Historic Nomination Report of the Roy and Alice Lichty House 4386 North Talmadge Drive Kensington Community ~ San Diego, California

Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (858) 459-0326 (760) 704-7373 www.legacy106.com October 2019

HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principal Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Architectural Historian P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (858) 459-0326 • (760) 704-7373 http://www.legacy106.com

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Attachment G – documentation developed October 2020 regarding staff involvement and concerns

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 36 *Resource Name or #: The Roy and Alice Lichty House

P1. Other Identifier: 4386 North Talmadge 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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: 2015 T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 4386 North Talmadge Drive 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: Lot 51 of Talmadge Park, in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, State of California, according to Map thereof No. 1869, filed in the Office of the County Recorder of San Diego County, December 3, 1926. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel (APN) # 465-332-09-00.

*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) This house is an excellent example of the Spanish Eclectic style built in 1927, which served as the Talmadge Park model home from 1927 to 1931. It is located in the historic Kensington neighborhood of San Diego. The home is positioned on a steeply down sloping lot with sloping and terraced entryway walk that sits below the sidewalk grade and the Northeast elevation is completed outside the public view. The public view of the house is down a steep slope from the sidewalk and utilizes a prominent tile-topped tower entryway, and house displays a low pitched red tile roof. The public view is the west (front) elevation, which is set lower than the sidewalk entry and faces uphill towards North Talmadge Drive. The visible front exhibits the tile-topped tower entry, tile-topped chimney, metal grill over windows and French door that is about six feel lower in elevation that the sidewalk entry (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 southwest (front) elevation. Photo by Dan Soderberg, May 2019. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Notice of Completion, January 7, 1927. Tax Assessor’s Residential Building Record, 1927. Index to Property (Lot Book), 1927. No original water or sewer records were found, as is common for early Kensington houses. San Diego Evening Tribune article / photos, January 1927. San Diego Evening Tribune article / photos, Feb. 1927. San Diego Union article / photos, January 1928. *P7. Owner and Address: Michael S. Talbott and Alina R. Talbott 4386 North Talmadge 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: October 2019 (revised October 2020 by Ronald V. May, RPA) *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Roy and Alice Lichty House, San Diego, California, for the City of San Diego Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., October 2019. 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

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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 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 4386 North Talmadge Drive is a Spanish Eclectic style home with an asymmetrical façade and a compound irregular floor plan. The front façade features two main dominant entryway features. The first feature is the large rounded tower entryway with upper dovecote and arched entryway door. The second is the large elaborated end chimney front the house near the front entryway. This mixture of roof types and varying roof heights along with the home's complex irregular form present an image of a small compact village, breaking up the massing of this single family residence. The house has irregularly laid, two-layers of fired clay Mission half barrel tile roof with cement mortar in the style of old Spanish architecture. The side gabled front façade features an attached double garage.

The home design included the integrated garage with a wide overhanging Mission half barrel tile shed roof that once extended over lathe-turned vertical spindles that are now sealed with stucco. The house has a low pitched fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative end rafter tails on the eave ends below the eave roofline. The home features sandy stucco wall surfacing on all elevations. The main house front wall is slightly stepped back from the protruding front garage wing.

The house exhibits the architecturally defining features of the Spanish Eclectic or "California Style" home, as local architect Richard Requa referred to it. These include the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing, and arches on principle doorways. The home also exhibits some interesting features of the style including its use of a large entry tower.

The original design set the house about six feet lower than the sidewalk, which was connected by steep a sloped saltillo tile walkway .This steep slope design ensures privacy.

The front door is brown and the windows are light green painted wood unless otherwise noted. The public view of the house has retained excellent architectural integrity. The Northeast rear and Southeast are outside the public view and exhibit some changes that will be described in a later section of this report.

This Spanish Eclectic, also known as the Spanish Colonial Revival style first appeared with the creation of the California pavilion and other buildings for the 1915-1916 Panama California exposition in San Diego, which master architect Bertram Goodhue introduced. However, other than a few Mission Revival influenced Craftsman houses, the Spanish style did not dominate San Diego communities until after Goodhue designed and the federal government completed the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in 1922 and Naval Training Center in 1923. The style assumed greatest popularity in Kensington and Talmadge after 1925 and retained the primary design until the Great Depression impacted the real estate market in 1931.

West (Front and Public View) Elevation – As noted, the house was designed to be sunken at least six feet beneath the sidewalk and N. Talmadge Drive street elevation. This provided privacy. Visible from the street are two different separate chimney tops, a circular dovecote over the large tower circular entryway, all rising above the house and garage.

From left to right these three vertical extensions are each described separately. First on the left, a wonderfully detailed stucco chimney tops the left side of the garage with an arched and stepped cap and side opening arching flues. The chimney also cantilevers out slightly with a multi-step series of corbels supporting the chimney from the wall. This detailed and stucco surfaced chimney creates a convincing illusion, as this left chimney is in fact a faux or false chimney, helping to balance the front façade and integrating the garage into the overall design of the house. The interior of the chimney is positioned to the rear the garage interior and rises above the red clay tile covered shed roof fronting the garage. The roof displays deliberately irregular clay tile with mission clay roof tiles overlapping the side ends. This left shed style roof fronting the garage has fired Mission half barrel tiles in a rustic hand laid pattern with short rafter tails below the eave end matching the rest of the home. The garage tile shed roof extends out on the left creating an L shaped front with an inset courtyard terraced entryway area connecting to the circular entrance tower area. The front façade is dominated by the circular entry pavilion at the center, this circular tower is topped by a conical roof and small decorative circular false dovecote. This tiny circular dovecote utilizes round clay tile openings around all sides and displays a miniature conical roof above.

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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 Continuation Update

*P3a. Description(continued):

History of the Dovecotes in Architecture. The dovecote is a small structure used for housing pigeons or doves, and date back to Medieval Europe, as pigeons and doves were important not only for meat and eggs but prized most for the excellent fertilizer created by their droppings onto fields nearby. Dovecotes are seen around the world historically, and in some cultures possession of a dovecote was even reserved only for nobility. The ancient Romans expanded the utilization of dovecotes and dovecotes are seen in Italian designs by Andrea Palladio and all over Spain and the Mediterranean, however, the feature is more rare in Spanish Colonial style architecture than in English and Storybook style houses of the 1920's era. Decorative dovecotes are even seen in the more modern era with the decorative feature seen on Ranch homes of the 1950's and 1960's where they are sometimes seen on the peaks of gables and over garages.

The rotund circular turret's arching design is reflected in the inset arched entry door with extending stepped corniced hood sheltering the vertical plank style solid wooden door. The deeply inset arched plank style wooden door displays original hardware along with the original rectangular opening and is surrounded by a stout stucco surfaced arched hood surround. The front door has a hand hammered brass door handle and mechanism. Just above this main doorway, a small arched niche is fronted by a decorative iron three bar vertical wrought iron grille. This delicate wrought iron grille utilizes a straight vertical central flattened spear flanked by twisted and flattened vertical spears, connected by horizontal crossbars and detailed with central decorative scrollwork connected with Venetian style metal colors or clips that denote their traditional craftsmanship. This small upper turret grille is absolutely original and matches both 1927 historical photos as well as the 1928 San Diego Union article and historic photo (please see D.1 Attachments). To the left of the recessed arched entry doorway sits an elaborate hanging tapered lantern with graceful arched stanchion and delicate filigree scrollwork which provides light to the entryway. To the left of the front doorway, an inset four pane wooden casement window opens in to the house and is protected by a matching original wrought iron grille which consists of two spiraling vertical spears flanking four square bar spears and connected with two horizontal bars and again with matching scrollwork connected by traditional metal collars. Connecting the doorway entrance to the sidewalk above are a winding series of original steps surfaced with reddish hexagonal Spanish tiles with wide tread shallow steps.

From left to right, a small speck of single red clay tile appears to the left of the chimney and allows water to drain from around the tower before the large straight rectangular stucco chimney is seen rising and extending out on the right. The stucco end chimney creates even more visual interest by connecting directly on the left with an arching ogee shaped edge combined on the right with a straight vertical edge. The chimney displays rectangular flues topped by a miniature barrel tiled gabled roof with tiled ridge. The sunken patio area here is set down below the entryway level and a stucco site wall separates the patio from the rest of the more raised front courtyard.

To the right, the red clay tile topped, side gabled roofline is again laid in a purposely irregular pattern, seen with short rounded wooden rafter tails and a slight eave overhang. On the right well below the street level the walled front courtyard utilizes a rectangular double wooden French door set which has been restored to its original four light design. This double French doorway had been damaged by many years of water damage due to its downward sloping hillside location. The front terraced overall courtyard front patio and yard space is a rare and distinctive design feature of the home. The front courtyard patio space was separated from the higher sidewalk with a larger approximately 5' high rectangular front wall which has been reduced-in size. Now the courtyard is separated from the front sidewalk by only an approximately 3' high stucco wall in front which makes the home much more visible to the public. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# Trinomial CONTINUATION SHEET Page 6 of 36 *Resource Name or #: The Roy and Alice Lichty House

*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 Continuation Update

*P3a. Description(continued):

North (Side) Elevation This lower rear area is outside of the public view. – This portion of the house faces the neighboring property very closely with only about three feet to the property to the north. This north facing elevation continues the fired red clay Mission half barrel roof with shed roof to the front and flat roof and parapet seen just behind along the side of the front garage, with a single rectangular wooden window and decorative wrought iron grille. The roof transitions from a half gable / shed roof to a flat roof with tending faux chimney flush stucco parapet with red tile edge overhang just to the left. This elevation drops down dramatically down into the canyon at the rear. In the same wall plane, but below, a red clay tile surfaced gable roof displays a rectangular hollow clay tile roof vent below the peak at the end. Below the rectangular attic vent sits a single wooden service door and, behind a central terraced metal downspout, is a and horizontally configured rectangular three over three double hung wooden window. Stepped down again at the rear, a rectangular three light casement window is flanked with plank style wooden shutters and is protected by a decorative iron grille in front. Next to the north (back) section and set back is a rear facing gable with extending eaves and wooden rafter tails seen along the roofline of this section. Behind near the rear, a small rectangular four light wooden casement window is seen flanked with wooden shutters. The window is protected by a very original appearing wrought iron window grille with five vertical spears connected by three side bars and original wrought iron scrollwork. A descending walkway with many concrete steps and flat landings connects the side walk to the front facing garage and front yard area. Finally, a small window and wrought iron grille are seen along the basement level with a recessed rectangular opening filled with a small piece of plywood (most likely for security).

East (rear) Elevation - This rear area is entirely outside of the public view. – This elevation again shows the dramatic drop in elevation where the slope increases at the rear with the seemingly one story home seen at the front to three story home at the rear. Rising above is the homes conical, gabled roof design with red clay tile matching the other elevations along with the extending shed roof seen on the small rear addition. This east elevation is characterized by small decks / patios seen on the left side and the extending iron walkway seen extending out over the rear yard on the right side. The upper level double French door on the left side appears to match the original. While the central portion has been modified (most notably with glass style block) by an addition as previously described, while on the right side rear facing wing, the wooden casement windows and other windows all appear very original and intact. The rear iron balcony and stairway appears original however the iron grilles seen on this rear are different from the original and appear to be a more newer addition for security along this rear canyon. Behind the rear patio area, the site drops down below into the canyon. This central upper level addition area is well blended with the home but differentiated by the non clay tile shed roof and newer vinyl casement windows looking out over the backyard.

