HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House 3244 Dumas Street ~ Loma Portal Neighborhood 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 November 2016
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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 • http://www.legacy106.com
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Page 3 of 55 *Resource Name or #: The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House
P1. Other Identifier: 3244 Dumas St. San Diego, CA 92106 *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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: Point Loma Date: 2015 T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. *c. Address: 3244 Dumas St. City: San Diego Zip: 92106 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.) *e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Legal Description: Lot Ten (10) and the Southeasterly 1/2 of Lot Eleven (11) in Block C and Lot Twelve (12) and the Northeasterly 1/2 of Lot Eleven (11) Block C all of Chatsworth Terrace Annex according to map 1599 filed in the office of the County Recorder September 22, 1912. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel # 450-110-011-00.
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house is an excellent two-story example of the Spanish Eclectic style on a corner lot with a rear side facing attached garage. The resource is a large single-family wood framed residence in the Loma Portal neighborhood of San Diego, built in 1929 and completed in 1930. The southwest (front) elevation faces directly onto Dumas with the secondary façade facing northwest onto Willow Street. The home has an "L" shaped plan stucco surfacing throughout. The home utilizes an asymmetrical cross gabled front façade. The home features a cross gabled front façade with flat roof garage wing with surrounding parapet and balcony on the second level. On the main front façade, the house features a large arching focal window on the left, inset front entry porch in the middle and a cantilevered upper level to the right. Mission fired red clay tiles are used on all gabled roofs. Wooden shutters are seen in historic photos have been replaced in kind (See Continuation Sheet.) *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP2 *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District
*P5. Description of Photo: View of front elevation, November 2016.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both The Notice of Completion shows the home was actually completed on February 5, 1930. The Residential Building Record is dated 1930. Historic photos shows the home completed in 1929 . The water permit is dated December 9, 1929. The sewer permit is dated December 9, 1929.
*P7. Owner and Address: Stephane Beauvais & Megan Beauvais 3244 Dumas Street San Diego, CA 92106
*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: November 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House, San Diego, California, for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., November 2016. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace for 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
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: November 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) (continued):
The subject property at 3244 Dumas Street is a Spanish Colonial/Eclectic style single family residence. The home has an asymmetrical façade and a compound rectangular floor plan. The mixture of varying heights and roof types along with the varied front façade break up the massing of this single family home. The home has a red clay mission tile roof with wooden rafter tails seen just beneath the eaves. An inset central porch entryway is visible on the front façade. The lot has a slight grade change of approximately 2-3 feet from the front sidewalk down to the rear portion of the home. An attached double garage wing with a flat roof and balcony sits at the rear of the corner of the lot is original as seen on Sanborn maps.
The front façade gable is topped by a deep inset round attic vent, sometimes called a roundel, which is matched on the rear facing gable. Decorative wooden shutters and wrought iron pot holders are seen on the upper level. Projecting upper level rooms are seen on the front (southwest) and side (southeast) elevations supported by decorative wooden brackets. The central inset covered front porch entry has matching decorative wooden brackets and a flared stucco door reveal. A large segmented arched window opening focal window is also seen on the front elevation. Various decorative window grilles are seen around the home on the primary and secondary elevations and utilize wooden spindles and stucco privacy grille work openings. A large stucco end chimney is seen on the secondary elevation. Sets of three pane wood casement are the main windows seen around the home. Some windows have been replaced in-kind in 2002 as part of the Quieter Home Program (see Attachment A.4). Unless noted, all windows and doors retain the original soft inset stucco reveal.
The one story resource features a cross gabled front façade and low pitched mission red fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative rafter tails. The rear two car garage is covered by a flat roof with parapet and wrought iron pot holders matching those seen on the front façade. The home features stucco wall surfacing and blue painted wood detailing throughout.
The home has the characteristic defining architectural features of the Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style, including the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with minimal overhangs, stucco surfacing, and use of arches, especially the large arched focal window. The home has a hand troweled irregular stucco exterior surfacing seen on all façades. Windows and doors are blue painted wood unless otherwise noted. The resource is positioned squarely on a rectangular corner lot on Dumas Street which runs diagonally from northwest down to southeast.
This 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. Bertram Goodhue also designed the Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruit Depot in 1922- 1923 in Loma Portal which greatly influenced the housing designs and styles of Point Loma. The San Diego Exposition, NTC designs along with Goodhue and other designers, publicized and promoted the style's popularity. It would grow to became a craze in California in around 1925.
Southwest (Front) Elevation – Visible on the right, just below the second floor front facing gable roofline, is the recessed round attic vent. This decorative metal vent is deeply inset into the stucco to give it the wall the appearance of thick adobe style construction. This deep reveal attic vent is sometimes called a roundel and was a favored architectural detail used by Pasadena based builder the Bathrick Brothers and other Spanish Eclectic builders and architects which simulated thick masonry construction.
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: November 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
Along the upper level, below the central attic vent, a wooden rectangular double casement window with soft inset reveal is seen with a matching double casement window set seen to the right. The rectangular double casement windows each contain three glazed panes. Each of these double window groupings share a common wooden sill with wrought iron pot holders placed below. On the upper level gable on the left, a fixed window is protected by extending upper and lower plaster hood and vertical window grille made of six lathe turned wooden spindles. This upper level cantilevers out over the first level slightly and is supported by wooden corbels to the right and a covered entryway at the center.
The low pitched cross gabled roof with irregularly laid red clay barrel tiles is in keeping with the rustic Spanish aesthetic and design. This subtle roof tile detail mimics a roof that has been retiled over many years. The varied roof line with irregularly laid clay tiles is evident in this front elevation starting with the two story gable end to the right, and extending single level side gable wing to the left. Painted wood rafter ends are visible below the roofline eave to the left.
On the first level from left to right, on the left side gable end, is a stucco chimney with simple brick top and metal spark arrestor. It appears this stucco chimney was extended with brick by approximately three feet at some point, based on field examination and 1929 historic photos (Attachment D.1). A large segmented arched focal window opening has a deep inset reveal with a fixed glazed wooden window. This large focal window also matches the historic 1929 photo. To the right, an inset covered porch entryway has a rectangular opening with large decorative scroll cut wooden brackets placed above the opening creating an arch like affect at the threshold of the raised front porch. The front covered inset porch contains a central deep inset flaring stucco door reveal. The rectangular plank style front door is made of seven long vertical wooden planks with elongated iron strap hinges and matching iron hardware. The raised covered porch floor is comprised of scored concrete which appears very original.
Stepped back to the right the upper level cantilevered room extends out about one foot with supporting wooden corbels matching those seen on the front porch. A double casement window grouping is seen below this projecting upper level room. The two three-paned wooden casement windows allow ocean breezes into the home and match the other seen around the home.
Northwest (Secondary) Elevation – The upper level utilizes a side facing gable roof with a matching irregularly laid red clay tile roof. This second story roof gable roof has wood rafter tails seen just below the eave. Fenestration along this upper level from left to right consists of double rectangular wooden casement windows flanked by decorative plank style shutters, a small rectangular wooden window, then another double casement window and to the right, finally right above the extending gable wing a decorative stucco window grille.
On the lower level, the extending wing has a protruding gable end with a stucco chimney placed at the gable peak. Above the gable roofline the square stucco end chimney has painted brick extension topped with metal spark arrestor. The tapered stucco end chimney has stucco surfacing matching the rest of the house and stepped sides with caps. It appears based on the historic photos and site evaluation that the chimney has been extended on top with brick, most likely this chimney was extended to stop chimney embers from entering the upper level windows. This chimney is flanked on each side by deep inset rectangular double casement window openings. These double casement window sets each contain two rectangular wooden windows with a three light pattern which matches the other windows seen on the home but slightly wider. These flanking windows maintain the original soft inset reveal which is an important architectural feature seen on Spanish Colonial / Eclectic which recalls thick adobe walls.
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*P3a. Description (continued):
To the left, a rectangular stucco grille provides privacy for a covered porch. This privacy grille has four rows of three square openings. This side covered porch transitions to the left to an uncovered raised patio which is seen behind a screen of foliage. This side covered porch utilizes an open wooden beam ceiling. This raised scored concrete patio is painted red with three steps leading down to the driveway area.
Stepped back, to the left behind the main two story house, the attached three car garage has a flat roof with parapet and open patio above. The attached three car garage is unusual for the 1930 time period, however detailed site examination and the original 1930 Notice of Completion (Attachment A.2) both show the attached garage is original. The stucco parapet has three round wrought iron pot holders which are built into the stucco wall about 18 inches from the top of the parapet wall. A clay tile covered shed roof covers the three car garage opening with three vertical wooden panel doors.
Northeast (Rear) Elevation – The rear elevation view of the home features a rear protruding wing on the with an open patio area built above the garage. This elevation continues the low pitched gable roof with clay tiles and round inset attic vent matching the front elevation. The extending flat roof covered garage with round iron clay pot holders matches those seen on other elevations. Two separate rectangular wooden French doors provide access from the two bedrooms to the upper level patio. Placed between these doors, a small rectangular wooden casement window which provides ventilation for the interior closet.
On the lower level, behind the garage, a French door and concrete stairway link the home to the backyard, while a double casement window provides views just in front of the garage openings. On the garage end, a single rectangular casement window is visible below some wall mounted old style knob and tube transformers. This early wiring matches the 1930 date of construction and confirms, along with the historic photos and Sanborn maps, that the attached three car garage is original and unaltered. A raised and partially covered rear facing side porch area has square scored red concrete flooring and original clay tile roof with decorative rafter tails. This patio area is partially obscured behind a privacy hedge. A double French wooden door set with single light rectangular glazing and a side facing original wooden paneled service door provide access to this side patio. These patio French doors appear to be in the original inset opening with rounded stucco reveal. A large rectangular stucco grille is seen facing the street on the side with twelve rectangular openings. This accented stucco wall grille retains the original open vented unglazed design which provides privacy and ventilation with rectangular vent openings.
Southeast (Side) Elevation - The low pitched slightly overhanging gable clay tile roof and exposed rafter tails continue on the side elevations of the home. On the second floor, a rectangular central bay projects out, which is cantilevered out over the first floor and is supported by decorative wooden brackets. From left to right (front to back), the upper level maintains an original round iron clay pot holder which is imbedded into the stucco matching the others seen around the home. This iron pot holder is placed directly beneath a double grouping of three light rectangular casement windows. Next, the cantilevered second level projects out about one foot and utilizes an extended clay tile roof and two more identical sets of double casement windows in a three light configuration. Finally, to the right, at the rear is another matching rectangular double casement on the second level near the second level rear corner. On the rear flat roof double car garage with patio above, three more matching round iron pot holders are seen below the flat parapet.
On the first level, at the left a large inset focal window has large fixed wooden window witch frames the view of the San Diego Bay and Coronado Island. Then to the right, again a rectangular double casement window is seen beneath the extending upper level with three light windows while at the right, three
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*Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: November 2016 Continuation Update
*P3a. Description (continued):
smaller double casement windows each contain two rectangular casement windows with two pane windows. At the rear of the main house, a rear service door provides access to the backyard via concrete steps and a built-in stucco railing which appears very original. Finally, on the rear of the garage, a narrow rectangular wooden door provides access to the rear of the garage. Just above the foundation, a simple vertices wooden plank style door is seen which provides access to the lower crawlspace.
Interior Architectural Features - Shown for reference, original interior architectural features include the original open beam ceiling, wooden plank style front door, wood floors and fireplace surround. Also original and intact are the hand hammered ironwork stairway railing, paneled wooden interior doors, decorative heater grilles and hardware throughout the home. Not proposed for inclusion in designation.
Landscaping / Yard Setting - The landscaping and open grass lawn in front complements the Spanish Eclectic style of the house and is similar to the type seen in the historic 1929 photo and 1946 aerial photo. The front corner setback also matches the historic photos and Sanborn maps. The large juniper trees seen in transitional photos that were planted directly near the house by the front porch entrance have since been removed and the current owners plan to redesign the front landscaping in the future with a water conserving design complementary to the historic home.
Quieter Home Program. Some windows have been replaced in-kind as part of the Quieter Home Program in 2002. The home was described on previous San Diego Intensive DPR Survey Forms as being significant under multiple Criteria, (See Attachment A-7). The approved policy of the City of San Diego City Council has been that the replacement of windows in accordance with the Quieter Home Program would not exclude a historic home from designation.
Quieter Home Program standards require that windows be replaced with comparable materials "kind for kind" as stated in the 2011 San Diego Programmatic Agreement Among the Federal Aviation Administration, The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Officer, The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and the City of San Diego, regarding implementation of the Quieter Home Program for the City of San Diego International Airport, Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California under Window Treatment Priorities.
Where windows must be replaced in order to meet acoustical requirements, to the extent feasible, all existing or known original fabric shall be replaced with comparable materials, sizes and design. Known original fabric can be established through old (historic) photos, remaining physical evidence, or historical style. For example, original wood windows, or historic evidence of wood windows, shall be replaced by wood windows.
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B1. Historic Name: 3244 Dumas Street B2. Common Name: 3244 Dumas Street 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 shows the home was actually completed on February 5, 1930. The Residential Building Record also shows the resource was built in 1930. The water and sewer permits are both dated December 9, 1929. The San Diego Evening Tribune published building, roofing and electrical permits for the home in December 1929 and January 1930. The building permit was published on December 10, 1929. The roofing permit was published in the San Diego Evening Tribune on December 28, 1929. The electrical permit notice was published on January 18, 1930 (please see attachment A.4). An additional 1937 notice of completion was likely for exterior and/or interior painting. The City of San Diego has only one building permit project on record: This is for the 2002 "in kind" replacement of wooden windows and instillation of air conditioning / HVAC system under the San Diego City Council approved Quieter Home Program. The home was described on previous San Diego Intensive DPR survey forms as being significant under multiple criteria and the home window and door replacements were completed in accordance with city approved historic standards (please see attachment A.7). As stated, the Quieter Home Program standards require that windows be replaced with comparable materials "kind for kind" as stated in the 2011 San Diego Programmatic Agreement Among the Federal Aviation Administration, The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Officer, The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and the City of San Diego, regarding implementation of the Quieter Home Program for the City of San Diego International Airport, Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California (2011) under Window Treatment Priorities. Although not shown in permits the original front wooden shutters were replaced at some point as seen in historic and transitional photos. The 1929 historic photo clearly shows the original wooden shutters with round cut out design. The neighboring home to the east was also built by the Bathrick Brothers and had identical wooden shutters, so the homeowner had new "in kind" wooden shutters built to match the historic photos using these borrowed shutters as templates. At the same time, a few lathe turned grille spindles seen on the front which were rotted or missing were also replaced and repaired in kind. The wooden shutters and grille today exactly match the 1929 historic photo. *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location: *B8. Related Features: B9a. Architect: unknown b. Builder: Bathrick Brothers Construction Company
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Architecture Area: Point Loma (San Diego) Period of Significance: 1930 Property Type: Single-Family Property Applicable Criteria: C & D (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity). The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House at 3244 Dumas Street is found to be significant under Criterion “C” as an excellent example of Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style architecture with its asymmetrical design, clay tile roof, inset arched window openings and lathe turned spindle and stucco grilles and other elaborations. As seen on the notice of completion, the home was designed by the Bathrick Brothers and builtm inmmm nnnn 1930. The Bathrick Brothers are proposed as Master Builders and this home is found to be significant under Criterion “D” as a notable example of the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company excellent work in the Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style. This house has been well maintained and has good integrity within the public view. The Period of Significance, 1930, encompasses the date of the construction. (See Continuation Sheet.) N B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) none *B12. References: (See Continuation Sheet) B13. Remarks: none *B14. Evaluator: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace
*Date of Evaluation: November 2016
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A:
Criterion A (Community History): 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 Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House at 3244 Dumas Street was found not to rise to the level of exemplifying special elements of the community's historical, archaeological, cultural, social, economic, political, aesthetic, engineering, landscaping or architectural development. Although the house reflects and contributes to our understanding of Loma Portal as a hub for Spanish Eclectic design in the late 1920's and 1930's, the home was not the first of this type in the area or a model home. The home was not an early home in the early development or subdivision development. No information came to light to determine that the resource rose to a level of significance to qualify for designation under Criterion A. The following discussion provides the background for that conclusion.
To understand the significance of a resource within the Loma Portal community, and establish the house’s relevance under Criterion A, it is necessary to explain the community's “cultural landscape." That is, to explain how the resource and its residents reflect special elements of the community’s development. The house must also reflect Loma Portal’s social, economic or architectural development. Because of the National Register survey, this significance has essentially been accepted as a given by the City of San Diego in previous Loma Portal house landmarks. Finally, because the house exists in its original location, is in excellent condition, and has high integrity, it is important because it represents Loma Portal’s cultural and historical development.
Phase One of Loma Portal, 1905-1919. The San Diego Securities Company changed their marketing practices after World War I. The program no longer referenced the Panama-California Exposition and Keller no longer controlled design review. The architectural styles of the subsequent era shifted from Craftsman, Classical, Renaissance, Prairie/Chicago, and Mission Revival styles to a more broad Southern California style of Spanish Eclectic architecture. The era ended with the United States Government’s acquisition of the Point Loma Golf Course in 1919. Thus, the first era of this cultural landscape lasted from 1905 to 1919.
Loma Portal represents the tangible result of farsighted investors who had a bold vision of San Diego’s future. These capitalists existed in the era before personal income tax was imposed in 1913, and they were Empire Builders. Their vision involved immense foresight and vast wealth, careful and strategic planning, and real estate management and opportunities unimaginable to most residents today. These visionaries saw in Point Loma and San Diego Bay, the elements that were key to the future of the city’s growth (Smythe, 1908, Chapter V). Furthermore, they had the opportunity, position, and experience to capitalize upon vast tracts of former ranchland that the heirs of Mannasse and Schiller unloaded in 1905.
In San Diego, this scenario crystallized in January of 1909, when realtor George Burnham and Charles Forward of the Union Title & Trust Company joined forces to market Loma Portal on the very blocks and lots laid out by Mannasse and Schiller in the 19th century. Similarly, other heirs to farmland across America were coming into their inheritances, and this was in fact representative of the period. In Chicago, banker Charles T. Page and his partner Eugene Hardendorf had been approached in the same way by heirs who wanted to divest their holdings. These large landowners attracted the wealthy speculators who were ready to match their desire to sell with visions of profits and new subdivisions. (Huston, pages 52- 28).
