Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board Agenda Ju 23 2012 Notice is hereby given that on Monday, July 23, 2012; the Cultural Heritage Board will convene at 10:30a.m. for a tour of the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery located at the north side of Etting and Pleasant Valley Roads, Oxnard, CA 93030, after the tour, the Cultural Heritage Board will reconvene at 1 :1Sp.m. to hold a public meeting ãt the Oxnard Public Library Meeting Room B located at2Sl South A Street, Oxnard, CA. Members of the public are welcome to attend.
1. ROLL CALL Patricia Havens, Fìicki Mikkelsen, John Kulwiec, Don Shorts, Gary Blum, Stephen Schafer, and Miguel Fernandez
2. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Discussion is limited to items not on this agenda which are within the purview of the Board Each speaker is allowed 5 minutes. Board may question the speaker but there will be no debate or decision. Staff may refer the matter for investigation and report.
3- APPROVAL OF MINUTES March 12,2012 Minutes April 09,2012 Minutes May 14,2012 Minutes
4. CONVENE THE MEETING OF THE OXNARD CULTURAL HERITAGE BOARD a) Hueneme Masonic Cemetery Concerns at Pleasant Valley and Etting Roads, Oxnard CA. Action: Review Staff Report and Provide Direction to staff
b) Landmark No. 18, Japanese Cemetery at the corner of Pleasant Valley and Etting Roads, Oxnard, lnstallation of Two Benches, Project No. 12-389 Action: Consider Certificate of Appropriateness 5. CONVENE THE MEETING OF THE PORT HUENEME CULTURAL HER¡TAGE BOARD a) Review of the Final Berylwood Historic District HABS Survey completed by Jennifer Krintz and Shannon Davis, Architectural Historians, ASM Affiliates, May 2012 Action: Review and provide comments to Navy Base Ventura County, SHPO and Advisory Council
6. DISCUSSION a) Review of Draft Mills Act Ten Year Rehabilitation Plan's List of Potential Projects Action: Review and provide recommendations to staff
b) Board Comments
7. MEETING ADJOURNMENT ln Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Nicole Doner at 805-654-5042. Reasonable advance notification of the need for accommodation prior to the meeting (48 hours advance notice is preferable) will enable us to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board Draft Minutes 788 West Matilija Hot Springs Road, Ventura County and Ventura County Government Center, Administration Building, Third Floor, Room 311, 800 S. Victoria Avenue, Ventura March 12, 2012 al 10:1 Sa.m.
Board members toured Landmark No. 25 - Matilija Hot Springs located at 788 West Matiliia Hot Springs Road, Ventura County at 10:15a.m. Then, Board members returned to Ventura County Government Center, Administration Building, Third Floor, Room 311, 800 S. Victoria Avenue, Ventura at l:10p.m.
1 Meeting was called to order at 1:15 pm by Chairman Blum. Commissioners Present: Don Shorts-Vice Chair, Gary Blum - Chair, Miguel Fernandez, Patricia Havens, John Kulwiec, Steve Schafer, and Ricki Mikkelsen Absent: None Staff Present: Nicole Doner Advisors Present: Judy Triem
2 Oral Communications None.
Items taken out of order
4. Gonvene the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board
a) Review the Watershed Protection District Project at Matilija Hot Springs, 786 and 788 West Matilija Hot Springs Road, Ventura County Landmark No. 25 (Matilija Hot Springs)
Ms. Doner, staff presented the staff report and the following recommendation: Consider Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish certain structures and correct building code violations; Find that the Certificate of Appropriateness application is incomplete and require further review and documentation via an Historic Resource Repofi by an Architectural Historian to complete the application and to determine the environmental impact and provide any appropriate mitigation measures for the project.
Board Discussion: Mr. Schafer asked if this is this a federally funded project under Section 106 review. Per applicant, Karl Novak, Deputy Director of the Operation and Maintenance Division of the County Watershed Protection District, no, only county funds would be used.
Mr. Novak informed the board members that the Dam project has stalled and the facility is in maintenance mode. The current request is a result of a tree falling on the dining hall and damaging it beyond repair. The County's first responsibility is to make the facility safe and the County also knows there is a flooding problem out there. A number of the facilities are shown as yellow striped areas after the dam was installed and fall within observed flooding areas including the Post Office. Mr Novak stated that a number of the other facilities are located within the flood area so he asked members why restore those facilities when the County knows they will be flooded again? Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board March 12,2012 Minutes Page 2 of 3
Judy asked what is happening to the Matilija dam and is the facility open to the public?
Per Mr. Novak, no, because there is only one road in/out, the facility cannot be publicly used with the existing one way in and out due to Fire hazards but there are trespassers. The property was only acquired because of the Dam project. Mr. Novak mentioned that the County Watershed Protection District is interested in getting the Post Office on the National Register.
Mr. Kulwiec asked how Mr. Novak defined demolition.
Mr. Novak stated he would remove the structure around the Post Office, and the toilet building.
Mr. Kulwiec asked if Mr. Novak planned to take out the foundation, restore the pad, remove the utilities and restore the Post Office? Mr. Novak stated that they haven't laid out all of the steps for demolition,
Mr. Schafer stated the project request is to seal and secure but stabilization is an option that was not mentioned. The Post Office is clearly historic but there are other items there such as the circulation patterns, pool, trees, landscape, buildings, and cultural landscape. Mr. Schafer stated that he is reluctant to allow removal of structures at this point. Mr. Schafer's worry is that the demolition is permanent and we don't have enough information at this point.
Mr. Schafer motioned that the CHB require further review and more information on potentialfuture uses and require the Gounty's detailed demolition plan including a Phase lArchitectural Historian review. Mr. Kulwiec seconded the motion. Motion passed 7-0.
Adjournment of the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board
5 Convene the Simi Valley Gultural Heritage Board a) Review the Simi Valley Elementary School Structural Retrofit Project at 2956 School Street, Simi Valley, CA
Ms. Doner, staff presented the staff report and the following recommendation: Find that the project meets the requirements of the Simi Valley Cultural Heritage Ordinance and that the project is consistent with the Secretary of Interior's Standards conditioned upon the project conforming with provisions outlined in the Preseruation Brief No. 41; and Approve the Certificate of Appropriateness
Board Discussion:
Mr. Tony Joseph from the Simi Unified School District introduced Will Lambert of Li & Assoc., and Bill Amador and Paulina Natera of Amador Whittle Architects.
Per Mr. Amador, they propose to use shotcrete on the inside of the building to strengthen the building and remove the barrel tile roof to connect the walls and the roof. The roof will be reinstalled and they will reuse the barrel tiles or match with similar tile in style and materials. The doors and windows are to remain except for a few exterior doors where the student restrooms on the south side of the building are to be replaced with panel door that are fully accessible. ln the School's interior where the entrance Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board March 12,2012 Minutes Page 3 of 3
corridor is located, there are architectural columns that are closed off. These columns are proposed to be reopened. Mr. Amador fudher stated that there are cracks in the exterior concrete 12-inch walls where they plan to add rebar and 4-inch shotcrete on the inside. New foundation element on the exterior will be 8-inches below grade and won't be seen.
Per Mr. Joseph, the State may have comments on their plans.
Ms. Havens wondered if there was any damaged to the schoolfrom the past earthquakes. No significant damage per Mr. Lambert.
Mr. Fernandez asked whether they were going to furr out from the shotcrete to run the electricity. Mr. Amador stated that they hope to run the electricity in the shotcrete within the 16,inch thick wall. Sidewalk and low wall (16 inches) will be removed for accessibility and raised as a sloped meandering path. Canopy will have a 4 inch gap from the existing school building. The classroom floors will be carefully saved and reused. The nurses area and main otfice is proposed to have a new wood floor.
Mr. Fernandez motioned to approve the Ceftificate of Appropriateness. Mr. Shorts seconded the motion. Motion passed 7-0.
3. Review of the November 14,2011 Minutes - Minutes were continued to the next meeting. 6. Discussion:
Board members repons given.
7. Adjournment of the Meeting of the Cultural Heritage Board by Ghair Blum. Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board Draft Minutes Ventura County Government Center, Administration Building, Third Floor, Room 31 1, 800 S. Victoria Avenue, Ventura April 09, 2012 al1:15P.m.
1 Meeting was called to order at 1:1Spm by Chairman Blum. Commissioners Present: Don Shorts-Vice Chair, Gary Blum - Chair, Patricia Havens, John Kulwiec, Steve Schafer, and Ricki Mikkelsen Absent: Miguel Fernandez Staff Present: Nicole Doner
2 Oral Communications None.
Items out of Order
4. Convene the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board
b) Review the revised application for a Conditional Use Permit Case No. LU11-0116 for purposes of California Environmental Quality Act (CEOA) compliance. Project located aI4277 E Hueneme Road, Unincorporated area of Oxnard.
Ms. Doner, staff, presented the staff report and provided the following request: . Board clarification on the potential historic value of the site as a potential Point of lnterest in light of the applicant's request to remove the signs.
Mr. Erik Nagy, the applicant's representative, came in at 1:25p.m.
Mr. Schafer would be comfortable determining that the signs are historical by making an association with the era of the Roosevelt Highway and mobility. He mentioned that the Roadside Americana resources are being dismantled and consumed every day and there is an entire society that advocates for the Roadside Americana.
Case Planner, Ms. Franca Rosengren, stated that the signs are considered a violation that should have been removed when the buildings were demolished.
Mr. Schafer asked if there were any provisions in the Ordinance to allow an override of the requirement for a variance for the protection of historic resources by the County Planning Division. Discussion arose among several members to consider the signs as añ. Mr. Schafer mentioned that he wanted to facilitate the maintenance of the signs on the stick as a historic resource, but if the signs were moved or removed, they may not be considered historical at that point.
Motion by Ms. Mikkelsen to continue the item to allow staff to provide other options Ms. Havens seconded the motion. Motion carried 6-0.
a) Review the Historic Resources Report dated July 18, 201 1 and Conditional Use Permit Case No. LU11-0120 for purposes of California Environmental Quality Act (CEOA) compliance. Project located at 6135 North Rose Avenue, El Rio Community Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board Aprilg, 2012 Minutes Page 2 of 3
Ms. Doner, staff presented the staff report and made the recommendation to review and provide comments
Mr. Schafer stated that the period of historical significance is during the Vickers family ownership 1908 through 1916 (Vickers Senior) and is the best resource associated with him left in the County. He continued to state that Fred Snodgrass, New York Giants baseball player and Mayor of Oxnard in 1937, lived on the property for three years. Mr. Snodgrass who married the daughter of Vickers should be considered a historically notable person. Vickers family had an incredible impact to the agricultural development in Simi Valley and Oxnard.
Mr. Schafer asked if there was a possible way to move the garage more than 15 to 25 feet away from the building. Mr. Schafer mentioned that the staff report identified that section of The Standards which does not recommend: Placing parking facilities directly adjacent to historic buildings where cars may cause damage to the buildings or to important landscape features. Mr. Schafer asked that the garage be at least 15 feet setback from the house (see yellow highlights made by Schafer on the site plan).
Mitch Stone and Judy Triem from San Buenaventura Research Associates (who completed the historic resource report) came in at 1:55p.m.
Per Schafer, the key feature of the walnut dehydrator building is the vent on the roof. Schafer stated that the garage drawings appear to look like a walnut dehydrator building. Mr. Kulwiec asked that the garage be turned facing north so that the new garage is not seen from the site entrance.
