HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House 5232 Marlborough Drive ~ Kensington Neighborhood San Diego, California
Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (619) 269-3924 www.legacy106.com February 2016 1
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 (619) 269-3924 • http://www.legacy106.com
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State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # ______DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ______PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial ______NRHP Status Code 3S Other Listings ______Review Code _____ Reviewer ______Date ______
Page 3 of 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House
P1. Other Identifier: 5232 Marlborough Drive, San Diego, CA 92116
*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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: La Mesa Date: 1997 Maptech, Inc.T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 5232 Marlborough Dr. City: San Diego Zip: 92116 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 Three Hundred Twenty-three and Three Hundred Twenty-four of KENSINGTON HEIGHTS UNIT NO. 3, according to Map thereof No. 1948, filed in the Office of the County Recorder, San Diego County, September 28, 1926. It is APN # 440-044-08-00 and 440-044-09-00.
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house, located in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego, is a large two-story example of the Spanish Revival/ Eclectic style built in 1929. It has a low pitched gable, hipped and shed red tile roof. The east (front) elevation faces Marlborough Drive and utilizes an asymmetrical façade with a repeating arched front porch and porte-cochère and upper level balcony. A single story gabled front wing extends out on the northern side with a large arching focal window. The raised arching front porch maintains the original arching front doorway and iron porch railing. An upper level corner balcony sits beneath the principle hipped roofline of the home (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 Kiley Wallace, February 2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Tax Assessor’s Residential Building Record, 1929 Water record is dated November 27, 1928 signed by builder Carl B. Hays. San Diego Union article and photo May 12, 1929 completed with builders listed as Donahue and Hays. San Diego Union article and photo January 5, 1929 show home under construction. Index to Property (Lot Book), assessed in 1930 *P7. Owner and Address: Devin and DeLayne Harmon 5232 Marlborough Drive San Diego, CA 92116 *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: February 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., February 2016. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace for extensive research, and other assistance with the preparation of this report.
*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):
DPR 523A *Required Information
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Page 4 of 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House
*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 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 5232 Marlborough Drive is a two story Spanish Revival/Eclectic style home with an asymmetrical façade and a compound irregular floor plan. The home was originally built on a triple lot with walled garden to the north and tennis court to the south. The southern lot was sold with a home later added circa 1950. The adjoining walled northern lot has never had separate ownership and recently had a small detached guest house added as the owners did not want to disturb the historic residence with an attached addition. The home features a variety of roof styles and varied heights and massing helping to break up the massing of this large single family home. This varied composition is a character defining feature of the Spanish style and helps create the feeling of grouping of structures added to over time. The front façade features three repeating arches on the first level, that form the covered front porch and covered porte-cochère with shed roof. A matching arched fixed focal window opening is seen to the right (north) completing the rhythmic design of repeating arches on the arcade first level. The main dominant feature of the upper level is a central strap iron covered balcony above the first level arched entryway covered porch. this upper level balcony is supported by rustic square wooden beams with corbels and is fronted with a iron strap style railing.
The home sits on a lightly sloping hillside with the original meandering walkway connecting the sidewalk with the front porch and entryway. The house has a low pitched fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative rafter tails on the eave ends below the roofline. The gable ends feature the classic three round clay tile attic vents with the added elaboration of verge boards with overlapping tiles and extending wood purlin beams. The low pitched gable and hipped roof eaves display these subtle wooden rafter tails. Fenestration consists of mostly three light double casement wood window groupings which have been carefully restored in-kind or are original. The home retains its original deep inset arched entryway with original paneled door with original arched viewing port and wrought iron grille. The home's clay roof tile pattern matches the layering of tiles seen in historic photos. The home features stucco wall surfacing throughout which has been restored matching the original stucco. The home has the characteristic defining architectural features of the Spanish Revival/Eclectic or "California Style" home, as local architect Richard S. Requa referred to it. These include the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing, and arches on principle windows and porch supports. The home also exhibits some interesting features of the style including its use of the front porch colonnade with repeating archways and its covered upper level balcony with iron strap work balustrade. A large brick topped stucco chimney is seen on the front and northern façade. Windows are forest green painted wood unless otherwise noted. The house has just undergone an extensive multiyear restoration and displays excellent architectural integrity.
The Spanish Eclectic, also known as the Spanish Revival style, became popular in 1915 with the creation of the California pavilion and other buildings for the Panama California Exposition in San Diego. At the exposition, architect Bertram Goodhue built upon earlier Mission Revival styles and added a more varied representation of original 16th century Spanish buildings. This romantic, sophisticated style borrowed from a broader rich vocabulary of Moorish, Spanish Baroque, Renaissance and Mediterranean architectural traditions with detailing often based on actual prototypes in Spain. Many important architects of the style traveled to Spain for inspiration. The San Diego exposition, along with Goodhue and other designers, promoted the style's popularity and it became a craze in California in the late 1920's.
East (Front) Elevation – The second level displays a combined hipped and gable roof that follows to the back of the home utilizing fired Mission half barrel tiles in a hand laid pattern with short wooden rafter tails below the eave ends. The crossing gable and hipped roofs shelter the house and continue back the length of the house as opposed to the more common (and less expensive) flat roofs, fronted by shed roofs or decorative gable ends which are more commonly seen on more modest Spanish Eclectic homes
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued): of the period. The home's varied heights and combination of roof types is typical of larger high style "landmark" examples of the Spanish Eclectic / Revival style which replicates the informal irregular designs of Spanish villages.
The front façade displays a forward facing two story hipped wing with a lower secondary one story gable roofed wing protruding to the right, finally each end of the front façade of the home is flanked by shed roof side wings with the arched porte-cochère seen to the left and a raised covered patio seen to the right supported by large square columns. Starting from the top, to the left, the front of the hipped end is seen protruding out with short wooden rafters surrounding the three sided open eaves. The wall face below the hipped roof eave presents a rectangular double casement window opening to the left with three light wooden casement windows and to the right the home features an inset corner balcony which sits under the principle hipped roofline of the home. This upper level balcony has a lowered stucco header and is supported by a rusticated square support columns, decorative corbels, and horizontal support beams which are all painted brown to match the other wooden trim. A decorative hand formed flat iron strap balustrade is a highly original elaborative feature of the home and the S-shaped strap balusters are shown in all historic photos (please see 1929 and other historic photos - Attachment D.1). Single forward and side facing French doors provide access to this upper level balcony. Set back to the right on the side facing gabled wing, two double sets of rectangular three light casement windows are seen that match the others seen on the home. Finally, to the right, above the forward facing single story wing, the stucco surfaced rectangular chimney transitions to exposed brick toward the top. The stucco lower portion of the chimney is original with upper brick portion added later for fire safety.
On the first level, the three large arches of the front raised porch and connecting porte-cochère are all in one wall plane recalling the earlier Mission Revival style. This repeating arching colonnade carries around the house and down the arching sides of the porte-cochère to the left (south) and is also repeated with the large arching focal window seen to the right front (north) on the gable end. The central raised concrete front covered porch or loggia connects the porte-cochère side entry and front porch walkway to the front entry door. The deep inset arched wooden front entry door has eleven inset panels with central matching arched view port with wrought iron grille. The thickness of the pier arch supports and deep inset door and windows gives convincing permanence to the house and recalls thick adobe walls as seen on earlier precedent examples of the Mission and Spanish styles. The archways also feature raised horizontal impost copings which carries around the home's arches. The front porch utilizes two very large inset double rectangular three light casement wood window sets which are seen connecting the inside to the front porch. One double casement window looks out below one archway to the left of the door while another set faces out to the side of the front porch from the adjoining wing. A small rectangular wooden window is seen just to the right of the front doorway.
To the right, the front gable wing extends out with front facing gable clay tile roof with tile overlapping the gable verge boards and decorative wooden support purlin beams. Three round clay tile vents are seen topping the gable end just below the roof with a very large inset central archway window seen just below. This window matches the historic photos. Next, to the right, the stucco side patio wall is seen slightly offset from the main front wall plane. The shed roof covered raised concrete side patio extends out to the side from the main house and is seen to the right behind the large stucco site wall.
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Page 6 of 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House
*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
South (Side) Elevation – This portion of the house faces the long side driveway and neighboring residential property to the south. On top, the two story side elevation displays a gable end to the left and extending hipped roof which faces the front of the home. This upper level gable and hipped roof wall section are both in the same wall plane and cantilever out slightly above the first floor level driveway and arching attached porte-cochère. Along the upper level, clay tiles overlap the painted gable verge boards. Below, three extending purlin beams are seen matching the other gable ends. Three round clay tile attic vents are seen topping the gable, these round clay tiles are placed together in a single grouping matching the side and rear elevation gables but slightly different than the front gable clay tile vents which are spaced slightly out on the front façade. This gable end tile vent design is original as seen in all historic photos. Along the upper level from left to right, fenestration on this side elevation consists of a single and two double rectangular casement windows seen beneath the gable end, followed by two individual wooden casement windows beneath where the roof transitions from side facing gable to forward facing hipped roof. Finally, a double wooden casement window is placed near the southeastern corner of the home. All casement windows are wooden rectangular three pane true divided light designs with inset stucco reveal with sloping wooden sills and also match historic photos.
Along the first level underneath the upper level overhang, from left to right, a three part casement window grouping provides added ventilation for the rear service porch, followed by a single and then finally three double rectangular casement window groupings. The last two rectangular window groupings are placed beneath the arching porte-cochère. This porte-cochère is sheltered by a clay tiled shed roof and utilizes two large thick adobe style arches matching those seen on the front elevation. Rectangular basement vents with vertical grilles are seen along this level, just above the foundation level.
West (rear) Elevation – This two story elevation continues the red clay tile low pitched roof with extending purlins and clay attic vents placed at the gable end on the left and rafter tails seen on the eaves to the right matching the other elevations. The west elevation is characterized by a central inset area with wings jutting out slightly on both ends. At the center, two double and a single wooden casement window are seen along the upper level.
On the first level, a newer central three sided bay window is seen beneath a projecting shed roof. A newer single rectangular French door is seen just to the left underneath the overhang of the arching, slightly cantilevered upper level. This window and French door were added and approved as part of the recent renovation and restoration of the home. This rear façade is minimally altered and is entirely outside of the public view. The rear arched over hang above the rear French door matches the design and profile of the cantilevered overhang seen on the side (south) elevation. Two double casement window groupings are seen on the left wing face while a single French door and wooden casement are seen on the right wing face. A wooden French three light rear service door is connected to the driveway area via a square rear concrete porch landing and two concrete stairs with an iron railing. Seen above the foundation line at the rear is a series of rectangular basement vents with screened crawlspace vent covers.
The rear backyard area has a concrete rear patio with matching Spanish style detached rear three car garage, with servant's quarters along with a detached wooden tool shed structure. This patio has an outdoor kitchen area in the behind the home and a low site wall separates the open patio area from the driveway and detached garage.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
North (Side) Elevation – This portion of the house faces the open walled courtyard and patio area on the open second lot to the west. This west elevation continues the fired red clay Mission half barrel gabled roof with very little overhang and decorative rafter tails seen just beneath the eaves. This side elevation utilizes a single story front facing gable to the left and a two story gabled portion seen on the right with a shed roof covered patio visually connecting the two areas. This covered patio roof also breaks up the massing of this long continuous wall plane.
On the upper level, three round clay tile attic vents are seen topping the gable end to the right. This gable end utilizes two double wooden casement window sets are seen to the left and smaller single wooden casement windows are seen to the right. To the left, a simple brick and stucco sloping chimney is seen topping the one story eave wall end. This exterior end chimney with sloping chimney sides and staggered chimney caps is visible rising above the side gabled fired red clay tiles. This Mission half barrel tile roof has very little eave overhang with wooden rafter tails, matching those seen on the front portions of the home.
On the lower level from left to right, double three light rectangular casement windows are seen on each side of the chimney. These inset rectangular wooden double casement windows are seen on each side of the chimney. These three light wooden windows match the others seen on the front and other elevations. To the right, the roof then transitions from a front facing one story gable to a two story gable end and shed roof covered patio below.
Next, underneath the covered patio, from left to right, two large double casement windows flank a double French door which provides access to the raised covered patio. Next, to the right, two smaller rectangular double casement wooden windows are seen with three part true divided light glazing. The raised covered patio is sheltered by a shed roof covered with matching clay tiles and with exposed eave beams. To the west (back) section behind the house, the rear patio connects to the side patio area.
