Historic Nomination Report of the L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House 3020 Dale Street North Park Community ~ San Diego, California
Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (858) 459-0326 (760) 704-7373 www.legacy106.com October 2018 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principal Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Architectural Historian P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (858) 459-0326 • (760) 704-7373 http://www.legacy106.com
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Page 3 of 33 *Resource Name or #: The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House
P1. Other Identifier: 3020 Dale Street, San Diego, CA 92104
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Point Loma Date: 2015 T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 3020 Dale Street City: San Diego Zip: 92104 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.)
e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Elevation: 380 feet Legal Description: Lots Forty-one (41) and Forty-two (42) in Block Two (2) of Blair's Highland Addition in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, State of California, according to the map thereof No. 971 filed in the office of the County Recorder of said San Diego County, January 24th, 1906. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel (APN) # 453-591-21-00.
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house is an excellent example of a Bungalow type single story home in the Craftsman architectural style. It is a single-family residence with a front gable roof with attic which was built in 1920. The east (front) elevation faces Dale Street and utilizes a rectangular form with a partial width front porch. (See Continuation Sheet.)
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) (HP2) Single family property *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District
P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date, accession #) View of east (front) elevation. Photo by Dan Soderberg, September 2018. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both No Notice of Completion was found for the home. The water permit is dated July 21, 1920. The sewer permit is dated September 10, 1920. Deed from the Date of Construction 16 is dated September 16, 1920. Residential Building Record date of construction - 1920. 2004 North Park Survey estimated year built 1921.
*P7. Owner and Address: Beston Barnett 3020 Dale Street San Diego, CA 92104 *P8. Recorded by: (Name, affiliation, and address) Ronald V. May, RPA, and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., P.O. Box 15967, San Diego, CA 92175
*P9. Date Recorded: October 2018 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA, and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., October 2018. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra S. Wallace and Dan Soderberg for extensive research, and other assistance with the preparation of this report. © 2018 Legacy 106, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from Legacy 106, Inc. is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Legacy 106, Inc. with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. *Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List):
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Page 4 of 33 *Resource Name or #: The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House
*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) (Continued): (See Attachment D, Photographs)
The subject property at 3020 Dale Street is a working class front gabled Craftsman style home with a low pitched front gabled roof and gabled partial width open front porch. The home has a simple rectangular form and sits on a rectangular lot. The house features horizontal clapboard exterior surfacing in alternating narrow rows followed by a single wide course. The roof system has multiple elaborations including exposed rafter tails, protruding perlin beams, wide unenclosed eaves and vertical attic roof vents at the gable ends. The house is painted light green with white painted trim and dark green painted windows. The house has a linear rectangular form and plan and is elevated on a raised concrete foundation. An unattached rear garage faces the alley at the rear of the lot.
This home is made of wood frame construction and is an excellent example of a bungalow type example of the Craftsman style. The house features the primary character defining features indicative of a Craftsman style home, such as the low pitched gabled roof, which features wide unenclosed eave overhangs and exposed roof rafters. Oversized stucco surfaced square columns support the gabled partial width front porch and continue to ground level.
This Craftsman style, also sometimes referred to as the American Arts and Crafts style, became popular in the early 1900's from about 1905-1930, especially in California. While the style shared an appreciation of hand craftsmanship and organic detailing with its European counterpart, it is usually differentiated from the English Arts and Crafts style (which highly influenced the Craftsman style) by its extensive use of wood, low pitched rooflines and sometimes Asian inspiration. The Craftsman style grew to become an independent western movement in American architecture, and quickly spread nationwide by way of magazines and plan pattern books. The 19th century British Arts & Crafts Movement is reflected in the earliest Craftsman style houses in San Diego, but dropped out of the designs by the end of World War I. This Craftsman bungalow type and style house utilized the Craftsman architectural style on a simple working class sized home. This house is an excellent example of this later period and style.
Many important architects and designers of the style, like Pasadena architects Greene and Greene, and designer and furniture maker Gustav Stickley, showed their appreciation of natural materials like wood, tile, brick and stone while utilizing human craftsmanship to create designs in direct opposition to the mass production and machine made designs of the recent Industrial Revolution. Craftsman style homes often used natural earth-tone colors. Wooden details were very important in the creation of Craftsman homes which usually included built in wooden furniture, doors and stairs in the same highly detailed natural wood aesthetic.
East (Front) Elevation – The main front façade faces Dale Street to the east and is dominated by the double front facing gables with partial width porch to the south (left) supported by square oversized stucco columns topped with original stacked wood support beams. The rectangular stucco chimney is visible on the south (left) side of the home. Decorative vertical slat attic vents are seen at the gable ends just below the low pitched composition roof. Horizontal wood exterior clapboard surfacing alternates between narrow single rows and single wide clapboard courses. Projecting decorative perlins extend out beyond the verge boards on the gable ends. Below the roofline, decorative details include open eaves and decorative exposed rafter tails. The raised front porch is open and supported by the two square porch column supports with no railing or balustrade.
From left to right, on the front porch, sits an original single pane fixed Chicago or "piano key style" window with seven lights along the top. To the right, on the front façade, is the original rectangular wood front door with six light beveled glazing.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
On the right, a wide fixed six-over-one divided light piano key style window is flanked with tall narrow rectangular double hung wooden windows. This symmetrical window grouping of three rectangular wooden windows is a typical design seen on Craftsman style home displaying a central multi-light fixed section with flanking double hung wooden windows. These windows all feature single pane glazing and are surrounded by plank style wooden surrounds with square wooden plank style casings and wooden sills. The front porch is scored concrete with four steps and simple square stoops on each side of the entry stairs. Underneath the porch roof is an open wood plank ceiling with a centered lighting fixture. A single rectangular basement vent is visible on the lower foundation below the north window grouping.
South (Side) Elevation – At the front, the side view of the slightly lower front gabled raised porch is seen extending out with front concrete steps connecting to the front yard. From the front, the side of the front porch is visible with exposed eaves and decorative perlin beams which protrude to the front just beyond the roof eaves. The corners maintain the original skirting extending out just above the foundation line. To the left, the exterior stucco chimney pierces the side gabled roofline to the front (right) side of this elevation and the chimney is topped with a metal spark arrestor. The stucco eave end wall chimney is visible above the roofline and continues down the side of the home with sloped sides which fall away on each side of the chimney. The chimney stucco surfacing matches the front porch columns. The south elevation continues the composition roof and extending perlins, with the side view of the front gabled roof which transitions to a side facing gable near the center. This porch roof side facing fascia board transition displays and awkward overlap indicating a probable alteration or repair but matches 1996 and 2004 historic survey photos (page 69 & 70). This gable end displays vertical attic vent slats matching those on the front elevation. The wall surfacing matches all other elevations with horizontal narrow and wide clapboard surfacing. To each side of the chimney are square one-over-one double hung wooden windows with upper window sash lugs (horns) matching the other windows with wide wooden surrounds and sill. From right to left, to the rear (left) placed directly beneath the gable end sits a rectangular symmetrical three window grouping of wooden windows with a central "piano key" seven light over one window. The central wide fixed seven-over-one divided light window is flanked with tall narrow rectangular double hung windows on each side. These windows are single pane and are contained in wide wooden surrounds with square wooden casings and wooden sills. Next, to the rear (west), is a single one-over-one double hung window with matching wooden window horn (lugs). Finally, a protruding rear facing short wing is bumped about three feet from the primary side wall, with an extending shed roof which sits just under the primary gable facing roof. On the rear wing, behind the side fence, a grouping of two double light rectangular single pane sliding wooden windows sits on a wooden sill contained within one wooden casing. These rectangular windows match others with wooden sill and wide plank style casings. Below the wood wall level behind the chimney sits a single sunken rectangular crawl space vent with metal screen panel.
West (Rear) Elevation – This elevation reveals a single facing gable end, with vertical attic vent slats matching those on the front elevation. The gable utilizes decorative wooden perlin beams extending out to the roofline below the verge boards. On the left, a paired set of double hung rectangular windows is seen with a smaller single rectangular window seen near the center. An attached wooden pergola creates a rear patio area with a ten light French wooden door seen on the right. This wood door and windows on this façade have wide wooden plank style surrounds. The door opens to a rectangular patio area and steps down to the ground level. The exterior surfacing displays the painted horizontal alternating wide and narrow clapboard surfacing seen on other façades. To the right side of the façade, the extending pergola covered patio which extends out below the rear wing roofline appears to have been a later addition and is supported by two simple wooden columns. Although not seen in building records, careful field examination reveals metal fasteners and other details, indicating this covered rear pergola supported by two simple wooden was likely added at some point after the home was built. (this rear porch area is outside of the public view).
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
North (Side) Elevation – This portion of the house faces the neighboring property about three feet from the fence and property line to the east. This façade description is from the front of the house to the back (left to right). As seen on other elevations, this façade is topped with a gable composition roof with open eaves, exposed rafters and extending wooden perlins on the front gable just above the verge boards.
Two matching sets of double rectangular one-over-one wooden windows with double hung sashes are seen. The exterior surfacing is alternating horizontal wide and narrow wood clapboarding matching the rest of the home. To the rear (north) is a small bump out with side facing gable end with vertical wooden slat vents and extending perlins matching the other elevations. Below the gable end, a single double hung wooden window is seen, with a paired wooden window grouping visible on the right near the rear corner. These wooden one-over-one double hung wooden windows display wooden horns (lugs) and plank style wooden surrounds, matching the others on the home. A wooden side gate separates the rear yard section.
Unattached rear garage / Rear shed structure – The original separate "carriage house" style single car garage at the rear of the lot faces onto a rear alleyway. The rear garage generally matches the size and location seen in Sanborn map sketches. Site examination (Attachments D.2) reveals the garage matches the home, with alternating narrow and side horizontal wood surfacing, but lacks the mitered corners and instead uses vertical comer boards. A small wooden window faces forward and a paneled service door opens to the rear yard on the north side. Also, a newer roll up metal garage door faces onto the alleyway and it appears the garage door lintel has been replaced or added. Extending wooden rafter tails appear to have been cut off at some point, probably due to exposure and rot. Finally, the garage roof appears to be failing and wall areas show multiple wood replacement and repairs. The garage has limited visibility from the front public view. Because of the garage door replacement and other alterations to the unattached rear corner garage, the garage lacks sufficient integrity to the original period of significance (1920) and is therefore not recommended for inclusion in designation. The rear garage has been approved by City of San Diego Historic Resources Department staff to be rebuilt (see Attachment A.4). A newer small garden shed structure is located in the rear yard. This shed is not original to the home and is also excluded from designation.
Interior Architectural Features – Not included in proposed designation. Included for reference only, the home's interior exhibits built in original glass fronted gumwood cupboard cabinets and matched gumwood wainscoting. The gumwood mantle is also still extant in the living room, although it is unclear if the fireplace tiles are original or reproduction. These interior features are also reflective of Craftsman style architecture and design. Various original doorknobs and lighting fixtures are also found throughout the house.
Landscaping / Yard Setting – The front yard area drops a few feet down to the front sidewalk, with three steps and a straight concrete walkway connecting to the home's front stoop and raised porch. The landscaping in front is mostly grass covering most of the lawn on each side of the original scored concrete walkway. The front yard area is in the process of transition to a water wise / drought tolerant landscape. The original sidewalk is scored concrete and travels from the sidewalk through the yard up two sets of stairs to the front porch. The home's side yard is open with a hedge and bush, with minimal landscaping seen along the side and front elevations. The simple open landscaping in front complements the Craftsman residential style of the house and matches the design seen in transitional photos. The neighboring houses exhibit the same building and landscape setbacks.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
B1. Historic Name: 3020 Dale Street B2. Common Name: 3020 Dale Street B3. Original Use: Single Family Property B4. Present Use: Single Family Property *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman style *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations.) A Notice of Completion was not found for the home. The original water permit is dated July 21, 1920 and the original sewer permit is dated September 10, 1920. Both the water and sewer records are signed by recognized Master Builder Edward F. Bryans. The Deed from the Date of Construction was also recorded in 1920. Finally, the Residential Building Record date of construction is 1920. This information all confirms the 1920 date of construction. The home was likely completed in late summer after the sewer permit was applied for on September 10. A 2004 North Park reconnaissance level survey estimated the year built as 1921.