Mr. Schafer made a motion that the main residence, barn and the walnut dehydrator building are considered historic resources. Ms. Mikkelsen seconded the motion. Motion carried 6-0.
Mr. Schafer made a motion that the proposed changes to the agricultural part of the property from the proposed project do not have an adverse effect on the historic resources. Mr. Shorts seconded. Motion carried 6-0.
Mr. Schafer made a motion that the new pump house and garage should be designed in the shed-barn style and the garage should be moved as far as feasible away from the main resÍdence and the CHB would like a condition of the approval be applied to require CHB statf to review and approve the dimensional elevation and floor plans and materials board of the barn and pump house. Mr. Kulwiec seconded the motion. Motion carried 6-0.
3. Appioval of the November 14,2011 Minutes Motion to approve minutes by Mr, Kulwiec and seconded by Ms. Havens. Minutes were approved by consensus of the group.
There is no ltem 5 on the Agenda
6. Discussion
Board members reports: Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board April 9, 2012 Minutes Page 3 of 3
8. Adjournment of the Meeting of the Cultural Heritage Board by Chair Blum Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board Draft Minutes Valle Naranjal4268 Center Street, Piru, CA and Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner's Office 815 East Santa Barbara Street, Santa Paula, CA May 14, 2012 al9:30a.m.
1 Official Meeting was called to order at 10:20am by Vice Chairman Shods. Board members present for all items: Patricia Havens, Don Shorts-Vice Chair, Ricki Mikkelsen and John Kulwiec Board members Fernandez and Blum were available for all items except 4a Absent for all items: Stephen Schafer Staff Present: Nicole Doner
2. Oral Communications None.
Items out of Order
4. Convene the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board at 10:20am. 4a) Piru Valle Naranjal Residential Development Site of Merit located a|4268 Center Street, Piru
The CHB members toured the development with Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation's Miguel Garcia and Jesse Ornelas
CHB Staff, Ms. Nicole Doner, presented the staff repofi and recommendation: . Review Planned Development Permit Conditions of Approval and find that Conditions No. 29, 30 and 31 have been satisfied and the applicant may proceed to receive their site occupancy clearance.
The CHB reviewed the following information presented at the hearing: o '15 minute video documentary of the oral histories completed by George Sandoval of West End Productions in collaboration with Cal State Channel lslands . 3-D site model (physical) . Black and white photographs on archival paper taken of the buildings and landscape features, according to HABS standards available digital and hardcopy . As built drawings to HABS standards available digitaland hardcopy. . Tools of the trade commonly used by the citrus industry . Permanent interpretative plan and educational display at the Valle Naranjal community center that included the above mentioned items and citrus boxes and bags, smudge pot, ladder, bookcase, bed/bench. . Wall Mural painted by the Arts for Action of Oxnard depicting the farmworkers
Applicant, CEDC's Miguel Garcia, stated that the as-built drawings to HABS standards and the 15 minute video would be made available on the lnternet, the Bracero program books would be ordered and held on-site for Valle Naranjal residents information and the video would be publicized at the Museum of Ventura County, Santa Paula Oil Museum and South Central Coast lnformation Center at Cal State Fullerton and on the CEDC website. Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board May 14, 2012 Minutes Page 2 of 3
Mr. Kulwiec moved that the Cultural Heritage Board has reviewed the staff report and all exhibits thereto, has considered all comments received during the public comment process and the Cultural Heritage Board finds, based on the preceding analysís, that Conditions of Approval Nos. 29, 30 and 31 have been satisfied and that the applicant may proceed to receive their site occupancy clearance. Ms. Mikkelsen seconded. Motion passed 4-0.
4b. Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner's Office, Garage and Fumigation Buildings, 815 -845 East Santa Barbara Street, Santa Paula, Designation of Ventura County Landmark No. 172 and Review of a Certificate of Appropriateness for seismic retrofit and ADA lmprovements to the Agricultural Commissioner's Office.
The CHB members toured the facility with San Buenaventura Research Associates (Mitch Stone and Judy Triem) who offered information on the building's history. After the tour, the public meeting reconvened at 1:25p.m.
Ms. Nicole Doner, staff presented the staff report and provided the following recommendations:
a. Find that the Ventura County Agricultural Buildings meet the criteria and standards required by the Ventura Co. Ordinance Code No. 4225 (Cultural Heritage Ordinance) to designate the site and the buildings as Ventura County Landmark No. 172; and
b. Find that Project No.GH12-0007 meets the requirements of Ventura Go. Ordinance Code 4225 and that the project is consistent with the Secretary of lnterior's Standards conditioned upon the project conforming to the provisions in the Secretary of lnteriors Standards and Preseruation Brief No. 41 and approve the Certificate of Appropriateness.
Board discussed the Landmark Designation.
Ms. Mikkelsen motioned to approve the Landmark designation (Ventura County Historical Landmark No. 172). Ms Havens seconded the motion. Motion carried 6-0.
Mr. Shorts mentioned that the lobby ceiling should fit the walls. Ms. Mikkelsen stated that the upper kítchen cabinets should be retained and reused. Mr. Kulwiec mentioned that a) the inside door from the conference room to the kitchen should be retained as a false door; b) the Lobby's corbelled arched openings shall be kept; and c) the other doors that are not required to be handicapped accessible shall be retained such as the janitors closet door. Mr. Kulwiec also mentioned lhal T+" or 3/8" drywall could be used over the arched openings to maintain the arches. Ms. Wilson, architect for applicant, stated that the drinking fountain would be eliminated and a new door would be placed in the lobby and the original 42inch doors,will be re-used.
Mr. Kulwiec motioned to approve'the Cefiificate of Appropriateness conditioned upon the following: Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board May 14, 2012 Minutes Page 3 of 3
. Keep the 32-inch interior doors as part of the building except in the restrooms and kitchen areas which would require handicapped accessibility o Reuse the existing upper kitchen cabinets in the kitchen . Maintain the Lobby's interior arched openings.
Ms. Mikkelsen seconded the motion. Motion passed 6-0.
3. Approval of the November 28,2011. Ms. Havens moved to accept the Minutes and Mr. Kulwiec seconded the motion. Motion passed 6-0
Adjourn the Meeting of the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board
5. Gonvene the Meeting of the Oxnard Cultural Heritage Board
5a) Oxnard 1981 Survey Area, Proposed Two Residences on a vacant lot located at 135 S C Street, Oxnard; Review and Provide Comments on Conceptual Review of Proposed Plans (No Staff Report given) Board Discussion: The Board members offered the following comments: . Use deep brown brick on the residence o Look at the bungalow architectural styles and try to incorporate details from the bungalows o 25 foot front setback minimum and 5 foot side setback minimum . Lower the roofline of the dormer from 8 foot to 7 foot plate height . Consider wide window casings . Consider adding eave brackets . Consider using exposed rafter tails and roof beams . Porch Columns joint areas are not beefy enough
6a. Board members provided their reports.
6b. Staff Report: Staff discussed the interest from a Board member to reduce the number of public hearings to once a month versus meetings taking place generally twice a month when necessary. Staff informed the Board of the potential coneerns regarding a change to once a month that may be considered a reduction in contract services to Cities. Ms. Mikkelsen stated that she would prefer that any one-item meetings be held over to the next meeting. No action taken.
17. Adjournment of the Meeting of the Cultural Heritage Board by Chair Blum. OXNARD CULTURAL HERITAGE BOARD STAFF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS AGENDA OF JULY 23,2012 ITEM NO. 4a
SUBJEGT:
Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the Proposed Benches at Ventura County Historical Landmark No. 18, (Japanese Cemetery) Oxnard, Project No. 12-389
APPLICANT PROPERW OWNER:
Sam Behrens, Eagle Scout Hueneme Masonic Cemetery 261 S. F St. Association Oxnard, CA 93030 Emerson Tucker P.O. Box272 Oxnard, CA 93030
REQUEST:
Mr. Sam Behrens is requesting a Certificate of Appropriateness to install two benches at the Japanese Cemetery located at the corner of Pleasant Valley Road and Etting Road, in Oxnard (Exhibit 2 - Aerial Location Map). This is another Eagle Scout project (Troup 228) which would 'benefit the Oxnard community.
LOCATION AND PARCEL NUMBER:
Pleasant Valley Road and Etting Road, Oxnard, CA/APN: 225-O-O14-2OO
BACKGROUND: The Japanese Cemetery was designated as Ventura County Historical Landmark No. 18 by the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board in 1971 . The cemetery's history began when the Buddhist Church procured the land from the Free Masons in 1908. This cemetery contains approximately 130 graves. The property is triangular in shape and consists of .33 acres. This cemetery is the only Japanese cemetery in Ventura County and was in use from 1908 through 1960. Many of the Japanese immigrants settled in Oxnard and worked in the sugar beet and bean fields. Some lived and worked in the fishing village at Point Mugu. Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No. 12-389 Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page2
Several notable Oxnard families, including the family of former Oxnard Mayor Tsujio Kato, have been involved in the preservat¡on of the Japanese Cemetery. Matriarch Hanako Kato appeared in the Los Angeles Times in March 1982 for her effort as an unofficial caretaker at the site during the 1980s. At that time, the cemetery boundary was easily trespassed by youth and others in the community.
In more recent years, the younger Kato and Nakano worked together to request the City of Oxnard to verify the boundary of the cemetery and obtain a tall metal and stone fence for the cemetery at the Pleasant Valley and Etting roads intersection which was completed (Exhibit 3 - Site Photos). PROJECT ANALYSIS
The applicant is proposing to install two benches made of redwood with each bench having dimensions of approximately 96 inches wide by 35 inches tall x 18 inches deep placed on a concrete base (Exhibit 4 - Site Plan). The Significance of the New Construction and the Review of The Secretarv ilt
As requíred by Ordinance, the Standards have been used to review this project and the Board's review must be based on consistency of the project with them. The Standards explain that when adding a new building element, the following is the order of priority for developing plans:
a "ldentífy, retain and preserue features that define the historic character. a Protect and maíntain existing historic features. a Repair when the physical condition of charactendefining materials and features warrant. a Replace when the level of deterioration or damage of materials precludes repair. lf the essential form and detailing are still evident so that the physical evidence can be used to re-establish the deteriorated feature, then replace it. a Design for missing features: Reproduce it if there are photographs, etc. lf not, then design a new feature that is compatible, taking into account size, scale and materials."
1 lndividual and Cumulative Effects- The Board must decide if the project components adversely affect the overall historic fabric of the site, and the City Historic Landmark Area, and whether ¡t, either individually or Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No. 12-389 Oultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 3
cumulatively, would diminish its historic character. The Standards indicate:
"lt should be remembered...that such loss of character is iust as often caused by the cumulative effect of a series of actíons that would seem to be minor interuentions."(p. ix)
Thus, the guidance in all of the "Not Recommended" columns must be viewed in that larger contêxt, e.9., for the total impact on a historic building [or site]." (p. ¡x)
The Standards recommend aqainst the following
*lntroducing new construction onto the building site which is visually incompatible in terms of size, scale, design, materials, color and texture."(p.74)
Staff Comment: The proposed benches appear to be compatible with the Japanese simple and clean design. The project was reviewed by Anne Chilcott of the Japanese Ameiican Gitizens League (JACL)' and Reverend Henry Toryo Adams of the Oxnard Buddhist Temple. I have requested Mr. Behrens to report back on his discussions with both groups to reach a consensus on the appropriate location and design for the benches.