Detached three car garage and servant's quarters - The flat roofed stucco detached rear three garage with side servants quarters is partially visible to the rear of the lot on the left side of the front elevation. The garage displays a front shed roof facing the front with round mission clay tiles matching the main house. This low pitched front shed roof design, red clay tile roof tiles, stucco surfacing and exposed rafter tails link the detached garage design to the home. The garage remains in very intact and original condition and its triple width design is confirmed by historic photos and both the 1939 and 1950 Sanborn maps. The garage is also attached to a small servant's quarters which may have been designed for a hired driver/mechanic. The newer side half/pony wall which separates the driveway and backyard areas is minimally tied into this original garage. The multi-light wooden garage doors have been rebuilt to closely match the original design as seen in historic photos. A small side service door, original paneled servant's quarters door and two over two double-hung wooden window faces the east (front) behind the house and outside of public view. Two more two-over-two double hung wooden side windows are seen along the garage's side elevation. It is unclear why the three servant's quarters wooden window are different than the three light casements windows seen on the home, however all appear very original wooden opening with inset reveal and wooden sill matching the others seen on the home. This original matching Spanish style stucco detached garage was constructed during the home's period of significance, is very original with matching character defining features and is therefore recommended to be included in the historic designation.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
Rear detached tool shed structure - excluded from designation. A small detached wooden tool shed structure with off center side gabled roof is described as a "tool shed" on the residential building record. The wooden structure has a composition surfaced roof with horizontal wooden clapboard surfacing. The structure has a grouping of four one-over-one double hung windows facing the house. It appears to predate the home itself with minimal Craftsman and vernacular features likely built circa 1915-1925 based on the design, materials and method of construction. This small rear structure is completely detached from the existing house and detached three car garage and servant's quarters. The wooden tool shed structure is seen in historical photos but does not show up on historic Sanborn maps. However, this is typical as detached shed style structures are often not included on Sanborn maps. The tool shed does not match the design, materials and features of the main home and it appears likely that the rectangular structure was built elsewhere and moved in from another location during construction of the house or soon after. Photos of the structure were carefully compared with known sales offices of the time period as these temporary buildings were often sold and moved after housing development tracts were built out. As shown in historic photos provided, the structure's design does not match the board and batten Kensington Heights Company sales office. After extensive research, no information was found that the structure has individual historical significance in the development of the Kensington or Talmadge communities. The rear tool shed structure is not individually architecturally significant, was most likely moved and not built during the home's 1929 period of significance, and is not linked to any known significant people or events. It is therefore recommended excluded from designation. Also, this rear room area is outside of the public view.
Interior architectural features – Mayan themed fireplace surround and hearth (please see Interior Floor Plan for areas included in designation in Attachment A.5 along with photos in Attachment D.2). The living room fireplace, mantle and hearth with decorative Calco Mayan art tiles are important historic Spanish features of the home (please see Attachment D.2). The fireplace with decorative tile work remains in remarkably original condition. The California Clay Products (Calco) irregularly shaped fireplace tiles were made to fit together as a puzzle. The California Clay Products Company was in business from 1923-1932 and was based in Vernon, California and then South Gate, California. The company produced some of the finest art tiles during the golden era of California art tile production. Rufus Keller was a master of the medium and was the sole ceramist for Calco. The tiles are in press molded relief and portray Mayan figures and symbols which were modeled after the figures on the ancient Mayan Temple of the Cross in Palenque, Mexico, also described as Wan Chan (Six Skies) as a shrine of Ju'n Ye Nal Chaahk, the Mayan God of Maize. It is now referred to as the Temple of the Cross based on its cruciform iconography depicting a cross shaped central tablet. Archeologists now believe the central cross represents the Mayan conception of a world tree or axis mundi which connects world to the spirit realm. The tiles are intact and perfectly preserved and exhibit architecturally defining features that should be saved as they contribute to the historical significance of this house.
Original interior paneled doors, lighting fixtures, door and window hardware are also visible throughout the home's interior but are not included in the designation.
Landscaping / Yard Setting – The front yard landscaping is being converted from turf to a more drought tolerant design because of the current California drought. However, the overall open style landscaping is similar to the style seen in the historic photos of the home except without the grass. The front utilizes small landscaping bushes and palms placed close to the house (Attachment D.1). The front yard has an array of small palms and other landscaping placed close to the house in front. The curving scored concrete walkway and stairs appears original and matches the walkway seen in historic photos (Attachment D.1). This tinted concrete walkway connects the sidewalk to the raised front porch. To the right, another pathway leads to the side garden through a wooden gate and open arched entrance.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
Similar Floorplan Design. The Edward C. Mann House at 4234 Ridgeway Drive (HRB #515) was built in 1929 by the Bathrick Brothers of Pasadena and completed on October 18, 1929. This house has a similar interior floor plan to the subject resource, but inverted (mirrored) and rotated so that the repeating front porch arches and upper level balcony face the side instead of the front as they do on the subject resource. The owners have toured each other's home and noticed these similarities. This home at 4234 Ridgeway Drive was completed after the subject resource which was completed in April or May of 1929 and extensive research did not reveal any record of a partnership between Carl B. Hays and the Bathrick Brothers. It is possible the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House was seen or toured and admired by a client who asked the Bathrick Brothers to build it, or perhaps Carl B. Hays let the Bathrick Brothers replicate the design with some changes in detailing and orientation for use in Kensington. Although unclear, the similarity is merely described for future research which may discover some link or connection between the two builders.
House Naming Explanation. The City of San Diego's naming convention and policy guides that a home be named after the first owners when the building was first completed in the case when a house is designated under Criterion C only. No Notice of Completion was filed and the sewer records were not found. The property transferred from builder Carl B. Hays and Matilda G. Hays to Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete and the recorded date was May 4, 1929. Although the 1929 built home was owned and constructed by builder and developer Carl B. Hays, who built some homes on speculation, after extensive research, it is believed that this home was custom designed for first owner and residents - Enrique and Esperanza de Aldrete who bought the home in 1929. The Aldretes owned the home and lived in it for almost a decade. It may have been designed for the Aldretes from the beginning or the lot may have been purchased originally as a speculation home and then shifted at some point to the large custom designed home seen today. Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete also signed the original lot and block book which assigned the first taxes to the home in his name in 1930. The home's large triple lot and large Mayan art tile fireplace relate directly to Enrique and Esperanza who had five children and was a mayor and politician in Mexico. Although somewhat speculative, it also seems unlikely that builder Carl B. Hays would have designed a single house on the three adjacent full size lots rather than building three individual homes on the three lots which would have given him maximum benefit and profits from the sales. The house also has many seemingly custom designed features including the large unusual detached three garage with attached servants quarters, large cedar lined walk in closets and two double upper level bedrooms with central shared bathrooms which would have been useful for the family's five children to share bathrooms. Therefore, Legacy 106, Inc. believes the home's best name based on the evidence is the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update
B1. Historic Name: 5232 Marlborough Drive B2. Common Name: 5232 Marlborough Drive B3. Original Use: Single Family Property B4. Present Use: Single Family Property *B5. Architectural Style: Spanish Revival / Eclectic *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations) The residential building record shows the home was built in 1929. The water record is dated November 27, 1928 and no sewer records were found. The lot and block book confirms this 1929 build date and shows the home was first accessed in 1930. A San Diego Union article and photo of the house under construction is dated January 5, 1929. Another San Diego Union article and photo shows the home completed and is dated May 12, 1929. The home was most likely completed around April or early May of 1929.
The home has had few modifications and the City of San Diego has just a few minor building permits on record: Permit C-51312 is for a rear patio which was added to the rear portion of the lot and is dated February 15, 1963.
The chimney was extended for improved fire safety and is easily distinguished by its un-surfaced brick topping the original stucco eave chimney. Newer windows had been installed in the original openings and have now been restored to the original design and materials within the original openings with original inset reveal and wooden sill. All non original windows have now been replaced in-kind with wooden three light windows matching the historic photos and extant originals. The home had non-original stucco as seen in the 2010 transitional photo (see attachment D.1). The stucco surfacing was professionally redone " in-kind" and restored to its original stucco design by the owners in 2014, based on original undisturbed stucco located at the rear of the garage, and other original areas at the foundation line. This restored stucco surfacing also matches the circa 1929 historical photo (Attachment D.1). The stucco was restored in-kind. The mission clay roof tile has also been replaced and matches original roof tiles and historic photos. A non-original (north) side facing sliding door was removed and replaced with a single wooden French door and matched flanking double casements matching the original design and seen in historic photos. This restoration and rehabilitation were done during the recent completed home restoration. Also, a rear door and bay window were added during the recent restoration, rehabilitation and remodel. These minor rear changes are entirely outside of the public view.
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location: *B8. Related Features: B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Carl B. Hays *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential architecture Area: Kensington Heights Unit 3 (San Diego) Period of Significance: 1929 Property Type: Single-Family property Applicable Criteria: C and D (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) . The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House at 5232 Marlborough Drive is significant under Criterion “C” as an excellent example of Spanish Revival/Eclectic style architecture.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) none N
*B12. References: (See Continuation Sheet)
B13. Remarks: none *B14. Evaluator: Ronald V. May, RPA, Kiley Wallace
*Date of Evaluation: February 2016
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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.
The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House at 5232 Marlborough Drive was found not to rise to the level of exemplifying special elements of the community's historical, archaeological, cultural, social, economic, political, aesthetic, engineering, landscaping or architectural development. Although the house reflects and contributes to our understanding of Kensington as a hub for Spanish Eclectic design in the 1920's, the home was not the first of this type in the area or a model home in the subdivision development. No information came to light to determine that the resource rose to a level of significance to qualify for designation under Criterion A. The following discussion provides the background for that conclusion.
Introduction. Although the Kensington and Talmadge communities now have a number of individual homes that have been designated as historic for their significance, there remains much to be learned about how these neighborhoods 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.1
Kensington Community History. A fact that is often overlooked today in the pairing of the “Kensington / Talmadge” neighborhoods is the reality that Kensington is really the product of 13 different subdivision maps filed between April 1910 and March 1976. The Talmadge neighborhoods developed separately from nearby Kensington, with a total of 11 subdivision maps filed between December 1925 and August 1944. The majority of these maps were filed by owners, investors, and promoters unrelated to the others, and with varying degrees of experience in subdivision development. In the case of Kensington Heights, with its three Units, owner George Forbes hired the experienced Los Angeles development firm the Davis-Baker Company:
The development of Kensington Heights has been carried out under the personal direction of Harrison R. Baker, Chairman of the Subdividers and Homebuilders Division of the California Real Estate Association and a member of the Subdividers Division of the National Association. The project was not an experiment but involved the application of policies previously employed successfully in extensive developments in the city of Pasadena. The firm is a co-partnership composed of Richard D. Davis and Harrison R. Baker, each of whom has served as president of the Pasadena Realty Board. In Pasadena the firm has developed some twenty subdivisions, and possesses the enviable record of over nine hundred homes on them. More than 60 per cent of the lots have
1 Researchers Kathleen Flanigan, Parker Jackson, Beth Montes and Christianne Knoop, Priscilla Berge, Kathleen Crawford, Ruth Alter, Linda Canada, Jaye Furlonger, Scott Moomjian, Esq., Vonn Marie May, and Ione Stiegler, name only few who have studied the Kensington and/or Talmadge areas. In addition, see Anne D. Bullard, “1926, The Formative Year of Kensington Heights,” The Journal of San Diego History, Spring 1995, Volume 41, Number 2; Mary M. Taschner, "Richard Requa: Southern California Architect, 1881-1941, a Master's thesis for the University of San Diego; Larry R. Ford, Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment Metropolitan Portraits), 2004; and Architects Ione Stiegler, AIA with M. Wayne Donaldson, AIA in the Historical Greater Mid-City San Diego Preservation Strategy, 1996 and January 8, 1997.
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homes on them, while one family in every thirty in Pasadena lives on a lot developed by the Davis-Baker Company.2
Probably the most familiar source of information about the history of the Kensington and Talmadge communities is a book written by Kensington resident and dentist Dr. Thomas H. Baumann, D.D.S. Baumann published Kensington-Talmadge 1910-1985, to mark the 75th anniversary of the community, although in actuality the date commemorated the filing of the first subdivision map on the mesa, Kensington Park. The “Kensington Book” is a favorite of residents in both the Talmadge and Kensington communities, and has been reprinted by his daughter, Darlene Baumann Love.3 Baumann lists each of these subdivisions on page 32 for Kensington and 71 for Talmadge, in the 2nd edition. The distinctions between these tracts have blurred over time, and today planners group the thirteen Kensington subdivisions into “Kensington” and eleven Talmadge tracts into “Talmadge” as part of the Mid Cities Community Plan. The filing of individual maps is important to the history of the house, because Kensington Heights, which developed in three “Units,” is unrelated in development history to nearby Kensington Manor with its two Units, Kensington Point, or the first tract in the area, Kensington Park, located south of Kensington Heights Unit 1. An observer might look at the Kensington and Talmadge neighborhoods and assume these areas all developed together, as today they appear to be two connected communities.