The City of San Diego has few past building permits other than the original water/sewer records (Attachment A.4). More recent permits are for restoration work and a planned upper level addition to the detached rear garage (Project # 616285, 587790 & 546192. A recent replacement of roofing included metal flashing and repair of fascia boards. According to roofing contractor John Walsh, wooden verge boards and eave fascia boards were replaced "in kind" during the recent roof resurfacing project. Although some fascia boards and transitions (especially above the front porch) appear awkward, the eaves match the 1996 and 2004 historic survey photos (Attachment D.1 page 69 & 70). Although not seen in building records, site analysis of the home reveals the only change to be a rear service / laundry room extension adding approximately 4 feet at the rear southwest east corner of the house completed circa 1950 or before based on the construction methods and materials and records. The extension is not shown on the earliest 1921 Sanborn map (please see Attachments C.4), but is reflected on the Residential Building Record (please see Attachments A.1 & A.5) which were usually sketched in the late 1950's to the early 1960's and shows a notation which is dated 1962. The rear extension is not reflected on the later 1950 and 1956 Sanborn maps (please see Attachments C.4), however, the laundry room extension utilizes pre-1955 construction techniques, including wood corner skirting, raised foundation, sliding wooden windows, wooden window sill and wooden surround, all indicating a pre-1955 build date. The Sanborn map footprint sketches are usually copied over in later years and these later copied Sanborn maps sometimes do not reflect these changes. This early and minor rear alteration extends to the south, utilizes a sliding wooden window and sits well set back along the driveway side behind the chimney and side fence, mostly outside of the public view. The rear laundry room extension is noted and shown in red on the site plan provided in Attachment A.5. On the rear 1950's era laundry room addition, a small window was infilled by a previous owner with matched siding. The current owner obtained permit #639043 for this work. Also not seen in building records, a lower wood porch balustrade appears to have been added under the original square porch pier railings. These wooden porch lower balustrades were added below the original horizontal wooden beam railing as seen in comparison to the 2004 North Park survey photo showing just the large horizontal beams. A simple metal hand rail has been added to the front porch steps. *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location: *B8. Related Features: B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder:: Edward F. Bryans (an established Master Builder) *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Architecture Area: North Park (San Diego) Period of Significance: 1920 Property Type: Single-Family Property Applicable Criteria: C & D (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity.) The home is significant under Criterion C as an excellent original example of Craftsman bungalow style architecture. The Period of Significance, 1920, encompasses the date of construction of the home. This house is in very original condition and is well maintained. The home has excellent integrity within the public view. (See Continuation Sheet.) B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) none *B12. References: (See Continuation Sheet) B13. Remarks: none *B14. Evaluator: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace N *Date of Evaluation: October 2018 (This space reserved for official comments.)
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*B10. Significance (continued):
Criterion A: Exemplifies or reflects special elements of the City’s, a community’s or a neighborhood’s historical, archaeological, cultural, social, economic, political, aesthetic, engineering, landscaping or architectural development.
Introduction. Although the North Park community and nearby Dryden Historic District have a number of homes that have been designated as historic for their significance, there remains much to be learned about how this neighborhood developed, the reasons for the architectural styles that were built, and the lives of the people who lived and worked there. Criterion A evaluations are often complicated because they require the presentation of broad contexts and associations to establish the significance of the special elements of importance. The single most important mechanism to bring new information forward to better understand these communities is the intensive research associated with individual houses nominations. Legacy 106, Inc. and other researchers and homeowners have written additional nominations that now form an important body of primary research about the area.
Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American Periods. The landscape that we see today in this area has changed dramatically over time. The first people who arrived in this area may have come here as early as 20,000 years ago, although that is a subject of ongoing study. Certainly early peoples began to populate the region by 12,000 years ago. During that era, the Laguna Mountains were frozen and expansive savannah lands surrounded shallow lakes east to the Lower Colorado River. One of the most dramatic differences involved the location of the coastal shoreline, which was substantially further to the west than what we know today. In fact, geological evidence suggests that glacial ice drew-down the sea level to approximately 400 feet lower than we know it today. The “coastal” archaeological sites that reflect this period of occupation are now deeply submerged and available only to underwater explorers.
Between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, glacial melt elevated the sea level and prehistoric people intensified their use of the land. About 1,500 years ago, rainfall lessened and San Diego became the coastal desert of today. The upper mesas that make up North Park were covered with Mixed Chaparral, a drought resistant population of plants and animals that could survive months without rainfall. Archaeological investigation of San Diego has revealed most prehistoric cultures concentrated their population centers near freshwater drainages, estuaries, bays, and marine resources. These upland mesas served as sources for medicinal seeds, roots, and bark, as well as hunting and food gathering areas. Most of the prehistoric sites recorded for these uplands consist of vegetal roasting ovens, trail breakage, and overnight camps. At least one seasonal habitation camp existed in Switzer Canyon at the time Spanish colonists arrived in San Diego in 1769. Other villages are known to have been in Mission Valley, Rose Canyon, and around San Diego Bay.
Prior to 1769, Native Kumeyaay families and unknown prehistoric people before them lived in this general area on a nomadic basis, following food resources as they became seasonally available. The local Kumeyaay people continued traditional use rights on the land in this area through the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history, although their ability to live in the area and use the resources of the land became increasingly restricted by European dictates and encroachment from non-native grants, pre- emption, and homestead claims upon choice properties.
The first United States surveys passed through this area in the 1850s, but the first subdivisions as we understand it today with the system of Blocks and Lots did not occur until after 1900. Some sources record local Kumeyaay families living in Mission Valley and in various parts of coastal San Diego until about 1910 based on ethnographic interviews (Shipek 1991). After then, the Kumeyaay families who had not been forced to live on U.S. Government controlled reservations had abandoned these ancestrally- owned lands to move east or south to Baja, California where they still had cultural ties and could live with
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued): less interference. While today, American society generally does not recognize Native American usage/ownership of the land as part of the legal chain of title, it is, nevertheless, part of the chronological and historical sequence of land usage over time.
Given the many thousands of years of prehistoric occupation, the Spanish colonization era passed through the Mexican Revolution and Mexican War with the United States in a mere heartbeat of time. By the 1870s, European American land surveyors began extending the boundary of the City of San Diego. Real estate speculators bought “Pueblo Land” from the Common Council and City Trustees and then drew maps that created grids of streets and blocks of lots.
Paper Tracts and Early Development History
The following two paragraphs are excerpts from the 2009 North Park Dryden Historic District designation:
Both sides of Pershing Avenue and the west side of 28th Street are within the Park Villas Tract (Map 438, which was surveyed May 1870 but not filed until October 14, 1887); the east side of 28th Street is within the West End Tract (Map 590, which was surveyed November 1872 and filed May 17, 1873). On paper, these subdivisions are among the oldest in North Park and are associated with San Diego’s founding political and entrepreneurial figures. These tracts were mapped during the beginning of Alonzo Horton’s New Town optimism and soon after reservation of the 1,400-acre City Park on February 4, 1870, as proposed by visionary Ephraim Morse and requested of the state legislature by City Trustees Jose Engstrand 1980, p. 47). Designation of City Park (now Balboa Park) influenced the pattern of development in North Park more than any other single land use decision in San Diego’s early days.
Subdivision of land north and east of the planned City park began as early as the 1870s, although the construction of homes on most of these “paper” tracts did not begin until streetcar service was available on University Avenue in the 1907 and on 30th Street north of Switzer Canyon in the following year. The lots on the east side of 28th Street are in the West End Tract, which was laid out in paper as early as 1872. Lots in West End Tract were 100 feet in depth, with relatively small blocks similar to downtown San Diego. Lots on Pershing Avenue and on the west side of 28th Street are part of the western section of the Park Villas Tract that was first surveyed in 1870, with a subdivision map filed in 1887. Lots in the Park Villas Tract were deeper and backed onto alleys. Home construction in the area began in 1912, five years after streetcars began service on University Avenue, just to the north. The first public school in North Park was built in the Park Villas Tract to the north of the Dryden District in 1910. Most lots were developed by the late 1920s. Early homes in the district reflect the Arts and Crafts movement; many later homes reflect a Spanish Revival character.
Broader Context for the Development of the Area. Probably the most comprehensive overview of this area is covered in the September 2010 Uptown Community Plan Update, Draft Historical Context Statement, by the City of San Diego City Planning and Community Investment department. The historical context applies to the general area and suggests that the distribution of single family home construction in the uptown areas followed the development of increased transportation options.
Development of Residential Subdivisions. Improvements in transportation infrastructure, in conjunction with the establishment of Mission Cliff Gardens, made the northern reaches of Uptown accessible. Whereas new construction was confined to the area south of Laurel Street in previous years, development activity began to extend into the undeveloped areas of University Heights, Hillcrest and
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued):
Mission Hills by the turn of the twentieth century. At the time development in these areas consisted primarily of single-family homes, though other types of development, including schools, fire stations and medical facilities, were also built to meet the needs of Uptown’s growing population.
Before 1900, Uptown was a remote and inaccessible section of the city, but the construction of roads and bridges, mass transit lines, hospitals, parks and a college campus fueled growth in several sections of the study area. By 1904, approximately 23 percent of Uptown was developed, though the majority of structures were concentrated south of Laurel Street in Park West. At this time, construction had also occurred in the northern half of Park West, Hillcrest, Mission Hills and University Heights, although development in these areas was comparatively sparse.
Residential subdivisions in the Planning Area continued to be surveyed, registered and subsequently developed into the 1920's. By this time, however, much of Uptown had already been platted; therefore, subdivisions planned after the Exposition were generally sited in those sections of the study area not well- served by streetcar lines. To maximize the amount of buildable land, especially in areas bisected by canyons, many developers conformed to the study area’s natural topography by incorporating winding streets, asymmetrical blocks and irregular-shaped parcels into their plans.
The continuous growth of Uptown’s population sparked the construction of a number of commercial districts by the early 1920's. Sanborn maps indicate that, like residences, these commercial nodes were patterned along mass transit lines, as the majority of businesses were located near the streetcar stops at Fifth Street and University Avenue in Hillcrest; Washington and Goldfinch streets in Mission Hills; and Park Boulevard and Adams Avenue in University Heights. A handful of commercial structures in Park Villas were scattered on main grid streets in the area
The park is an important reference point that gave rise to tract names such as Hartley’s North Park (and thence the community’s name) and Park Villas. The park separated North Park from the downtown developments of New Town and Horton’s Addition, which enabled the area to develop independently on a delayed timeline that determined the dominant architectural styles.
The park also constrained the construction of roadways. The 1902 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Map of San Diego illustrates the barrier that the park represented. Only a few threads connect the North Park area to the dense grid of downtown San Diego. One of these is a wagon road that would become Pershing Drive, and it leads directly to the northeast corner of the park at the future intersection of Upas and 28th Streets. The 1917 street grid map of San Diego clearly shows the road through the park leading to Upas and 28th Streets, with spurs to Redwood Street and Arnold Avenue.