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued):
In addition, the strides in manufacturing and railroad technology at the turn of the century represented the beginning of the end for the horse and carriage method of transportation, especially in urban cores. By the 1880s, steam cars had replaced horse drawn trolleys in some communities and transportation by electric streetcar would close out the century (Huston, p. 47). In San Diego, wealthy railroad and real estate entrepreneurs like Colonel Collier were placing interurban routes to connect the city to destination resorts. Attractions such as Ocean Beach’s Wonderland Park and University Heights’ Mission Cliffs Gardens were accessible to thousands this way.
While interurban railroads were important to middle and working class commuters, cosmopolitan progressives like Henry H. Timken and Albert Spalding had a different vision – one that involved highways, not rails. Timken, a German who had immigrated to America as a child with his family, was known as the “Roller Bearing King.” With his father and brother, Timken’s company manufactured carriages in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1898, they built a factory in Canton, Ohio to manufacture their patented roller bearing axle and “Timken spring” for farm implements, carriages, and buggies. Constantly on the lookout for new ideas and willing to direct his money towards inventors, he was on the cutting edge of the latest technology in aviation, transportation, science, and industry. (Automotive Hall of Fame) His patents made him a fortune and in 1897 he retired to settle in California.
Timken however, kept very busy. (Herdendorf) In 1909, he and William R. Timken, and other investors, formed the Timken-Detroit Axle Co., in Canton, to manufacture automobiles. Timken took this a step further by investing in the both the inventions as well as the inventors. His money extended not only to developing automobile technologies, but the new advancements in aviation. Another important change in thinking involved mass marketing of automobile transportation to America’s middle class. This plays directly into the history of Loma Portal in San Diego. (The Lime Times-Democrat [Lima, Ohio], June 3, 1909)
Eastern and Midwestern industrialists, such as Timken, knew that the horseless carriage or automobile and commercial trucks represented the future of transportation. In 1908, Henry Ford marketed the Model T Ford for an affordable $850 dollars to America’s middle class. Furthermore, these visionaries knew that development and travel into outlying areas would exceed the capacity of animal – based transportation. Not only that, farm animals, with their attendant aromas and needs, were not desirable neighbors in planned residential neighborhoods.
These wealthy progressives saw the automobile as the key to the future of development of their remote communities. Their focus moved beyond the rails to convince chambers of commerce and government to fund highway infrastructure.
The close association of the San Diego Securities investors with the automobile industry and highway development, as opposed to the interurban railroad construction, redefines the origins of Loma Portal and influences on Point Loma’s growth. Their desire to create high-class communities on Point Loma, was targeted to be attractive to wealthy investors who had been the first to purchase automobiles.
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*B10. Significance - Criterion A (continued):
Furthermore, it was the paving of Chatsworth Boulevard, “designed as the artery of traffic on Point Loma” which would become the primary commuter link to San Diego. (Point Loma Outlook, 1910):
Few residents of San Diego are in position to realize the benefits and privileges that will be conferred on the community by the completion of Chatsworth boulevard…designated as the artery of traffic on Point Loma, it is also destined to become world famous as a highway commanding one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world… Chatsworth will furnish the shortest route to Ocean Beach and Point Loma Homestead, and it is expected that practically all traffic in that direction will be over its smooth expanse…the ascent of the ridge is so gradual, as to make it a route preferred by motorists and team drivers…in all, its length will be over three miles, terminating at the high knoll upon which stands the U.S. Wireless Station.” (Point Loma Outlook, 1910)
About the same time, Colonel Collier, president of Western Investment Company, financed a trolley in 1909 that ran from Middletown across Dutch Flats to connect with Rosecrans Street and then run the length south to Talbot with future plans of riding up to Point Loma Heights along Catalina Street. This also passed right through the Mannasse & Schiller tract acquired by the San Diego Securities Corporation. The analysis that “The San Diego-Point Loma electric rail line was completed in 1909 and was instrumental in the growth of Point Loma because it provided a commuter link to San Diego,” (HRB Criterion A Analysis, Quieter Home Program House Nominations), must be reconsidered to include the paving and opening of Chatsworth boulevard and highway development as instrumental to Point Loma’s development and Loma Portal, “the gateway to the hills of beautiful Point Loma”. (San Diego Securities Company brochure, c. 1913)
It is in this context that Burnham and the Forwards came together around 1909 to secure development of the former Mannasse and Schiller subdivision into this bold new vision of a “Greater San Diego.” The first key to success revolved around San Diego gaining official sanction to host the Pacific Coast’s exposition in celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915. The second key was to bring together a core group of investors who were sufficiently wealthy and influential to secure the exposition in San Diego against the claims of rival cities. On October 2,1909, the Indianapolis Star quoted President Taft’s view that “the entire Pacific Coast is expected to profit greatly by the short all-water route from the eastern seaboard to the opening of European markets to this section” and that this had, of course, “aroused great enthusiasm.” Point Loma, the latest investors were sure, was finally positioned for greatness and prosperity. George Burnham, who would form the San Diego Securities Company, had just the plan. It is important to point out that a number of influential real estate and architectural interests in San Diego, including architect Irving Gill, promoted North Island and Ballast Point on Point Loma as the site for the Exposition.
Many accounts gloss over this fact in a way that represents the selection of City Park (now Balboa Park) as the exposition site as nearly a foregone conclusion. In fact, the period from 1905 to 1911 involved intensive lobbying and promotion by real estate interests for the honor to hold the exposition in proximity to their real estate investments. The first challenge was to win San Diego as the exposition site over Pacific Coast rivals such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. In fact, even the City of New Orleans wanted the honor. The next challenge was within San Diego, and it came down to a power struggle between two syndicates of real estate investors– those that wanted the harbor and those that wanted the park.
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While it is true that by 1911 the City Park site was ultimately chosen, it is also true that the attempt to maneuver Ballast Point or North Island as the site for the exposition defined a significant part of the underlying real estate speculation on Point Loma before the park was selected. Those who wanted the harbor as the exposition site were planning early for success, and they had good reason to be optimistic. The reason the San Diego Securities Company formed in 1911 was because the harbor / Point Loma interests had lost out, and instead of using their land tracts for exposition related uses, they simply shifted their focus to develop high-class residential communities such as Loma Portal. Meanwhile, some of the key principals in the endeavor had built their own homes on Point Loma by 1909.
In 1909, George Burnham was vice president and general manager of Scott-Burnham Investment Company. His brother John was secretary – treasurer, and James was branch manager. (San Diego City Directory, 1909). Not surprisingly, George was also second vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. By 1910, George was president of the Chamber and John F. Forward was second vice-president. Forward was also president of the Union Title & Trust Company. That year Burnham was honorary commercial commissioner to China and represented San Diego as one of nine Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast to meet with the Imperial Majesty of China to discuss trade conditions between the Orient and America. (McGrew, p. 198, 1922) By 1911, John Forward’s son, Charles, who was in 1909 attending law school, returned to San Diego in 1911 to partner with A.H. Sweet in his law firm. Sweet and Charles Forward would join with George Burnham in the incorporation of the San Diego Securities Company. Not surprisingly, Charles and his wife Zella E. Saint Forward made their home in the new community of Loma Portal. (McGrew II-36)
Phase Two of Loma Portal, 1922-1935. The fate of Loma Portal changed dramatically after World War 1. Congress pumped money into development of the Mannasse and Schiller subdivision east of Rosecrans Street to design and build the Naval Training Center. Upon completion in 1922, San Diego began to experience a dramatic architectural shift toward Spanish Eclectic style architecture. Although some historians suggest the 1915 Exposition influenced the style, little of Spanish design appeared before 1922. The booming 1920s transformed San Diego residential neighborhoods into rows of red tile roofs that continued to be erected during the Great Depression of the 1930s and lasted until about 1934.
Phase Three of Loma Portal, 1935-1942. A new infusion of Congressional funding for the airplane industry spawned a massive exodus of metal and mechanical craftsmen that coincided with a patriotic fervor reflected in a shift to Colonial Revival architectural styles after 1935. War terminated Phase Two, when Congress stopped all private construction and shifted building materials to provide factory worker housing away from Loma Portal to Cabrillo Heights to the northwest and Azure Vista to the southwest.
Early History. Point Loma has always been important as a trade center to the people of San Diego. Originally a traditional resource area for prehistoric people for at least 8,000 years, trade in carved stone, abalone shells, turquoise beads, and salt, up and down the coast from as far north as the San Francisco Bay area and as Far East as Arizona has passed through the gates of San Diego Bay. The Kumeyaay hunted and gathered food and medicine resources on the low ridges and canyons between San Diego and Mission Bay for centuries. Commercial trade and carved seashells, stone for making tools, exotic pottery, ornamental feathers, and basketry was a big business up and down the rivers and long canyons for longer than people can remember. Evidence of their habitation can easily be found in midden sites all along the bay, especially along Rosecrans Street to the south around Ballast Point. Back 8,000 to 5,000 years ago, however, the ocean level lay between 200 and 400 feet lower than today. In that time period, Point Loma was a mountain towering over a lush riparian valley where San Diego Bay is now located.
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Melting glaciers caused the sea level to rise over the past few thousand years to fill “San Diego Valley” and form the bay that visiting Spaniards viewed over 400 years ago.
Spanish authorities claimed San Diego in 1542 with the arrival of Spanish Army Captain Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo on Point Loma. The Spanish returned many years later to land a party on Point Loma in 1602 that found fresh water and they walked north to the San Diego River. (Personal communication, Harry Crosby, 2006) But Spain did not colonize the area until 1769. Fearing European incursions, Spain built a cannon battery, Fort Guijarros, on nearby Ballast Point near the entrance to San Diego Bay in 1796, and they maintained a small garrison with soldiers from the Royal Presidio de San Diego, about five miles south. To provide supplies between the battery and presidio, Spain built the La Playa Trail and then constructed a light beacon at Ballast Point to guide ships at night. The trail is believed to lie directly under Rosecrans Street.
After Mexican Independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican Republic sent a governor to regulate California under the new constitution. They changed the official capitol from Monterey to San Diego in 1822 and opened the port to foreign commerce. They also built an adobe customs house near the embarcadero wharf at La Playa (U.S. Navy Fuel Farm) and licensed British trading companies to operate cattle hide warehouses on the beach. Russian explorers landed and built a brick bread oven to feed their crew in 1825, which later served as housing for native Hawaiian sailors. Shanties sprang up to lodge various French, British, and American visitors during the 1820s through 1840s. Many of those travelers passed the La Playa Trail en route north to the Presidio or San Juan Capistrano, San Pedro, Los Angeles, or points further north. South bound travelers also traveled down to La Playa to catch a ride on one of the merchant or whaling ships bound for ports all around the world. Alfred Robinson, supercargo for one of the hide warehouse companies on La Playa, later built an enormous mansion, Rosecroft, on top of Point Loma. This house is on the National Register of Historic places and for many years it was a popular destination because of his famous begonia gardens.
When the United States of American ordered the invasion of Mexico, war ships entered San Diego Bay in 1846 and landed Marines somewhere between Ballast Point and the Presidio. The United States ultimately defeated Mexico and signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and Congress ratified the treaty in 1852. Land squabbles of fascinating detail ensued involving these Mexican land grants, city pueblo lands, and other legal documents. Ownership rights on Point Loma were not settled until 1870. Loma Portal is part of Pueblo Lot 209, and the Point Loma Golf Club and course were on Pueblo Lot 210. Between Statehood and adoption of the Charter of San Diego in 1850 and 1870, the City of San Diego hired at least four land surveyors to subdivide the Pueblo Land and city officials sold off blocks of lots to finance governmental affairs. The Americans abandoned Old San Diego for New San Diego in what is now downtown, while dreaming and scheming to make Point Loma the terminus for a transcontinental railroad. Land records across Point Loma with ownership by railroad interests show the underlying scheming to profit from this dream. (May and May, Strawn House Report, 2005) Meanwhile, Point Loma’s La Playa, Old Town, and New Town rivaled each other to be the nucleus of the new San Diego, and many believed Point Loma was the unquestionable best choice.
Groups of politicians lobbied the Department of War to develop military facilities on Point Loma in the former Mexican military property to protect commercial interests and civilian populations. At the same time, the United States Topographic Survey shot-in township and section lines and trained local governments how to record permanent land records. Almost overnight, bankers, financiers, merchants, whalers, and fisheries industries appeared on properties around San Diego Bay or bought land to start
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frontier enterprises. By 1856, a Dutch mill ground agricultural grain somewhere near Midway and the town of La Playa sprouted hotels, stores, saloons, and residential areas that rivaled Old Town.
Investors built wharfs and established shipping lines with stops in San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco and then around the Horn to the Atlantic, and ships bound from around the world heaved-to in San Diego Bay. During the American Civil War, shipping and commerce fed a steady rowing community that included Yankee whalers and many of the Stingaree District’s former Chinese residents. By 1869, Fisherman’s Point at the foot of Talbot Street had a thriving Chinese population busy with an important abalone fishing industry and boat-building shipyard for Chinese junks. (Lee 1999; Best, 2006) Meanwhile, visionary Louis Rose had developed the Roseville
community along San Diego Bay to the north of La Playa. is legacy on Point Loma and in San Diego’s early development and Jewish community is a testament to the pioneering spirit of the city’s early immigrants before the turn of the century. Eventually, Portuguese and Italian fisherfolk replaced the Chinese at Roseville. Meanwhile, business partners Mannasse and Schiller subdivided Pueblo Lot 209 in 1869 in the community that would become Loma Portal (Harrison, 2005)
The civilian community of whale hunters and Chinese fisherfolk were evicted by the United States Army in 1872 for construction of Fort San Diego, but Congress cut the funding in 1874 and the whalers returned until whales nearly went extinct in 1886. (May, 1985, 1986) The United States Army planned a railroad supply depot at La Playa and the City of San Diego negotiated with several railroad enterprises for right of-way for rail locations. When the key railroad went bankrupt, plans changed to divert the rail line south of Old Town through New Town to terminate in National City to the South. The Army relocated its depot in New Town and the military reservation received materials by sea. The U.S. Army returned in 1898 and dedicated Fort Rosecrans in 1899. They built a post and occupied most of Point Loma by 1902. The United States Navy built a Coaling Station and Naval Radio in 1906, which became the Fuel Farm in 1917 and now all the military property is Naval Base Point Loma.
Investors laid out the industrial community of Ironton to the south of Talbot and began construction of a nail factory, but the real estate crash of 1889 terminated those plans. Some of the street names such as Bessemer Street still hint at that brief history. Other investors attracted to San Diego by its wonderful climate and promising growth opportunities had bought up the rest of the shoreline and higher in the hills. Various farm and ranching operations gave way to housing schemes with such colorful names as Wildwood, Silvergate, and Madame Tingley’s impressive Theosophical Society spiritual and cultural community.
Point Loma’s residential community was small yet intimate, with travel to downtown San Diego by a long buggy ride or the more practical ferry service that was a daily occurrence. San Diego Historian Winifred Davidson and her husband John lived on Point Loma in 1905 in a tent hotel by the Theosophical Institute, near Talbot Street today. She described a community of 400 people with 28 nationalities. “There was a road where Rosecrans Street is now and we had to go across the flats to get to town. The Midway area was often flooded and if it rained, I spent the night in San Diego,” Davidson said. In 1905, Point Loma had:
… one or two houses on the ridge…and small colonies in La Playa and in Ocean Beach…Point Loma had its own little post office, too. It was not then part of San Diego…””San Diego historians owe a debt of thanks to Mrs. Davidson, who wrote a weekly newspaper column on local history and published several books on early San Diego. Without these publications, many facts of early history would have been lost, since the people she interviewed are long dead. (The Sentinel, January 2, 1964)
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An economic recession after 1900 stimulated the San Diego Chamber of Commerce to consider developing an exposition like the 1893 Columbian Exposition or 1909 Alaskan-Yukon Exposition to bootstrap the real estate market in San Diego. Business promoters and merchants alike envisioned the great potential such a venture would create for San Diego. The San Diego Union in 1909 records San Diego’s internal squabbling about the location for an exposition, while nobody argued the potential benefits. The Chamber of Commerce had begun work to plan a “World’s Fair for San Diego in 1915” announced the San Diego Tribune on August 27, 1909. Meanwhile, George Burnham and D. C. Collier had been named Panama-California Exposition directors tasked to campaign in cities across America and at other expositions to obtain funds, although they personally disagreed on where the exposition should be held. Collier earnestly believed City Park was the best location and Burnham wanted it on the waterfront. (The San Diego Sun, October 9, 1909)
Articles of Incorporation for the “Panama-California Exposition” were filed with the County Clerk in September 1909. Lyman Gage, the first president of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, agreed to be an advisor and then director of the Exposition. In October, Burnham and Collier headed out to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. But the site had yet to be chosen, and others were at work on that. The San Diego Union identified Burnham as the primary mover in a new company:
It is true that preliminary steps have been taken in the organization of the San Diego Securities Company. Those associated or to become associated with me in this undertaking not only believe with me that such a company can be made reasonably profitable, but that it is destined to become an important factor in the upbuilding of San Diego (San Diego Union September 24, 1911).
By September of 1909, the Chamber of Commerce secured assurances from the City Park Commission and a private Panama California Exposition organization formed with Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. vetted for president, G. Aubrey Davidson tapped as chair, and general director Collier proposing City Park as the site and lobbying the City Council for public bonding to finance the venue (San Diego Union September 8, 1909). Burnham had served as vice president and director of the Southern Trust and Commerce Bank of San Diego and associated with Davidson with that bank. Among those officers to serve with Burnham, Charles H. Forward practiced in partnership with attorney A.H. Sweet in the firm of Sweet, Stearns & Forward with offices in the Union Building. Forward and Sweet would join with Burnham in the San Diego Securities Company.
J.W. Sefton traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby for Congressional recognition and seeking a promise from the President of the United States to invite international exhibitors to San Diego (San Diego Union September 16, 1909). The San Diego Union announced President Taft would attend the Panama California Exposition in San Diego in 1915 (San Diego Union October 1, 1909) and the news made national headlines. H.P. Wood, secretary of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee, advertised the exposition through Southeast Asian countries. Gage then began promoting cleaning up San Diego for the exposition and various groups urged the City Council to hire police to clean up the Stingaree District down at the foot of 5th Avenue. Gage, Burnham, and Collier began lecturing and promoting the exposition to churches, civic organizations, and merchants and advocated raising $1,000,000 through bond sales, while the San Diego Securities founders lobbied for the benefits of Point Loma. On November 2, 1909, United States Senator Frank P. Flint sent the appropriations bill to Congress for the Panama California Exposition (San Diego Union November 2, 1909). By the end of the month, the first Exposition stocks were sold (San Diego Union November 24, 1909). Within days, more than $50,000 worth of stocks had sold, and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce had endorsed the Exposition, as did the State of Illinois (San Diego Union December 3, 1909).