2. New Additions and Alterations
"New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be ...compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and íts environmenf. " (lbid, p. vii)
Staff Comment: The proposed redwood benches appear to be compatible with the massing, size, scale and architectural features of the Japanese cemetery.
Cultural Heritage Ordinance ln taking the steps noted above your Board must also make the specific Ordinance finding which logically follows to approve or deny the project.
I th" JACL was formed in 1929 to protect the rights of Japanese Americans from the state and federal governments. Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No, 12-389 Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 4
For approval the following finding must be made
Section 1366-3(a) states: "The proposed work will neither adversely affect the signifícant architecturalfeatures nor adversely affect the character of historical, architectural or aesthetic interest or value of the Cultural Heritage site."
OR For denial one or both of the following findings must be made:
Section 1366-7(a) states: "The proposed project is to remove or demolish a designated Cultural Heritage site that is determined by the Cultural Heritage Board to be significant and impoftant to the history of the County;'
Section 1366-7(b) states: "The proposed project would adversely affect the historical significance of the site or would not be compatible with the use and/or exterior of the designated Cultural Heritage site."
Staff Comment: Staff considers the proposed redwood bench to neither adversely affect the architectural features nor adversely affect the character of the Cultural Heritage site.
Previously, staff provided a copy of the plans to Mr. Nakano, a representative of the JACL and invited him to the Cultural Heritage Board meeting of June 25th. Mr. Nakano and Ms. Ghilcott of JACL and Reverend Adams attended this meeting where they voiced their concerns. Per Board direction, Mr. Behrens was to meet with these individuals to work out the details of the project and observe their requests relating to the location and style of the benches.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
No public comment regarding this application has been received
1. Conduct public hearing, hear testimony, and consider the staff report;
2. Find the bench project would be consistent with the Secretary of the lnterior Standards and the Cultural Heritage Board Ordinance; and
3. Based on the preceding evidence and analysis, Staff recommends that your Board approve the Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) for the project.
The Cultural Heritage Board's action will be final unless appealed to the Board of Supervisor's within 15 days of notification of the decision (Section 1366-7.c). Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No. 12-389 Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 5
Prepared by:
Nicole Doner, Planner 805-654-5042
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SUBJECT:
Update on the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery status
PROPERTY OWNER:
Hueneme Masonic Cemetery Association Emerson Tucker P.O. Box272 Oxnard, CA 93030
REQUEST:
Staff is providing an update on the status of the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery located at Etting Road, in the City of Oxnard and seeking direction from the Cultural Heritage Board on its potential as a cultural resource site (Exhibit 2 - Aerial Location Map).
LOCATION AND PARCEL NUMBER:
Pleasant Valley Road and Etting Road, Oxnard, CA/APN: 225-0'014-030 (3.94 acres).
BACKGROUND: The Hueneme Masonic Cemetery's history began when the cemetery was incorporated in 1898- by an association whose directors included farmer Winfield Scott Saviers and banker Achille Levy. The Hueneme Masonic Cemetery is adjacent to two landmarks, the Japanese Cemetery - Landmark No. 18 and the Naumann Giant Gum Tree and Eucalyptus Grove along Pleasant Valley Road - Landmark No. 15 both designated by the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board in 1971.
The Oxnard Masons appear to own the majority of shares in the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery Association. The oldest headstone in the 3.94-acre graveyard dates from 1899 and the last person was interred in the main section in 1949. Due to the fact that there are a lot of missing headstones and the property has been vandalized over the years, the number of graves is unknown, ln a Los Angeles Times article by Leo Smith dated February 11, 1993, he states Staff Report and Recommendations, Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 2 that the original cemetery consisted of 340 plots. Some of those plots are in what is now an adjacent farm, others in a portion of the Japanese Cemetery.
UPDATE
Staff has been approached by an affordable housing developer looking for property to develop. The developer inquired about the Hueneme Masonic Cemetery site as a possible affordable housing site and asked whether the propefty was protected as a County or City landmark. At this time, the property is not designated as a County/City Landmark but there are two neighboring landmarks, Japanese Cemetery and the Naumann Eucalyptus Grove.
Staff is seeking direction from the Cultural Heritage Board as to their interest in pursuing a designation of the Cemetery as a City Landmark.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
No public comment regarding this application has been received
1. Conduct public hearing, hear testimony, and consider the staff report;
2. Make findings by motion as required by the Ordinance and based on the evidence presented, to provide direction to staff regarding the Cemetery as a potential landmark, or provide other direction.
The Cultural Heritage Board's action will be final unless appealed to the Board of Supervisor's within 15 days of notification of the decision (Section 1366-7.c).
by:
Doner, Senior Planner 805-654-5042
EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT 3
VENTURA COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY ARCHIVES VENTURA COUNTY CULTURAL HERITAGE BOARD STAFF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS AGENDA OF JULY 23,2012 ITEM NO. 5a
SUBJEGT:
Berylwood Historic District - National Register of Historic Places (#77000360), Ventura County Landmark Nos.20 (Cemetery) and 31 (Mansion), Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme
Captain L.R. Vasquez, Commanding Officer Department of the Navy Naval Base Ventura County 311 Main Road, Ste. 1 Point Mugu, CA 93042-5033
REQUEST:
Review of the Final Nomination of the Berylwood Historic District (also known as the Thomas R. Bard Estate) to amend the original National Register of Historic Places listing ol 1977 (Exhibit 2 - Historic American Buildings Survey, Photos and National Register of Historic Places Registration Form).
LOCATION:
The Berylwood Historic District is generally bounded by Ventura Road to the east, Addor Street to the south, and Guadalcanal Street to the west. The nofthern boundary is a jagged line starting at Guadalcanal Street just north of Bard Lane and extending east encapsulating the landscape north of Bard Lane but south of BOQ 1434 and tennis courts, then turning north to 36th Avenue and then east again to the intersection of 34th Avenue and Ventura Road.
BACKGROUND:
ASI Afffiliates, as the consuttant to the US Department of the Navy (Navy), has recently completed an amendment to the National Register of Historic Places listing of the Berylwood National Historic District as required by the programmatic agreement among the Navy, the State Office of Historic Preservation, and the Advisory Council of Historic Preseruation. Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No. 12-390 Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 2
PROJECT ANALYSIS
According to the amended National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, the boundary encapsulates the remain¡ng buildings and botanic gardens of Berylwood that retain good integrity. West, south, and east of the boundaries are areas of housing (1960s and later) that no longer retain any resemblance to the historic grounds or setting of the estate. The northern boundary was drawn to include the remaining portions of the botanic gardens and Eucalyptus stand that visually define the northern and northeastern ends of the district. The landscape included in this northern poftion of this district north of Bard Lane is that portion that retains the greatest concentration of vegetation and the least intrusion of the higher-density development located to the north. The boundary also excludes the tennis coufts which have lost their integrity.
Updates to the Previous Berlywood Historic District Nomination Form
a) Removal of Doll House from NRHP Listing: The Farm Dwelling also referred to by the Navy as the Doll House or Guest House was originally paft of the NRHP nomination. lt is a one-story residential building originally constructed circa 1942. It is located northwest of the Bard Mansion adjacent to the former farming/dairying area of the estate. The building was once part of a grouping of buildings that included several barns, other farm dwellings, and a milk house. The barns and dwellings have been demolished and the milk house Was moved to another location on the installation north of the historic district and rehabilitated as a dwelling.
The building was altered in 1970 and in the years since then, but no known additions have been made. The building was originally a two-bedroom house, but in 1970, one of the interior bedroom walls was removed to create a larger living room. Much of the original finishes have been replaced, including the flooring and ceilings materials.
b) Add Pool House to NRHP Listing: The Pool House is a one-story ancillary building located north of the previously existing pool constructed for the Richard Bard family. The building was originally constructed circa 1938 as a dressing room. lt was not initially identified in the original Berylwood Historic District nomination. A historic photo indicates the building's current appearance is nearly identical in form and materials to its original design.
c) Historic Designed Landscape/Botanic Gardens: The majority of the original Berylwood gardens were planted before 1890, but plantings and trees were constantly planted by Thomas and Molly Bard until Thomas' death in 1915. Over 260 trees in 48 genera and 78 species were documented by Thomas Bard in 1 905. Staff Report and Recommendations, Project No. 12-390 Cultural Heritage Board Meeting of July 23,2012 Page 3
d) Non-Contributing Resources: Naval housing within the district constructed after the Navy acquired the propefty are not associated with the areas of significance for the Berylwood Historic District nor the period of significance, and as such should be considered non-contributing resources. Eight units of Capehaft officer housing were constructed in 1963-typical military construction for the mid- twentieth century.
e) Removal of the .following structures/objects from the NRHP Listinq: Gardeners shed demolished and replaced by the bachelor officers' quafters in 1970; pool demolished in 2008; the tennis court has lost all of its original materials and design characteristics, it can no longer be considered a contributing resource; and the buried, Thomas R. Bard, Mary Bard, and their infant son Robert were moved to l-vy Lawn Cemetery.
PUBLIC COMMENTS
No public comment regarding this application has been received
RECOMMENDATION AGTIONS:
1. Conduct public hearing, hear testimony, and consider the staff report;
2. Make findings by motion as required by the Ordinance and based on the evidence presented, to provide comments to the Nauy, SHPO and Advisory Council.
by:
Doner, Senior Planner 805-654-5042
Attachments: Exhibit 2: Historic American Buildings Survey, Photos and National Register of Historic Places FìegistratÍon Form HISTORIC AMERICAN BTIILDINGS SIIRVEY
Berylwood Historic District
Location: The Berylwood Historic District is located on Naval Base Ventura County in Oxnard, Ventura County, California. The district is roughly bounded by Ventura Road to the east, Addor Street to the South, Guadalcanal Street to the west, and to the north by BOQ 1434, the tennis courts, and 36thl34th Avenues (see sketch map). To pinpoint the structure geo-spatially, the Thomas Bard Mansion at Berylwood is located at latitude: 34.1586297, longitude: -1I9.1967836. The coordinate was obtained in 2011 and the datum is North American Datum 1983.
Present Owner/ Commander, Navy Installations Command/Naval Base Ventura County Occupant: N9, the installation's commanding officer, and visiting Naval officers
Present Use: Conference center, offices, dining and event space for Naval Base Ventura County (Bard Mansion), residential for Naval officers (Richard Bard House), storage (Garage), and vacant (Pool House)
Signifïcance: The Berylwood Historic District is locally significant for its association with Senator Thomas R. Bard, an influential and early oil and land developer of the town of Hueneme and the county of Ventura, California, as well as the founding president of the Union Oil Company. His son, Richard Bard, was also an influential local figure in the development of Hueneme, especially the harbor. The property is architecturally significant as the 1912 Thomas Bard Mansion is the work of a master architect, Myron Hunt, as well as an excellent example of the Italian Renaissance Revival style. Further, the district is a significant cultural landscape, containing the remains of the extensive botanic garden and plantings of Thomas Bard, also an avid horticulturalist. Hunt, an early advocate of landscape architecture, respected and incorporated Bard's gardens in his designs for the mansion. Berylwood (77000360) was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Historian: Jennifer KrinTz and Shannon Davis, Architectural Historians, ASM Affiliates, April2012
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HABS SURVEY BERYLWOOD HI STORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page2
Project This recording project was sponsored by San Diego Family Housing, Information: property manager, in cooperation with the Navy as property owner. It follows the guidelines established by the Historic American Buildings Survey division of the National Park Service. The documentation was undertaken by ASM Affiliates. The overall project manager was Siíead Ní Ghabhláin, Ph.D. The field supervisor was Shannon Davis, M.4., Senior Architectural Hislorian; assisted in the field, archival research, and in preparation of this report by Associate Architectural Historian Jennifer Krintz, M.H.P. Reproductions of original drawing and historic photographs were taken by Shannon Davis and Jennifer Krintz (with some provided by Suzanne Guerra and Naval Base Ventura County) and current photographs were taken by Jennifer Krintz. B ERYLV/OOD HI STORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 3
Part I: Historical Information
A. Physical History: The Berylwood Historic District consists of approximately 10 acres of land with four contributing buildings-the Thomas Bard Mansion, the Richard Bard House, Garage (associated with the Richard Barn House), Pool House, and the historic botanic gardens and landscape planted by Thomas Bard.