Park Villas Tract. The Park Villas tract is a large subdivision in two pieces. The tract encompasses the east half of Lot 1126, the east half of Lot 1127, and the whole of Lot 1349 of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego. The west half of Lot 1127 is not included in the Park Villas subdivision; it became the West End subdivision. The Park Villas tract has a complex history. Map 438 notes that Park Villas was "Surveyed for J. Nash Esq. May 1870 by James Pascoe". City Engineer of San Diego. North Park: A San Diego Urban Village, 1896-1946 (Covington 2007) describes Nash as follows: Joseph Nash was an early San Diego entrepreneur who opened his general merchandise store on the New Town waterfront in 1868. It was Nash’s business that a young clerk in the store, George Marston, and his friend Charles Hamilton, bought for $10,000 in 1873. The Marston Company ultimately became San Diego’s leading department store. Nash was a contemporary of Alonzo Horton, founder of San Diego’s New Town. A 1914 news article about Nash noted, "He purchased a lot in the business district for $25 and erected a building to house his stock. He purchased other business property at the same price. Nash is quoted as saying, "I
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued): purchased whole blocks for $200 per block. We divided up some of the blocks into lots and tried to sell the lots for $5 each. I remember one man who claimed he had been cheated and demanded his $5 back. He threatened us with lawsuits and made such dire intimations against our characters that we gave him back his money."
Joseph Nash was listed in the 1874 City of San Diego Directory as having a General Merchandise store at the corner of Fifth and J streets. He was a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce, and Vice President of the Citizens Railroad Committee in 1872. He was part of the effort to bring the Texas & Pacific Railroad to San Diego, which was described in San Diego, California’s Cornerstone (Engstrand 1980, page 50) as follows:
In the spring of 1871, Congress passed a bill approving construction of the Texas & Pacific Railroad. Speculation was rife when Colonel Thomas Scott, president of the company, came to the Horton House to check over possible depot sites. The offer of enough open land and town property assured location of the terminus on San Diego Bay. Property values went up accordingly. But the untimely failure of the great railroad speculator Jay Cook on "Black Friday", September 18, 1873, caused the end of Texas & Pacific plans. Nash sold many of his interests and relocated. In the 1883-1884 McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory, Nash was listed in San Francisco at 328 Montgomery with the occupation "mining sec."
A March 31, 1885 news article noted that ― the case of Cadwalader vs J. Nash and the California Southern Railroad Company has been filed; the object of the action is to quiet plaintiff’s title to the east half of Pueblo lots 1126 and 1127. These lots represent the majority of the Park Villas tract. The California Southern Railroad was incorporated in October 1880, and the successful completion of the local rail line in 1885 led to land speculation that would set off the "Boom of the Eighties" (Engstrand 1980, page 54). The lawsuit’s final judgment was filed in the Superior Court of the County of San Diego on September 20, 1887, which explains why Nash’s tract map was not actually filed until October 14, 1887.
After settlement of the lawsuit, Eliza did not move to San Diego to enjoy her landholdings. The 1900 Federal Census listed her in San Francisco with two sons and a daughter, and with her occupation as "capitalist." It is not apparent exactly when she sold the land, but the 1890 City of San Diego Lot Books, which are the earliest assessor books in the San Diego History Center's records, identified the land ownership for the blocks in the western side of the Park Villas tract (Blocks 62 through 81) as unknown, except for the row along University Avenue and part of Block 78, which were identified as being owned by Charles S. Hamilton. This was land decreed owned by Nash in the lawsuit. In 1891, most of the unknown ownership blocks were identified as being owned by the College Hill Land Association, except for the blocks between Dwight and Myrtle streets from 28th to Arizona streets (Blocks 65, 70, 75 and 80), which were identified as being owned jointly by C.C. Seaman, R.A. Thomas, and J.W. Collins. The College Hill Land Association formed in 1886 and initiated development of a branch of the University of Southern California in what is now University Heights, a dream that failed with the land bust of 1888-1889. Their stockholders included C.C. Seaman and Richard A. Thomas ("San Diego’s Normal Heights: The Growth of a Suburban Neighborhood", 1886-1926, by Suzanne Ledeboer, Journal of San Diego History, V. 52, No.1&2, Winter/Spring 2006). Thus, the early history of the Park Villas tract, including the proposed District, is intertwined with the investors who held land that eventually became University Heights.
West End Tract. As noted above, the Park Villas tract is a large subdivision in two pieces separated by the west half of Lot 1127. The 1870 Park Villas Tract Map shows a blank space between the two portions, with stub-outs for the east-west streets extending into the west half of Lot 1127. But in November 1872,
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued): when the west half of Pueblo Lot No. 1127 was surveyed and drawn by L.L. Lockling, City Engineer, and named "West End", an entirely different lot pattern and street grid was laid out and approved by the Board of Trustees. As noted in North Park: A San Diego Urban Village, 1896-1946 (Covington 2007), the first paper tract map #590, dated May 17, 1873, followed the precedent of Horton’s Addition of that same year. The 80-foot wide streets, blocks 200 feet by 300 feet, and lots 50 feet by 100 feet gave it a different configuration from the typical 60-foot wide streets and 50-foot by 125-foot lots in the surrounding tracts of Park Villas and University Heights, hence the multiple dog-leg intersections at the tract boundaries. The effect of the different block patterns is illustrated by the tract map diagrams in Figure 4. The street grid differences, including the two extra east-west streets terminating on either side of the tract, created more corners and view angles along 28th Street, the boundary of the two tracts, than a matching street grid would have, a fact that would have importance nearly 40 years later when residential development finally began in earnest.
Further echoing the downtown theme, the east-west roadways of the West End tract were named 1st Avenue through 6th Avenue (now North Park Way, Gunn, Landis, Dwight, Capps, and Myrtle). The north- south street names reflected an early trend – prominent business figures of the day – for example, Gatewood Street (now 29th), for W. Jeff Gatewood, who was listed as Attorney at Law in Horton’s Bank Block in the 1874 City Directory, and Johnson Street (later Sherman and now Granada) for Geo. A. Johnson, a Director of the Commercial Bank of San Diego in 1874. Nash Street in the Park Villas tract was later Missouri Street and is now 32nd. Arnold Avenue was named for a prominent real estate developer of the time, G. C. Arnold, and neighboring Choate Street (now Arizona) was named for his business partner, Daniel Choate. The West End tract is different from Joseph Nash’s Park Villas in that the West End tract map cites no single developer. The map is noted as "Approved officially by the Board of Trustees of the City of San Diego, March 17th 1873." The 1874 City Directory listed the members of the Board of Trustees as E. A. Veazie (President), W.A. Begole, J. B. Boyd, J. G. Estudillo, M. Keating, A. P. Knowles (Marshal), and M. P. Shaffer (City Assessor). E. A. Veazie was a Director of the Commercial Bank of San Diego, and J. G. Estudillo was the Assistant Cashier.
Although the L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House contributes to our understanding of the early development of North Park and its association with Edward F. Bryans and other early developers and builders, no special elements about this house were found in the course of research for this study to determine it qualifies for designation under Criterion A.
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Criterion B: Is identified with persons or events significant in local, state, or national history. A summary of the individuals associated with this property is provided along with a conclusion regarding their significance under Criterion B.
Based on the research found and evidence presented in this report, Legacy 106, Inc. concludes that the L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House at 3020 Dale Street does not have significant associations with significant individuals to qualify for nomination under Criterion B.
L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton Owners, July 1920 to September 1920
According to the chain of title for 3020 Dale Street, L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton purchased the almost completed home from Master Builder Edward F. Bryans in July 1920. The Hortons likely did not live in the home, as they sold it two months later. According to a search of the 1920 San Diego city directory, L.N. Horton was likely Lyman N. Horton, who along with his wife Elizabeth lived in Lemon Grove, where they were farmers. Lyman's obituary, published in the San Diego Union on March 8, 1951, states that he also worked as a real estate broker.
Illinois native Lyman Nelson Horton was born on March 4, 1867. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, he lived in Ela, Illinois with his parents, Truman B. Horton and Alzina Horton, and his two siblings. Lyman's father supported the family by working as a seller of dry goods and groceries. Records for Lyman and Elizabeth for the years between 1880 and 1910 were difficult to locate, and therefore not much is known about their lives during that time. According to the 1910 U.S. Census, the couple lived in Verdigre, Nebraska, where they were farmers. That census indicates that Elizabeth was born in Iowa around 1868, and that she and Lyman married around 1891.
Lyman and Elizabeth moved to San Diego around 1905. A brief mention in the July 4, 1905 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune states that they were residents of the Tent City on Coronado Island. From 1900 to 1938, the camp-style accommodations housed travelers who could not afford to stay at the Hotel del Coronado. The couple moved to 1601 6th Ave. in downtown San Diego later that year.
Around 1912, Lyman and Elizabeth moved to 3834 Grape Street in San Diego's South Park neighborhood. Lyman's occupation in the 1913 city directory is listed as "rancher." The couple moved to Lemon Grove around 1915, where they were farmers. Around 1920, Lyman became a real estate broker, and he and Elizabeth moved to 3032 Grape Street. Elizabeth passed away on December 24, 1934. Lyman N. Horton died in San Diego on March 7, 1951.
Insufficient information was found about L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
House Naming. The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House was named according to the City of San Diego Historic Resources Board's naming convention after both of the first owners, L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton, and Established Master Builder Edward F. Bryans. The original sewer record signed was dated September 10, 1920 and shows Master Builder Edward F Bryans listed as the owner. A deed change of ownership is dated September 11, 1920 and the change was recorded on September 16, 1920. Therefore, based on the research provided, builder Edward F. Bryans transferred ownership to the Hortons just prior to or at the completion of the home's construction. It is unclear if the Hortons were investors or speculators, but the house was sold just after completion to Fred and Clairest Sloper on November 13, 1920.
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Fred Sloper and Clairest L. Sloper Owners, 1920 to 1932 (Fred and Clairest) and 1935 to 1943 (Fred only) Residents, 1920 to 1935 and 1938 (Fred) & 1920 to 1932 (Clairest)
In 1920, Fred and Clairest Sloper purchased the newly completed home at 3020 Dale Street. Fred was a retired streetcar operator, livery stable owner, and dairyman. The Slopers moved to San Diego from Boise, Idaho shortly before they purchased the subject property. Fred and Clairest lived in the home, as did their adult children, Maurice and Lily, and their childrens' spouses. Clairest lived at 3020 Dale Street until her death in 1932. After her death, Fred transferred ownership of the home to his son, Maurice E. Sloper, and Maurice's wife Elvira. Three years later, in 1935, the home was transferred back to Fred, and he retained ownership until his death in 1943. From 1935 to 1943, Fred lived in the home only occasionally, and often rented it out to various tenants.
Frederick Adolphus Sloper was a native of Madison, Illinois, and was born on June 15, 1862. He appears in most records by the nickname “Fred.” Fred was the only boy among four children born to Adolphus F. Sloper and his wife Isabella. Fred grew up in Madison, where his parents were farmers.
On May 18, 1886, Fred married Lillian Clairest Belk in Illinois. She appears in most records under her middle name, and was born in Bethalto, Illinois in April 1862. Clairest’s parents, Thomas Walton Luther Belk and Eliza Jane Belk, were farmers and parents to ten children.
By 1892, Fred and Clairest resided in Helena, Montana, where he worked as a motorman on a streetcar line. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, the couple had two small children: Maurice Edward Sloper, born in Montana in August 1892, and Lily Mae Sloper, born in Montana in September 1895.
The Slopers lived in Helena until moving to Boise, Idaho around 1905. Fred was a proprietor of a livery stable there. By 1920, Maurice, Fred’s son, worked as the stable’s bookkeeper. 1920 was a busy year for the Sloper family. In January 1920, the Slopers were enumerated in the federal census twice: once at their home in Boise, and once in Santa Cruz, California. In October 1920, Fred and Clairest purchased the newly completed residence at 3020 Dale Street.
Clairest passed away in August 1932, at the age of 70. After her death, Fred transferred ownership of the home to his son, Maurice E. Sloper, and Maurice's wife Elvira. Three years later, in 1935, the home was transferred back to Fred, and he retained ownership until his death in 1943. From 1935 to 1943, Fred lived in the home only occasionally, and often rented it out to various tenants. Fred Sloper died in San Diego on November 22, 1943. At the time of his death, Fred lived at 3646 Ray Street in North Park.