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At the same time, Sefton lobbied Congress for support on the Exposition (San Diego Union November 15, 1909). But, architect John Galen Howard joined Colonel Collier to a meeting in Washington, D.C. and favored City Park as the site (San Diego Evening Tribune December 13, 1909). At that point in time, the City Council declined to decide where the Exposition would be held (San Diego Sun December 13, 1909). By Christmas, Madam Tingley formally applied to the Exposition to erect a Brotherhood building to exhibit the Raja Yoga system of education (San Diego Sun December 24, 1909). San Francisco invested heavily to “filch” the Panama California Exposition from San Diego (San Diego Union December 13, and 15, 1909). Inside the City Council, real estate lobbyists were seeking 400 acres of City Park for residential housing (San Diego Sun December 14, 1909). However, San Francisco stridently competed for their own exposition and lobbied for $5,000,000 in federal aid (San Diego Union December 7, 1909; December 18, 1909). The battle to locate the Exposition in San Francisco or San Diego and on the waterfront or City Park caught national headlines, “War Waged Over Site of California Expo (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette January 9, 1911).
San Diego Architectural Association: Gil, Keller, and Hanssen. On November 14, 1909, Master Architect Irving Gil proposed Ballast Point on the east side of Point Loma, as well as the western portion of North Island as the site for the Exposition. Gil and Keller were both founding members of the San Diego Architectural Association, the precursor to the American Institute of Architects, which was formed “to promote good fellowship, artistic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession and kindred arts” (San Diego Union January 1, 1913). There were seventeen architects when the SDAA formed and they promoted certification to demonstrate to the State Board of Architecture a competence in their profession. Among those learned men, Gustav A. Hanssen, Stadler’s architect, had just completed apprenticeship with the United States Navy at North Island and three years in private practice in the downtown business district (Brandes 1991). These architects were intensely interested in developing earthquake and fire resistant architecture and frequently traveled to meet with other architects in the San Francisco Bay Area to consult on cement or tile building materials and other safe building practices and innovations.
Albert G. Spalding. One of Point Loma’s most famous residents was Albert G. Spalding, the wealthy sporting goods magnate and former baseball player, who in came from Chicago to join his wife at Madam Tingley’s Theosophical Society. Tingley, leader and official head of the exotic Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society / Raja Yoga Academy, attracted many wealthy visitors to her community on the top of Point Loma. Her world travels to advance humanitarian efforts for peace and eternal brotherhood had brought her international fame and wealth. She was known to bankers, industrialists, politicians, newspaper magnates, and world leaders, many of whom knew San Diego as a winter haven in resorts such as the Hotel del Coronado. After the death of his first wife, Spalding married Elizabeth Churchill Mayer in San Diego in 1900. Mayer was a well-known former Fort Wayne, Indiana resident who had attended high school with Spalding and later become his fiancé. Differences ended their engagement and both eventually married others. An accomplished musician, she became a teacher at the Fort Wayne Conservatory of Music. They remained friends and when her husband died and Spalding’s wife died they rekindled their romance. By this time she had come to Lomaland in 1897 and become the international leader of the Children’s Lotus Circle, the Theosophical Sunday School. Tingley appointed her Director of the Isis Conservatory of Music and she had become a devoted Theosophist. (Harris, 1974) Spalding, on the other hand, respected the program but was more interested in the educational work they were doing with children, as well as the society of educated, cultured people attracted to the colony. (The Fort Wayne Daily News, June 26, 1900 and March 30, 1903) By 1909, he was a member of the San Diego County Highway Commission and by 1912 he would become the second president of the San Diego Securities Company until he died in 1915. His financial interests in Point Loma and San Diego, however, were ongoing. (1909 San Diego Directory; 1913 San Diego Securities Company Brochure)
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Lyman J. Gage. A second important individual to Loma Portal’s Cultural Landscape and formation was Former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Gage, who came to San Diego in 1906 at Spalding’s invitation. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette reported on July 9, 1906 that Gage had given up his position as president of one of New York’s largest trust companies and forfeited his $50,000 a year salary to join Madame Tingley’s Universal Brotherhood, where his children and grandchildren would attend the Raja Yoga school. The paper stated that Gage had made two “mysterious visits” to southern California within the past six months to see his sister, Mrs. Brainerd of Point Loma, and his close friend Spalding. Gage planned to build a new home on Silvergate Avenue on Point Loma, near the Raja Academy, where the Spaldings also had their home.
On January 25, 1909, the San Diego Union reported that Gage was having a palatial summer residence in the Spanish Renaissance style of architecture built on Point Loma by Los Angeles architects Frederick Noonan and Arthur H. Stibolt. At this time, Keller was Noonan’s architect in charge of special projects. Gage’s presence on Point Loma is important because it establishes the probable reason why Architect Keller came to San Diego, something that has never been explained.
Most accounts of Loma Portal state that the San Diego Securities Company hired Keller to be the company’s architect and architectural supervisor for the tract. In fact, the tract had restrictions, which required Keller to approve all architectural plans for the community. (San Diego Securities Brochure, c. 1913) What has never been explained, however, is what brought him to San Diego from Los Angeles and what his association was to the San Diego Securities Company or a revolutionary structural concrete material that he and William Page developed. (Carrico, p. 8, footnote 8.)
This is relevant because the architectural style of many of other homes in Loma Portal are, by and large, distinct from all the other high end planned tracts from the period in San Diego. Individual exceptions include Burlingame, Mission Hills, and South Park, but these are communities where Keller is known to have designed individual homes prior to 1917. We believe members of the San Diego Architectural board, and Keller in particular, were influenced by the Prairie School of Architecture in designing what they considered to be modern homes, as well as incorporating new ideas about hollow cement tile and other experimental materials, in fireproof structural support. Hanssen, as a member of this board, and under Keller’s influence and design review of his architectural plans, selected Prairie style windows and interior woodwork in his design.
Furthermore, Henry H. Timken, of roller bearing manufacturing fame, and Spalding are most often given credit as the developers of Loma Portal, with George Burnham. In fact, with the exception of Burnham, these wealthy investors did not become officers on the amended Articles of Incorporation for the San Diego Securities Corporation until 1913.
Instead, on September 23, 1911, Burnham and eight fellow visionaries, Adelbert H. Sweet, Stephen Connell, Charles H. Forward, M.J. McGargle, William D. Page, Thomas B. Wright, and Robert S. Porter incorporated as the San Diego Securities Corporation and provided the seed money to become the company’s first stockholders. An article in the Fort Wayne Sentinel on January 27, 1912, also listed Charles T. Page, brother of William D. Page, as another investor / director. (Articles of Incorporation, San Diego Historical Society)
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Charles T. Page. Charles T. Page and William D. Page were brothers. Charles was a successful Chicago banker, who co-owned the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Spalding managed that team. In 1909, at the same time Burnham was lining up investors for the San Diego Securities Company, Charles Page and Eugene B. Hardendorf had purchased a large 150-acre tract of land in Atlanta, Georgia called the “Judge Hopkins Property,” which the heirs wanted to subdivide. They had formed the Edgewood Park Realty Company and planned to open a new 750-lot residential section, with a car line running right through the heart of the property. (Huston, page 56)
Although Charles was not listed as a director on the San Diego Securities Company’s 1911 Articles of Incorporation, an article in the January 27, 1913 Fort Wayne Sentinel stated he was one of the directors, along with his brother William. The importance of brothers William and Charles Page, and their association with the development of Loma Portal in San Diego, and Edgewood Park in Atlanta, Georgia, is important new information. These two subdivisions were examples of a broad pattern of American history in the early twentieth century by wealthy Empire Builders to capitalize on the transition of family owned farm and ranch lands into important residential subdivisions.
William D. Page. While past studies have listed Page’s association with the San Diego Securities Company, no study to date has explained who he was or why he was important to Point Loma or Loma Portal’s Cultural Landscape. (Alter, 2005) William D. Page is an important new figure in Loma Portal’s cultural landscape for several reasons: First, for his association as a brother of Charles T. Page, baseball pioneer, former co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, and uncle of Spalding’s wife Elizabeth. Both William and Charles were co-founders of the San Diego Securities Company. Each through their own experience, brought special expertise that qualified them among the elite set of pre-income tax “Empire Builders.” William, surely had to be aware of his brother’s 1909 involvement in the Edgewood Park Realty Company in Atlanta, Georgia. One can speculate that he may have even been one of the “other investors” alluded to by author Huston in her master’s thesis about the community. Page’s connection to the Chicago and Fort Wayne area and its high society social and business circles, reveal interesting new information how and why some wealthy investors from the Chicago area came to invest in San Diego and live in Point Loma and Loma Portal.
The next reason why William Page is important to Loma Portal’s community history is that until now it was not known that he and Spalding were family. Furthermore, after he arrived in San Diego, Page managed Spalding’s business affairs from his house on Point Loma, which included Spalding’s campaign for United States Senator during Loma Portal’s first phase of development. Additionally, while serving as Spalding’s business manager, Page served on the San Diego Securities Company’s board as a director and officer. According to Page’s obituary, “After his removal to California he managed the campaign of A.G. Spaulding, a nephew, for a seat in the United States Senate” and upon Spalding’s death, he “assumed management of his large estate and had since devoted all of his time to that business.” (The Indianapolis Star, November 18, 1922) Further clarification of the relationship can be found in the wedding announcements for Elizabeth Mayer and Spalding that Page published in the Fort Wayne News on June 26 and 27, 1900: “Postmaster W.D. Page, of this city, is an uncle of Mrs. Spalding,” indicating Spalding was a nephew by marriage. Page’s June 26 article explained that Mayer had named her son, Durand, after his great grandmother, Mrs. Frances Durand Page.
A retired Fort Wayne, Indiana newspaper publisher of the Fort Wayne News, William Page relocated with his family to Point Loma in 1909, after making several prior visits. His son-in-law, Thomas B. Wright, came too with his wife Josephine Page Wright, Page’s eldest daughter.
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Newspaper articles in the period announced that Page had been spending a considerable amount of time over the past several years in California to manage Spalding’s interests, who was at that time in the east. (Fort Wayne News, September 29, 1909; August 3, 1910; October 26, 1910) Page’s influence in Fort Wayne is illustrated in a June 14, 1902 editorial to his Fort Wayne News readership, where he stated “at this hour I find myself running over the names of congressmen, of bank presidents, of railway superintendents, of teachers, of preachers, of manufacturers, of merchants, of lawyers, of doctors, of men of affairs that have won honors for themselves in all the great fields of religion, politics, education, commerce and industry, and who began their business careers in the newspaper establishment that had been developed under my personal supervision and control.” (Fort Wayne News, June 14, 1902)
As sole owner of the Fort Wayne News, Page subscribed to the Scripps-owned telegraph wire service and Wright worked for him as the telegraph operator. This placed both Page and Wright in direct association with Edward Wyllis Scripps, owner of the San Diego Sun, who was also from Illinois and lived in San Diego. The Sun /Scripps affiliated group was in strong opposition to those sympathetic to the interests of the San Diego Union. Colonel Collier, who supported City Park as the exposition site, was married to Ella May Copley, sister of Illinois congressman Ira C. Copley, who had perfected the chain newspaper ownership practice in Chicago. Copley and Page were well acquainted from the Midwest and were, in fact, competitors. Additionally, Copley would later come to own the San Diego Sun’s rival and political opposite, the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune. (Amero 1994)
Page had great loyalty and association to the Sun and its management. His daughter, Josephine, was an accomplished newspaperwoman, poet, short story writer, and playwright. In Fort Wayne, she helped manage the family-run newspaper and was one of its writers. In San Diego, she continued her career as a newspaperwoman and worked for the Sun. She and Thomas built one of the early homes in Loma Portal on Homer Street, which they described as a “ranch” (Fort Wayne Sentinel, August 3, 1910). Thomas served as the secretary and treasurer for the San Diego Securities Company, as well as one of the initial stockholders and founding officers. Furthermore, Josephine Page Wright and Elizabeth Spalding were cousins. These family and business associations help explain why the Sun advocated strongly for the placement of the 1915 exposition on Ballast Point and North Island, and why their editors did not support City Park as the location for the exposition. (San Diego Sun, September 18, 1909, October 7 and 9, 1909, November 8, 1909, and December 27, 1909)
A closer look at Page’s other family members and their backgrounds may also explain why the founders of the San Diego Securities Company named Loma Portal’s streets after famous authors, poets, and novelists. On February 9, 1911, Josephine and fellow Loma Portal resident, Mrs. S. C. Payson, formed the San Diego Woman’s Press Club. This organization had “considerable influence in encouraging writing by San Diego women,” according to historian Clarence McGrew in 1922. In his history of San Diego, he explained why Josephine Wright and Payson created the Press Club:
To promote fellowship among women writers and those interested in the study of literature and kindred arts; to be the medium through which members and their guests may meet professional visitors of note; to promote the development of the literary art in the community. (McGrew, I-354)
Additionally, Josephine’s sister, Francis Page Willey, and her daughter, Frances Willey Beebe, came with William Page to settle in San Diego and live in his Point Loma home, “Page Manor.” Beebe became the society editor for the Sun and was herself an accomplished newspaperwoman and author of fantasy and children’s stories. Her husband, Ford Beebe, would become a Hollywood screenwriter and director of “Flash Gordon,” and some of her works would become Hollywood screenplays (www.sanantonio.com, Gloria Swanson Papers, Internet Movie Database). The extended Page family members were also close
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friends with architect Walter S. Keller’s bride, Lucy Stone Terrill, who was herself an accomplished poet and short story author. It is not surprising then, that as accomplished authors, poets, playwrights, fiction writers, and newspaper editors, the founders of Loma Portal placed a high value on literature. These associations provide strong reasons why they named Loma Portal’s streets in honor of literary greats.
Keller’s association with William Page is also significant for their partnership in a new company, Aggricrete, which they created in San Diego to manufacture cast cement hollow construction tiles. In 1909, Keller constructed Page’s own home, Page Manor, on Silvergate Avenue at the top of Point Loma. They used Page’s home as the model for the first home to be built with their new Aggricrete tiles. Keller served as secretary/manager of Aggricrete and Page was the president (San Diego Union, September 18, 1910, The San Diego Sun, December 23, 1909). They filed Articles of Incorporation and the San Diego Securities Corporation filed the building permit for Aggricrete’s new building on May 12, 1912. This permit confirms Aggricrete was located in Loma Portal, on the corner of Lytton and Rosecrans Streets, on lot 12 block 311, Mannasse & Schiller’s addition for $350. (www.LaPlayaHeritage.com, San Diego Daily Transcript.) This new information proves the direct association between Page, Keller, Aggricrete, and the San Diego Securities Company with Loma Portal.
There can be little doubt that Keller would have promoted the use of Aggricrete tile in Loma Portal’s new homes while he supervised architectural control over the tract. With the 1906 earthquake and fire (as well as the devastating Chicago fires from the turn of the century) fresh in every member of the San Diego Architectural board’s mind, new and innovative fireproof materials held great promise as the building materials of tomorrow. It is entirely possible that Keller used these tiles in his design of the Point Loma Golf Course Club House. In 1910, Page’s daughter Josephine and her husband Thomas Wright were planning their own Keller-built home in Loma Portal. An August 3, 1910 news article quoted Wright “I like it much better than Indiana” and that he had “placed his family on a ranch a half mile from the shore on the other side of the bay from San Diego and Mr. Page is now erecting a residence there also.” (Fort Wayne Sentinel) The Wright’s built their “ranch” at 3104 Homer Street, near Stadler’s lot. By 1911, Keller opened his own office in the Timken Building and the Aggricrete cement tile was being used in house and commercial construction throughout San Diego. Hopefully, future studies of Loma Portal’s houses will identify more homes built with this innovative material.
By 1911, the Securities Company had hired land surveyors, engineers, and grading companies to fill-in natural ravines, install storm drain systems, layout streets and then install sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and Keller-designed street lights (San Diego Union, May 1, 1912). The construction crews excavated thousands of cubic yards of earth to fill in low elevations in what would become the golf course. The final construction phase for Loma Portal involved the Point Loma Golf Club House and Golf Course. Keller designed the Point Loma Golf Club House and William Bendelow, a world-class golf course designer, laid out the golf course that ran south of Rosecrans all the way to the edge of the bay (San Diego Union April 20, 1913).
With the Point Loma Club House in place and Loma Portal laid out, the San Diego Securities Company advertisements began appearing with artistic renderings of an exclusive residential neighborhood protected from commercial development. They appealed to prospective buyers as a “Southern California Residential Park” (San Diego Union March 30, 1913). Records reveal the first houses appeared along Chatsworth Boulevard and the somewhat inland streets intersecting Rosecrans Street, with spectacular unobstructed views of San Diego Bay, North Island, and the Hotel Del Coronado. Many of the early
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houses reflected Mid Western Chicago or Prairie style, Italian and/or Spanish Renaissance, English Tudor, and International styles that were modern and worked well with the new fireproof building materials such as Aggricrete’s tiles. Keller designed what would become the first house in Loma Portal for Thomas N. Faulconer. In 1912, Spalding had William Page write and edit a new magazine, “The Nation’s Playground,” for the San Diego Securities Company to promote Loma Portal. (Fort Wayne News, December 28, 1912). In 1913, the Securities Company evolved with a new set of board directors. It is this next set of directors who have in the past largely received credit as the founders of Loma Portal. These officers and directors were A.G. Spalding, H.H. Timken, George Burnham, George Bach, Thomas B. Wright, William Eldred, Adm. Henry N. Manney, Adelbert H. Sweet, Grant Conard, R.C. Allen, and Frank J. Lebert.
Legacy 106, Inc. did not find sufficient evidence to support that 3244 Dumas Street qualifies under Criterion A. The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation at 3244 Dumas Street was not determined to qualify for designation under Criterion A.
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Criterion B (Important Person): 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.
Although several prominent San Diegans owned and resided at 3244 Dumas Street, after careful research and examination, they were not found to rise to the level of importance required to qualify the home for designation under Criterion B.
Minnie Scheibe Owner, 1929 to 1930
In November 1929, Minnie Scheibe, a widow, purchased lots 11 and 12 in block “C” of Chatsworth Terrace Annex. Minnie was the mother-in-law of Herbert R. Bathrick, one of the partners in the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company of Pasadena. Herbert was married to her daughter Ella. According to city directory searches, it does not appear that Minnie ever lived at 3244 Dumas Street. Instead, she lived in Pasadena the entire time she owned the subject property, and had the home constructed on speculation, possibly as a “silent partner” with the Bathrick Bros.