1. Building L: Thomas Bard Mansio
a. Date of erection: The Thomas Bard Mansion (Bard Mansion), the central building of the district, was constructed in IglI-12.1
b. Architect: Myron Hunt, AIA (Bard Mansion), others buildings not afchitect designed.
c. Original and subsequent owners, occupants, uses: The buildings within the Berylwood Historic District were all originally built and owned by Thomas or Richard Bard and part of the Bard's estate, Berylwood. The Bard Mansion was occupied by the Thomas Bard family until the 1937 death of Mrs. Thomas Bard. After 1937, the mansion was used only seasonally by Beryl Bard unlll 1944 when the Navy leased the property. The Navy initially only used the first floor as an officer's club, and after purchasing the property in 1951, was able to utilize the second floor for officer's housing, offices, and additional recreational space. The Bard Mansion continues to be occupied by the Navy, nov,/ as a conference center, event space, and offices.
d. Builder: E. D. Tyler
e. Originat plans and construction: The original floor plan for the Bard Mansion included a first and second floor, full attic, and basement. The plan of the house is roughly H-shaped, with the top of the "H" open to the north' Hunt's original drawings for the mansion are believed to exist, and are potentially being acquired by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California. The floorplan was sketched by Reginald C. Shand (who became the Bard's son-in-law in 1913) and Molly Bard (Thomas's wife), and then provided to architect Myron Hunt in the spring of 1911 for his fuIl execution of drawings.t Prior to hiring Hunt, the Bards first contracted with another
I Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard between Myron Hunt and Berylwood Investment Company, General Contract#B381,June7, l91l; andmultiplelettersofcorrespondencefromlgll-1912,Boxesl3CandD.Papersof Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 'Letter from Hunt to Russell Ray, May 16, 1911, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 4
architect, Russell Ray, in early 1910 to design the house, again from a floor plan drawn by Molly Bard and Shand.3 Because Thomas Bard became ill in April of 1910, the plans were put on hold. In late April/early May of 1911, the Bards contacted Ray to request he submit his final bill and let him know they had decided to hire Hunt instead.4 Hunt showed the Bards elevations at the end of May and a contract was drawn June 7ú.5 Hunt finished his plans by August of 1911; construction was undertaken shortly thereafter and completed by the end of 1912. The earliest plans located for the house were published (presumably by Hunt) in November 1916, four years after the house was completed, in The Architect, the San Francisco-based publication that was the "official organ" of the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).6 Those plans only include the first and second floor, with no elevations. No early plans exist for the full attic or basement. The general contractor for the construction was E. D. Tyler, at Hunt's recommendation. Bard also hired Shand as his "supervisor" for the construction at $5 per day.? Shand eventually practiced as an architect, though the extent of his training at this point in his life is unclear.8 Some of the materials (including wood framing and windows) for the house were reused from the Bard's earlier house located at the same site, a Victorian- style wood frame house, that began as a single-story house in 1876 and expanded into a three-story house in 1890. Most of the materials came from local distributors and suppliers based in Pasadena and Los Angeles.e
f. Alterations and additions: The Bard Mansion remained unaltered until its acquisition by the Navy in 1944. An early alteration was the removal of the elevator. Based on remaining plans available in the Navy's current Public Works archive, it appears that the Navy enclosed the nofih porch and south terrace in the late 1950s, creating a sitting area in the former porch space and a bar area in the terrace. Additional alterations atthat time include the removal of the elevator and the creation of one large room (initially a
3 Ibid. and Letter from Otto Gerberding to Russell Ray, April 24, 1910, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, Califomia. 4lbid. 5 Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard. 6 Bard Residen ce, The Architect, San Francisco, American Institute of Architects, Vol. 12, No. 5, Novemb er 1916, Plate 78. t Lett.rr from Bard to Otto Gerberding, July 14 and July 17, 1911, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. t T*o so*"". indicate Shand was an architect by the time he designed additions to the Richard Bard House in the 1920s: "Notes from Conversation with Joan Bard," Interviewer unknown, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, December 1972; and Transcript from Tour of Quarters A: The Richard Bard House, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, 1990. eMultipl" letters of correspondenõe from 1911 to 1912, Boxes 13 C and D. Papers ôf Tho-ur Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 5
cocktail lounge, later a meeting space) in the central section of the second floor by eliminating the two chambers and adjoining bath originally in the area south of the hall.
Subsequent alterations occurred mostly throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially periodic painting, mechanical/electrical work, kitchen alterations, and interior decor. The first-floor chamber and bath to the north of the stairway were replaced by 1982 with two modern, separate bathroom spaces with multþle toilets and no baths.
A major single-story addition was added to the west side of the house in 1968, which resulted in the removal of the windows and builrins on the west wall of the dining room. That addition created a.large multi-purpose room. A final single-story addition to the north of the new multi-purpose room created additional service facilities in 1977 .10
2. Building 2: Richard Bard House
a. Date of erection: The original portion of the Richard Bard House, the secondary residence within the district, was constructed in 1910, with significant additions dating to 191,6-1925.
b. Architect: additions designed by Reginald Shand
c. Original and subsequent owners, occupants, uses: The original small core of the Richard Bard House was first constructed for and occupied by Anna Bard for a short period of time after it was completed in 1910. Anna preferred a more solitary life style than the busy mansion offered, but not long after her bungalow was completed, she moved to Northern California. From mid-1911 to December of 1912, the house became the temporary residence of the remaining members of the Thomas Bard family living at Berylwood during construction of the cuffent Thomas Bard Mansion. It was used as guest quarters until 1916, when the house became home to the Bard's middle son, Richard, and his new wife Joanna (Joan) March Boyd. The Richard Bard family lived in the home luntil 1944. In 1944, it became used as the quarters for the Naval installation's commanding officer, and continues in this use today. Thirty-three commanding officers and their families have lived in the house ftom 1944 to 2011. to Dut., for alterations to the Thomas Bard Mansion obtained by review of plans for Building 36, Port Hueneme Inspection & Repair Drawings, Public Works Offltce, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Archives, Port Hueneme, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repoft Page 6
d. Builder: unknown
e. Original plans and construction: No early plans exist for the Richard Bard house. The most recent plans available date to 1944. The house, was originally a one-story cottage now comprising the western-most section of the current building. Later additions and alterations obscure architectural evidence that might provide a definitive picture of the original floorplan, and few photos from the first two decades of this building's history exist. However, the house was generally comprised of one or two public rooms around one central fireplace with likely two bedrooms, a kitchen at the north side, and bathroom. It was originally rectangular in shape with a central chimney, hip roof and vertical plank siding with a porch to the south.lr
f. Alterations and additions: Additions were made to the house soon after it was constructed and newlyweds Richard and Joan Bard moved into the cottage in 1916. Their growing family was the impetus for several additions made between ca. 1916 and 1925. Photographic and architectural evidence (window and door patterns, roof forms and lines, chimneys, and floor plans), supported by the recollections of Richard and Joan's daughters Joanna and Margaret, indicate the order of those additions. The first was a single-story addition to the east of the house that included two bedrooms and an adjoining bathroom, with exterior doors from both bedrooms that opened to the south, and a change in the roof form to a gable roof.r2 This addition may have been completed prior to Richard and Joan's occupancy; possibly as early as 1911 when the extended Bard family used the cottage as a temporary residence while the Bard Mansion was under construction. Richard and Joan added another bedroom to the southeast corner of the house, a bathroom, and likely reconfigured the earlier two-room addition to include a new entry and hallway. Next, a second story \4ias added above these three bedrooms, which also included two adjoining bathrooms. t' In an interview conducted with Joan Bard in 1972, she stated that Reginald Shand to was the architect for that addition. The last second-floor bedroom was rr Footprint of building included on Diagram of Dwelling, Bam and Other Buildings belonging to Berylwood Investment Company and located near Hueneme, Ventura County, California. Dankin Publishing Co., San Francisco, Califomia. April 20, 1911. Photos of the house include: Photos of 1910 Bungalow, Friends of the Bard Museum Photographic Collection; Photo of Home of Richard and Joan Bard in 1916 in Powell March Greenland, A , Olive Press Publication, Los Olivos, Califomia, 2005,2; and Photo of Richard and Joan Bard's House, Personal Collection of Georgia Pulos, Santa Barbara, California, Date Unknown. tt Ibid. 13 Georgia Pulos, Email correspondence with Shamon Davis, October l,20Il. to "Notes ÍÌom Conversation with Joan Bard," and Transcript from Tour of Quarlers A: The Richard Bard House. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repon PageT
added around 1928 in the former attic of the original section, with the addition of two dormer windows to the north and south. The original front (south porch) was enclosed to expand the living room space at an unknown point in time. Sometime after 1944, a small northern single-story addition was added to the kitchen and current laundry room, expanding that section of the original building and adding a northern cross-gable roof.
3. Building 3: Garage of Richard Bard House
a. Date of Erection: circa t925 b. Architect: unknown c. Originat and subsequent owners' occupants, uses: This building was historically used as a garage for the occupants of the Richard Bard House, or in subsequent years for Quarters A. In later years, after an addition was made by the Navy, it was also used as a small dwelling. d. Builder: unknown e. Original plans and construction: There are no original or early plans or photos prior to L944. At that time, the building was a single-bay garage- that section which currently comprises the western-most portion of the building.t5 f. Alterations and additions: At some unknown date after 1944, the Navy expanded the building with an addition to the east, more than doubling its size. The addition rwas complised of a small dwelling and a second garage bay.
