HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Bertram and Ingeborg Carteri / Abelardo Rodriguez / Louis Gill House 4379 N
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HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Bertram and Ingeborg Carteri / Abelardo Rodriguez / Louis Gill House 4379 N. Talmadge Dr. - Talmadge Park Neighborhood San Diego, California Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (619) 269-3924 www.legacy106.com July 2015 1 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principal Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Investigator P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (619) 269-3924 • http://www.legacy106.com 2 3 State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # ___________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ______________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial __________________________________ NRHP Status Code 3S Other Listings ___________________________________________________________ Review Code _____ Reviewer ____________________________ Date __________ Page 3 of 37 *Resource Name or #: The Bertram and Ingeborg Carteri / Abelardo Rodriguez / Louis Gill House P1. Other Identifier: 4379 North Talmadge Dr., San Diego, CA 92116 *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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: La Mesa Date: 1997 Maptech, Inc.T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 4379 North Talmadge Dr. City: San Diego Zip: 92116 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.) e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Elevation: 380 feet Legal Description: Lots 102 and 103 of Talmadge Park in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, according to map 1869 thereof filed in the office of the County Recorder of said San Diego County, December 3, 1925. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel APN # 465-331-06-00. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries). This large house is a excellent two-story example of the Spanish Eclectic / Revival style with Monterey style matching upper level porches and influences built in 1926. It is a large 3,312 sq ft. single- family residence designed by recognized Master Architect Louis Gill and built by builder Bertram J. Carteri in the Talmadge Park area of the neighborhood of Kensington, San Diego. The house is on a large prominent corner lot and has an "open book" L-shaped plan with wings stretching out to the north and east. The primary (front) elevation faces North Talmadge Drive. The home features a hipped roof with irregularly laid mission fired clay tiles with detached gabled roof double garage with integrated upper level guest/maid's quarters. (See Continuation Sheet.) *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) (HP2) Single family property *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date, accession #) View of Northeast (front) Elevation. Photo by Dan Soderberg, June 2014. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both A Notice of Completion was not found. San Diego Union article & rendering, January 24, 1926. San Diego Union article and hist. photo March 7, 1926 Water record dated November 1927. Sewer records were not found as is common in the Talmadge neighborhood. Deed from date of construction-February 2, 1926. Historic aerial photos show the house circa 1930, 1940. Residential Building Record estimated date of construction 1925. Original plans by Louis Gill, Dec. 29, 1925. *P7. Owner and Address: Charlotte Holmes 4379 N. Talmadge Dr. San Diego, CA 92116 *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: July 2015 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Bertram and Ingeborg Carteri / Abelardo Rodriguez / Louis Gill House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., July 2015. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace, Michelle Graham, and Dan Soderberg for extensive research, and other assistance with the preparation of this report. *Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List): DPR 523A *Required Information 4 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 4 of 37 *Resource Name or #: The Bertram and Ingeborg Carteri / Abelardo Rodriguez / Louis Gill House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: July 2015 Continuation Update *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) (Continued): (See Attachment D, Photographs) The subject property at 4379 North Talmadge Drive is a Spanish Eclectic / Revival style home with Monterey influences. The home has a balanced façade and a compound L shaped floor plan. The house has a low pitched Mission red fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative wooden eave cornice throughout. The home's clay brick roof has irregular double layering of roof tiles. The home features stucco wall surfacing and brown painted wood trim throughout. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home designed by Master Architect Lois Gill and built by Builder Bertram J. Carteri. The home displays a recessed front entry door and upper balcony French door with decorative inset reveal. The home also features a simple yet elegant handmade wrought iron balcony, window grilles, railing and matching light fixtures. The home is a grand example of the style and has all the characteristic defining architectural features of the Spanish Eclectic/Revival style, along with Monterey style influences. These including the low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing, arched and elaborated doors and focal windows. The home exhibits its Monterey influences with its L-shaped two story plan and its dual upper level partially cantilevered wooden balconies covered by the principle hipped roof of the home. The home is a particularly high styled example and exhibits some interesting features of the style including its varied use of wood window lintels, decorative focal windows, decorative inset doors and windows combined with extensive wrought iron window grilles and other details. The subject resource also features decorative wooden lintels, balcony brackets, carved perforated balcony balusters and other wood detailing. The home features second-story balconies on each upper wing end with decorative wooden beams and railing covered by the main roof of the house. The home has a sandy and very original appearing irregular stucco exterior surfacing seen throughout. Windows and doors are brown painted wood unless otherwise noted. The resource is positioned in an L-shape with north and west extending wings and sits on a mostly flat semicircular corner lot. The home has a 100% intact building footprint with no additions, and has retained excellent architectural integrity. 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. 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. Northeast (Front) Elevation – The low pitched hipped roof of the main house has hand laid red clay barrel tiles in an irregular pattern in keeping with the rustic Spanish aesthetic and design. The strong roof line is evident in this front elevation with hipped roof seen visible along the upper level. A stucco end chimney tops the tile hipped roof behind the east facing wing. Minimally overhanging eaves are seen below the roofline with the hipped roof above the upper level balconies seen on each wing end. The main front façade is dominated by the extending wings with central second-story iron Juliet balcony and end balconies with substantial decorative wooden beams and picket style railing covered by the principle roof of the house. The large brown painted wooden beams with decorative supporting corbels suggest permanence by their large size. A variety of window elaborations are seen on this elevation with large arching focal windows, wooden lintel topped windows and wrought iron grille covered windows all seen on this front facing elevation. Also all windows display a recessed lower reveal detail below the window sills. Where the two wings connect, the central chamfered entryway and cantilevered upper level wrought iron balcony faces the diagonal walkway. The central single upper level multilight wooden French door has a curvilinear top rail with matching decorative deep reveal. The