophy, 1930-1940; James & Herriott, sec;re1ary_ 1reasutIIr, Jones-HenioIt Oil Co., 1941J.1952; Henry & Ida Cole. salesmen, 1932; LysIe & Martha Frutig, manager Western Union Telegraph Co., 1934-1938; EU{ØIIfJ & Domthy SchøIddtup. SUI, IIIISOC profeæor, 1938-1942; OtIs & Lois Lee, SUI. professor, 1942-1949. 219 Melrose Court, David & Jean ~ SUI, professor, ca. 1954-1967. 220-222 Melrose Court. tønents changed fnIquentIy·and included 17 dlffenmt SUI students, insbuctors and professors. ca. 1926-1967 223 Melrose Court. Jeremiah & Laura McLaughlin. foreman carpen1erIwidow, J.H. Hunzinger & Co. and Hunzjnger-Wagner Co.. 192$-1967. 224 Melroae Court, Perry & Marge Livezey, foraman. Gartner Motor Co.1938-1942; four SUI employees betwøen 1949 and 1964. 228 Malrose Court, Will. & Elaine S--, SUI. asst. coach. 1940-1943; Peter & Marge Livezey, defense worker. 1943- 1948; David & Doris Knapp, agent, In1ernaI Revenue Dept., 1956-1967. 229 Melroae Court, TheIOn & LeIa Hill, SUI. asst. professor, SUI Psyc:hopathIc HospIIa/. 1931_. 1935; Edgar & Alice Boytea, sec.-treaaurar. Johnaon Co. AbIIIract & Tille. 1938-1942; eall & Domthy DaIIitrgør, SUI, pmfessor: early 196Os; Donald & Judith SuIhetIand, SUI. NIIOC. professor, late 1960a 233 Melroae Court, Chattas & Miriam FouIkas. retired, 1952; Edward & Evelyn Kadlec. ~ cutler, 1954; Janis & Mary RatennanIs. SUI, IIIISOC. professor, 1956-1961; EtIca OpItz, SUI, erItninisItaIiv BSSi8tBnt. 1961-1967. 300 Melrose Court. JIICk & Lois LByton. SUI, 88BOC. professor, 1957-1962; INifiBm & MøI8dith Snider, SUI, reæalCh auociate. 1962-1967. 302-302% Melrose Court. Wm. & Susan WIesa, cief¡, janitor, & poataJ carrier. ca. 1926-1949; Susan-widow, 1949-1967; various tenanta, 1954-1967 In apartment. 303 Melrose Court, Theodole & Cecil Simmons, carpen1er with J.H. Hunzjnger & Co.. 1924; Rev. louis & E1heI Pennlngroth, 1932-1948; Jóhn & CI8ta McCann, SUI HospIIa/, Urology Døpt.. ca. 19411-1964; Don & Ruth MeIzIer, SUI. pmfeæor, 1954-1959. 304 Melrose Court, Frank & Mary Comfort, retired (1949-1953); DarryIe & Diane Stamp, sel'lliœ rep. Upjohn Co. (1954-1958; WIUJam & Ruth E_. VA HoepItaI (1962-1965). 306 Melrose Court, Ada Baldridge. nurse. ~ HoepItaI, 1949-1967. 306 Melroae Court, G_ & Margaret C*-", general manager, KXIC radio station, 1954; Jacquelyn Scorza, audiologist. Iowa ClInIc of Otology, 1961_. 1967. 310 Melrose Court. Robert & Notine \IMreeIar, SUI student. 1928; Frank & S8t8h Schone. SUI, assoc. p¡ofæsor & professor, 1932-1964; CIao & Elizabafh Casady, SUI. BBSt. professor, 11HU-1958; Emmatt & Lonne VaughBfl. SUI. asst. p¡ofæsor of øconomics & head of con/Jnuing education. 1964-ca. 1968. 311 Melrose Court. Dr. Chaster&LoIsMi/lar, SUI, insbucIDr, 193O-ca. 1935; Fred & Myr1IeStanford, salesman. 1938-1940; Jóhn & Dora Bnwar. SUI, insbucIDr, 1940-1943; Dr. David & Ann CuJp. SUI physiclBfl, 1952-1958. 313 Melrose Court. Unnamed house, 1993 318 Melroae Court, Robart & Caroline Dryer, SUI BBSt. professor, 1955-1958; Roger & Miriam KirkagaalÓ, SUI physician, ca. 1960-1962. 321 Melroae Court, Edwin & Kathryn ReoonI8. bookkeaper. Brenard Mfg. Co., ca. 1923-1936; Claude & Vava Reed, Reed's Repair Shop, 1943-œ. 1955. 325 Melrose Court, WIn. & Belly Holland, J.w. HoHend & Son, Iowa City Mayor, ca. 1932_. 1961. 328 Malrose Court. J. MHIer & Mary SWank. salesman, 1942-1961. 331 Melrose Court. David & Edna AmrINustI8r, SUI. swimming coach, in8lnJctorto professor, 1932_. 1945; Jeny & Calhfltine KoIJros, SUI. profe$sor, 1946-ca. 2000. 401..c03 MeIroae Court. Sidney & Ada MIler, SUI. proføssor, 1924-1940; other tenants changed frequently and included 5 different SUI students, insI1IJctor.s and profe88Olð, ca. 1924-1948. 402-404 Melroae Court, J. Bradley & Francis Ruat, architect, ca. 1939-1943; other tenants changed frequently and included 4 different SUI professors. ca. 1924-1946 409 Melrose Court. Albert & DoroIhy Elba, åeIk, RacInes Cigar S1ore, 1939-ca. 1955. 410 Melroae Court, James & Virginia Brady, buyer, Rock Island RR Stockyards, ca. 1932-1935; Milford & Beulah Guthrie, cashier, Iowa Stale Bank & Truat, 1938-1939;.I6tomI!J & Francis AmoId, SUI. profeæor, 1942; EaI1 & MyrI Grimes, salesman, ca. 1945-1961. Unlt8cl StatM Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 32 _ _DistJtd Name of Property Johnson Countv IA COunty and State 421 Melrose Court, WIn. & Han1et Raben. SUI. eIect1iciBn. ca. 1929-1934; Irving & Martha Weber. assl manager & mallager, Sidwell DaIlY, historian/columnist, Iowa CIty Pr888-CIIiZen. 11135-œ. 1995. 422 Melrose Court, Leslie & Wilma SwItzer. commercial traveler, ca. 1924-1934, 194G, & 1954; Rolland & V"1Igin/a IM/Iiams. SUI, asst. professor. ca. 1936-1939; luta Dove, 88,-"_. Iowa CIty Light & Power Co.. 1942-1952- 423 Melrose Court, Vem & Marie Miner. asaI. cashier, 8avinga & Truat, deputy county treasurer, supt. of buildings & grounds. Iowa City Bd. of Education, ca. 1927-1961. 424 MeIroee Court, Hany & Rachel Wade. SUI, itJBInJctor, 1940; James & Elaine Hants. SUI. coech. 11142; RDbed & Joyœ FesJIIaÆtone. SUI. proføssor, 11H6-11149; Ray & Mae Reynolds, preeident. Reynolds MolIn. Inc., 1952-ca. 1960. 508 Melrose Court, Jacob & AugU81a Miner, contnIcIor and builder. ca. 1915-œ. 1922; Geœge & Maude Patrick, SUI, profes8oI" 01 phI/otIophy. ca. 1923-111211; 4 dItrererrt SUI pro/'øs8ot3. ca. 1112~1940; WendøII & Edna Johnson. SUI, profes8oI" 01 speech paIhoIogy. 11142-1961; MchoIas Johnson & Mary V_y, NicIJoIa&.SUI, visiting proIøssor. law, & Maty-t8acfIfI; 1961"f'1N611t 521 Melrose Cour1, KatherIne Wlllker. widow, ca. 1927; Vernon & Louise ShaIp.Iawyer. ca. 1932-1935; Ma1vIn & Gn¡œ Wabstør, SUI, itJBInJctor, eng/neeItng, 11136; Roy ønd AlIa Warner, SUI, Instroctor, engineering. 1938; Roy & Irene All. fanner and widow, 1946-1961. Myrtle Avenue 316 MyrUe Ave., Robert S. Hunter, occupation unknown, 1915-œ. 1950; Eugene & Helen Hunl8" SUI, attendant. 1952; Frank & NevllIIZen. SUI. asst ønd assoc. professor. 1954-1987; Paul & Ruth Wa/tmIIn, SUI. a8SOC. profes8oI" mathematiCs. 1967-1983; H. Shelton & Ann SI1Dmqujst, SheIton-SUI. professor, hIstoty & Ann-Iøsearoher, public he8I/h, 1~. 402 MyrUe Ave., tenanI8 changed frequenIIy and induded laborers and SUI HospItal Blaff ønd jan/toI3. ca. 1928-1967. «J6 MyrUe Ave.. James & Florence HuIrman, retired, ca. 1906-1934; G_vieve steams, SUI, assoc. profes8or ønd professor. 1936-1987. . 412 MyrUe Ave., Clarence & Frances Huffman, carpenter, 1915-œ. 1932; GIIbed Vandenbull1, SUI. IabonH; 1934-1967. ContInued Growth of",. West Side Campus and SUI Hosp/tlIItI ConstructIon that had come to an abrupt stop on the west Side Campus during the Depression years and World War II resumed in the late 19508 and continues into the 2101 century. New buildings and expansions were completed for the SUI medical complex, including multiple expansions of the General Hospital. a Pharmacy Building, Dental Sciences Building. Nursing Building. and Speech and Hearing Center. Existing athletic facilities were improved or expanded. with the Carver- Hawkeye Arena added In the 19808. The area north of Melrose Avenue went from being a collection of substantial. but dispersed. hospitals and academic halls 10 a dense urban center composed of hospitels, clinics, parking ramps, athletic facilities, and research laboratories distributed amidst a maze of concrete parking lots and access roads. In 2004 despite growth pressures from the UniverSity of Iowa. the area south of Melrose Avenue continues as a single-family residential district. lis residences and apartments are substantially occupied by UniVersity faculty and administrators, hospital and clinic personnel. University retirees, and students. Significant People of llelrose Historic Olatrtct As noted earlier. residents of the Melrose Historic District inctuded large numbers of individuals affiliated with the state University of Iowa beginning with the establishment and growth of the West Side Campus, roughly 1922 - 1955. Thit¡ pattern of residency by SUI affiliates continues 10 the present day. Because of the proximity of the Melrose neighborhood 10 the medical and athletic facilities of the West Side Campus it it¡ not surprising that individuals with local. regional, and, in several instances, national prominence should have made this area their home. A ost of individuals who stand out In their respective fields and who made their contributions during the period of signiflcance for the Melrose Historic DIstrict fOllows. Brief biographies are included for each of these men and women. . Byron J. Lambert. 4 MelroSe Circle. state level significance . Rudolph Kuever, 5 Melrose Cirole, state level significance United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 33 Melrose HIs1ark: DisIricI Name of Property Johnson Cooniv'. IA County and sœœ · Floyd Nagler. 6 Melrose Circle, stete level significance · Howard Jones, 3 Melrose Circle, stete level significance · David Armbruster. 331 Melrose Court, stete level significance · Wendell Johnson, 508 Melrose Court, state level significance · Irving Weber. 741 Melrose Avenue and 421 Melrose Court, local significance · Thelma Lewis, 300 Lucon Drive. local significance Byron J. Lambert" (1874-1953) was born In Argyle, Wisconsin. He earned bachelor and master degrees in didactics from Iowa state Teachers College In Cedar FaHs, Iowa and later received a Bachelor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, and graduate degrees in civil engineering at the Stete University of Iowa in 1899. Between 1899 and 1902 he served in a series of part time positions as assistant city engineer for the cities of Waterloo, Cedar Fans, and La Porte; assistent county engineer for Black Hawk County; and assistant engineer for the Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northem (W,CF & N ) Railway, the electric powered interurban between Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids. In 1901 he was made chief engineer for the W,CF& N Railway. In 1902 Lambert joined the faculty of SUI as an instructor and during his 48-year career with the University obtained the positions of professor. head of the department of structural/civil engineering, and acting dean of the college of engineering. After his retirement in 1944 he continued to teach part-time until 1950. Lamberfs career with SUI was interruple!lln 1917 when he was commissioned as a Mejor of Engineers assigned to the 23'" Engineer Regiment in charge of the 3'" Battalion. World War I engineering responsibilities included: road maintenance near St. Nazaire, railroad and warehouse construction at Monlier-Chaume, road and bridge work near Verdun. and bridge work during the St. Mihiel drive. When discharged in 1919 he assumed the position of head of the department of structural/civil engineering. Throughout his career with the University. Lambert continued to be involved in a wide range of engineering projects during the summar months, and occasiOnally for special assignments. during the academic year. Most of his projects were carried out in Iowa City and various communities in eastern and central Iowa. In Iowa City and Coralville his work included: design of the hydro--electric power house foundations (1907), design of the Iowa City Street Railway system (ca. 1912-1914). design and construction superintending for reinforced conaate arch bridges at Burlington street and Iowa Avenue (1916 and 1917), design and construction oversight for the interurban viaduct over Iowa Avenue (1919), design for remodeling of Iowa Field for SUI (1919-1920), private development of Lambert's Subdivision (1921-1925), patenting of design for metal grand stand seat system for SUI's Iowa Field (1922) that was later relocated to the SUI Field House balcony (1933), oversight of SUI golf links consIrucIion (1923), design for the Brookland Park Addition (1924), and design of the swimming pool in City Park (date unknown). Documented projects outside of Iowa City, but largely within the state, include design of a concrete dem for Manchester (1903); construction of water works for Lone Tree (1906); design ofe concrete bridge at West Branch (1908); design of dams and hydro electric plants at Independence and Tipton (1910); design of hydro electric plants at Clermont, Marshalltown, Iowa FaDs, and Anamosa (1912-1914); design of the water supply system for Columbus Junction (ca. 1913); consulting engineer for the water supply system for Tulsa, Oklahoma (1923); and engineer for the regional airport in Moline, illinois (date unknown). Lambert's patented design for the metel seating Installed at Iowa Feld (non-extant) is believed to be the first American application of folded plate structuring. C.J. Posey, former head of the Department of Civil Engineering at SUI, wrote about Lambert's contribution in the Journal of the Structural Design in 1960. He stated that although Lambert did not call his design "folded plate," it neverthetess embodied the principles of this structure theory. Lambert applied the same theory in the cross sectioning he designed for the interurban crossing over Iowa Avenue in Iowa City in 1919-1920. "'Lamber1, ProIesaor of Engineering, Dies; Funeral