In October 1863, Minna “Minnie” Schuette was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin to German immigrants. Around 1885 she married Emil Paul Scheibe, who was a co-founder of the Marshfield Brewing Company in Wisconsin, and also was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1889. Emil and Minnie eventually had six children. Their daughter Ella Alvine Scheibe was born in Centerville, Wisconsin in 1886, and they also had a daughter named Adelia. Ella married Herbert Redfield Bathrick in December 1912.
According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Minnie and Emil lived in Marshfield, Wisconsin with their five children and the census lists Emil’s occupation as “brewer.” He passed away in 1910. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Minnie lived in Marshfield with her daughter Ella and son-in-law Herbert R. Bathrick. Minnie remained in Marshfield until she, Ella, and Herbert moved to Pasadena, California around 1922.
In November 1929, Minnie purchased lots 11 and 12 in block “C” of Chatsworth Terrace Annex. Her name appears as the property owner on the sewer permit dated December 9, 1929. Edward H. Bathrick, a partner in the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company, took out the water permit that same day. However, the space for the owner’s name on the water permit was left blank.
According to a building permit published in the March 25, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune, Herbert R. Bathrick and his brother Eugene also constructed homes at 3106 Ibsen St. and 3112 Ibsen St. in Loma Portal. Additionally, the Bathrick Bros. also constructed 3230 Dumas Street, located next door to the subject property (San Diego Evening Tribune, January 1, 1930). Minnie Scheibe passed away in September 1933. Further information about her could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about Minnie Scheibe to determine she was historically significant for her association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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Dr. Clinton H. Henderson and Mary E. Henderson Owners, 1930 to 1933 Residents, 1931 to 1933
Dr. Clinton H. Henderson, a dentist, and wife Mary purchased 3244 Dumas Street in 1930. They are listed in the San Diego city directory as residents of the home from 1931 until 1933, when the home went into foreclosure and ownership was taken over by the Title Insurance and Trust Company, who subsequently sold the home to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
On June 27, 1886, Clinton Hampton Henderson was born in Alturas, California to farmers Thomas and Martha Henderson. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, a fourteen year old Clinton lived in Goose Lake, California with his parents and four siblings. He graduated with a dentistry degree in 1911 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco. The school is now known as the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry.
Around 1915, he wed Mary Ellen McSharry, an Illinois native born in 1887. They eventually had three children: Dolores Ellen (1917 – 2001), Mary Bernice (1919 – 2000), and Clinton Robert (1926 – 1933). Dr. Henderson’s World War I draft registration cards from 1917 indicate that he and Mary lived in Martinez, California, where he was a dentist. The Hendersons moved to San Diego in 1924 and settled at 1830 Sunset Boulevard in the Mission Hills neighborhood. That year’s San Diego city directory indicates that he was the manager of a local branch of Painless Parker Dentists, a chain of dental offices in the western U.S. The following year they moved to 4167 Kansas Street in North Park. They relocated again in 1927, to 4232 Arden Way in Mission Hills.
In 1930, the Hendersons purchased 3244 Dumas Street, where they lived until they lost the home in foreclosure in 1933. That same year, their seven year old son Clinton Robert died after an unspecified lengthy illness. Dr. Henderson and Mary then moved to 3427 Elliott Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. They lived in that home until relocating to El Cajon in 1942. Dr. Henderson passed away in El Cajon on August 3, 1970.
Dr. Henderson’s wife, Mary Ellen (McSharry) Henderson, was born in Illinois in February 1887. Her father Charles was an electrician, while mother Julia was a housewife who raised her large family. Both of Mary’s grandfathers, and one of her grandmothers, were Irish immigrants. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Mary lived in Fresno with her parents and six siblings. By 1910, the McSharrys lived in San Francisco, and Mary worked as a registered nurse. Mary died in a convalescent home in 1981.
Insufficient information was found about Dr. Clinton H. Henderson and Mary E. Henderson to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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Lt. Cmdr. Horace R. Boone and Loretta Boone Residents, 1934 and 1935
In 1934 and 1935, Lt. Cmdr. Horace R. Boone, a Navy physician, resided at 3244 Dumas Street with his wife Loretta. During that time, the home was still owned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company after it had gone into foreclosure in 1933. The Boones presumably rented the home from them.
A native of Wolf River, Kansas, Horace Ratliff Boone was born on September 9, 1892. His father William was a physician, and mother Florence kept house and raised her many children. According to the 1900 U.S. Census, Horace, his parents, and his five siblings resided in Doniphan, Iowa.
Around 1917, Dr. Horace R. Boone graduated from the University of Kansas with a medical degree, and around that same time he joined the Navy and married Loretta Emily Irwin, a native of Kansas born on April 19, 1892. Loretta was a graduate of Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, although it is not known what she majored in (Evening Star [Washington, D.C.], July 24, 1963).
Lt. Cmdr. Boone and his wife eventually had two daughters, Florence and Marjorie. As is common with Navy families, the Boones moved frequently. The 1920 U.S. Census lists Lt. Cmdr. Boone, Loretta and Florence as living aboard the USS Repose, a Naval hospital ship, which was then stationed in the Philippine port of Olongapo.
Lt. Cmdr. Boone and Loretta lived at the subject property in 1934 and 1935, and presumably rented it from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who took ownership after the home went into foreclosure in 1933. They then moved to Vallejo and then to San Pedro in the late 1930’s. In 1940, the Boone family lived in Kitsap, Washington, where Lt. Cmdr. Boone was commander of the Navy Medical Corps. He retired in 1946, and by 1948, he and Loretta lived in Caldwell, Idaho. From 1950 to 1957, Lt. Cmdr. Boone served at the Washington, D.C. Regional Blood Center of the American Red Cross (Evening Star [Washington, D.C.], August 16, 1964). During that time, they lived in Bethesda, Maryland.
Loretta died in Bethesda on July 23, 1963. According to her obituary, she was active with several organizations, including the Patriots’ Memorial Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Chevy Chase (Maryland) Presbyterian Church, and also volunteered at the General Hospital in Washington, D.C. (Evening Star [Washington, D.C.], July 24, 1963). Lt. Cmdr. Boone moved to Connecticut after Loretta’s death. He passed away at St. Alban’s Naval Hospital in Long Island, New York on August 13, 1964.
Insufficient information was found about Lt. Cmdr. Horace R. Boone and Loretta Boone to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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Schuyler E. Davis and Blanche M. Davis Residents, 1936 and 1937
In 1936 and 1937, Schuyler E. Davis, a manager for the F.W. Woolworth chain of “five and dime” stores, and his wife Blanche M. Davis resided at 3244 Dumas Street. They presumably rented the home from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who took ownership after it had gone into foreclosure in 1933.
On July 29, 1893, Schuyler Ernest Davis was born in Pe Ell, Washington. His father was a carpenter, and mother Anna was a housewife. In 1900, the Davis family lived in Centralia, Washington.
Schuyler married Blanche Marie Fischer in Bellingham, Washington on February 5, 1916. She was born in Tilsonburg, Ontario, Canada. According to his World War I draft registration cards from 1917, Schuyler, Blanche and their child lived in Walla Walla, Washington where he managed a store for the F.W. Woolworth Company. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, the couple lived in Reno with their two children, Margaret and Robert.
By 1930, the Davis family lived in Portland, Oregon. After renting 3244 Dumas Street in 1936 and 1937, Schuyler and Blanche moved to 2322 Evergreen Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. By the late 1950’s, the couple had relocated to 3216 Whittier Street in Loma Portal. Schuyler passed away in San Diego on May 21, 1960. According to his obituary in the May 22, 1960 issue of the San Diego Union, he organized the Polio Foundation in San Diego, was on the board of directors of the Door of Hope charity, and was a member of the Point Loma Presbyterian Church, San Diego Lions Club, and Al Bahr Shrine of San Diego. Blanche died in San Diego in July 1970.
Insufficient information was found about Schuyler E. Davis and Blanche M. Davis to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Dr. Samuel J. McClendon and E. Laura McClendon Owners and Residents, 1939 to 1940
In 1939, Dr. Samuel J. McClendon and wife E. Laura McClendon purchased 3244 Dumas Street. They lived there for a year before selling the home in 1940. Dr. McClendon was a physician at the Rees-Stealy Clinic. According to his February 5, 1962 obituary in the San Diego Union, among his many achievements, Dr. McClendon was the city’s first practicing pediatrician and the first chief of staff at Sharp Memorial Community Hospital.
A native of New Orleans, Samuel James McClendon was born on September 28, 1894. He graduated from the University of Texas and Creighton Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska, specializing in pediatrics. Around 1924, Dr. McClendon married his first wife, a nurse named Julia Cramer MacCorkle. The couple eventually had two daughters, Barbara and Marijeanne. After their wedding, Dr. McClendon and Julia settled at 3105 5th Avenue in Bankers Hill before moving to 1875 Sheridan Road in the Mission Hills neighborhood in the late 1920’s. Julia died in 1936, and the following year, Dr. McClendon married Eda Laura Irwin in San Diego. She shows up in most records as “E. Laura” or simply “Laura”.
Dr. McClendon and Laura purchased 3244 Dumas Street in 1939, lived there briefly and sold it the following year. By April 1940, when they were counted in that year’s census, the McClendons were
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already residing at 777 Armada Terrace in Point Loma. By 1947 they had again moved and lived at 313 Olive Street in Bankers Hill. In February 1962, Dr. McClendon died of a heart attack at his family’s summer cottage in Mission Beach. Laura passed away in January 1972.
Dr. McClendon’s February 5, 1962 obituary in the San Diego Union indicates that he served in many prominent positions in various medical organizations, and was the recipient of several accolades including:
First practicing pediatrician in San Diego.
Second doctor ever to serve as house physician at the Hotel del Coronado.
First chief of staff at Sharp Memorial Community Hospital. At the time of his death, he was chief of staff, emeritus.
A fellow of the American College of Physicians
A member of the first board of trustees of the California Physicians Service.
Served 18 years on the state Board of Health and the County Board of Health
Served 18 years as a member of the board of directors of the San Diego Society for Crippled Children
1937: President of the San Diego County Medical Association
1943 to 1958: Served as a California delegate to the American Medical Association and was a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics.
1946 to 1947: President of the California Medical Association
1950 to 1951: President of the County Tuberculosis and Health Association
1955: The Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad constructed a new dormitory in honor of Dr. McClendon.
Although Dr. McClendon was an accomplished physician and prominent in his field, his time at 3244 Dumas Street was very brief. He and his wife only owned and resided at the home from 1939 to 1940, and there are other resources in San Diego that would be better associated with his accomplishments. Therefore, insufficient information was found about Dr. Samuel J. McClendon and E. Laura McClendon to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo Owners and Residents, 1940 only
Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo purchased 3244 Dumas Street in 1940, and lived there briefly before selling it that same year. Arthur was a judge with the San Diego Superior Court as well as an author. Appointed as a San Diego Justice Court judge at the age of 33, he was one of the youngest men to be appointed a judge in California. In addition to his career in law, Arthur served in the Navy during World War I and was a member of the Naval Reserve. In 1942 he was again called to active duty and was a commander of a Navy legal staff in Pearl Harbor. He was reappointed to his position as a judge after he left the Navy in 1945.
On February 1, 1895, Arthur Lufkin Mundo was born in Boston. His father John was a dry goods salesman, while mother Alberta was a housewife. Arthur grew up in Boston, and according to the 1910 U.S. Census was apprenticing as a diamond cutter there. He then attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his undergraduate degree. After serving as commander aboard a minesweeper in the Atlantic during World War I, Arthur obtained his law degree from George Washington University in 1920.
In July 1920 he married Clara Eulia Jacob in Washington, D.C. She was born in Fostoria, Ohio on August 15, 1896. They moved to San Diego in 1924 and settled at 3831 32nd Street in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood. Arthur was a deputy district attorney and then an assistant city attorney, and in December 1928 was appointed by the board of supervisors as a San Diego Justice Court judge at the age of 33, making him one of the youngest men to be appointed a judge in California.
According to the 1930 U.S. Census, the Mundos, along with their eight year old daughter Barbara, resided at 3406 Whittier Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. At that time, Arthur was serving as a justice of the peace. In January 1932, he became a Superior Court judge, selected from a group of 24 candidates and appointed by Governor James Rolph Jr. After the appointment, the governor sent him a personal telegram which read:
“Dear Judge Mundo: I have today appointed you judge of the superior court of the state of California in and for the county of San Diego. I congratulate you and wish you a brilliant career. You will be pleased to know that your appointment has the approval and commendation of the chief justice of the supreme court of California.” (San Diego Union, January 6, 1932)
In addition to presiding over regular court proceedings, Arthur Mundo also handled naturalization hearings for over twenty years, from the early 1930’s to 1955, when this task reverted to a federal judge at United States District Court (San Diego Union, January 11, 1958).
In 1938, Arthur’s book, The Expert Witness, was published. Two years later he published More Gravel Than Pearls, a collection of his poems. In 1940, the Mundos purchased 3244 Dumas Street. The 1940 San Diego city directory lists them as residents of the home, which they sold later that same year. During World War II, Arthur took leave and from 1942 to 1945 served in a judicial capacity with the legal staff of the 14th Naval District. At the conclusion of the war, he left the Navy as a lieutenant commander.
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According to the 1947-1948 San Diego directory, Arthur and Clara resided at 9462 La Cuesta in La Mesa. By 1950 they resided at 3364 Columbia Street in San Diego’s Middletown neighborhood but moved to 6407 Avenida Cresta in La Jolla shortly afterwards. After serving nearly thirty years as a superior court judge, Arthur retired in January 1958 (San Diego Union, March 30, 1983).
The Mundos were very active in several local and national organizations. Arthur served as commander of San Diego’s chapter of the United Veterans of the Republic and was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also served on the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and was a trustee of Plymouth Congregational Church (San Diego Union, January 6, 1932). Clara was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. On March 28, 1983, Arthur L. Mundo passed away in San Diego, and Clara died four years later.
Insufficient information was found about Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara D. Faulconer (no relation to current San Diego mayor) Owners, 1940 to 1943 Residents, 1941 and 1942
From 1940 to 1943, Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara D. Faulconer owned 3244 Dumas Street. The San Diego city directories list them as residents of the home in 1941 and 1942. During that time, Thomas worked as an engineer and director of education at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. He was also an inventor and author.
On April 7, 1912, Thomas Pleasant Faulconer was born in California to Thomas N. Faulconer and wife Margaret. In 1925 and 1926, the younger Thomas lived at 4152 Ibis Street in Mission Hills with his parents and two brothers. This home was historically designated in March 2016 for its association with Thomas N. Faulconer, an early director of the San Diego Zoological Society. In 1924 he traveled to Australia and returned to San Diego with several animals for the zoo’s collection, including two koalas. The koalas were the first ever in the United States and interest in them was great and put the San Diego Zoo on the map as a first-class zoological institution.
The younger Thomas was an aviation enthusiast from a young age, and enjoyed building model airplanes. In 1927 he gave a model of the Spirit of St. Louis to aviator Charles Lindbergh (San Diego Union-Tribune, September 21, 1999).
By 1930, the Faulconer family resided in Coronado at 357 Alameda Blvd., and Thomas P. Faulconer graduated from Coronado High School around that time. He then worked briefly in the gold mines at Bodie, California. He married Barbara Dauchy, a native of New York City, in May 1936. She was born around 1916 and was a niece-in-law of famed San Diego architect William Templeton Johnson (Barbara’s aunt Clara was Johnson’s wife). Barbara’s parents were financially well-off, and she grew up in a large home at 4455 Hermosa Way in the Mission Hills neighborhood. This home was designed by her uncle William Templeton Johnson and in 2006 was historically designated as the Marion Delafield Sturges and Samuel Otis Dauchy / William Templeton Johnson House.
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In 1940, Thomas graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with an engineering degree, and then found work with Consolidated Vultee (later renamed Convair). He and Barbara settled at 4460 Trias Street in Mission Hills briefly before purchasing 3244 Dumas Street in 1940. They owned the subject property for three years, and are listed in the San Diego city directory as living there in 1941 and 1942. In March 1943 they purchased 4520 Trias Street in the Mission Hills neighborhood. They resided in this William Templeton Johnson designed home until 1949.
It was around this same time that Thomas began work on developing a flying automobile. Around a dozen of them were built and had fiberglass bodies, detachable wings and Crosley motors. While Faulconer was successful in getting the “flying cars” off the ground and into the air, they proved to be more of a novelty than practical, and never achieved widespread success. His original flying automobile was on display in the San Diego Aerospace Museum, but was destroyed in a fire there in 1978.
While working for Consolidated / Convair, Thomas authored a book, Introduction To Aircraft Design, which was published by McGraw-Hill in 1944. He later became a consulting mechanical engineer for the company, but left in 1952 to serve for three years as president of Jet Air Engineering Corp. in El Cajon (San Diego Union-Tribune, September 21, 1999). Thomas returned to Convair in the mid-1950s’s and worked in the pre-design engineering group which specialized in advanced projects.
In the 1960’s, Thomas became president of Faulconer Bros, Inc., his family’s land development firm. Prentice Hall published his book How To Make Money in California Real Estate in 1964. Although he left the aerospace industry to work in real estate, his passion for aviation always remained. Thomas continued to serve as an aeronautical engineering consultant and contributed articles to several technical journals (Ibid). Barbara passed away in San Diego in July 1964, and Thomas married Lillian Mathis the following year. Thomas passed away in San Diego on September 8, 1999.
Thomas N. Faulconer, the father of Thomas Pleasant Faulconer, is worthy of mention even though he never lived at 3244 Dumas Street. On January 21, 1887, Thomas Nichols Faulconer was born in Danville, Kentucky. His parents, Elijah Prophet Faulconer and Effie Faulconer, were farmers. Thomas graduated from Danville's Centre College in 1906 and moved to San Diego the following year (San Diego Union, January 25, 1984). He quickly found work as a police reporter for the San Diego Evening Tribune, and by 1909 was promoted to the newspaper's assistant city editor (Ibid.).
He married Margaret Adams on December 2, 1910. She was born in Long Island, New York around 1887, and they eventually had three sons: Thomas Pleasant, Henry, and Philip. In 1920, Margaret published a book of poems entitled Birth Pangs. She was a first cousin of James Truslow Adams, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, and was the granddaughter of William Newton Adams, who served as an ambassador to Venezuela in the 1850's (San Diego Union, April 17, 1965).