These independent origins help explain why there are differing architectural styles of houses, such as Craftsman bungalows, nearer to Adams Avenue, and none north of Lymer Drive, in this predominantly “Spanish” themed community. It also explains why the houses in Kensington Heights tend to be more elaborate than the houses further south, and why Kensington Heights Unit 3 has more lots in-filled with post Depression era style homes than the 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.4
Rancho Ex Mission Lots. All of the Kensington and Talmadge acreage originates from former land known as “Rancho Ex Mission Lots,” which have a layer of ownership, leases, and uses invisible today to the present owners, as these transactions which preceded the filing of the subdivision maps never appear on chain-of-title documents. Much of this land came onto the real estate market through the heirs to the Rancho Ex Mission Lots and into hands such as banker George Burnham, Vice President of the Southern Trust and Commerce Bank. “The Map of the First Unit Kensington Heights” states under “A Better Improvement Plan”:
2 “How Subdivision Sales Were Created by an Intensive Home Building Program,” National Real Estate Journal, May 27, 1929, page 26. 3 After Baumann’s death, the Kensington-Talmadge Community Association updated the first edition and reprinted it as a second edition in 1997, and named it Kensington-Talmadge 1910-1997. In 2010, Love printed a Centennial Edition of her father’s book, which updated and added new information to the community’s history. 4 Researchers Kathleen Flanigan, Parker Jackson, Beth Montes and Christianne Knoop, Priscilla Berge, Kathleen Crawford, Ruth Alter, Linda Canada, Jaye Furlonger, Scott Moomjian, Esq., Vonn Marie May, and Ione Stiegler, name only few who have studied the Kensington and/or Talmadge areas. In addition, see Anne D. Bullard, “1926, The Formative Year of Kensington Heights,” The Journal of San Diego History, Spring 1995, Volume 41, Number 2; Mary M. Taschner, "Richard Requa: Southern California Architect, 1881-1941, a Master's thesis for the University of San Diego; Larry R. Ford, Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment Metropolitan Portraits), 2004; and Architects Ione Stiegler, AIA with M. Wayne Donaldson, AIA in the Historical Greater Mid-City San Diego Preservation Strategy, 1996 and January 8, 1997.
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Of the 240 acres which comprises Kensington Heights, 100 acres on the mesa will be developed at the present time into restricted residential property. For many, many years this tract has been held intact by its former owners – the Mason family. It has changed hands but once in forty years.5
The development of the Kensington Mesa in the second decade of the nineteenth century fits into the greater pattern of housing development nationwide, as America got back onto its feet following the devastating worldwide effects of World War I. By 1921-1924, many of the veterans had returned to America and there was both a nationwide shortage of available homes and a slowly reviving economy that brought building materials and new home construction back on track. What followed would be a decade of new construction that transformed communities across America, and in particular, Southern California, as large tracts of land became available and desirable for development. The Kensington Park tract, south of Kensington Heights, fits into this early period of San Diego’s development.
1920s and 1930s, Two Distinct Decades of Development. The erection of this house just prior to the Great Depression seems relevant. The houses built prior to the period of the Great Depression stand out from the ones built after 1930, because of the economic stresses that were not present in the 1925-1929 boom period. Few builders in this Depression period had the financial means to build, with a few distinct exceptions. The few builders who were able to remain viable during this period had to adapt to the economic restrictions of the time, and provided badly needed jobs and purchasing of materials from local suppliers when very little business was going on. During the Depression, thousands of buyers defaulted, builders went out of business, lenders assumed title to lots and houses, and the Davis-Baker Company, like all businesses, experienced a stressed market. Several houses in Kensington remained vacant and the lenders rented to Navy and Army personnel, who had a dependable income.
These homes also stand out from the houses built after 1935, when home buyer’s style preferences were changing as people started to find the economy rising out of the Great Depression, and new federal policies encouraged economizing, smaller homes, modernization, and materials efficiencies in ways that had a dramatic effect on house styles for the next generation of home buyers.
The strategy of building high end “Artistic Homes” appealed to affluent buyers who had the means to acquire luxury properties, and this was a prestigious location when the proximity to the neighboring houses was taken into consideration. It is possible that the Davis-Baker Company recruited. Rather than design and build all the Kensington Heights lots, the company recruited “a number of reliable builders….to work with us in building these homes”6 Davis-Baker Company arranged loans, reviewed the
5 Readers interested in this early history are directed to Historical Nomination of the Commander Wilbur V. and Martha E. Shown / and Louise Severin House, 4394 North Talmadge Drive and Historical Nomination of the Frank B. and Vinnie A. Thompson House, 5191 Hastings Road, Kensington Heights Unit 2, “George T. Forbes Spec House No. 1,” Historical Landmark Number 755, by Legacy 106, Inc. In particular, additional research into the Mason family (Evalyn and John Mason) of Mission Valley, who owned Rancho Ex Mission Lot 47, and Willard W. Whitney, who owned Lot 23, would be an interesting line of inquiry into this early history, before the present subdivisions were formed.
6 Ibid
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plans, and marketed the finished products. Davis-Baker built their own “specimen homes” in which as many as 4,000 people, they claim, went through in one day:
The Davis-Baker Company building program created 152 houses in Kensington Heights by 1929, two thirds of which were occupied. Half the lots were sold. In that year, this constituted 10% of all the houses built in San Diego. These house designs received careful review by the firm of Requa and Jackson:
The committee consisted of a representative of the owners, a representative of the selling agents, and the supervising architect. Fortunately, at the head of the committee was placed Richard S. Requa, authority on Mediterranean architecture, who used his talents to perfect what he prefers to term “California Architecture.”…Mr. Requa using the pure Spanish architecture of the mission (Mission San Diego de Alcalá) as the keynote, has brought the district into harmony with the Spanish tradition and the historic significance of the spot--- for it was here that California began. All architecture in the property has been restricted to the California type, namely, Spanish and Mediterranean adapted to California. Every plan submitted has been carefully scrutinized by the committee and many of them worked over by Mr. Requa’s office before final approval.7
By August of 1931, the Davis-Baker Company announced that already this year fifteen houses had been completed, or nearly completed, for an overall value of $150,000.
George T. Forbes and the Davis-Baker Company; The Early Development of Kensington Heights, and Intensive Home Building Program. Santa Monica, California resident George Thomas Forbes, a native of Kansas and real estate broker and developer, was alerted to the availability of a large tract of acreage in San Diego, which he purchased in 1922.8 Forbes partnered with the Davis-Baker Company of Pasadena and architect Richard Requa to develop the new, architecturally-supervised community into an exclusive, residential tract of modern and beautiful homes that would become a high-class residential park.9 With its proximity to the new State College and Herbert Hoover high school, as well as other nearby schools, Forbes found the location, and Mission Valley rim vs. mountain views, ideal for an “investment- quality” tract that buyers would find rivaled exclusive communities such as Beverly Hills and the Oak Knoll section of Pasadena.10
The attractive signs used by the firm, the pictorial outlay of streets, the fine character of the improvements installed and the restrictive efforts of the concern to uphold the high nature of their residential projects, all contribute to ranking New Windsor Square among
7 “How Subdivision Sales Were Created by an Intensive Home Building Program,” National Real Estate Journal, May 27, 1929, pages 27-28. 8 According to his obituary in the San Diego Union on July 29, 1974, Forbes “was the owner of George Forbes Real Estate and served one term as president of the San Diego Board of Realtors. He was among the developers of Kensington Heights and a partner in the promotion of the Allied Gardens, Del Cerro and San Carlos subdivisions.” Forbes discussed some of this early history in an oral history he gave to the San Diego Historical Society in 1973, although by that time his recollection of this early period was fading. 9 See Baumann, pages 16-24; San Diego Union, June 13, 1926, “Lovely Valley Vistas, Mountain View Add to Charms of Kensington Heights: Opening of Second Unit of Tract Meets With Fine Response From People.” 10 “Plane Builder Buys Dwelling: George H. Prudden Reported to Have Paid More Than $20,000 for Prize House,” San Diego Union, February 13, 1927.
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the firm’s finest developments. The reputation of the company for subdivisions is high; reports from the firm state that $3,600,000 worth of houses exist on Davis-Baker tracts.11
By January 3, 1926, the San Diego Union’s Sunday Development Section featured large advertisements announcing “Kensington Heights – Opening Soon . . . Development plans will soon transform Kensington Heights into one of San Diego’s most charming residential districts . . . Further announcements will be made as the plans develop.” The forthcoming announcements complemented the natural assets of valley and mountain views with soon-to-be-installed improvements of in-place utilities, gently curving streets pre- paved and curbed, elegant “Electrolier” ornamental lights spaced throughout the tract, and generous lot sizes with accompanying restrictions for setbacks, residential uses, and minimum building costs per structure that exceeded much of the rest of San Diego.12
Future homebuyers were guaranteed a ready-to-move-in community, absent the annoyance of unpaved roads and off-into-the-future infrastructure. Announcements declared “Torn-up streets will never bother you because sewers, water, light and gas are in, with connections now being arranged for every lot. Ornamental street lights provide a rare individuality.” Davis-Baker Company also installed new shrubbery and thousands of trees in the parkways, including three varieties of eucalyptus and palms, two forms of acacia, Lombardy poplars, and oleanders.13 Initial advertisements in 1927 showed new homes selling for $7,900, $9,000, $16,500, and over $20,000 paid by George Prudden, owner of Prudden Metal Airplane Company, for the Richard Requa model home on Middlesex and Marlborough Drives.14
On February 2, 1926, the San Diego County Supervisors voted to create a Resolution of Intention to improve Kensington Heights, which created an assessment improvement district. The cost of the improvements were paid by the sale of bonds, which were a lien on all of the property in the district. The bonds ran for fifteen years and the tract promoters promised no principal payments would be due in the first five years, with only interest due, and the principal retired afterwards in ten annual installments.
The San Diego Union announced on March 7, 1926, “Improvement of Kensington Heights Tract to Be Started in Fortnight: Supervisors Expect to Name Contractor for Development Work Next Week.” The article named “Rick” Davis of the Davis-Baker Company in charge of development, Paul R. Watson as the engineer in charge of the improvement district work, and Donald E. Forker as the “publicist who styled Kensington Heights the world’s best home location.” The improvements for the tract were being installed through an improvement bond approved by the City of San Diego, and bids for the contract for the work were being accepted. Contractor and developer David H. Ryan received the road paving and grading contract for Unit 1 and O.U. Miracle won the contract for the improvements in Units 2 and 3.15
11 Allen Headrick: Star-News, April 7, 1928, “Property Being Developed on East Mountain Street Seen Logical Development in Built-Up District; Davis-Baker Company Handling Tract.” 12 San Diego Union, October 3, 1926, “Kensington Heights Builders Boast ‘Finest’ Electroliers in Southland”; and San Diego Historical Society Photograph No. 6732-5, Kensington, 1927. 13 San Diego Union advertisement, January 9, 1927; San Diego Union, February 5, 1928, “$310,500 Is Spent For Home Construction In Rapidly-Growing East-End Subdivision.” 14 See San Diego Union, June 26, 1927, “New Beautiful Homes Being Completed in Kensington Heights.” 15 In 1926, Ryan had teamed with builder Arthur A. Kunze in the development of a number of homes on Witherby Street in Mission Hills. See “Historical Nomination of the David H. Ryan Spec House Number 1 / Arthur A. Kunze Builder, 4330 Witherby Street, Mission Hills, San Diego, California, by Legacy 106, Inc., 2008; See also San Diego Union, December 5, 1926, “$94,000 Contract Is Awarded for East Development of Third Unit of New Kensington Heights Tract.”
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The Spanish Colonial Theme of Kensington Heights Custom homes in Kensington Park were an eclectic mix of Craftsman bungalow, Mission Revival, Spanish Eclectic, and Pueblo styles that many prospective homebuyers found unsettling (Robert Sedlock 1958:2-4). The Kensington Land Company responded to make their real estate more luxurious by creating deed restrictions and a Supervisory Architectural Board to enforce Spanish style as the only acceptable architecture. At that same time, Requa had a column in the San Diego Union at the time where he promoted Spanish and Mexican style homes built with the new materials of the day. The Kensington Land Company retained Requa to chair the board in August of 1925.
Nine months later on May 24, 1926, George Forbes, Sr. of the Kensington Heights Company induced Requa to extend Supervisory Review Board oversight of house designs in Unit 2. Four months later on September 28, 1926, Forbes added Unit 3 to the review. This later subdivision included twenty-four exclusive rim lots with underground utilities (Sedlock 1958:4). Forbes set the prices for those lots at $1200 to $1500 and completed homes with those lots sold as high as $19,000 (Forbes 1973). When times got tough during the Great Depression, Forbes used his own money to hire Requa to design the homes (AD 1007-063, San Diego Historical Society Research Archives).
Architectural Review, and Deed Restrictions for Setting and Design Unique to the Kensington Heights Community. The architectural restrictions set up by Davis-Baker limited the property to residential purposes only with customary out-buildings including a private garage, all to be fairly worth not less than $5,000.00. No temporary dwellings, outside lavatories, advertising signs, or outbuildings for residential purposes were permitted, only one single, first-class private residence.
That before the commencement of construction upon any building or buildings which may be erected upon said property, or upon any portion hereof, within Five (5) years from the date thereof, there shall be furnished to, and approved by the Seller, or the Seller’s duly authorized Agent, complete plans — and specifications for such buildings, and such plans and specifications shall include the location, direction and facing of each such building or buildings upon said property, and no building shall be erected on said premises without such approval in writing of the Seller, or the Seller’s duly authorized Agent, first had and obtained.