4. Building 4: Pool House
a. Date of Erection: circa 1938 b. Architect: unknown c. Original and subsequent owners' occupants, uses: This building was historically used as a dressing room for the pool previously located due south. It is currently vacant. d. Builder: unknown e. Original plans and construction: There are no original or early plans or photos prior to 1944. At that time a historic photo indicates the building was nearly identical in form and materials to its current appearance. f. Alterations and additions: No known alterations or additions
15 Historic photos document that the building at this location was originally a single-bay garagei Photo 5955, Base Archive Appraisal Photos, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, and Photo 11281, Aeriat overview of proposed housing construction site near Bard Estate, view Southeast. Original structures intact, base housing adjacent. Circa 1944. Contracts NO y-8173, Projects 3-20 1943. U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. A servant's quafiers (no longer extant) was located southwest of the garage' BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 8
5. Historic Designed Landscape/Botanic Gardens
a. Dates of Establishment: 1871-1915. The designed landscape and botanic gardens of Berylwood pre-date the current Bard Mansion. In 1868, Thomas Bard acquired the land, and began planting the land within a few years. Designed as an escape from his ventures in business and politics and as his main hobby was horticulture, Bard planted exotic trees, flowers, and shrubs onto his estate grounds from 1871 until his death in 1915. Molly and Richard Bard were also instrumental in the maintenance of the estate gardens, particularly after Thomas Bard's death. b. Landscape Architect: no professional architect involved; designed and planted by Thomas R. Bard and Molly Bard. c. Original and subsequent'owners, occupants, uses: The Bard family utilized the landscaped grounds of the Berylwood estate for recreation and leisure, as well as in later years to support a short-lived commercial enterprise to sell some of the plantings. Since the Navy's lease of the property tn 1944, the gardens continue to be used for recreation and leisure by the military. d. Original plans and construction: The majority of the original Berylwood gardens were planted from 1871 to 1890, but plantings and trees were constantly planted by Thomas and Molly Bard until Thomas' death in 1915. Over 260 trees in 48 genera and 78 species were documented by Thomas Bard in 1905.16 e. Changes and additions: As a result of the Navy's acquisition of the property beginning in 1944, portions of the historic landscape have been lost or altered. The original gardens extended beyond the approximate 10 acres that remain today. Additionally, the Navy removed some of the original circulation pattems and constructed military housing within portions of the gardens that remain today.
tu W. H. Hutchinson, Oil. Land. and Politics: the California Career of Thomas Robefi Bard. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1965, 21 6. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page9
B. Historical Context:
1. Thomas Bard and the Bard Estate Senator Thomas Robert Bard was born in December 8, 1841, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, son of Robert M. Bard, a prominent lawyer, and Elizabeth Smith Little.ttAs a young man, he studied law, but health reasons led him to a more active job conducting engineering survey work for coal companies in his early twenties.ls During the Civil War, he was the transportation agent for the Cumberland Valley Railroad at Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was responsible for transpertation of Union troops and supplies to the Potomac and Shenadoah Valley-highly contested areas during the war, and in a town that was home to many Southern sympathizers. Through this position during the war he met Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War, Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and oil magnate.le
Near the end of the war, Scott acquired more than275,000 acres of former Mexican ranchos in Southern California, primarily in Santa Barbara County and what would become Ventura County.2o Scott hired Bard to manage his Southern California land interests and oil exploration-the purpose of his large land purchase. In 1865, aI age 24, Bard arrived in California, first in San Francisco and then traveling to Santa Barbaru County where he lived in Ojai for seven years in a newly constructed Swiss- style cottagelofftce.zl Bard introduced the first free-flowing oil well in the state at one of his wells in Ojai. However, by the following year, it became clear the California's oil was not as desirable as that from the east, which was also so prolific that the oil market became temporarily saturated.2z Bard recommended to Scott that there was profît to be made instead by selling his vast land holdings in smaller parcels and developing the area.z3 Bard received a commission for each sale, and began to grow his own wealth.
In 1867, while exploring the coastline with a captain of the U.S. Geological Survey, Bard learned of a deep submarine canyon east of Point Hueneme. That visit first sparked Bard interest in establishing a wharf here.2a In 1868, he and other investors formed the Salisbury Company to develop the wharf (1871) along the south side of
17 Jack Smalley, "The Bard Family, Part One," Ventura County Star-Free Press,March28,1964. tt Jesse Mason. , Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, 1961. te Ibid. 20 Powell March Greenland, Thomas R. Bard and his Beloved Bervlwood. Friends of the Thomas R. Bard Mansion, Port Hueneme, California, n.d.,31 and Amy Eleanor Smith, Thomas Robert Bard Pioneer of Ventura County, Master's thesis for Deparlment of History, University of Southem California, 1933,5. 2r E.M. Sheridan, "sequoia Tree Planted in Memory of Thomas R. Bard," I/entura County Star, Jantary 2I,1929. 22 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 36. 23 Ibid. and E. M. Sheridan, "sequoia Tree Planted in Memory of Thomas R, Bard." 2a Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 3. B ERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 10
Santa Clara Street and later a lighthouse (187Ð.25 The Hueneme V/harf grew to become the greatest grain port south of San Francisco and the second largest on the Pacific Coast from 1871 to 1895.26The success of the Hueneme Wharf lead to the Salisbury Company's development of other wharfs at Lompoc, Gaviota, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Santa Monica and Santa Rosa Island. tt However, it was the Hueneme Wharf that provided the principal means for transportation to and from Ventura County south of the Santa Clara river, until the railroad was extended to Oxnard in 1898.28
In October 1868, Bard purchased more than 20,000 acres in Hueneme, the former Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o' la Colonia, from Scott for the sum of $150,000. Bard created 40 subdivisions from that acreage for resale. He platted the town in 1872 and named its main streets. Bard reserved a portion of Subdivisions 87 and 89 as his homestead and operation headquarters, the area that eventually became known as Berylwood.'e ln 1874, Bard erected his first residence (no longer extant) at the homestead, one mile inland from the wharf and referred to as the "bungalow."
Early descriptions of the land in the Oxnard area were described as a remote desert plain, lacking vegetation and much of the land was used for cattle grazing. Bard began planting trees and various specimens of plants in the barren landscape of his new land. Among the earliest of these plantings, in June 1871, were rows of several hundred eucalyptus seedlings, to serve as windbreaks, that he bought from Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara.30 Varieties included Monterey Cypress and Norfolk Island Pine.31
Bard became an amateuÍ horticulturalist and collected exotic seeds from his world travels. It was his dream early on to create a garden escape from his business and political ventures. Bard wrote that "The future of Southern California depends more on Forest tree planting than all other industries...Desert plains offer but little to an intelligent mind, the influence on the train of thoughts is discouraging, contracting. The social feelings arè blunted, hope destroyed. In fact man cannot exist without forest trees.32
In 1868, Bard's brother Cephas, a doctor, joined him in Ventura County. Shortly thereafter, Cephas married Clara Gerberding in 1871. After 10 successful years in developing Ventura County, Bard at age 35 believed he would always remain a
25 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 5 and John C. Peterson, Bervlwood. The Bard Estate at the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme, California, U.S. Navy Report, 1963,3. 26 Peterson, 3. Ibid. tt" Julie Streets, "Berylwood, National Register of Historic Places Nomination," Septemb er 15, 1977. te Pete.son, 2, and Streets. 30 Hr.t"hin.on, Vol. I, 200 and,268. 3l Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 6. 32 Hutchinson, Vol. I, 200. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 1 1
bachelor. However, he fell in love with Clara's younger sister Mary (Molly) Gerberding (1358-1937). The Gerberding girls were from San Francisco, daughters of a successful newspaper editor. Molly's mother insisted that Thomas and Molly wait until she was 18 to get married, and they did so. They married in 1876 and the couple began their married life in Thomas's Hueneme bungalow.
Construction of a new residence was undertaken in anticipation of the marriage, and a single-story, Italianate-style house was completed in 1876 due south of the bungalow. The Bards lived in this house for 14 years, through the birth of six children (the first of whom died in infancy). At some point after the birth of their eldest surviving child, Beryl (1,878-1957), the family began referring to the grounds of the estate as Berylwood. Shortty after the construction of the new residence, Molly described the bleakness of the land surrounding her new home: "where there is no tree or bush 33 except those which we have planted. " Early photographs of Berylwood at that time illustrate the young vegetation. Trees could not be seen above the single-story building's roofline. In 1878, Bard wrote to Molly that "This year I am planting a forest 40 acres in extent of eucalyptus to which I shall add more trees every year. The propagation of the trees from seed has been part of the work, and I have about 60,000 on hand now. " Five years later, in 1883, Bard noted in another letter that he was trying "to refrain from business and works on beautifying the grounds at Berylwood and propagating roses.r3a ¡1" produced prize-winning fruit in his orchards as well, with his Gloria Mundi apples winning first prize at the California Midwinter Exposition in San Francisco.3s An account of Berylwood at the end of the 1880s by a visitor to the estate, published in Overland Monthly, indicates that the barrenness that Molly first encountered had been replaced by a well-developed botanic garden:
". . . we drove toward what seemed a wilderness of gum and pepper trees, but which turned out to be an enclosure of sixty acres of orchards and gardens. In the foreground was heaped the scarlet of geraniums around the great basin of a fountain. Wide graveled walks wandered throughout a confusion of tropical plants, with gorgeous-hued blossoms and gigantic leaves grotesquely shaping all manner of fans and sun-shades."3ó
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Bard proved influential in the growth and development of Ventura County. In partnership with other associates, he purchased a good amount of Scott's land himself, along with the mineral rights. His sale and leasing of this land to new settlers proved to be very profitable, and by the late 1880s
33 lbid., Yor.r,295. 'o Hutchinson, Vol. I, 318. 35 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 6. 36 lbid., J . BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 12
he was the wealthiest man in Ventura County.3? He continued to pursue oil development and became president of several small oil companies, with whom he helped build the first refinery in California. As president of the Sespie Oil Company, Bard was instrumental in the construction of the first tanker ship on the Pacific Coast.38 Bard was president of three of the four oil companies that merged in 1890 to create the Union Oil Company of California, for which he became the founding president (1890-1894).3e The Hueneme Wharf proved to be an asset as a viable shipping port for the oil. Concurrently, Ventura County was irrigated and the numerous individuals to whom Bard had sold land converted the area's vast open lands to fertile grain fields, fruit orchards, and dairy farms. Hueneme itself became the largest town in the Oxnard Plain in the late nineteenth century.ao
In 1890, the Bard's single-story house was greatly expanded, likely to accommodate the continually growing family (two more children were born in the 1890s) and Molly's sister who moved in with them for a time after her divorce in 1889. The expanded house was a three-story wood-frame high-style Victorian, oriented to the east. Near the completion of the expansion, a young English woman, Miss Alethea Malden, was hired as a governess. a1 She become considered a member of the family, and was a constant companion to Molly Bard.
Historic photographs show the construction of the second Berylwood house with large trees and exotic plantings surrounding. Bard continued to plant extensively throughout the grounds, which included a green house and resident gardener. Molly and his daughters also played an active role in overseeing the landscaping. Historic photographs illustrate the girls in the gardens, and Bard named rose variations after the girls and Molly. By the turn of the twentieth century, the nearby town of Oxnard had grown, and after enough people started wandering on the Berylwood grounds thinking it was a community park, Bard decided to post signs and hire men to assist with keeping them off his property. a2
In the summer of 1898, Bard purchased a house on'West Adams Street in Los Angeles, where Molly and the older children lived during the academic school year, while he remained at Berylwood with some of the younger children and presumably Miss Malden.a3 However, in October of 1898, Molly returned to Berylwood so that their last
37 Script for Slide Show on the Life of Thomas R. Bard. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Historian's Office, October 1993. 38 Streets and Powell March Greenland, Personal correspondence with Georgia Pulos, December 19,2011. 3e Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 38. ao Script for Slide Show. alExcerpts fiom a letter written by Alethea Malden from Hueneme to her cousin Minnie Maude, in England on December 1, 1890. Box#2, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. o'Hrrt"hitrson, Vol. II, 96. 43 rbid,96. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 13
child, Philip, could be born there, and then returned sometime after his birth. Bard wrote to the family that the gardens at Berylwood were his only amusement while they were living separately from each other.aa The children returned in the summer of 1899, although Molly remained in the city with the infant Philip.