Services to be Held Saturday: Iowa City Pl888-Cllizen. October 30, 1953 and 'Late SUI Faculty Member Applied S1ruc:ture Theory: DaHy IoW8lJ, May 11,1960. Unit8d States Deparbnent of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 34 Melrose Historic DiIIric:I Name of property Johnson Countv. IA County and sœte In addition to his extensive engineering design career, Lambert was a prolific author. His articles appeared in technical society magazines and joumals throughout his academic career. His first published book in 1929 was titled Elementary Structures in steel and COncrete and was jointly authored with Andrew H. Holt. The following year he published A Brief Outline of the Theory of Design of High Masonry Dams. In 1941, in conjunction with his service as a military training course supervisor on the topic of airport engineering. he authored a book-length collection of his lectures on airport design. His last book was published in 1947 and was titted William Galt Raymond. It was a biography of Raymond who had directed the SUi engineering program from 1905 as the first dean of the College of Applied Science and later the College of Engineering, until his death in ca. 1929. Upon Lambert'S retlrament in 1944 his fellow engineering colleagues and SUI alumni established the B.J. Lambert Scholarship Fund for engineering students attending SUI. Lambert and his family resided at4 Melrose Circle (contributing) from ca. 1923-1949. As a member of the Iowa Board of Control of Athletics and chairman for many yems. the close proximity of his home to the SUI athletic facilities just north of Melrose Avenue was more than coincidence. Rudolph Kuevert2 (1886-1972) was among Lambert's neighbors surrounding Melrose Circle. Rudolph Kuever was dean of the SUI's College of Phannacy and an importent pharmaceutical consultant and patent holder. He was bom in 1886 in rural Lowden, located about 40 miles northeast of Iowa City. After two years of study at SUI he received his pharmacy license in 1901. Later that year he was given an appointment as an assistant in the College of Pharmacy at SUI and pharmacist for the SUI Hospital. Over the next four decades he rose steadily through the tanks of the ctepartmenl He was awarded his Ph.C. in 1911. was appointed full professor in 1925, and dean of the College of Pharmacy in 1937, a post he held until 1952. Thereafter, Kuever taught pharmaceutical chemistry on a part-time basis until 1960. As distinguished as Kuever's career in academic pharmacology was. it was his WOf1( as a pharmaceutical consultant that makes him stand out in his profession. Kuever writes that his work in this regard began in the years leading up to Wortd War I. when few of the fine chemicals necessary for pharmacy and medicine ware menufactured in the U.S. Once World War I broke out. supplies of these chemicals became scarcer and eventually unavailable. When supplies of German- produced aspirin, an important analgesic in use in the U.S., became nearly impossible to secure, a near emergency was declared at the SUI Hospital. Though aspirin was a product of the Bayer Company and protected by patent, a meeting was convened by SUI President Walter Jessup to consider the merit of manufacturing the drug. It was attended by Kuever as wall as the dean of the College of Pharmacy. the dean of the College of Medicine, and the chairmen of the finance committee of the Iowa State Board of Education. Manufacturing a patented drug was a risky step but the decision was made to produce a limited supply for the exclusive use of SUI hospitals. Kuever headed the production of the aspirin at the College of Pharmacy's manufacturing laboratory. end though every effort was made to keep the manufacturing stoIy out of the public eye. a newspaper account eventually reported on the WOf1( at Kuever's lab. The Bayer Company investigated and brought suit in federal court in Cedar Rapids. White the case was continued, war was officially declared against Germany in April 1917. Soon thereafter, all German patents - including the Bayer Company's for aspirin -_re passed to an "Alien Ownership Custodian; which collected a nominal fee from American manufactures. Under this arrangement, the SUI Hospitellaboratory was allowed to continue to prepare aspirin for the hospitel's own consumption without penalty. Though the aspirin story is among the more colorful of Kuever's accounts, it testified to his skill as a chemist and pharmacist From 1913 to 1937 when he was appointed dean of the College of Pharmacy, he developed an extensive consulting Practice that kept him busy during weekends, vacations. and days when he was not teaching. Kuever lists dozens of U.S. companies among his clients. including the Palmolive Co. of Milwaukee; the Chartes Pfizer CO. of New York; Wilkes, Martin & Wdkes of New Jersey; the Nutrition Research Laboratories In Chicago; the M.F. Price Co. and Weber Laboratories, both in Iowa City; the Federal Phosphorus Co. of Atebama; the Citrus Fruit Growers Association of California; the Espey Company of Chicago; and many others. He was awarded six patents through the U.S. Patent Office during his 2!).year career. 12RudoIph A. Kuever. unpublished "MemoIrs of RA Kuever; Vol. 1. No.6. in 8 collection with binder'a title: "SI8Ie University of Iowa Faculty Memoi.... (COIIIenI8 "The AspirIn Story at 1he State UniversIty of Iowa" and "The Beginning of Hospital Phannacy at 1he SI8Ie University of lowaj University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections University Archivea, 1958. United States Department of the Intarlor National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section Number 8 Page 35 Melrose HIsIðrk: DIstrid Name of Property Johnson Countv. IA COu~ and SI8Ia Among the more famous household products that Kuever was associated with was the toothpaste "Pepsodenl" Kuever's formulation for the toothpaste included its mysterious and highly advertised additive "Irium," which, according to advertisements, provided its users with a genlle way of cleaning teeth, whße leaving a refreshing taste. In the late 19208 with sales of Pepsodent slipping, the sales staff decided to make the toothpaste the sponsor for a new radio show that premiered on the NBC Blue Network in August 1929 - the "Amos 'n Andy Show." which went on to become one of the popular radio shows of the 19308. "Irium became almost as famous as the product that contained it."'3 During the 19408 when the "Pepsodent Show" starring Bob Hope aired advertisements about a girl named Miriam - rhymes with lrium - its advertising value continued. Back in Iowa City. locals began to refer to the Kuever residence on Melrose Circle as "the house that lrium built." Kuever and his wife Ruth resided at 5 Melrose Circle beginning In ca. 1925. After his wife's death in 1955. Rudolph continued to reside here untH shortly before his death in 1971. Kuever's pharmacy career was rounded out by his authorship of more then 80 articles for pharmaœuticai joumals and the popular pharmacy college text book. Phannaceutical LabonJtOIy Manual. published in three editions by J.P. Lippincott. He also served on the advisory boards of several pharmaceutical joumals and the U. S. Pharmacopoeia X revision committee. Floyd Nagler" (1892-1933) was the third notable resident of Metrose Circle. Nagler gained prominence as the founding director of the SUI Hydraulics Laboratory, today known as the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic R8seaICh - Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR). Naglerwas born in Howard City, Michigan, graduated from Michigan State College in 191", and received masters and doctoral degrees in engineering at the University of Michigan. In 1920 he joined SUI as assistant professor of mechanics and hydraulics. becoming a full ptofessor by 1927. As the founding director of the Hydraulics Laboratory, Nagler championed its expansion during his 13-year tenura as director. His success can be measurad in the 5O-fokI expansion of the 500 square foot hydraulics WOI1œhop in 1921 into a cutting-edge hydraulics research facility in 1927. During his tenure, the staff grew from himself, two research assistants. and a mechanic to 26 employees and 15 engineers. During his career at the Hydraulics Laboratory. Nagler launched the lab on an aggressive research program involving practical applications of hydraulic engineering - addressing questions of water flowing in culverts and spillways, around river curvas. undemeath bridges, and over weirs and dams. His own research focused on the compietion of river surveys in order to understand the flow cheracteI lab of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Comella F. Mutel. Nagler's biographer and IIHR historian. writes about the important contribution Nagler made to the efforts of the Iowa Board of Conservation, the Fish and Game Commission, and later, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the 19208 and early 19308. "Nagler became Iowa's chief consultant for water-ralated aspects of their projects. and he tramped the sites of future state parks. assessing their potential for artificiallak.. end then designing the dams tho form the lakes."" This was an intense period of park development in Iowa, with 39 state parks and three preserves established between 1918 and 1932. many with dammed lakes or lake improvements suggested by Nagler es part of his contribution to the Report on IfIe Iowa Twenty-F/I/Ø Year Conservation Plan that was published in 1933. Among the lakes Nagler proposed was Lake Macbride in the state park of the same name located just north of Iowa City. It was under construction in 1933 when Nagler died. During the same years that Nagler was studying and reporting on Iowa waterways for the Iowa Board of Conservation, he was involved in completing river and tributary studies for the U.S. Engineering Department (Corps of Engineers) of the Mississippi River in advance of construction of the Corps' 9-foot channel project. Nagler was named the "Engineer in Charge of Stream Investigations." Mutel writes that Nagler belteved that the Mississippi could best be comprehended by understanding its tributaries. He organized field parties under his supervision to assess stream profiles and features. '""A Suc:œss Story...From Near ExIInction To Top SeUing Braner from the "Old Tune Radio' web site available a1 ht1p:lIwww.oId-lime.comIcommerclaI8.aucœ8IUltoly.h1mI: B«88Sed June 6. 2004. "Biographical material takan from: Cornelia F. Mutel, Flowing Through Time: A HIsioIy of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (Iowa City, Iowa: Iowa III8IIIuœ of Hydraulic R_rch), 1998, pp. 10-14, and Cornelia F. MutaI, "Floyd Nagler'8 Pa88ion for W8tar Power: Iow& Hetftsge Illustrated. vol. 77 (Winter 1998). pp. 152-156. '"Mute!. "Floyd Nagler'8 Pa8aion for Watar Power: p. 154. Unl18d Sta18s Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER Of HISTORIC PLACES ConUnuatlon Sheet Section Number 8 Page 36 MAIrDM Historic DiIIrict Name of Property JohnsonCountvlA County and SIa1e report on prospective reservoir sites, and search out all power developments. Nagler's work on this project was completed in 1930 with the publication of detailed reports on the Iowa, Des Moines, Boone, Raccoon, Turkey. Wapsipinicon and nine other Iowa rIverS. Nagler's contribution to hydraulics is best summarized by this recent account of his engineering career: Floyd Nagler... was an influential figure in development of hydraulic engineering in the United stales during the eariy t.wentieth century. His arrival, and the subsequent construction of today's laboratory [IIHR), are indications of a major shift in U.S. hydraulic research: in addition to traditional field studies. resaarcher8 became increasingly refiant on small-scale. proportional models of hydrautic structures that would yield information about river prooesns and waters flow. Nagler capitalized both on the use of such models and on traditional field investigations to build a research program that investigated a growing diversity of topic&-inc\uding flow in pipes and conduits, the functioning of hydropower dams, and detailed surveys of tributaries of the Upper Mississippi River. While some of the teboratory's studies wera funded by industry. as was typical of the time, Nagler also managed to establish joint research endeavors with U.S. government agencies that needed answers to basic questions-for example, haw to transport flowing water through culveris underneath roadways In the nation's growing highWay system. Nagler also exhibited a strong interest in the history of hydraulics. His field investigations became quests for remnants of the previous century's water-powered mills, and he hauled many degrading mill structures back to his university office. With his diversity of interests end approaches end his dogged enthusiasm, Nagler was a colorful end energetic example of broad-based, early 20th century engineers. These same traits also laid a linn foundation for the University of Iowa's still thriving engineering institute, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering (formerly the Iowa Institute of ~raulic Research). which continues to reflect the diversity of subject and approach modeled by its founder.1a Several anecdotes shared by Nagler's biographer and de6cendents of families that resided on Melrose Circle in the 19208 and 19308 link his passion for the study of waterpower with the family home that ha reportedly designed. The Naglers had three children. and Floyd had an affection for gardening. He apparently combined these interests with his engineering vocation when ha began building an elaborate garden at his home at 6 Melrose Circle that included a dammed water course that created pools. He began lining the pools with rocks collected while he completed various river studies accompanied by one or more of his children. Before he finished the project he died suddenly. One childhood resident of Melrose Circle recalls the ponds that formed as great places for catching frogs and polliWOgs. Today, the side yard of 6 Melrose Circle still contelns rocks from the aborted artificial lake but no pond. Howard Jones (1886-1941) rounded out the circle of notables on Melrose Circle. He came to Iowa City in 1916 to coach football end developed a highly successful football program during his tenure at SUI. Among the indivlduels responsible for bringing him to SUI was B.J. Lambert. a member of the Iowa Board of Control of Athletics. A graduate of Vale University, a powerhouse sporis center among the Ivy League schools after the tum of the 2e1' century, Jones had a coaching career described by contemporaries as spotty, at best, upon arrival at SUI. World War I depleted the ranks of athletic teams during Jones' early years at Iowa but by 1918 in his third season, Jones' team held six opponents scoreless end beat its arch-rivaI, the University of Minnesota. for the first time in school history. The SUI Hawkeyes. began a 20- game winning streak In 1920 on their way to eaming Big Ten championships In 1921 end 1922. Among the most noteworthy games during this winning streak was SUI's win over Vale University in October 1922. The game was the famed 'Vale Bowl" where west met east. A face-off of a different sort at that game involved brothers Howard Jones for SUI and Tad Jones for Vate as coaches. Howard introduced their eastem counterparis the use of the huddle system for giving play signals. When Iowa won the game with a final score of 6-0, it was cheered as a victory of 1"Abstract from Henry Darcy, et. aI.. ecfitOr8. HøIIty P.G. Dan;y and Ot#ret' Pfoneen¡ In HydrauJ/c(¡: Con/JI/Ju1ion8In C6IebraIion of /he 2OO/h 8irthday of Henry PhHibett G8Bp8J'(I Darcy. June 23-26, 2003. PtIJIadelphis. PA. aa K appeared online at h11p:JIwwW.pubusce.orgIWWWdi$play.cgi?0301413. accessed May 24.2004. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 37 _ HIs1ark: DIstrict Name of Property Johnson County iA COunty and SIa1e "com over culture." New Yorlc Sun football editor gave credit to Jones for his team's success. noting that "Boys sprout high, wide and handy out where the tall com grows. Iowa's black earth belt is prolific of ideal football material... it reaches the university raw and unpolished, but when there·s a Howard Jones to do the buffing. Iowa's Old Gold and Black is very much in evidence."'1 Beginning in 1918 rumors began to circulate that Jones. now athletic director. was at odds with the chairman of the Iowa Board of Control of Athletics, B.J. Lambert. It is not clear how much validity there was to these claims. since Jones and his wife Leah bought a 101 on Melrose Circle from Lambert in 1921. Their house was completed at 3 Melrose Circle the following year. Nevertheless, plofSSllional tensions mounted in the 1923 season between Lambert and Jones over issues of pay raisee for coaches and opposing views on combining athletics with physical education. In February 1924. Jones resigned after eight seasons with SUI. Jones' importance to collegiate football on a national scate was affinned by 194 lifetime cereer wins. After moving on to Duke for a year. Jones took up the position as head football coach for the University of Southem Califomia. He achieved a 121-36-13 record as USC's football coach from 1925-40, winning three nationalliUes. eight conference championships, five Rose Bowl victories, and he produced 19 All-Americans. Jones passed -.y unexpectedly in 1941. Jones' residence at 3 Melrose Circle was brief but important for several reasons. Like B.J. Lambert, Jones chose to build a house with proximity to the futura SUI Field House site and practice fields located north of Metrose Avenue (Kinnick Stadium had not been erected during his tenure at SUI). Second. Jones' brevity at this location tells the story of his hasty departure from Iowa In 1924 following a period of years in which he stood in opposition to B.J. Lambert, his neighbor at4 Metrose Circle. Coincidentally, the Jones House was later occupied by another long-standing figura associated with SUI athletics - track coach Francis X. Cratzmeyer and his wife Marian from 1952-1985. The present day outdoor track complex at the University is named in Cretzmeyer's honor. David Annbruster18 (1890-1985) was a nationally prominent swimming coach and researcher at SUI from 1917-1958. His contributions to the sport of swimming led to important innovations for Iowa swimmers and the sport in general during his tenure. In 1928 he introduced the practice of underwater filming of swimmers in the U.S. as a means of studying strokes and kicks to produce faster, more efficient swimmers. Until that time. swimmers had experimented by trial and error and watching others. Filming allowed Armbruster to assess problems and demonstrate corrections to swimmers. In 1932 Armbruster's obServation skills combined with the rernar1æble swimming skills of Jack Sieg, a varsity swimmer at . SUI. Described as a "serendipitous experience (of) a creative coach and swimmer." coach and swimmer discovered that by combining a "dolphin kick" with the double overarm or buUer1ly, Sieg could gain considerable speed. The combination of kick and stroke that Armbruster is credited with discovering was rejected in NCAA competition for several decades but the stroke's inventor continued to defend its merit as a faster stroke. By 1956 Armbruster had prevailed, and the International Olympic Committee adopted Armbruster's buUer1ly stroke with a dolphin kick as a separate Olympic event Other innovations introduced by Armbruster included the first all-rubber swimming suit and trunks, a design for overflow scum gutters to make competitive SWImming faster. a perfection for the kicking board. development of the flip or tumble tum for competitive swimmers, and the unde!water observation window. which was used in conjunction with underwater filming. While at SUI Armbruster coached lwo of his students. Walter Ris and Bowen Stassforth, to Olympic medals. He coached the Hawkeyes to a 114-83-3 record. His 1936 team won the Big Tan championship. and the 1949 squad was second in the nation. Under his coaching. 75 swimmers and divers eamed All-American status. Armbruster was the co-author of three books that continued to be published in new editions into the 19708. They included SWimming & Diving which first appeared in 1942, followed by SpoIts and Recteational Activiti&s for Men and Women. and "Caro1 Wilcox. "100 Years of Iowa FooIball,"/owa Alumni Review, September 1989, p. 25. '''Dolphin Kick Makes Olympic Splash," Tha Iowa Alumni Review. May/June 1984. pp. 16-19 and 'Fonner Iowa Swimming Coach Dies," News Release, Univel8i\y of Iowa Sporta Infonna1ion Service, Augus18, 1985. United States Depar1ment of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 38 Mal""", HIs1ark: DIøIrk:t Name of Properly Johnson Counlv IA County and Stale Basic Skills in Sports for Men and Women. which he co-authored. Armbruster and his wife Edna built the house at 331 Melrose Court in 1932 - the same year he discovered the dolphin kick butterfly stroke. Located just two blocks south of the SUI Field House, which housed one of only three long course poolS (60 by 150 feet) in the country. the Melrose Court house was a quick walk from work for Armbruster. Irving Weber, an All- American swimmer who Armbruster coached in the 19208. lived down the block and became a life-Iong friend of Armbruster's. Armbruster and his wife moved from the Melrose neighborhood at the end of World War II. Wendell Johnson- (1906-1965). a nationally known speech pathologist. clinical psychologist, and pioneer in the treatment of stuttering. was bom in Roxbury, Kansas. He moved to Iowa City to attend SUI, where he obtained his B.A. M.A. and Ph.D. degrees between 1928 and 1931. He joined the faculty of SUI, rising through the ranks to fuR professor and director of the SUI Speech Clinic by 1945. His mejor areas of research throughout his career were stuttering and communication processes and disorders. Johnson's pioneering work resulted in part from the fact that he himself was a stutterer. In 1961 he said that this fact "led to my becoming a specialist in my own distress.o2O As a part of his efforts on behalf of stutterers he established dozens of experimental and therapeutic programs in his growing departmenl The result was the attraction of so many patienls that Iowa City became known as "the stuttering capital of the world. .21 His masters thesis was subsequenUy printed in 1930 by a commercial publisher as his first book. Because I stuIter. Johnson's work in clinical psychology led him to a new field In the 19308. general semantics. His first course on the subject was introduced In 1939 and became highly popular. drawing students to the depaI1menl It also led to publication the1946 pubflCation of his book, People in Quandari68: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment. Embracing the potential for new technology, Johnson produced a series of lectures used in his general semantics course that were broadcast over Radio S1ation WSUlln 1956 and 1959. The tapes were then made available through the Extension Division of SUI. Among Johnson's other books were: Speech Handicapped School Children in 1948 and revised edition in 1956 (co-author and editor); stutI8ring in Children and Adults: Thirty Years of Researr:h at the University of Iowa in 1955 (editor and c0- author): DiagnosIic Menual in Speech Cotrection in 1952; Your Most Enchanted L/8tenerin1956; The Onset of Stuttering: Researr:h Findings and Implications In 1959; Stuttering and What You Can Do About It in 1961 with a paperback edition in 1962; and Diagnostic Methods in Speech Pathology in 1963 (editor and co-aUthor). Several of these went through multiple printings in response to continuing demand. Between 1928 and his death in 1965 he authored more than 200 articles on speech pathology and related topics that appeared in technical joumals and popular magazines. He also served as a book reviewer for the New Yorlc Times and an editor or associate editor for the Inter-Stale Special Education Series, the Journal of Speech and Hearing DIsordets, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and the Quatlerly Journal of Speech. Through his career, Johnson's pioneering research resulted in his appointment to key federal and state govemment policy- making organizations and advisory groups that focused on issues related to speech pathology. National appointments included the National Advisory Council on Vocational Rehabilitation (1957-1961); Committee on the Study of Competencies Required of Teachers of Handicapped Children, Sub-Committee on Teachers of the Speech Handicapped, OffIce of Education (1952-1954); AdvIsory Council on Participation of National Organizations of the MicH:entury White House Conference on Children and Youth (1950 and 1960); consultant in Speech and Hearing. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (1957); U.S. Army: Consultant in Speech Pathology. Audiology and Speech Center, 1!'''WendeI Johnson: Credentials, July, 1963" at Wendell Johnson Memorial Home Page available at h1Ip:llnicholaa johnson.orglwjohnsonfwj.hImI;.accssÐed April 19. 2004, and Who's Who In America, (New Providence. NJ: Marquis Who'a Who), 1956. 20 John C. Gerber, A PIctorial History of the University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa: Univer8ity of Iowa Press). 1988, p. 197. 21lbld. United Stat-. Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 39 MeIraM Hlatoric Di8trict Name of Property JohnsDn Countv IA County and S1afe Waiter Reed Army HospiIaI (1954-1961); National Office Consultant in Speech Pathology, Veterans Administration (1960- ca. 1965); and the Evaluation Committee. Special Education and Rehabilitation Study. Committee on Education and labor, U.S. House of Representatives (1960). From 192810 1965. Johnson was a member of every major stete and national speech pathology. psychology. and general semantics organization. serving in leadership capacities for most As an advocate for speech pathology issues he was a founder and chairman of the Speech Correction Fund. The topic of pioneering tr8BImenIs for stuttering held considerable appeal resulting in Johnson giVing nearty 400 leclµres. interviews. and pøpers 10 a wide r:anp of audiences. Among the more fàmous was the ~ry epiSode fitmed for CBS-TV in T1HJ Searoh series tilled -New Hope for Stutterers." Johnson and his wife Edna moved 10 the house at 508 Melrose C<nu1 in 1941 and resided here through the balance of their rIVeS, 1965 and 1989 respectively. The Johnson House. Which applNlrs below. continues 10 be occupied by Johnson family members. Historic VIew of Wendell and Edna Joh_~. 