Insufficient information was found about Fred Sloper and Clairest L. Sloper to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Maurice E. Sloper and Elvira B. Sloper Owners, 1932 to 1935 Resident, 1921, 1923, and 1930 to 1934 (Maurice) Resident, 1923 and 1930 to 1935 (Elvira, aka "Vera")
In 1932, Fred Sloper transferred ownership of 3020 Dale Street to his son Maurice and Maurice's wife Elvira. Three years later, in 1935, ownership of the home was transferred back to Fred, and he retained ownership until his death in 1943. From 1935 to 1943, Fred lived in the home only occasionally, and often rented it out to various tenants. His son Maurice worked as a clerk and purchasing agent for the City of San Diego's purchasing department.
Maurice Edward Sloper was born to Fred and Clairest Sloper in Butte, Montana on August 18, 1892. Maurice had a younger sister, Lily Mae, born in 1895. The Sloper family lived in Helena, Montana until they relocated to Boise, Idaho in the early 1900's. In Boise, Fred Sloper operated a livery stable, and by the time Maurice was in his early 20's, he worked as the stable's bookkeeper.
In October 1920, Fred and Clairest purchased 3020 Dale Street, and moved into the home, as did Maurice, his divorced sister Lily Mae Archibald, and Lily's five year-old son Jack. Around that same time, Maurice E. Sloper purchased the Liberty Store grocery at 1138 5th Ave. in downtown San Diego (San Diego Union, December 17, 1920).
Maurice married Elvira Bernardina Barbachano in San Diego in March 1922. She occasionally appears in records under the nickname "Vera." Elvira, a native of Chihuahua, Mexico, was born on August 20, 1900. Long before Elvira's birth, the Barbachano family were prominent land owners in San Diego, Los Angeles, and several parts of Mexico.
In November 1922, Mary Rose Sloper, the only child of Maurice and Elvira, was born in San Diego. Maurice, Elvira, and Mary Rose lived at 3020 Dale Street until 1923. It is not known where they resided from 1924 to 1929, as they do not appear in local city directories. Maurice, Elvira, and Mary Rose moved back into 3020 Dale Street in 1930, and lived there with Maurice's parents, Fred and Clairest. Around this same time, Maurice found work as a clerk and purchasing agent for the City of San Diego's purchasing department.
Maurice and Elvira lived at 3020 Dale Street until they divorced in February 1935. Elvira remained as a resident of 3020 Dale Street in 1935, along with Maurice's father Fred and Fred's tenant named Stanton Wyatt. Meanwhile, Maurice resided at 4555 1/2 Boundary Street in North Park.
After the divorce, Elvira moved back into her parents' home at 5289 Canterbury Drive in Kensington. She later married a man named Ricardo Salazar, and passed away in Tijuana on December 27, 1997. Maurice eventually remarried to a woman named Olga. He died in Jamul, California on January 4, 1981.
Insufficient information was found about Maurice E. Sloper and Elvira B. Sloper to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Lily M. (Sloper) Archibald / Lily M. (Sloper) Sillifant Resident, 1920 to 1925 (as Lily M. Archibald) and 1926 to 1927 (as Lily M. Sillifant)
Francis “Frank” J. Sillifant Resident, 1926 and 1927 (Frank)
Lily Mae (Sloper) Archibald Sillifant was the daughter of Fred and Clairest Sloper, who purchased 3020 Dale Street in October 1920. Lily was born in Montana in September 1895, and lived in Helena, Montana with her parents and older brother Maurice until the family moved to Boise in the early 1900's. Lily lived at the subject property with her parents, brother, and son Jack upon moving to San Diego in 1920. In August 1925 she married Francis “Frank” J. Sillifant, and he moved into the home also.
On January 13, 1915, Lily married Everett A. Archibald in Kemmerer, Wyoming (Idaho Statesman, July 18, 1918). They had one son, Jack, before divorcing in Boise in November 1918. In 1920, Lily moved into 3020 Dale Street with her parents, brother Maurice, and her young son Jack. In the early to mid-1920's, Lily worked as a stenographer and as a cashier with the San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric Company.
In August 1925, Lily married her second husband, Francis “Frank” J. Sillifant, at 3020 Dale Street (San Diego Union, August 20, 1925). The 1926 and 1927 San Diego city directories show that Frank was a resident of 3020 Dale Street, and that he worked as a salesman for the Machinery Pipe & Supply Company. In 1928, Lily, Frank, and Lily's son Jack (from her first marriage) moved to 4449 Louisiana Street in North Park.
The Sillifants lived on Louisiana Street until 1929, when they moved to 906 Hayes Avenue in Hillcrest. The couple divorced in the early 1940's, and in June 1947, Lily married Charles Robert Barclay, her third husband. Charles moved into 906 Hayes Ave. with Lily, and lived there with her until his death in March 1968. Three months later, Lily's son Jack Archibald died at the age of 53. Further information about Lily could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about Lily M. (Sloper) Archibald / Lily M. (Sloper) Sillifant, or her husband Francis "Frank" J. Sillifant, to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Stanton Wyatt Resident, 1935 only
Stanton Wyatt lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1935 only, along with the homeowner, Fred Sloper. Stanton was employed as an automobile salesman at the Neuner Bros. Ford dealership in the Mission Hills neighborhood. In June 1935, Stanton was convicted of four counts of petty theft from his employer, and was sentenced to one year in the County jail (San Diego Union, June 22, 1935).
On February 5, 1892, Stanton Wyatt was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Little information about his early life could be found. He briefly lived in Santa Rosa, California around 1915 before moving to Honolulu, Hawaii. In January 1916, he married Jean Ross in Honolulu. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, the couple lived in Honolulu, and Stanton worked as an insurance agent for the Schuman Carriage Company (Daily Bulletin [Honolulu], October 6, 1917).
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By 1921, Stanton and Jean lived in Pasadena, California. They divorced in the early 1920's, and by 1924, Stanton lived in Los Angeles and worked as a salesman for the Western Union Life Insurance Company. He entered the automotive sales business around 1930, when he lived in Glendale, California.
Stanton moved to San Diego around 1934 and lived briefly at 1751 University Ave. He lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1935 only, along with the homeowner, Fred Sloper. During his time in San Diego, Stanton was employed as an automobile salesman at the Neuner Brothers Ford dealership in the Mission Hills neighborhood. In June 1935, Stanton was convicted of four counts of petty theft from his employer, and was sentenced to one year in the County jail (San Diego Union, June 22, 1935).
By the late 1930's, Stanton was again a resident of Los Angeles. According to his World War II draft registration cards from 1942, Stanton lived in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, and was employed by the Works Progress Administration ("WPA"), a federal agency that employed millions of Americans from 1935 until it was dissolved in June 1943. Stanton Wyatt passed away in Los Angeles on October 31, 1943.
Insufficient information was found about Stanton Wyatt to determine he was historically significant for his association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Dan Molina and Gertrude Molina Residents, 1936 and 1937
In 1936 and 1937, Dan and Gertrude Molina resided at 3020 Dale Street. They presumably rented the home from owner Fred Sloper, who resided at 4111 Ohio Street in North Park at that time. According to the 1936 and 1937 San Diego city directories, Dan Molina was the manager of the XEMO radio station.
A native of Mexico, Daniel “Dan” Ernest Molina was born in Santa Rosalia, De Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico in January 1885. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1900’s. According to the 1910 U.S. Census, Dan lived in the border town of Douglas, Arizona and worked as a railroad brakeman.
Around 1915, Dan married Gertrude “Tulita” Ferreira. She was born in Hermosillo, Mexico on May 4, 1885. The 1920 U.S. Census shows that Dan and Gertrude lived in Globe, Arizona with their four year-old son, Dan Jr. The elder Dan worked as a grocery salesman in Globe. The Molinas then moved to Miami, Arizona, very close to Globe. They lived in Miami until moving to San Diego in 1936. In San Diego, Dan worked as the manager of the XEMO radio station.
The Molinas rented 3020 Dale Street from owner Fred Sloper in 1936 and early 1937. In March 1937, they purchased a nearby home located at 3021 28th Street in North Park, and lived there until 1943, when they moved to 2811 33rd St. Daniel Molina died in San Diego on December 20, 1959. Gertrude died in Phoenix, Arizona in 1973.
Insufficient information was found about Dan Molina and Gertrude Molina to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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William E. Wright, Jr. and Mabel Wright Residents, 1938 only
William E. Wright, Jr. and Mabel Wright lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1938 only, along with the homeowner Fred Sloper. According to the 1938 San Diego city directory, William worked as a "transmission man" for the Southern California Telephone Company.
William Edwin Wright, Jr., a native of Dennison, Ohio, was born on January 25, 1904. By the age of six, he lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his parents, William Sr. and Estella, and two older siblings. William Sr. worked as a telephone operator for a railroad in Pittsburgh.
By 1930, William Jr. lived at 2644 Polk Street in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. He married Mabel in the mid-1930's. The couple resided at 3020 Dale Street in 1938 only, and then moved to 2911 Cable Street in Ocean Beach. William passed away in Anaheim, California on September 10, 1951. Further information about him or Mabel could not be found.
Insufficient information was found about William E. Wright and Mabel Wright to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Manuel Aguilar and Dolores Aguilar Residents, 1940 only
According to the 1940 San Diego city directory, Manuel Aguilar and Dolores Aguilar resided at 3020 Dale Street. They presumably rented the home from owner Fred Sloper. Manuel was employed as a Mexican consul during that time.
Little information about the Aguilars could be located. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, both of them were born in Mexico around 1911. They lived in Mexico City in the mid-1930's, before arriving in San Diego. Their stay in San Diego was brief. According to an article published in the San Diego Union on January 23, 1941, Manuel was transferred to a Mexican consulate office in San Antonio, Texas. Further information about the Aguilars could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about Manuel Aguilar and Dolores Aguilar to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Rudolph C. Pfister and Ruth Pfister Christian R. Pfister (Rudolph's brother) Residents, 1941 only
Rudolph C. Pfister and Ruth Pfister, and Rudolph's older brother Christian R. Pfister, were residents of 3020 Dale Street in 1941 only. They presumably rented the home from owner Fred Sloper. Rudolph was employed as a stock clerk with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, and Christian worked as a mechanic at an unknown place.
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On April 5, 1907, Rudolph Carl Pfister was born in Tecumseh, Nebraska. His parents, Carl and Susan Pfister, were farmers originally from Switzerland. According to the 1910 U.S. Census, Rudolph lived in Maple Grove, Nebraska with his parents and three siblings.
In the 1930's, Rudolph married Ruth Fredericka Wagner. She was born in Johnson County, Nebraska on February 22, 1913. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, Rudolph, Ruth, and their two small children John and Joan still lived in Tecumseh. The census indicates that Rudolph worked as a gasoline truck delivery driver there. The Pfister family lived in Tecumseh until 1941, when they moved to San Diego and into 3020 Dale Street. Rudolph's older brother Christian also lived in the subject property with them.
It could not be determined where Rudolph and Ruth moved in 1942, when they vacated 3020 Dale Street. They do not appear in the 1942 San Diego city directory. By 1948, the couple and their two children resided at 4038 Massachusetts Ave. in La Mesa, and Rudolph worked at the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp.
Rudolph and Ruth moved around the San Diego area several more times over the years, and eventually settled in Lemon Grove. Rudolph passed away in Lemon Grove on September 30, 1998. Ruth died in Spring Valley on November 14, 2008. Further information about Rudolph and Ruth could not be located.
Christian R. Pfister, Rudolph's older brother, was born in Steinauer, Nebraska on March 20, 1900. He lived the first 41 years of his life in Nebraska, before moving to San Diego in 1941 with his younger brother Rudolph and Rudolph's wife Ruth. The three adults lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1941, and presumably rented the home from owner Fred Sloper. Also living in the home were John and Joan Pfister, the two small children of Rudolph and Ruth.
In 1942, Christian moved to La Mesa, and worked for the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. Christian married Hannah Hanson in San Diego's First Lutheran Church in 1947. They settled at 4471 Dale Avenue in La Mesa after their marriage.