In addition to Bard's role as a land and oil developer, the life-long Republican also served the people of Ventura County and the state of California in elected office. His first position was as the Supervisor of Santa Barbara County from the district of Ventura (Ventura did not become a separate county until 1872) for successive terms from 1868 to 1872.45 As Supervisor, he was asked to meet visiting Secretary of State William H. Seward as his guide though the county, traveling with him from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara in 1869.a6 ln 1877 , Bard ran for the State Senate, but lost.aT In 1880, he was a presidential elector, and in 1884, a delegate to the Republican National Convention.o* From 1886 to 1887, he served as director of the State Board of Agriculture, which although not an elected position reflects his continued involvement with local and state government.
In 1900, Bard was elected to the U.S. Senate for one term. At the time of his election, his brother-inlaw Albert Gerberding wrote to congratulate him for "winning Senatorship in the way he received it (without having to use tons of money and politieal backing or shady business)."ae Gerberding was referring to Bard's election to office during a special session of the State Legislature, which chose U.S. Senators at that time, after a year's vacancy in the office as a result of political disagreement.so Bard's friends were largely the proponeflts of his election, doing little campaigning himself.sr That disagreement was rooted in the late nineteenth century domination of California politics by the interests of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Bard, who was well-known for his opposition to corporate influence in the political realm, was supported by the new influx of Progressive Republicans in the state legislature, and who shared these opinions.52
Bard quickly became respected by his colleagues in the Senate as a result of his wide knowledge of the Pacific Slope.53 Of note in his term was his opposition to statehood
4 rur¿., tog. ot Masoar. o6 E. M. Sheridan, "senator Bard Acted as Host to William H. Seward in 1869," Tentura County Star, October 15, 1929. ot smith, 56-57. at lbid., 57, and "Remember When," Ventura County Star-Free Press, August 18, 1968. an Hutchinson, Vol. II, 153. 50 Jack Smalley, "Bard Family, Part Three," Yentura County Star-Free Press, April 11,1964. t' smith, 63-65. 52 Script for Slide Show. tt smith,76. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 14
for Arizona and New Mexico.5a His contributions as a U.S. Senator include influential projects that affected Southern California's Native Americans and forest land. Bard served on the Committee for Indian Affairs, having always been sympathetic to issues surrounding Native Americans. He visited a number of reservations in Southern California and Arizona, and helped establish the Sherman Institute for Indians at Riverside. Bard introduced Senate 8il1 3536, an appropriation to assist a group of Native Americans at Warner Hot Springs to relocate to a reservation which afforded much better living conditions. Bard was also a member of the Committee of Public Lands and Irrigation. During Bard's term in office, President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. The two shared similar interests and Bard made a personal appeal for Roosevelt to issue an executive order to assist with the creation of the new Santa Barbara Forest Reserve (later incorporated into Los Padres National Forest). Reflecting his avid personal interest in plants and gardens, one of Bard's favorite places in Washington, D.C. was the National Botanic Garden.55 While serving his term as Republican Senator Bard, and residing in'Washington, D.C., Molly, Miss Malden, and the younger children (who were not at boarding schools), lived in their Los Angeles home.
After completing his term as Senator in 1905, Bard essentially entered retirement. He was appointed by the Governor as regent of the University of California.56 He and Molly traveled to Naples and collected seedlings for Berylwood.sT However, most often, Bard ordered exotic specimens via mail order from nurseries around the world. Gardening became his creative outlet, and by the time of his death Bard had planted numerous (tikely more than 600) species on the grounds of Berylwood from North and South America, the Canary Islands, China, Italy, New Zealand, and the U.S.58 In 1910, cognizanf of his own mortality and concerned about the fragmentation of his assets after his death, Bard formed the Berylwood Investment Company-a family corporation. The board was comprised of blood family members. Bard intended that his son Richard would eventually become General Manger of the company upon his graduation from college.
By 1910, the Bards also decided to tear down their 2O-year-old Victorian house and replace it with a nev/ house. Molly was the primary impetus for this decision, as she reportedly did not like the Victorian, which she believed was haunted and which held some bad memories for her (the core of it was the house in which her first child had died, and her sister spent many years iiving with the family after her divorce from Cephas, much of the time shut away in her room battling a mental illness). In a letter
5a Ibid. tt Hut.hinron, Vol. II, 167. 56 smith, 93. tt Hutchinson , Y ol. ll, 270. 58 Laurie Hannah, Former librarian at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Letter to author, March 30, 2072, and Program for the Sunday Brunch and Garden Walk at the T. R. Bard Mansion, September 21,1997. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 15
wdtten in 1905, Molly told her husband that she loved the gardens at Berylwood more than the house which has sad memories for her.se Bard's failing health was also a factor, in that he now required an elevator to reach the second floor-which the Victorian house did not have. Rather than remodel, the Bards hired local architect Russell Ray in the spring of 1910 to design a new house based on a floorplan designed by Molly and Reginald C. Shand (their future son-in-law, who married Elizabeth Bard in 1913). uo However, Thomas became severely ill shortly thereafter, and Ray was instructed to put the drawings onhold. By the following spring of 1911, Thomas had largely recovered and plans for the new house were revived. However, the Bards decided to hire architect Myron Hunt instead, and paid Ray a final bill with apologies and "regret if abandonment of your plans should be in any way harmful to you' "ó1
Although there is a good deal of correspondence existing between Hunt and Bard in regard to the construction of the house, there is no record of the specific reasons the Bards decided to hire Hunt, and to abandon the first architect they hired. The Bards were acquainted socially with the Hunts prior to hiring Myron Hunt as their architect.62 Hunt completed one of his most significant private residences, the Huntington Mansion in San Marino, California, in 1910. It is likely the Bards' decision was influenced by the success of that project, which was widely recognized and admired. Bard sent Hunt plant clippings from Berylwood during the project, and the two clearly shared an interest in gardens.63 Hunt's ability and desire to incorporate the landscape in his designs may have also been a motivating factor in choosing him.
Construction of the new house began in August of 1911 and was mostly completed by the end of I9I2 (with the family moving in by Christmas). During construction, the Bards lived in the small cottage constructed in 1910 south of the house (which eventually became the Richard Bard House). The household was less numerous than normal-the adult children traveled, and Philip was at boarding school. Molly spent much of her time at the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara, which the Bards had helped finance in 1901 and where they maintained a private suite.
Thomas Bard lived in the house only three years before his death at age 73 in 1915. After Bard's death, Molly, Beryl, and various other members of the Bard family se Hutchinson ,Y ol. lI, 27 5. uo|-"tter from Hunt to Russell Ray, May 16, 1911, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntingfon Library, San Marino, California. ut L.tt". from Hunt to Russell Ray, May 22, 1971, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 62 The personal interview the authors conducted with the Friends ofthe Bard noted this social connection. The social connection prior to the construction of the house is confirmed in Harriet Hunt's joumals, in which she notes that their son Charlie went camping with members of the Bard family in the summer of 1910 and 191 I (Entry in journal of Haniet Hunt, August 1911, Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California). 63 Correspondence from Hunt to Bard, May 13,1911, Box 13 D. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, Califomia. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repofi Page 16
continued to live in the Bard Mansion for another 20 years. Molly became interested in dairying, and she and Richard Bard hired Hunt again to construct a complex of farm buildings northwest. of the Bard Mansion in 1917.64 Richard and Molly, through the Berylwood Investment Company, also created a botanical garden business-selling varieties of plants to local distributors. Because the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, the commercial nursery business was only in operation from early 1931 to mid-I932. In the meantime, the gardens were becoming a world-renowned botanical collection in Southern California. Landscape architects, journalists, and horticulture and botany professors visited the grounds at Berylwood throughout the early twentieth century. Newspaper articles and private correspondences with Richard and Molly document the importance and fame of the Berylwood botanical garden, particularly for the wide variety of trees and plantings. It was once noted as being "one of the most interesting... and fascinating places for the lover and student of plant life along this coast."65 One newspaper article describes the innovations of Bard and his gardens upon the natural terrain of Ventura County: "From a waste of sand dunes Mr. Bard transformed the acreage into a garden containing more rare and unusual trees and flowers than any other in Southern California, demonstrating that Ventura County is favorable for most varieties of trees and vegetation."6ó
In 1933, a new house in Ojai was constructed, and after that point the mansion at Berylwood became a seasonal residence. By then none of the remaining children wanted to make the mansion their permanent residence. Richard and Joan Bard used the main floor of the mansion to host large social functions.67
In the early 1940s, the family sold some of the extensive land around the mansion to the military, developing a Naval Base for World'War II's Pacific Fleet. In 1944, the Navy undertook a lease for the mansion to serve as an Officer's Club þrior to that lease, the Farrel Residence, now known as Quarters D, served that purpose¡.68 Of the 62.45 acres leased by the Bards to the Navy, approximately 20 acres consisted of the house and surrounding botanic garden, whereas the remaining acreage was farm land. The estate was bounded on the east by Ventura Road, on the south by Pleasant Valley Road, on the west and north by the previously established U.S. Naval Advanced Base Depot (land previously sold to the Navy).6e The farm land was developed with housing units
6a Contract fo¡ Bard Farm Buildings and Garage between Myron Hunt and Berylwood Investment Company, General Contract #82207, February 21,l9ll , Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, Califomia; and Carol Marsh, Former Command Historian, Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Telephone Interview by Shannon Davis; and Pulos, October 11, 20ll . ut P"t". D. Barnhart, "The Bard Botanic Garden," , 1925. 66 Charles Sayler, "Bard Garden at Hueneme H ' Publication Unknown, March 27, 1931. 67 Marsh. 6t Ibid. 69 Peterson, 4. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 17
almost immediately. The lease only allowed use of the first floor of the Bard Mansion, as the family v/as concerned about the structural stability of the flooring upstairs.T0 The entire estate was sold to the Navy in 1951 for $149,500.7'The first floor of the Bard Mansion continued to serve as the Officer's Club for several decades, while the second floor initially was converted to officer's housing, and later offices with additional recreational space. In 1961, housing units were constructed for senior officers in locations within the botanic garden surrounding the Bard Mansion and Richard Bard House.
In the early 1960s, the Bard family hired author W. H. Hutchinson to v/rite a biography of Senator Thomas Bard. Hutchinson was provided with Bard's extensive collection of personal papers. After publication of the two-volume biography in 1965, Richard and Philip Bard donated the papers to the Henry H. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, which said the donation was "the largest single collection and one of the finest gifts ever received by the Library."72
2. Richard Bard Richard Bard was born at Hueneme in 1892 as the seventh child of Thomas and Molly Bard. Like his father, Richard was an important figure in the development of Port Hueneme, especially the harbor, and the maintenance of the Berylwood estate into the twentieth century.
As a youth, Richard attended Throop Poly (now Cal Poly) Institute in Pasadena and subsequently Princeton University where he attended law school. He graduated from Princeton in 1916, one year after his father, Thomas, passed away. He returned home to Berylwood after graduation and assumed his position as general manager for the family business. At the outbreak of World War I, Richard joined the army and served in France. He returned home after 19 months of service in 1918, and resumed his managerial duties for the family's Berylwood Investment Company.