South (side) Elevation. This rear area all is outside of the public view. – This portion of the house faces closely the neighboring property to the southeast and the elevation drops down dramatically into the canyon below, starting with one story and becoming three stories at the rear. On top, the side gabled roof is topped by matching fired red clay Mission half barrel roof tiles, matching those seen on the rest of the home. As with the rest of the house, the roof has minimal overhang with rounded edge cut short rafter tails. The light sandy grit stucco matches the rest of the home. From left (front) to right (rear) a large rectangular focal window displays its original leaded stained glass window with rectangular grid pattern with central heraldic shield and decorative colored glass detailing. A newer wooden pergola structure protects the focal window and likely explains the amazing intact condition of the original leaded stained glass focal window. Stepped back behind the gable end, to the right, a small rear two level deck stands below and behind the original house and a small 1997 rear addition sits below and into the rear canyon. Set back and below a side facing gable composition roof extends out and shelters a two story section with an unusual vertical row of five round clay tile vents are seen near the ground level. It is unclear the purpose of the row of round clay tile

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*P3a. Description (continued):

vents, perhaps it aided in directing drainage down into steep canyon below. Stepped back and offset to the right again, a three part rectangular wooden casement window looks out over the rear canyon, and sits just above an original single four light wooden French door with a small raised concrete landing. Steeped back and below again a wrought iron extending balcony and stairway connects a rear facing double French door set to the rear yard. On the lowest level, a rectangular double casement window sits below the extending iron balcony. This matching double rectangular three light wooden window grouping displays an iron window grille and the original wooden sills. The rear levels are connected at the via concrete steps which connect down the canyon and near the center linked to the rear.

Attached Garage Configuration. The home features an attached front facing original double car garage. 1920's-1930's homes with integrated (attached) garages are common in Kensington and Talmadge Park, especially on canyon lots with difficult rear topography, although the integrated design is uncommon overall in San Diego and nationwide before World War II. San Diego's streetcar and early automobile suburbs sometimes utilized curving streets guided by the contours of the hilltops where the topography is relatively level before the steep topography drops off into the canyons below. This neighborhood or urban design style is often attributed to famed Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903) and now this historic street design is referred to as "Olmstedian". These Olmstedian curvilinear road and site design plans from Roy Lichty are seen in Kensington on Talmadge Drive, Alder Drive and other streets as well as in other communities such as Panorama Drive in University Heights. As stated in McAlester's A Field Guide to American Houses:

Olmstead intended the designs of his roads to "suggest and imply leisure, contemplativeness and happy tranquility" rather than the "eagerness to press forward" he felt was inherent in rectilinear plans (pg. 78).

Olmstead's designs were widely published and well utilized by 1920's era builders who were now (with the widespread use of automobiles) able to build and sell homes on previously inaccessible sites. Although the grid pattern was still widely favored for residential design until after World War II, these dense early suburb Olmstedian designs would foretell the curving streets that would soon take over in the postwar era in the new more sprawling low density suburbs of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.

While the grid pattern was by far the most prevalent street design nationwide prior to World War II, the curving street design is not uncommon due to San Diego's varied mesa and canyon topography. These dense Olmstedian street and plot design with small rear dropping canyon lots necessitated the integrated garage we see on the subject resource and other unaltered houses on the curving and looped Talmadge Drive. The integrated front facing garage allowed designers to incorporate the necessary single and sometimes double garage into the site and home's designs. Cars in the 1920's were overwhelmingly seen as dirty, smelly and noisy, thus the common detached garage arrangement seen on larger non-canyon lots. The 1920's and 1930's era attached garage was still usually seen as secondary extension of the home's dominant massing rather than the consolidated post-1950 approach which incorporated the garage into the overall façade and principal massing design of the home.

Post-1945 Attached Garage Extension. As noted on the 1934 and 1956 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and January 5, 1927, February 5, 1927, February 6, 1927, and January 29, 1928 San Diego Union newspaper photos, the garage design extended the shed visor approximately three feet over the double garage doors. The side supporting structures involved tight rows of vertical lathe-turned spindles that were later covered with stucco. Similar garage extensions found on garages all over San Diego suggest an owner extended the garage to accommodate the post-1945 automobiles. This design alteration is, in fact, a reflection of San Diego architectural history. The more significant change replaced the distinctly separate garage doors with one wide metal door that is now installed closer to the end of the tile roof edge.

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*P3a. Description (continued):

As these 1920's era garages were built for the relatively small size of Model A and Model T Fords and other cars of the era, this extension of garages is a common alteration seen around San Diego as owners needed to find ways to shelter the longer and larger cars of the post-1945 era. This makes unaltered garages from the 1920's exceedingly rare. The Historical Resources Board has designated many Spanish style houses in Kensington and Talmadge Park with garage extensions.

Interior Architectural Features – (excluded from designation) The subject home displays its original rounded fireplace opening and extending plaster sill. Also extant is the original entry turret with high exposed wooden beam ceiling. Of particular note is the open entryway vestibule with exposed beams supporting the and rounded conical ceiling with dovecote above. Original interior paneled doors, lighting fixtures, door and window hardware are visible throughout the home's interior.

Landscaping / Yard Setting – As noted, the architectural design set the house approximately six feet lower than the sidewalk and N. Talmadge Park street elevation. This design effect screens yard landscape features from the public view. In essence, the front door threshold and yard features at that level are not visible from the upper street. The saltillo tile walkway winds downward to reach the front steps. This courtyard with fountain, patio and plantings are depressed and only the taller plant specimens are visible. (Attachment D.1). City staff authorized the three foot front and four foot side garden wall that exists today.

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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD Page 9 of 36 *Resource Name or #: The Roy and Alice Lichty House

*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 Continuation Update

B1. Historic Name: 4386 North Talmadge Drive B2. Common Name: 4386 North Talmadge Drive B3. Original Use: Single Family Property B4. Present Use: Single Family Property *B5. Architectural Style: Spanish Eclectic *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations) The Notice of Completion and Residential Building Record shows the home was built in 1927. No original water or sewer records were found because until City of San Diego incorporation in1953, Talmadge Park was rural County of San Diego and that agency destroyed those records. Roy Lichty published photos of this house as a model home for marketing from 1927 through 1930 (San Diego Union January 5, 1927; February 5 and 6, 1927; January 29, 1928). There are absolutely no photos in existence to analyze the Northeast (rear) of the house. There are no photos of the depressed front yard, only from further away in the community.

The City of San Diego has the following building permits on record: Notice of Completion is dated January 7, 1927. Permit Y41-920-01 is dated December 1997 for work on the rear to "Enclose existing patio under the deck and extend bedroom and bathroom." Permit L64A-008 is dated May 2006 for remodeling work of the master bathroom and closet. Alina and Michael Talbott report this enclosure never happened, although the bathroom was built. A remodel permit #322894, dated August 28, 2006, is shown on the Residential Building Record and refers to the bathroom and closet addition. The twenty-two photos in Section D.2 reveal the following changes: Various welded and riveted black-painted metal window grills, balconies, and staircases; Shingle covered roofing over the rear room projections; Upper floors include a pair of vinyl framed fixed windows above a window box; an upper floor vertical vinyl fixed rectangular window; an upper floor horizontal vinyl fixed window (all vinyl windows were installed in 1997); a temporary loose hanging screen over the under space of the 1997 deck (assumed to be the "enclosure"; a tall, thick, vertical utility pipe; an upper floor, vertical fixed 21-glass block window. There is no record or documentation explaining what constituted the "enclosed" patio, as there is no enclosure now. There is no record of who or when the vinyl windows were installed because no permits are required unless the jams or walls needed to be modified. There is no record at all for the welded and riveted metal grills, balcony or stairs on the Northeast elevation (completely out of the public view).

Legacy 106, Inc. presumes these changes occurred when 4386 N. Talmadge Dr was in the unincorporated County of San Diego before 1953. Ronald V. May, RPA, worked for the County of San Diego when the Department of Planning and Land Use destroyed all unincorporated area building records in 1986.

The City of San Diego requested further discussion of the post-1945 garage front extension. There is no record to determine when this happened or who authorized the work. The original 36-inch Mission half barrel roof extended beyond the garage door face, as seen in the 1927 and 1928 San Diego Union photos. Legacy 106, Inc. assumes this change happened before 1953, as no record exists for this change. Someone covered the vertical, lathe-turned, spindles on the sides of the garage entrance with wall stucco. This does not appear to be a structural change that would require a permit, as the spindles attached to a lower stucco wall. The original two garage doors separated by a wood post were removed and replaced by a single wide metal garage door that was attached closer to the edge of the roof tile, thus increasing the garage floor by thirty-six inches. As noted, the 1934 and 1956 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps show the tile portion to be original and always there. This change is present on the 1962, County of San Diego, Tax Assessor's Map, Residential Building Record. As noted, Legacy 106, Inc. never experienced the Historical Resources Board to consider 1950s garage extensions to be a significant change.

*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location: *B8. Related Features: B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown

*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Architecture Area: Kensington (San Diego)

Period of Significance: 1927 Property Type: Single-Family Property Applicable Criteria: A and C (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) . The Roy and Alice Lichty House at 4386 North Talmadge Drive is significant under Criterion A as a Talmadge Park model home and Criterion “C” as an excellent example of Spanish Eclectic style architecture. B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) none

*B12. References: (See Continuation Sheet) N B13. Remarks: none *B14. Evaluator: Ronald V. May, RPA, Kiley Wallace

*Date of Evaluation: October 2019 (Revisions October 26, 2020)

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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 Continuation Update *B10. Significance - Criterion A: 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 Roy and Alice Lichty House at 4386 North Talmadge Drive is recommended significant under Criterion A as exemplifying special elements of the Talmadge Park's historical, social, economic, and architectural development. The San Diego Union newspaper advertisements shown in D.1 for January 5, 1927; February 5, 1927; February 6, 1927; and January 29, 1928 illustrate how the visual image of this house served to market the vacant lots in Talmadge Park. The following discussion provides the background for that conclusion.

Introduction. Roy Lichty, controlling partner and owner of Talmadge Park, used 4386 N. Talmadge Park for an aggressive real estate marketing program between 1927 and 1930. This is evidenced in several newspaper articles featuring this house (see D.1). This house was strategically oriented for the February 12, 1927 kick-off party that Lichty and his Hollywood mogul co-investors widely publicized as the Hollywood "Movie Girl Subdivision" that was located at the intersection of Adams Avenue and N. Talmadge Park. Featured in front of temporary grandstands was a stage where the Talmadge sisters performed, comedian Buster Keaton told jokes, and movie cowboy star William S. Hart performed roping tricks on his horse. Lichty and his distinguished guests planted a ceremonial tree to mark the occasions. The media announced a crowd of 10,000 people arrived in automobiles for the grand event.

The background story for the Hollywood connection is that Roy Lichty and his brother Carleton Lichty met a group of wealthy Hollywood film industry men on a golf course in Los Angeles and hatched the plan to capitalize on the very popular Hollywood actors to advertise the housing project. Louis Mayor offered to transport actors he had under contract at the time for the grand opening event. They apparently underwrote construction of the stage, reviewing stands, tables of food and drinking booths and a great deal of newspaper advertising in which prospective lot buyers were transported to San Diego by train. As can be seen in the newspaper ads, (D.1), this house was shown as an example of what lot buyers could build on other lots in the neighborhood.

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.2 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.

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. 2 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.

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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued):

Documented pre-subdivision uses in the area include poultry ranches and film studio work of the United States Film Corporation in neighboring Kensington Park area in 1914 (San Diego Union, May 31, 1914, “San Diego Paradise for ‘Movie’ Company, Big Concern with Many Actors Busy in Kensington Park). 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 the early 1920s, 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. From this, arose the “Better Homes Movement,” and 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.

“Movie Girl Subdivision” Marketing Strategy. Additionally, the subject property may contribute to a better understanding of the Hollywood - Los Angeles real estate investment ties that led to the development of Talmadge Park, San Diego’s “Movie Star Subdivision,” in the initial phase of development between 1925 and 1930. One of San Diego’s most interesting and glamorous subdivisions of the 1920s is without a doubt the Talmadge Park subdivision, which opened with great publicity in 1925. The wealth behind the subdivision was touted as exceeding $75,000,000 (San Diego Sun, February 12, 1927). The tract was promoted as the “Movie Girl Subdivision,” because of its marketing and investment association with Hollywood silent film stars and sisters, Norma, Constance, and Natalie Talmadge.