From 1923 to 1926, Thomas N. Faulconer and his wife Margaret owned and resided at 4152 Ibis Street in the Mission Hills neighborhood. The San Diego city directories list them as residents of the home in 1925 and 1926, during which time Thomas worked as one of the earliest directors of the Zoological Society of San Diego (1925). Thomas was personally financed by John D. Spreckels to obtain animal examples from around the world for San Diego's new and fledgling zoo in Balboa Park. In 1924, Thomas traveled to Australia to obtain animals to display at the San Diego Zoo. He returned to the U.S. in January 1925 with two koalas and other animals for the Zoo's collection. These were the first koalas ever in San Diego and the first to be brought into the United States from Australia. This was the seminal period of the early San Diego Zoo and the acquisition of the two koalas began the Zoo's important history of displaying, conserving and eventually breeding koalas at a time when the animals were almost unknown in the U.S.
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Thomas became the executive secretary to the San Diego Park Board in 1913. In 1922, Thomas was appointed as part of the zoo's first hired staff, as the Park Board Secretary. Thomas was appointed as the Zoo's executive director in 1923, a position he held for two years. He replaced Frank Buck, who was fired after less than three months after a dispute with zoo officials. In December 1924, Thomas traveled to San Francisco, where he left via steamship for his journey across the Pacific Ocean. He was the only Zoo employee on the expedition, which was financed by local businessman and philanthropist John D. Spreckels.
The San Diego Zoo grew out of exotic wild animal exhibitions which were abandoned after the 1915 Exposition but did not gain a permanent tract of land until 1921, when the city set aside land and Ellen Browning Scripps financed a fence around the zoo so it could begin charging an entrance fee to offset costs. The San Diego Zoo had its grand opening in 1923. The first issue of its Zoonooz newsletter was published by the Zoo in 1926.
The San Diego Zoo has been a pioneer in animal conservation methods and in its use of "cageless" open-air exhibits which exhibited animals in a natural habitat without the at the time standard small iron cage enclosures. The San Diego Zoo was one of the first zoos to obtain animals as part of a foreign exchange, which it first did in 1925, with the importation of two koalas by Thomas N. Faulconer and presented as gifts from the children of Sydney, Australia to the children of San Diego. Many conservation medals and awards have been received by the San Diego Zoo over the years. Another San Diego Zoo first was the arrival of the first two giant pandas loaned from China in 1987. The San Diego Zoological Society is now the largest zoological membership association in the world, with over half a million members.
Thomas N. Faulconer was singlehandedly responsible in 1925 for enriching San Diego with two rare koalas and was a pioneer in his use of an international exchange program. The koalas were the first of their kind to be exhibited anywhere in the United States and put the San Diego Zoo on the map in 1925, for many people around the U.S. John D. Spreckels financed Zoo Director Thomas N. Faulconer's trip to Australia. Faulconer scored a major victory for the San Diego Zoo for bringing koalas Snugglepot and Cuddlepie to San Diego. Other animals that Thomas Faulconer brought back from Australia at the same time included 40 kangaroos, 6 emus, wombats, dingoes, phalangers, birds of paradise, and an echidna. Unfortunately, the stress of the journey was too much for Cuddlepie and he died a few days after arriving in San Diego (San Diego Union, February 5, 1925).
Thomas brought with him to Australia several animals and reptiles native to San Diego's back country, as well as species from elsewhere in North and Central America, as part of an exchange with Australia. Thomas' trip was a difficult one. Severe storms caused him and several of the animals to become seasick, and because he was the only Zoo employee on the trip, he was responsible for all of the animal care and feeding, as well as planning and logistics. According to a January 28, 1925 article in the San Diego Sun:
On his arrival in Australia, he made the old stories of horse traders pale into insignificance. Swapping a rattlesnake for a wombat, a wildcat for an egg-laying echidna, and so on down the line, would unfold a tale of barter that might have been entitled “What Made the Wildcat Wild.” As a result, the San Diego zoo will be enriched by some 28 kangaroos, to say nothing of an assortment of bandicoots, dingoes, phalangers, wallabies and whatnot. What may all these things be? Search us!
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Thomas returned to San Diego in January 1925 and brought back over 200 specimens of animal life, and his arrival was met with much excitement. According to an article in the January 28, 1925 issue of the San Diego Union:
If you heard loud, weird noises emanating from the foot of Broadway about 1 o’clock today, don’t be alarmed. It was neither some new murder being perpetrated, nor was it a band of Cocopah Indians on the war path—it was merely 100 birds, together with a miscellaneous assortment of animals and reptiles completing their long journey from Australia.
By many accounts, the two koalas that Thomas brought back from Australia were the animals that aroused the most interest and excitement with the public, and he regarded them as the "prize achievement" of his trip (San Diego Union, January 29, 1925). The koalas were the first of their kind to be exhibited in the United States. They were named Snugglepot and Cuddlepie after characters in a series of children's books written by Australian author May Gibbs.
During his tenure as executive director, the zoo "added hundreds of new families to its personnel, and has grown in size and importance to a position of distinction in the United States" (San Diego Evening Tribune, March 27, 1925).
Thomas put his resignation in with the zoo in March 1925 in order to "engage in private business, which promises higher financial returns than public work" (Ibid.). He was briefly replaced by Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth, the zoo's founder, until Thomas' assistant Richard A. Addison was appointed as the new executive director. The 1926 San Diego city directory lists Thomas' occupation as assistant auditor for the Union Title Insurance Company.
The 1930 U.S. Census indicates that Thomas and Margaret lived at 357 Alameda Blvd. in Coronado with their three sons, and Thomas was employed as a bank cashier. During the 1930's he was a trust officer with the First National Bank and the Home Owner's Loan Corporation, and in 1935 established Faulconer & Reardon Real Estate in Point Loma. For the next four decades, Thomas was involved in several high profile developments, such as Nimitz Drive, Harbor Drive, and Yacht Club Terrace (Ibid.). In 1940, he and Margaret lived at 1165 Bangor Street in Point Loma. Thomas and Margaret eventually divorced and each of them remarried. Margaret died in 1965, and Thomas passed away in San Diego on January 23, 1984.
Insufficient information was found about Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara D. Faulconer to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Elmer H. Hemann and Anna Hemann Owners and Residents, 1943 to 1944
From 1943 to 1944, Elmer H. Hemann and Anna Hemann owned and lived at 3244 Dumas Street. During that time, Elmer was an aircraft worker at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Elmer Henry Hemann was born on September 29, 1893. His parents, Charles and Lizzie Hemann, were German immigrants. Elmer grew up in Cleveland, and by 1910 worked as an office clerk. He married Anna Maude Clague, also a native of Cleveland, on October 12, 1915, and
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The Hemanns relocated to San Diego in 1943 and purchased 3244 Dumas Street. They occupied the home until they sold it the following year, and then moved to 4113 Middlesex Drive in Kensington. By the 1950’s, Elmer and Anna were again living in Ohio. Anna passed away in Cleveland in 1956, and Elmer died in South Euclid, Ohio in 1973.
Insufficient information was found about Elmer H. Hemann and Anna Hemann to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Peter Gantes and Marie Gantes Owners, 1944 to 1947
Peter and Marie Gantes owned 3244 Dumas Street from 1944 to 1947, however, the San Diego city directories from that time period do not list them as occupants of the home. The couple was in the restaurant industry and during the time they owned the subject property, they resided at 4616 Massachusetts Street in the University Heights neighborhood.
A native of Peoria, Illinois, Peter Gantes was born to Greek immigrants on November 11, 1911. By 1930 he was married to Marie, and they lived in Chicago where he worked at a restaurant. They eventually had two children, George and Patricia. In the late 1930’s, the couple moved to Marie’s hometown of Huntington, West Virginia, where they operated a restaurant. They moved to San Diego around 1941, and that year’s city directory indicates that they lived at 4639 Park Blvd.
Peter and Marie purchased 3244 Dumas Street from 1944 to 1947, but searches of city directories from that time period show that they did not live there, and instead rented the home out. During that time, the couple lived in University Heights at 4616 Massachusetts Street and operated a restaurant downtown at 429 E Street.
In 1955, Peter and Marie moved to Long Beach, where he worked as a bartender. They moved to San Bernardino around 1960, and there he opened Al’s Bail Bonds and worked as a bail bondsman. Peter passed away in San Bernardino on December 8, 1981. Marie died there the following year.
Insufficient information was found about Peter Gantes and Marie Gantes to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack Owners and Residents, 1947 to 1948
From 1947 to 1948, Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack owned and lived at 3244 Dumas Street. Although the San Diego city directories do not list an occupation for Willard, he had worked as a personnel officer for the U.S. Geological Survey prior to buying the home.
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On December 16, 1905, Willard Foote McCornack was born in Fort Riley, Kansas. His father was a Colonel in the Army, and his mother was a housewife. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Willard lived in Brooklyn, New York with his parents. He went on to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology around 1929, and the 1930 U.S. Census lists him as residing in Washington, D.C. Although he was not employed at that time, Willard eventually found work with the U.S. Department of the Interior, and for many years was employed as a personnel officer with the U.S. Geological Survey.
From 1941 to 1946, Willard served in the Army, although details of his service could not be found. From 1947 to 1948, Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack owned and lived at 3244 Dumas Street. They then moved to Maryland, where Willard worked as a personnel officer for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Catherine passed away in June 1978, and Willard remarried to a woman named Dorothy Coleman. On July 20, 1984, Willard died of cancer in Alexandria, Virginia.
Insufficient information was found about Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Cmdr. Harold E. Logan and Helen B. Logan Owners, 1948 to 1950 Residents, 1950
In 1948, Navy Commander Harold E. Logan and his wife Helen purchased 3244 Dumas Street. They are listed as residents of the home in the 1950 San Diego city directory. Helen passed away in 1950 and Commander Logan sold the property later that same year.
On August 2, 1912, Harold Edgar Logan was born in Indianapolis to Benjamin and Anna Logan. By 1930, he and his parents lived in Longmeadow, Massachusetts where Benjamin was an auto parts salesman (1930 U.S. Census). Harold graduated from Northwestern University in 1935 with a bachelor’s degree in commerce, and then moved with his parents to San Gabriel, California where his father Benjamin opened a wholesale auto parts business. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, Harold worked as a clerk in his father’s store.
Around 1940, Harold joined the Navy and also wed his first wife, Mary Sydney Perkins, who had a brief career as a movie actress. They divorced in the early 1940’s. In 1941, Cmdr. Logan was injured in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On September 17, 1944, Cmdr. Logan married Helen Magdalene Brinkman. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska in July 1910. After the wedding, the couple settled at 3614 Voltaire Street. In 1948 they purchased 3244 Dumas Street, where they lived until 1950. Helen passed away at the age of 39 on March 28, 1950, and Cmdr. Logan sold the home three months later.
Cmdr. Logan eventually remarried to Glena Dawn Lannon and they settled at 3020 Browning Street in Point Loma. After his Navy retirement, Cmdr. Logan was co-owner of Tru-Bloc Concrete products. He passed away in May 1981 while vacationing in Wisconsin and is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Insufficient information was found about Cmdr. Harold E. Logan and Helen B. Logan to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Gordon B. Heller and Della F. Heller Owners, 1950 to 1956 Residents, 1952 to 1956
From 1950 to 1956, Gordon B. Heller and wife Della owned and resided at 3244 Dumas Street. The San Diego city directories indicate that they resided in the home from 1952 to 1956. During that time, Gordon was a manager of a Safeway grocery store.
On August 3, 1920, Gordon Brannon Heller was born in California. His father Milton F. Heller was a grocer and prominent San Diego civic leader. Gordon’s grandfather Mat F. Heller founded San Diego County’s first cash and carry grocery store. The Heller grocery stores eventually expanded into 42 locations countywide. In 1929, Milton F. Heller, who had inherited the family business from his father Mat, sold their grocery chain to the MacMarr Stores company. In 1932, Safeway purchased the stores from the MacMarr Company. Milton, and eventually his son Gordon, then served as executives for Safeway.
Gordon spent most of his childhood residing at 3107 Zola Street in Point Loma. This large Spanish Eclectic style home, designed by master architects Richard Requa and Herbert Jackson, was historically designated in 1998 as the Milton F. Heller Residence/Casa Marrero. The home was historically designated under Criterion B for its association with Gordon B. Heller’s father, Milton F. Heller, who had a profound effect on region’s supermarket industry.
Gordon graduated from Pomona College, and from 1942 to 1945 served as a Navy Lieutenant. He married Della Mary Fanton, a native San Diegan, in the early 1940’s, and they settled at 2916 Chatsworth Blvd. in Point Loma. This prominent Prairie style home was historically designated in 2002 as the George Burnham House. They moved to 3927 Atascadero in Point Loma in the mid-1940’s. In 1950 they purchased 3244 Dumas Street. They occupied the home until selling it in 1956.
After the end of World War II, Gordon worked as a manager in the grocery industry for several decades. He was also very active with the San Diego Yacht Club. In 1971, Gordon and Della divorced. Gordon passed away in Rancho Bernardo in August 1995, and Della passed away in 2001.
Insufficient information was found about Gordon B. Heller and Della F. Heller to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Captain Edwin C. Sweeney and Jacqueline Q. Sweeney Owners, 1956 to 1957 Residents, 1957
In 1956, Captain Edwin C. Sweeney, a Navy physician, and wife Jacqueline Q. Sweeney purchased 3244 Dumas Street. They lived in the home briefly before selling it in 1957.
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Edwin Cornelius Sweeney was born in Chicago on October 31, 1915. His father, John Steele Sweeney, was a physician, and mother Ruth Lois (Reynolds) Sweeney was a housewife. He grew up in Chicago and in the northern suburb of New Trier.
Edwin’s wife Jacqueline was originally from Binghamton, New York, however, little other information about her could be located. The couple had two sons and resided in Binghamton and in Santa Fe, New Mexico before moving to San Diego and purchasing 3244 Dumas Street in 1956. They sold the home in 1957 and then moved to 6119 Vista de la Mesa in La Jolla. The Sweeneys eventually divorced, and Cpt. Sweeney moved to Tennessee. He passed away in 1985 and is interred at San Francisco National Cemetery.
Insufficient information was found about Cpt. Edwin C. Sweeney and Jacqueline Q. Sweeney to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Maurice “Maury” Halstead and Sylvia M. Halstead Owners, 1957 to 1990 Residents, 1958 to 1962
From 1957 to 1990, Maurice “Maury” Halstead and Sylvia M. Halstead owned 3244 Dumas Street. The San Diego city directories list them as residents of the home from 1958 to 1962, during which time Maurice worked as a research scientist for the Naval Electronics Laboratory. He was also a pioneer in developing computer programming languages and is also the namesake of Halstead complexity measures, software metrics he introduced in 1977 as part of his treatise of establishing and empirical science of software development.
On July 31, 1918, Maurice was born in San Diego, but moved as an infant with his parents to Tacoma, Washington by 1920. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Maurice’s father Howard worked there as a barber, while mother Mabel worked as a housekeeper for a private family. By 1930, the Halsteads again lived in San Diego. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, Maurice and his parents lived on 5th Avenue in downtown San Diego, and during that time Howard worked as a washing machine salesman, and Mabel worked as a stenographer for a transfer company.
In the late 1930’s, Maurice relocated to Berkeley for college, and earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly after his graduation, Maurice designed two slide rules to speed up calculations. While working as a climatologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he designed an instrument to measure gas volume flow rates within a degree of accuracy that the Bureau of Standards had indicated was not possible. It was around this time that he married Sylvia. Little information about her could be found.
Maurice went on to earn a Master of Science degree in aerological engineering from the Naval Academy Postgraduate School in Annapolis in 1943 and from 1945 to 1948 was a Research Meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Pineapple Research Institute in Hawaii. Maurice obtained his PhD in physical science from Johns Hopkins University in 1951.
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While at Johns Hopkins he became an assistant director of the Laboratory of Climatology, where he became interested in computer design. Under contract with the U.S. Air Force, Maurice designed a computer that calculated heat transfer at the earth’s surface by radiation, conduction, convection, evaporation and transpiration.
After returning to San Diego in the mid-1950’s, Maurice and Sylvia purchased 3244 Dumas Street in 1957. They are listed in the San Diego city directories as residents of the home from 1958 to 1962. During that time, Maurice collaborated with prominent computer scientist Harry Huskey to develop the Naval Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler, known by its acronym NELIAC. NELIAC was a variation or “dialect” of the ALGOL 58 computer programming language which was developed by the Naval Electronics Laboratory in 1958. Designed to conduct both numeric and logical computations, NELIAC was the first computer language which provided bootstrap implementation. This allowed source code in a computer programming language to be transferred into another language.
From 1963 to 1967, Maurice was employed with the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Sunnyvale, California. He and Sylvia still owned the subject property during that time, but rented it out. Maurice’s book, Machine Independent Computer Programming, was published by Spartan Press in 1962, and discussed NELIAC. During his career he also published numerous scholarly journal articles. In 1967, he and Sylvia moved to Indiana after Maurice accepted a position with Purdue University as a computer science professor.
Maurice passed away in Lafayette, Indiana on January 8, 1979. His widow Sylvia continue to own 3244 Dumas Street until 1990. Further information about the Halsteads could not be found.
Insufficient information was found about Maurice “Maury” Halstead and Sylvia M. Halstead to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
Dr. Roger D. Lawshe and Dorothy J. Lawshe Residents, 1963 to 1966
Dr. Roger Dean Lawshe, a general practice physician, and wife Dorothy J. Lawshe resided at 3244 Dumas Street from 1963 to 1966. They presumably rented the home from owners Maurice “Maury” H. Halstead and wife Sylvia, who were living in Sunnyvale, California during that time.
On August 25, 1920, Dr. Lawshe was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. His father Ben worked as a secretary for Aberdeen’s Chamber of Commerce, while mother Leila was a housewife. By 1940, the Lawshe family lived in Montgomery, Maryland. In 1942 he married Mary M. Uehling, and they resided in Long Beach. In 1944, Dr. Lawshe, a medical student, lived in Los Angeles and enlisted in the Army Reserve’s Medical Corps. He obtained his medical license in 1948.
Dr. Lawshe and Mary eventually divorced, and he married Dorothy June Hayes in Nevada on April 15, 1959. She was born in Los Angeles in June 1929 and grew up in Compton. From 1963 to 1966, the Lawshes rented at 3244 Dumas Street before moving nearby to 2275 Locust Street. They moved frequently in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
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In June 1976, Dr. Lawshe was fined $600 and placed on one year probation after he pleaded no contest to a charge of conspiracy to prescribe Seconal, a controlled substance, without conducting a medical examination and without justification (San Diego Union, June 19, 1976). Dorothy passed away in San Diego on December 22, 1978, and Dr. Lawshe passed away in July 1980.