In the mid-1940's, Christian left his job at the Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp. and found work with the California Division of Forestry. He retired from the Division of Forestry in 1961 (San Diego Union, July 9, 1961). Christian passed away in 1973, and wife Hannah died in May 2005, at the age of 101.
Insufficient information was found about Rudolph C. Pfister and Ruth Pfister, or Christian Pfister, to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Lester G. Rosenberg and Ruth Rosenberg Residents, 1942 and 1943
Wayne L. Rosenberg (son of Lester and Ruth) Resident, 1942 only
Lester G. Rosenberg and Ruth Rosenberg lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1942 and 1943, and presumably rented the home from owner Fred Sloper, or from Fred's son Maurice, who inherited the home after Fred's death in 1943.
Wayne L. Rosenberg lived in the home with his parents Lester and Ruth in 1942, and in 1943, their married daughter Margaret R. Morris lived in the home. Also in 1943, a woman named Ruth E. Little resided in the home. During the time that the Rosenbergs lived at the subject property, Lester worked at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation factory, and Wayne worked as a teller with Bank of America.
On March 12, 1893, Lester Gerald Rosenberg was born in Oakland, California. His father, Lasery Rosenberg, was originally from Germany, while mother Sarah (Wolfe) Rosenberg was a California native. Lester grew up in Oakland, where his father was the proprietor of a cigar store.
According to Lester's World War I draft registration cards from June 1917, he lived in Oakland and was employed as a home furnishings salesman. The registration cards indicate that he had previously served three years as a private in the Army Hospital Corps.
In November 1917, Lester married Ruth Andrews in San Diego. She was a native of Illinois born around 1896. The couple settled in Lester's hometown of Oakland, where their first child, Margaret Ruth Rosenberg, was born on December 11, 1920.
The Rosenbergs moved to San Diego around 1921, settling at 620 19th Street in the Sherman Heights neighborhood. According to the 1921 San Diego city directory, Lester worked as a salesman at the Holzwasser's department store. In San Diego, Lester and Ruth had two sons: Malcolm (born on August 11, 1921) and Wayne Leroy Rosenberg (born on September 2, 1922).
The Rosenberg family moved frequently throughout San Diego, rarely staying at one address for more than one or two years. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the family lived at 2257 Froude Street in Ocean Beach. At that time, Lester worked as a salesman in a cigar store, while Ruth was employed at a grocery store. Their adult son Wayne had a newspaper delivery route at that time.
The Rosenbergs lived at 3020 Dale Street in 1942 and 1943, and then moved to 3413 Kurtz Street in Point Loma. They continued to move often, until settling at 4239 Poplar Street in City Heights by 1964. Lester passed away in San Diego on January 28, 1970. Ruth died in San Diego on October 18, 1990.
Wayne Leroy Rosenberg, the youngest son of Lester and Ruth, was born in San Diego on September 2, 1922. He graduated from Point Loma High School in 1940. He lived with his parents at 3020 Dale Street in 1942, during which time he worked as a teller at Bank of America. Strangely, little other information could be found about Wayne. He passed away on August 2, 1995.
Insufficient information was found about Lester G. Rosenberg and Ruth Rosenberg, or Wayne L. Rosenberg, to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Mrs. Margaret Morris Resident, 1943 only
In 1943, Margaret Ruth (Rosenberg) Morris resided at 3020 Dale Street with her parents, Lester G. Rosenberg and Ruth Rosenberg, as well as with a woman named Ruth E. Little. Margaret was a native of Oakland, California, born on December 11, 1920. As an infant, Margaret moved to San Diego with her parents, and they briefly settled at 620 19th Street in the Sherman Heights neighborhood. Margaret had two younger brothers: Malcolm (born on August 11, 1921) and Wayne Leroy Rosenberg (born on September 2, 1922).
Margaret, her parents and her siblings moved frequently around San Diego from the 1920's through the 1940's. Around 1939, Margaret married a man with the surname Morris. However, further information about him could not be found. It is possible that Margaret's husband was serving abroad during World War II, and perhaps that is why she lived with her parents at 3020 Dale Street in 1943. Margaret died on December 15, 1999. Further information about her could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about Mrs. Margaret Morris to determine she was historically significant for her association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Alice B. Hart (aunt of co-owner Maurice Sloper) Co-Owner, 1943 to 1944
Nine days before his death in November 1943, owner Fred Sloper transferred ownership of 3020 Dale Street to Alice B. Hart and his son Maurice E. Sloper. Alice was the sister of Fred’s late wife, Clairest. In 1944, Alice and her nephew Maurice sold the home. Although Maurice had lived in the home intermittently since his parents Fred and Clairest purchased it in 1920, Alice never resided there. During the time that she co-owned the subject property, Alice lived at 1831 30th Street in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood.
On May 4, 1868, Alice Gertrude Belk was born in Madison County, Illinois. Her parents, Thomas Walton Luther Belk and Eliza Jane Belk, were farmers and parents to ten children. Their daughter Clairest went on to marry Fred Sloper.
Alice grew up in Wood River, Illinois. On July 27, 1890, Alice married John Harrison Hart in Illinois. By 1900, the couple lived in Memphis, Tennessee, where John worked as a harness maker. After his death in September 1917, Alice moved to Alton, Illinois, very close to her hometown of Wood River. She never remarried.
By 1924, Alice was a resident of 1831 30th Street in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood. She lived in that home until approximately 1950, when she moved to 4152 10th Ave. in the University Heights neighborhood. Alice passed away in San Diego on October 24, 1955.
Insufficient information was found about Alice B. Hart to determine she was historically significant for her association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Ruth E. Little Resident, 1943 only
Ruth E. Little was a resident of 3020 Dale Street in 1943 only. She lived there with Lester G. Rosenberg, his wife Ruth, and their married adult daughter, Margaret Ruth (Rosenberg) Morris. According to the 1943 San Diego city directory, Ruth was employed as a policy writer with Loyalty Group Insurance.
Little information about Ruth E. Little could be found. A search of her name on Ancestry.com reveals that a woman named Ruth E. Little, who was born around 1924, attended Hoover High School near San Diego's Kensington neighborhood. Because of her similarity in age to Margaret Ruth (Rosenberg) Morris, the adult daughter of Lester and Ruth Rosenberg, it is possible that Ruth E. Little was a friend of Margaret's. After an extensive search, further information about Ruth E. Little could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about Ruth E. Little to determine she was historically significant for her association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Robert E. Lane and Lillie V. Lane Owners and Residents, 1944 to 1945
Robert E. Lane and Lillie V. Lane purchased 3020 Dale Street in 1944 and lived there until they sold it the following year. Although they do not appear as residents of 3020 Dale Street in the reverse portion of the 1944-1945 San Diego city directory, the Lanes are listed as residents of the home in the directory's main portion.
Little information about the Lanes could be found. Census data indicates that Robert Earl Lane was born in Cleburne, Texas on November 8, 1894, and his wife Lillian "Lillie" Vantine Barnes was born in Alabama on June 17, 1898. They married in Johnson County, Texas on August 14, 1915. After the wedding, the couple resided in Robert's hometown of Cleburne, and he was employed as an auto mechanic. By 1920, they were living in Tyler, Texas.
The Lanes were residents of 1334 Front Street in downtown San Diego by 1921. Around 1926 they moved to 3718 Nile Street in North Park, and around 1928 moved two doors down, to 3704 Nile Street. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, Robert and Lillie resided at 3704 Nile Street, and had two children: Roscoe and Lawanda. Robert worked as an auto mechanic at that time.
Robert and Lillie purchased 3020 Dale Street in 1944, and lived there until they sold it the following year. The Lane family then moved to 3604 Granada Ave. in North Park. Robert died in San Diego on August 14, 1973. Lillie passed away in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 15, 1988.
Insufficient information was found about Robert E. Lane and Lillie V. Lane to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
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Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard Owners, 1945 to 2007 Residents, 1945 to 1984 (Charles) and 1945 to 2007 (Lois)
Gerald W. Burchard Resident, 1945 to 1971
In 1945, Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard purchased 3020 Dale Street. Charles, a dental technician, lived there with Lois until his death in 1984. Lois continued to reside there until she passed away in 2007. Their son Gerald W. Burchard also lived in the home with them, from 1945 to 1971.
Charles Huntington Burchard, Jr. was born in Richmond Hill, New York on February 22, 1919. Shortly after his birth, he moved with his parents and three older siblings to Venice, California, where his father Charles Sr. was a car salesman.
Charles Sr. died in 1922, when Charles Jr. was approximately three years old. Charles Jr. then moved to San Diego with his mother Adele and his three older siblings. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, the family lived at 4124 Florida Street in North Park.
Charles was a graduate of San Diego High School, and around 1939, he married Lois Ione Clute. She was born in Calipatria, California on April 1, 1921. After their marriage, the Burchards briefly lived with Lois’ parents at 4567 Boundary St. in North Park, before moving to 2505 Boundary Street. By this time in the early 1940’s, Charles had already begun his lengthy career as a dental technician.
Charles served in the Navy during World War II, and was discharged in October 1945. That same year, the couple purchased the subject property, and lived there for the remainder of their lives. They eventually had four children: Gerald, Cathy, Barbara, and Diane.
Charles H. Burchard passed away in November 1984. Lois remained as an owner and occupant of 3020 Dale Street until her death on January 25, 2007.
Gerald Burchard, the son of Charles and Lois, was born in San Diego in February 1944. According to the San Diego city directories, Gerald lived with his parents at 3020 Dale Street until the early 1970’s. He worked as a pile driver in the construction industry and also served in the Coast Guard (San Diego Union- Tribune, October 15, 2003). Gerald passed away on October 9, 2003.
Insufficient information was found about Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard, or Gerald W. Burchard, to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3020 Dale Street under Criterion B.
Based on the research found and evidence presented in this report, Legacy 106, Inc. concludes that the L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House at 3020 Dale Street does not rise to the level of having associations with significant individuals to qualify for nomination under Criterion B.
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Criterion “C” Embodies distinctive characteristics of a style, type, period, or method of construction or is a valuable example of the use of indigenous materials or craftsmanship.
The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House is a notable example of a Bungalow type Craftsman style home. The home exemplifies the Craftsman architectural heritage of San Diego and North Park.
This is an excellent example of a home in the Craftsman style. The house features the character defining features indicative of a Craftsman style home. The home has a low pitched roof with a partial width front porch and is an excellent original example of a working class sized example in the Craftsman style. The house features all the primary character defining features indicative of a Craftsman style home. The low pitched front gabled roof system features multiple elaborations, including exposed rafter tails, wide unenclosed eave overhangs and extending roof perlins. Oversized stucco surfaced square columns support the gabled partial width front porch and continue to ground level. The home is made of wood frame construction and features horizontal wood clapboard exterior surfacing in alternating narrow and wider courses. Below the wide unenclosed eaves are vertical slat attic roof vents at the gable ends on the front sides and rear. The house is painted light green with white painted trim and white painted window surrounds and dark green painted windows. The house has a linear rectangular form and plan and is elevated on a raised concrete foundation.
This Craftsman style, also sometimes referred to as the American Arts and Crafts style, became popular in the early 1900s from about 1905-1930, especially in California. While the style shared an appreciation of hand craftsmanship and organic forms with its European counterpart, it is usually differentiated from the English Arts and Crafts Style (which highly influenced the Craftsman style) by its extensive use of wood, low pitched roofline and sometimes Asian inspiration. The style grew to become an independent western movement in American architecture. The style quickly spread nationwide by way of magazines and plan pattern books. The 19th century British Arts & Crafts Movement is reflected in the earliest Craftsman style houses in San Diego, but dropped out of the designs by the end of World War I. This Craftsman bungalow type and style house utilized the craftsman architectural style on a simple working class sized home. This house is an excellent example of this latter period and style.