The key individuals in the Talmadge Park subdivisions were I.C. Freud, a Los Angeles capitalist and president of the Southern California Realty Corporation, who joined with other Hollywood and Los Angeles businessmen and women to finance and develop Talmadge Park under the guidance of Talmadge Park's business manager Roy C. Lichty and his brother Guy Lichty. The luminaries were of course sisters Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, and Natalie Talmadge.

Natalie’s husband, Buster Keaton was involved, as was Keaton’s business manager and brother-in-law, Joseph M. Schenck, head of the United Artists Corporation and husband to Norma Talmadge. Schenck

3 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.

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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued): produced most of Norma’s early pictures from their converted studio in New York and later when they moved their operations west to Hollywood (Baumann p. 49 and 61). A February 12, 1927 article in the San Diego Sun called Schenk “one of the wealthiest business men in California as well as one of the most powerful figures in the film industry.”

Others included Sid Graumann, Louis B. Mayer, who was Vice-President and General Manger of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Los Angeles capitalist Joe Toplitzky, Joseph Loeb, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, and Roy C. Lichty, the subdivision manager. In 1933, Schenck, Mayer, and Darryl Zanuck headed the Twentieth Century Company (Baumann p. 50). Unnamed as a partner, but certainly financially involved was San Diego Banker and real estate investor, George Burnham. (San Diego Union, December 20, 1925 “Charity to Get Proceeds from First Lot Sale: Dedication of Subdivision is Set for Jan 3; Norma Talmadge to Plant Tree.”) Later sources would reveal another investor was movie great Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. (Oakland Tribune, April 30, 1933) Biographies of Buster Keaton reveal these investors were long time friends who formed a business network that revolved around their Hollywood careers. Lou Anger managed both Keaton’s and Arbuckle’s careers, and Schenck was a longtime friend of Arbuckle’s who supported him both financially and emotionally after a false rape accusation devastated his career.

One of the best descriptions of their involvement can be found in Kensington-Talmadge 1910-1997 by Dr. Thomas H. Baumann, D.D.S. (pp. 49-72). Much of the material Baumann used in his book was from research compiled by Kensington resident Robert Sedlock in 1958 for a college paper. Sedlock’s role in understanding this area is generally overlooked because few know of his involvement and Baumann did not attribute Sedlock as his underlying source. Copies of Sedlock’s paper can be found in the San Diego History Center’s Research Archives, however. Much has been written about the Talmadge sister’s greatly publicized opening of the Talmadge Park subdivision, but in truth, very little is known about the details of their investments in San Diego or how they came to be involved with this particular tract. While Baumann’s book and Sedlock’s material are important studies of the area, much more can still be learned about the community. Today, probably the biggest misconception about Kensington / Talmadge is that they are in essence one large community that developed about the same time. The entire community is, in fact, the product of nearly 24 separate subdivisions, thirteen in Kensington and eleven in Talmadge. The Talmadge units were separate from the Kensington units, although in general much of the area built out their initial phases in the 1920s.

The Murrins lived in Los Angeles, as did the Hollywood movie investors who co-invested with subdivision manager Roy Lichty, who had developed his first subdivision with Ole Hansen in Los Angeles. In 1929, Hansen was well known as the founder and developer of San Clemente, California (San Diego Union, May 15, 1929).

In the grand scheme of Southern California land development, Hollywood moguls eagerly captolized on the popularity of screen performers to market housing projects, such as Tarzana in the Los Angeles area. In all likelihood, Roy and Carleson Lichty sought after those movie industry investors at the golf course with that very thought in mind. After all, Roy had also worked as a real estate developer in Los Angeles in the early 1920s, and was clearly documented bringing Los Angeles area developers and buyers to San Diego (Personal Communication, Allen Headrick 2007).

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Roy C. Lichty's Association with the Talmadge Park Subdivision. By the time Roy C. Lichty moved to San Diego with his wife Alice and their two children around 1925, he already had experience as a real estate developer in Yakima County, Washington and Los Angeles. In the latter, he had partnered with Ole Hanson and George W. Dilling, two former Seattle mayors, in a real estate development firm (San Diego Sun, May 15, 1929).

The Lichty family moved to San Diego around 1925, and around that same time, Roy partnered with several individuals from the Hollywood film industry to form what San Diego newspapers described as a real estate development "syndicate." The syndicate purchased 518 acres of what would become Talmadge Park, with plans to immediately develop the property.

According to a San Diego Union article from November 24, 1925, the syndicate's officers were:

• I.C. Freud, a capitalist from Los Angeles and Detroit. He served as the syndicate's president.

• Joseph Loeb, a corporate attorney from Los Angeles who served as vice president.

• Lou Anger, manager of the Comique Film corporation which produced Buster Keaton films from 1916 to the early 1920s. Anger served as the Talmadge Park syndicate's treasurer.

• Roy C. Lichty, described in the article as a "subdivision expert", served as the syndicate's secretary and as the business manager of the Talmadge Park subdivision.

Roy C. Lichty commenced work on developing Talmadge Park in 1925. He hired contractor O.U. Miracle to install the subdivision's sidewalks and curbs (San Diego Union, April 11, 1926). Roads were paved, and ornamental street lights, sewers, trees and fire hydrants were installed shortly thereafter (Ibid.).

In a May 2, 1926 news article in the San Diego Union, Roy C. Lichty announced that Los Angeles contractor Paul V. Struble had purchased 100 lots in Talmadge Park in “one of the biggest home-building programs planned in San Diego. . . He has done considerable amount of home building in Los Angeles, particularly in the vicinity of Figuerosa and 102nd streets, and also in Glendale.” Lichty actively recruited buyers from the Long Beach and Los Angeles area, as indicated by this April 18, 1926 San Diego Union article which stated:

Eighteen residents of Long Beach were visitors at Talmadge Park last Wednesday. They were on a two-day sightseeing tour of San Diego, conducted by R.E. Huff, a prominent Long Beach realtor. Huff is conducting three sightseeing tours every Wednesday and Saturday, bringing his parties from Long Beach to San Diego in de luxe motor busses.

While many believe that the enormous “Wonder House of Stone,” located at the end of Adams Avenue in Talmadge was the home of the three Talmadge sisters, in truth it was not. The building served as a real estate headquarters for lot sales and a model home. Interestingly, Roy Lichty’s daughter, Jean Lichty, would marry architect Cliff May, who would gain world-wide fame as the “father of the western ranch house” in the 1930s – 1960s. Both Roy Lichty’s own home, and a National Register landmark Cliff May ranch house, are located a short walk to the south on East Talmadge Drive.

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“City Beautiful” the Nolen Plan and the Proximity to New State College. Talmadge Park also owes its existence to plans for the relocation of the Normal School in University Heights to “the forward edge of the City of San Diego” (San Diego Union, April 18, 1926). M.W. Folsom wrote a letter to the editor comparing Hollywood and Beverly Hills real estate appreciation in relation to creation of college campus sites. The San Diego real estate industry promoted relocation of the Norma School campus and urban utilities east to the city boundaries, just as in the case of Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

Wilson used the Nolen Plan as an argument for this eastern extension, which Talmadge Park developers picked up on in their planning and marketing campaigns of the 1920s-1930s. An April 11, 1926 article in the San Diego Union entitled “’City Beautiful’ Plan Interests Heights Section: Kensington District Residents Pleased to Learn Proposed Main Road Cuts Property,” states that “Study of the Nolen Plan for development of San Diego into real “city beautiful” is attracting the especial attention of residents and property owners of the Kensington Park section.” This community is adjacent to Talmadge Park, and by extension, it is indisputable that Lichty and his partners were aware of the affect Nolen’s plans to extend a great main boulevard and parking system from Mission Valley to the Kensington section to Chollas Valley would have on their property values.

The Sunday edition of the San Diego Union on April 11, 1926 revealed how Talmadge Park designers came up with the curved Talmadge loop road that follows the ridge and canyon contours for easy automotive driving and viewing of Mission Valley to the north and Mahogany Canyon to the east. To extend the main boulevard parking system from the harbor front up to Mission Valley and thence across the Kensington section to Chollas Valley, Lichty also planned to develop a recreational area and artist colony down in Mahogany Canyon (Fairmount Drive) as an added amenity to Talmadge Park Unit 1 (San Diego Union, April 4, 1926). The entire Talmadge Park neighborhood retains its physical integrity and evokes a strong sense of 1920s-1930s history.

1920s and 1930s, Two Distinct Decades of Development. The houses built prior to the period of the Great Depression normally stand out from the ones built after 1930, because of the economic stresses that were not present in the 1925-1929 boom period when the subject property was constructed. Few builders in Great 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 builders and architects, like all businesses, experienced a stressed market. Several houses in Kensington and Talmadge remained vacant and the lenders typically rented to Navy and Army personnel, who had a dependable income.

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These pre-Depression 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.

Conclusion: The Roy and Alice Lichty House at 4386 North Talmadge Drive served as a model home for marketing Talmadge Park lots between 1927 and 1930. For this reason, Legacy 106, Inc. recommends designating this house under Criterion A for its role in the Talmadge Park community and architectural history. The marketing program created the illusion of a unique Spanish town with varying heights of tile roofing, tower entrances, dove cotes and interesting chimneys set in what appeared to be massive stucco coated adobe walls.

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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.

Insufficient information was found about the owners and residents of 4386 North Talmadge Drive to determine that any of them were historically significant for their association with the home under Criterion B. The following information provides the basis for that conclusion.

Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty Owners, 1926 to 1927 and 1930

In 1926, Talmadge Park developer Roy C. Lichty acquired lot 51, upon which he would have the subject property constructed. Roy and his wife Alice did not live in the home, but lived a few houses south at 4675 East Talmadge Dr. Please see the Criterion A section for detailed information about Roy C. Lichty's association with the development of the Talmadge Park subdivision.

Roy Cook Lichty was born in Ashland, Ohio on November 23, 1881 to Harvey and Ida Belle (Cook) Lichty. By 1885, the Lichty family resided in Carleton, Nebraska. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Roy lived with his parents and four siblings in Sunnyside, Washington. His father worked as a school teacher there. Roy moved to Seattle in the early 1900's to attend the University of Washington.

On December 19, 1906, Roy married Alice Wheeler Marble in Yakima County, Washington. She was born in Minnesota on October 24, 1884, but moved to the Yakima area as a young adult. Roy and Alice eventually had three children. Their daughter Jean, born in 1910, married prominent architect Cliff May.

The Lichty family lived in Sunnyside, Washington through the early 1920's. Roy worked as a real estate agent there. Around 1924, they moved to Los Angeles, where Roy partnered with George W. Dilling, a former mayor of Seattle, to form the real estate development firm of Dilling & Lichty.

The Lichtys' time in Los Angeles was brief, and by 1925 they lived at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. Shortly after their move to San Diego, Roy and his brother Guy launched their ambitious Talmadge Park subdivision, which was heavily funded by several key figures in the Hollywood film industry. Roy's former business partner George W. Dilling also constructed several homes in Talmadge Park. Please see the Criterion A section for detailed information about Roy C. Lichty's association with the development of Talmadge Park.

In 1926, Roy acquired lot 51, upon which he would have the subject property constructed at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. According to the home's Notice of Completion, construction was completed on January 7, 1927. The Notice does not list the name of who designed and constructed the subject resource. Rather, blank spaces were left where a contractor's name and date of hire would normally be. Roy and his wife Alice did not live at the subject resource, but lived a few houses south at 4675 East Talmadge Dr.

The subject resource was pictured in several local newspaper articles from 1926 and 1927, which discussed the development of Talmadge Park. It was also pictured in a February 5, 1927 Talmadge Park ad in the San Diego Union. In 1927, Roy and Alice sold 4386 North Talmadge Drive to Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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Alice Lichty passed away in San Diego on July 11, 1940. Roy C. Lichty passed away on September 25, 1945.