Insufficient information was found about Dr. Roger D. Lawshe and Dorothy J. Lawshe to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
William L. Read and Martha Read Residents, 1967 and 1968
William L. Read and wife Martha resided at 3244 Dumas Street in 1967 and 1968, during which time William was serving in the Navy.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, William Lawrence Read was born on July 8, 1926. By 1930, he and his parents lived in Proviso, Illinois, where his father Reginald worked in real estate. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, the Read family lived in La Grange, Illinois. During his summer breaks from high school, William worked as a deckhand on a towboat on the Mississippi River (The Star Democrat [Easton, MD], January 18, 2007). He enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the Navy V-5 flight training program in February 1944.
While serving as an apprentice, he also attended the University of Illinois and Columbia University, as well as several Navy training schools. William won a competitive senatorial appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and entered as a midshipman. After graduating in June 1949, he was commissioned as an ensign and ordered to sea duty (Ibid). He later graduated from the Naval War College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and earned a master's degree in Business Administration from George Washington University. In the early 1950’s, William wed Martha Miller of Hinsdale, Illinois and they eventually had three children.
During his Navy career, William served in various positions aboard destroyers, amphibious ships and cruisers in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. During the Cold War era he sailed on several extended deployments in Africa, Europe and the Far East which included two tours in Vietnam. He commanded five different ships: the guided missile destroyer USS King, the destroyer escort USS Van Voorhis, a destroyer escort squadron, a Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla and the Surface Force of the Atlantic Fleet. On shore, William’s assignments included duty as Senior Aide to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, and Director of Ship Acquisition in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
A highly decorated Naval officer, William was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Navy Commendation Medal, and the Distinguished Service Medal of the Republic of Vietnam. His hometown of LaGrange, Illinois honored him with its Distinguished Citizen Award and installed him in its High School Hall of Fame.
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In 1967 and 1968, the Reads rented 3244 Dumas Street. It appears that their time in San Diego was brief and they then moved to Alexandria, Virginia. In the early 1970s, William served as senior aide to the supreme allied commander in Europe and as military assistant to Defense Secretary Elliot L. Richardson (Washington Post, January 21, 2007). In 1979, William retired from active duty with the rank of vice admiral, and he and Martha moved to Easton, Maryland. Not long after retirement he joined Lone Star Industries as vice president and was in charge of the construction of cement plants and the manufacturing of concrete railroad ties.
William passed away on January 16, 2007 and is interred at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis. Further information about him and Martha could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about William L. Read and Martha Read to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
John O. Ginn and Madeleine F. Ginn Lauren L. Ginn Residents, 1971 only
John O. Ginn and Madeleine F. Ginn, along with their daughter Lauren, resided at 3244 Dumas Street in 1971 only. They presumably rented the home from owners Maurice “Maury” Halstead and Sylvia M. Halstead. During their time at 3244 Dumas Street, John was a commander in the Navy.
A native of Laurel, Mississippi, John Orrell Ginn was born on September 14, 1920. According to the 1930 U.S. Census, John, his parents and his six siblings lived in Ascension County, Louisiana, where father Launnie worked as a traveling salesman for a feed company. By 1940, the Ginn family lived in Baton Rouge and John worked as a newsboy.
John entered the Navy in October 1941, and during World War II served aboard the USS Yorktown. His tour of duty included service in the Pacific, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Hawaii (The Modesto Bee, December 16, 1993). In May 1949, John married Madeleine Frances Irving in Alameda, California. She was born in San Francisco in 1922. They eventually had four daughters.
In 1953, while a Navy lieutenant, John attended the General Line School of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. As is common with Navy families, the Ginns moved frequently. John, Madeleine, and daughter Lauren were listed as residents of 3244 Dumas Street in 1971 only. John retired from the Navy around that same time and he and his wife eventually moved to the town of Sonora in northern California. Madeleine’s side of the family had deep roots there. During the California Gold Rush, some of her ancestors settled in the Sonora area and established the Sell Mine (quartz) on the western slope of Bald Mountain, near Yosemite National Park.
John passed away in Sonora on December 13, 1993, and Madeleine died in 1999. Further information about he and Madeleine could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about John O. Ginn, Madeleine F. Ginn, or Lauren L. Ginn to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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William H. Webb and Doris Webb Residents, 1972 to at least 1976
From 1972 to at least 1976, William H. Webb and Doris Webb resided at 3244 Dumas St. They presumably rented the home from owners Maurice “Maury” H. Halstead and Sylvia Halstead. William was a retired Navy commander during the time he and Doris lived at the subject resource.
William Hubert Webb was born in Kentucky on February 13, 1925. He grew up in Louisville where his father, William Sr., was a barber. When the younger William was around thirteen years old, his father died. According to the 1940 U.S. Census, he and his widowed mother Alma still lived in Louisville and she supported them by working in a tobacco factory. William attended Louisville Male High School, where he was active with the ROTC, and graduated in 1943. That same year, he enlisted in the Navy and became an apprentice at the Hospital Corps School at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Great Lakes (The Courier-Journal [Louisville, KY], December 23, 1943).
Around 1950, William graduated from the University of Louisville with a chemistry degree. He married Doris around this time, and as is common with Navy families, they moved around the country often. In the 1960's the couple lived in San Diego and Norfolk, Virginia. By 1972 they were back in San Diego and rented 3244 Dumas Street until at least 1976.
On April 29, 1994, William passed away in San Diego. Doris died three years later. Further information about them could not be located.
Insufficient information was found about William H. Webb and Doris Webb to determine they were historically significant for their association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion B.
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Criterion C (Architectural Style): 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 Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home designed and built by the Bathrick Brothers, showcasing the builder's Spanish Eclectic style of architecture with multiple Spanish elaborations and detailed architectural features. The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House shows the architect/designer selected high quality building materials and hired fine craftsmen. Builders, the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company, successfully blended Moorish, Mediterranean, and classic Spanish details in the creation of this house. The high end design, materials, and expression of craftsmanship exhibited in this house are excellent.
The Spanish Eclectic Style. The Spanish Eclectic style, also known as Spanish Colonial Revival, 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. Many important architects of the style including Richard Requa, traveled to Spain and the Mediterranean for inspiration. 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.
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. Another 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 S. Requa to write a weekly column critiquing local architecture and he used this forum to promote the Spanish Eclectic, or as he deemed it, “The Southern California style.” Although the style continued as late as 1948, the Great Depression and World War II caused a shift to “patriotic” styles and the Spanish style lost favor to Colonial Revival and Neo Classical style houses.
Designers of Spanish Eclectic houses often borrowed from Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and Renaissance motifs (McAlester and McAlester 2013:417). 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
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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 blended mix of Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and/or Renaissance architectural motifs on buildings that have no direct counterpart in the historical world. Although Master Architect Richard Requa promoted accuracy in creating Spanish Eclectic 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 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.
Fire and Water Resistant Building Materials. Stucco is one of the most significant innovations of San Diego 20th century building construction. Although variations of durable wall coatings date back to Roman times, perfection of the formula for stucco can be directly related to the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. Architects across the state rushed to develop fire-resistant materials. San Francisco architect Bernard Maybeck experimented with burlap dipped in wet cement stretched on wood frames. San Diego architect Irving Gill experimented with poured-in-place cast concrete. Richard Requa developed interlocking hollow clay tile. Walter Keller designed hollow and flat cement tile. But the most exciting and versatile material proved to be exterior wall stucco, which began appearing on Mission Revival style houses at least as early as 1909.
Stucco and Spanish Style Buildings. The buildings of the Panama California Exposition were originally created with sculpted and molded Plaster of Paris, which broke down once rain penetrated the painted surfaces. For water and fire resistance, Goodhue specified a stucco coating for his various creations in San Diego. Under the direction of Master Architect Richard Requa, the City of San Diego replaced the Plaster of Paris in Balboa Park with stucco and Celotex in 1935. Stucco caused local San Diego builders to transition away from the earlier Craftsman and Neo Classical wooden buildings and begin erecting stucco structures. Builders quickly learned how to make stucco resemble “ancient” buildings with clever inset wall beveling, faux stone quoin blocks, Roman arches, and various stucco finishes.
Integrity. The City of San Diego, Historical Landmarking Policy Criterion “C” requires good integrity in order for an individual house to be landmarked. High integrity means no change and good integrity allows for some change. Deterioration such as stucco cracking, peeling paint, faded wood, or wood rot is a condition issue, not an integrity issue, as the original materials remain present and can be repaired. Integrity is grounded in the property’s physical features and how they convey its significance during its “Period of Significance.” In other words, why, where, and when a property was built is important.
Basically, the guidelines say that each property is recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. The City of San Diego uses the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historical Properties to evaluate integrity for Criterion “C” landmarking. Part VIII of the National Register Bulletin provides guidance on how to evaluate the integrity of a property by outlining seven values or tests: Location, Design, Setting, Materials, Workmanship, Feeling, and Association. To have high integrity, all seven aspects must be met. To have good integrity, most or four to five aspects must be met. Less than four would be poor integrity.
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Architectural Integrity. The primary concern for historical designation in the City of San Diego is whether or not a house retains good architectural integrity. Legacy 106, Inc. evaluates this question by applying a test of the seven aspects of architectural integrity listed by the federal Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historical Properties. The architecturally defining features of 3244 Dumas Street are the truly important motifs and design elements that contribute to interpretation of this house as an architectural style. The exterior features are critical to historical designation. The interior features are significant to interpretation, but are not required for City of San Diego historical designation.
The architecturally defining features that are supportive of historic landmarking are:
1. The low pitched fired red clay mission half barrel tile hipped roof with slightly overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails; 2. The front façade with covered porch and deep inset arching window; 3. The decorative rafter tails below the exposed eaves; 4. The sandy stucco exterior wall surfacing; 5. The decorative Spanish style wooden spindle window grille with extending stucco and lathe turned spindles; 6. The cantilevered second level supported underneath by decorative exposed beams seen on the front and side elevations; 7. The decorative second level stucco privacy grille; 8. The wood framed three-light wooden casement windows seen throughout the home; 9. The simple stucco end chimney; 10. The wood plank style shutters seen on the upper level; 11. The protruding wrought iron planter/pot holders seen around the home; 12. The front deeply inset doorway; 13. The integrated three car garage with square wood door panels and shed clay tile roof extension; 14. The original rectangular wooden plank style door with original leaded small window viewing port with wrought iron grille and decorative strap style hinges and matching metal handle and looking hardware; 15. The home's two story massing with integrated rear lower level triple car garage designed for its corner location; 16. The original central inset covered front porch with scored concrete floor; 17. The deep inset round attic vents on the second level gable which appears to be a shared architectural elaboration on homes built by the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company; 18. The original gabled roof with irregular overlapping mission style clay roof tiles; 19. The single level rear garage wing with flat roof and parapet with open patio above; 20. The rear unenclosed covered patio with side facing stucco window grille; 21. The inset rear segmented arch window with views of the rear canyon on the rear façade; 22. The deep inset double divided light rectangular wooden windows seen flanking the chimney on the secondary elevation; 23. The hand sculpted stucco wall finish; 24. The rear upper level open balcony with connecting French door.
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The following are architectural integrity issues:
• The stucco chimney which may have been extended with brick topper (unclear based on historic photos) (Attachment D.1); • The side (southeast) elevation lower level has a large horizontal window openings, This large horizontal fixed window may have been made larger than the others on the home to allow for the expansive views on this corner of the home. It is unclear from historic photo but it is also possible this window had the mullions removed at some point after the home was constructed to allow for this expansive coastal view. In either event the window is a minimal feature and home continues to convey its original Spanish style regardless. This window opening also sits at the side facing the neighboring property partially outside of the public view
Architectural Integrity Analysis. The following is an analysis of the integrity of the home's architecture.
ASPECTS OF INTEGRITY
Location. Location is the place where the historic property was constructed or the place where the historic event occurred
Based on comparison with the historical photos, Sanborn maps and other research, the house is shown to be in its original location at 3244 Dumas Street. 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.
The home was built in 1930 by San Diego and Pasadena builders the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company. Analysis of the historic photos, Sanborn maps, building records and examination of the resource at 3244 Dumas Street reveals all four elevations very closely match the design of the house. This home is an outstanding example of a Spanish Colonial/Eclectic home built by accomplished builders the Bathrick Brothers in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. The resource is very intact and original condition matching the home's original design at its 1930 date of construction and period of significance. The home retains many original design features including its original two story asymmetrical primary and secondary cross gabled elevations with irregularly laid mission clay tiles with visible wooden rafter tails. The home also displays the original inset attic vent, arched focal window, inset front porch and decorative wooden shutters as seen in the 1929 historic photos (Attachment D.1). The cantilevered upper levels supported by decorative wooden brackets are also original and match historic photos. Stucco surfacing and stucco surfaced window grilles are also original and intact as seen in historic and transitional photos. The rectangular double casement window design seen around the home is unchanged although some windows were replaced as part of the San Diego Quieter Home Program which utilized "in kind" replacements of rectangular casement windows (please see attachment). The arching and rectangular fixed and casement windows retain the original rounded reveal and wooden sills. These original rectangular divided light casement window design is also confirmed by the residential building record and historic photos which show the windows.
Historic photos, Sanborn maps, residential building record and other historic research shows the home's original building footprint is unchanged and front and secondary façade historic photos confirms no significant changes to the design of the home. Site examination reveals the only possible modification
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to the home that has not been restored or rebuilt "in kind" is the stucco end chimney seen on the northwest (secondary) elevation, which may have been extended with brick for fire safety to prevent embers from entering second level windows.
Some original wooden windows that have been repaired or replaced under the San Diego City Council approved Quieter Home Program installed in 2002 (please see Attachment A.4). This is a minor loss of original integrity which is noted but which should not negatively affect designation as this is part of a City approved program on a home recognized as being historically significant. The home was shown on previous San Diego Intensive DPR survey forms as being significant under multiple Criteria (see Attachment A-4). Quieter Home Program standards require that windows be replaced with comparable materials "kind for kind."
The approved policy of the City of San Diego City Council has been that the replacement of windows in accordance with the San Diego Quieter Home Program would not exclude an otherwise historic home from designation. According to the San Diego Programmatic Agreement Among the Federal Aviation Administration, The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Officer, The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority and the City of San Diego, regarding implementation of the Quieter Home Program for the City of San Diego International Airport, Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California under Window Treatment Priorities (B): "Where windows must be replaced in order to meet acoustical requirements, to the extent feasible, all existing or known original fabric shall be replaced with comparable materials, sizes and design. Known original fabric can be established through old (historic) photos, remaining physical evidence, or historical style. For example, original wood windows, or historic evidence of wood windows, shall be replaced by wood windows."
Projects like the program Quieter Home Program, which receives federal funds or other federal approvals, must comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. For Section 106 purposes, "historic properties" includes properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register. According to the regulations, an undertaking has an effect on a historic property when the undertaking may alter characteristics of the property that may qualify the property for inclusion in the National Register.
While even this "in kind" replacement does represent a loss of some integrity, this alteration was approved by the City of San Diego by a "determination of no adverse effect" in City of San Diego Quieter Home Program Stipulation # 6, line # 13. This home was clearly identified as a known historic resource in the intensive level survey conducted in 2002 just prior to the window repairs and replacement in 2002. As seen in the historic survey analysis DPR (Attachments A.7), decorative wooden plank style shutters, seen in historic photos, were also recently rebuilt "in kind" utilizing historic photos and the neighboring home's original shutters which were identical and were built in the same year by the same builder.
These minor repairs and in kind replacement represent minimal changes and do not detract from the original Spanish Eclectic design or character defining features of the home. The home is remarkably intact and original and the small restored items does not impair the home's ability to convey significance as a 1930 Spanish Eclectic home. As seen in the building records and comparisons between the original plans and current photos, the home is again in very original and unaltered condition. The home continues to convey its significance as a large 1930 Spanish Eclectic home. The home remains an outstanding example of a Spanish Eclectic home built by builders the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company. The resource is very intact from the date of construction and continues to convey its historic design as a Spanish Eclectic home built in 1930 by the Bathrick Brothers. The Design element of this home is excellent.
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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 historic setting remains intact. The historic setting of the home was a 1930's residential street with mostly single-family residential construction located in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. The surrounding neighborhood has retained this suburban setting with single family homes. Although some homes have been enlarged and remodeled, the residential neighborhood setting has not substantially changed since its construction.
As seen in the historic photos, and Sanborn maps, the home's Point Loma suburban corner lot configuration and generous street corner setback of the house is original and unchanged. The neighborhood maintains its setting of largely residential homes overlooking the ocean and San Diego Bay. The original landscape has not survived and the owners would like to add low water use landscaping sympathetic to the original design and in keeping with the home's original Spanish Eclectic design. The side facing driveway and original straight scored concrete entry walkway appears to have survived as well. The side facing integrated triple car garage with double driveway faces Willow Street is also retained. 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.
For a Spanish Colonial/Eclectic style home, the original exterior materials such as tile roof, arched openings and exterior stucco surfacing, are the most important material aspects of integrity. The home features original and intact building materials throughout such as the clay tile roof, deeply inset windows and doors, decorative wood and stucco covered clay tile window grilles, hand laid stucco exterior stucco and stucco chimney. The clay tile, original stucco, windows and other exterior materials are intact or restored and closely match the original design as seen in historic photos (Attachments D.1).
The home features original hand laid irregular mission half barrel clay roof tiles displaying the hand built craftsmanship and materials of the home. Roof tiles appear to have been repaired minimally as needed with matching red round clay tile replacements. Also, the home utilizes original divided light wooden casement windows and in-kind replacements that were installed under the Quieter Home Program and meeting historic standards. The stucco exterior surfacing and chimney also appear original with some small repairs. The stucco wall surfacing matches the original smooth hand laid design seen in the 1929 historical photo. The front plank style door with elaborate hand hammered iron hinges is also original, as are the decorative brass door latch, door handle and locking plate. Other doors are also original or have been replaced "in kind" or on all elevations. Stucco and wooden spindle window grilles are also original and intact with minimal repairs. Decorative wooden upper level support brackets also appear very original. The rustic wood plank style window shutters with decorative cut out design has been restored to match the 1929 historic photo. The deep inset decorative attic vents seen on the front and rear gables are also original and intact. The extending wrought iron clay tile pot holders are a favorite Spanish eclectic detail of the 1920's and 1930's and these are seen on all for elevations. These iron planter holders
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around the home are also intact and original. There are no significant changes to the materials within the public view. As noted throughout this analysis, the Materials aspect of Integrity of this home is excellent.
