Los Angeles Department of City Planning RECOMMENDATION REPORT
CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION CASE NO.: CHC-2018-1033-HCM ENV-2018-1034-CE
HEARING DATE: March 15, 2018 Location: 1547-1549 North McCadden Place TIME: 10:00 AM Council District: 13 – O’Farrell PLACE : City Hall, Room 1010 Community Plan Area: Hollywood 200 N. Spring Street Area Planning Commission: Central Los Angeles, CA 90012 Neighborhood Council: Central Hollywood Legal Description: Davidson Tract, Block A, Lot 20
PROJECT: Historic-Cultural Monument Application for the FRITZ COTTAGE
REQUEST: Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument
OWNER: Linda L. Duttenhaver, Trustee Lindy Trust 6671 West Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1575 Los Angeles, CA 90028
APPLICANT: AIDS Healthcare Foundation 6255 Sunset Boulevard, 21st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90028
PREPARER: Anna Marie Brooks 1109 4th Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019
RECOMMENDATION That the Cultural Heritage Commission:
1. Take the property under consideration as a Historic-Cultural Monument per Los Angeles Administrative Code Chapter 9, Division 22, Article 1, Section 22.171.10 because the application and accompanying photo documentation suggest the submittal warrants further investigation.
2. Adopt the report findings.
VINCENT P. BERTONI, AICP Director of PlanningN1907
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Ken Bernstein, AICP, Manager Lambert M. Giessinger, Preservation Architect Office of Historic Resources Office of Historic Resources
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Melissa Jones, Planning Assistant Office of Historic Resources
Attachment: Historic-Cultural Monument Application CHC-2018-1033-HCM 1547-1549 North McCadden Place Page 2 of 3
SUMMARY
Fritz Cottage is a one-story single-family residence located on McCadden Place between Sunset Boulevard and Selma Avenue in Hollywood. Although the original building permit could not be located, according to the Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor’s records, the property was constructed in 1907. The parcel was originally purchased by contractor and property owner Godfrey Fritz, who most likely constructed the subject property in the Transitional Craftsman architectural style. It was originally occupied by Fritz’s daughter and son-in-law, Nellie and Raymond Vosderbosch, who resided at the property until at least 1918. The subject property was converted into a school in 2002.
Rectangular in plan, the subject property is of wood frame construction with wood clapboard and wood shingle cladding. The steeply-pitched composition shingle roof is hipped, with a front-facing gable over a raised porch on the primary east-facing elevation, and a small side-facing gable on the south-facing elevation. The gable topping the porch has a single knee brace, a double wood vent, and a flattened pyramidal front with dentils, and is supported by three square columns with decorative knee braces. The primary, east-facing elevation also features a centered single wood panel door and vinyl sliding door accessed off the porch as well as a bay window with vinyl windows. The south elevation features a bay window centered on the façade, a multi-lite vinyl picture window flanked by one-over-one vinyl windows, and three wood frame windows. There is a handicap ramp off the rear, west-facing elevation. A brick chimney is centered atop the western portion of the roof. A non-original two-story building with a shed roof is located at the western property edge.
The subject property has undergone multiple alterations over the years that include the construction of an 800-square foot storage building in 2000, a kitchen remodel in 2012, as well as two additions at the rear, the installation of a handicamp ramp, the conversion of the original windows on the primary, east-facing façade to a vinyl sliding door, the replacement of the original front entry door, and the replacement of many of the original wood windows with vinyl windows, all at unknown dates.
The subject property was identified as individually eligible for listing at the state level as an excellent example of a single-family residence from the pre-annexation period of Hollywood, illustrative of Hollywood’s early development as an independent city, in the March 2009 Community Redevelopment Agency Historic Resources Survey of the Hollywood Redevelopment Area prepared by Chattel Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Inc. in collaboration with PCR Services Corporation and LSA Associates, Inc.
CRITERIA
The criterion is the Cultural Heritage Ordinance which defines a historical or cultural monument as any site (including significant trees or other plant life located thereon) building or structure of particular historic or cultural significance to the City of Los Angeles, such as historic structures or sites in which the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State or community is reflected or exemplified, or which are identified with historic personages or with important events in the main currents of national, State or local history or which embody the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction, or a notable work of a master builder, designer or architect whose individual genius influenced his age. CHC-2018-1033-HCM 1547-1549 North McCadden Place Page 3 of 3
FINDINGS
Based on the facts set forth in the summary and application, the Commission determines that the application is complete and that the property may be significant enough to warrant further investigation as a potential Historic-Cultural Monument. CITY OF LOS ANGELES HISTORIC-CULTURAL MONUMENT NOMINATION FORM
1. PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION
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