Although Roy C. Lichty was instrumental in the development of the Talmadge Park subdivision, 4386 North Talmadge Drive is not the home most associated with his life and productive career in San Diego. He did not live in the home. Rather, his nearby home at 4675 East Talmadge Drive, where he and Alice lived from 1927 to 1940, better reflects his association with Talmadge Park. Therefore, insufficient information was found about Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank Owners, 1927 to 1928

In 1927, Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive from the original owners, Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty. In 1928, the Ranks sold the home back to the Lichtys. There is no evidence that the Ranks ever resided at the subject property.

On August 8, 1871, Levit McClay Rank was born in Massillon, Ohio to David and Margaret (Mahon) Rank. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, Levit lived in Canton, Ohio with his parents and four siblings. Little else could be found about Levit's early years.

By 1892, Levit resided in Seattle, Washington and worked as a bookkeeper for the MacDougall & Southwick department store. On July 14, 1892, Levit married Lillian "Lillie" A. Tibbets in King County, Washington. She was born in New York on January 26, 1873.

The Ranks remained in Seattle until approximately 1900. The 1900 U.S. Census shows that Levit, Lillian and their seven year-old daughter Lorraine resided in Butte, Montana, and Levit was employed as a bookkeeper. Around 1904, the family relocated to Spokane, Washington, where Levit worked as a travel agent.

By the early 1920's, the Ranks had relocated to Los Angeles. They moved to San Diego around 1927, and that year purchased the subject property. However, they did not live in the home. Rather, they lived a few houses away, at 4332 North Talmadge Drive. During this time, Levit worked as a salesman with the realty firm of C.H. Tingey.

The Ranks sold 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1928, and by 1930 lived at the Le Chateau Apartments in Los Angeles. Likely due to the downturn in the real estate industry, Levit switched careers, and according to the 1930 U.S. Census he worked as a manager with the "employment bureau."

Levit and Lillian remained in the Los Angeles area for the remainder of their lives. Lillian passed away in Los Angeles on February 2, 1951. Levit passed away there on May 23, 1957.

Insufficient information was found about Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

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Lieutenant John P. Larimore and Bertha E. Larimore (son and mother) Owners, 1928 to 1930 Resident (John only), 1929

From 1928 to 1930, 4386 North Talmadge Drive was owned by John P. Larimore, a Navy lieutenant, and his mother Bertha E. Larimore. According to the San Diego city directories, John lived in the home in 1929 only. However, the 1930 U.S. Census shows that John and Bertha lived there, as did John's younger brother William.

On April 27, 1901, John Plympton Larimore was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the eldest of three sons born to John Andrew Larimore and Bertha Eleanor (Plympton) Larimore. Bertha was born in Canada in November 1875. John's two brothers were William M. Larimore and Charles C. Larimore.

John P. Larimore attended the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin during the World War I era, and formally enlisted in the Navy in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 1919. It is not clear where John resided between approximately 1919 and 1924. However, he and his wife Frances appear in the 1925 San Diego city directory as residents of 3631 1st Ave. in Hillcrest. John and Frances divorced sometime between 1925 and 1928, before he and his mother purchased 4386 North Talmadge Dr.

The Larimore family was plagued with tragedy in the 1920's and early 1930's. In 1921, John's father, a prominent Minneapolis attorney, died at the age of 52. In December 1927, misfortune again struck the Larimore family when John's teenage brother Charles was killed when the car Charles was driving collided with a streetcar (San Diego Union, December 12, 1927).

In 1928, John and his mother Bertha purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive. According to the San Diego city directories, John lived in the home in 1929 only. However, the 1930 U.S. Census shows that John and Bertha lived there, as did John's younger brother William.

In January 1930, John resigned from his Navy career due to tuberculosis. However, around the same time, he launched his newly formed company, Larimore Lines, Ltd. The company, headquartered in Los Angeles, would carry cargo between that city, San Diego, and ports on Mexico's west coast (San Diego Union, January 25, 1930).

John and his mother sold 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1930 and moved to Los Angeles. John was admitted to the Sawtelle Veterans Home in Los Angeles in July 1930. John passed away from tuberculosis in Los Angeles on August 12, 1931, at the age of thirty.

Bertha E. Larimore and her son William moved to San Francisco after John's death. Bertha passed away in Contra Costa County, California on October 14, 1971. William died in 1992.

Insufficient information was found about Lieutenant John P. Larimore and Bertha E. Larimore to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

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Margaret "Mattie" Deel Owner, 1930 to 1937 Resident, 1931 to 1935

Margaret "Mattie" Deel owned 4386 North Talmadge Drive from 1930 to 1937, and is listed in the San Diego city directories as a resident of the home from 1931 to 1935. After selling the subject property in 1937, she moved to 2621 Bancroft St. in North Park. Further information about her could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Margaret "Mattie" Deel to determine she was historically significant for her association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Harry Davis Resident, 1937 only

Harry Davis was a resident of 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1937 only, and presumably rented the home from owner Mattie Deel, who lived elsewhere during that time. During the time he lived in the subject resource, Harry was employed as a draftsman for architect Frank W. Stevenson. After an extensive search, further information about Harry Davis could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Harry Davis to determine he was historically significant for his association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

John W. Yanchitis and Mildred Yanchitis Residents, 1938 only

In 1938 only, John W. Yanchitis and Mildred Yanchitis resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. They lived there along with a nurse named Angie Pierson. The three of them were renters, and presumably rented from Bay City Federal Savings and Loan Association or Central Liquidating Company, both of whom owned the home in 1938. During the time that he and Mildred resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive, John was employed as an electrician.

A native of Kaunas, Lithuania, John William Yanchitis was born on December 23, 1891. Little else about his early life could be found. Mildred was born in West Virginia on October 7, 1900. The couple resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1938, and then moved to 3545 Yosemite Street in the Crown Point neighborhood. They divorced around 1940. During World War II, John served in the Navy as an electrician.

John W. Yanchitis passed away in San Diego on September 7, 1978. Mildred died in Turner, Maine in January 1987.

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Angie Pierson Resident, 1938 only

Angie Pierson, a nurse, resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1938 only. She lived there along with John W. Yanchitis and Mildred Yanchitis, and the three of them presumably rented from Bay City Federal Savings and Loan Association or Central Liquidating Company, both of whom owned the home in 1938.

In November 1930, Angie married Clarence William Pierson in San Diego. They settled at 3691 Richmond Street in North Park after their marriage.

Angie and Clarence divorced in late 1934. In 1938 only, Angie lived with John W. Yanchitis and Mildred Yanchitis at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. It is not known if there was any relation between Angie, John and Mildred. Further information about Angie Pierson could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Angie Pierson to determine she was historically significant for her association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Dr. Robert L. Lowry and Dorothy K. Lowry Residents, 1939 to 1941

Dr. Robert L. Lowry, a dentist, and his wife Dorothy K. Lowry lived at 4386 North Talmadge Drive from 1939 to 1941. They were tenants of Central Liquidating Company, who owned the property during that time.

A native of Troy, Illinois, Robert Larkin Lowry was born on April 10, 1890. He grew up in the nearby town of Wood River, where his father was a school teacher. Dr. Lowry graduated with a degree in dentistry from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived in that city and practiced dentistry after he graduated around 1916.

By 1920, Dr. Lowry was serving in the Army Medical Corps and was stationed in the Philippines. His whereabouts between 1920 and 1930 are not known, but by 1930 he resided at the Waldorf Hotel in downtown San Diego. In 1931, Dr. Lowry moved to Chula Vista, but had a dentistry office at 131 Broadway in downtown San Diego. The following year he moved into a home at 1315 13th Street in San Diego's East Village neighborhood.

Dr. Lowry married Dorothy Ermina Paul around 1939, shortly before they moved into 4386 North Talmadge Drive. Dorothy was born in Colorado on August 15, 1907. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, they lived at the subject resource, and Dorothy worked as an assistant at Dr. Lowry's dental practice. The Lowrys lived at the subject resource until 1941.

According to Dr. Lowry's World War II draft registration cards from 1942, he and Dorothy resided at 3503 Wisteria Drive in San Diego's Point Loma neighborhood. By 1950, they lived at 1424 Pacific Beach Drive. Dr. Robert L. Lowry passed away in San Diego on December 23, 1968. Dorothy passed away in Encinitas on January 5, 1987.

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Insufficient information was found about Dr. Robert L. Lowry and Dorothy K. Lowry to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Robert L. Barbour and Mary E. Barbour Owners and Residents, 1942 to 1945

From 1942 to 1945, Robert L. Barbour and Mary E. Barbour owned and lived at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. Robert was employed as a deputy District Attorney during that time.

On August 4, 1908, Robert Llewellyn Barbour was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado. His father Llewellyn was a physician, and mother Mary was a housewife. When Robert was six years old, his mother passed away at the age of 42. Robert's father then moved to Rialto, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. Robert and his two siblings went to live with Margaret Young, their maternal aunt, at 4553 Campus Ave. in San Diego's University Heights neighborhood. They still resided with their aunt in 1930.

Around 1934, Robert graduated with a law degree from Stanford University. He then worked in the San Diego County district attorney's office before entering private practice. By 1940, Robert had wed Mary Evelyn Conwell. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the Barbours lived at 4329 Hermosa Way in San Diego's Mission Hills neighborhood.

Robert and wife Mary purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1942 and lived there until they sold the home in 1945. They then moved to 4136 Randolph Street in Mission Hills. In 1951, the Barbours moved to Red Bluff, California, where Robert was appointed judge. In 1954, he was named as that town's judicial court judge (Sacramento Bee, December 30, 1978).

Robert resigned his position as a judge in 1956, and then worked as an editor in San Francisco for Bancroft- Whitney, a publishing company specializing in legal books (Ibid.). Robert authored several law books before retiring from Bancroft-Whitney in 1970. He and Mary then moved to Healdsburg, California.

Robert L. Barbour passed away in La Mesa, California in December 1978. Further information about him and Mary could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Robert L. Barbour and Mary E. Barbour to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

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Frances L. Hamilton Owner and Resident, 1947 and 1948

Myra D. Newport Resident, 1947 and 1948

From 1947 to 1948, Frances L. Hamilton owned and resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. Living in the home with her was her mother Myra D. Newport. Both of the women were widowed.

Myra Freeman was born in El Dara, Illinois on October 5, 1858. Little information about her early life could be found. According to the 1880 U.S. Census, she lived in Louisiana, Missouri, where her father William C. Freeman was a machinist, and mother Susan was a housewife.

In 1883, Myra married George W. Newport, and they eventually had three daughters: Flora, Frances, and Marie. By 1900, the Newport family lived in Kalkaska, Michigan, where George was a feed merchant. George passed away in Central Lake, Michigan in 1904. Myra and their three daughters were still residents of Kalkaska in the 1910 U.S. Census.

Frances L. Newport, a daughter of Myra and George, was born in Missouri on February 10, 1889. Frances married her first husband, Edwin Clarence Goodwin, in Michigan on June 1, 1905. They had two sons, and lived in the Michigan cities of Grand Rapids and Cadillac through 1925.

Myra, her daughter Frances, and Frances' first husband Edwin C. Goodwin moved to San Diego in 1925. Edwin and Frances purchased 4680 Kensington Drive that year, and lived there with Myra. Although only in his 40's, Edwin had retired from the lumber industry shortly before moving to San Diego.

Tragedy struck when in 1928, Myra's daughter Flora passed away at the age of 40. The following year, Myra's daughter Marie passed away at the age of 38. In 1931, Edwin C. Goodwin, Myra's son-in-law (the husband of Myra's remaining daughter, Frances) passed away.

Shortly after Edwin's death, Frances sold 4680 Kensington Drive and moved with her mother to 2533 University Ave. in North Park. On April 24, 1935, Frances married Dr. Wallace M. Hamilton in Riverside, California. Dr. Hamilton was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in San Diego. After their marriage, they, along with Frances' mother Myra, moved to 3404 Pershing Ave. in North Park.

