National Register of Historic Inventory—Nomination Form 1. Name 2

FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Inventory—Nomination Form See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms Type all entries—complete applicable sections 1. Name historic NORTH END HISTORIC RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT and/or common THE NORTH END 2. Location Roughly bounded by Wood to the west Nevada to the east Uintah to the south street & number and El Parque and Madison to the north ___. _____n/ar- not for publication city, town Colorado Springs vicinity of congressional district state Colorado code county El Paso code 041 3. Classification Category Ownership Status Present Use XX district public XX occupied agriculture museum building(s) XX private unoccupied commercial park structure both work in progress educational xx private residence site Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment religious object N/A in process yes: restricted government scientific N/A being considered XX yes: unrestricted industrial transportation no military other: 4. Owner of Property name (See continuation sheets.) street & number city, town n/a vicinity of state 5. Location of Legal Description courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Assessor's Office, El Paso County Building 27 East Vermijo street & number Colorado Springs Colorado city, town state 6. Representation in Existing Surveys__________ title Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites has this property been determined elegible? __ yes _x_no date Ongoing federal X state county local depository for survey records Colorado Historical Society, 1300 Broadway Denver Colorado 80203 city, town state 7. Description Condition Check one Check one excellent deteriorated XX unaltered XX original site JQLgood ruins altered moved date fair unexposed Describe the present and original (iff known) physical appearance Located just north of Colorado College and about a mile north of downtown Colorado Springs, the North End Historic Residential District is a residential area composed of 657 properties dating primarily from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the presence of 19 intrusions, mostly low^rise commercial structures or apartment houses, the district maintains the feelings and ambience of a bygone era. The neighborhood is laid out in a standard city block grid plan; curving streets adjoining Monument Valley Park are the only exceptions to this pattern. The houses are typically single family, two-story detached residences,usually frame, with 25-foot setbacks on flat lawns, following the Midwestern or New England fashion. Original wall exteriors were usually square cut with overlapping shingles (combined frequently with ornamental shingles set in patterns) or wood lap siding some of which has been covered with asbestos or vinyl shingles or siding. There are a few residences of brick and stucco, but no stone structures. The general tone is conservative and derivative. Because most of the houses were built at the turn of the century or later, there are few examples of flamboyant Victorian archi tecture. Yet the area has enjoyed stability and general affluence over the years and there is an air of health, continuity, and cohesiveness about the neighborhood. Properties and landscaping have been maintained, and vigilant neighborhood attention to zoning has kept out most modern intrusions. Exclusive of outbuildings, there are 657 structures on the same number of individually owned sites. Outbuildings on the older properties include barns converted to garages, occasional carriage houses that combined servants 1 quarters with stables/garages, and a few garden pavilions. Most hitching posts have been removed. Sidewalks and curbs are of concrete. There were some early brick streets but all are now covered with asphalt surfacing. A few period lamp standards remain on Cascade and Wood avenues; modern streetlights have been installed on Nevada Avenue and Tejon Street. The district has a number of prominent features that distinguish it from other sections of the city. Notable are the wide main streets that run from north to south and the landscaped median strips along Cascade and Nevada avenues and parts of Wood. The North End also has an impressive collection of ornamental iron fences providing a good cross section of the styles once produced from the Hassell Iron Works, a local foundry. Native field sandstone from Austin Bluffs can be seen in many low walls, house foundations, and porch supports, Greenstone from Yount's quarry in Manitou was used on bungalows and chalets built in the early twentieth century. Decorative windows were also common in the neighborhood, and many houses display small panes in the English style as well as beveled, leaded, and colored glass, the latter often arranged pictorially. The larger houses built before 1920 usually had sleeping porches used by either family members or boarders under treatment for tuberculosis. The overwhelming cultural influence on North End architecture is English, sometimes expressed through American Colonial adaptations. There is a considerable body of American vernacular building, including several "craftsman" homes and a large representation of bungalows. FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department off the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form North End Historic Residential District Continuation sheet EL PASO COUNTY______ Item number 7___________Page 2______ Houses in the Spanish and Mission modes, usually of stucco, form a pleasant contrast to the English/American frame houses that predominate. An occasional chalet suggests Switzerland or Scandinavia, and France is represented by one or two vaguely provincial models. Most of these variations date from 1900 and later; the bulk of the early work is English, ranging from picturesque to classic, with seemingly endless combinations. Georgian Square The most common type in the North End, numbering one-hundred twenty-eight houses, the Georgian Squares (and a smaller version, the Georgian Cottage) share these characteristics hipped roof, projecting eaves treated as boxed cornices decorated with shallow modillion braces, dormer windows with hipped roofs, balustrades at mid and ground levels, a front porch spanning the full house width with plain classic columns in support. Exterior material is usually wood lap siding, occasionally shingle. The general visual quality is formal and symmetrical, though entry doors are usually set off to the side—there is no central hall except in the largest homes. Entrances sometimes have three parts: side lights and a transom or fan light. Beveled glass is often used as decoration on front windows and doors, sometimes set in ornamental oval windows with exaggerated keystones. These homes are only occasionally attributed to architects; most are builder designs. Colonial Revival There are fifty-two houses in this category. They display a wide range of features and sometimes incorporate a "shingle" variation that is totally picturesque rather than classic, Many of these houses have gambrel roofs; most are two story and sometimes larger. Second stories occasionally project, as in medieval styles. Many of these houses have leaded glass or small-paned windows. The larger examples have tripartite doors with side and transom lights, and classic columns on porches or porticos. Georgian,Neo-Classic The eleven houses falling under these three labels are formal, symmetrical structures with hipped roofs and classic detailing. Tudor-Elizabethan/Queen Anne/Jacobean; Tudor-Elizabethan There are approximately forty-seven buildings in these styles, some of them imposing timbered structures with overhangs and textured variations. Small-paned windows, often leaded, are typical. Modes 1920s versions often retain vestigal features: little turrets, applied timbers, rusticated brick or stone punctuating an otherwise smooth stucco facade. These homes usually have sharply pitched gables and are distinguished by asymmetri cal plans and massing. Queen Anne The North End was built too late to have many examples of this type: the nine that have been identified are modest, conservative homes that could also be considered vernacular. These houses are usually shingle, sometimes with several patterns. Invariably, they have towers or turrets, and an irregular massing of features. FHR-8-300 (11-78) United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form North End Historic Residential District Continuation sheet EL PASO COUNTY Item number 7 Page 3 This large brick residence is described in Item 8 in the section on architecturally significant homes. Bungalow/Chalet Bungalow One—story timber bungalows, shingled or stuccoed, predominate in the north section of the district reflecting growth after World War I. These structures usually have a low-pitched gable roof, exposed rafters tinder the eaves, a front porch, window groupings, and fireplaces. They often feature ''rustic" details such as timber braces, small paned windows, field stone foundations, and porch supports. There are larger versions, some of which blend into a chalet style. There are over a hundred examples. There are over fifty homes that show evidence of craftsman influences from the Gustave Stickley era. About a dozen are chalets? individually Grafted, picturesque homes probably done by the same builder. They have projecting eaves with exposed rafters, shingle siding,

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