Richard Bard's greatest contribution to Hueneme was his leadership efforts in following through with his father's dream of constructing its harbor. In the late nineteenth century, Thomas Bard learned that there was a deep sea canyon off the coastline that could accommodate a harbor entrance. Thereafter, he became instrumental in constructing the wharf along the Hueneme shoreline. It became a successful shipping port with the possibility of future expansion as a harbor. By the turn of the twentieth century, the importance of the port had been eclipsed by the arrival of the railroad to the north in Oxnard and Thomas Bard sold the wharf and shipping warehouses to developers. However, by 1910 the elder Bard obtained twenty percent of the stock of io Marsh. 7l Peterson, 1. 72 Lee Grimes, "Huntington Library: A Home for Bard Papers," PC, The Weekly Magazine of Ventura County. n.d. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repofi Page 18
the Farmer's Warehouse Company, which owned the wharf and its operations at that time.73
After his father's death, Richard Bard became interested in finishing what his father started and began to seek out other interested investors for the construction of a port at Hueneme. ln 1926, Richard Bard also purchas.ed 250 acres of mud flats and sand dunes adjacent to Point Hueneme for a harbor site and organized Iocal businessmen and farmers to support the project. Ta Despite 10 years of battle with opposition for the Hueneme port, including politicians and businessmen in Ventura who wanted to open a port in their own city, Bard continued to fight for a port at Hueneme. He was instrumental in the formation of a harbor district, called the Oxnard Harbor District, from 160,000 acres of local farmland. Bard donated his own 250-aqe site to the district. After the residents of the Oxnard Plain voted in favor of a bond for a Hueneme harbor, construction began in 1939. The harbor was finally completed in June 1940.
One year later, Pearl Harbor was attacked and the U.S. government began to rally a strong military presence on the west coast. The Navy took over the Port of Hueneme and the new Naval Base was officially established in May 1942. Over the course of World War II, the Port of Hueneme shipped more than 150,000 tons of cargo each month making the harbor the second largest shipping point for war material of any port on the Pacific Coast.75
Although Richard Bard is best known for his leadership in the completion of Port Hueneme, he was also a prominent member of the community as well as a civic leader 'War and philanthropist. He served in both World I and World War II, where in the latter he was a recipient of the Croix de Guerre with silver star medal from General Charles de Gaulle. In his later years, he was appointed as a Ventura County supervisor from 1947-1951, as well as a board member on several committees including education and agriculture. He served as the Hueneme School District president for 25 years. In 1956, Richard Bard donated 112 acres for the construction of the Ventura County Small Boat Harbor, which became known as the Channel Island Harbor.76
Richard Bard inherited the small bungalow south of the Bard Mansion in 1916 after he married his wife Joan, to whom he was married for 53 years. Together they had three daughters and two sons who grew up in the Richard Bard Housê and were the impetus for its continual expansion into the mid-1920s. In 1944, the Bard family leased the
73 Powell March Greenland, A Troubled Dream, Richard BarcJ's Struggle to Build a Harbor at Hueneme, California, Olive Press Publication, Los Olivos, California, 2005, xi- 4. 7a Transcript from Tour of Quarters A, The Richard Bard House, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, 1990. ?5 Greenland, Thomas Bard, 11. t6 Peterson, 15 and Greenland,,20lI. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 19
Berylwood property and mansion to the Navy. In 1951, the propefty was then purchased by the Navy from the Bard family. Richard and his wife then moved to a house in Moorpark, California. He died in 1969 at the age of 77 .
3. Myron Hunt Myron Hunt (1868-1952) is recognized as a master architect in Southern California, and noted for his efforts to establish an architectural style appropriate for the region and time during which he practiced (1896 to 1947). Hunt was born in Sutherland, Massachusetts, the second of six children, but spent most of his childhood living in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Hunt attained an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University before earning a degree in Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1893. While at MIT, he worked as a draftsman for the Boston architecture firm of Hartwell and Richardson.TT After finishing his academic studies, he spent more than two years in Europe where he studied architecturai antiquities. In 1896, he began working as a draftsman for the Chicago office of Shepley, Tutan, and Coolidge, a prominent Boston firm. He became a Principal with the firm by the following year, and primarily designed expensive suburban homes in Evanston, Illinois.Ts Hunt shared office space with Frank Lloyd ÏVright during that time, and Hunt's Illinois projects reflect their shared perspectives of organic architecture and the Prairie School of design.Te
Hunt married Harriet Boardman immediately upon graduation from MIT. Harriet traveled throughout Europe with her husband for the next three years, and helped nurture his career.80 After returning to the U.S. and moving to Chicago, the couple had three children. However Harriet suffered from tuberculosis, and doctors recommended a warmer climate. As such, Hunt left behind his highly successful practice in Chicago, and moved to Pasadena, California, in 1903. The couple were typical of the many other east-coast transplants locating in Pasadena. Hunt's reputation for his work in Chicago helped him quickly build a clientele in the Los Angeles area. Hunt designed his own home at 200 North Grand in Pasadena in 1905, and the family welcomed a fourth (and last) child in 1906.8t Even in the dry warm climate of Southern California, Harriet Hunt was never able to overcome her tuberculosis, and died in 1913. Two years later, Myron married Virginia Pease, whom he came to know while designing Pasadena's Polytechnic Institute, which Pease founded and served as the school's first principal. They had a long marriage, and were recognized for their consistent philanthropy to the community of Pasadena.
11 Alan Michelson, "Myron Hunt," Pacific Coast Architecture Database, Architecture and Urban Planning Library, University of Vy'ashington, https;//digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/197l, accessed November 16, 2011. tt Michelson and JRP Historical Consulting Services, Inventorv and Evaluation of National Resister Elieibilitv for Buildings and Structures at Marine Corps Base. Camp Pendleton, April 2000, 34. tn Ibid. to Th"."se T. Hanafin, "The Eclectic Architecture of Myron Hunt," Master's thesis, San Diego State, 1969, 139. tt "Hou.. and Lot-The Times'Vy'eekly Review of Real Estate and Building," Los Angeles Times, Aug.6, 1905. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page20
Although the Hunts resided in Pasadena, Hunt located his office in downtown Los Angeles. He practiced independently from 1903-1904 and again from 1910-1927. He also had successful partnerships, first with Elmer Grey in the firm of Hunt and Grey (1904-1910). From I92l to 1947, Httnt partnered with Harold C. Chamber$, a 1909 graduate of the Armour Art Institute who had been a junior Architect in the Hunt ahd Grey firm.82 During the difficutt years of the Great Depression, Hunt and Chambers had far fewer commissions than inprevious years, and in 1930, at the age of 62, Hunt scaled back his work load.83 Hunt and Chambers remained in partnership until Hunt's retirement In 1947. After retiring, he moved to Port Hueneme, where he died at age 84 trt l952-near the Bard Mansion that he had designed four decades earlier.
During the span of Hunt's career (1896-1947), he is known to have designed more than to 400 buildings. He is recognized for designing numerous well-known Southern California landmarks. His most significant and widely recognized works include the Huntington Mansion and Library in San Marino (1910, with Chambers in 1920), Occidental College Campus in Los Angeles (1910-16, with Chambers from 1922 to t944), First Congregational Church in Riverside (1913), and the Rose Bowl (with Chambers in 1922). Other significant works include the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena (Hunt and Grey, 1907), Flintridge Country Club (with Chambers n 1922), Huntington Hotel in Pasadena (1913), the courtyard wing of the Mission Inn in Riverside (1914), Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (1919), Flintridge Hotel (with Chambers ín.1927), Palos Verdes Public Library (1920), and Pasadena Public Library (1927).In addition to his most well-known private residence for Henry Huntington, Hunt and his partners also designed numerous houses for Southern California's elite. Hunt served as member of the state licensing board, named as a Fellow with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1908, became President of the AIA's Southern California chapter and was the first Southern California representative to the Architectural League of the Pacific Coast in 1909.85
One of Hunt's characteristics as an architect was.his ability to practice in a variety of architectural styles. He primarily practiced in popular early to mid-twentieth centuy, eclectic period revival styles, although his progression of work reflects a desire to develop a regional architecture for Southern California. Hunt's earliest designs in Chicago exhibit Prairie School influences, while his better known works in California- for example, the Rose Bowl and the Huntington Library-follow the Beaux Arts, neo- classical tradition.86 He is noted as one of the first architects to design in the lavish
82 David Gebhard, ed. M)¡ron Hunt. 1868-1952: The Search for a Resional Architecture. Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, Califomia, 1984. 83 JRP, 34. 8a Gebhard, I l0-1 15. *t lbid. tu JRP, 35. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page27
Churrigueresque idiom, a highly stylized, heavily ornamented style most closely associated with the Spanish Colonial Revival, as seen in his. First Congregational Church design in Riverside, which Hunt professed was his favorite design.87 Yet he also designed in the more restrained Craftsman bungalow and Moderne styles. In this way, Hunt's designs reflect the interests and attitudes of his clients. Hunt strove to incorporate the landscape and climate in his designs, no matter what stylistic reference he chose to work with, and usually incorporated outdoor living spaces such as porches and verandas. Shortly after moving to California, Hunt published a 1903 article in the Los Angeles Express in which he stated that it was inevitable that "architects and gardeneis would now be turning to the south of Europe for appropriate precedent."88 Overall, his very long and very successful career reflects a preference for restrained execution of the classical period revivals, often with broad simple surfaces interjected by ornamentation.se
Hunt, along with a group of Southern California architects (including George 'Wallace Washington Smith, Neff, Reginald Johnson, Gordon Kaufman, Ronald Coates, William Templeton Johnson, Marston, Van Pelt, and Maybury, and Mead and Requa), is credited for developing a "Californian" architectural style. Hunt's personal interpretation was a blend between Mexican, Spanish, and American influences. This native approach acknowledged an influence from Spanish Colonial ranchos and missions, but had stronger oveftones from the Californian miner and rancher. Unlike Spanish Revival, this technique celebrated simplicity with minimal detail and was more dictated by taste and climate (which Hunt felt grew naturally out of the landscape and culture of Southern California) than its Mediterranean counterpart'e0
Early in his career, Hunt embraced the use of concrete as a building material, and sought constant improvement of it from his suppliers. In 1903, Hunt noted that use of concrete and plaster he had observed in Southern Europe was also an appropriate choice of materials for California.er In 1915, he commented that "Southern California is almost devoid of the usual building materials. There is no good building stone within hundreds of miles; there has always been an inclination, especially since the advent of reinforced concrete, to lean toward a plastered exterior surface, the work of the old padres forming a natural precedence."e2 Hunt's body of work reflects not only his preference for concrete, but also his innovations with this material. In the 1920s, he and Chambers began designing with hollowed wall concrete-double walls of reinforced concrete with air space in between. e3
81 Gebhard,77. 88 Hanafin, 173. 8e Ibid. e0 Paragraph drawn from both JRP and Hanafin. e1 Hanafin, 173-I74. nt lbid. e3 Gebhard. BERYLV/OOD HISTOzuC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page22
In terms of Hunt's body of work, the Bard Mansion was completed during a very productive and notable period in the architect's career, at the beginning of the decade of his work as an independent architect. Hunt began designing the Bard Mansion in 1911, one year after the completion of his most celebrated private residence (the Huntington Mansion), and while he was continuing his major commissions for the Occidental College campus, the Polytechnic School in Pasadena (where Bard's youngest son Philip was in attendance), and other commissions for Huntington. Hunt's publication of the photographs and plans of the house tn The Architect, indicates that it was a project he felt wortþ of publicity. Hunt's design of the Bard Mansion was likely responsible for other commissions he received in Port Hueneme: Hueneme Grammar School (1919), Bank of Hueneme incorporated by Bard (1925), and Civic Center (1925).