Frances was again widowed when her second husband, Dr. Wallace M. Hamilton, died unexpectedly in April 1942 (San Diego Union, April 28, 1942). In 1947, Frances purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive, and moved into the home with her mother. Frances sold the home the following year, and moved with her mother to 4577 48th Street in the Talmadge neighborhood. Myra D. Newport passed away in San Diego on December 27, 1950. Her daughter Frances passed away in San Diego on December 20, 1979.

Insufficient information was found about Frances L. Hamilton or her mother Myra D. Newport to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton Owners and Residents, 1948 to 1951

From 1948 to 1951, Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton owned and resided at 4386 North Talmadge Dr. Ebon was the superintendent of the Ocean Beach post office, and Dorothy was a public school teacher.

On September 2, 1898, Ebon Parnell Chilton was born in Chilton, Missouri. The town was named after his grandfather, James Mark Chilton, who was a pioneer citizen there in the 1880's. Ebon's parents, Benjamin and Dora, were farmers and grocers.

Ebon, his parents and siblings moved to Meridian, Washington sometime between 1900 and 1910. In Meridian, Ebon's father worked at a mill that produced wood shingles, and Ebon's mother ran a boarding house.

According to Ebon's World War I draft registration cards from 1918, he lived at 3033 5th Ave. in San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood, and worked as a tunnel inspector for the San Diego and Arizona Railway. The 1920 U.S. Census shows that Ebon lived in Escondido with his parents and sister Enid. That census lists Ebon's occupation as civil engineer for the San Diego and Arizona Railway.

Ebon married his first wife, Zelma Virginia Massey, in Salt Lake City in 1925. They briefly lived at 4729 Utah Street and by 1930, they lived in El Centro, California, where Ebon worked as a coffee and tea salesman. In the mid-1930's, they moved to 4375 Hamilton Street in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. Around this same time, Ebon switched careers and became a postal clerk.

The year 1944 was a difficult one for Ebon. His father Benjamin died in March 1944. On June 2, 1944, Ebon's mother Dora and Ebon's first wife Zelma were driving to Seattle when the car they were riding in had a tire blowout in Yolo County, California. The car rolled, and Zelma died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Ebon's mother spent two months in a coma before passing away.

In 1947, Ebon married Dorothy Marie Tissue in Prescott, Arizona. Ebon and Dorothy purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1948, and lived there for three years before they sold the home. The Chiltons then moved to 1763 Santa Barbara Street in the Sunset Cliffs neighborhood. Ebon P. Chilton passed away in San Diego on June 15, 1971. Dorothy died in San Diego on July 3, 1987.

Insufficient information was found about Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

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James T. Mathews, Jr. and Gladius D. Mathews Owners and Residents, 1951 to 1952

James T. Mathews, Jr. and Gladius D. Mathews owned and resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive from 1951 to 1952. During that time, James was serving in the Navy.

On November 15, 1915, James Thomas Mathews was born in Manning, South Carolina. His father was a Navy rear admiral and chaplain. Little else about James' early life could be found. He graduated from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, in 1937 and then began his Navy career (The Washington Post, April 29, 1999).

During World War II, James served in the Pacific aboard the cruiser Astoria. After the war, he was stationed in France, San Diego, Florida and Washington (Ibid.). He and Gladius purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1951, and occupied the home until selling it the following year. It is not known where they moved directly afterwards.

James retired from the Navy with the rank of captain in 1961, and then he and Gladius moved to Seattle so that he could work as a research director for Boeing. They later moved to the Chicago area, where James worked for the National Restaurant Association. In the late 1970's, James and Gladius moved to the Washington, D.C. area.

James T. Mathews died on April 25, 1999 in Bethesda, Maryland. Gladius passed away on September 14, 2016, at the age of 101. Both are interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

Insufficient information was found about James T. Mathews, Jr. and Gladius D. Mathews to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy Tabb Owners, 1952 to 1960 Residents, 1953 to 1956 and 1958

Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy Tabb purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1952 and owned it until 1960. During that time, Donald was serving in the Navy. According to the San Diego city directories, he and Dorothy occupied the home from 1953 to 1956, and in 1958. They rented out the home during their absence.

Donald Cameron Tabb, a native of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was born on February 29, 1916. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Donald and his brother William Jr. lived in Everett, Massachusetts with their parents, William Sr. and Mary. Donald's father worked in Everett as a newspaper printing press operator, and mother Mary was a housewife.

Donald attended the University of New Hampshire and graduated in 1939. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, Donald again lived in Everett and worked as a salesman of dental supplies. Later that same year, he enlisted in the Navy, and had a twenty year Navy career. In March 1942, Donald married Dorothy E. Moran of Los Angeles. She was born in California around 1919.

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Donald and Dorothy lived in San Francisco in 1943, and Dorothy worked there as a stenographer. It could not be determined where the Tabbs resided from approximately 1944 to 1951. In 1952, they purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive. According to the San Diego city directories, Donald and Dorothy occupied the home from 1953 to 1956, and in 1958. They rented out the home during their absence. It is not known where they resided in 1957 and from 1959 to 1960 when they sold the home.

Donald retired from the Navy in 1960 and he and Dorothy moved to Solon, Ohio. They divorced in 1968. Donald passed away on April 30, 2002. Further information about him and Dorothy could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy Tabb to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Edward J. Goldsmith and Miriam N. Goldsmith Residents, 1957

In 1957 only, Edward J. Goldsmith and Miriam N. Goldsmith resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. They presumably rented the home from owners Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy Tabb. Edward J. Goldsmith was a teacher at Hardy Elementary School during the time he and Miriam lived in the home.

On April 24, 1927, Edward Jerome Goldsmith was born in Baltimore, Maryland. By 1940, he lived in Los Angeles with his parents, Joseph and Helen Goldsmith, and sister Carolyn.

Edward married Miriam N. Gutglick in Los Angeles on August 19, 1950. In 1952, Edward graduated from Los Angeles State College. The Goldsmiths lived in San Diego briefly in the late 1950's. They lived at 5311 Laurel Street in San Diego's Oak Park neighborhood in 1954. In 1957 only, they lived at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. By 1958, the couple again lived in Los Angeles.

In 1970, the Goldsmiths divorced. Edward J. Goldsmith passed away on September 20, 2002. Further information about he and Miriam could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Edward J. Goldsmith and Miriam N. Goldsmith to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Robert W. Bagby and Ramelle M. Bagby Residents, 1959 and 1960

Robert W. Bagby and Ramelle M. Bagby resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1959 and 1960. They did not own the home, and presumably rented it from owners Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy Tabb. Robert was a dentist in the Navy.

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University of Tennessee (1969-1970 Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland). After an extensive search, further information about the Bagbys could not be located.

Insufficient information was found about Robert W. Bagby and Ramelle M. Bagby to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Robert Cordova and Bonnie C. Cordova Owners and Residents, 1961 and 1962

According to a search of property deeds, Robert and Bonnie Cordova purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1961, and sold it the following year. For unknown reasons, the San Diego city directories from 1961 and 1962 list Robert's wife's name in error as Marie. During the time that the Cordovas resided in the home, Robert owned Wendy's Flower Shop in Chula Vista.

On May 20, 1911, Robert Cordova was born in Seattle, Washington. His parents, Albert and Mary, were originally from Turkey. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Robert lived in Seattle with his parents and four younger brothers. Their father supported the family at that time by working as a "bootblack", or shoe polisher.

By 1930, Robert, his parents and siblings resided in Los Angeles, where Robert's father owned a flower stand. In the early 1930's, Robert married Carmelita "Bonnie" Ramirez. She was born in Los Angeles on July 17, 1914. The couple eventually had two children. By 1940, the Cordova family lived in Oakland, California, where Robert worked as a solicitor for a newspaper.

Robert and Bonnie purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive in 1961, and lived there until selling the home in 1962. By that time, they had opened Wendy's Flower Shop in Chula Vista, a business they ran for nearly 25 years. The couple eventually moved to the Palm Springs area.

Robert Cordova passed away in Palm Desert, California in May 1984. After his death, Bonnie moved to Fresno, where she died on March 20, 2001.

Insufficient information was found about Robert Cordova and Mary E. Cordova to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Robert G. Tolg and Barbara H. Tolg Owners and Residents, 1962 to 1969

Robert G. Tolg and Barbara H. Tolg owned and lived at 4386 North Talmadge Drive from 1962 to 1969, during which time Robert was serving in the Navy.

On November 16, 1932, Robert George Tolg was born in Hempstead, New York. Other information about his early life is scarce. Robert married Barbara H. McGowan in San Diego on June 25, 1960. They then settled briefly in Monterey, California after their wedding, as Robert was attending the Naval Postgraduate

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School there. In 1962, they moved back to San Diego and purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive, where they lived until selling the home in 1969. From 1967 to 1969, Robert served as the commanding officer of the submarine USS Ronquil. Robert G. Tolg passed away in San Diego on March 19, 1982. Further information about the Tolgs could not found.

Insufficient information was found about Robert G. Tolg and Barbara H. Tolg to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Richard Walter MacDonald and Laura B. MacDonald Owners, 1969 to 1970

From 1969 to 1970, Richard Walter MacDonald and Laura B. MacDonald owned 4386 North Talmadge Drive. However, they are not listed in city directories as having lived in the home. Richard was serving in the Navy during that time.

Little information about the MacDonalds could be located. Richard was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in July 1930. He grew up in Bath, Maine, where his father Walter was a chef on a railroad dining car. Mother Amy Frances (Pitman) MacDonald was a housewife and died when Richard was 17 years old.

Richard joined the Navy in 1948, three months after his mother's death. Records for Richard are scarce after that time. It is not known exactly when Richard married Laura (Baro) MacDonald, but it was sometime prior to 1969, when they purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive. They sold the home in 1970.

Richard and Laura moved to Ventura County, California after selling the subject resource, and they divorced in 1974. Richard passed away in Ventura on November 8, 1978. Laura passed away in Ventura on January 1, 1991.

Insufficient information was found about Richard Walter MacDonald and Laura B. MacDonald to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Robert Lee Clayton and Cleo G. Clayton Owners and Residents, 1970 to 1980

From 1970 to 1980, Robert Lee Clayton and Cleo G. Clayton owned and resided at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. Richard worked as a dairy inspector for the County Public Health Department during that time.

Robert Lee Clayton, a native of Coleman, Michigan, was born on August 5, 1909. Little information about his early life could be found. By 1940, when he enlisted in the Navy, Robert was living in San Diego and was employed at the Wilson Packing Company, a meat packing facility.

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On June 18, 1970, Robert married Cleo. She was born on September 26, 1912. Little else about her background could be located. The Claytons purchased 4386 North Talmadge Drive a few months after their marriage, and lived there until 1980. After selling the subject resource, the Claytons moved to Montana. Robert passed away in Hamilton, Montana on April 16, 1982. Cleo passed away in Montana in May 1992.

Insufficient information was found about Robert Lee Clayton and Cleo G. Clayton to determine they were historically significant for their association with 4386 North Talmadge Drive under Criterion B.

Based on the research found and evidence presented in this report, Legacy 106, Inc. concludes that the proposed Roy and Alice Lichty House at 4386 North Talmadge Drive 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 Roy and Alice Lichty House is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home as an example home promoted by the Roy C. Lichty, business manager of the Talmadge Park subdivision, to showcase the Spanish "California Style" of architecture.

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, the most 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 attack everything but his own preferences of what 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. Although the style continued as late as 1948, the Great Depression 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 (McAlester and McAlester 2002:417). 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.

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, if any, 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 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 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 buildings combined references from Spain, and all over the Mediterranean to develop the 1920's style. 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 State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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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 1940s.

