Historic Preservation Study and Evaluation
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Golden HHI Planned District Historic Preservation Study and Evaluation Prepared for the City of San Diego Planning Department and Historical Site Board by CIANI AND SOMERVILLE DESIGN ASSOCIATES Architectural and Historic Preservation Consultants La Jolla, California April, 1984 TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUMEl 1. Introduction 1 2. Methodology 2 3. Historical Background 15 4. Evaluation 24 5. Recommendations and Conclusions 31 6. List of Maps 35 1. Bibliography and References 36 8. Acknowledgements 40 it CONTENTS OF VOLUME II HISTORIC RESOURCE INVENTORY Russ Blvd. B Street Broadway A Street C Street CONTENTS OF VOLUME III HISTORIC RESOURCE INVENTORY E Street Avenido Cerro Gordo 20th Street F Street Treat Street 21st Street Glendale Ave. 19th Street CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV HISTORIC RESOURCE INVENTORY 22nd Street 25th Street 28th Street 23rd Street 26th Street 24th Street 27th Street iii Vicinity k c.., .,K 'l: \[\ C; 'N '" ~ ~ '"II) corcmado GOLDEN HILL PLANNED DISTRICT jv 1 Introduction TIlerefore, our review of the cultural context is a summary of work by others, and is provided TIlis survey has been conducted for the City of San as an overview of the social history of the Diego Planning Department and the community of greater Golden Hill area. Golden Hill, with special consideration for the perceived goal of producing a canprehensive evalua TIlis study of the Planned District provides tion and documentation of all cultural resources an assessment of the architectural styles and located within the Golden Hill Planned District. periods of the survey area, and an evaluation TIle canpletion of this survey brings the community of significance arrong the surveyed sites, objects, a step closer to irrplerrenting the goals of the and structures. It also identifies a subset Golden Hill Planned District Ordinance. of spatial boundaries containing nore cohesive neighborhoods which we have called "subdistricts." TIle physical boundaries of our study were selected TIle survey provides a database for the City of by the City of San Diego Planning Department, and San Diego Historical site Board, the Planning are coextensive with the existing Planned District Department, and the Golden Hill Planning Comnittee of the Greater Golden Hill Planning Area. TIle to establish a program for the preservation of focus of our report is on the structures, sites, cultural f aesthetic, and socia-economic values and cbjects contained within this context. in the Golden Hill Planned District.. 'I'o.vard that goal, we have outlined in Section 5, activi CUltural boundaries of al1 area shift and c.";ange ties and concepts for programs which could prCi!lDte with time, and their relationship to static revitalization of the Golden Hill Planned District. spatial boundaries are difficult to Clarify. W2 believe that the District has an adequate concen Because the survey area does not mincide with tration of historic features to warrant designation actual derrographic patterns, we were not able as an historic district. We have also identified to develop a cohesive image of the social values individually significant resources which deser\~ and patterns of various groups within the survey preservation or enhancerrent with appropriate area. rreasures. 1 Methodology 2 Historical Background 3 Architectural Typology • Victorians • Period Revivals - Spanish 1. Gothic Revival 1860·1905 and Mediterranean (see 2. Eastlake Stick 1870·1890 0 3. Italianate 1860-1890 Mission/ Spanish Category) 4. Queen Anne 1880·1900 21. English Tudor Revival 1919-1932 22. french Norman Revival 1919-1932 • Classical (Colonial) 23. Dutch Colonial Revival 1919-1932 Revival .. Prairie / International 5. Romanesque Revival 1880-1908 24. Prairie (School) 1905-1920 6. Colonial Revival 1890·1920 25. International 1920-1942 7. Classic Box 1890-1910 ~ 8. Neoclassic Rowhouse 1895-1915 • Modernes 9. Beaux-Arts Revival 1890·1930 26. Art Deco (zigzag 1920-1941 moderne) • Shingle-Craftsman 27. Streamline Moderne 1930-1945 10. Western Stick U190-1920 28. P.W.A. Moderne 1930-1941 11. Western Shingle 1890-1915 III Other 12. Craftsman House 1895-1920 29. Stucco-Box 1890-1960 (not bungalows) 30 Remnant Historic varies 13. Vernacular 1860-1920 feature (frame house) • Bungalows ANALYSIS OF SIGNIFICANCE 14. California Bungalow 1894·1935 • 15. Craftsman Bungalow 1905-1925 A. Individually Significant Resources 16. Bunga!oid 1895·1925 B. Major Contributing Resources 11. Bungalow Court 1905·1945 • C . Contributing Resources 411 • Mission / Spanish Revivals D .Neutral Historic Structllres 18. Mission Revival 1890-1915 0 19. Spanish/Colonial Revivals 1915·1943 0 E .Neutral Non-Historic Elements 20. Mediterranean Revivals 1915·1941 0 f .Intrusive Elements 3 2 Methodology Initial Review - Review data for potential districts, or changes to The follcwing prooedure was used by Design Associates the survey area, and identify actual survey sites for the architectural/historical survey of the Golden prior to conducting detailed survey and preparation Hill Planned District. of Historic Resources Inventory forms. CULTURAL RESOURCES INVENTORY Phase II - Detailed Survey Phase I - The Preliminary Reconnaissance, Archival Field Observations - Research, and Initial Field Survey Conduct a door-to-docr quantitative accounting of historical and architectural assets including the Existing Research - preparation of a detailed architectural description Review published and unpublished data, prior for each structure, object, or site, and the photo survey findings and inventories, or evaluations graphyof the structure. site, object. and/or re as available. lated features vlhich contribute to its significance Windshield Survey - in the survey area. Conduct preliminary field reconnaissance of the Architectural Assessment - survey area to identify with a broad-brush approach Prepare a typology listing for each architectural potential survey sites, and to gain a sense of the type, style, and period present in the survey area. overall nature of the area. GDJDp related styles into broader categories for Mapping - mapping purposes, e.g., Victorians would include Transfer to base maps (scale 1:100) the result Italianate, Queen Arme, etc. The follcwing is a of the preliminary field reconnaissance and list of the architectural types and periods found archival research to form a concise record of in Golden Hill. Graphic illustrations of these the preliminary survey including ownership/ styles and periods are provided below. occupancy data, land use and zoning maps, and sites previously designated. 2 , .u ' l'~ ·'" <xc .'% ':'" ..• , W<Ie. ~ , i' il~, -~,i2 ~,- ",,,, :::::;:::r-::l ',,< ~ ~f~ =Z~-··-~ Mapl Key - See Page 3 Architectural Survey GOLDEN HILL PLANNED DISTRICT • I ' ,~:~~ ··1111'r,YLbi, I : BROADWAY r-,,----; )./ :: C': E STREET '1II_~i 'I} E STREET 'il!r'iIiiI1 ,"W,'1= ===;~ , ---,------ ~(::: 1 il r uJi'i -~~ Key - See Page 4 Map2 Architectural Styles L---_ GOLDEN HILL PLANNED DISTRICT IIl&O !W~\i L ili'JS HI", I, I l 19151'Ht 17 HunS"rowC".", 1905·1']45 18 MI ... lon H. .... rnl 1890·1'115 1919-1932 1905-1920 _ 1 tD\ 192{)·;'H2 26 Art Oc"" (>ill~all 1920-1'141 1930 1 ')1! m"de",,,) Mapping of Survey Area possess integrity of location and setting, design, materials and workmanship, and a feeling of asso As field work progressed, Design Associates ciation. Sites, structures andobjeets with his prepared "working maps" containing the torical integrity must remain substantially as following information: they were, and in a similar context, as it was at the ti:rre they gained significance. CaIpatible Address changes and easily reversed alterations will not Date of construction necessarily destroy integrity. condition of premises/structure Architectural style Historical, Architectural, Biographical - In Related features addition to integrity, the resource must provide significance on the grounds of historical, bio Staterrent of Significance graphical or architectural gualities. \'iTe prepared guidelines for the evaluation of sur veyed cultural resources addressing the f&ctors of significance such as: integritv and historical, Architectural Significance is possessed by struc biographical, and/or architectural significance. tures which have design elements that exemplify l~ith reference to these sta11dards, each survey tl1e rrost typical characteristics or rrethod of site, object or structure was evaluated for its construction. Significant structures make a relative significance to the corrrnuni tv and survey strong and appropriate impression representative area. A staterrent of significance was prepared of the tirre of their construction. Architectural for each resource surveyed. (See Item 19, Historic significance may also be established by association Resource Inventory fonns.) with a recognized master architect, craftsman or builder I particularly when that architeet I s farre is Factors Affecting Significance closely related to this particular style. Integrity - Significant cultural resources must Historical Significance exists where the resource contributes to broad patterns of history at The Staterrent of Significance oontains the national, state, or local levels. following components, as appropriate: Biographical Significance exists where the site A staterrent of integrity relating: or structure is associated with an important The structure to itself, design and materials person or persons, or an important event during The structure to its setting or locale the time when significant events occurred. The oondition of structure Its oontribution