That plans for all structures to be erected on said lots, shall be submitted to the Seller, or the Seller’s duly authorized Agent, and approved in writing before construction is started, and that no building or structure unless such building shall conform with the general shall be erected, constructed altered or maintained on said property unless such building shall conform with the general design and color scheme for the exteriors of all such (buildings to be erected on said lots, and architectural plan prepared by the Seller for the exteriors of all such buildings to be erected on said lots, or shall conform with such modifications thereof as many be authorized or approved by the Seller or the Seller’s duly authorized Agent.
The photographic record for Kensington Heights as it developed between 1926-1929, is represented by a number of publicity pictures taken by the Davis-Baker Company, as well as pictures in the local media, such as the San Diego Union newspaper. Photographs on file at the San Diego History Center's Research Archives in Balboa Park provide a visual record of the early development of the tract. Several photographs show road crews installing the pavement and sidewalks in Kensington Heights.
By May 2, 1926, the Sunday San Diego Union reported that construction had begun on the first dwelling in the new Kensington Heights tract. The article, “First Dwelling in Kensington Heights Under Way As
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Subdivision Improvements Rapidly Take Shape: Old English Architectural Style Copied in Initial Construction of Tract,” stated:
"Publicity Contest" Model Home. The Prudden House in Kensington Heights is a beautiful, single-story Richard Requa-designed model house, located on the north east corner of Middlesex and Marlborough Drive The house bears strong similarity to pictures of a rural cottage in Andalusia which Requa took in 1926 and published in his monograph, Architectural Details Spain and the Mediterranean.”16 The single story model home received enormous publicity in 1926, due in large part to an advertising campaign that solicited plans for its design through a competition conducted by the San Diego Union. Although a winner was selected, in fact, the plans were drawn by Requa, who then directed the home’s construction that year. The opening premier drew more than 200 people and the promoters expected several thousand on Sunday, November 14, 1926.17
By December 1926, Kensington Heights Unit 1 had completely sold out and the Davis-Baker Company had to rush the improvements into the second unit months earlier than they had anticipated:
Sale of building sites in No. 2 has been so rapid that again we have had to change our plans with the result that contract for permanent improvement in the third unit was let last week and soon we will be able to offer these sites to future home builders.”. . . “When we undertook the development of Kensington Heights, we recognized that property as among the best residential property in and around San Diego,” Baker says, “Development has brought out the attractive features of that section and the public has been quick to show appreciation. Many resales of early purchases at advanced prices show that this appreciation is constantly growing. This section when our development and building program is completed, will easily take front rank with the high class, exclusive residential sections of southern California.18
John Forward, president of the Union Title and Trust Company and Union Trust Company of San Diego, reported in the San Diego Union on June 16, 1929, that San Diego and the work in Kensington Heights had gained national recognition through the publication of a profusely illustrated 5-page article in the May 27 issue of the National Real Estate Journal that was published in Chicago and distributed nationwide. The article, authored by Harrison R. Baker, was entitled “How Subdivision Sales Were Created by an intensive Home Building Program” (“Kensington Heights Gains National Recognition for Itself and City”).
By 1930, the Davis-Baker Company advertised that “Three years ago it was a mere barley field; today over 125 families have already selected it for a permanent residence.”19 It is important to note that Requa made the first of his heavily promoted tours of Europe in 1926, and both of these houses were
16 Jackson, DPR form, Nomination of the Prudden House, page 2 of 28. 17 San Diego Union, November 14, 1926, “The Union’s Model Home Open For Public Inspection Today; Woman’s Home Plans Selected in House Test: Four Hundred Designs Submitted in Contest for the Union’s Model Dwelling; Numerous Ideas Offered Builders in Prize Design: Kensington Heights Swelling Completely Furnished For Expected Visitors.” 18 Harrison R. Baker, San Diego Union, December 5, 1926. 19 San Diego Union, February 9, 1930, “You Who Are Planning a Home – do not fail to see beautiful Kensington Heights!” Advertisement.
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constructed shortly in the aftermath of his first trip, where he had gone to intensively study the architectural attributes of the Mediterranean and how they could be applied back in Southern California.20
Kensington Heights Attention. The article also makes it clear that the Model Homes were considered design-types for future construction, and prime examples to illustrate the virtues of the tract. Both residences were opened to the public for tours promoted by the Davis-Baker Company. The photo caption declared:
An excellent example of the style of architecture which is making San Diego one of the show places of the country, is given in the accompanying illustration. A two-story southern California home, just completed in Kensington Heights, is shown at the right with the tract’s model home, built from plans selected in a competition, at the left. The new building, now open to public inspection, is declared to be just as perfect an example of the two-story southern California style as the model home is of the
bungalow type. The real atmosphere of Old Spain is combined in this home with the most modern of conveniences. It will serve as a model for future construction in Kensington Heights as well as other parts of the city.
NEW KENSINGTON DWELLINGS OPEN: Home Builders Invited to Inspect Southern California Type to Obtain Ideas. San Diegans who are planning to build homes in any part of this city are invited to visit today the two-story Spanish home just completed at Marlborough drive and Middlesex drive in Kensington Heights by the Davis-Baker company, developers of Kensington Heights.
Through the courtesy of W.F. Riley, builder of the home, the public will be welcomed to inspect it from top to bottom. Any feature of the building which appeals to prospective home builders may be adopted by them, says the owner, whether the lots on which they plan to build are in Kensington Heights or any other part of San Diego...... “We will aid in every way possible in setting a high standard of home construction for all parts of San Diego.” Today’s invitation to public to make use of the ideas incorporated in the fine home in Kensington Heights is in line with that policy.21
The Davis-Baker Company featured the pairing of the Requa Model Home a two-story home, with the tract’s signature Electrolier light and newly paved streets, in a large advertisement with photograph intended to represent the tract, entitled: “A new HOME DISTRICT is building: Homes are open for inspection,” on July 31, 1927.
Improvements are all completed, beautiful, true Spanish types of homes are building. A new residential atmosphere is being created in Kensington. . . It is being built for the most discriminating home owner . . . Come out now and inspect this new district of true Spanish homes. Some homes of the newest design in architecture are open for inspection. . . NEW HOME BARGAINS Mediterranean Spanish stucco, 2-story, 7 rooms, 2 baths, patio, fishpond, balconies, Frigidaire, gas furnace. Price $18,000 – cash $5,000.
20 See ‘Requa’s Rants’ http://www.legacy106.com/RequasRants.htm, which reproduces a number of Requa’s “Southern California Architecture" columns featured in the San Diego Union in the mid 1920s. 21 San Diego Union of March 6, 1927.
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Rapid Appreciation in Prices. Advertisements in 1927 by the Davis-Baker Company promoted their “District of True Spanish Homes.”22 Subsequent publicity in the next few months commented upon the series of homes of distinctive architecture and model home that had been attracting hundreds of visitors.
By 1928, the Davis-Baker Company boasted “Resumption of 1926 Real Estate Activity Indicated in New February Land Sales: Kensington Heights Developers Elated Over Business In First Week of Month”23. The article featured photographs of six Kensington Heights homes, as well as the Prudden home, B.S. Litchfield residence, home of Herbert C. Bathrick, and L.O. Palmer. The promoters were anxious to ramp up their advertising because installation of the road improvements and utilities had made it difficult to drive through the tract. With that work nearly out of the way, they were anticipating a profitable year. The caption to the photographs stated:
Beautiful homes of true Southern California architecture are arising on the high mesa land of Kensington Heights and this new district fast is becoming one of the city’s show places. Kensington Heights looks down on the old San Diego mission across the valley, the place “where California began.”
Visitors were invited to see “San Diego’s flawless, best and fastest building, close-in view district of better homes.” They had created another model home at 5272 Marlborough Drive. The “Color House” came completely furnished and was open for inspection. Further north, on the valley rim, they built an observation platform for visitors to gaze upon the panoramic view of “historic” Mission Valley and the “multicolored” mountains.24
Prizes from Developers for Prettiest Home Yards and Davis Baker Promoting. On August 19, 1928, the Prudden House and several others were featured prominently in the San Diego Union with caption
DEVELOPERS OF KENSINGTON HEIGHTS TRACT TO GIVE PRIZES FOR PRETTIEST HOME YARDS. To encourage beautiful yards, Davis-Baker company, developing Kensington heights, is contemplating offering a series of prizes to residents of Kensington heights for the most beautiful yards and gardens. Already the tract is alluring in this regard and the prizes should stimulate every resident to beautify his domain.
This and other publicity proved successful and the Davis-Baker Company placed regular pictorial essays in the newspaper’s development. In March they had set a record of almost $100,000 in home sales and $140,000 in April. With that success, they boasted in the April 28, 1929 article “Kensington Heights Real Homeland”:
The top picture is proof, say members of Davis-Baker company, that Kensington Heights is no longer a mere subdivision, but has graduated into a finished community of fine homes. Bottom – One of the two-story homes which are making Kensington Heights a popular place in which to live.
22 San Diego Union, August 7, 1927 and the “added value of permanent restrictions with architectural supervision on every new house’” San Diego Union, October 9, 1927. 23 San Diego Union, February 12, 1928. 24 San Diego Union, June 24, 1928.
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That the vision of George T. Forbes and the Davis-Baker Company had for the Kensington Heights community was enlightened for its time, and their claim that a home purchased in the tract would be a sound investment, is borne out by the decades. A Tribune-Sun newspaper article “New Kensington Heights Homes among Finest in City, Planning Commission Records Disclose: Average Dwelling Value Exceeds All Other Districts in San Diego.” The San Diego Union also featured the community on January 19, 1970, with “Know Your Neighborhood: Talmadge-Kensington Retain Flavor.”
Early Area History. During the 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. Archaeological investigation of San Diego has revealed most prehistoric cultures concentrated their population centers near freshwater drainages, estuaries, bays, and marine resources. Most of the prehistoric sites recorded 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 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.
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Conclusion: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House at 5232 Marlborough Drive was not determined to qualify for designation under Criterion A. Legacy 106, Inc. did not find sufficient evidence to support that the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House qualifies 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.
Carl B. and Matilda Hays / Hayes Builder and Owners, December 1928 to April 1929
On November 22, 1928, Carl B. Hays and wife Matilda purchased lot 323 of Kensington Heights Unit 3 which was recorded on December 1 that same year in 1928. Carl also appears on the lot's November 27, 1928 water permit as owner. A January 5, 1929 San Diego Union article and photo of the house shows the house still under construction before the application of the exterior stucco. Another San Diego Union article and photo shows the home completed and is dated May 12, 1929. Although no notice of completion was found, based on the evidence, the home was completed sometime between February and April of 1929. No evidence was found that Carl and Matilda Hays ever lived in the home, and they sold the home to the first known occupants Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete on April 29, 1929. The sale was recorded on May 4, 1929. The Hays resided on the same street at 4459 Marlborough Drive in 1928. The 1930 Census shows the Hays family lived in Kensington up the street at another home at 4881 Marlborough Drive and Carl listed his occupation as a real estate salesman with his own office. Matilda listed her occupation as “None.”
Carl was born on October 8, 1884 in Ohio. Matilda G. Cristman was born in Ohio on March 3, 1888. The 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census show that the couple had three children: Helen L. born in 1913, William S. born in 1915, and John K. born in 1921. All of the children were born in Ohio. Presumably, the family moved to San Diego from Akron, Ohio sometime between 1922 and 1923, as the 1920 Census shows Carl had his own real estate office in Akron.
The Hays family moved to San Diego in the early 1920's. In 1923, Carl was a partner with C.E. Howard and E.L. McCoy with the San Diego firm of Hays, Howard & McCoy, a firm of real estate and investment dealers and subdividers. The 1928 San Diego Directory listed Carl and Matilda as owning a real estate company located at 962 2nd Ave. They resided at 4459 Marlborough Drive that year. The 1930 Census shows the family lived in Kensington at 4881 Marlborough Drive and Carl listed his occupation as a salesman for real estate with his own office.
By 1932, they remained at 4881 Marlborough Drive (San Diego City Directory). A look at earlier city directories shows that in 1925 they had a real estate firm at 3845 Front St. Carl died on June 28, 1965 in San Diego, and Matilda died in San Diego in January 1986. For further information about Carl's building career, please see Criterion D.
Carl B. Hays appears to have been active as a builder in the late 1920's and early years of the Great Depression. Although an accomplished builder of Spanish Eclectic homes, Carl B. Hays is not listed as a master designer, architect, or builder in the City of San Diego. No further evidence was found to make a determination that Carl B. and Matilda Hays rise to the level of qualifying under Criterion B, especially considering no evidence exists that they ever lived in the home. Their association with 5232 Marlborough Drive is better considered under Criterion D as Master Builder than under Criterion B.