In greater detail, this house has a varied form with a low-pitched cross gabled Mission half-barrel roof and exhibits minimal eave projections with short rafter tails, indicative of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The home features the original sandy coated stucco wall surfacing. Additionally the circular turret entrance entryway with raised arched hood, a deep inset reveal and arching plank doorway is a favorite Spanish detail recalling the early fortress style elements of the style. The home exhibits a large chimney with decorative clay tile gabled top as well as a smaller arched top decorative faux chimney. A large original leaded glass window is seen facing the side. The high style wrought iron window grilles help to 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 high end design, materials, and expression of craftsmanship exhibited in this house are excellent even compared with surrounding Spanish Eclectic style houses in Kensington Heights.

The architecturally defining features that are supportive of historic landmarking are:

1. The large rounded turret style entryway; 2. The round dovecote rising above the rounded entry turret; 3. The asymmetrical façade with unusual terraced down sloping walkway and original tile work; 4. The arched entryway with extending arched hood detail; 5. The fired red clay Mission half-barrel tile gabled, shed and conical roof; 6. The attached double car garage with shed style roof; 7. The minimal overhanging roof eave with rounded cut wooden rafter tails; 8. The original fine grit wall stucco wall surfacing; 9. The large stucco end chimney with decorative mini gabled tile top; 10. The walled terraced front patio with restored double French doors; 11. The extending faux chimney detail with decorative arched top helping to integrate the garage into the overall house design; 12. The original vertical plank style wooden door with original door handle and hardware; 13. The original wood framed true divided light casement, fixed and hopper style windows; 14. The original decorative wrought iron window grilles around the home; 15. The large side facing original stained glass focal window; 16. The original hanging front lantern style lighting fixture seen just to the left of the front doorway.

The following are architectural changes that cause integrity loss are:

1. The 1950's era car garage expansion (approx. 3') and garage door replacement. This maintained the original low pitched shallow red clay Mission half-barrel tile roof; 2. The likely replacement of some of the rear roof tiles with composition shingles seen on the rear elevation (set back outside of the public view); 3. The 1997 rear addition (set back outside of the public view). State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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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 historic photos, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps and other research, the house is shown to be in its original location at 4386 North Talmadge 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 examination of the resource at 4386 North Talmadge Drive reveals the front and side elevations very closely match the original design of the house. Historical photos (Attachments D.1) from circa 1927 and 1928 show that the home matches the current photos (Attachments D.2) well with asymmetrical façade and large dovecote toped circular entry tower with low pitched gable, shed and conical clay tile roofs seen around the home with very little eave overhang and decorative rounded exposed rafters ends. The arched stucco inset arched entry with deeply recessed arched hooded doorway are seen matching the historic photos with wrought iron grillework seen above and over the side window. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home built in 1927. As seen in the building records and comparisons between the historic photos and current photos, the home is in remarkable original condition. The only visible change in the original design is the 1950's era extension (approximately three feet) of the front attached double car garage and garage door. The 1997 rear addition sits below the house grade is offset from both corners and placed in the middle of the rear façade. It is also not in the public view and does not detract from the home. The home still displays sufficient integrity of design and the garage alteration does 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 distinctive characteristics of its Spanish Eclectic style. The Design element of this home is good.

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 only change of note to the setting is in the front terraced patio where a small site wall has been lowered to allow for views of the home. 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. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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The clay tile roof has irregularly laid mission clay tiles matching the 1927 and 1928 historic photos. The eaves with minimal overhang and decorative rounded rafter tails also matches the 1927 and other historic photos. The home features mostly original windows and doors on the front and side elevations with the front double French door set rebuilt to match the historic photos and existing original four light rectangular French doors on the rear. The arching front door is original with vertical wooden planks, as is the old brass door latch and locking plate with patina. The wall stucco appears as original with large front chimney and circular turret entry pavilion with a conical roof topped with a dovecote with matching conical roof all matching the historic photos and other research. The sculptured stucco overhanging arched door hood and arched faux chimney are intact and original matching the historic photos. Original clay decorative attic vent on the front round dovecote and rectangular clay tile attic vents seen on the side are also retained and match historic photos. The stained and leaded glass focal window on the side appears remarkably intact and original. The only change to the materials within the public view is the garage door replacement and fill of the upper section of the garage extension walls which is well matched to the rest of the home and does not significantly degrade the materials aspect of integrity. As noted throughout this analysis, the Materials aspect of Integrity of this home is good.

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 skills in creating the stained and leaded glass side focal window displays a very high level of craftsmanship with delicate colored glass details and heraldic shield detail is seen at the center. The central round turret with matching dovecote above especially required specialized skilled craftsmanship as cutting the red clay roof tiles for the overlapping conical roof design and fabricating exposed roof beams required considerable extra skilled craftsmanship and labor. Additionally the sculpting of the exterior wall stucco with arched bracketed door hood detail and arched chimney top displays high quality craftsmanship. The blacksmithing of the wrought iron window grilles, rear balcony supports and other iron details are exceptional. The varied chimney design and details display fine craftsmanship with arched top and raised miniature gabled clay tile roof is a favorite Spanish eclectic detail that was very well constructed. The Masonry workmanship seen in laying the hexagonal; terra cotta tiles in the entry, curving walkway, and arched fireplace shows high quality workmanship. 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 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival / Eclectic residence, in its present excellent original condition on its original terraced sloping lot with large entry tower, is well preserved and imparts the visitor with a realistic sense and feeling for the late 1920's historical Talmadge Park subdivision, which is now considered part of the greater Kensington neighborhood. The home blends in well with historic older neighboring properties in Kensington. The feeling of an elaborate "Southern California style Spanish Eclectic home and the late 1920's pre-Depression age are 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 Roy and Alice Lichty House at 4386 North Talmadge Drive is associated with early Talmadge Park developer and business manager Roy C. Lichty and demonstrates elements of his planning philosophy and utilization of the Spanish style for development marketing program for its subdivisions. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

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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 Roy and Alice Lichty 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.

After extensive research, the architect or designer of the home is unknown.

For unknown reasons, the Notice of Completion for 4386 North Talmadge Drive does not list the builder's name. Rather, blank spaces were left where a contractor's name and date of hire would normally be. Therefore, it is not known for certain who designed and constructed 4386 North Talmadge Drive.

One possibility is that the subject property was constructed by Orville U. Miracle, who typically went by the name O.U. Miracle. Miracle constructed some homes in San Diego, including 4669 East Talmadge Drive, just a few homes south of the subject property. 4669 East Talmadge Drive was designed by Cliff May, husband of Roy C. Lichty's daughter Jean. Also, Miracle installed the sidewalks and curbs in the Talmadge Park subdivision, and his contractor's stamp can be seen in many of that neighborhood's sidewalks. Although Talmadge Park's business manager had a working relationship with builder O.U. Miracle, it is not known for certain if Miracle designed and/or constructed 4386 North Talmadge Drive.

In conclusion, at this time sufficient evidence was not found linking this home to any established Master Architects, Designers, or Builders. Future research and studies of potentially historic houses and architects in Talmadge Park will hopefully add more to what is known, and if the resource designer is discovered, the status under Criterion "D" can be re-evaluated at that time.

State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial

Page 36 of 36 *Resource Name or #: The Roy and Alice Lichty House

*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: October 2019 Continuation Update

*B10. Significance - Criterion E and Criterion 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.

A.1 Assessor’s Building Record

A.1 Assessor’s Building Record

A.2 Notice of Completion The Notice of Completion states that property owner Roy C. Lichty was the owner at the time 4386 North Talmadge Drive was constructed, and that it was completed on January 7, 1927. The Notice does not list the name of a building contractor or architect.

A.3 Water Record The only water record that could be located is a service renewal from December 1960.

A.3 Sewer Record The original sewer record could not be found. There was only a sewer stop-up record from 1943 and a 1984 permit to extend the sewer lateral.

A.4 Building / Construction Permits

On Thursday, June 29, 2017, Alexandra Wallace of Legacy 106, Inc. visited the records department of the Development Services Department on the 2nd floor at 1222 1st Ave.

She was assisted by Stacey Harris, who was unable to locate the microfiche containing any pre-1990 building permits for 4386 North Talmadge Drive.

A.4 Building / Construction Permits 1997 permit to enclose the existing patio under the rear deck and extend the bedroom and bathroom. Continued on next page.

A.4 Building / Construction Permits Continued from previous page.

A.4 Building / Construction Permits Combination permit for remodeling of master bathroom and closet, dated May 2006.

A.5 Site Plan with Footprint Taken from the Residential Building Record.

1997 Rear Addition sits below the house

Front Elevation

A.6 County Lot and Block Book Page The subject property was first assessed to owner Roy C. Lichty in 1927.

A.7 Previous Survey Forms

A previous survey form could not be located for this property.

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

B.1 Chain of Title 4386 North Talmadge Drive, San Diego, CA 92116 APN # 465-332-09-00

Instrument Date Grantor to Grantee, Date Recorded, Book Number, Page Number

September 4, 1926 Union Trust Company of San Diego to Roy C. Lichty, recorded September 21, 1926, Deed Book 1218, Page 476.

January 7, 1927 Notice of Completion. Roy C. Lichty is listed as the property owner, and the subject property was actually completed on January 7, 1927. The Notice does not list the name of who constructed the subject resource. Rather, blank spaces were left where a contractor's name and date of hire would normally be. Recorded January 7, 1927, Miscellaneous Book 80, Page 216.

October 17, 1927 Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty (husband and wife) to Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded November 7, 1927, Deed Book 1363, Page 349.

August 27, 1928 Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank (husband and wife) to Lieutenant J.P. Larimore (a single man) and Bertha E. Larimore (son and mother, as joint tenants), recorded September 8, 1928, Deed Book 1510, Page 482.

October 27, 1930 Trustee's Deed. Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank defaulted on the deed of trust dated October 17, 1927, and Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty then filed a notice of default. To satisfy the obligations, the subject property was sold by the Lichtys. Recorded December 17, 1930, Deed Book 1853, Page 64.

November 25, 1930 Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty (husband and wife) to Mattie Deel, recorded December 17, 1930, Deed Book 1849, Page 122.

November 1, 1937 Mattie Deel to Bay City Building and Loan Association, recorded November 5, 1937, Official Records Book 722, Page 85.

June 16, 1938 Bay City Federal Savings and Loan Association to Central Liquidating Company, recorded June 17, 1938, Official Records Book 798, Page 83.

March 26, 1942 Central Liquidating Company to Mary E. Barbour, recorded April 4, 1942, Official Records Book 1321, Page 473.

December 12, 1945 Mary E. Barbour to Frances L. Hamilton (a widow), recorded January 15, 1946, Official Records Book 2025, Page 10.

February 10, 1948 Frances L. Hamilton to Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded March 5, 1948, Document # 23158.

B.1 Chain of Title - Continued

January 2, 1951 Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton (husband and wife) to James T. Mathews, Jr. and Gladius D. Mathews (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded February 5, 1951, Document # 15038, Official Records Book 3962, Page 102.

April 21, 1952 James T. Mathews, Jr. and Gladius D. Mathews (husband and wife) to Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy E. Tabb (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded June 13, 1952, Document # 71264, Official Records Book 4494, Page 175.

December 5, 1960 Donald C. Tabb and Dorothy E. Tabb (husband and wife) to Robert Cordova and Bonnie C. Cordova (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded [month and day illegible], 1961, File # [illegible].

August 14, 1962 Robert Cordova and Bonnie C. Cordova (husband and wife) to Robert G. Tolg and Barbara H. Tolg (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded November 7, 1962, File # 190900.

May 20, 1969 Robert G. Tolg and Barbara H. Tolg (husband and wife) to Richard Walter MacDonald and Laura B. MacDonald (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded June 17, 1969, File # 107903.

January 5, 1970 Richard Walter MacDonald and Laura B. MacDonald (husband and wife) to Robert Lee Clayton (a widower), recorded January 22, 1970, File # 12411.

October 26, 1970 Robert Lee Clayton to Robert Lee Clayton and Cleo G. Clayton (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded October 30, 1970, File # 199582.