508 Malroee Court, ca. 19111 (photo courtesy of Nicholas John8œ & Mary Vøey, Iowa City) Irving Webe,zz (1900-1997), a leading Iowa City dairy company executive and a much-loved local historian and newspaperco/umnist, was born and g¡ew up in Iowa City. He graduated from SUI in 1922 following, an outstanding collegiate swimming career coached by SUi's David Armbruster. He became SUI's first All-American swimmer in 1922. Weber's biographer. Lolly Eggers. describes him as "a lifelong supporter and fan of University athletics, especially swimming and football. He spent fifty years as referee/starter for over 10,000 races - BIg Ten. AAU. and iowa and Midwest high SChool swimming events - and personally knew every University of Iowa swimmer and diver from 1917 22LoIly Eggers, "Introduction" to lowø City's Irving Weber, July 2003 draft, unnumbered pages. United Sta1øs Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 40 Melrose Historic DisIrìc:t Name of Property Johnson COunlv \A County and SIa1e through 1996:23 Upon graduation from SUI with a degree in commerce, Weber went to work as an advertising man for Sidwell Dairy, a family owned business in Iowa City where he had worked as a delivery boy since 1918. Over his 48-yearcareerwith the dairy, which specialized in the manufacture of ice cream, he worked his way up to manager and part owner. In 1944 he was a guiding force in the astablishment of what is now an international dairy trade organization, Quarrty Chekd Dairy Products Association. The Association was comprised of 21 of the leading ind8p!ll1den1ly owned ice cream and milk companies from the M~ The AssocIation grew to become national and then international in scope over lis first half c:enbJry. Member dairies in 43 states and 5 provinces in Canada distributed dairy products marked by the big rad check of the Association. Weber was Quality Chekd's president for 25 years. and after his retirement in 1966. he continued on lis board of directors for another 30 years until his death. In recognition of Weber's contribution to the dairy industry and the ~ behind Quality Chekd, the Association named their new national headquarters in Naperville, IHinols after Weber in 1987. In 1994 Weber wrote a 5O-year history of the organization, Quality Ch6kd. An Idea Whose TI1IIØ Has Come, 1944-1994. Despite his long and important career in the dairy industry. Irving Weber is best remembered for his work as a local historian and newspaper columnist for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, a "second career" that he began at the age of 72. Gifted with a natural curiosity and a remarkable memory for details, Weber became well versed on a wide range of local history topics. He wrote a weekly newspaper column producing over 850 columns, bJming much of this work into eight volumes of local hlsloly -Irving Weber's Iowa City published in 1976, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1990. Throughout his writing career, his weekly columns drew fan letters from readers throughout Iowa (45 towns ou1Sida of Johnson County) and 30 states. Eggers writes that Weber "personally answered almost ever¡ letter and in the process often researched the Writer's questions and sent copies of his columns or other materials to support the writer's interests. He always encouraged others to collect. preserve, and Write local history." So revered was Weber's work that in 1989 the City Council named him Iowa City's Official Historian. Awards and recognition continued during the next decade. Summarizing Weber's lengthy list of honors, Lolly Eggers writes that "In 1992 !he Johnson County HIatoricaI Society ea1ablished !he Irving Weber Local His10Jy Award and !he University of Iowa dedlca1ed !he Irving Weber Walkwlly and Plaza œar!he achooI's swimming pool. The Irving B. Weber EIernen1IIIy School opened in 1994. Local playwright Maggie Conroy wrote and produœd Irving Weber's Iowa City, with pre. II ,bIIiuo.. at !he Iowa City Community Theater, Riverside Theater. and an Iowa City eIemen1ary schools in 1995. He gave at least 3251111ks or slide ahowa to over 175 groups, organizations and achooIa, and belMen 1985 and 1996 he conducted at least 18 Univefsi1y of Iowa aponsored bus tours on Iowa CiIy histOly. !he Iut one in !he aprIng of 1996. After his death. !he communily ealabliahed an annual Irving Weber Day, a cslalhation of his life and of local history. In !he year 2000 !he Iowa CIty Pmss- Citizen named him Iowa City Man of !he Cantury. In 2003 !he Lions Club inatalled a statue of Irving Weber on his beloved Iowa Avenue looking down Unn Street. Each day he is seen tipping hia hat to his many Iowa City 1iienda..2!5 Irving Weber and his wife Martha made the Melrose Historic District their home for nearly their entire married mlives. When the new Melrose Apartmen1a opened to tenants in 1929. the Webers took a flat in the 12-unit apartment building that oVerlooked the SUI footbaU stadium (Kinnick Stadium) that was then nearing completion. The apartment building was just a few blocks away from the Field House swimming pool where Weber swam daily until his last years. After a brief residency outside of the District. in 1934 the Webers moved 10 a five-year-old house located at 421 Melrose Court. this location was even closer to the Field House and just half-block away from his mentor and life-long friend, SUI swimming coach David Armbruster. A Iong-time resident of the Melrose neighborhood recalls that Weber was an organizer for the Dolphin Club variety shows held at the Field House to benefit SUI swimming. In another event. Weber's dairy provided 23lbid. "Ibid. and Irving Weber, Quality ClHlkd. An Idea WIro8e Time Has Come, 1944-1994, 1994, preface. '"eggers. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 41 Melrose Historic DIsIñcI Name of Proparty Johnson CountY IA COunty and Sta18 Sidwell Ice Cream for ice cream eating contests for swim team members.28 At the end of Weber's nearg century-long life. his biographer described him as a 'focal celebrity, perhaps better knatm than any other focal resident.' Thelma Lewls28 (1904-1988) was Iowa City's second femate mayor and a leader in efforts to develop a council-manager plan for city govemment during the earfy 1950s. She was bom in 1904 in Hamilton's Fort, Utah. and graduated from the University of Utah. In 1931 she moved to Iowa City where her hUSband. Donald Lewis, was a professor of psychology at SUI. During World War II, Lewis lived in Washington, D.C.. and worked as an aide in the State Department for \he Division of German-Austrian Economic Affairs. In 1947, she accompanied Secretary of State George C. Marshall on his mission to Moscow. She served as an Information specialist during \he drafting of the Marsheß Plan that was in preparation at the time. Lewis retumed to Iowa City where she became active in local politics during \he 1950s and 1960s. She was a leader in the campaign to develop a council-manager plan for Iowa City's municipal govemmenl After it was adopted by voters in 1950 she wrote a newspaper article describing its strengths and how it would operate. She was also a founder of the Council- Manager Association (CMA) when it organized in 1950 to, as she wrote, 'promote good govemment... and to select and support candidates. ,29 In writing about the CMA a decade after its founding, Lewis wrote that the "CMA had been highly conscious of the need for wide representation among its members, particularfy board members. Bi-partisans and amateurs in politics, the members had tried to keep a balance on the board as among political parties, religious affiliations, town and university and the five wards of the city... candidates also had been selected with such representation in mind. ,30 Coincidantally, the same year that Lewis helped found the CMA. she and her husband were building their new house in the Melrose Historic District at 300 Lucon Drive (contributing). The council-manager system, which included \he indirect election of the position of mayor by the city council rather than direct election by voters, was challenged by the electorate in 1961. The system was reteined. From 1958 to 1963 she served on \he City Council. She was elected mayor in 1961 and received congratulatory correspondence from throughout the state. She was frequently referred to as Iowa City's 'Lady Mayor.' Lewis died in Ontario, California, in 1988. In addition to the people discussed above, several individuals may be determined through future research to meet the criteria necessary for individual significance. They include: . Dr. S. Orton: head of SUI Psychopathic Hospital, 1920-1932. . Charles Kennett, golf course architect and coach for the SUI golf 1eam, ca. 1927-1946. · Francis Cretzmeyer, Jr., SUI track coach, 1948-1978. · Dr. Paul Huston, head, SUI Psychopathic Hospital, 1956-1971, and head, Department of Psychiatry, SUI College of Medicine, 1955-1971. At the tum of the 21" century, the Melrose Historic District continues to be the residence of several other individuals of national prominence whose contributions have been made outside of \he period of significance. They, too, are likely to meet the criteria necessary for individual significance at a later date. They Include: · Dr. Edward Mason: professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine from 1953 to 1992; developed the first successful bariatrlc surgery procedura (stomach by-pass) for treatment of obesity In 1966, and refined and promoted its use in subsequent years; grew up in Iowa City and was a resident of the District from 1971 to present. 201n1erview with Nicholas John$Ofl (resident, 508 Melrose Court, Iowa City, Iowa) by MarIys Svendsen, April 2, 2004. "Eggers. 28ObituaI)l, Thelma Lewis. Iowa City Press-Citizen. October 15, 1988; and biography of Thelma B. Lewis, 'Iowa Women's Archives, Univeraity of Iowa Libraries: available onHne at hUp:llsdrc.lib.uiowa.eduliwalfindlngatdslh1ml/Lewls Thelma.h1m; accessed May 29, 2004. 29Thelma B. Lewis, "Iowa City, Observations on 1961 City Election." Unpublished paper, May 16.1962. p. 1. "'Ibid. Unlt8d States Department of the Intørior NatIonal Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 42 Melrose . Historic DiIdrid Name of property Johnson COunlv IA COunty and S1a1a . Nicholas Johnson. lawyer: Federal Maritime Administrator from 1964 to 1966; Federal Communications Commissioner from 1966 to 1973; visiting professor at the University of Iowa CoHege of Law from 1981 to present; played critical reformer role at FCC during his tenure as a Lyndon B. Johnson appointee; also was U.S. senate and Congre$Sional candidate, author, and nationally syndicated columnist The An:hlt8ctul8 of the lie/rose HlsIorlc DIstrfct: The domestic building stock in the Melrose Historic District ~es a representative sampling of architecturel styles and vernacular forms typical of late 19th and both early and mid-20th century neighborhoods in Iowa City. The buildings ~ a blend of architectural scale, materials, and designs ranging from l-houses and ltalianate mansions from the tete 19" century to good examples of Colonial Revival and Craftsman Style residences from the early 20" century. The District even contains a weH-preserved collection of garages from the early automobile suburb era. The architec1s, developers. builders, and carpenters who contributed to producing the physical appearance of the Melrose Historic District have been discussed above as part of the development history of the neighborhood. Their design decisions and recommendations were important in creating the architectural character of the Melrose Historic DIstrict. Of similar importance were the individual decisionS made by homeowners in the seJecIion of dozens of different house plans, building features, materials, and decorative details. The collective design decisions have given the District its character. The oldest houses in the Melrose Historic District demonstrate the choices of their owners for adapting common house forms and. in the case of two houses, popular architectural stytes of the era, into single buildings. Both the 1870 BiIIingsIey-Hi1ls House at 829 Melrose Avenue (contributing. Photo '1, NRHP) and the 1885 AW. Pratt House at 503 Melrose Avenue (contributing. Photo #2, NRHP) have front-gable tonns with cross-gable roofs. They each blend Greek Revival and ltalianale style elements including paired brackets. semi-circular and flat arched window hoods and entrance transoms. and dentiled cornices to form successful eclectic designs. Both houses also had Classical Revival Style wraparound porches that were successfully integrated into their