Many important architects and designers of the style, like Pasadena architects Greene and Greene, and designer and furniture maker Gustav Stickley showed their love of natural materials like wood, tile, brick and stone while utilizing human craftsmanship to create designs in direct opposition to the mass production and machine made designs of the Industrial Revolution. Craftsman style homes often used natural earth-tone colors. Details were very important in the creation of Craftsman homes which usually included built in wooden furniture, doors and stairs in the same highly detailed natural wood aesthetic. This house is an excellent highly original example of this style.
After World War I, the front gable type of Craftsman architecture seems to have become more fashionable and prevalent than the side gabled Craftsman style (especially in California) as architects and builders attempted to bring more natural light into the home. This, along with the use of shaded porches and pergolas, increased the home's connection to the outside. Windows also became wider and more numerous in this later Craftsman period for the same reasons. The subject resource exemplifies this period of the development of the Craftsman architectural style.
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*B10. Significance - Criterion C (continued):
The architecturally defining features that are supportive of historic landmarking are:
1. The Craftsman style front door with six inset glazed panels; 2. The partial width front porch supported by large square stucco columns continuing to the ground level; 3. The decorative vertical slat attic vents on gable ends on all elevations; 4. The low pitched double front gabled roof; 5. The original multi-light wooden front windows; 6. The extending decorative perlin beams on the gable ends; 7. The open, widely overhanging roof eaves; 8. The narrow and wide clapboard exterior surfacing; 9. The wooden double hung and fixed windows; 10. The solid wooden gumwood Craftsman interior china cabinet with glass paneled front doors; 11. The stucco surfaced chimney and porch piers; 12. The distinctive Edward F. Bryans designed triangular fascia board (see Attachment E.3); 13. The wide wooden window surrounds; 14. The original scored concrete porch and walkway.
The following are architectural changes that cause integrity loss:
The rear shed roof covered extension addition at the southwest rear corner of the home (mostly not visible from the public view).
Architectural Integrity Analysis. The following is an analysis of the integrity of the home's architecture.
Location. Location is the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred
Based on comparisons with the residential building records, Sanborn sketch maps, historic photos and other research, the resource is shown to be in its original location at 3020 Dale Street. The house has excellent integrity of Location.
Design. Design is the combination of elements that create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of a property. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
The house is an excellent example of the Craftsman style. The home embodies the distinctive characteristics of the Craftsman style through the retention of character defining features of the style, such as the front gabled roof with partial width porch supported by distinctive Edward F. Bryans designed large square stucco columns that continue to ground level. Other features include widely overhanging eaves, open eave rafters, and decorative extending perlin roof beams. These and other character defining details and features are all present.
Analysis of transitional historic survey photos, building records and examination of the resource at 3020 Dale Street reveals that all visible elevations closely match the original design of the house. The home matches remarkably close to the 1996 and 2004 historic survey photos (please see Attachments D.1). The home's stucco pier and chimney surfacing looks very original and matches the transitional survey photos from 1996 and 2004. Most design features and elements are intact and original.
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The home continues to display distinctive Edward F. Bryans (established Master Builder) designed features such as the large square columns topped by overlapping stacked wooden beam connections and lower pitched porch roof with triangular fascia board. Please see photo and excerpt from The Bungalow: Americas Arts and Crafts Home showing an example of a similar Bryans designed bungalow as an example (Attachment E.3).
Site analysis of the home reveals the only significant change to be a rear service / laundry room extension adding approximately 4 feet at the rear southwest corner of the house completed circa 1950 or before based on the construction methods and materials and records. This is the single addition to the rear of the home, an offset rear corner laundry room extension/addition that is very set back and has minimal visibility from the front public view. This early and minor rear alteration is offset extending out to the south from the original house and utilizes a different window design with a sliding wooden window and sits well set back along the driveway side behind the original chimney and wooden side fence and sits mostly outside of the public view. The rear laundry room extension is noted and shown in red on the site plan provided (please see Attachment A.5).
Beside the small rear laundry addition, the only notable changes to the public view is that the original front porch balustrade appears to have added a lower picket style section under the original square wooden porch pier railings. These wooden porch lower balustrades were added below the original horizontal wooden beam railing as seen in comparison to the 2004 North Park survey photo showing just the large horizontal beams. Finally wooden front gable verge boards and eave fascia boards have been replaced in kind as part of a recent roof replacement and match 1996 and 2004 historic survey photos. As is common for exposed wooden eave woodwork, some of the wooden gable verge boards and eave fascia boards seen in these 1996, 2004 and current photos do not match the craftsmanship seen on the rest of the 1920's home and have likely been repaired and replaced several times over the years. Because the house design utilizes a mixture both intersecting front and side gable roofs, it is unclear but possible that some of the eave boards were added especially over the front porch. The overall roof design matches very closely a similar Edward F. Bryans home design with overlapping triple gable front design with side gables and triangular unusual front porch verge board (please see Attachment E.3, page 98).
The home still displays excellent original integrity of design, and the rear addition and eave fascia boards does not significantly impact the home's integrity of design to such an extent that the home no longer embodies the distinctive characteristics of its original Craftsman style. This is an excellent example of a Craftsman "bungalow" type home by established Master Builder Edward F. Bryans. The Design element of this home is excellent.
Setting. Setting is the physical environment of a historic property. The setting is the larger area or environment in which a historic property is located. It may be an urban, suburban, or rural neighborhood or a natural landscape in which buildings have been constructed. The relationship of buildings to each other, setbacks, fence patterns, views, driveways and walkways, and street trees together create the character of a district or neighborhood.
The setting is that of an early San Diego streetcar suburb, North Park, which borders the north and northeast edge of Balboa Park. The street and side setback of the house match the historic neighborhood homes. The development and streets in the neighborhood is designed for pedestrians with protected sidewalk and landscaping. The original scored concrete walkway connects to the front sidewalk through the open front lawn. The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House continues to convey the era and setting of when the home was originally built. The house has excellent integrity of Setting.
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Materials. Materials are the physical elements that were combined or deposited during a particular period of time and in a particular pattern or configuration to form a historic property. The Standards state that deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical, or pictorial evidence.
The primary materials of this front gable Craftsman style house with front porch are the medium and narrow horizontal clapboard exterior surfacing, stucco front piers and chimney, composition shingle roof, extending wooden perlins, open exposed eaves, and wide wood framed windows and doors. These elements are all very original and intact. These, along with the square stucco front porch columns and chimney, are seen in transitional historic survey photos and are extant and match the historic survey photos (Attachment D.1). There are no significant changes to the materials within the public view. As noted throughout this analysis, the Materials aspect of Integrity of this home is excellent.
Workmanship. Workmanship is the physical evidence of the crafts of a particular culture or people during any given period in history or prehistory.
The craftsmanship exhibited in this house represents skilled construction techniques. Some of the fine wood workmanship is exhibited in the original overlapping stacked wooden column supports. Also, horizontal narrow and wide wood clapboard surfacing terminates at perfect beveled corner edges which appear sharp and exact. These chamfered corners with very minimal corner gap display excellent skill and workmanship. Excellent examples of fine work are also reflected in the wide solid wooden multi- paneled front door, decorative vertical slat attic vents and the double hung and fixed multi-light wooden windows. Unfortunately, as commonly occurs, some fascia boards have been repaired or replaced over time, that do not match the quality workmanship of the originals. Well made built-in gumwood buffet cabinetry and interior wooden doors are original. The workmanship seen on all elevations with narrow and medium clapboard with skirting at the base above the foundation all exhibit quality workmanship. As noted, the wood and carpentry skill seen throughout the home on exterior surfaces and corners shows quality carpentry and workmanship skills. The Workmanship aspect of Integrity is excellent.
Feeling. Feeling is a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time.
This 1920 Craftsman residence, in its present excellent original condition, is well preserved and imparts the visitor with a realistic sense and feeling of the original historical home and neighborhood. A historical sense and feel of a 1920's residential neighborhood is experienced. The overall streetscape of lawn strips, landscapes, house setbacks and relation to one another creates a visual feeling of the past. The home blends in well with older neighboring properties. The feeling of an early Craftsman home in the 1920's era is well retained. The Feeling aspect of Integrity is excellent.
Association. Association is the direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic property.
Although built by recognized Master Builder Edward F. Bryans, the home is not found to be associated with significant events or persons. The Association aspect of Integrity is not applicable.
Conclusion: The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House meets six of seven aspects of integrity and can be said to have good architectural integrity for historical designation. Legacy 106, Inc. recommends the house for historical designation under Criterion C.
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*B10. Significance - Criterion D:
Criterion “D” Is representative of a notable work of a master builder, designer, architect, engineer, landscape architect, interior designer, artist or craftsman.
Edward F. Bryans Builder of 3020 Dale Street, 1920 Already an established Master Builder
The house at 3020 Dale Street is an excellent example of the Craftsman style and an early example of the work of established Master Builder Edward F. Bryans. Bryans worked in a variety of styles and configurations, from small bungalow to large multi-family dwelling apartments. Although his small later Craftsman bungalow houses are well represented by the 2011 North Park Dryden District, the subject property at 3020 Dale Street represents an early and bungalow type Craftsman example which remains on its original rectangular lot. Bryans erected houses in North Park, South Park, and University Heights between 1912 and his retirement in the late 1940's-early 1950's. The precise date he stopped building houses is unknown, but the Craftsman style was surpassed by Spanish Eclectic and other romantic styles in the 1920's and declined around 1930. The 1994 North Park Historic Bungalow Tour brochure identified eleven houses he built on Pershing Avenue between 1913 and 1923. The variations include Colonial Revival, Swiss Chalet, and the more standard Craftsman style. He later built in other styles along Park Boulevard in Hillcrest.
Local historian and geographer, the late Donald Covington, reported that Bryans came to San Diego in 1911, after learning construction in Minnesota. Bryans arrived at age 30, married to Myrtle Bryans. His first project, 3544 Oregon Street, was completed in 1913 and became the Bryans' personal home and Edward's business location for many years. As his business expanded, he relocated away from North Park in the 1920's and began erecting larger houses and commercial properties along Park Boulevard, Upas Street, University Avenue and in other parts of San Diego.
During processing and approval of the North Park Historic District, the City of San Diego approved Bryans as a master builder. The full extent of his creations is not yet known. The January 16, 1973 issue of the San Diego Union reported, “Edward Bryans Services Set at Greenwood.” That article reported he died at age 92 and lived at 525 Spruce Street. The article went on to say he worked as a contractor for over forty years and was a member of the Masonic Lodge 35, F&AM, Scottish Rite Bodies, and a former member of the Elks Lodge 168.
Professional Development of Edward F. Bryans and Comparisons to Other Resources. Edward F. Bryans designed in the Craftsman and Spanish Eclectic styles that were so popular in the 1910's - 1920's. Bryans' work in the Craftsman style is characterized by his use of wood architectural elaborations, such as decorative knee braces, exposed sometimes stacked beams with notched verge boards, wooden clapboard and shingle siding and his most distinctive and unique feature, a decorative wooden keystone detail seen at the apex on the main front beams of some of his Craftsman designs. Most of Bryans' work has some type of front-facing gable in the design with partial width porch.
The subject home displays distinctive Edward F. Bryans (established Master Builder) designed features, such as the large square columns topped by overlapping wooden beam connections and lower pitched porch roof with triangular fascia board. Please see photo and excerpt from The Bungalow: Americas Arts and Crafts Home showing an example of a similar Bryans designed bungalow as an example (Attachment E.3).
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Another interesting characteristic of the work of Edward F. Bryans in the Craftsman style is his use of simple square wood columns (sometime double) and lack of typical Craftsman tapered (battered) wooden columns. Bryans utilized large piers in his designs, sometimes rising just below the roof beams, in his later (1920's-1930's) Craftsman homes.
Individually Historically Designated Resources Constructed by Master Builder Edward F. Bryans:
4507 New Hampshire Street in University Heights, a one-story Craftsman style residence built in 1915. This home was historically designated in March 2013 as the Nathaniel and Ella Sebastian / Edward F. Bryans House (HRB # 1096).