March 19, 1980 Robert Lee Clayton and Cleo G. Clayton (husband and wife) to Richard Trumbull and Sylvia Trumbull (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded April 9, 1980, File # 80-120605.

November 16, 1988 Richard Trumbull and Sylvia Trumbull (husband and wife) to Michael R. Swenson and Amy S. Bremicker (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded January 6, 1989, File # 89-008112.

July 2, 1996 Michael R. Swenson and Amy S. Swenson-Bremicker (who acquired title as Amy S. Bremicker) to Kathleen J. Reber (a married woman as her sole and separate property), recorded August 9, 1996, Document # 1996- 0402510.

February 18, 2000 Kathleen J. Reber (a married woman as her sole and separate property) to Shirin A. Raiszadeh and Kamshad Raiszadeh (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded March 29, 2000, Document # 2000-0156800.

B.1 Chain of Title - Continued

April 1, 2003 Shirin A. Raiszadeh and Kamshad Raiszadeh (husband and wife, as joint tenants) to Jason L. Gray (an unmarried man), recorded May 15, 2003, Document # 2003-0571248.

August 25, 2005 Jason L. Gray (an unmarried man) to Mary A. Montiel (an unmarried woman), recorded October 7, 2005, Document # 2005-0868791.

November 8, 2006 Mary A. Montiel (an unmarried woman) to Mary Anne Montiel (as Trustee of the Mary Anne Montiel Trust), recorded March 6, 2007, Document # 2007-0153221.

December 29, 2010 Mary Anne Montiel (as Trustee of the Mary Anne Montiel Trust) to Michael S. Talbott and Alina R. Talbott (husband and wife, as joint tenants), recorded January 14, 2011, Document # 2011-0027296.

B.2 Directory Search of Occupants

Note: According to the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, the subject property was originally addressed as 4424 N. Talmadge Drive. It was readdressed to 4386 N. Talmadge Drive, its current address, around 1938. Date Reverse portion of Main portion of directory directory 1928 Vacant (Listed under 4424 N. Talmadge Drive) 1929 Larimore JP (o) Larimore John P lieutenant US Navy h 4424 Talmadge Drive

(Listed under 4424 N. Talmadge Drive) 1930 Vacant (Listed under 4424 N. Talmadge Drive) 1931 Deel Margt Mrs (o) Deel Margt Mrs h 4424 N Talmadge Drive 1932 Deel Margt Mrs (o) Deel Margt Mrs h 4424 N Talmadge Drive 1933 Deel Mattie Mrs (o) Deel Mattie Mrs h 4424 N Talmadge Drive 1934 Deel Mattie Mrs (o) Deel Mattie Mrs h 4424 N Talmadge Drive 1935 Deel Mattie Mrs (o) Deel Mattie Mrs h 4424 N Talmadge Drive 1936 The subject property There is no listing for Mattie Deel in this year's directory. It is therefore not known who is not listed in the resided at the subject property in 1936. reverse directory this year. 1937 The subject property Davis Harry draftsman FW Stevenson r 4424 N Talmadge Drive is not listed in the reverse directory this year. 1938 Yanchitis JW Note: The subject property was readdressed to 4386 N. Talmadge Drive, its current address, by 1938. Pierson Angie nurse r 4386 N Talmadge Drive Yanchitis John W (Mildred) electrician h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1939 Lowry RL Lowry Robt L (Dorothy K) dentist 625 Broadway room 406 h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1940 Lowry RL Lowry Robt L (Dorothy K) dentist 625 Broadway room 406 h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1941 Lowry RL Lowry Robt L (Dorothy K) dentist 625 Broadway room 406 h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1942 Barbour RL (o) Barbour Robt L (Mary E) deputy District Attorney h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1943 Barbour RL (o) Barbour Robt L (Mary E) deputy District Attorney h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1944- Barbour RL (o) Barbour Robt L (Mary E) deputy District Attorney h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1945 1946 Directory not published this year. 1947- Hamilton FL Mrs (o) Hamilton Frances L (widow WM) h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1948 Newport Myra D (widow George) r 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1949 Directory not published this year. 1950 Chilton EP (o) Chilton Dorothy M Mrs teacher Public Schools r 4386 N Talmadge Drive Chilton Ebon P (Dorothy M) superintendent Ocean Beach station post office h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1951 Directory not published this year. 1952 Mathews JT (o) Mathews James T US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1953- Tabb Donald C (o) Tabb Donald C (Dorothy) h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1954 1955 Tabb Donald C (o) Tabb Donald C (Dorothy) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1956 Tabb Donald C (o) Tabb Donald C (Dorothy) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive

B.2 Directory Search of Occupants - Continued

1957 Goldsmith Edw J Goldsmith Edward J (Miriam N) teacher Hardy School h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1958 Tabb Donald (o) Tabb Donald C (Dorothy) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1959 Bagby Robt W Bagby Robert W (Ramelle M) dentist US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1960 Bagby Robt W Bagby Robert W (Ramelle M) dentist US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1961 Cordova Robt Cordova Robert (Mary E) employee Windy's Flower Shop h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1962 Cordova Robt Cordova Robert (Mary E) employee Windy's Flower Shop h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1963- Tolg Robt G (o) Tolg Robert G (Barbara H) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1964 1965 Tolg Robt G (o) Tolg Robert G (Barbara H) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1966 There is no listing for 4386 N. Talmadge Drive this year. 1967 Vacant 1968 Told Robt G (o) Told Robt G (Barbara H) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1969- Told Robt G (o) Told Robt G (Barbara H) US Navy h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1970 1971 Clayton Robt L (o) Clayton Robt L (Cleo G) inspector County Public Health h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1972 Clayton Robt L (o) Clayton Robt L (Cleo G) inspector County Public Health h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1973- Clayton Robt L (o) Clayton Robt L (Cleo G) retired h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1980 1981- Richard Trumbull and Sylvia Trumbull h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1988 1989- Michael R. Swenson and Amy S. Swenson-Bremicker h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 1996 1997- Kathleen J. Reber h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 2000 2001- Kamshad Raiszadeh and Shirin A. Raiszadeh h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 2003 2004- Jason L. Gray h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 2005 2006- Mary Anne Montiel h 4386 N Talmadge Drive 2010 2011- Michael S. Talbott and Alina R. Talbott h 4386 N Talmadge Drive present

B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Union Trust Company of San Diego to Roy C. Lichty. Recorded on September 21, 1926. Page 1 of 3

B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Page 2 of 3

B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Page 3 of 3

B.3 Deed Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty to Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank. Recorded November 7, 1927.

B.3 Deed Levit M. Rank and Lillian Rank to Lieutenant J.P. Larimore and Bertha Larimore (son and mother). Recorded September 8, 1928.

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 1940 1950 1956

C.1 City of San Diego 800 Scale Engineering Map

C.2 Current USGS Map - 2015

C.2 Historic USGS Map - 1967

C.3 Original Subdivision Map

C.3 Original Subdivision Map

C.4 Sanborn Map – July 1934

C.4 Sanborn Map – 1950

None for this area

C.4 Sanborn Map – 1956 Volume 2, Map # 299H

Attachment D Photographs

D.1 — Historical Photographs D.2 — Current Photographs

D.1 Historic Photograph 4386 N. Talmadge Drive is pictured twice below. See next page for close-up photos.

D.1 Historic Photograph Close-ups from article on previous page.

D.1 Historic Photograph

D.1 Historic Photograph

D.1 Historic Photograph San Diego Union, January 29, 1928

D.1 Historic Photograph Erickson aerial photo circa late 1920's. Courtesy of the San Diego History Center

D.1 Historic Photograph Talmadge Park aerial photo from August 1930. Photo # 89:17794-14 courtesy of the San Diego History Center

D.1 Historic Photograph 4386 North Talmadge Drive is partially visible in this early 1950's photo. Legacy 106, Inc. collection

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation Photos this page by Dan Soderberg, May 2019. All other current photos by Kiley Wallace, May 2019.

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation

Right: The French door photographed from inside the home.

D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation The stained glass window from the previous page, as photographed from inside the home.

D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation

Left: A southeast facing window photographed from the rear upper level balcony.

Right: The area below the rear upper level balcony.

D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

Right: These French doors are on the rear upper level balcony shown above.

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

Left: Second-story window photographed from the upper level rear balcony.

Right: area under the upper level rear balcony.

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation and Southeast (side) Elevation

Northeast (rear) elevation Northeast (rear) elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northeast (rear) Elevation and Northwest (side) Elevation

Northeast (rear) elevation Northwest (side) elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

Below: Same window with the screen removed.

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation

D.2 Current Photographs - Interior

For reference only. Interior is not included in the proposed designation.

D.2 Current Photographs - Interior For reference only. Interior is not included in the proposed designation.

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

E.1 Criterion A – Community History Article in the Adams Avenue Post, circa 1990.

E.1 Criterion A – Community History San Diego Evening Tribune November 23, 1925

E.1 Criterion A – Community History San Diego Union December 27, 1925

E.1 Criterion A – Community History The Talmadge sisters at Talmadge Park's opening ceremony, January 3, 1926 Photos this page courtesy of the San Diego History Center

Actor Buster Keaton with the Talmadge sisters at the opening ceremony. He was married to Natalie Talmadge.

E.1 Criterion A – Community History

E.1 Criterion A – Community History

E.1 Criterion A – Community History

E.1 Criterion A – Community History

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty Owners, 1926 to 1927 and 1930

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Roy C. Lichty and Alice Lichty Owners, 1926 to 1927 and 1930

Roy C. Lichty, his wife Alice and their two children, Jean and Billy, circa 1917. Jean went on to marry renowned architect Cliff May. Photo courtesy of Hillary May Jessup

Below: The Lichty family did not reside at 4386 North Talmadge Drive. Rather, they lived at 4675 East Talmadge Dr., a few homes south of the subject resource.

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Lieutenant John P. Larimore and Bertha E. Larimore (son and mother) Owners and Residents, 1928 to 1930 The 1930 U.S. Census shows John Larimore, his mother Bertha, and his brother William as residents of the subject property (then addressed as 4424 N. Talmadge Dr.). This census was enumerated shortly after John resigned from the Navy.

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Lieutenant John P. Larimore and Bertha E. Larimore (son and mother) Owners and Residents, 1928 to 1930

In January 1930, John P. Larimore resigned from the Navy and formed Larimore Lines, Ltd., a company which shipped cargo between Los Angeles, San Diego, and ports on Mexico's west coast.

John's new business venture was only six months old when he entered the Sawtelle Veterans Home in Los Angeles in July 1930. He died of tuberculosis the following year, at the age of thirty.

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person John W. Yanchitis and Mildred Yanchitis Residents, 1938 only

Left: John's Naturalization Record Index card from 1938 lists his home address as 4386 Talmadge Dr.

He was originally from Lithuania, although his obituary incorrectly states that he was from Russia.

E.2 Criterion B – Historic Person Ebon P. Chilton and Dorothy T. Chilton Owners and Residents, 1948 to 1951

E.3 Criterion C – Architecture Original Talmadge Park plot map. Note canyon lots with dropping rear topography are located along outside edge of Talmadge Drive.

CANYON CANYON

CANYON

CANYON

E.3 Criterion C – Architecture The Talmadge Drive canyon homes with attached garages are shown in red. Note the predominance of the attached garage configuration on these canyon lots. Almost all homes shown are Spanish Eclectic style, including two Cliff May designed Spanish Eclectic homes listed on the National Register.