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 hand laying the original clay roof tiles in a random pattern to display the look of a very old repaired Spanish roof is an excellent display of original craftsmanship. Stucco surfacing with deep, sometimes arching rounded inset reveals and various decorative stucco privacy grilles is very high quality. Decorative lathe turned wooden boxed window grille seen on the front of the home also shows the high quality carpentry skills of the builders. Exceptional craftsmanship is shown in the wood detailing of cantilevered second level extending wooden support brackets with two different scroll cut designs. Well made decorative wooded rafter tails and other wood detailing are also seen around and throughout the home. The original rustic wood plank style front door with decorative wrought iron elongated hinges is intact and original displaying the hand-made craftsmanship of the home. The blacksmithing wrought iron work on the interior stairway, elongated door hinges and iron planter holders seen throughout the home are intact and show original hand hammering, forged and riveted bonding strips and first rate metal joinery at connection points. 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 1930 Spanish Eclectic residence in its present excellent original condition is well preserved and imparts the visitor with a realistic sense and feeling for the late 1920'/1930's historical Point Loma neighborhood. The home was designed and constructed by San Diego by Pasadena builders the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company and beautifully displays its original design on the corner hilltop location overlooking the San Diego Bay and Coronado. The residence in its present condition is well preserved and imparts the visitor with a realistic sense of the pre-World War II era Spanish Eclectic home. This resource, along with its neighborhood setting, retains a strong historical sense of an early Southern California suburb of the 1930's. The home blends in well with historic older neighboring properties in Point Loma. The feeling of a Spanish Eclectic home from the late 1920's and 1930's age is 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 Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House at 3244 Dumas Street is closely associated with the work of builders the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company. However, research for this nomination did not find a direct link or association with important events or persons with this property.
Conclusion: The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation 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 (Work of Master): Is representative of a notable work of a master builder, designer, architect, engineer, landscape architect, interior designer, artist or craftsman.
Bathrick Brothers Building Company (Herbert and Eugene Bathrick) Proposed Master Builders Active in San Diego 1928-1931 The subject home was built in 1930
The two Bathrick brothers of Bathrick Brothers Building Company of Pasadena came to San Diego in the late 1920s to purchase lots in Kensington and Loma Portal to develop their superior custom homes that had been so popular in the greater Los Angeles and Pasadena area. The subject home was designed by the Bathrick Brothers and built in 1930, as seen on the notice of completion. The Bathrick Brothers are proposed as Master Builders and this home was found to have significance under Criterion “D” as a notable example of the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company excellent work in the Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style. The Bathrick Brothers built high design and quality homes in Kensington including the Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful) Model Home in Kensington at 5182 Edgeware Road and at least four historically designated homes; the Daniel McConnell / Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 739), the Edward C. Mann House (HRB # 515) at 4234 Ridgeway Drive, The Walter Casey House (HRB # 668) at 4830 Hart Drive, and the Herbert Bathrick House at 3211 Freeman Street (HRB # 577).
A native of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Herbert Redfield Bathrick was born on February 2, 1884. At the time of his birth, his father David D. Bathrick worked for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, and named the village of Herbert, Illinois after him (Carbondale Free Press [Carbondale, IL], March 15, 1939). According to the 1900 U.S. Census, a teenage Herbert lived in Chicago with his father David and mother Libbie, and three siblings, Grace, Eugene, and Marian. Herbert's father worked as a real estate broker in Chicago.
Dallendorfer & Bathrick, Wisconsin- active approximately 1910-1924. At some point in the early 1900's, Herbert moved to Marshfield, Wisconsin where he entered the real estate business, partnering in a firm called Dallendorfer & Bathrick (Marshfield Times, December 11, 1912). On December 11, 1912, he married Ella Scheibe in Waukegan, Wisconsin. She grew up in Marshfield and was the daughter of Emil Paul Scheibe and his wife Minnie. Emil was a co-founder of the Marshfield Brewing Company and also was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1889. Herbert and Ella Bathrick had a daughter named Joan, born in 1921.According to Herbert's World War I draft registration cards from 1918, he and Ella still lived in Marshfield where he worked in real estate.
Herbert Bathrick before partnership, Pasadena, California- active approximately 1925-1927. In the early 1920's, Herbert, Ella, and her widowed mother Minnie moved to Pasadena, and by 1925 Herbert was working as a building contractor (1925 Pasadena city directory) in the Pasadena area. In 1927, he constructed his first known San Diego home, a two-story Spanish Eclectic at 4380 Hilldale Road in Kensington. This home was historically designated in 2006 as the Daniel McConnell / Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 739). It should be noted that the home's notice of completion only lists Herbert's name as the contractor, and in 1927 he may not yet have partnered with his brother to form the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company.
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Eugene Hawley Bathrick before partnership, active approximately 1925-1927. a brother of Herbert R. Bathrick, was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in November 1885. Eugene grew up in Chicago and at the age of twenty found work as a clerk and assistant tax agent with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. By 1910, Eugene lived in Pueblo, Oregon where he worked as a farmer. Around 1912 he married Brunnhilde "Hilda" Leuttich. According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Eugene and Hilda lived in Denio, Oregon where they were cattle ranchers. They had two children at that time, Beth and Daniel (named after Eugene's father).
Around 1922, Eugene and his family moved to Pasadena. His brother Herbert moved there around that same time, as did their parents, Daniel and Libbie. In 1923, Eugene H. Bathrick obtained a California real estate salesperson's license, and his father Daniel obtained a broker's license. The extent of their real estate dealings is not known, but according to the 1924 Pasadena city directory, Eugene and his father had a realty office together at 2371 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Additionally, Eugene, Hilda and their children lived with his parents at 2024 N. Marengo Ave. in Pasadena in 1924. Starting in 1925, the Pasadena city directory lists Eugene's occupation as "building contractor" rather than real estate agent. It appears that he and Hilda divorced around this same time. His brother Herbert was also listed in the 1925 Pasadena city directory as a building contractor.
Bathrick Brothers Building Company, Pasadena and San Diego- active approximately 1928-1931 Eugene partnered with his brother Herbert to form the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company, which was based in Pasadena but built homes in that area as well as San Diego. It seems that the pair constructed most of their homes in the late 1920's and early 1930's and it does not appear that either of them lived in San Diego at any point, except perhaps for short periods of time when they were constructing homes.
Herbert and Eugene Bathrick seemed to have joined to become partners in the Bathrick Brothers Building Company around 1928. The late 1920's brought an increase in business, and newspaper advertisements and notices of completion from 1928 onward list "Bathrick Brothers" as contractors, as opposed to simply listing Herbert's name. The Bathrick Brothers constructed high styled homes in Pasadena, including several on East Mountain Street, as well as in the Altadena neighborhood near Los Angeles. The company also built numerous homes in San Diego, primarily in the Point Loma and Kensington neighborhoods, and all of these known homes were two-story Spanish Eclectic style. The subject home was built by the Bathrick Brothers in 1930. Herbert's mother-in-law, Minnie Scheibe, appears to have set up a business partnership with the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (her son in law and his brother) and purchased several of the lots on which the company built homes in Point Loma/ Loma Portal. Minnie purchased lots 10, 11 and 12 in block "C" of Chatsworth Terrace Annex in December 1929, and the Bathrick Brothers constructed 3244 Dumas Street and 3230 Dumas Street, both of which were completed in February 1930.
It appears that the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company was hit hard by the Great Depression along with many builders and Architects of the period.. The latest completion date for a home known to have been constructed by them is 1931. Although the company may have survived the Great Depression, no homes built after 1931 can currently be attributed to them, either in San Diego or the Pasadena area. Please see below for a list of all homes known to have been built by the Bathrick Brothers or Herbert R. Bathrick.
Although the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company may have survived the Great Depression, no homes built after 1931 can currently be attributed to them, either in San Diego or the Pasadena area. The three brothers continued to work as building contractors after the Depression, but it is not known if they
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were still working together in a partnership. By 1940, Eugene was married to a woman named Erma Stevens and they lived in Pasadena, where he continued to work as a carpenter in the home building industry (1940 U.S. Census). By the late 1950’s, Eugene and Erma lived in the Annapolis, Maryland area, where he passed away in October 1975.
Herbert and Ella continued to live in Pasadena through the 1930's. In 1932 they lived at 920 Poppy in Pasadena, and by 1934 the city directory listed Herbert's occupation as "carpenter." His World War II draft registration cards from 1942 show that the couple lived at 2554 Page Drive in Altadena in the Pasadena area. The registration cards list his occupation as being employed by Altadena Home Builders. It could not be ascertained whether or not this was Herbert's own construction company or if he was working for someone else. Herbert died in Los Angeles on August 30, 1951. Ella remained in Pasadena and passed away in August 1967.
Legacy 106, Inc. conducted extensive research to search for other known homes and buildings by proposed Master Builders, the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company. The Bathrick Brothers Construction Company or Herbert Bathrick built the following historically designated homes in San Diego:
4380 Hilldale Road in the Kensington neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1927 and was historically designated in 2006 as the Daniel McConnell / Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 739).
4234 Ridgeway Drive in the Kensington neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929 and was historically designated in 2002 as the Edward C. Mann House (HRB # 515). In 1901, Dr. Edward C. Mann, who later commissioned the Bathrick Brothers to build this Ridgeway Drive home, was attending the PanAmerican Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and was the emergency Doctor who administered morphine to President William McKinley after he was shot by an assassin at the event. Dr. Mann's father, Dr. Matthew D. Mann, actually performed the surgery in an attempt to remove the bullets.
4830 Hart Drive in the Kensington neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was alos built in 1929 and was historically designated in 2004 as the Walter Casey House (HRB # 668).
3211 Freeman Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929 and was historically designated in 2003 as the Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 577). It does not appear that Herbert or Eugene Bathrick ever lived in the home. Rather, it was constructed as a speculation house.
The Bathrick Brothers Construction Company or Herbert Bathrick built the following known undesignated homes in San Diego:
"Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful) Model Home at 5182 Edgeware Road in the Kensington neighborhood (originally addressed as 5208 Edgeware Road). The January 5, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune has a photo of the newly completed home, with a caption which reads:
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Residence at 5208 Edgeware Road, built by Bathrick Bros. and sold to H.W. Peterson through Mary I. Lindeke and Mrs. L.M. Handly of the Lila Fitzpatrick Realty Company.
5182 Edgeware Road was constructed as a model home and was advertised in local newspapers as "Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful).
3230 Dumas Street, the two-story Spanish Eclectic style home adjacent to the subject property. In December 1929, Minnie Scheibe, the mother-in-law of builder Herbert R. Bathrick, purchased the lots upon which 3230 Dumas Street and 3244 Dumas Street were constructed on speculation, and the notices of completion for both homes indicate that they were completed in February 1930. A building permit published in the December 10, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune reads:
Minnie Shibe [sic], 1654 First, per Bathrick Bros., residence and garage, 3230 Dumas; $12,000. Same, residence and garage, 3244 Dumas; $12,000. [emphasis added]
3219 Freeman Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929. A building permit in the October 22, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune reads:
H.R. Bathrick, 3721 El Cajon, stucco residence and garage, 3219 Freeman, Roseville; $10,000.
3219 Freeman Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929. A building permit in the October 22, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune reads:
H.R. Bathrick, 3721 El Cajon, stucco residence and garage, 3219 Freeman, Roseville; $10,000.
3106 Ibsen Street (since readdressed as 2858 Locust Street) and 3112 Ibsen Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. Both are two-story Spanish Eclectic style homes. A building permit in the March 25, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune reads:
Minnie Scheibe, 3721 El Cajon, per H.R. Bathrick, 2 stucco residences and garage, 3112-06 Ibsen; $12,000 each.
It should also be noted that 2858 Locust Street (formerly addressed as 3106 Ibsen Street) has a "twin" or matching home at 1959 East Mountain Street in Pasadena. Herbert and Ella Bathrick lived in the Pasadena home in 1930, and East Mountain Street has several homes that are known to have been constructed by the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company.
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3211 Ibsen Street and 3221 Ibsen Street in the Loma Portal neighborhood. A building permit in the June 29, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune reads:
E.H. Bathrick, two stucco houses and garages, 3211-21 Ibsen; $10,000 each.
5183 Marlborough Drive in the Kensington neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929. The January 5, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune has a photo of the newly completed home, with a caption which reads:
Residence at 5183 Marlborough Drive, built by Bathrick Bros. and sold to Roy C. Hidy through Mrs. Mary I. Lindeke of the Lila Fitzpatrick Realty Company.
5301 Marlborough Drive in the Kensington neighborhood. This two-story Spanish Eclectic home was built in 1929. The January 5, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune has a photo of the home under construction, with a caption which reads:
Residence at 5301 Marlborough Drive, under construction by Bathrick Bros., builders.
Legacy 106, Inc. has historic photos of 5301 Marlborough Drive circa 1930 and 1980 which show that the home although extant, has been significantly altered.
4349 Braeburn Road in the Kensington neighborhood, a two-story Spanish Eclectic style home. The January 5, 1929 issue of the San Diego Evening Tribune has a photo of the recently completed home, with a caption which reads:
Residence at 4349 Braeburn Road, built by Bathrick Bros. and sold to Bradley Tyrrell of Pasadena, through Mary I. Lindeke of the Lila Fitzpatrick Realty Company.
The Bathrick Brothers in Pasadena, the Bathrick Brothers constructed several homes, especially along East Mountain Street. Some of Pasadena homes they are known to have built include:
1959 East Mountain Street in Pasadena, a two-story Spanish Eclectic built circa 1930. Herbert and Ella Bathrick lived here with their daughter Joan in 1930, as confirmed by the 1930 Pasadena city directory and the 1930 Census. The February 1930 notice of completion for 3244 Dumas Street also lists Minnie Scheibe (Ella Bathrick's mother) as a resident of 1959 East Mountain Street. Interestingly, this home has a "twin" or matching home on a corner lot in San Diego's Loma Portal neighborhood, which was constructed by the Bathrick Brothers in 1929. It is located at 2858 Locust Street, but was formerly addressed as 3106 Ibsen Street.
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1882 East Mountain Street, a two-story Spanish Eclectic. A brief article in the December 29, 1929 issue of the Los Angeles Times states:
RESIDENCE PLANNED. Bathrick Brothers, Pasadena, will build a two-story, nine-room residence at 1882 East Mountain Street, Pasadena, for Herbert Bathrick.
1990 East Mountain Street, a two-story Spanish Eclectic built in 1930. The Bathrick Brothers' association with the home was confirmed through a recent real estate listing on CaugheyLuczyski.com.
Herbert R. Bathrick also built a large Tudor style home at 1200 Boston Street in Altadena circa 1930. A recent real estate listing for this home from Deasy/Penner & Partners states:
Beautifully restored Tudor, built by Herbert Bathrick (Altadena Home Builders) with large, flat rear garden.
Architectural Body of Work and Summary (1928-1931).
Brothers Eugene and Herbert Bathrick formed the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company and built houses in San Diego starting around 1928 and had a widely accomplished (although short) career up until about 1931 when the housing market collapsed nationwide during the Great Depression. Although designing in various eclectic styles around Los Angeles, the builders' designs seem to have been largely in the Spanish Colonial/Eclectic style in San Diego. The Bathrick Brothers built many outstanding examples of the Spanish Eclectic style during the three years Eugene and Herbert developed and maintained this partnership. Although only building in San Diego three short years, from 1928-1931, the builders' skill and impact is still visible in San Diego today. At least four historically designated San Diego homes were constructed by the Bathrick Brothers along with the influential "Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful) model home at 5182 Edgeware Road in Kensington, as well significant examples of the their work that survive in Pasadena, California (see Attachments E.4).
The Bathrick Brothers built in different areas around Southern California, most notably in the Pasadena and Altadena areas around Los Angeles and in the Kensington and Point Loma neighborhoods of San Diego. Some of their greatest designs appear in San Diego. Extensive research into the building career of the Bathrick Brothers revealed they built mostly in the popular Spanish style in San Diego and sometimes double utilized and adapted previous designs to new sites creating twin houses in Pasadena and San Diego (see Attachments E.4). They designed high quality large and small homes in the Spanish style utilizing elliptical arching focal windows, an extensive array of tile and wrought iron window grilles, Monterey style wood balconies, cantilevered and extending upper levels with wooden brackets, arched porches and colonnades. The brothers' signature feature appears to be a very deep round inset attic vent seen on almost all of the Bathrick Brothers' known designs.
These impressive and elaborate Spanish designs were often published around Southern California in newspaper articles (see Attachments E.4). The brothers' designs were also frequently published in San Diego newspapers. These Spanish designs were likely influential to the expanding and varied Spanish Revival/Eclectic designs of the period.
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*B10. Significance - Criterion D (continued):
Examples of the high-quality designs are listed and shown here in this report along with lists of many of the known buildings north in the Pasadena and Altadena communities near Los Angeles. Of particular note, the Daniel McConnell / Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 739), 3112 Ibsen Street in Point Loma and the "Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful) model home in Kensington at 5182 Edgeware Road are all extraordinary and large scale examples of the Spanish Colonial/Eclectic style. These elaborate and varied Spanish homes represent notable residential homes created by the Bathrick Brothers and along with the subject resource are excellent and notable examples to represent this recommendation to the Historical Resources Board to list the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (Herbert and Eugene Bathrick) as a Master Builder. Specifically, the Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House at 3244 Dumas Street represents a large and elaborate two-story Spanish Eclectic home on a prominent corner lot which utilizes an integrated three car garage with large open balcony patio space above the garage. This large high styled house with attached garage design would become more common after World War II as this design became favored over the detached garage designs more common in the 1920's.
Conclusion: The Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (Herbert and Eugene Bathrick) is recommended for status as Master Builders and 3244 Dumas is a notable example of the body of work of the firm as Master Builders under Criterion D. Therefore, Legacy 106, Inc. proposes consideration of the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company to be listed as a Master Builder.
Note: Southern California carpenter Edward Walter Bathrick appears unrelated. From approximately 1913 until his death in 1939, there was a carpenter named Edward Bathrick who lived in Gardena, California. He was born in Iowa in 1870 to John Hiram Bathrick. While Edward was definitely not a brother of Herbert and Eugene Bathrick, he may have been a cousin or other relative. His exact relation, if any, to the other Bathricks mentioned above, and to the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company, could not be determined. It may be a mere coincidence that there was another (possibly unrelated) Bathrick working as a house carpenter in the Los Angeles area during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
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A.H. Baldwin (from the second Notice of Completion) Painting Contractor, 1937
In 1933, 3244 Dumas Street fell into foreclosure and was purchased by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, who rented it out until 1939. According to a second notice of completion for 3244 Dumas Street, which was recorded on August 23, 1937, Western Service Corporation (acting as agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), hired A.H. Baldwin in June 1937 for “certain repairs and improvements” to be done on the home. The notice of completion does not explicitly state what “repairs and improvements” were performed, but after researching the possible identity of Baldwin, he was likely Albert Henry “Harry” Baldwin, a local painting contractor.
