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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: __St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte_____DRAFT_______________________ Other names/site number: ___________________________________________________ Name of related multiple property listing: ___N/A___________________________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: __1490 Mark Thomas Drive___________________________ City or town: _Monterey_____ State: _California________ County: _Monterey_________ Not For Publication: Vicinity: ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide ___local Applicable National Register Criteria: ___A ___B ___C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte Monterey, California Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Site Structure Object Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte Monterey, California Name of Property County and State Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ______1______ ______3______ buildings _____________ _____________ sites _____________ _____________ structures _____________ _____________ objects ______1______ ______3_______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ____0____ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) RELIGION/religious facility ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) RELIGION/religious facility ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte Monterey, California Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) LATE VICTORIAN: Shingle Style ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: _WOOD shingle, STONE granite, sandstone Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte is a Late Victorian Shingle Style, traditionally cross-shaped, single story, 2,329 square foot building with a 110-foot high steeple and bell tower. The chapel occupies a polygonal lot of approximately two acres in a mixed-use neighborhood encompassing a major hotel and spa, golf and tennis facilities, schools, and residences. The Chapel is physically centered on the parcel. When constructed in 1891, the chapel was on a less than an acre, wooded site adjacent to the Hotel del Monte and oriented northwest to align with the entrance of the hotel 850 feet away. The rerouting of California State Highway 1 in the 1950s mandated the chapel be moved 560 feet southwest. With the move in 1957, the Chapel was reoriented to a more traditional east-west orientation, with the main pedestrian entrance facing southwest and the altar northeast. At the same time an additional twenty feet was added to the nave. Secondary and tertiary pedestrian entrances are located in close proximity to each other on the southern side, one leading into the nave and the other to the sacristy. Three noncontributing buildings do not contribute to the significance for which the property is eligible; two were constructed after the period of significance. Despite the move, St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte retains all aspects of integrity sufficient to convey its historic significance. Section 7 page 4 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte Monterey, California Name of Property County and State ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Setting St. John’s Chapel, Del Monte occupies a corner parcel in a mixed-use neighborhood. Neighbors include a major hotel and spa complex to the west, a golf and tennis club to the south, a denominational K-12 school to the east, and the Naval Postgraduate School in the former Hotel del Monte to the north. Also nearby are a number of modest, non-architect designed single- family residences from the mid to late twentieth century. Modest landscaping includes native plants and reduced areas of turfgrass. Xeriscaping is low maintenance with a primary goal of reducing landscape water consumption. A large parking lot encompasses the northern and western portions of the property adjacent to the Chapel with varied native trees, shrubs, and hedges serving as a manicured buffer between the Chapel’s parking lot and Mark Thomas Drive on the north and the hotel and spa to the west. A narrow, manicured garden separates the chapel from the parking area on the north side of the building, while the space between the south side of the chapel and the other buildings is given over to an extensive memorial patio and rose garden.1 Beyond those buildings to the property’s perimeter defined by Josselyn Canyon, Sylvan Road, and Old Golf Course Road are native trees and shrubs. Underbrush and deadwood are cleared for appearance and access to the children’s playground on the east side of the property. Exterior A classic example of the Shingle Style, the chapel designed by E.A. Coxhead (Figures 1, 2) is a rambling, picturesque building originally clad entirely with redwood shingles forming a continuous and contoured covering stretching over rooflines and around corners (Figure 3). The building is anchored to the ground on a heavy stone foundation. In keeping with this style of architecture the chapel’s original site was a natural setting of California live oaks and Monterey pines. Façades are asymmetrical and horizontal with narrow arched windows grouped along the north side of the building (Figure 4). The entryway was originally defined by a heavy low stone arch with recessed heavy oak double-doors. The asymmetrical, steeply pitched, cross