Attachment F

Works Cited

F.1 — Provide a list of works cited (bibliography)

F.1 Works Cited

Books

Baker, John Milnes 1994 American House Styles - A Concise Guide. New York City: W.W. Norton & Company

Baumann, Thomas H. D.D.S. 1997 Kensington-Talmadge 1910-1997. Second Edition. San Diego: Ellipsys International

Brandes, Ray S. 1991 San Diego Architects 1868-1939. San Diego: University of San Diego

California Office of Historic Preservation 1996 The California Register of Historic Resources: Regulations for Nomination of Historic Properties. State of California, The Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation

Ching, Francis D.K. 1995 A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York City: John Wiley & Sons

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, South Carolina: The History Press

Gellner, Arrol and Douglas Keister 2002 Red Tile Style: America's Spanish Revival Architecture. New York City: Viking Studio

Hartmann, Glenn D. 1977 Architectural Description Guide: Developed for Use in Preparing Nominations for State and National Registers of Historic Places. Olympia, Washington: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission

McAlester, Virginia 2013 Field Guide to American Houses. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

McGrew, Clarence Alan 1922 City of San Diego and San Diego County, the Birthplace of California. Volume I. Chicago: The American Historical Society

National Park Service 1985 Historic American Building Survey Guidelines for Preparing Written and Historical Descriptive Data. San Francisco: Division of National Register Programs, Western Regional Office

Newcomb, Rexford 1990 Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States. New York City: Dover Publications

F.1 Works Cited - Continued

Requa, Richard S., A.I.A. 1929 Old World Inspiration for American Architecture. Los Angeles: Monolith Portland Cement Company

Requa, Richard S., A.I.A. 1937 Inside Lights on the Building of San Diego's Exposition: 1935. San Diego: Frye & Smith, Ltd.

Smith, G.E. Kidder 1996 Source Book of American Architecture. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press

Walker, Lester 2002 American Homes - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture. New York City: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers

Wallace, Alexandra, Kiley Wallace and Margaret McCann 2017 Images of America: San Diego's Kensington. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing

Woods, Douglas, Melba Levick and M. Brian Tichenor 2012 The California Casa. New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

Government Documents

City of San Diego Historical Resources Board 2009 Historical Resource Research Report Guidelines and Requirements, Land Development Manual, Historical Resources Guidelines, Appendix E, Part 1.1, Adopted by the Historical Resources Board November 30, 2006, Updated January 24, 2008 and February 9, 2009.

Internet

Ancestry.com, www.ancestry.com (US Census; California Death Index; Social Security Death Index; genealogical files)

Thesis

Hennessey, Gregg R. 1977 City Planning, Progressivism, and the Development of San Diego, 1908-1926. Master's Thesis, San Diego State University, Department of History.

Attachment G Additional support regarding HRB staff identified issues

G 1. – October 23, 2020 -Addendum by Legacy 106, Inc., Ronald V. May G.2. -Email October 23, 2020 – Email from Alina Talbott to Suzanne Segur summary of meetings and recommendations G.3 – Email from Jodie Brown G.4 – Documentation of attachments to email sent to Jodie Brown for approval of the wall modification G. 5 – Documentation of other historically designated houses that have walls and fountains. G.6. – Documentation regarding garage

G.1 ADDENDUM of October 23, 2020 by Ronald V. May, RPA Timeline of Meetings and Communications and Understanding of Issues Legacy 106, Inc has worked with Alina and Michael Talbott and the City of San Diego to mitigate changes to the front of 4386 N. Talmadge Drive in Talmadge Park in order to qualify designation under Criterion C. From the initial contact on March 23, 2016, Legacy 106, Inc. advised the Talbotts to schedule a meeting with Ms. Kelly Stanco: to convince her to buy-in on the plan to reduce the modern front wall sufficiently to enable public view of the house. That would be a good time to talk about the French door and modern polychrome tile" (Letter dated March 23, 2016).

As noted in Alina Talbott's email of Friday, October 23, 2020, three issues were mitigated at a cost of over $30,000 through meetings with Ms. Kelly Stanco, Senior Planner, City of San Diego; Ms. Jodie Brown, Senior Planner, City of San Diego; and Ms. Suzanne Segur, Senior Planner, City of San Diego. These issues include 1. Reduction in height of a six foot (6-foot) high wall to three feet (3-feet) at the front and four feet (4-feet) on the side (approved by Ms. Jodie Brown May 23, 2017). 2. Removal of monochromatic (modern) tile from the doorway surround. 3. Restored the 4-light French doors.

Legacy 106, Inc. has been aware that the City of San Diego, Historical Resources section had approved the addition of low (see-over) landscape walls, fountains, and patio areas in the front yards of historically designated houses during the 2016 to 2020 time period. To be fair, the historically designated house on the corner of Adams Avenue and Talmadge Drive exhibits far more visible landscape features than at 4386 N. Talmadge Drive.

Legacy 106, Inc. verbally discussed the minor garage extension with the Talbotts during our March 23, 2016 walk- through of the property. We explained that during the 1950s, automobiles produced by many auto makers were several feet longer than pre-war 1940s vehicles and tens of thousands of homeowners erected small 24 to 36-inch garage extensions to the front or rear of garages to accommodate the longer vehicles. At no time in the past 20-years has Legacy 106, Inc. ever had the City of San Diego, Historical Resources staff indicate a garage extension was grounds to deny a designation. Historical photos of 4386 N. Talmadge Drive very clearly show the same Mission half barrel tile shed roof over that garage entrance, so the only change was to stucco-over the ornamental wood spindle grills on each side of the tile roof and move the garage door location to be directly under the drip-line of the original tile roof. This change did not alter the structural frame of the building. Based on these observations and past experience, we did not consider this to be a significant design or materials change (Legacy 106, Inc. telephone calls to Alina Talbott, May 1-2, 2017).

However, Ms. Suzanne Segur did raise the issue of the garage extension to Legacy 106, Inc. on October 13, 2019: Ms. Segur informed Legacy 106, Inc., (the garage was) "...important but not critical and would not stop it (the house) from being designated" (Alina Talbott email of October 23, 2020).

As a result of the October 19, 2020 City of San Diego email, Alina and Michael Talbott retained licensed architect Kim Grant to remove the stucco beneath the original Mission half barrel tile garage shed roof to expose the original wood spindles (Alina Talbott, October 23, 2020).

Conclusion Alina and Michael Talbott have invested in excess of $30,000 to mitigate the adverse effects of changes to 4386 N. Talbott to re-expose the architecturally defining elements of the front of the house in compliance with direction by City of San Diego, Historical Resources staff. The public on N. Talmadge Drive or the sidewalk can now view the house the way it was originally built. This is equally important for the public view of this Spanish Revival style house, as well as for its role as the first Talmadge Park Model Home used by co-founder Roy Lichty in the original real estate marketing to over 10,000 prospective lot buyers in the 1920s. G.2 October 23, 2020 email from Alina Talbott to Suzanne Segur summarizing events and meetings with staff (3 pages)

Pamela Molohon

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Historical Nomination - 4386 N. Talmadge Dr. staff recommendation 1 message

Alina Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 10:27 AM To: "[email protected]" Cc: "[email protected]" , "[email protected]" , Gemma , "[email protected]"

Hi Suzanne, I haven't received response on the email below, but am glad because I would like to revise my request to stay on the agenda after all for November's HRB meeting. I tried calling you this morning but your mailbox is full and wouldn't allow leaving a voicemail, so I am following up with an email instead. I understand you gave us until today to decide if we stay on the Agenda, so next I am wondering how much time I have before the reports are due to the Board?

Over the past few days I have done some digging up of emails and notes from the past 4+ years of this process and have come up with the following, which I hope will help your team understand more about the process we've endured. Essential items from this email will be included in an Addendum with the reports that we print for the hearing.

First and foremost I want to express that we as the homeowner were only notified of the City's concerns on Monday 10/19/20. We had completed all three major restoration items as directed by Legacy 106 before submitting our report a year ago (10/28/19). We've already invested $30-$40K in this and have been dedicated to the process of restoring and preserving this home. Had new concerns been brought to our attention since submitting the report a year ago, we obviously would have addressed those. Instead I was given just a week to digest this new info and make a decision. I hope that my timeline and added history to the case will be helpful.

3/23/16 - Our initial consultation meeting with Legacy 106. They inspected the property and did preliminary research to determine of the home could qualify for Historic Designation. 5/5/16 - Received preliminary report from Ron May listing the following 3 items of concern but stated the house meets 6 of 7 aspects of criterion and was eligible under at least 1. He suggested meeting with Kelley Stanco for guidance on the items of concern. • Modern wall • Monochromatic tile on arch of entry door • French doors restored to 4-light 5/24/16 - I met with Kelly Stanco at their office on 1010 Second Ave at 4pm. In that meeting, we discussed the existing modern wall at our home and were told that for the Mills Act, the wall could be no more than 3' tall. It was also discussed with our Consultants at Legacy 106 that the wall be lowered prior to submitting for designation as it would help our chances of approval, even though the height of the wall for visibility of the home was related to the Mills Act specifically and not designation. We were ready to proceed with restoration of all three items over a period of time as the cost to achieve was significant. 5/23/17 - Had phone call with Jodie Brown at 9am. Discussed design of wall modification to cut wall height lower so that I could receive proper quote from masonry contractor. Followed phone call with email to Jodie Brown. Correspondence is attached for reference. You'll see she approved the plan on 6/6/17 for the 3' height at front and 4' at north side due to the slope of the yard. I understand your team did not know of this agreement, so I am providing it now for our records. There are two attachments; the pdf as one (the word doc) provides the photos and sketch that had been a part of my initial email to Jodie. By September of 2019 we had completed restoration of all three items of concern. Photos were taken by Legacy 106 and our report was submitted to the City on 10/28/19.

To address Gemma's specific comments below: The Wall

I would like to argue that the wall and fountain are landscape features, not part of the home and should not impact designation. I've attached a document showing 3 examples of historically designated homes with non-original walls and a fountain. One of which was approved by the City post-historical designation (4302 Adams Ave). I only ask for consistency from the City on this. The terrace walls that were installed by a previous owner are also not part of the home (they do not touch the home). They were installed for protection of the home itself. The position of the home below grade left it susceptible to water damage otherwise. The Walkway

The tile walkway being hardscape that is not in line of sight from the street should also be considered minor and not impede designation. This was not an item of concern ever mentioned to us until 10/19/20. It could easily be on our Mills Act task list.

The Garage

This is an item that came up in conversation only previously and was not considered a concern until the email sent 10/19/20. I spoke with Kiley Wallace and he confirmed he had a conversation with you (Suzanne) back in October of last year where you stated the garage was "important but not critical and would not stop it from being designated". Therefore, it was not on our radar at all, except as a possible Mills Act task item. In response to learning this news of the garage issue on 10/19/20, I already contacted a historical Architect who is going to work with us on the restoration of the garage to reveal the spindles, which are still in place and just boarded/stucco'd over. This is fairly simple fix and I feel strongly should not impact designation (though I realize that decision is up to the Board). In good faith, I am scrambling to define my course of action to address the garage concerns and will have renderings of potential solutions in hand at the time of the hearing.

In summary, we have done everything that was originally asked of us, have invested $30-$40K towards restorations to date, which were guided by Jodie Brown and Kelley Stanco, and I ask that you reconsider the City's position on this case and allow us to proceed with participating in the November hearing.

I truly appreciate your time and consideration.

Regards, Alina Talbott (619) 871-6255 [email protected]

G. 3 – Email June 6, 2017 from Jodie Brown, Senior Planner approving lowered wall modification.

G.4 Attachments to email from Alina Talbott to Jodie Brown 5-23-2027 (2 pages)

Alina’s sketch with measurements

Wall Options (.doc)

Courtyard Wall Option (.jpg)

Front View Looking East (.jpg) – before modification

Front View Looking South (.jpg) – before modification

G.5 Examples of other houses that are designated with walls and fountains.

These walls and fountain are landscape features, not part of the home.

4302 Adams Ave, San Diego, CA 92116 Wall approved for installation POST-Historic Designation

4680 West Talmadge Drive, San Diego, CA 92116 Non-original wall, did not impact Historic Designation.

3393 28th Street, San Diego, CA Non-original wall and fountain, did not impact Historic Designation.

G.6. Email from Gemma Tierney stating requirements for restoration.

G.6. Letter regarding garage