designs at the tum of the 20" century. The only other houses built prior to 1900 in the District are examples of two vernacular forms popular elsewhere in Iowa City: the l-House and Gable-Front and Wmg forms. A pair of frame l-houses built ca. 1890 or earlier face MyrUe Avenue along the south edge of the District - the Clarence and Frances Huffman House at 412 MyrUe (contributing. Photo 13) and the L.E. Elliott House at 402 Myrtle (contributing). The houses are nearly identical in size (three bays wide. one room deep). window and door anangement (off-œnter entrance ftanked by single 1/1 double-hung windows). and porch details (hipped roof porch extending over center bay). Each house also has a smaH pediment centered above the porch in the attic level. In the case of the Elliott House, the pedimant is richly omemented with decorative shingles and the porch is embellished with scroll cut decoration and a miniature pediment that reflects that found on the main roof. Several éxamples of the Gable-Front and Wmg tonn are found in the District as well. though subsequent wings and porch alterations have diminished their architectural significance somewhat. Other houses constructed in the Melrose Historic District drew inspiration from architectural stytes and vernacular forms that swept the country after the tum of the 20th century. Homebuilders for these houses tumed to ~ttem books and design catalogues that were readily available from local lumber companies. After the tum of the 20th century. residents could have tumed to manufacturers of pre..cut houses such as Aladdin Homes, Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck and Company. and lowa's own Gordon-Van Tme 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 houses built by homeowners in the Melrose Historic District after 19()0 tended to fall into two broad categories. those built in the Colonial Revival or Dutch Colonial style and those that adopted the Craftsman Style in one of its fonns: American Four-Square. Front-Gable. Side-GabIe or Bungalow. The Colonial Revival group includes the Robert and United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 43 _ HlstoricDIsIrIcI Name of Property Johnson Counlv IA County and SIa1e Luveme Wales House at 407 Melrose Avenue (contributing. Photo #4) constructed ca. 1910 and the Smith House at 607 Melrose Avenue (contributing, Photo #5) built lwo decades later In ca. 1925. Both have wide, 3-bay fronts with Iow-pitched hipped roofs and attiC dorm.,-s. In the case of the Wales House, which was reportedly designed and built by local architect-contractor F.X. Freyder (see page 17). the roof is slightly steeper with a bell-cast profile and matching hipped dormers on aU sides. The center bay has an entrance portico end a projecting bey window on the second floor. The Smith House has a more horizontal design with an eyebrQw dormer centered above the semi-circular arched entrancè hood. Both houses have sidelighted entranceways in the Colonial Revival fashion with multi-light upper sash in their double-hung windows. Like earlier houses along Melrose Avenue, both the Wales and Smith houses blend other architectural styles in their designs. In the former, it is the simple Ones of the Craftsman Style, and in the latter, it is the horlzontaf feel and eye- brow arches of the Prairie School Style. The most purely Colonial Revival house in the District is the Rudolph and Ruth Kuever House built in 1925 at 5 Melrose Circle (contributing, Photo #6). Designed by Cedar Rapids architect Mark Anthony, it was originally designed to have a stucco finish with half-timbering in the contiguous front-gable entrance bey. However, when it was built, the house was clad in shingles and the half-timbering abendoned. Other elements of the _II-executed Colonial Revival design (see front elevation on page 23) include a steeply pitched side-gable roof with prominent chimneys end groups of 616 double-hung windows. Due to mature landscaping the front is largely hidden today. but the rear is clearly visible - as can be seen in the photographic documentation for this nomination. The property also contains a free-standlng garage (contributing) designed in the Colonial Revival Style with a taR roof that matches the pitch of the house and round-arched, multi-light windows in the gable ends. The crowning Colonial Revival decorative elements that remain on the house are the scroIl-cut shutters on all second story windows. The Byron and Helen Lambert House, located next door at 4 Melrose Circle (contributing). is also attributed to Anthony. It was built ca. 1922 end has a side-gable roof with clipped gable peaks and a formal entrance portico with CIas8icaI omementation. Like Anthony's proposal for the Kuever House, it has a stucco finish for both the main house and the freestanding garage (contributing) built with the house. SeaIw and Roebuck H_ No, 113" Dutch Colonial Revival houses make up the last sub-set of Colonial Revival houses in the District. They include examples of the Slde-Gabte, Front-Gable, and American Four-5quare forms. The Floyd and Marian Nagler House built in 1926 at 6 Melrose Circte (contributing, Photo #7) is an example of the Side-Gable fonn with a clipped gambrel roof and wide shed dormers. Like its Colonial Revival cousins, the house has multi-light upper sash in the double-hung windows that aretarranged both in bands and as widefy spaced singles. Wide clapboard siding without comerboard trim makes for cleaner lines. According to Nagler's son, the Nagler House was designed by its engineer-owner. It has a companiOn garage (contributing) of the same design and vintage. Other examples of Side-Gable Dutch Colonial Revival housas "Katherine Cole S1eveoson and H. Ward Jandl, Hous88 by MaJ1: A Guide to Houses from Se8l!l, Roebuck end Company (Washington, D.C.: The Preservation Press) 1986, p. 312. United States Department of the Interior Na1IonaJ Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 44 MelroSe HIsIoric DisIrId Name of Property Johnson Countv IA County and Stete include the Dolorosa Richey House at 421 Melrose Avenue (contributing) built ca. 1918, and a small version oflhé form built at 331 Melrose Court. the David and Edna Armbruster House (contributing). The Armbruster House has Its original garage (contributing, Photo #24) built as a reduced-scale "temple" with stucco and brick walls and closed gable ends. The two other forms used for the Dutch Colonial Revival houses in Ihé District are seen in Ihé Don and Margaret Munger House at 521 Melrose Avenue (contributing. Photo #8) constructed ca. 1911 and Ihé Christian and Eva Nagy House constructed ca. 1918 a half-block to Ihé west at 605 Melrose Avenue (contributing). The Munger House was designed and built by BA WICkham (see page 18) in the basic American Four-5quere form but took on a distinctly Dutch Colonial Revival appearance with Ihé addition of gambrel roof projecting wall donners above Ihé wraparound porch at one of Ihé corners of Ihé house. The resulting design fits the comer lot although a reverse floor plan with the gambrel gables at Ihé inteIsection might have been more fitting. The Nagy House is an example of Ihé smallest cottage form of the Dutch Colonial Revival Style. It was frequenUy adapted by pattern book publishers and plan services for sman, affordable houses. The Sears and Roebuck Plan No. 113 that appears on the previous page is virtually identical to the Nagy House. The most common architectural style favored by early 20'" Century homebuilders in the Melrose Historic District was the Craftsman Style. These houses had straightfolward forms with clean fines and simple detaHing. Melrose houses always used double-hung windows in singles. pairs, or triples with divided lights in the upper sashes configured with either vertical or rectangular lights. Eaves were generally deep and frequenuy lined with exposed rafter tails and knee brace brackets. Cladding materials included examples of brick, stucco, clapboard, and square-cut shingles, Ihé latter sometimes laid in aI\ernaIIng wide and narrow courses. The Craftsman Style houses distinguish themselves by their basic form. Though lhére are only a few American Four- Squares in the District rendered in this style, they were wen executed. The Theron and Lata HiD House at 229 Melrose Court (contributing, Photo #9) has a Iow-pi\ched hipped roof on both Ihé main house blOck and the front porch. Exposed rafter tails line Ihé deep eaves. It is clad in narrow clapboards with a raised beltcourse separating the stories. The front porch has a closed, cIepboard-cIad balustrade, which. along with Ihé dormerIess roof, helps accent the horizontal qualities of the design. Windows are 811 doubIe-hung sash with a larger 12/1 sash in the parlor. Another example of the American Four-5quare form is the Clarence and Francis Huffman House at 408 BrookIand Place (contributing). Its most distinguishing feature Is the use of alternating narrow and wide shingle ctadding. The Front-Gable form of Ihé Craftsman Style, which is common elsewhere in Iowa City, has only one example in the Melrose Historic District. The John and Mary Miller House at 315 Melrose Avenue (contributing) was built ca. 1925. The broad front-gable has returning cornices and the flat-roofed porch spans Ihé tuB width of the front façade. Like many of Ihé other Craftsman Style houses in Ihé District. the Miller House has a garage built to accompany Ihé house. Soma of Ihé best Craftsman Style Houses in Ihé District are examples of the Side-Gable form. The Fred and Anna Miller House at 707 Melrose Avenue (contributing. Photo . 10) was constructed in 1918. The narrow-front house has a distinctive clipped gable roof with retuming cornices and a clipped gable attic dormer centered on Ihé front A tull-width hipped roof porch spans the front Craftsman Style vertical window 1igh1s are used in an of Ihé doubkHIung windows' upper sash. including a group of three small windows in Ihé dormer. The use of vertical design elements is emphasized in the porch balustrade and skirting. Like many of the Craftsman Style houses in Ihé District, this house has in exposed pressed brick chimney that pierces the roof plane. Another Side-Gable Craftsman Style hQuse of similer scale and age is the Miller-Johnson House built ca. 1915 at 508 Melrose Court (contributing). An historic view of Ihé Miller-Johnson house appears on page 39. Mature landscaping preven1s clear photographs of this otherwise weJ/-preserved house. An exposed view of Its garage (contributing. Photo #25) shows that it. too, retains au of Its original elemen1ll. The Miller-Johnson House was built by Its first owner. Jacob MiUer, who worked as a building contraGlor. It has a Side-Gable form with a beItcourse separating the narrow clapboard of the second story from the medium width clapboard of the first story. The house uses shed roof forms for the attic donners. front porch. entrance hoods, and front bay window. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 45 MeIros8 Historic DiItrict Name of PI'opIII1y -=c::rtŠ: Two other examples of the Side-Gable form are the Jeremiah and Laura Mclaughlin House at 223 Melrose Court (contributing), designed and built by its owner in 1926 and the LesHe and Wilma Switzer House at 422 Melrose Court (contributing, Photo # 11), likely constructed on speculation by J.H. Hunzinger & Co. ca. 1924. The MclaughUn House, which appears in elevation and a historic view on pages 21 and 22, employs the use of squere-cut shingles laid in alternating narrow and wide courses all weD all exposed purlins along the eaves of the gable ends. The Switzer House is a smaller house also built with shingle &kIing. Its three-bay front has a formal pedimented entrance hood with a semi- circular opening that match.. the inset arche& over the paired 611 double-hung windows. The insets above aU of the first story window& have the shingles laid In &taggered courses. The house's original garage (contributing) is sited for framing by an opening in an extended wing waD attached to the edge of the house. The garage retains the original Spanish metal roof tile used for both this house and the McLaughlin House. The last of the Craftsman Style house forms employed in the Melrose Historic District was the Bungalow. Single-family Bungalow& were built on Melrose Court. BrookJand Park Drive. and Brookland Place. A Bungalow duplex was built at the intersection of Melrose Court and Brookland Park Drive. The Frederick and Nellie Fry House at 506 BrookJand Park Drive (contributing, Photo #12) is an example of the cross-gable Bungalow fonn, with the front porch recessed beneath the broad gable. Thi& particular house has a pre&Sed brick foundation with dressed limestone used for the watertable and porch trim. and stucco walls. Oversize knee brace brackets Une each of the gables. including those of the small garage (contributing). Other single family Bungalows include the Robert and Ethel Hunter House at 316 Myrtle Avenue (contributing) built in 1915, the EIza and Mary Means House at 520 BrookJand Park Drive (contributing) built ca. 1927, and the