Barrio Logan Historical Resources Survey
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Fall 08 Barrio Logan Historical Resources Survey Prepared by: City of San Diego City Planning & Community Investment Community Planning & Urban Form Divisions 202 C Street, MS 5A San Diego, California 92101 In conjunction with Brian F. Smith and Associates 14010 Poway Road, Suite A Poway, California 92064 February 01, 2011 Historical Resources Survey Barrio Logan Community Plan Area San Diego, California National Archaeological Data Base Information Author(s): Brian F. Smith Melanie D. Lytle Larry J. Pierson Sara Clowery-Moreno Tracy Stropes Consulting Firm: Brian F. Smith and Associates 14010 Poway Road, Suite A Poway, California 92064 (858) 484-0915 Report Date: February 01, 2011 Report Title: Barrio Logan Historical Resources Survey Prepared by: City of San Diego City Planning & Community Investment Community Planning & Urban Form Divisions 202 C Street, MS 5A San Diego, California 92101 Lead Agency Identifier: N/A USGS Quadrangle: Point Loma, California (7.5 minute) Study Area: Approximately 1,000 acres Key Words: USGS Point Loma Topographic Quadrangle (7.5 minute); Barrio Logan Community Plan Update; historic context; historic resources reconnaissance level survey; potentially significant individual buildings; prehistoric assessment; Native American consultation; archaeological records search. -ii- Historical Resources Survey Barrio Logan Community Plan Area San Diego, California Table of Contents Page 1.0 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 1 2.0 Project Overview and Methodology ........................................................................................ 3 2.1 Background of the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update .............................................. 3 2.2 Methodology ..................................................................................................................... 3 2.3 City of San Diego Criterion for the Evaluation of Barrio Logan Historical Resources .... 6 3.0 Background Research ............................................................................................................ 10 3.1 Historic Literature Review .............................................................................................. 10 3.2 Archaeological Records Search ...................................................................................... 10 4.0 Historic Context ..................................................................................................................... 14 4.1 Prehistory (Pre-1796) ...................................................................................................... 14 4.2 Spanish Period (1769-1821) ........................................................................................... 18 4.3 Mexican Period (1822-1846) .......................................................................................... 18 4.4 American Period (1846-Present) ..................................................................................... 20 4.4.1 Residential and Commercial Development in the Era of Railroads and Streetcars (1870s-1920s) ....................................................................................... 21 4.4.2 Early Industrial Bayfront Development (1880s-1930s) ........................................ 34 4.4.3 Residential and Commercial Development in the Era of Minority Migration/ Immigration and Euro-American Exodus (1920s-1950s) ...................................... 42 4.4.4 Later Industrial and Naval Bayfront Development (1940s-1950s) ....................... 49 4.4.5 Community Response to Rezoning and Infrastructure Projects/ Chicano Political Activism (1960s-Present) ........................................................................ 52 4.5 Property Types ................................................................................................................ 59 4.6 Architectural Styles ......................................................................................................... 66 5.0 Survey Results ....................................................................................................................... 74 5.1 Survey Overview ............................................................................................................ 74 5.2 Identification of Integrity Thresholds ............................................................................. 78 5.3 Identification of Potentially Significant Properties ......................................................... 79 5.4 Identification of Historic Districts .................................................................................. 84 5.5 Archaeology and Native American Consultation ........................................................... 85 6.0 Recommendations .................................................................................................................. 87 7.0 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 90 Appendix A – Native American Consultation Response Appendix B – Barrio Logan Community Plan Area Subdivision Maps Appendix C – Surveyed Buildings Appendix D – Barrio Logan Street Name and Number Changes Appendix E – Notable Places, People, and Groups Identified by the Logan Heights Historical Society Appendix F- Logan Heights Historical Society “Memory Album” -iii- Historical Resources Survey Barrio Logan Community Plan Area San Diego, California List of Figures Page Figure 1 The Barrio Logan Community Plan Area showing Historical Resources Survey Boundary ........................................................................................................ 9 Figure 2 Map of the Port of San Diego, 1825 ......................................................................... 20 Figure 3 Approximate boundaries of the East End from the 1870s to circa 1905 .................. 22 Figure 4 Map of Railroad Lands, ca. 1870 .............................................................................. 23 Figure 5 Historical subdivision boundaries within the Barrio Loan Community Plan Area... 25 Figure 6 Approximate boundaries of Logan Heights from circa 1905 to 1963 ...................... 26 Figure 7 USGS San Diego Quadrangle, 1902 ......................................................................... 27 Figure 8 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of commercial district ........................................ 30 Figure 9 1921 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map with bungalow court .......................................... 31 Figure 10 1921 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of commercial district ........................................ 32 Figure 11 1921 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map illustrated fish cannery wharfs........................... 37 Figure 12 USGS San Diego Quadrangle, 1930 ......................................................................... 41 Figure 13 1946 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of commercial district ........................................ 46 Figure 14 1946 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of residential construction types ........................ 47 Figure 15 1946 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map selection showing canneries .............................. 50 Figure 16 1946 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map selection showing Kelco Co. plant .................... 51 Figure 17 Approximate boundaries of Barrio Logan after 1969 ............................................... 53 Figure 18 Historical properties included in the historical resources survey.............................. 75 Figure 19 Historical Resources Inventory Map……………………………………..……….…85 List of Plates Plate 1 An Indian ranchería from 1879 .................................................................................... 18 Plate 2 San Diego Electric Railway Car, ca. 1898, Logan and National Avenue route ........... 26 Plate 3 Residences designed by architects Hebbard and Gill in 1887...................................... 28 Plate 4 Early 20th century examples of multiple-family dwellings .......................................... 28 Plate 5 An example of a mixed-use building, built 1911 ......................................................... 33 Plate 6 Normandie Sea Food drying and frying, no date ......................................................... 35 Plate 7 Aerial photograph of BLCPA, 1928 ............................................................................ 39 Plate 8 Aerial photograph of BLCPA bayfront, Mar. 28, 1937 ............................................... 40 Plate 9 Street views, BLCPA, 1920s ....................................................................................... 44 Plate 10 Examples of commercial buildings in BLCPA ............................................................ 45 Plate 11 Street view, Newton and Cesar Chavez, 1940s ............................................................ 47 Plate 12 Close-up aerial photograph of BLCPA during World War II, facing north ................. 48 Plate 13 National Iron Works (later NASSCO), ca. 1939 .......................................................... 49 -iv- Historical Resources Survey Barrio Logan Community Plan Area San Diego, California List of Plates, cont. Page Plate 14 Coronado Bridge construction over Barrio Logan in 1969, facing east ....................... 53 Plate 15 Chicano Park Protest, 1970 .......................................................................................... 54 Plate 16 Chicano Park Takeover Mural ....................................................................................