Albert was born in Liverpool, England on January 15, 1897. He immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Merion in May 1913, arriving in Philadelphia. He first appears in the San Diego city directory in the late 1920’s, residing at 3711 Mississippi Street in North Park and working as a painting contractor. City directory and census information indicate that he always lived at the same home. Albert passed away in San Diego in 1960.
Painting contractor Albert H. "Harry" Baldwin appears to have been active in San Diego from the late 1920s until his death in 1960. No further evidence was found to make a determination that Albert H. "Harry" Baldwin was a master artist, designer, architect, or builder and insufficient information was found about him to determine that he was historically significant for his association with 3244 Dumas Street under Criterion D. 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 Loma Portal will hopefully add more to what is known, the status under Criterion D can be re-evaluated at that time.
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*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 a Historical District.
This house has not been surveyed within any potential or proposed district. Criterion F does not apply to this property.
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A.1 Assessor’s Building Record
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A.2 Notice of Completion Property owner Minnie Scheibe of Pasadena hired the Bathrick Brothers to construct 3244 Dumas Street on December 3, 1929. It was actually completed on February 5, 1930.
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A.2 Notice of Completion On August 23, 1937, a second notice of completion was recorded for 3244 Dumas Street. The property owners, Western Service Company (acting as agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), entered into a contract with A.H. Baldwin on or about June 28, 1937 for “certain repairs and improvements”, the exact nature of which are not known. The repairs and improvements were completed on or about August 10, 1937. A.H. Baldwin (Albert H. Baldwin) is listed as the contractor. An extensive search of San Diego city directories from the 1920's and 1930's indicate that he was a painting contractor and this work was most likely primarily for interior / exterior painting.
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A.3 Water Record Although an owner is not listed on the water permit, Minnie Scheibe owned the property at that time. Eugene H. Bathrick (one of the partners in the Bathrick Brothers Construction Company) took the permit out on her behalf on December 9, 1929.
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A.3 Sewer Record Property owner Minnie Scheibe applied for the sewer permit on December 9, 1929. Her last name is misspelled below as "Shibe."
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A.4 Building / Construction Permits
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A.4 Quieter Home Program Documentation
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint Taken from the Residential Building Record. Upper level is shown in blue. No additions exist.
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A.5 Site Plan with Footprint
Site plan from the Quieter Home Program documentation, April 2002.
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A.6 County Lot and Block Book Page Lots 11 and 12 in Block "C" of Chatsworth Terrace were first assessed to Minnie Scheibe in 1930.
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A.7 Previous Survey Forms DPR from a 2002 survey for the Quieter Home Program Phase 1B-3 historic resources report. Page 1 of 3
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A.7 Previous Survey Forms DPR from a 2002 survey for the Quieter Home Program Phase 1B-3 historic resources report. Page 2 of 3
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A.7 Previous Survey Forms DPR from a 2002 survey for the Quieter Home Program Phase 1B-3 historic resources report. Page 3 of 3
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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
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B.1 Chain of Title 3244 Dumas Street, San Diego, CA 92106 APN # 450-110-11-00
Instrument Date Grantor to Grantee, Recording Date, Book Number, Page Number
March 15, 1928 San Diego Securities Company to Zula M. Sherman (a widow), recorded April 11, 1928, Deed Book 1447, Page 423.
November 29, 1929 Zula M. Sherman (a widow) to Minnie Scheibe (a widow), recorded December 10, 1929, Deed Book 1723, Page 139.
February 6, 1930 Notice of Completion. On or about December 3, 1929, Minnie Scheibe (a resident of 1959 E. Mountain Street in Pasadena) entered into a contract with Bathrick Brothers for the erection and construction of “2 two-story Spanish house and 2-3 car garages.” Said buildings were actually completed on February 5, 1930. Recorded February 7, 1930, Miscellaneous Book 94, Page 429.
June 3, 1930 Minnie Scheibe (a widow) to Mary Ellen Henderson, recorded June 6, 1930, Deed Book 1788, Page 22.
May 12, 1933 Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale. Title Insurance and Trust Company to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, recorded May 26, 1933, Official Records Book 214, Page 293.
August 20, 1937 Notice of Completion. Western Service Company (acting as agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) entered into a contract with A.H. Baldwin on or about June 28, 1937 for “certain repairs and improvements.” The repairs and improvements were completed on or about August 10, 1937. Recorded August 23, 1937, Official Records Book 693, Page 17.
December 19, 1939 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to S.J. McClendon and E. Laura McClendon, recorded March 26, 1940, Official Records Book 1010, Page 279.
March 13, 1940 S.J. McClendon and E. Laura McClendon to Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo, recorded March 26, 1940, Official Records Book 1009, Page 360.
October 25, 1940 Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo to Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara Dauchy Faulconer, recorded February 1, 1941, Official Records Book 1135, Page 42.
February 19, 1943 Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara Dauchy Faulconer to Elmer Henry Hemann, recorded March 3, 1943 Official Records Book 1468, Page 161.
October 24, 1944 Elmer Henry Hemann and Ann Maude Hemann to Peter Gantes and Marie Gantes, recorded January 6, 1945, Official Records Book 1804, Page 80.
June 18, 1947 Peter Gantes and Marie Gantes to Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack, recorded July 8, 1947, Book 2442, Page 316.
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B.1 Chain of Title - Continued
June 3, 1948 Willard F. McCornack and Catherine K. McCornack to Harold E. Logan and Helen B. Logan, Document # 81325, recorded August 16, 1948.
June 16, 1950 Decree Establishing Fact of Death and Determination of Distribution (Helen B. Logan, deceased), recorded June 16, 1950, File # 66661, Book 3661, Page 252.
June 3, 1950 Harold E. Logan (a widower) to Gordon B. Heller and Della F. Heller (husband and wife as joint tenants), recorded June 23, 1950, Document # 70089, Book 3669, Page 288.
June 29, 1956 Gordon B. Heller and Della F. Heller (husband and wife) to Edwin C. Sweeney and Jacqueline Q. Sweeney, recorded August 2, 1956, Document # 107158, Book 6204, Page 401.
December 4, 1957 Edwin C. Sweeney and Jacqueline Q. Sweeney to Maurice E. Halstead and Sylvia M. Halstead, recorded January 3, 1958, Document # 1003, Book 6891, Page 394.
October 18, 1990 Sylvia M. Halstead (surviving widow of Maurice Halstead) to Sylvia M. Halstead (Trustee, and her successors in trust), recorded December 27, 1990, Document # 1990-0687136.
June 8, 2006 Henry H. Halstead and G. Marie Halstead (husband and wife, jointly and to the survivor) to Henry H. Halstead and G. Marie Halstead (jointly and to the survivor, as trustees of the H.H and G. Marie Halstead Living Trust), recorded July 5, 2006, Document # 2006-0472583.
July 18, 2013 Henry H. Halstead to Henry H. Halstead and G. Marie Halstead (husband and wife as joint tenants), recorded July 25, 2013, File # 2013-0465243.
July 19, 2013 Affidavit – Death of Trustee (Sylvia M. Halstead, deceased), recorded August 13, 2013, Document # 2013-0505989.
May 8, 2015 Henry H. Halstead and G. Marie Halstead (husband and wife as joint tenants) to Stephane N. Beauvais and Megan A. Beauvais, recorded June 29, 2015, Document # 2015-0338982.
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B.2 Directory Search of Occupants 1930 Vacant 1931 Henderson CH (o) Henderson Clinton H (Mary E) dentist 625 Broadway room 612 h 3244 Dumas 1932 Henderson CH (o) Henderson Clinton H (Mary E) dentist 625 Broadway room 612 h 3244 Dumas 1933 Henderson CH (o) Henderson Clinton H (Mary E) dentist 625 Broadway room 612 h 3244 Dumas 1934 Boone HR Boone Horace R (Loretta) lieutenant cmdr US Navy h 3244 Dumas 1935 Boone HR Boone Horace R (Loretta I) US Navy h 3244 Dumas Boone Loretta I h 3244 Dumas 1936 Davis SE Davis Schuyler E (Blanche M) manager FW Woolworth Co h 3244 Dumas 1937 Davis SE Davis Schuyler E (Blanche M) manager FW Woolworth Co h 3244 Dumas 1938 Vacant 1939 McClendon SJ McClendon Samuel J (E Laura) (Rees-Stealy Clinic) physician 2001 4th Av h 3244 Dumas Street 1940 Mundo AL (o) Mundo Arthur L (Clara E) judge Superior Court dept 3, h 3244 Dumas St 1941 Faulconer TP (o) Faulconer Thomas P (Barbara D) engineer Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3244 Dumas St 1942 Faulconer TP (o) Faulconer Thomas P (Barbara D) director of education Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3244 Dumas St 1943 Hemann EH (o) Hemann Elmer H (Anna) aircraft worker Consolidated Aircraft Corp h 3244 Dumas St 1944- Address not listed 1945 1946 Directory not published this year. 1947- McCornack WF (o) McCornack Willard F (Cath K) h 3244 Dumas St 1948 1949 Directory not published this year. 1950 Logan HE (o) Logan Harold E (Helen B) h 3244 Dumas St 1951 Directory not published this year. 1952 Heller GB (o) Heller Gordon B (Della) branch manager Safeway h 3244 Dumas St 1953- Heller Gordon B (o) Heller Gordon B (Della) branch manager Safeway h 3244 Dumas St 1954 1955 Heller Gordon B (o) Heller Gordon B (Della) branch manager Safeway h 3244 Dumas St 1956 Heller Gordon B (o) Heller Gordon B (Della F) h 3244 Dumas St 1957 Sweeney Edwin C (o) Sweeney Edwin C (Jacqueline I) USN h 3244 Dumas St 1958 Halstead Maury Halstead Maury employee Naval Electronics Laboratory h 3244 Dumas St 1959 Halstead Maurice Halstead Maurice (Sylvia) research scientist Naval Electronics Laboratory h 3244 Dumas St 1960 Halstead Maurice Halstead Maurice (Sylvia) research scientist Naval Electronics
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Laboratory h 3244 Dumas St 1961 Halstead Maurice Halstead Maurice (Sylvia) research scientist Naval Electronics Laboratory h 3244 Dumas St 1962 Halstead Maurice Halstead Maurice (Sylvia) research scientist Naval Electronics Laboratory h 3244 Dumas St 1963- Lawshe Roger D Lawshe Roger D (Dorothy J) physician 1370 Rosecrans h 3244 1964 Dumas St 1965 Lawshe Roger D Lawshe Roger D (Dorothy J) physician 1370 Rosecrans h 3244 Dumas St 1966 Lawshe Roger D Lawshe Roger D (Dorothy J) physician 2185 Garnet h 3244 Dumas St 1967 Read Wm L Lawshe Roger D (Dorothy J) physician 2185 Garnet h 3244 Dumas St
Read Wm L (Martha) US Navy h 3244 Dumas St 1968 Read Wm L Read Wm L (Martha) US Navy h 3244 Dumas St 1969- Vacant 1970 1971 Ginn John O Ginn John O (Madeline F) US Navy h 3244 Dumas St
Ginn Laun L student r 3244 Dumas St 1972 Webb Wm H Webb Wm H (Doris) retired h 3244 Dumas St 1973 Webb Wm H Webb Wm H (Doris) retired h 3244 Dumas St 1974 Webb Wm H Webb Wm H (Doris) retired h 3244 Dumas St 1975 Webb Wm H Webb Wm H (Doris) retired h 3244 Dumas St 1976 Webb Wm H Webb Wm H (Doris) retired h 3244 Dumas St
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Zula M. Sherman to Minnie Scheibe. Recorded on December 10, 1929. Continued on next page.
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Continued from previous page.
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B.3 Deed from the Date of Construction Minnie Scheibe to Mary Ellen Henderson. Recorded June 6, 1930.
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B.3 Deed Trustee's Deed Upon Sale, recorded May 26, 1933. Continued on next page
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B.3 Deed Continued on next page.
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B.3 Deed Continued from previous page.
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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 1886/1887 1906 1921 1940 1950 1956
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C.1 City of San Diego 800 Scale Engineering Map Map # 202-1701
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C.2 Current USGS Map - 2015 Point Loma quadrangle
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C.2 Historical USGS Map - 1953
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C.3 Original Subdivision Map Lots 11 and 12 in block C of Chatsworth Terrace Annex.
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C.3 Tax Assessor's Map
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/C.4 Sanborn Map – 1886/1887
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1906
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1921
None for this area
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1940 Volume 4, Map # 410
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1950 Volume 4, Map # 410
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C.4 Sanborn Map – 1956 Volume 4, Map # 410
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Attachment D Photographs
D.1 — Historical Photographs D.2 — Current Photographs
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D.1 Historical Photograph 3244 Dumas Street in 1929. Photo # 9112-5 courtesy of the San Diego History Center.
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D.1 Historical Photograph Front and side elevations of 3244 Dumas Street photographed on September 13, 1946. Photo # 79:741-848 courtesy of the San Diego History Center.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation 3244 Dumas Street pictured in a 2002 DPR completed as part of a survey for the Quieter Home Program.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation 3244 Dumas Street circa 2002 in documentation for Quieter Home Program.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation 3244 Dumas Street pictured in a 2015 real estate listing. Photos courtesy of redfin.com.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Northwest (side) Elevation 3244 Dumas Street pictured in a 2015 real estate listing. Photos courtesy of redfin.com.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation (Before wood shutters were rebuilt and installed) Transitional photos by Kiley Wallace, July 2016.
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - South Elevation (Before wood shutters were rebuilt and installed)
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D.1 Transitional Photographs - Northwest (Secondary) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs - Southwest (front) Elevation Current photos by Kiley Wallace, November 2016
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D.2 Current Photographs - Southeast (side) Elevation
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D.2 Current Photographs - House Interior For reference only. Interior not included in proposed designation.
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D.2 Current Photographs - House Interior For reference only. Interior not included in proposed designation.
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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
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History
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E.1 Criterion A – Community History San Diego Evening Tribune December 11, 1923
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo Owners and Residents, 1940 only
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo Owners and Residents, 1940 only
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Arthur L. Mundo and Clara E. Mundo Owners and Residents, 1940 only
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara D. Faulconer (no relation to current San Diego mayor) Owners, 1940 to 1943 Residents, 1941 and 1942
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E.2 Criterion B – Historical Person Thomas P. Faulconer and Barbara D. Faulconer (no relation to current San Diego mayor) Owners, 1940 to 1943 Residents, 1941 and 1942 The photos on this page are of flying car prototypes developed by Thomas P. Faulconer. They are courtesy of his sister-in-law, Heidrun Faulconer, who was married to his brother Philip.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) The Bathrick Brothers Construction Company was comprised of Herbert R. Bathrick and his brother Eugene. They were originally from Wisconsin but moved to Pasadena in the early 1920's, along with their parents Daniel and Libbie. In Pasadena, Eugene and Daniel entered real estate before Eugene and Herbert partnered to form the Bathrick Brothers Construction Co.
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Herbert R. Bathrick, one of the Bathrick Brothers, was married to Ella Scheibe. In the early 1920's, Ella, Herbert, and Ella's widowed mother Minnie Scheibe moved from Wisconsin to Pasadena. In the late 1920's, Minnie purchased several of the lots in Loma Portal upon which the Bathrick Brothers constructed homes, including 3244 Dumas Street and 3230 Dumas Street, the adjacent home.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) The home pictured below, 3230 Dumas Street, is next door to 3244 Dumas Street. Both were built by the Bathrick Brothers and completed in February 1930.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) In 1929, the Bathrick Bros. constructed 3211 Freeman Street in Loma Portal. This home was historically designated in 2003 as the Herbert Bathrick House (HRB # 577). They also built the adjacent home, 3219 Freeman Street, at that same time. 3211 Freeman Street is the mirror image of 3244 Dumas Street.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) 3219 Freeman Street in Loma Portal
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) 2858 Locust Street in Loma Portal, built in 1929. As with 3244 Dumas Street and 3230 Dumas Street, Minnie Scheibe, the mother-in-law of Herbert R. Bathrick, purchased the lots and the Bathrick Bros. constructed the homes on them. This home appears to have a "twin" or matching home at 1959 E. Mountain Street in Pasadena, which was built by the Bathrick Brothers circa 1929 and was the personal residence of Herbert and Ella Bathrick in 1930 (see next page).
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) 3211 Ibsen Street in Loma Portal
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) 3221 Ibsen Street in Loma Portal
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Left: 5301 Marlborough Drive circa 1929. It has since been altered.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) "Casa Hermosa" (House Beautiful) Model Home at 5182 Edgeware Road in Kensington, constructed by the Bathrick Brothers in 1928.
Image and caption below from the San Diego Union, January 5, 1929 Note that the home was originally addressed as 5208 Edgeware Road.
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E.4 Criterion D – Master Builder Bathrick Brothers Construction Company (not yet considered Master Builders) Photos of Bathrick Brothers designed home in Pasadena, California
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Attachment F Works Cited
F.1 — Provide a list of works cited (bibliography)
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F.1 Bibliography
Books
Baker, John Milnes 1994 American House Styles - A Concise Guide. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
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: 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
Hartmann, Glenn D. 1977 Architectural Description Guide: Developed for Use in Preparing Nominations for State and National Registers of Historic Places. Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission, Olympia, Washington
Kirkpatrick, Thomas I. 2011 The Love That Endures: Remembering My Mother and My Father, U.S.S. Arizona's Chaplain at Pearl Harbor. Half Moon Bay: Greenbrier Publications.
McAlester, Virginia 2013 Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
McGrew, Clarence Alan 1922 City of San Diego and San Diego County, the Birthplace of California. Volume I. The American Historical Society, Chicago.
National Park Service 1985 Historic American Building Survey Guidelines for Preparing Written and Historical Descriptive Data. Division of National Register Programs, Western Regional Office, San Francisco, California
Newcomb, Rexford 1990 Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States. Dover Publications, New York
Requa, Richard S., A.I.A. 1929 Old World Inspiration for American Architecture. Originally published by the Monolith Portland Cement Company. Los Angeles, California.
Smith, G.E. Kidder 1996 Source Book of American Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press
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Walker, Lester 2002 American Homes - An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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 Records; 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