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Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939
In April 1929, Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete purchased 5232 Marlborough Drive from builder Carl B. Hays. The Aldretes owned and lived in the home until 1939 along with their five children. Enrique was a former mayor of Tijuana, as well as a Mexican consul in San Ysidro, and former vice mayor of Ensenada.
Enrique Aldrete, a native of La Paz, Mexico, was born around 1879 to Feliciano and Maria Luisa Palacio Aldrete. Little about his early life could be found, but it is known that he came from a large family and had at least six siblings. His brother Alberto V. Aldrete was a governor of Baja California, general manager of the Agua Caliente casino and racetrack in Tijuana, and founder of the Tecate Brewery (San Diego Union, February 18, 1963).
Around 1910, Enrique married eighteen year old Esperanza Barron. She was born in Mexico in 1893. Enrique and Esperanza eventually had five children: Enrique Jr., Adriana, Carmen, Graciela, and Esperanza. Also around 1910, Enrique served as secretary to Celso Vega, the governor of Lower Baja California. Enrique served as Tijuana's mayor in 1913 and 1914, and in 1915 and 1916, he appears in the San Diego city directories as a resident of San Ysidro, where he was employed as a Mexican Consul. From 1917 to 1922, the Aldretes lived in the Palm City neighborhood near National City, and Enrique's occupation in the directories is shown as a merchant of "general merchandise." He owned a grocery store in Tijuana during that time, and a building at 8058 Benito Juarez in that city still bears a sign that reads: "Comercio Mixto - 5 de Mayo - 1917-1929 - Enrique Aldrete."
According to San Diego city directory information, the Aldrete family resided at 3406 29th Street in North Park from approximately 1923 to 1929. In April 1929 they purchased the subject resource from builder and owner Carl B. Hays. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, Enrique and Esperanza resided at the subject resource along with their five children, as well as a servant named Magdalena Garcia. That year's census lists Enrique's occupation as "merchant - dry goods etc."
In early 1927, Enrique served as a vice president of the newly-established Tijuana Chamber of Commerce, and was elected as the Chamber's president in December 1939. He and Esperanza sold 5232 Marlborough Drive that same year and moved back to Tijuana. Enrique passed away in Tijuana in November 1959 at the age of 81. Further information about him and Esperanza could not be located.
The Aldrete Children. Of the five Aldrete children, three died in early adulthood. The younger Esperanza, who was born in San Ysidro, died in May 1934 at the age of 17. Adriana and Enrique Jr. died in 1941, while they were in their twenties.
In 1912, daughter Carmen was born in Ensenada but spent much of her youth in Tijuana. She lived with her parents and siblings at the subject resource until 1937, when she married Roberto Estudillo, a descendant of the early Spanish family in San Diego.
Carmen and her husband lived most of their adult years in Tijuana where they were prominent in social circles. In 2012, the Historical Archives of Tijuana held an exhibition of photographs of Carmen and her social activities in that city. Carmen, then 100 years old, made a guest appearance with her children.
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Daughter Graciela "Grace" Aldrete was born around 1916 and married Francisco Diaz, a native of Guadalajara. Like the rest of her family, Graciela eventually moved back to Tijuana. She remained active in social circles on both sides of the border. She served as president of the Tijuana Auxiliary to the Woman's Committee of the San Diego Symphony Association and served on the board of the Salk Institute Auxiliary (San Diego Union, February 3, 1966).
Insufficient information was found about Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete to determine they were historically significant for their association with 5232 Marlborough Drive under Criterion B.
John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman Owners and Residents, 1939 to 1944
From 1939 to 1944, John A. Greenman and wife Lucile owned and resided at 5232 Marlborough Drive. John was a co-founder and co-owner of the Greenman & Sons produce company, along with his father and older brother.
On December 3, 1901, John Almon Greenman was born in La Mesa to Guy Walcott Greenman and wife Louise Culver Greenman. John spent the early part of his life in Mission Township, an area of East San Diego near the La Mesa border. He attended school in La Mesa as well as Russ High School in San Diego. In 1919, John established the Greenman & Sons produce company with his father and older brother Harold Guy (aka H. Guy) Greenman (San Diego Union, December 1, 1956). The 1920 U.S. Census shows John living with his parents and sister at 904 24th Street in the Golden Hill neighborhood. John's occupation is listed as "dealer - wholesale produce."
John married Lucile Katherine Carlstrom in San Diego on December 28, 1922. She was born in Iowa around 1904 to Reverend Jonathan W. Carlstrom, who was originally from Sweden, and wife Katie, who was from Germany. After John and Lucile married, they settled at 1046 26th Street in Golden Hill for a short time before moving to 1941 31st Street. In July 1924, their first daughter, Virginia Lucile, was born, and son Charles LeRoy (named after Lucile's brother) was born the following year. Son Kenneth was born around 1928. The Greenman family moved to 3361 28th Street in North Park around 1927 and lived there until 1939, when they purchased 5232 Marlborough Drive. In 1944, John and Lucile sold the home to Harold Guy Greenman, John's brother, and wife Sigrid.
After they sold the subject resource in 1944, John and Lucile moved to 4063 Hilldale Road in Kensington. In 1948, he retired and he sold the produce business around 1950. John Greenman died in November 1956, during which time he and Lucile lived at 4373 Valle Drive in La Mesa. Further information about him and Lucile could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman to determine they were historically significant for their association with 5232 Marlborough Drive under Criterion B.
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Charles W. Carlstrom Resident, 1940
In 1940 only, Charles W. Carlstrom resided at 5232 Marlborough Drive along with the owners, John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman. Charles was Lucile's younger brother. The 1940 San Diego city directory lists his occupation as working for the Ace Van & Storage Company, which he was the proprietor of. He later went on to become a prominent local real estate developer and philanthropist.
Charles was born in Iowa on December 12, 1905 to Reverend Jonathan W. Carlstrom, who was originally from Sweden, and wife Katie, who was from Germany. The Carlstrom family moved to San Diego around 1916 and according to the 1920 U.S. Census, Charles, his parents and siblings lived at 4573 Florida Street in the University Heights neighborhood. In 1924 he graduated from San Diego High School where he was active in track.
In 1929, Charles married Marjorie McVay and they appear in the 1930 U.S. Census as residing at 3820 El Cajon Blvd. Charles' occupation is listed as working for a transfer business. They divorced in the late 1930's and in 1940, Charles lived at 5232 Marlborough Drive with his sister Lucile Greenman and her husband John, who owned the home. Charles eventually remarried to a woman named Ruby.
Charles owned the Klauber-Wangenheim Building on the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and Market Street in the 1940's, and in 1947 purchased the Convair Plant 2. He also helped develop the Linda Vista and Mission Bay areas as well as the Linda Vista Shopping Center (San Diego Union, February 12, 1976). Charles passed away in San Diego on February 8, 1976.
Insufficient information was found about Charles W. Carlstrom to determine he was historically significant for his association with 5232 Marlborough Drive under Criterion B.
Harold G. Greenman and Sigrid H. Greenman Owners and Residents, 1944 to 1949
In 1944, Harold G. Greenman, also known as H. Guy Greenman, and his wife Sigrid purchased 5232 Marlborough Drive. They bought the home from Harold's brother John A. Greenman. Harold was formerly in the Greenman & Sons produce business with John and their father, but retired in 1955 and then became a partner in the Halgren Mortgage Company, where he was a mortgage loan broker.
On November 12, 1895, Harold Guy Greenman was born in San Diego to Guy Walcott Greenman and wife Louise Culver Greenman. Harold spent the early part of his life in Mission Township, an area of East San Diego near the La Mesa border. During World War I, Harold served as an Army corporal with Battery B, 65th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, and was stationed at Fort Rosecrans (San Diego Evening Tribune, February 28, 1918).
Harold married Sigrid Violet Caroline Hill, a Chicago native, in February 1918. They eventually had three children. In 1919 he established the Greenman & Sons produce company with his father and younger brother John A. Greenman (San Diego Union, December 1, 1956). According to the 1920 U.S Census, Harold and Sigrid lived in East San Diego, but by 1930 had moved to 2504 Bancroft Street in the Burlingame neighborhood. They resided there until they purchased 5232 Marlborough Drive in 1944.
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After selling 5232 Marlborough Drive in 1949, Harold and Sigrid moved to 4211 Ridgeway Drive in Kensington, where they lived for the remainder of their lives. Harold was very active in local civic and social organizations, including the Knights Templar, San Diego Scottish Rite Bodies, Al Bahr Shrine, Silver Gate Masonic Lodge, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars (San Diego Union, July 29, 1965). Sigrid was active with the Kensington Community Church, Chapter 264 of the Order of the Eastern Star, Women's Scottish Rite, and the Sigma Alpha Iota mother's club (San Diego Union, December 15, 1964). Sigrid passed away in December 1964 and Harold died in San Diego in July 1965.
Insufficient information was found about Harold G. Greenman and Sigrid H. Greenman to determine they were historically significant for their association with 5232 Marlborough Drive under Criterion B.
Dr. Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero Owners and Residents, 1949 to 1997
From 1949 to 1997, Dr. Anthony J. Mogavero and his wife Ella owned and resided at 5232 Marlborough Drive. Dr. Mogavero was a physician and surgeon and practiced until the age of 79. They were the grandparents of current owner and resident DeLayne Harmon.
On January 2, 1909, Anthony Joseph Mogavero was born in Buffalo, New York to Italian immigrants Domenico and Daniela Mogavero. He grew up in Buffalo and received his medical degree from the University of Buffalo. He married Ella Kathryn Hoffman in the 1930’s. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1912. The couple eventually had at least three children: Barbara, Judith, and Patricia.
According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the Mogaveros resided in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania where Dr. Mogavero had his own medical practice. They also briefly lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania before moving to San Diego and purchasing 5232 Marlborough Drive in 1949.
Dr. Mogavero practiced medicine until the age of 79, and was a 32nd Degree Mason, as well as a member of the Knights Templar and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society (San Diego Union- Tribune, June 17, 1997). Ella passed away in 1994, and Dr. Mogavero passed away three years later.
Insufficient information was found about Dr. Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero to determine they were historically significant for their association with 5232 Marlborough Drive under Criterion B.
Conclusion: Based on the research found and evidence presented in this report, Legacy 106 Inc. concludes that the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House does not have significant 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 Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House is an excellent example of a Spanish Revival/Eclectic home and is an example of the high styled homes encouraged by the Davis-Baker Company to showcase the Spanish "California Style" of architecture in Kensington.
In greater detail, this house has a varied form with a low-pitched hipped and gabled Mission half-barrel roof and exhibits minimal eave projections with short wooden eave rafter tails. The mixture of roof types and massing was inspired by the look of older Spanish homes with additions and wings added over time. The wall surfacing is sandy coated stucco with decorative round clay attic vents on the gable ends. The home exhibits a repeating arch colonnade style partial width porch with integrated porte-cochère. the home also utilizes an inset corner balcony supported by square wooden columns under the principle hipped tile roof with Mission roof red tiles. The original strap iron balcony balustrade and original hand hammered wrought iron lighting fixtures have also been lovingly restored. A large fixed arched window is seen at the front façade matching the design of the arched porch and porte-cochère. The side walled patio connects the outdoor and indoor spaces and further defines the home's Spanish Eclectic feel.
The builders selected high quality building materials, hired fine craftsmen, and successfully blended Moorish, Mediterranean, and classic Spanish details in the creation of this house. This design, materials, and expression of craftsmanship exhibited in this house are excellent. Of particular note, the original Mayan themed Calco fireplace and hearth is an excellent intact design feature, even compared with surrounding Spanish Eclectic style houses in Kensington Heights and may be one of the best California art tile fireplaces in San Diego.
Spanish Eclectic Style. Many architectural historians attribute the high popularity of the Spanish Eclectic style variations in San Diego with the popularity of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, which was held in San Diego from 1915 through 1916. However, another likely influence for the shift in popularity would be the Bertram Goodhue-designed 1922-1923 Marine Corps Recruit Depot and Naval Training Center. Soon thereafter, technical journals, newspapers, and magazines promoted Spanish style architecture as a revitalization of interest in 18th and 19th century California history. The San Diego Union hired Master Architect Richard Requa to write a weekly column critiquing local architecture and he used this forum to criticize other styles other than the Spanish style he termed, “The Southern California style.” He traveled to Europe and North Africa in 1926 and then returned to influence what he believed to be the “honest” historical style. Developers George Forbes and the Davis-Baker Company hired Requa to review the architectural plans for Kensington Heights and the Southlands Company conducted their own reviews of builder plans for Kensington Manor. The Great Depression and World War II caused a shift to “patriotic” styles and Spanish style lost favor to Colonial Revival, Cape Cod, and Neo Classical style houses.
Designers of Spanish Eclectic houses often borrowed from Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance motifs. The fired red clay tiles on this house are Spanish style Mission half barrels. The walls of houses in this style are stuccoed to appear like old adobe buildings in artistic interpretations from Spanish / Mediterranean origins. In general, designers of the period were engaged in a process to define and interpret appropriate architectural styles for our climate. A great deal of literature of the period was devoted to defining an appropriate “Southern California Style” of architecture. The strongest popularity for Spanish style residential architecture hit San Diego about 1925, when the newspapers and popular magazines promoted this as an authentic style harkening back to San Diego’s Spanish roots.
