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1440 Hawthorne Terrace Berkeley, CA ATTACHMENT 4 LPC 02-07-19 Page 1 of 48 1440 Hawthorne Terrace Berkeley, CA January 30,2019 Land Use Planning Received Fatema Crane January 30, 2019 Secretary Landmarks Preservation Commission City of Berkeley 1947 Center Street, 2nd Flr. Berkeley, CA94704 Dear Ms. Crane: V/ith this letter, I wish to respond to the materials submitted by the owners of 1450 Hawthorne Terrace (the Speny Mclaughlin House & Garden) and supplement the landmark application materials that I previously submitted supporting the designation of the Speny-Mclaughlin and Marsh Houses & Gardens as landmarks pursuant to Berkeley Ordinance 4694 N.S. Among other things, I have attached a letter prepared by architectural landscape historian Janet Gracyk, who authored the HALS designation for the 'White House, describing the merits of the landscape that we are seeking to preserve on both Hawthorne Terrace properties. Exhibit A. First, I am gratified that the present o\ilners of 1450 Hawthorne Terrance apparently concede that the Speny-Mclaughlin House and Garden designed by Henry H. Gutterson and landscape architect Mabel Symmes are worthy of preservation and meet the requirements for designation as a landmark pursuant to Berkeley Ordinance 4694 N.S. According to the December 14,2018 memorandum prepared by Stacy Kozakavichl of Page & Turnbull, which the owners submitted to the Landmarks Preservation Commission ("LPC"), Page & Turnbull does not "question the overall conclusion [of the landmark application] that that the subject property is worthy of local landmark status." We could not agree more! The conclusion that this property is worthy of landmark protection is consistent with the conclusion reached by the various experts whom I consulted including Ms, Gracyk, Richard Brandi of Richard Brandi Historic Preservation Consulting, Chris Pattillo for the local chapter of FASLA, and UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Professors Elizabeth Macdonald and Joe McBride. (See their letters, Exhibit B.) It is also consistent with the view of majority of the property's neighbors, who signed the original petition or the more recent preservation petition reproduced at Exhibit C. Second, I have revised the list of "Aspects to Be Preserved" to incorporate several of Ms. Kozakavich's comments and suggestions. This revised list appears at Exhibit D, and is what I respectfully recommend be adopted in full by the LPC. While I agree with Ms. Kozakavich that I Page & Tumbull's December 14,2018 memorandum lists Stacy Kozakavich as "Cultural Resources Planner/Architectural Historian." Ms, Kozakavich is not a landscape architecture historian nor is she a member of ASLA. ATTACHMENT 4 LPC 02-07-19 Page 2 of 48 January 30,2019 Page2 the aspects to be preserved can also be described as "Character Defining Features," that proposed phrase is not the language used in the BMC; therefore, I have employed the phrase "Aspects to be Preserved." Third, to the extent that Ms. Kozakavich's memorandum advocates or proposes allowing current and/or future owners of either of the properties latitude to make changes to their exteriors, character defining features, or gardens as they see fit--for example, by removing mature, healthy plants and hardscape features without first seeking approval from the LPC --we respectfully disagree, Likewise, her recommendation that the historic frieze featuring Sylvia Mclaughlin not be included in the aspects to be preserved (because it post-dated Gutterson's design), does not make sense in light of the totality of the landmark application proposed for the properties and its exterior features. That frieze should be preserved in recognition of the house's close association with Sylvia Mclaughlin.2 Indeed, given that the house and gardens are equally worthy of landmark designation based upon the merit and integrity of Gutterson and Symmes's designs and the historic and cultural importance the properties have to the community by virtue of its past owners and association with the larger environmental movement, a more restrictive approach should be taken commensurate with the dictates of the BMC. Notwithstanding Ms. Kozakavich's suggestions, therefore, the following aspects should certainly be preserved: 1. The surfaces and surface materials of all patios (front and rear) and the laundry yards -- as they are original to both properties; 2. The rock, stucco, brick, and other walls currently existing on the properties (they are original and/or pre-date the Berkeley Fire); 3. The camellia, rhododendrons, holly bushes/hedges, fig trees, redwood trees, mature oaks, Cyprus trees, boxwood hedges, wisteria, roses, myrtle hedges, citrus trees, and other mature trees and mature shrubs (all of which are either original or were like-for-like replacements of original plants selected by Symmes); 4. The working fountain designed by Gutterson in the shared patio area; 5. The rose and rose trellis on the Eastern Façade of the Speny Mclaughlin house (visible in historic photos of the house as shown in the original submission); 6. The trellis/arbor at the Western edge of the properties, which replaced the original tea house designed by Gutterson and which has been a feature of the modern garden since circa 1960. 