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University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan May 2011 HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan May 2011 HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP 2 PREPARED FOR University of Southern California Real Estate and Asset Management 3335 South Figueroa Street, Unit G Los Angeles, CA 90007 ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Statement of Purpose 9 Historic Overview: USC Planning and Architecture 1880-1976 25 Individual Historic Resource Assessments 41 Principles of Rehabilitation 45 Guidelines for Materials Conservation 75 Guidelines for New Construction 80 Procedure for Project Implementation MAPS 7 Figure 1: Map of Master Plan Project Area 8 Figure 2: Map of Historic District APPENDICES Appendix A: Historic District Contributors Appendix B: Historic District Non-Contributors Appendix C: Individually Significant Buildings within the Historic District Appendix D: Individually Significant Buildings outside the Historic District ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP 4 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE potential University Park Historic In 2006 the University of Southern District (“Historic District”) with a California (USC) embarked on a formal period of significance of 1880-1976, planning process for a Master Plan to which incorporates buildings ensure stewardship of the University constructed as part of the University’s Park campus and its surrounding planning efforts in the 1960s. The neighborhoods through the year 2030. Historic District appears eligible for In the fall of 2008 the USC Board of listing in the California Register of Trustees approved the Master Plan and Historical Resources. As part of the initiated the public review process. A report, ARG completed background map of the Master Plan Project Area research on the development history of indicating potential development sites is the campus, reviewed original building included in Figure 1 on page 7. permits, and prepared individual survey forms for all buildings within the As part of that process, USC was potential district. required to determine if any historical resources were present within the The HRG Supplemental Analysis campus and the immediately adjacent reviewed the data and conclusions in areas, and to assess any potential the ARG report. The Supplemental impacts to historical resources due to Analysis confirmed the boundaries and implementation of the Master Plan. This period of significance of the identified analysis was conducted in two phases: a Historic District, and made final 2009 Technical Report prepared by determinations about contributor, non- Architectural Resources Group (ARG), 1 contributors, and potentially individually and a 2010 Supplemental Analysis significant properties. There are sixty- prepared by Historic Resources Group four buildings and one set of landscape (HRG). 2 features located within the boundaries of the identified Historic District: forty- The Technical Report identified seven of the buildings and the set of individually significant properties, and a landscape features are contributors; seventeen buildings are non- contributors. Within the Historic District, eleven buildings have also been 1 Architectural Resources Group. “USC Historic Resource Evaluation,” December 18, 2009. 2 Historic Resources Group, “University of Southern California Supplemental Analysis,” May 5, 2010. ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP identified as individually eligible for implementation of the USC Master listing in the California Register.3 There Plan. are four buildings that have been identified as individually significant that • Guide compatible development are not within the Historic District, but within the identified Historic are located inside the Project Area for District; the Master Plan. • Provide appropriate guidance for 4 A map indicating the Historic District the rehabilitation of historic boundaries and the contributors and buildings, structures, and sites (both non-contributors is included as Figure 1 within the Historic District and the on page 8. larger Project Area identified in the USC Master Plan); Contributors to the Historic District are identified in Appendix A and Non- • Establish basic criteria for new contributors are listed in Appendix B. construction within the Historic Individually significant buildings within District to supplement existing the Historic District are identified in design guidelines in order to Appendix C. Individually significant maintain its historic character; and buildings outside the Historic District • Create an appropriate process for are in Appendix D. review of future projects. This Adaptive Mitigation Management The AMMA establishes the “Procedure Approach (“AMMA”) has been for Project Implementation,” which is developed in order to: the specific process for review of • Ensure that the Historic District’s projects involving the rehabilitation, eligibility for the California Register reuse, or demolition of buildings or sites is maintained following within the Historic District coordinated with the City of Los Angeles’ Office of 3 There were sixty-six buildings identified in the 4 Rehabilitation is defined by the National Park Service Supplemental Analysis within the Historic District as “the act or process of making possible a compatible boundaries; of those FAC and REG were cleared for use for a property through repair, alterations, and demolition in the 2010 Environmental Impact Report additions while preserving those portions or features for the USC Master Plan and therefore are not which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural included in the AMMA. values.” ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP Historic Resources. The process requires a thorough investigation and analysis to determine whether historic resources can be retained, rehabilitated, and re- used as part of any proposed new development project. The Historic District’s continued eligibility for the California Register will be considered prior to any significant change or demolition of a contributing building or site. New development projects proposed for sites that are currently occupied by contributing buildings will need to demonstrate the infeasibility of rehabilitation of the existing structure for USC’s needs. In addition to the process, the AMMA contains a rehabilitation and maintenance plan for the contributing buildings and sites within the identified Historic District to ensure that new construction is compatible with the Historic District. Buildings and sites that contribute to the significance of the Historic District will be rehabilitated according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, and maintained according to specific preservation maintenance guidelines developed for the campus. ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP 7 FIGURE 1: MAP OF MASTER PLAN PROJECT AREA & POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITES ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP 8 FIGURE 2: MAP OF POTENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICT ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP Historic Overview: USC Planning and Architecture 1880-1976 ADAPTIVE MITIGATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH University of Southern California 2030 Master Plan HISTORIC RESOURCES GROUP HISTORIC OVERVIEW: USC PLANNING AND The University of Southern California ARCHITECTURE 1880-19765 (USC) was established in 1880 and The University of Southern California contained a single building, Widney was founded in 1880. Four major Hall, which housed all the needs of a development periods have been combined student and faculty identified which encompass the population of sixty-three. Although now construction of Widney Hall, the first an integral part of Los Angeles’ campus building, through the metropolitan center, its location was completion of the 1976 Annenberg originally considered remote. School of Communication: For the first few decades, USC was • Early Development: 1880-1918 confined to a relatively small campus • Parkinson Master Plan: 1919-1945 with only a handful of small buildings. The early university was centered on an • Gallion Master Plan: 1946-1959 approximately one-block area between 34th Street to the north, 35th Place to • Pereira Master Plan and Update: the south, Hoover Street to the west, 1960-1976 and University Avenue to the East. The Early Development: 1880-1918 Administration Building was located on the corner of University Avenue and Historic Overview 35th Place (see Sanborn Map on page The concept of a Methodist college in 12). Southern California was realized in the As the University grew, buildings were 1870s under the direction of Judge constructed on nearby streets among Robert Maclay Widney who, with an neighboring residences and businesses. active group of local citizens and a In the late nineteenth century, USC board of trustees, secured the location began to establish schools outside of the of the future University south of University Park campus, with the downtown Los Angeles. College of Fine Arts and the College of Medicine located on land adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. The land to the west and south
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