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Spanish Eclectic Popularity Shifts (1915-1940). The shift from Mission Revival to Spanish style is pretty well established with the design and completion of the Panama California Exposition and public debut in 1915. Newspaper announcements of “Spanish” style buildings in the 1913-1915 period more closely resemble Italian Renaissance architecture (e.g.: Katherine Redding Stadler House, Landmark # 861). But there are few residential examples of non-Mission Revival, Spanish style residential architecture before World War I. Master Architect Bertram Goodhue changed the public definition of Spanish style with the completion of the Panama California Exposition in 1915. But once again, few Spanish style residences were built to show a direct correlation until the 1920's after the completion of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in 1921 and military buildings at the Naval Training Station (1922-1923).
McAlester and McAlester use the term Spanish Revival or Spanish Eclectic for the fanciful and fantasy mix of Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and/or Renaissance architectural motifs on buildings that have no counterpart in the historical world. The architects, designers, and builders responsible for creating these fantasy buildings that had no real historical model for their ideas. Although Master Architect Richard Requa promoted accuracy in creating Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, he also encouraged designers and builders to borrow a mix of motifs from his photographs of buildings in Spain, North Africa, and the Mediterranean to create what he called “The Southern California Style.” Builders with and without formal training took design concepts from popular magazines, plan books, and professional architectural journals to dream up their designs. One of the best neighborhoods of Spanish Eclectic style houses to illustrate this concept would be the 1920s Kensington Manor and Kensington Heights neighborhoods of San Diego. Most of the Spanish Eclectic style died out by the 1940s.
Fire and Water Resistant Building Materials. Stucco is one of the most significant innovations of San Diego 20th century building construction. Although variations of durable wall coatings date back to Roman times, perfection of the formula for stucco can be directly related to the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Architects across the state rushed to develop fire-resistant materials. San Francisco architect Bernard Maybeck experimented with burlap dipped in wet cement stretched on wood frames. San Diego architect Irving Gill experimented with poured-in-place cast concrete. Richard Requa developed interlocking hollow clay tile. Walter Keller designed hollow and flat cement tile. But the most exciting and versatile material proved to be exterior wall stucco, which began appearing on Mission Revival style houses at least as early as 1909.
Stucco and Spanish Style Buildings. The buildings of the Panama California Exposition were originally created with sculpted and molded Plaster of Paris, which broke down once rain penetrated the painted surfaces. For water and fire resistance, Goodhue specified a stucco coating for his various creations in San Diego. Under the direction of Master Architect Richard Requa, the City of San Diego replaced the Plaster of Paris in Balboa Park with stucco and Celotex in 1935. Stucco caused local San Diego builders to transition away from the earlier Craftsman and Neo Classical wooden buildings and begin erecting stucco structures. Builders quickly learned how to make stucco resemble “ancient” buildings with clever wall beveling, faux stone blocks, Roman arches, and brick veneer with stucco upper floors.
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Integrity. The City of San Diego uses the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historical Properties to evaluate integrity for Criterion “C” landmarking. Part VIII of the National Register Bulletin provides guidance on how to evaluate the integrity of a property by outlining seven values or tests: Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association. To have high integrity, all seven aspects must be met. To have good integrity, most or four to five aspects must be met. Less than four would be poor integrity.
The architecturally defining features that are supportive of historic landmarking are:
1. The fired red clay Mission half barrel tile full roof; 2. The minimal overhanging roof eave with decorative eave rafter tails; 3. The Monterey style second story balcony under the principle roofline; 4. The front balcony with supporting square columns beams and corbels; 5. The sandy exterior wall stucco with round tile attic vents; 6. The original ornate strap iron balcony balustrade; 7. The three light wood casement windows of various sizes; 8. The stucco surfaced eave chimney; 9. The repeating arching front porch and attached arched porte-cochère; 10. The original inset arched entry door; 11. The Medieval style paneled front door with the original brass locking plate and handle; 12. The interior entryway with wrought iron stairway railing; 13. The scored concrete front walkway up to the house; 14. The ornate sculpted plaster interior arches; 15. The unique interior fireplace with Mayan themed Calco fireplace California art tiles; 16. The extending purlin beams seen fronting the gable ends; 17. The original interior wood doors with hardware doorknobs; 18. The original exterior light fixtures; 19. The arched front porch with thick rectangular pier columns with horizontal imposts; 20. The half walled side patio; 21. The round clay mission tile attic vents seen on gable ends; 22. The interior Spanish style terra cotta and polychrome tiles in the foyer and staircase; 23. The raised front arched porch; 24. The restored "in-kind" wood framed three light casement windows; 25. The mixture or roof styles and varied massing typical of the Spanish Eclectic style; 26. The cantilevered upper level with stucco curved overhang; 27. The covered raised side porch connecting the side walled potion and blending indoor and outdoor spaces; 28. The large detached three car garage with servant's quarters.
The following are architectural changes that cause integrity loss are:
1. The original chimney with added brick upper extension (well differentiated from the original stucco portion below); 2. The rear (west) elevation added rear bay window and single French door (outside of the public view); 3. The restoration of three part casement window design with non-original vinyl windows replaced with true divided light wooden windows (in-kind replacement).
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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 comparison with the multiple historic photos, aerial photos, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps and other research, the house is shown to be in its original location at 5232 Marlborough Drive. 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.
Analysis of the historic photos, building records and careful examination of the resource at 5232 Marlborough Drive reveals that the front sides and rear elevations very closely match the original design of the house. Multiple historic photos (Attachments D.1) from 1929 and later show that the home matches the current photos (Attachments D.2) extremely well, with hipped and gabled two story façade, low pitched clay tile roof with very little eave overhang and decorative exposed eave rafter tails. The arched stucco entry colonnade style entry porch, matching arched porte-cochère and large arched focal window are seen matching the historic photos. The upper level balcony retains the original square support beams, corbels and decorative strap iron balustrade. The arched inset paneled door is also original along with the balcony French doors. The exterior stucco has been restored in kind to its original finish which was visible on preserved areas. The home had non-original stucco as seen in 2014 transitional photos (see attachment D.1). The stucco surfacing was redone and professionally restored in-kind by the owners in 2014, based on original stucco located at the rear of the garage and other preserved areas around the house. This restored stucco surfacing also matches the 1929 and other historical photos (Attachment D.1). The clay attic vents are original and clay roof tiles were replaced in-kind to match original clay roof tiles and historic photos. The entryway walkway and stairs are also original.
A sliding glass door which was added to the northern elevation has been removed restored to the original French door with tall rectangular double casement windows, as seen in historic photos. Even details like the lantern front lighting fixtures have been recreated and replaced in-kind to match the historic photos. Current owner DeLayne Harmon remembers as a child the original lighting fixtures were always silver instead of the typical painted black, so the owners tracked down an original lighting fixture catalogue showing the hanging iron lights were originally produced in silver which were then recreated. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home built in 1929. As seen in the building records and comparisons between the historic photos and current photos, the home is in remarkable restored condition. Only minor changes in the original design are seen on the front elevation. The first minor change is the chimney which has been extended to improve fire safety. The extension, which extends approximately five feet above the original, is easily identified by the brick surface change seen rising above the stucco covered chimney which is intact. The second minor change is the missing original decorative wrought iron work seen around the edge of the arched focal window seen in historic photos. This scrolling wrought iron work is being replaced by the homeowners who hired a skilled blacksmith iron craftsman to recreated this detail to match historic photos. At the rear, outside of the public view, a few minor window changes were completed as part of the home's recent complete restoration, remodel and rehabilitation. This home continues to display excellent original integrity of design and these minor alterations do not impact the home's integrity of design, materials, workmanship or feeling to such an extent that the home is no longer recognizable or to the extent that the home no longer embodies the
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distinctive characteristics of its Spanish Revival / Eclectic style. 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 street and side setback of the house matches the historic neighborhood. The home blends in well with its historic Kensington neighborhood with many important Spanish Revival/Eclectic homes nearby. The house has excellent integrity of Setting.
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 key materials which convey integrity on this home are the features indicative of its Spanish Eclectic style and the elements which define the home's individual design. The wooden balcony beams and brackets, extending wooden rafter tails and purlins along with the strap wrought iron decorative railings are all original and intact. The front door is original, as is the brass door handle and locking plate. The upper level balcony French doors are also original with unique intact locking mechanism. The overlapping red clay Mission roof tiles, divided light wooden casement windows have been restored in-kind based on preserved originals and multiple historic photos. The exterior stucco has been restored in-kind to its original finish. The arching sculptured stucco wall and entry archways are intact and match the historic photo. Original decorative clay attic vents in a spaced pattern on the front gable end and clay tiles in a triangular grouping on the side are all retained. The curving scored concrete walkway is intact and matches the historic photos. The only change to the materials within the public view is the 1940's brick chimney extension and the yet to be restored focal window wrought iron work which is being recreated in- kind to match the historic photos. 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. In particular, the wood work seen in the square balcony columns, support beams and corbels all display skilled wood working, along with the exposed rafter tails and extending purlins. The home's original solid wooden paneled door and rectangular French balcony doors also display the original skilled craftsmanship. Original wrought iron railings and lighting fixtures display quality wrought iron craftsmanship. The interior tile fireplace, surround and hearth work with Mayan themed California art tile by Calco is exceptional and included in the nomination. The original and intact interior fireplace and hearth are in excellent condition and are an expression of the architectural design of the home. Therefore, Legacy 106, Inc. believes the
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*B10. Significance - Criterion C (continued): original fireplace is a character defining elements of the Spanish Eclectic design and worthy of inclusion in the designation so this feature can be saved and enjoyed for future generations. Exceptional craftsmanship is shown throughout. 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 1929 Spanish Eclectic residence in its present excellent restored condition is well preserved and imparts the visitor with a realistic sense and feeling for the late 1920's historical Kensington neighborhood. The home blends in well with historic older neighboring properties in Kensington. The feeling of a Spanish Eclectic home and the late 1920's era is 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.
The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House at 5232 Marlborough Drive is associated with early Kensington developer Carl B. Hays. However, research for this nomination did not find sufficient evidence of direct links or association with important events or persons and this property.
Conclusion: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House meets six of seven aspects of integrity and can be said to have excellent architectural integrity for historical designation. Legacy 106, Inc. recommends the house for historical designation under Criterion C.
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Criterion “D” Is representative of a notable work of a master builder, designer, architect, engineer, landscape architect, interior designer, artist or craftsman.
Builder Carl B. Hays. As seen on the signed water permit and chain of title ownership history, builder Carl B. Hays built the subject resource in 1929. Carl B. Hays is not yet established as a Master Builder in San Diego although he built at least four homes historically designated in the City of San Diego.
Carl B. Hays (proposed Master Builder) Builder, 1923-1942
Biography. Carl B. Hays was an accomplished builder in San Diego. Several advertisements in the San Diego Union showed Carl as one of the influential builders in Kensington Heights. He was included in a 1937 photograph of industry leaders along with such notables as A.L. & A.E. Dennstedt, Henry F. Landt, R.S. Brock, John Lovett, Raymond Perrigo, Lawrence Michael, Van Brady, and George Forbes, developer of Kensington. He designed and built primarily in the Spanish Eclectic style.
Carl was born on October 8, 1884 in Ohio. His wife Matilda G. Cristman was born in Ohio on March 3, 1888. Carl and Matilda married in Ohio and the 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census show that the couple had three children: Helen L. born in 1913, William S. born in 1915, and John K. born in 1921. All of the children were born in Ohio. The 1920 Census also shows Carl had his own real estate office in Akron, Ohio.
Carl B. Hays in San Diego. The family made their way to California via Florida, and arrived in San Diego around 1922. The couple first appeared in the City Directory in 1923 where they resided at 3845 Front Street and Carl was listed as a business partner in the firm Hays, Howard & McCoy (Elmer L. McCoy).
In 1923, Carl was a partner with C.E. Howard and Elmer L. McCoy with the firm of Hays, Howard & McCoy, a firm of real estate investment dealers and builders. Carl B. Hays and C.E. Howard, partnered with Elmer McCoy in San Diego real estate around 1923, when he formed a partnership with called Hays, Howard, & McCoy. Elmer McCoy and Carl B. Hays dissolved their partnership around 1924. According to Beth Montes' 2002 nomination of the Carl B. Hays Spec House (5183 Bristol Rd. in Kensington): "This was likely the period when Mr. Hays and Mr. McCoy perfected their signature floor plan which was built time and again in Kensington, Talmadge, North Park, and many other communities."