7 . The frieze of Sylvia Mclaughlin and her brothers. With respect to item 3, the green shrubs, I note that Symmes's use of holly, camellias and other ever green shrubs is particularly characteristic of American gardens of the 1920s.3 2 Under no circumstances should it be disturbed unless an art historian or comparable expert provides a written opinion that it can be moved without damaging that artwork -- as at least one previous expert opined that it could not be moved without causing considerable damage to that piece' 3 Balmori, McGuire, and McPeck, Beatrix Fqrrand's American Landscapes, at 122 (noting Farrand's frequent use of holly, parlicularly American holly with boxwood and yew); https://golmn.com/a-look-back-in-time-landscaping- ATTACHMENT 4 LPC 02-07-19 Page 3 of 48 January 30,2019 Page 3 Fourth, Page &. Turnbull's recommendation that the application for 1450 Hawthorne Terrace be combined with that lor 1440 Hawthome Terrace, while understandable, is unworkable here. Given that the application for 1450 Hawthorne Terrace was by petition, and that for 1440 Hawthome Terrace by agreement of the owners, it was not legally possible to combine the applications at the time they were submitted. At this juncture, it makes no sense whatsoever to delay the consideration of the landmarks applications for a combined application to be created, and there is certainly no legal basis to require it. Further, the condition of the property described in the application was as of the date of the writing. Fifth, Ms. Kozakavich's statement that Ms. Symmes "did not, as an independent practitioner, demonstrably influence the work of others in her fteld," P&T Mem. at 8, is demonstrably incorrect and unsupported. The garden that Symmes designed at Blake House has been studied by literally generations of landscape architects, including undergraduates and post-graduates at of the CED (College of Environmental Design) at U.C. Berkeley. CED's archives of Professor Katherine Jones's papers, for example, reflect a field trip that she led for her students to Blake Garden (then in private hands) on April 76,1926, as part of the class she was teaching (Landscape Gardening 1138). This record is one of many in the CED archives and elsewhere that illustrate Blake Garden's importance to Symmes's contemporaries and her stature amongst her now better-known contemporaries such as Thomas Church, whose gardens Prof. Jones and her students also toured. Blake Garden remains popular to this day, and its current relevancy is reflected in its busy social media presence, and the number of visitors of all ages who tour that garden regularly. Indeed, Blake Garden has been recognized as one of the pre-eminent gardens of the West in numerous publications, including, Nancy Power's The Gardens of Caliþrnia (2001), Kathleen McCormick's The Garden Lover's Guide to the West (2000), Joan Chatfield-Taylor's Visiting Eden (1993), and Priscilla Dunhill & Susan Freedman's Glorious Gardens (1993). Page & Turnbull's memorandum also does a disservice to Symmes and other early 20th Century female landscape architects with its suggestion that she was not co-equal with her (presumably male) contemporaries because there is no evidence that she was paid for her work.a The memo references Mai Albergast's conjectures (in the 1980s) that in the 1920s and '30s, Symmes was not an independent practitioner, and Ms. Kozakavich apparently concludes from these words that Symmes "cannot be considered a prominent figure in the field." Contrary to Albergast's supposition, the contemporaneous evidence-including documents in the UC CED archives, which Ms. Kozakavich did not review - show Symmes to be a committed professional who identified herself as a landscape architect,s was identified as such by her contemporades6, was trends-from-the-1920s-50s/ (describing use ofdifferent types ofevergreens in 1920s gardens). For a discussion ofthe process regardingthe preservation ofanother 1920s garden, see Lucy E. Sullivan, "A 1920's Estate Garden Is Carefully Restored, " New York Times, JUNE 18, 2000. a One wonders if evidence still exists that her male counterparts were paid, or even if this issue would be examined in relation to them. 5 For example, the 1930 census, which lists her occupation as Architect-Landscape, and various voter registration lists that list the same career. 6 For example, Prof. Jones who taught landscape architecture at UCB mention landscape architect Symmes in her letters to the editor and chief of the National Horticulture magazine. (CED Archives;Katherine Jones Collection). ATTACHMENT 4 LPC 02-07-19 Page 4 of 48 January 30,2019 Page 4 hired by prominent architects such as Gutterson and Walter Ratcliff (twice), designed several of the most significant and expensive residential gardens in the East Bay, and lectured and wrote about topics in landscape architecture and horticulture.T All of these facts show a woman fully engaged in professional life whose work is worthy of recognition and preservation.
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