George S. and Anna RandaD House at 701 Melrose Avenue (contributing) built ca. 1919. The Howard Duplex' at 401-403 Melrose Court (contributing. Photo #13) i& one of four duplex.. built in the District. It is the only one that uses a variation of the Bungalow form for its design. however. Property transfer records suggest that J.H. Hunzinger & Co. completed the construction for the investor-owner. The house uses a basic front-gable form with side-by- side units dividing it down the middle for tenants. For maximum privacy, the design incOIporates private entrance )ClIches at the outside comers. standard Craftsman Style detaiUng includes 811 double-hung window&, vertical porch skirting, and small knee-brace brackets in the gable ends of the house and porches. The house has been sided so the original cladding is unknown. Because of its location at the intersection of Melrose Court and Brookland Park Drive. the Howard Duplex stands out. The Tudor Revival Style was first introduced in lows City in large houses. apartment buildings, and both sorority and fraternity houses - all during the years leading up to and immediately following World War I. By the time it found its way into smalter houses. such es those found in the Melrose Historic District. it had been radically transformed. Stucco and half timbering was still used in at least one house es the cladding of choice - the Chester and Lois Miller House at 311 Melrose Court (contributing. Photo #I 14) built in 1929. Its asymmetrical front-gable form has a projecting wall bay on the second floor and its windows contains the standard window choice used for both Colonial Revival and many Craftsman houses of the day - 8/1 double-hung sashes. During the 19208 and 19308 the Tudor Revival gradually lost the more pronounced Tudor qualities for small houses, taking on features associated with English cottages. A number of these English Period Cottages were built along Melrose Court and BrookIand Park Drive as the area saw its heaviest deveIopmenl Period Cottages took on many forms in later years. and because of their original sman sizes. have been the subjects of considerable aiteration in the neighborhoods where they are frequentty found. The William and Betty Holland House at 325 Melrose Court (contributing. Photo #15) features the most common elements of Period Cottages Including an esymmetrlcal front façade with a steeply pitched front gable entrance bay often constructed of a material contrasting with the balance of the house. Tudor omamentation including keystones, a mix of round and pointed arched window&. and quoining was trequentty found in the projecting entrance bay. This was true in the Holland House. A similar EngrlSh Period Cottage is located across the street at 326 Melrose Court. the J. Miller and Mary Swank House (contributing). not built until 1942. A smaller version of the English Period Cottage is seen in the Irving and Martha Weber House at 421 Melrose Court built ca. 1929 (contributing. Photo #16). In this example, the front façade contains the dominating brick chimney with the United Sta..... Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 46 Melrose Historic District Name of property Johnson t'.l'UmN IA County and Slate gabled entrance bay formed by contiguous gables. Smaller multi-light windows are combined in pairs and groupings to give the house a more picturesque look. As with other houses in the Melrose Historic District, the companion garage (contributing) adopted the same stytistic features. At the opposite end of the spectrum were the English Period Cottages that were built in larger forms, such as the Erwin and Eva GIQSS House at 622 Brooldand Park DrIve (contributing. Photo' 17) built ca. 1931. Its fuR two-stoly height gives this house substantiallY more space. Its more richly varied front façade contains the requisite chimney next to the projécting entrance gable, an ornamented brick and stone entrance surround. a bracketed entrance hood, and muIti-light double-hung windows In singles. pairs and triples on each of the façedes. The use of a shed roofed wall dormer seen here is typical of several houses in the District. Another element found elsewhere in the District Is the use of a wall extension with an arched opening. which continues the rooftine established in the gabled entrance bay. Other examples of larger scale Period CotIage5 include the John and Rose Brady House at 513 Brookland Park Drive (contributing) built in 1932. the Charles and Louise Kennett House at 517 Brookland Park Drive (contributing) built ca. 1928, and the Ernest and Myrtle Anthony House at 605 BrookIand Park Drive (contributing) built ca. 1927. On the eve of World War II a new house form and architectural style was introduced to the Melrose Historic District - the Cape Cod. Beginning in the 19308 with estabflShment of the Federal Housing Administration's programs for providing mortgages for small homes, these 1 %-story brick and frame houses became increasingly populer. Plan services In Washington, D.C. and around the country issued catalogues of smaR house plans frequenUy touting the Cape Cod cottage I!S ideally suited to the new homebuyers. When the FHA introduced Its minimal house in 1938. the form was praised for itS careful economy and compact Interior arrangemenl On the exterior the Cape Cod houses had steeply pitched side- gable roofs that enclosed potential living space. This area was made more habitabte by the presence of gable attic dormeIa. Fen.di atiOll generally included multi-light double-hung windows. and the center entrance was usually delailed in simple Colonial Revival omamenIation. Chimneys were placed on interior or end waDs. FrequenUy Cape Cod cottegea would have 0IIIHt0ry sunrooms attached at the gable end or room for atteching a garage sometimes via a connecting breezeway. The examples of Cape Cod cottegea in the Melrose Historic District follow the general principles in use for this form in the late 19308. Both the Gretchen end C. Merton Spicer, Jr., House built in 1939 at 624 Brookland Park Drive (contributing. Photo #18) and the Ostdiek Rental House at 424 Melrose Court (contributing. Photo #19) have retained their basic form with any small ackfdions Invisible from the public right-of-way. In the case of the Spicer House, the formerty freestanding porch has been atteched to the house. The garage for the Ostdiek Renlai House is similar to those of several other Cape Cod cottages in the District that were originally atteched to the main house. Other Cape Cod cottages in the District include the Albert and Dorothy Erbe House at 409 Melrose Court (contributing) built in 1939 and the George and Leona Rebal House at 614 Brookland Park DrIve (contributing) built in 1942. About the same time that Cape Cod houses were being introduced in the 19308. the smaH house movement spreading across the U.S. was introducing plans for even smalter, one-stoly houses that were well suited to the remaining lots available in the Melrose Historic District. mosUy along the east side of Melrose Court. Some of these basic 0IIIHt0ry. side gable houses have come to be known as Minimal Traditional houses. Their asymmetrical façade frequenUy Included a front facing gable that might project slighUy from the main block. These houses also frequenUy included an oversized fixed sash ftenked by operable double-hung windows that came to be described as a 'picture window.' To avoid the extra cost, garages were usually left for iaIBr construction. The building of Minimal Traditional houses continued sporadically in the Melrose Historic District from the 1940s Into the 1950s and 19608. The last major residential style to be introduced in the Melrose Historic District was the Ranch. The first houses to adopt this design form were built along Brooktend Park Drive in 1949, with several more to follow on Lucon DrIve between 1950 and 1953. Like the Minimal Traditional form, the Ranch included a orMHtoly configuration generally horizontal in nature with either a Iow-pitched side gable or hipped roof. The garage was nearly always attached at one end. In some cases in the District, narrow lots required that the IIoor plan be configured as an Lor U. Ideally suited lots provided wide-open spaces for the house to be viewed at a distance. The Thelma and Donald Lewis House at 300 Lucon Drive built in 1951 Unl1ed States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 47 MeIro8ø J.lWnrir.. District Name of Property Johnson COunlv IA County and stale (contributing, Photo 120) is a good exampte of the RanCh form. Its long side-gable roof had a porch recessed along the front and a front facing gable wing to break the monotony that sometimes prevailed in Ranch designs. Other intact Ranch houses in the District Include the F. Neal and Ruth Miller House at 603-603% Brookland Park Dr. (contributing) built ca. 1949 by Neal Miller's construction company and the Davis-Walker House at 335 Lucon Drive (contributing) built in 1953. Like the single-family houses in the Melrose neighborhood, the four duplexes and one apartment building are representative of multi-family buil<llngs being constructed etsewhere in Iowa City during the late 19208-19408. The side- by-slde btick duplex at 216-218 MelroSe Court (contributing. Photo # 21) was completed ca. 1928. Although the buil<ling does not have a strong sense of style; however. individual features suCh as the arched entrance porchas, brick water table and beIIcourse ctel8ifing, and the 611 double-hung windows In singles and groups, suggest a Colonial Revival style Influence. The Colonial Revival Style was employed for two other duplexas along Melrose Court - the building next door at 220-222 Melrose Court (contributing) built in 1928 and the Nelson Duplex at 402-404 Melrose Court (Contributing) built ca. 1939. The Howard Duplex at 401-403 Melrose Court diaculsed previously used the Bungalow form of the Craftsman Style when it was compteted in 1924. The Melrose Apartment Building at 741 Melrose Avenue (contributing, Photo #22) was the largest building in the District when it was completed in 1929. Its 12 units are laid out on three floors with large single. paired and triple 611 double-hung windows providing ample light for each unit. The rectangular floor plan has seven bays across the front facing Melrose Avenue. brick qUOined comers, front gable roofs over each end, and a mansard roof extending over the five canter bays between the gabled roof sections. An arched entrance bay is set between corbeled brick pilasters. The straightforward exterior design is mildly Craftsman in style. The MelroSe Apartments building was originally owned and perhaps designed by Thomas Caywood, an engineer and professor at SUI. Contributing and Non-Confrlbuting Reaources: The Melrose Historic District conIIIins a total of 137 resources including ona site, one structure, and 135 buildings of which 115 are contributing primary and secondary buildings (112 currently nominated and 3 previously NRHP listed). Of these buildings, 31 are key or individually significant primary buildings, and 38 are contributing secondary buildings. The balance of the District incJudas one contributing site (Brookland Park), one nOlK:Ontributing site (Brookland Park shelter). 9 non- contributing primary buildings, and 12 non-contributing secondary buildings. Two properties containing three key contributing resources were previously listed on the NRHP: the A W. Pratt House at 503 Melrose Avenue and the Bilfingsley-Hills House and garage at 629 Melrose Avenue. Integrity requirements used to determine contributing and non-contributing designation for both primary and secondary buildings in the Melrose 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 in the multiple property documentatiOn form Completed in 1992 for "Historic Resources of Iowa City. Iowa MPS' and listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994. By definition. historic districts are collections of buildings that. when considered as a group rather than individually, possess a sense of tima 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 wen as the setting as a whole should be high. The Melrose Historic District meets these requirements. Individual buildings were evaluated and renked according to one of three designations: 1) key contributing, 2) contributing or 3) non-contributing. For single or multi-family buildings to be designated as "key contributing." they had to be substantially unaltered and retain their original appearance in shape, proportions. end roofUne. Principal façac:tes had to remain intact and largely unchanged. If synthetic siding has been installed it was considered acceptable if the cladding width matched that of the original surfaces and few architectural features had been compromised by its installation. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 48 MeIrosø HiBtoric DiBIrict Name of Property Johnson Countv. IA County and State Original porches were required to be substantially intact, windows had to remain unchanged except for the installation of metal storm sash, 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 end proportions of the original porch. The majority of windows remain unchanged. but if altered the sizes of window openings confonn 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 contnbuting status include the replacement of garage doors. Buildings designated as 'non-contributing" include aU resources built ou1side of the period of significance -1870 to 1955. 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. and major additions or modifications of primary faç8des. Changes involving the addition of synthetic siding, installation of storm windows end doors, and the construction of breezeway connections between houses and garages are not sufficient to make a building non-contributing. A list of resources in the Melrose Historic District appears below. Primary buildings include single-family dwellings, dUplex. or multi-family apartment building. Secondary buildings include bams or garages. If no box is marked under the secondary building columns for a particular address, no building is present Melrose Historic Dlsbict - Conbibutlng and Non-Conbibuting Resources f~~Jj \i"P:.¿ \. c:- ~'Æ "~IrIARY~~~~ I SLOG. ~~ c-_i~ë" ITATUI ~ø· M 'J~ORII ,j i,i'i,.. ~...~.~., ~~I!"",,: ."~'" '," IC::" ,::,if ."··.·.'..i::·: .,.,{,.; 505 BrooId8nd Patk Dr. Nelson Richard & Marian ea. 1926 X X Minimal Traditional 506 BrooId8nd P8Ik Dr. FN F~&NeIIIe ceo 1926 X X Cra1IIImenlBunaalow 513 _nd Pall< Dr. ~~neth & Marga- 1932 X X Tudor RevIvaII: re1IaI John & Rose 518 BrookIend P8Ik Dr. F'N Eldon & Mana 1953 X Ranch 517 BrookIand Pall< Dr. Kan- Char1as & Louisa ea. 1927 X X EnaIlshPerlod~ 520- _PaIl<Dr. Means, E~ & Mary 1927 X X CraftsmanIBungalow 520% 803- BrooIdand Pall< Dr. Millar. F. ~ & R~ 1949 X Ranch 803% first house 805 BrookIand P8Ik Dr. Emeat & u.m. ea. 1927 X X EnaIlshPerlod~ 811 Brookland Park Dr. MlIIer'I~ ~ R,,!: 1982 X Ranch house 614 BrookIand Park Dr. Rabat Geg..... & Leona 1942 X X C8Da Cod 818 BrookIand Pall< Dr. _, IrvIna & Moyna/ 1937 X X English PerIod Collage Boiler WIn. & Bertha 822 nd pall< Dr. ,......... Erwin & Eva 1931 X X EnallshPerlod 624 Brookland Pall< Dr. Spioar, C. Merton, Jr. & 1939 X X Caps Cod Collage Gretchen 625 BrookIand Pall< Dr. Michener R. ......n & Edith 1950 X Caœ Cod 628 BrookIand Pall< Dr. Hu. Marion & Jane 1942 X X C8Da Cod ...... . . 400 Brookland PIece Krasensky, T_ ea. 1927 X X Gable-Front Beabaa Frederic 402 BrookIand PIece Melli< Norman & CIsa ea. 1927 X X Gable-Front Craftsman UnibJd States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 49 Melrose HlaIoric DIs_ Name of Property JohlUlOn COuntv IA County and Sta1e I. ..............\;!J J' /.. ...·...c ,:.;n'kY"0D!\C'[.~ ~..~c .c""c..... .XX ~1I:AIt FORIJ· c C .......c c..c.···. ................ /. c"7'F'.~ ...c. . . .cos Brookland Place Hutrman, Clsrence & ca. 1925 X Gable-Front & Wing Franœa 412 BrookIand Place Vandenbu.... Jack & Anna 1960 X Ranch ... .... ........ f ..... '?7 ··.·c '... C .. 223 LuCon Dr. Hulton Paul & Ma...aret 1950 X Shed/Contam.......N 300 LuCon Dr. l.awI8 Thama & Don 1950 X ~ Ranch 320 Lucon Dr. PaI80llll C....... & Joan 1951 X 331 Lucon Dr. Brachlet Paul 1950 X 335 LuCon Dr. Davis Wallaoa & Helen 1953 X Ranch .... .. , ... '" .. ."."";".·C"·' ...... . .... .... .... ... ... . '''' 303 MeIroaa Ave. Manley, R.1ph & DorothyI ca. 1909 X Am. Four-Squara Mahan Bruce & Edna 309 Melrosa Ave. Shucl< Wm. & VoraInIa ca. 1905 X 0.... Anne 315 MeIro8a Ave. MIllar John & MeN ca. 1925 X X Gable-Front CrafIIman 407 Mel__ Ave. Wales, Robert & Luveme ca. 1910 X X Am. Four-8quara (Incl. 401 421 _Ave. Richey, Doiorosa 1919 X Colonial RevivaV Gambrel 503 MeI__ Ave. Pra1I,A.W. 1885 X \ta1iana1a NRHP 511 MeIroaa Ave. ~::::m-&¡~ ca. 1917 X Gable-Front, Craftsman Ha Joke & 521 Mel__ Ave. Mungar, Don & Margal8l ca. 1909 X Am. Four-8quaralDutdI Colonial R-.J 601 Mel__ Ave. Paden Jomee & Auauste ca. 1914 X CrafIIman 605 _Ave. Nagy, Chr1a1lan & Eva/ ca. 1918 X Gambrel CotIoga l.awI8 Frank & Elsie 607 MeI__Ave. SmIth R'" House ca. 1925 X X Colonial Revival 609 MeI__ Ave. Manley, Ralph & Dorothyl ca. 1910 X X Gaþla-Front Eggen~& '08 629 MeI__ Ave. BUIlngsley-HIIIs House 1870 X X Greek RavlvaVltalianate NRHP 701 MeIro8a Ave. Randa. Gee..... S. & Anna ca. 1915 X X Craftsman Bun""1ow 707 Mel__ Ave. MOler Fred & Anna 1918 X C-n 711 MeIro8a Ave. WBse AI>er1& ca. 1910 X X Gable-Front 7Z7 MeI__Ave. Rohnot Wm. & Ja08 I 1905 X X H' 741 MeIro8a Ave. Mel__ Apertmen\8l1 1929 X X Craftsman . 1 Melrosa Circle Mo &1II1II8 1975 X Nao-CoIonia1 2 Melrosa Circle HIcI<s,F=~ 1923 X Georgian Revival AncIraM & E\ta 3 MeI__ Circle Jonea, Howard & Leahl ca. 1922 X X EcIacIic Cottage Cratzmeyar, Francia Jr. & Marian 4 Mel__ Circle & Helen ca. 1922 X X Colonial Revival 5 MeIro8a Circle Kuever, Rudolph & RuthI 1925 X X CoIonlalReviveI Muon Edward & Dordana 6 Melrosa Circle Naaier FkMI & MIlian 1926 X X DutdI Colonial ReviveI '. .. 215 MeI__ Court _,J~&AU9~ ca. 1938 X X Cape Cod CotIoga sac:ond house 216- Mel__ Court Unnamed Duplex 1930 X Colonial Revival 218 Unlt8cl states Department of 1IIe Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 50 UelI'OIfI HiIatnrir. 0istrIct Name of Property Johnson COunlv IA COunty and State ~~~_~íflØ;~IIII~ c;~~9 MellON COurt 'i~; Richard & MarinIIR i~.'~2 t~l~<;¡i .. c.. ~~~ l'red~ 220- Melrose COur1 Unnamed Duplax ca. 1928 X Colonial Revtval 222 223 Metrose COurt Mclaughlin, Jeremiah & 1925 X X Cra1Isman, SIde-GabIe Laura 224 Metrose COur1 livIIzIw. PenY & ...._1 1938 X PerIod 228 Melrose COurt SWensen Wm. & Elaine 1940 X G8mbI8I 228 _Court HiI TheIon & Lela 1931 X X Am. Fou~ 233 MellON COurt FOIl Ch_ & MIrtem 1949 X X R8JIch 300 _Court lavk>n. J8Ck & LaIa 1957 X Ranch 302- Melroae COurt _, Wm. &Suoen ca. 1928 X X CraftsmanlBungalow 302% 303 _COurt Simons, Theodora & CecIII ca. 1924 X X Am. Four-Squara EggenbeIg. Fred & Jose hlne-IMCOnd ~ 304 Melrose Court C Frank & 1949 X X Ranch 308 _Court Bald- Ada 1949 X X MInina1 TradiIIonaI 308 _COurt Clauasen, Gene & ca. 1954 X X Ranch Maraaret 310 MellON Court Wheeler, Robert & Norlne{ 1928 X Crafttma== Schone Frank & Sarah 311 Metrose Court Miller C_&LoIs ceo 1929 X X Tudor 313 Metrose COurt Unnamed 1993 X 318 Melrose COur1 ~Rober1&~ 1955 X Ranch 1 321 Metrose COurt R EdwIn & ca. 1923 'X X Am. Fou~ 325 _Court Holland WIn. ~ ca. 1932 X Tudor~ ~ _COun Swank J. Miller & 1942 X EnallshPerlod Metrose COurt _ DavId & Edna 1932 X X Gambrel 401- Melroae Court Howard Duplex 1924 X X ~an Bungalow 403 402- Melrose Cour1 Nelson Duplax ca. 1939 X X CoIonlalRavIvaI 404 409 Melrose COurt Erbe Albert & Domlhv 11139 X X ea.... Cod 410 Metrose COurt & Vlminla ca. 1932 X X EnaIish PerIod 421 MellON COur1 Roben. W.AJ ca. 1929 X X English Par10d ~ W_lrvIna&Mar1ha 422 Metrose COurt Swttær Leslla & WIlma ca. 1924 X X 423 MellON COurt MIllerVam"Mar1e ca. 1927 X Cnlftlman B""-Iow 424 _"'~·rt 0skI1ak Rental House 1940 X ,........ Cod"'- 508 Melroae COurt MtIIer, Jacob & Augusta! 08.1915 X X Cnlftlman, Side-GabIa Johnson Wandell & Edna 521 MellON Coun Walker Ka1herina 08.1927 X X HIN>NI Bunftalow " ;; " ..c c· 318 :lt~ Huntar Robert&EIhaI 08. 1915 X X CrafIIman au 402 Ave. EIIIoIL LE. ceo 1890 X X I uae 408 Ave. Huffman JaIMS& F_ ca. 1906 X X Gable-Front &-\Annn 412 MyrtIa Ave. Hullman, Cterance & ca. 1890 X X l-Houae Frances South and of BrookIand Park 1924 X Munlcipa1 perk Distr1cI. bet. 500 (Site) biock of Melrose Court and RaiIIOad BrookIand Park BrooIdand Park PIcnic 08.1980 X PIcnic aheller Sheller lS1ructura\ United States Department of 1he Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 8 Page 51 Melmoe Historic Distric:I Name of Property Johnson CountY. IA County and Stete Summary: In summary, the Melrose Historic District is locally significant under Criteria A and C. Under Criterion B the District has both local and state level significance. Under Criterion A it derives significance from its association with an important era of residential development along and south of Melrose Avenue in Iowa City adjacent to the State University of Iowa West Side campus. The Melrose Historic District developed in several stages beginning in the late 1981 century and extending through the post-World War II period. Its greatest growth was associated with the establishment of the State University of Iowa General Hospital and the creatiOn of facifdies for the University's athletic programs during the late 19208. The mixture of small and large lots available in Custer's Addition, Lambert's (Melrose Circle) Subdivision, Paden's Addition, Melrose Court Addition, Brookland Park Addition, and Lucon Subdivision were all located south of Melrose Avenue and north of Brookland Park. These lots provided ~I home sites in the Melrose Historic District for the staff and faculty of the SUI hospitals and athletic programs who needed housing. Under Criterion B the Melrose Historic District derives significance from its association with important Iowa City residents and a number of prominent SUI faculty members whose conbibutions were on the state and national level. These individuals included outstanding SUI profaas'3I'S and pioneering reseerchlilrs and coaches, Iowa City's second female mayor, and a prominent Iowa City businessman, newspaper columnist. and local historian. Each of these individuals resided in the Melrose HistoriC District during the times that they made their main contributions to their respective fields. Under Criterion C the Melrose Historic District is significant as a representative collection of the architectural stytes and vernacular house fonns that primarily appeared in Iowa City neighborhoods beginning in the period before World Wars I and continued through the post-World War II era. The juxtaposition of at least a dozen different architectural styles and house fonns for single-family dwellings. duptexes, and a large apartment building testifies to the architectural diversity of the District. The District demonstrates both the organic development practices seen when a rural neighborhood becomes absorbed into an urban area and the developer-homebullder practices seen in an early autamoblte suburb developed between World War I and II. Unn.d S...... Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number 9 Page 52 MeIroIe HiIItorÇ DiIIrtct Name of Property JahnlOl1 COunlv. IA county and SIa1e 9, Malor BlblloaraDhlca1 Rtlferences: "100 Years of Caring: A CentlJfy of Healing and Hope." Pacemaker, Vol. 24, Number 2, MarchlApril1998. 117 House DeSigns of the Twentiøs, Goroon-Van Tina Co. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. and Philadelphia: Thé Athenæum of Philadelphia, 1992. 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National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property United Statøs Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number 9 Page 57 Melrose Historic DIsIricI Name of Property Johnson Countv IA COunty and SIa1e Documentation Form prepared for the Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission, 1992. University of Iowa Football Programs Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries. Iowa City, Iowa. University of Iowa Directory Collection. Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa. University of Iowa Yearbook Collection. Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa. Weber, Irving. Selected articles from 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. Weber, Irving. "How's Your Building IQ? (University of Iowa General Hospital)," Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 9, 1973. Weber. Irving. "They Moved University Hospital to West Side of the River In 1928," Iowa City Press-Citizan, June 2 and July 5, 1984. Weber, Irving. "West Side Story (Part I and Part II)," Iowa City Press-Citizen. July 5 and July 6, 1993. Wilcox. Carol. "100 Years of Iowa Football," Iowa Alumni Review, September 1989. Wine, George. Black & Gold Memories: Tha Hawkeyes of tha 2d" Century. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, 2003. Melrose Neighborhood R_rchers. Aprihlune 2004: · Richard Car1son · Dedra Diehl · Mark Linder · Annette Schlueter · Ann Stromquist · Mary Vasey · Jean Walker · Tim Weitzel Unlt8d States Department of the Interior National Park Servlc:e NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Shest SectIon Number 10 Page 58 MAtrOBe Historic DiIIIrict Name of Property Johnson COuntv IA County and S1ate 10. GeoaraDh1ca1 Data UTMa ContInued: Zone Easting Northing Illi1 ~ ~ VertNll BoUndaN DeecrlDtlon: Within the City of Iowa City, Johnson County. Iowa: Beginning at the northwest comer of Lot 6 of Custer's Subdivision of the west 18 acres of Govemment Lot 1. Sec.16-7~; thence east along the south side of Meh ose Avenue to the east property Une of 303 Metrose Avenue (west edge of Lot M in Crowley's Riverview Addition); thence south along said Une approximately 267 feet; thence west to the east property line of Lot 1 of Lucon Subdivision; thence south along the eastem line of Lots 2 and 3 of Lucon Subdivision; thence east approximately 30 feet to the east property line of 400 BrookIand Place extended; thence south along the east property line of 400, 402, and 408 Brooktend Place to the southwest comer of Lot 1 in Oak Park Court Addition; thence east along the south property line of Lot 1 acrose Oak Park Court and continuing along the north property line of Lot 7 in Oak Park Court Addition to the east property line of said lot; thence south along the east line of Lot 7 to the north side of MyrUe Avenue; thence west along the north side of MyrUe Avenue to the east property Une extended of Lot 20 in Brookland Park Addition; thence south along said Une to the north side of Greenwood Avenue; thence southwest along the north side of Greenwood Avenue to the southeast corner of BrookIand Park where It joins the right of way of the Iowa Interstate RaRroad; thence northwest following the southwest edge of BrookIand Park and northeast edge of the railroad right of way to the south Une of Lot 6 in Melrose Place Addition; thence east along said line to the east line of Lot 5 in Melrose Place Addition; thence north along said line along the east line of Lots 1. 