In November 1928, Carl B. Hays and wife Matilda purchased the subject property, lot 323 in block 6 of Kensington Heights Unit 3. Carl (listed as "C.B. Hayes") appears as the owner on the lot's water permit, which is dated November 27, 1928. A sewer permit could not be found for this house, nor could a Notice of Completion. In April 1929, the Hay's sold the home to Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. De Aldrete. There is no evidence that Carl and Matilda Hays lived in the subject home at 5232 Marlborough Drive. The 1928 San Diego Directory listed Carl and Matilda as owning a real estate company located at 962 2nd Ave. They are also shown residing at 4459 Marlborough Drive that year.
Sometime in the late 1920's, Mr. Hays built a home for himself and his family at 4881 Marlborough Drive. The 1930 Census shows the Hays family lived in Kensington at 4881 Marlborough Drive and Carl listed his occupation as a salesman for real estate with his own office. Matilda listed her occupation as “None.” The couple lived in this home he designed at 4881 Marlborough Drive for nearly 40 years, until his death on June 28, 1965. His widow lived there until 1971, when she moved to the Cloisters of the Valley retirement home and resided there until her death on January 12, 1986 at the age of 97.
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Hays, Howard & McCoy - 1923-1924 and 1930. Carl B. Hays partnered with C.E. Howard and Elmer McCoy after moving to San Diego in 1923. This formal exclusive partnership was short-lived, as Elmer McCoy and Carl B. Hays dissolved the partnership around 1924. Published building permit listings from the 1920's show Hays was active in the building trade around San Diego, especially in Kensington Heights. He was active during Kensington Heights' heavy growth periods of 1927-1930 and again as the depression waned 1937-1940's. Despite the formal disillusion of the partnership, McCoy and Hays still partnered in later years to construct homes, such as 4117 Middlesex Drive in Kensington Heights (HRB # 1172), known as the Carl and Matilda Hays/Elmer and Susie McCoy Spec House #1, which was built by Hays and McCoy in 1930. The trio were also the builders of the Castle Park neighborhood in Chula Vista.
Carl B. Hays and J.W. Harlan - 1928-1929. For another house nomination of 4165 Rochester Road in Kensington Manor, Legacy 106, Inc. documented that Hays built a house for J.W. Harlan in some form of a partnership agreement, as March 10, 1928 was the recording date for Harlan to acquire the property from the Kensington Park Land Company, obtain loans from Henry Weinberger and the Union Trust Co. of San Diego, and for his deed to the Hays’. By July 1929, the house was apparently completed, as the new owners took out the water permit on July 20, 1929. Carl and Matilda had sold the house to them on June 1, 1928, and that transaction recorded on the 30th. All of these transactions imply Harlan and the Hays partnered in building that house. Research in the Recorder’s Office shows Harlan on a number of real estate 4165 transactions with Hays, but not exclusively. Hays appears to have adapted to various deals offered by temporary partners.
Carl Hays continued to be active in both the building and real estate fields until his retirement in 1942.
The following homes built by Carl B. Hays have been historically designated:
5183 Bristol Road in Kensington known as the Thomas J. and Rosa Lee Gester House (HRB # 966), built in 1928.
4165 Rochester Road in Kensington Manor, known as the J.W. Harlan and Carl and Matilda Hays Spec House #1 (HRB # 967). It is a one-story Spanish Eclectic style home built in 1928.
4909 Kensington Drive in Kensington Manor, known as the Carl B. and Matilda G. Hays Spec House No. 1 (HRB # 1002). It is a one-story Spanish Eclectic style home built in 1928.
4117 Middlesex Drive in Kensington Heights, known as the Carl and Matilda Hays/Elmer and Susie McCoy Spec House #1 (HRB # 1172). It is a one-story Spanish Eclectic style home built in 1930.
Architectural Body of Work and Summary. Proposed Master Builder Carl B. Hays had a long extraordinary carrier and became a widely accomplished builder, constructing many homes in the peak late 1920's period of Spanish development in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego. Certainly he had a longtime working relationship with Master Architect Richard Requa who approved designs as head of the architectural review for the Kensington community. Master Builder Carl B. Hays' architectural designs range from small and modest examples of the Spanish style to very large examples like the subject resource. His career spans the most significant and influential late 1920's time period of the Spanish Eclectic style in California, although he built homes in San Diego from 1924 until his retirement in 1942, at the start of World War II.
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Hays' most prolific time period was the height of the Spanish Eclectic / Revival period of the late 1920's boom and into the Depression bust period of the 1930's. The builder's skill and impact is still visible today in the stylish and well-built homes he constructed in the Kensington neighborhood which survived to this day. At least four historically designated San Diego homes were designed and built by proposed Master Builder Carl B. Hays, along with some important examples of the builder seen in the nearby communities of Normal Heights and City Heights and in nearby in Chula Vista.
Looking at builder Carl Hays' body of work, he, along with his sometimes business partner Elmer McCoy, worked primarily in the Spanish style, then often referred to as the Southern California style, and seemed to favor cross gabled façades with clay tiles overlapping the verge boards, and extending wooden gable purlins (which is not common overall on a Spanish style home). The partners also blended indoor and outdoor spaces well in keeping with the Spanish style, utilizing front covered porches, usually under the principle roofline. Also, based on the April 4, 1930 San Diego Union article and associated extant homes, the building partners seemed to favor end chimneys, rectangular single pane focal windows and one over one double hung windows along with decorative gable attic vents.
Carl B. Hays, when not partnered with Elmer L. McCoy, seemed to favor casement windows and more elaborate arching focal windows with scrolling wrought iron filigree as seen in historic photos of the subject resource. Hays seemed to have sometimes utilized the same floor plan but with different detailing.
The Thomas J. and Rosa Lee Gester House (HRB # 966) at 5183 Bristol Road, built in 1928, and Hays' own home at 4881 Marlborough Drive, also in Kensington, were described by historian Beth Montes as having the same interior floor plan. Although both Spanish Eclectic in design, these homes have different roof designs, façade designs, and massing, making sure the same façade design was not repeated. Hays' ability to survive the 1930's Great Depression and almost complete shutdown of the building industry is a testament to his skill and talent as a builder.
Carl B. Hays & Richard M. Jackson - 1936-1942. In 1936 Carl Hays partnered Richard M. Jackson. Their partnership would last until Hays' retirement in 1942 at the beginning of World War II. Several advertisements in the San Diego Union showed Carl as one of the influential builders in Kensington Heights. He was included in a 1937 photograph of industry leaders along with such notables as A.L. & A.E. Dennstedt, Henry F. Landt, R.S. Brock, John Lovett, Raymond Perrigo, Lawrence Michael, Van Brady, and George Forbes, developer of Kensington.
Additionally, San Diego historian Beth Montes listed building permits she found in the Southwest Builder and Contractor and Daily Transcript between 1927 and 1932 listing CB Hayes (sic). Some listed are not extant or have changed addresses making more in depth research necessary. The list includes:
5019 Hawley Boulevard and 5128 24th in Normal Heights, recorded by J.H. Walters for C.B. Hayes on April 2, 1927
1429 Golden Gate Drive where he listed himself as owner on September 10, 1927
1419 Golden Gate Drive for J.W. Harlan, owner, September 19, 1927
1420 Golden Gate Drive with himself as owner September 14, 1927
5007 Canterbury Drive in Kensington with himself as owner on August 17, 1928
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3622 Alabama with himself as owner on February 1, 1929
2451 B Street in Golden Hill with A.W. Golder as owner on March 15, 1937
Research by Montes at the Recorder’s Office revealed business transactions between Carl B. and Matilda Hays and other parties, which she believed represented house construction. These are listed here in this report to facilitate future research and identification of Hays construction projects, but were not individually researched in depth for Notices of Completion or individually field inspected by Legacy 106, Inc. The following house deeds were found in the Recorder’s Office, Grantee Index, Book 22, Page 196:
Kensington Heights
• Lot 3, Block 3, Kensington Heights Unit 1, Deed Book 1485, Page 173, J.W. Harlan, May 28, 1928 • Lot 213, Kensington Heights Unit 2, Deed Book 1527, Page 441, A.J. McDonald, October 3, 1928 • Lot 229, Kensington Heights Unit 2, Deed Book 1538, Page 188, A.J. McDonald, October 19, 1928 • Lot 4, Block 15, 5011 Canterbury, Kensington Manor Unit 2, Deed Book 1490, Page 151, June 11, 1928
Kensington Park
• Lot 2, Block A, Kensington Park, Deed Book 1323, Page 196, E.G. McCoy, September 1, 1928
Kensington Manor
• Lot 15, Block 4, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1489, Page 384, A.J. McDonald, June 20, 1928 • Lot 11, Block 5, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1472, Page 425, (illegible), July 12, 1928 • Lot 7, Block 7, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1527, Book 440, A.J. McDonald, October 3, 1928 • Lot 10, Block 2, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1480, Page 142, J.W. Harlan, May 21, 1928 • Lot 9, Block 12, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1485, Page 250, J.W. Harland, June 5, 1928 • Lot 2, Block 13, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1485, Page 397, A.J. McDonald, June 21, 1928 • Lot 2, Block 14, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1494, Page 244, (illegible), July 12, 1928 • Lot 2, Block 15, Kensington Manor Unit 1, Deed Book 1517, Page 30, A.J. McDonald, August 3, 1928
Normal Heights
• Lot 22, Block P, Deed Book 1521, Page 220, E.D. Barratt et al, October 9, 1928
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University Heights
• Lot 6, Block C, Deed Book 1511, Page 272, (illegible name) September 4, 1928
Castle Park
• Lot 24, Block 6, Deed Book 1535, Page 116, Edward E. Ladebouche, October 3, 1928
These permit filings showed various home addresses for Hayes between 1927 and 1929, suggesting he may have moved around with Matilda until he built his longtime home at 4881 Marlborough around 1929. In 1927, he listed his own address as 4457 Marlborough, in 1928 it was 4800 Marlborough, and in 1929 he listed it as 4881 Marlborough along with 3640 42nd on two different permits.
Legacy 106, Inc. has also studied the water permits in the Kensington subdivisions, and found a number of permits taken out by Hays and the alternate spelling Hayes. These include 4457 Marlborough (9/1/1926); 5125 Marlborough Drive (2/6/1929); 4881 Marlborough Drive (7/15/1929); 5010 Marlborough Drive (10/1/1929); and 4119 (now 4117) Middlesex (5/14/1930). No further information was found for this builder.
Conclusion: Builder Carl B. Hays is recommended for status as a Master Builder and 5232 Marlborough Drive is a notable example of a large grand example of his body of work in the Spanish Eclectic / Revival style as a Master Builder under Criterion D. Therefore, Legacy 106, Inc. proposes consideration of Carl B. Hays to be listed as a Master Builder.
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*B10. Significance - Criteria E and F:
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 the _____ Historical District.
Criterion F does not apply to this property.
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A.2 Notice of Completion
After an extensive search, the Notice of Completion could not be located.
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A.3 Water Record Owner is listed as Carl B. Hays (also the home's builder) and is dated November 27, 1928.
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After an extensive search, the Sewer Record could not be located.
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits Permit # C51312 for a patio. Dated February 1963.
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint Taken from the Residential Building Record.
Location of Mayan themed fireplace and hearth (in living room) which are included in proposed designation.
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint First floor plan shown in a 1930's real estate advertisement.
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint Second floor plan shown in a 1930's real estate advertisement.
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A.6 County Lot and Block Book Page First assessed to Enrique Aldrete in 1930.