3520 28th Street in North Park, a one-story Craftsman style residence built in 1916. The home was historically designated in June 2010 as the Winslow R. Parsons Spec House #1 (HRB # 962). The following year, this home was included as a contributor to the North Park Dryden Historic District.
2829 28th Street in North Park, a two-story Prairie style home constructed in 1916. It was historically designated in July 2011 as the Miguel and Ella Gonzalez House (HRB # 1012).
4247 Arden Way in Mission Hills, a two-story Craftsman style residence built in 1919. This home was historically designated in October 2001 as the Dyar & Grace Hazelrigg House (HRB # 495).
3411 29th Street in North Park, a one-story Craftsman style residence built in 1919. This home was historically designated in November 2002 as the Eldora Rudrauff House (HRB # 558).
Historically Designated Resources Built by Edward F. Bryans - Contributors to the 2011 North Park Dryden District or the Fort Stockton Line Historic District (Mission Hills):
3711 28th St. Built 1921 HRB # 1008-043 Craftsman style house 2235 Fort Stockton Dr. Built 1919 HRB # 07-031 Craftsman style house 3420 Pershing Ave. Built 1913 HRB # 1008-033 Craftsman style house 3510-12 Pershing Ave. Built 1916 HRB # 1008-063 Craftsman style house 3530 Pershing Ave. Built 1916 HRB # 1008-066 Craftsman style house 3544 Pershing Ave. Built 1913 HRB # 1008-069 Craftsman style house 3552 Pershing Ave. Built 1921 HRB # 1008-070 Craftsman style house 3593 Pershing Ave. Built 1923 HRB # 1008-080 Craftsman style house 3607 Pershing Ave. Built 1919 HRB # 1008-082 Craftsman style house 3612-14 Pershing Ave. Built 1917 HRB # 1008-084 Craftsman style house 3593 Pershing Ave. Built 1917 HRB # 1008-084 Craftsman style house 3635 Pershing Ave. Built 1921 HRB # 1008-088 Craftsman style house 3652 Pershing Ave. Built 1917 HRB # 1008-090 Craftsman style house 3635 Pershing Ave. Built 1921 HRB # 1008-088 Craftsman style house 2728 Upas Street Built 1921 HRB # 1008-103 Spanish Eclectic style house
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Between 1915 and 1918, Edward F. Bryans also built approximately twenty houses along the east side of Oregon Street in the Park Villas Tract in University Heights.
Other known Bryans-built residences are as follows:
1715 29th Street, a two-story Dutch Colonial style residence. 1414 Brookes Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence. 3330 Dale Street in North Park, a one-story Craftsman style residence built in 1920. This home has been substantially altered. Its original building permit was published in the October 22, 1920 issue of Southwest Builder and Contractor, and reads: Cottage and Garage, frame; 3330 Dale St; EF Bryans, 3022 Upas St, o & b [Note: "o & b" denotes "owner and builder."] 3344 Dale Street in North Park, a one-story Craftsman style residence. 3401 Granada Avenue in North Park, a one-story Spanish Eclectic style residence built in 1926. This was the personal residence of Edward F. Bryans until 1961. 3411 Granada Avenue in North Park, a one-story Spanish Eclectic style residence built in 1927. 3043 Juniper Street, a Spanish Eclectic style bungalow court. 3567 Mississippi Street, a one-story Spanish Eclectic style residence. 1641-1643 Myrtle Avenue, a two-story Spanish Eclectic apartment building constructed in 1924. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 1725-1727 Myrtle Avenue, a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building constructed in 1925. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3215 Myrtle Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence. 3418-3420 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building constructed in 1925. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3422-3424 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building constructed in 1925. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3430 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Eclectic apartment building constructed in 1924. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3432-3434½ Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building constructed in 1924. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3436-3430 Park Blvd., a two-story Prairie Style apartment building constructed in 1924. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3446 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival apartment building constructed in 1924. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3511 Park Blvd., a two-story Italian Renaissance Revival apartment building constructed in 1922. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District.
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*B10. Significance - Criterion D (continued): 3517-3519 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Eclectic style apartment building constructed in 1927. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3521 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Eclectic style apartment building constructed in 1926. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3531 Park Blvd., a two-story Spanish Eclectic style residence built in 1926. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3611-3617 Park Blvd., a two-story Prairie style residence built in 1921. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3686 Park Blvd., a one-story Craftsman style residence. It has been heavily altered. 3630 Park Blvd., a two-story Italian Renaissance Revival apartment building constructed in 1922. It is pending historic designation as a contributor to the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. 3695 Park Blvd., a Craftsman style residence built in 1913. It has since been heavily altered. 3521 Pershing Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence. 3612 Pershing Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence built in 1917. 3635 Pershing Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence. 3652 Pershing Avenue, a one-story Craftsman style residence
This early Craftsman example of Bryans' work, built in 1920, can be compared to his earliest two designated resources: 3420 Pershing Ave. (HRB 1008-055) and 3544 Pershing Ave. (HRB 1008-069) both built in 1913, share the subject home's use of simplified square porch columns sitting on large piers. The subject property at 3020 Dale Street also has simple square columns, extending perlins and notched verge boards. Both of these other early homes have a full width front porch instead of the partial width porch seen on the subject resource (see Attachments E.4, Criterion D). Later examples of Bryans' simple square columns are seen at 3536 Pershing Ave., 3530 Pershing Ave. and 3520 28th Street, all built in 1926. Bryans would later utilize the partial width front porch and solid porch balustrade in his designs, as seen in this home.
The subject resource is an early high style example of the work of Edward F. Bryans with extensive use of exposed structural wood detailing and excellent wood built-in interior features. The subject home retains its wooden exterior surfacing of clapboards. The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House retains virtually all of its original materials and details, even retaining the original front door with beveled panels. The original partial width porch was designed by recognized Master Builder Edward F. Bryans and the home continues to convey its Craftsman architectural features with the retention of Bryans' distinctive extending perlins, simple square stucco columns and notched verge boards with exposed beams and open eaves indicative of Edward F. Bryans' Craftsman style designs.
Within the known historic context of Bryans' career, 3020 Dale Street is a good example of his Craftsman style bungalows. Legacy 106, Inc. recommends that the Historical Resources Board find 3020 Dale Street qualified under Criterion D and include Bryans' name in the designation.
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
*B10. Significance - Criterion D (continued): The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House at 3020 Dale Street was constructed in 1920 in a Craftsman Bungalow architectural style. The resource is representative of the work of Master Builder Edward F. Bryans and has a high level of integrity. The L.N. and Elizabeth Horton / Edward F. Bryans House is an excellent significant example of the work of Master Builder Edward F. Bryans in San Diego when he was developing his distinctive Craftsman design style. The house embodies distinctive elements of Bryans' use of Craftsman architecture. The home is an important example of his architectural skill and design in 1920.
33 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2018 Continuation Update
*B10. Significance - Criterion E:
HRB Criterion E National Register of Historic Places listing or eligibility.
Criterion E does not apply to this property.
HRB Criterion F as a contributing resource to a Historical District.
Criterion F does not apply to this property.
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A.1 Assessor’s Building Record
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A.1 Assessor’s Building Record
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A.2 Notice of Completion
A Notice of Completion for this property could not be located.
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A.3 Water Record The water permit was applied for on July 21, 1920 by property owner Edward F. Bryans. He is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
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A.3 Sewer Record The sewer permit was applied for on September 10, 1920 by property owner Edward F. Bryans. He is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits "No Plan" combination building permit for exterior siding repair / replacement in-kind. Issued June 2017.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits "No Plan" combination building permit to replace roof shingles in-kind. Issued December 2017.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits Combination building permit for new detached garage with guest quarters above. Issued October 2018.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits Agreement for new detached garage with guest quarters above. Applied for in August 2018.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint Taken from the Residential Building Record The circa 1950 rear service / laundry room extension is shown in red.
Circa 1950 rear service / laundry room extension
Front Elevation 46
A.6 County Lot and Block Book Page Lots 41 and 42 in Block 2 of Blair's Highland Addition were first assessed to Clairest L. Sloper in 1921.
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A.7 Previous Survey Form DPR form from the 2004 North Park Reconnaissance Survey Continued on next page.
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A.7 Previous Survey Form DPR form from the 2004 North Park Reconnaissance Survey Continued from previous page.
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Attachment B Ownership and Occupant Information
B.1 – Chain of Title B.2 – Directory Search of Occupants B.3 – Deed from the Date of Construction
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B.1 Chain of Title 3020 Dale Street, San Diego, CA 92104 APN: 453-591-21-00 Lots 41 and 42 in Block 2 of Blair's Highland Addition
Instrument Date Grantor to Grantee, Recording Date, Book Number, Page Number
December 8, 1910 Robert Blair (a widower) to Charles F. O’Neall, W.M. Herbert, J.T. Wight and John H. Ferry, recorded April 10, 1912, Deed Book 560, Page 14.
July 19, 1920 Charles F. O’Neall and Annie May O’Neall (husband and wife) to Edward F. Bryans and Myrtle C. Bryans (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded August 5, 1920, Deed Book 824, Page 130.
September 11, 1920 Edward F. Bryans and Myrtle C. Bryans (husband and wife) to L.N. Horton, recorded September 16, 1920, Deed Book 821, Page 476.
October 21, 1920 L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton (husband and wife) to Clairest L. Sloper, recorded November 13, 1920, Deed Book 832, Page 327.
May 4, 1932 Fred Sloper and Clairest L. Sloper (husband and wife) to Maurice S. Sloper and Elvira Sloper (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded August 11, 1932, Official Records Book 152, Page 31.
January 14, 1935 Maurice S. Sloper and Elvira B. Sloper (husband and wife) to Fred Sloper, recorded January 19, 1935, Official Records Book 369, Page 281.
January 19, 1935 Fred Sloper (a widower) to Elvira B. Sloper, recorded January 19, 1935, Official Records Book 364, Page 486.
November 13, 1943 Fred Sloper (a widower) to Maurice E. Sloper and Alice B. Hart (as joint tenants), recorded November 15, 1943, Official Records Book 1590, Page 214.
April 1, 1944 Elvira B. Salazar (who acquired title to property as Elvira B. Sloper) to Maurice E. Sloper and Alice B. Hart, recorded April 8, 1944, Official Records Book 1648, Page 494.
February 28, 1944 Maurice E. Sloper and Olga J. Sloper (husband and wife), and Alice B. Hart (a widow) to Robert E. Lane and Lillie V. Lane (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded April 8, 1944, Official Records Book 1648, Page 495.
November 9, 1945 Robert E. Lane and Lillie V. Lane (husband and wife) to Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded December 8, 1945, Official Records Book 2008, Page 259.
June 21, 1946 Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard (husband and wife) to Department of Veterans Affairs of the State of California, recorded July 17, 1946, Official Records Book 2172, Page 405.
September 17, 1946 Department of Veterans Affairs of the State of California to Charles H. Burchard, recorded February 23, 1950, Official Records Book 3511, Page 320.
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B.1 Chain of Title - Continued
November 21, 1958 Department of Veterans Affairs of the State of California to Charles H. Burchard and Lois I. Burchard, recorded December 4, 1958, Document # 202990.
April 29, 1985 Affidavit - Death of Joint Tenant (Charles H. Burchard, deceased), recorded April 29, 1985, Document # 85-147126.
November 24, 2003 Lois I. Burchard to Lois I. Burchard (Trustee, and all Successor Trustees, of the Lois I. Burchard Family Trust), recorded December 8, 2003, Document # 2003- 1451728.
February 13, 2007 Affidavit - Death of Trustee (Lois I. Burchard, deceased), recorded February 16, 2007, Document # 2007-0109939.
May 8, 2007 Cathleen Sommermeyer and Diane Ione Edwards (Successor Trustees of the Lois I. Burchard Family Trust) to Jeffrey Hansen (a single man), recorded June 13, 2007, Document # 2007-0401045.