2. 3 and 4 of Metrose Place Addition to the north Une of Lot 1; thence west along said line to the west side of Melrosa Place; thence north approximately 25 feet to the north line of 15 Melrose Place; thence west along said line approximately 107 feet to the west line of Lot 6 in Custer's Subdivision; thence north approximately 130 feet along said line to the point of beginning. BoundeN JuatIfIcation: The boundary for the Melrose Historic District relates to the surviving group of historic resources located in the residential neighbortlood located south of the West Side Campus of the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics between Melrose Avenue on the north and the right of way of the Iowa Interstate Railroad (former Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad) along the south, and including Metrose Circle,. Melrose Court (except 501, 503. and 505), Brookland Park Drive, Brooklend Place, Lucon Drive. and a section of MyrUe Avenue (316. 402, 408, and 412). Melrose Avenue is a major arterial street that marks the south edge of the University of Iowa's West Side Campus. This area south of Metrose Avenue includes a mix of single family and multi-family residential building stock that was developed from ca. 1870 through the 19505 with the majority of buRdings constructed between 1910 and 1950. The house at 321 Melrose Avenue located at the rear of 315 Melrose Avenue on a separate parcel is not included In the District. The west boundary of the District was drawn to include the largest apartment building in the neighborhood built across Melrose Avenue from the University of Iowa's athletic facilities in the 19208. It was built to provide housing for junior staff at the new University of Iowa General Hospital. The east boundary of the District is at the point where Melrose Avenue ends at Byington Road. The meandering eastern boundary follows the eastern edges of the Lucon Subdivision, the BrookIand Park Addition, and part of the historic Myrtle Grove area. The Oak Park Court Addition was excluded because of its more recent development The south boundary is inclusive of BrookIand Park established in 1924 following the historic route of Myrtle Avenue and the former Rock Island Railroad. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ContInuation Sheet SectIon Number PhotooraDhs Page 59 MøIroM Historic Dipid Name of Property Johnson Countv IA County and Sta1e PhotoaraDh Key for Melrose Historic plstrlct: (See Photo Map. page 64) Martys A Svendsen, photographer 1. Biningsley-Hills House, 629 Melrose Ave., looking south 2. Pratt, AW. House, 503 Melrose Ave., looking southwest 3. Huffman, Clarence & Frances House, 412 Myrtle Ave., looking northwest 4. Wales, Robert & Luveme House. 401-407 Melrose Avenue. looking southeast 5. Smith Rental House, 607 Melrose Avenue, looking south 6. Kuever, Rudolph & Ruth House, 5 Melrose Circle. looking southeast 7. Nagler, Floyd & Marian House. 6 Melrose Circle, looking nOl'lh-.t 8. Munger. Don & Margaret House. 521 Melrose Avenue, looking south 9. HID, Theron & LeIa House. 229 Melrose Court, looking west 10. Miller, Fred & Anna House. 707 Melrose Avenue, looking south 11. Switzer. LésJIe & Wilma House. 422 Melrose Court, looking east 12. Fry, Frederick & Nellie House, 506 Brookland Park Dr.. looking west northwest 13. Howard Duplex. 401-403 Melrose Court, looking west 14. Miller, Chester & Lois House, 311 Melrose Court, looking west 15. Holland, William & Betty House, 325 Melrose Court, looking west 16. Weber, Irving & Martha House. 421 Melrose Court, looking west 17. Gross. Erwin & Eva House. 622 Brookland Park Drive, looking northeast 18. Spicer, Gretchen & C. Merton, Jr. House, 624 Brookland Park Drive. looking north 19. Ostdlek Rental House. 424 Melrose Court, looking east 20. Lewis, Thelma & Donald. House, 300 Lucon Drive, looking east 21. Unnamed Duplex, 216-218 Melrose Court, looking northeast 22. Melrose Apartments/Caywood Apartments, 741 Melrose Avenue, looking southwest 23. Billingsley-Hills House, garage, 629 Melrose Ave., looking west 24. Armbruster, David & Edna Garage, 331 Melrose Court, looking northeast 25. Mlller-Johnson Garage. 508 Melrose Court, looking north 26. Brookland Park and Brooktend Park Sheiter. looking northwest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number Prooertv OWners Page 60 MeIrqIe HistorIc District Name of Property Johnson Countv. IA County and State Property Owners within the Melrose Historic District __ c/o Parka & Recre , '. ...... .;:i;;i'~; 505 B Park Dr. Enna Joan 505 Brookland Park Dr. lowa'tv IA 52248 508 BrooIdend Park Dr. PaUl A. & CrIstIna L LeonaRI 508 BrookIand Park Dr. Iowa C Iv IA 52248 513 Brool<land Park Dr. Paul B, & Oedra 0, DIehl 513 Brookland Park Dr. lowaCtv IA 52248 518 BrookIand Park Dr. AJt.v Real Eetate LC 518 Brookfand Park Dr. IoWa C tv IA 52246 517 BrookIand Park Dr. Dean H. &. Elizabeth RJedeteI 2148 State Ave. Ames IA 50014 520-520% BrookIand Park Dr. DavidL. & Jonl L. 520 8rookIand Park Dr. Iowa C tv IA 52248 603 Brookland Park Dr. Patrick & CYnthia Elbert 143 Ravencrest Dr. Iowa C tv IA 52245 805 BrookIand Park Dr. Jatln G. Valdva & Roooa M, Goawami 805 Brookland Park Dr, lowaCtv IA 52248 611 Brookland Park Dr. Chartee F. GroIe 811 BrookIand Park Dr. Iowa C Iv IA 52248 814 BrookIand Park Dr. Kenneth Rav & Barbara Gall Brown 814 Brookland Park Dr. lowaC IA 522048 618 BrookIand Park Dr. KellY L. Cobb & Mohamlld A. Allam 618 Brookland Park Dr. Iowa C IA 52248 822 Brookland Park Dr. Michael K. & Marv Klnaan 822 BrookIand Park Dr. lowaC IA 52248 624 BrookIand Park Dr. Beniamin F. Clark III & Eve D. Clark 624 BrookIand Park Dr. lowaC IA 52248 625 BrookIand Park Dr. PatriCIa G. Buroker Trust 111 Foster Dr. Des Moines IA 50312 626 Brookland Park Dr, Jane C. HuIt 626~ Iowa C'1v IA 52248 ;. ¡f'; './." .;, ;>'/.x· h, .ii. . 400 BrookIand PI. Matthew M. & Laurel L Hibb8n:t 400 BrookIand PI, Iowa C tv IA 52248 4O~ BrookIand PI. Frederick Stem 402 PI. lowaC tv IA 52248 408 BrookIandPl: tladan W. SIIrôId 408Brook1and PI. Iowa C Iv IA 52248 412 BrookIand PI, &1'- 412Øt IW Iv IA 52248 is;' , .;;;.'. . ;/1 "1. f8",;;/.; ,i' " /7"{ 223 Lucon Dr, Unlve of Iowa 4 Hall Iowa C tv IA 52242 300 Lucon Dr. Man: Under 300 Lucon Dr. Iowa C tv IA 52248 320 Lucon Dr. Steven C. BrueH & Sandra L. Whelan 320 Lucon Dr. lowaC IA 52248 331 Lucon Dr. Hal B. Richerson 331 Lucon Dr. Iowa C tv IA 52246 335 Lucon Dr. ~~I~t6aker 335 Lucon Dr. lowaC IA 52246 ~;.;; ·.,iC.:': ."; ..;:;;',; 303 Melrose Ave Unlvers y of Iowa 4 JessuD Hall lowaC' IA 52242 309 Melrose Ave Unlvers ~ of Iowa 4 JessUD Hall Iowa City IA 52242 315 Melrose Ave Unlverl ~ of Iowa 4 JessuØ Hall Iowa City IA 52242 407 (Incl. Melrose Ave University of Iowa 4 Jessup Hall Iowa City IA 52242 401) 421 MeIro8eAve UniversitY of Iowa 4JessUDHaII Iowa C tv IA 52242 503 Melrose Ave. Churctl of Jesus Christ of latter-DaY Saints 503 Melrose Ave Iowa C Iv IA 52248 511 Melrose Ave, Our Redeemer Lutheran CtIUn:h 2301 Court St. Iowa C Iv IA 52245 521 Melrose Ave. Rodnev G, & Heidi Christlan80n 521 Melrose Ave. Iowa C Iv IA 52248 601 . Melrose Ave. Unlvensltv of Iowa 4 Jessuo Hall Iowa C tv IA 52242 605 MeIro8e Ave. Unlversllv of Iowa 4 Jessup Hall Iowa C Iv IA 52242 607 Melrose Ave. Sandersfeld P LLC 715 38th Ave. Aman8 IA 52203 609 Melrose Ave, Unlverailv of Iowa 4 JessuD Hall Iowa C tv IA 52242 629 Melrose Ave. Michaelanne B, Wldneas 629 Melrose Ave, Iowa C Iv IA 52248 701 Melrose Ave. Unlvensllv of Iowa 4 JessuP Hall Iowa C Iv IA 52242 707 Melrose Ave, Uhlvel'8ltY of Iowa 4 JessuP HaD Iowa C Iv IA 52242 711 Melrose Ave. Georae A. & Patricia S. Turecek 711 Melrose Ave, Iowa C tv IA 52248 727 Melrose Ave. MCF Inveetment Comoanv 4050 Weatmark Dr. DubUQue IA 52002 741 Melrose Ave, ~ ~all Iowa City IA 52242 "'. y' .... i'.".. ..i·.ii'''. ·i·,.i ¡·..·.i.. 1" ........ ....:........',';; 1 Melrose Circte Carole J. Moore 1 Melrose Cir. lowaC IA 52248 2 Melrose Circle Barbara J. Andrews 2 Melrose Cir. Iowa C M IA 52246 3 Melrose Circle Annette J. Schlueter 3 Melrose Cir. loWaC' IA 52246 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number Procertv Owners Page 61 Melrose Historic DIatrIct Name of Property Johnson County. IA County and State .. ...,. I.,..~ STA'Æ .~~ ;'7 Cc·.·.·.··· >' ,.. ..i,.,.,. .·..···.:...i .... 'i i' .,. .......i 4 Melrose Circle Rhonda Kav Juhlin 517 S. Shore Dr. Clear Lake IA 50428 5 Melrose Circle The Dordana Fallman Muon Llvlna Trust 5 Melrose Circle Iowa City IA 52246 6 Melrose Circle Colleen M. Kennedv 6 Melrose Circle Iowa City IA 52246 ··.>i··:,.ih.>···· ..... .. /. ........ i·..··>...·.h·.i...;'>i··:> ...... :.ii' .... ......... .. ./ .. 215 Melrose Ct. . Billett 3228 Shasta Ct. NE Cedar Rapids IA 52402 218-218 Melrose Ct. Duane E. Meana 120 Fairchild St. Iowa Citv IA 52246 219 Melrose Ct. SallY A. Beckman 219 Melrose Ct. Iowa City IA 52246 220-222 Melrose Ct. Lotta Mav LewIa 1404 Lakeview Dr. Mendola IL 61342 223 Melrose Ct. Mark R. & Carole L. 223 Melrose Ct. Iowa City IA 52246 224 Melrose Ct. Harlan E. & Jeanne B. 218 Robinson Dr. Algona IA 50511 228 Melrose Ct. Brittany Lynn & Donna Lee DonnellY 228 Melrose Ct. lowaC IA 52246 229 Melrose Ct. Unlversitv of Iowa 4 JesauD Hall lowaC IA 52242 233 MeIrote Ct. Bracll8v L. & Deborah B. Smith 233 Melrose Ct, lowaC IA 52246 300 Melrose Ct. BHI C. F. & Marls E. Snider 300 Melrose Ct. lowaC IA 52246 302-302% Melrose Ct. South Ubertv Inc. 3294 480th St. lowaC IA 52240 303 Melrose Ct. Daniel D. & Kathleen W, Anderson 303 Melrose Ct. Iowa C IA 52246 304 Melrose Ct. Joseøh V, & Donna M. Morreale 412 Craia Ct. Mount P IL 60056 306 Melrose Ct. Brent R, Brown & Mark R. & Julie L. Brown 1435 Phoenix Dr. lowaC IA 52246 308 Melrose Ct. Jacquelyn R. Scorza clo Crane & 918 Maiden Lane Iowa City IA 52240 AssocIates 310 Melrose Ct. Thaddeus A. Hacknev 310 Melrose Ct. Iowa CItv lA' 52246 311 Melrose Ct. James H. & Joan A. GodwIn 311 Melrose Ct. Iowa Citv IA 52246 313 Melrose Ct. GMPO CoI'Doration 2571 Suaar BoCIom Solon IA 52333 318 Melrose Ct. Brent R. Brown & Mark R. & Julie L. Brown 1436 Phoenix Dr. Iowa C tv IA 52246 321 Melrose Ct. Jo G. RIchaR:tIon 321 Melrose Ct. Iowa C tv IA 52246 325 MelIOI8 Ct. Robert S. Becus 325 Melrose Ct. Iowa C tv IA 52246 328 Melrose Ct. Arrrv C. Butler 328 Melrose Ct. Iowa C tv IA 52246 331 Melrose Ct. Marv K. Rauscher 331 Melrose Ct. Iowa C tv IA 52246 401-403 Melrose Ct. Don Breese 1020 Kirkwood Ave. Iowa C tv IA 52240 402-404 Melrose Ct. Joan & Keith Beddow 823 Weldon Rd. Santa Barbara CA 93109 409 Melrose ct, Helen Brom 409 Melrose Ct. Iowa CItv IA 52246 410 Melroee Ct, WillIam C. & JaCIIIvn L 410 Melroee Ct. Iowa CItv IA 52248 421 Melrose Ct. Martha Weber c/o US Bank Real Estate Tax Desk Sl Paul MN 55164 422 Melroee Ct. Sue Marte Sweartnaen 422 Melrose Ct. Iowa C v IA 52246 423 Melroee Ct. CharIM J. & julie M. Arfen 523 Melroee Ct. lowaC IA 52246 424 Melrose Ct. Julia M. Anderson 424 Melrose Ct. lowaC IA 52246 508 Melrose Ct. Nick Johnson 508 Melrose Ct. lowaC IA 52246 521 Melrose Ct. Rov L, Yelder 521 Melrose Ct. lowaC IA 52246 .... ,. .. .... ..... ...... ........... ··..··.·····.·.·.·,.i.> ; .>··.·c·.. 316 Iv! eAve. H, Shelton & Ann M. Stromaulst 318 VI . Ave, lowaC IA 52246 402 Iv! lit Ave. Eileen Jaivouna Shin 402 VI II Ave. lowaC' IA 52246 408 Iv1 eAve. Steven Kav Richardson 408 VI eAve. lowaC' IA 52246 412 Iv! eAve. Mich,el Klevav & Christine Schwab 412 VI eAve. lowaC' IA 52246 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number MaDS Page 62 Malrose Historic DIsIricI Name of property Johnson County. IA County and Stete Map Showing Location of Melrose Historic District (T18nsportation Map. Iowa Department of Transportation, 2002) . N IOWA CITY CORALVILLE ~ :. ~ ~ ~ ~ Unit8d States De~rtment of the Intel'ior National Park Servlc;e NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet SectIon Number MaDS Page 63 Melrose Historic DIsIrid Name of Proparty Johnson Countv. IA County and State 741 t_l~ i 13-14 a.. 1 J.--'....- .. i 10 ] t. ···-0 .... t..' ~ 3 , . W 4 \ d.. :E '\J 6 ,5 ''',. 'T""O . l,-- "'T , ¡ +_._1.._.. '. 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