Eleanor Edmiston House 2928 33Rd Street ~ North Park Neighborhood San Diego, California
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HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Eleanor Edmiston House 2928 33rd Street ~ North Park Neighborhood San Diego, California Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (858) 459-0326 www.legacy106.com December 2016 1 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principle Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Architectural Historian P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (858) 459-0326 • http://www.legacy106.com 2 3 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 32 *Resource Name or #: The Eleanor Edmiston House P1. Other Identifier: 2928 33rd Street, San Diego, CA 92104 *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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: National City Date: 2012 T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 2928 33rd Street City: San Diego Zip: 92104 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: Lots Thirty One (31) and Thirty Two (32) in Block Two (2) of Carmel Heights according to map thereof No. 1726 filed in the office of the County Recorder of said San Diego County, September 6, 1922; It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel APN # 453-622-18-00. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house is a excellent single story example of the Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style built in 1928. It is a single-family residence constructed in the North Park community of San Diego. The east (front) elevation faces directly onto 33rd Street and the home has a detached rear garage. The home features a clay tile covered cross gabled front façade with rear flat roof and parapet. The side facing gable is actually a faux gable with front facing shed roof that is made to look like a gable. The home utilizes an asymmetrical façade with large arching focal window, deep inset reveal entrance, ten light casement windows and a raised walled uncovered patio entryway. (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 east (front) elevation. Photo by Kiley Wallace, October 2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Residential Building Record dated 1928. County Lot and Block Book dated 1928. First directory occupant listings 1928. Sewer record dated December 31, 1927. *P7. Owner and Address: Scott Sobiech 2928 33rd Street San Diego, CA 92104 *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: December 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Eleanor Edmiston House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA, Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., December 2016. 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 Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List): DPR 523A *Required Information 4 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 4 of 32 *Resource Name or #: The Eleanor Edmiston House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2016 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 home at 2928 33rd Street is a single story Spanish Eclectic style, built with an asymmetrical front façade and a rectangular form. The home, built in 1928, has a façade with low pitched clay tile covered roofs with very slightly flared eave overhang. The front roof appears to be cross gabled but in actuality is a forward facing gable and a shed roof with flat roof and behind. This rear flat roof utilizes a clay tile capped parapet visible on the side and rear of the home. The home displays many architectural details indicative of the Spanish Eclectic style including large arched focal window, clay tile roof and stucco surfacing. Spanish details include the deeply inset doorway entry opening. The low pitched Mission tiled red clay roof, clay tile attic vents, eaves with very little overhang and simple stucco chimney are other defining features of the Spanish Eclectic style. Hand finished stucco wall surfacing appears original and is consistent around the exterior of the home unless noted throughout. The home's original window openings seen around the house have simple molded wooden surrounds with a wooden bottom sill which is less common than the inset window openings with rounded reveal seen on many Spanish style homes in San Diego. The home instead utilizes the deep inset door and arched focal window opening to create a sense of permanence with the illusion of wide adobe walls. The home has a variety of windows with multi- light casement windows seen on the front and more visible driveway side, with double hung windows seen on the less visible south side and rear with multi-light eight over eight windows seen to the front. No additions to the building footprint exist. The home's setting is on an early suburban residential street in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego. The resource is in excellent condition and features cream colored stucco exterior wall surfacing and light brown painted wood detailing throughout unless noted. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home. The home has all the major character defining architectural features of the Spanish Eclectic style including the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing and arches above doors and principle windows. The home also exhibits some interesting features in the style including its use of raised uncovered concrete front patio porch surrounded by a low stucco wall. The Spanish Eclectic, also known as the Spanish Colonial revival style, became popular in 1915 with the creation of the California pavilion and other buildings for the Panama California Exposition in San Diego. At the Exposition, architect Bertram Goodhue built upon earlier Mission Revival styles and added a more varied and accurate representation of original 16th century Spanish buildings. This romantic, sophisticated style borrowed from a broader rich vocabulary of Moorish, Spanish Baroque, Renaissance and Mediterranean architectural traditions with detailing often based on actual prototypes in Spain. The San Diego Exposition, along with Goodhue and other designers, publicized and promoted the style's popularity and it became a craze in California in around 1925. East (Front) Elevation – Starting from the top, the highest point on the house is its stucco end chimney seen on the left. The cross gable façade displays a low pitched clay tile roof with a graceful flared stucco eave seen just below the roofline. On the left, the gable end is topped by a grouping of three round clay tile vents arranged in a triangular pattern. Below on the gable end face a large inset arching focal window is seen beneath a flat panel red canvas awning supported by iron stanchions. This arching fixed wooden window is topped by a segmented arch shape with a decorative iron window grille seen at the window base. This original iron grille work is an important element indicative of the Spanish style and features alternating twisted square stock connected to decorative hand hammered flat iron with curling ends supported by matching "S" shaped curling supports. The front facing gable wall continues out to the left creating a matching stucco half wall and iron gate which encloses the raised front patio. 5 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 5 of 32 *Resource Name or #: The Eleanor Edmiston House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): To the left, the side facing door is revealed with thick stucco surround creating an adobe fortress wall like appearance which is another important element of the home's Spanish Eclectic style. This side facing stucco door surround is sheltered by its own separate shed roof just beneath the principle roof line of the home. The side facing main entry door has a deep squared inset reveal creating a thick rectangular cut out shape that is made to create the illusion of this stucco covered adobe walls. The front door has a rectangular vertical plank style design with a small asymmetrically positioned viewing port with decorative wrought iron grille. Inside the gated front patio, two matching tall rectangular window groupings each contain double sets of ten light wooden casement windows. Each double window groupings have a lower rectangular wooden sills. To the right, the shed roof extends out over a small bump out portion, with a side facing rectangular French door which matches the doors with a ten light pattern that connects the front patio to the interior breakfast nook area. To the right, the end of the shed roof covered breakfast nook contains a double window grouping with dual nine light wooden casement windows.