November 19, 2007 Jeffrey Hansen (a single man) to Beston Barnett and Andrea Guerrero (husband and wife as community property with right of survivorship), recorded November 27, 2007, Document # 2007-0737542.
May 21, 2008 Beston Barnett and Andrea Guerrero (husband and wife as community property with right of survivorship) to The Dumbledore Family Trust dated May 21, 2008, and any amendments thereto, Beston Barnett and Andrea Guerrero as trustees, recorded May 22, 2008, Document # 2008-0277419.
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B.2 Directory Search of Occupants
1920 Address not yet listed in directory. 1921 Archibald Lily M stenographer r 3020 Dale Sloper Fred (Lillian B), proprietor Liberty Stores, h 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E, manager Liberty Stores, r 3020 Dale 1922 Archibald Lillie M stenographer r 3020 Dale Archibald Lilymae student Kelsey-Jenney Commercial College r 3020 Dale Sloper Fredk (Lillian B) h 3020 Dale 1923 Archibald Lilly M stenographer r 3020 Dale Sloper A Fred (Lillian B) h 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E (Vera B) salesman r 3020 Dale 1924 Archibald L Mae asst cashier S D Consolidated Gas & Elec Co r 3020 Dale Sloper Fred (Lillian) laborer A M Dairy Co h 3020 Dale 1925 Archibald L Mae cashier S D Consolidated Gas & Elec Co r 3020 Dale Sloper Fred (Lillian) laborer h 3020 Dale 1926 Sloper Fred Sillifant Frank J salesman Machinery Pipe & Supply Co r 3020 Dale Sloper Fred (Lillian) laborer h 3020 Dale 1927 Sillifant FJ Sillifant Francis J (Lily M) salesman Machinery Pipe & Supply Co h 3020 Dale Sloper Fred Sillifant Mae cashier SD Consolidated Gas & Elec Co r 3020 Dale Sloper Felix N creamery worker Campbell Creamery r 3020 Dale Sloper Fred (Lillian) laborer h 3020 Dale 1928 Sloper AF Sloper A Fred (Lillian B) creamery man Campbell Creamery h 3020 Dale 1929 Sloper AF (o) Sloper A Fred (Lillian) employee Campbell Creamery h 3020 Dale 1930 Sloper AF (o) Sloper Albert F (Lillian B) h 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E (Elvira B) clerk r 3020 Dale 1931 Sloper AF (o) Sloper A Fred (Lillian B) h 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E (Elvira B) clerk City Operating Dept r 3020 Dale 1932 Sloper AF Sloper A Fred (Lillian B) h 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E (Elvira) r 3020 Dale 1933 Sloper AF Sloper Albt F h 3020 Dale Sloper ME Sloper Maurice E (Elvira B) clerk r 3020 Dale 1934 Sloper ME Sloper A Fred r 3020 Dale Sloper Maurice E (Vera B) statistician City Purchasing Dept h 3020 Dale 1935 Sloper Elvira Mrs Sloper A Fred r 3020 Dale Sloper Elvira Mrs h 3020 Dale Wyatt Stanton sales manager Neuner Bros r 3020 Dale 1936 Molina Dan Molina Dan (Gertrude) manager Radio Station XEMO h 3020 Dale 1937 Molina Dan Molina Dan (Gertrude) manager Radio Station XEMO h 3020 Dale 1938 Wright WE Sloper Fred r 3020 Dale Wright William E (Mabel) transmission man Southern California Telephone Co h 3020 Dale 1939 Vacant 1940 Aguilar Manuel Aguilar Manuel (Dolores) consul Mexican Consulate h 3020 Dale 1941 Pfister RC Pfister Christian R mechanic r 3020 Dale Pfister Rudolph C (Ruth) clerk Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3020 Dale 1942 Rosenberg LG Rosenberg Lester G (Ruth) aircraft worker Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3020 Dale Rosenberg Wayne L teller Bank of America r 3020 Dale
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1943 Rosenberg LG Little Ruth E policy writer Loyalty Group Insurance Co r 3020 Dale Morris Margaret Mrs r 3020 Dale Rosenberg Lester G (Ruth) aircraft worker Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3020 Dale 1944 - Vacant 1945 1946 Directory not published this year 1947 - Burchard CH (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois I) lab technician JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1948 1949 Directory not published this year 1950 Burchard CH (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois I) with JC Campbell Dentists h 3020 Dale St 1951 Directory not published this year 1952 Burchard CH (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois I) dental tech JC Campbell Dentists h 3020 Dale St 1953- Burchard CH (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) dental technician Dr JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1954 1955 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) dental technician Dr JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1956 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) dental technician Dr JC Campbell dentist h 3020 Dale St 1957 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1958 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1959 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1960 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1961 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1962 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W student r 3020 Dale St 1963- Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1964 Burchard Gerald W student r 3020 Dale St 1965 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W student r 3020 Dale St 1966 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W US Coast Guard r 3020 Dale St 1967 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W US Coast Guard r 3020 Dale St 1968 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W US Coast Guard r 3020 Dale St 1969- Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1970 Burchard Gerald W US Coast Guard r 3020 Dale St 1971 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St Burchard Gerald W r 3020 Dale St 1972 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1973 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1974 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1975 Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1976- Burchard Chas H (o) Burchard Chas H (Lois) lab tech JC Campbell h 3020 Dale St 1984 1985- Lois Burchard h 3020 Dale St 2007 2007- Beston Barnett and Andrea Guerrero h 3020 Dale St present
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Charles F. O'Neall and May O'Neall to Edward F. Bryans and Myrtle C. Bryans. Recorded August 5, 1920.
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B.3 Deed Edward F. Bryans and Myrtle C. Bryans to L.N. Horton. Recorded September 16, 1920.
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B.3 Deed L.N. Horton and Elizabeth Horton to Clairest L. Sloper. Recorded November 13, 1920.
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B.3 Deed Fred Sloper and Clairest L. Sloper to Maurice Sloper and Elvira Sloper. Recorded August 11, 1932.
58 Attachment C Maps
C.1 — City of San Diego 800 Scale Engineering Map C.2 — Current and Historical USGS Maps C.3 — Original Subdivision Map C.4 — Sanborn Maps 1921 1940 1950 1956
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C.1 City of San Diego 800 Scale Engineering Map
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C.2 Current USGS Map - 2015 Point Loma quadrangle 7.5' series
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C.2 Historical USGS Map – 1942 Point Loma quadrangle 7.5' series
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C.3 Original Subdivision Map Lots 41 and 42 in Block 2 of Blair's Highland Addition. Note that Dale Street was originally named Dunkin Street.
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C.3 Tax Assessor's Map
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1921 Volume 2, Map 237
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1940
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1950 Volume 2, Map 237
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1956 Volume 5, Map 537
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Attachment D Photographs
D.1 — Historical Photographs D.2 — Current Photographs
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D.1 Transitional Photographs
Back of above photo.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs 3020 Dale St. in 2004. Photo from a 2004 North Park reconnaissance survey.
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation Photos this page by Dan Soderberg, October 2018. All other photos by Kiley Wallace, August 2018.
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – North (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – North (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – North (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – West (rear) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – West (rear) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Southwest (rear and side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – South (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – South (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – South (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – South (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Detached Garage Top photo: West (front) elevation
Below: North (side) elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Detached Garage Top photo: East (rear) elevation
Right: South (side) elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Interior For reference only. Not included in proposed designation.
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Attachment E HRB Criteria Supplemental Documentation
E.1 — Criterion A E.2 — Criterion B E.3 — Criterion C E.4 — Criterion D E.5 — Criterion E E.6 — Criterion F
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History
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E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Fred Sloper and Clairest Lillian Sloper Owners, 1920 to 1932 (Fred and Clairest) and 1935 to 1943 (Fred only) Residents, 1920 to 1935 and 1938 (Fred) & 1920 to 1932 (Clairest)
The 1930 U.S. Census shows that Fred and Clairest Sloper (listed below by her middle name, Lillian) resided at 3020 Dale Street. Also living in the home was their adult son Maurice E. Sloper, Maurice's wife Elvira, and Mary Rose, the seven year-old daughter of Maurice and Elvira.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Fred Sloper and Clairest Lillian Sloper Owners, 1920 to 1932 (Fred and Clairest) and 1935 to 1943 (Fred only) Residents, 1920 to 1935 and 1938 (Fred) & 1920 to 1932 (Clairest)
Fred Sloper circa 1940. Courtesy of Ancestry.com
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E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Maurice E. Sloper Owner, 1932 to 1935 and 1943 to 1944 Resident, 1921, 1923, and 1930 to 1934 Photos this page courtesy of Ancestry.com
Maurice Sloper in Jamul circa 1950. Maurice Sloper circa 1920.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Dan Molina and Gertrude Molina Residents, 1936 and 1937 Photos this page are courtesy of Ancestry.com
Dan circa 1930's. When he and Gertrude Dan and Gertrude circa 1915. moved to San Diego from Arizona in 1936, he found work as the manager of the XEMO radio station.
Dan circa 1950.
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture This home, located at 3406 Granada Ave. in North Park, was also built by Edward F. Bryans. Note matching square columns, triangular front porch vergeboards, lower pitched porch gable and many other details strikingly similar to 3020 Dale St (which is shown below for comparison). Excerpt from The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Home by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister, 1995.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego. Article about Bryans written by North Park historian Katherine Hon. Published in the North Park News in January 2011.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego. Continued from previous page.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
Subject property
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Edward F. Bryans is an established Master Builder in the City of San Diego.
106 Attachment F Works Cited
F.1 — Provide a list of works cited (bibliography)
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F.1 Bibliography
Books
Bosley, Edward R. 2003 Greene & Greene. London: Phaidon Press
Brandes, Ray S. 1991 San Diego Architects 1868-1939. San Diego: University of San Diego
California Office of Historic Preservation 1996 The California Register of Historic Resources: Regulations for Nomination of Historic Properties. State of California, The Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation
Ching, Francis D.K. 1995 A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York City: John Wiley & Sons
Covington, Donald P. 2007 North Park: A San Diego Urban Village, 1896-1946. San Diego: Hon Consulting, Inc.
Duchscherer, Paul and Douglas Keister 1995 The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Home. New York City: Penguin Studio
Crawford, Richard W. 2011 The Way We Were in San Diego. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press
Hartmann, Glenn D. 1977 Architectural Description Guide: Developed for Use in Preparing Nominations for State and National Registers of Historic Places. Olympia, Washington: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission
Hunt, Rockwell D. 1932 California and Californians, Volume IV. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company
McAlester, Virginia and Lee McAlester 2014 A Field Guide to American Houses. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
McGrew, Clarence Alan 1922 City of San Diego and San Diego County, the Birthplace of California. Volume I. Chicago: The American Historical Society
National Park Service 1985 Historic American Building Survey Guidelines for Preparing Written and Historical Descriptive Data. San Francisco: Division of National Register Programs, Western Regional Office North Park Historical Society 2014 Images of America: San Diego's North Park. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing
Smith, Bruce and Alexander Vertikoff 1998 Greene and Greene: Masterworks. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, LLC
Smith, G.E. Kidder 1996 Source Book of American Architecture. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press
Walker, Lester 2002 American Homes - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture. New York City: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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F.1 Bibliography - Continued
Woods, Douglas, Melba Levick and M. Brian Tichenor 2012 The California Casa. New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Government Documents
City of San Diego Historical Resources Board 2009 Historical Resource Research Report Guidelines and Requirements, Land Development Manual, Historical Resources Guidelines, Appendix E, Part 1.1, Adopted by the Historical Resources Board November 30, 2006, Updated January 24, 2008 and February 9, 2009.
Internet
Ancestry.com, www.ancestry.com (U.S. Census 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940; California Death Index; Social Security Death Index; genealogical files)
Newspaper
San Diego Union
San Diego Evening Tribune
San Diego Union-Tribune