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A.7 Previous Survey Form
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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
5232 Marlborough Drive APN # 440-044-08-00 and 440-044-09-00
Instrument Date Grantor to Grantee, Recording Date, Book Number, Page Number
November 13, 1928 Union Trust Company of San Diego to A.J. McDonald, recorded November 27, 1928, Deed Book 1541, Page 483
November 22, 1928 A.J. McDonald to Carl B. Hays and Matilda G. Hays, recorded December 1, 1928, Deed Book 1543, Page 389
April 29, 1929 Carl B. Hays and Matilda G. Hays to Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete, recorded May 4, 1929, Deed Book 1637, Page 1
January 25, 1939 Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete to John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman, recorded February 1, 1939, Deed Book 872, Page 145
March 31, 1944 John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman to Sigrid H. Greenman, recorded March 31, 1944, Deed Book 1660, Page 215
August 9, 1949 Sigrid H. Greenman to Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero, recorded August 22, 1949, Deed Book 3294, Page 165
August 15, 1950 Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero to Union Title Insurance and Trust Company, recorded August 16, 1950, Deed Book 3740, Page 424
August 16, 1950 Union Title Insurance and Trust Company to Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero, recorded August 16, 1950, Deed Book 3740, Page 425
October 30, 1968 Anthony J. Mogavero and Ella H. Mogavero (husband and wife as joint tenants) to Anthony J. Mogavero, Ella H. Mogavero, and Patricia Mogavero (as joint tenants), recorded November 25, 1968, File # 207037
April 29, 1996 Affidavit – Death of Joint Tenant (Ella H. Mogavero), recorded May 23, 1996, Document # 1996-0260647
August 13, 1997 Affidavit – Death of Joint Tenant (Anthony Joseph Mogavero), recorded September 29, 1997, Document # 1997-0480208
June 11, 2003 Affidavit – Death of Trustee (Patricia Mogavero to Patricia Mogavero, Trustee of the Patricia Mogavero Living Trust), recorded February 26, 2013, Document # 2013-0123479
May 28, 2013 DeLayne Bailey Harmon, as Trustee of the Patricia Mogavero Trust, to DeLayne Bailey Harmon, recorded May 29, 2013, Document # 2013-0334297
May 28, 2013 DeLayne Bailey Harmon to Devin Harmon and DeLayne Harmon, Trustees of the DD Harmon Family 2013 Trust, recorded May 29, 2013, Document # 2013- 0334299
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B.2 Directory Search of Occupants
1929 No record 1930 Aldrete Enrique (o) Aldrete Adriana r5232 Marlborough dr Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza) h5232 Marlborough dr 1931 Aldrete Enrique (o) *listed as 5234 Marlborough from 1931 to 1934 Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza) h5234 Marlborough dr 1932 Aldrete Enrique (o) *listed as 5234 Marlborough from 1931 to 1934 Aldrete Adriana r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Carmen clk r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza B) h5234 Marlborough dr 1933 Aldrete Enrique (o) *listed as 5234 Marlborough from 1931 to 1934 Aldrete Adriana r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Carmen E clk r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza B) h5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Grace E clk r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Henry clk r5234 Marlborough dr 1934 Aldrete Enrique (o) *listed as 5234 Marlborough from 1931 to 1934 Aldrete Adriana r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Carmen clk r5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza) h5234 Marlborough dr Aldrete Enrique jr r5234 Marlborough dr 1935 Aldrete Enrique (o) Aldrete Enrique (Esperanza) h5232 Marlborough dr 1936 Aldrete Enrique (o) There is only a listing in the reverse portion of the directory, not in the main part of the directory. 1937 Aldrete Enrique (o) There is only a listing in the reverse portion of the directory, not in the main part of the directory. 1938 Aldrete Enrique (o) There is only a listing in the reverse portion of the directory, not in the main part of the directory. 1939 Greenman JA Greenman John A (Lucille) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr
1940 Carlstrom CW Carlstrom Chas W (Ace Van & Stge Co) h5232 Marlborough dr, Greenman JA Greenman John A (Lucille) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr
1941 Greenman JA Greenman John A (Lucille) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr
1942 Greenman JA Greenman John A (Lucille) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr 1943 Greenman JA Greenman John A (Lucille) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr 1944 - Greenman HG Greenman H Guy (Sigrid) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr 1945 1946 Directory not published this year 1947 - Greenman HG Greenman H Guy (Sigrid) (Greenman & Sons Inc) h5232 Marlborough dr 1948 Greenman Harold G jr dr Greenman & Sons 1949 Directory not published this year 1950 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1951 Directory not published this year 1952 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1953 - Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough 1954 dr
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1955 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1956 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1957 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1958 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1959 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1960 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 4077 Van Dyke av h5232 Marlborough dr 1961 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys Parkway Medical Group h5232 Marlborough dr Patricia studt r5232 Marlborough dr 1962 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland avh5232 Marlborough dr 1963 - Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough 1964 dr 1965 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr 1966 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr 1967 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr 1968 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr 1969 - Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough 1970 dr 1971 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr 1972 Mogavero AJ Mogavero Anthony J (Ella K) phys 3846 Highland av h5232 Marlborough dr
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction A.J. McDonald to Carl B. Hays and Matilda G. Hays. Recorded December 1, 1928. Carl B. Hays constructed the subject resource in 1929.
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Carl B. Hays and Matilda G. Hays to Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete. Recorded May 4, 1929.
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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 1886/1887 1906 1921 1940 1950 1956
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C.1 City of San Diego 800 Scale Engineering Map
Map # 218-1725
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C.2 Current USGS Map - 2015 La Mesa quadrangle
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C.2 Historical USGS Map - 1967 La Mesa quadrangle
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C.3 Original Subdivision Map Kensington Heights Unit No. 3
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C.3 Original Subdivision Map Kensington Heights Unit No. 3
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C.3 Tax Assessor's Map
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1886/1887
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1906
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1921
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – July 1939 Volume 2, Map 299J
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1950 Volume 2, Map 299J
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1956 Volume 2, Map 299J
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Attachment D Photographs
D.1 — Historical Photographs D.2 — Current Photographs
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D.1 Historical Photograph
5232 Marlborough Dr. in 1929. Courtesy of the San Diego History Center.
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D.1 Historical Photograph The side (south) elevation of the subject resource pictured under construction in the January 5, 1929 issue of the San Diego Union.
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D.1 Historical Photograph
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D.1 Historical Photograph Photos this page courtesy of the San Diego History Center. The interior of 5232 Marlborough Drive circa 1929.
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D.1 Historical Photograph 5232 Marlborough Drive circa 1937.
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D.1 Historical Photograph
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D.1 Historical Photograph
The east (front) elevation of 5232 Marlborough Drive circa 1942.
The top photo is courtesy of the San Diego History Center, and was used in the October 18, 1942 issue of the San Diego Union.
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D.1 Historical Photograph Photos this page courtesy of the San Diego History Center. Top: the southeast (side and front) elevation of 5232 Marlborough Drive, circa 1942.
Below: the southwest elevation of the subject resource circa 1942. Note that the adjacent lot to the south of the subject resource was a tennis court until that parcel was sold and developed in the late 1940's.
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D.1 Historical Photograph 1946 Rozelle aerial photo #5097 courtesy of the San Diego History Center.
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D.1 Historical Photograph 5232 Marlborough Drive circa 1950. All other historic photos courtesy of the homeowners, Devin and DeLayne Harmon.
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D.1 Historical Photograph 5232 Marlborough Drive circa 1952.
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D.1 Historical Photograph
South (side) elevation circa early 1950's.
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D.1 Historical Photograph
Rear detached garage circa early 1950's.
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D.1 Historical Photograph
Rear detached garage and tool shed in the mid-1950's.
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D.1 Historical Photograph Front entryway and stairs circa early 1950's.
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D.1 Historical Photographs Original fireplace shown circa 1952. The fireplace and hearth are included in proposed designation.
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D.1 Historical Photograph 5232 Marlborough Drive in 1965
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D.1 Historical Photograph
5232 Marlborough Drive circa the 1970's.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - East (front) Elevation The subject resource in September 2014 before restoration.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - North (side) Elevation The subject resource in 2014 before restoration. Photos this page by John Eisenhart of Union Architecture.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - West (rear) Elevation The subject resource in 2014 before restoration. Photos this page by John Eisenhart of Union Architecture
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - South (side) Elevation The subject resource in 2014 before restoration. Photo this page by John Eisenhart of Union Architecture
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation Current photos by Kiley Wallace, February 2016
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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 – East (front) Elevation
Taken from second floor balcony.
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D.2 Current Photographs – East (front) Elevation
Taken from second floor balcony.
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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 – North (side) Elevation Taken from second floor balcony.
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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 – West (rear) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – West (rear) 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 Rear Garage East (front) elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Detached Rear Accessory Structure East (front) elevation
North (side) elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs – Interior
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D.2 Current Photographs – Interior
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D.2 Current Photographs – Interior
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D.2 Current Photographs - Interior
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D.2 Current Photographs - Interior
Location of Mayan themed fireplace and hearth (in living room) which are 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.1 Criterion A – Community History
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History Tract office of the Kensington Heights Company, located at Marlborough Dr. and Hilldale, 1926. Photos this page courtesy of the San Diego History Center
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History Kensington-Talmadge promoters in 1926. George Forbes is second from right. Photo courtesy of the San Diego History Center.
Photo below shows George Forbes, president of the Kensington Heights Company, in 1930. Courtesy of Dr. Thomas H. Baumann's book Kensington-Talmadge,1910-1997.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939 A 1925 photo of the Tijuana grocery store owned by Enrique Aldrete.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939 The Aldrete family shown in the 1930 U.S. Census as residing at the subject resource. Note that the original address of the home was 5234 Marlborough Drive until the late 1930's.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939 The Aldretes had five children, three of whom died as young adults.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939 Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza's daughter Carmen was born in 1912 and lived in the subject resource with them until her marriage in 1937. She then spent most of her life in Tijuana, where she and her husband Roberto Estudillo were prominent citizens. The Historic Archives of Tijuana recently held a photographic exhibit of Carmen's family and social activities in that city.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Enrique Aldrete and Esperanza B. de Aldrete Owners and Residents, 1929 to 1939 Carmen pictured on the cover of the January 2013 issue of Red Social de Tijuana, which featured a story about her entitled "Un Siglo En Tijuana" (A Century in Tijuana).
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Photos of Carmen, her parents, siblings, and other family members in the January 2013 issue of Red Social de Tijuana.
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person John A. Greenman and Lucile K. Greenman Owners and Residents, 1939 to 1944
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Harold G. Greenman and Sigrid H. Greenman Owners and Residents, 1944 to 1949
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture 5232 Marlborough Drive pictured in a late 1930's real estate advertisement. Continued on next page.
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture 5232 Marlborough Drive pictured in a late 1930's real estate advertisement. Continued from previous page.
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture An identical Mayan themed Calco fireplace pictured in the book California Casa. It is in the Keeler House in South Gate, California.
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture Plans by John Eisenhart of Union Architecture
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E.3 Criterion C – Architecture Plans by John Eisenhart of Union Architecture. Alterations are shown in red.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder)
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder
Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) Kensington homes built by Carl B. Hays that have been historically designated. Photos this page courtesy of the California Historical Resources Inventory Database:
4165 Rochester Rd., the J.W. Harlan and Carl and Matilda Hays Spec House #1 (HRB # 967). Constructed in 1928.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder)
4909 Kensington Dr., the Carl B. and Matilda G. Hays Spec House No. 1 (HRB # 1002). Constructed in 1928.
4117 Middlesex Drive in Kensington Heights (HRB # 1172), known as the Carl and Matilda Hays/Elmer and Susie McCoy Spec House #1. It was built by Carl B. Hays and Elmer L. McCoy in 1930.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) In 1923, Carl B. Hays, Elmer L. McCoy, and Clarence E. Howard were partners in the real estate development firm of Hays, Howard & McCoy.
The firm developed the Castle Park tract in Chula Vista in 1923 and 1924.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) Along with his partners C.E. Howard and E.L. McCoy, Carl B. Hays developed the Castle Park neighborhood in Chula Vista.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder)
This article features three Kensington homes constructed by Hays & McCoy around 1930:
4201 Hilldale Road 4174 Hilldale Road 4207 Hilldale Road
Please see larger photos of these three Hays and McCoy homes on the following pages.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) Hays and McCoy constructed this Kensington home at 4201 Hilldale Road in 1930. San Diego Evening Tribune , April 4, 1930
4201 Hilldale Rd. in September 2014.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) Hays and McCoy constructed this Kensington home at 4174 Hilldale Road in 1930.
San Diego Evening Tribune, April 4, 1930
4174 Hilldale Rd. in September 2014.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Carl B. Hays (proposed as a Master Builder) Hays and McCoy constructed this Kensington home at 4207 Hilldale Road in 1930.
San Diego Evening Tribune , April 4, 1930
4207 Hilldale Rd. in September 2014.
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Attachment F Works Cited
F.1 — Provide a list of works cited (bibliography)
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F.1 Bibliography
Books
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: John Wiley & Sons
Cook, III, S.F., “Jerry” and Tina Skinner 2005 Architectural Details: Spain and the Mediterranean. Reprint of the 1926 publication by Richard S. Requa, A.I.A., J.H. Hansen, The Monolith Portland Cement Company, Los Angeles. Schiffer Publishing
Crawford, Richard W. 2011 The Way We Were in San Diego. Charleston: The History Press
Gellner, Arrol and Douglas Keister 2002 Red Tile Style: America's Spanish Revival Architecture. New York: Viking Studio
Hartmann, Glenn D. 1977 Architectural Description Guide: Developed for Use in Preparing Nominations for State and National Registers of Historic Places. Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission, Olympia, Washington
McAlester, Virginia 2013 Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
McGrew, Clarence Alan 1922 City of San Diego and San Diego County, the Birthplace of California. Volume I. The American Historical Society, Chicago
National Park Service 1985 Historic American Building Survey Guidelines for Preparing Written and Historical Descriptive Data. Division of National Register Programs, Western Regional Office, San Francisco, California
Newcomb, Rexford 1990 Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States. Dover Publications, New York
Requa, Richard S., A.I.A. 1929 Old World Inspiration for American Architecture. Originally published by the Monolith Portland Cement Company. Los Angeles, California.
Requa, Richard S., A.I.A. 1937 Inside Lights on the Building of San Diego's Exposition: 1935. Frye & Smith, Ltd., San Diego
Smith, G.E. Kidder 1996 Source Book of American Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press
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Walker, Lester 2002 American Homes - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Woods, Douglas, Melba Levick and M. Brian Tichenor 2012 The California Casa. New York: 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, 1890, 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