The Bard Mansion is a typical example of his residential designs and eclectic style preference. In particular, it is representative of his application of Italian Renaissance Revival design elements, popular with Hunt and other California architects at the time as an appropriate expression for the region. The style also integrated well with the Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial revivals, also popular in Southern California in the 1910s. Having spent several years in Italy after finishing college, Hunt was very familiar with the architecture of Italian villas. In the Bard Mansion, Hunt employed many of the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance Revival-the proportion of mass, symmeffy, rectangular shapes, stucco walls, tiled hipped roof, deeply recessed rectangular windows, Ionic pilasters, and the overall restrained nature of the style. His own interpretation of the style includes elements such as the refined dentil on narrow overhanging eaves, a double string course, and delicate iron balustrades.ea
The Bard Mansion also reflects Hunt's willingness to work with his clients to create a design that best met their desires. After the completion of the house, Hunt wrote to Bard: "The building of this house, and my dealings with you and your family, have been a source of so much pleasure to me, that I want to conclude the work with the knowledge that you are as nearly satisfied in our entire relations as is possible for me to make you."es Correspondence between Thomas Bard and Hunt indicate that the Bards and Shand communicated frequently with Hunt throughout the design and construction phases, both in writing and in visits with Hunt at his Los Angeles office. Hunt is believed to have largely used the rough floorplan provided to him at the outset of the project by his clients, and also incorporated their requests for specific materials. Hunt found ways to reuse features and materials from the 1890 Victorian in his plans for the new house. Hunt, a pioneer in landscape architecture, was certainly a good choice of architect for the Bards in that he was not just willing but eager to incorporate the
ea Hanafin, 18 1 . et Letter from Hunt to Bard, December 12, 1912. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page23
surrounding landscape that Bard had been cultivating for 40 years in the design and orientation of the house. This is evidenced in Hunt's own words, in a letter to Bard in January 1912, in which he stated "The garden is an essential part of the house, and every line seen from within the garden should, if possible, be parallel with the house. "96
e6 Letter from Hunt to Bard, January 14, 1912. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Hu¡rtington Library, San Marino, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 24
Part II. Architectural Information
A. Building L: Thomas Bard Mansion
1-. General Statement a. Architectural Character: The Bard Mansion is a two-story residential building constructed in l9I2 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, an eclectic style architect Myron Hunt utilized especially during the 1910s. The house is generally rectangular in mass, with an H-shaped plan oriented north and south. The wood frame building was constructed with stucco over a brick veneer, terracotta tile roof, concrete foundation, with architectural details in cast concrete, wrought iron, and wood. Fenestration is regular, with a high ratio of height to width. The character defining features of the building are largely intact and it remains a good example of the Italian Renaissance Revival style, irrespective of the inappropriate additions made to the central and western sections of the house. b. Condition of Fabric: The building appears to be structurally sound and in good repair.
2. Description of Exterior: a. Overall Dimensions: The Bard Mansion meâsures approximately 155 feet by 83 feet. It rises to a maximum height of approximately 44 feet from grade to the top of the cornice on the attic section. b. Foundations: The building is constructed atop concrete slab and 1'x 1' wood posts which are found in the basement area below the galley. c. Walls: The walls are stucco on the exterior and dry wall and plaster construction on the interior. The exterior stucco is an off-white color. d. Structural System, Framing: The Bard Mansion is a wood frame building with a concrete foundation. e. Stairways: There are no exterior stairways on the Bard Mansion. f. Openings: i. Doorways and doors: The building's most prominent exterior doorways are on the east, south, and north facades, all of which have simple narrow wood surrounds with no decorative molding, except for the main entrance on the east façade. Most of the doors and doorways are wood with glazing, except for a pair of double doors leading from the dining hall on the south façade to the exterior south courtyard. Other secondary entrances lead to the service entrances on the northwest side of the building and have flush wood doors with no ornamentation. ii. Windows: The windows on the Bard Mansion vary. Most of the windows on the first floor are either double or triple hung sashes B ERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repofi Page 25
oriented vertically. The second story windows are generally wood casements. On the third story or attic level, there are vents and small casement windows. Latge multi-light additions from the 1950s and 1960s are on the north and south facades that coincide with the dining room alterations on the interior. g. Roof: i. Shape, Covering: The roof is composed of three hipped-roof sections which intersect and have a ÍLear symmetrical H-shaped plan' The roof is covered by red clay tile. ii. Cornice, eaves: The Bard Mansion has shallow eaves with large cornices, underneath which are dentils.
3. Description of Interior:
a. Floor Plans: i. First Floor: The main entrance is located on the east façade, opening into main hall. A stairway to the second floor is located in the hall, and a chamber with a dedicated bathroom was located to the north of the stairway, as well as a small closet for a telephone. A study is located to the south of the entry hall, also with a separate half bath. A vault closet is located between the hall and the study. To the west of the entry hall, in the center of the first floor, is the living room, flanked on either side by outdoor spaces-an enclosed porch to the north and an enclosed terrace to the south. The west section of the first floor contains a sun room on the south side, dining room (adjacent to the living room), secondary stairway, and service area, with a large kitchen. A large auditorium/ballroom, an addition circa 1970, is located west of the original dining room. North of the auditorium and north of the original kitchen are located several large kitchen service rooms, additions circa 1980.
ii. Second Floor: Access to the second floor is obtained by one of two stairways: one from the main entry hall, and the secondary stairway near the living room. Eight chambers were originally located on the second floor, all with closets and direct access to one of five bathrooms. The eastern section of the second floor contains three of those chambers, divided by the main stairway. The northern most of those three chambers, with attached bath, was originally used by the family's long-term governess, Miss Malden. On the other side of the stairway are two more chambers with an adjoining bath, used by Thomas and Mary Bard-with Thomas's room furthest south. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 26
A central hall leads from the top of the stairway and provided "vest access to the remaining five chambers, and a sleeping porch north of the hall (now enclosed). Two chambers were originally located off the hall across from the porch in the center section of the second floor. Although it is not certain, those two chambers are believed to have been used by the Bard's two youngest children still living with the family at the time the house was completed, ElizabeTh (24) and Philip (14). In between these chambers was located another shared bathroom. These two chambers and the bathroom were removed after 1944 to create one large central room on the second floor.
The western section of the second floor consists of a north/south hall, three chambers, sleeping porch (now enclosed), and a large linen closet, as well as the top of the secondary stair. The northern-most chamber was assigned to the Bard's eldest daughter Beryl (34 at the time the house was completed), and was adjacent to the sleeping porch. A bath is located between Beryl's chamber and the linen closet. Two additional chambers are located in the south half of the western section, again with an adjoining bath in between the two rooms. The middle room is believed to have been used occasionally by Richard Bard (20), the second eldest son while the southern room used by Anna (28), the third eldest daughter.
iii. Attic: Access to the attic is obtained through a door in the western section of the second floor, through an enclosed stairway. A wide hallway extends north/south in the western section of the attic, off which several storage rooms and one large room are located along the western wall. The central section of the attic contains two adjoining rooms, accessed by the main hallway and a secondary hallway extends along the southern wall. That secondary hallway also provides access to two rooms in the eastern section. Two additional small rooms are located in the northeast corner of the attic, accessed from rooms that open onto the hallways. The attic was used as living quarters for servants and as storage space.gt No itrfor-ation was identif,red about the specific rooms' functions.
iv. Basement: A partial basement is accessed from the kitchen. It is comprised of one large and several small storage rooms.
b. Stairways: The primary staircase in the Bard Mansion is located immediately north of the primary entrance on the east façade and leads to the e7 Marsh. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HAIS Report Page 27
second story. This is the primary staircase which is located in a prominent area of the house and opens to the main lobby. Ornate features of this stairway include the ornate railing and squared columns. There is a secondary staircase originally used for the help that lacks any ornamentation. This staircase is located next to the kitchen and also leads to the second story. c Flooring: The flooring of the building varies. The first floor has wood floors in the entrance lobby area and carpet in the dining areas. The second floor has wood floors and carpet in the main conference room. d. Wall and Ceiling Finish: The interior walls are composed of gypsum board and dry wall. e. Openings
i. Doorways and doors: All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. On the main floor, there are three single doors which lead to the main entrance. There are double doors which lead to the south elevation. All doors have glazing. ii. Windows: The windows on the Bard Mansion generally consist of their original wood casement windows. On the rear of the building, the 1950s addition consists of fixed windows with multiple lights. f. Decorative Features: The Bard Mansion is the most ornamented building within the Berylwood Historic District. Decorative features include decorative paneling along the walls, decorative cornices along the ceiling, and chamfered square columns within the main foyer of the building. The fireplaces also have marble and ornamented wood features.. g. Hardware: Most of the original hardware of the Bard Mansion, such as the door knobs, hinges, and handles have been retained. Light fixtures from the 1940s have also been retained in the main dining room as well. h. Mechanical Equipment:
i. Heating: The building is equipped with.a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. ii. Plumbing: The building has running \ryater. iii. Electric: The building has electricity. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page28
4. Site:
a. Historical Landscape Design: The landscape is addressed in detail below in Section F.
b. Outbuildings: There are no outbuildings-in the strict definition of that term.
B. Building 2: Richard Bard House
1. General Statement
a. Architectural Character: The Richard Bard House is a two-story residential building originally constructed as a one-story building in 1910 and with additions made between circa 1916 and 1925, possibly even earlier. The residence possesses some features of the Colonial Revival Style, although it is irregular in plan. The wood frame building is sheathed in horizontal wood siding and rests on a concrete foundation.
The residence is comprised of three sections, resulting from additions to accommodate the increasing number of family members. The first section is the original one-story building located on the southwest side of the building. The second section is a central two-story section (first constructed as a single-story two-room addition). The third section is the two-story section that projects to the southeast (also first a single-story addition).
b. Condition of Fabric: The building appears to be structurally sound and in good repair. No areas of deterioration could be found.
2. Description of Exterior:
a Overall Dimensions: The Richard Bard House plan is approximately 58 feet by 55 feet. The one-story section is located on the southwest end of the house. The two-story section was done through a series of later additions and is located on the east end of the house.
b. Foundations: The building is constructed atop a concrete block and wooden post and beam foundation system.
c. Walls: The exterior walls are horizontal wood siding
d. Structural System, Framing: It is a wood frame building with a concrete foundation. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page29
e. Porches, stoops, balconies, porticos, bulkheads: There are three porches; the main porch is located on the southeast façade. It is an open raised brick patio with steps that have metal railings that lead to the main driveway. This patio leads to the main entrance and also a secondary entrance that leads to the living room. The second porch is located on the southwest façade. It is an open brick stoop partially covered by the overhanging hood that surmounts the entrance door. The third porch is located on the northwest façade. There are two entrances on this open brick stoop that lead to the laundry room and the kitchen.
f. Chimneys: There are three chimneys. One chimney is located off of the southeast porch located on the southwest facing wall; it has two corresponding interior fireplaces on the main and second floors. Another chimney is located within the roof surface on the original one-story building. It has a corresponding fireplace in the living room. A third chimney is located in the northeast section of the building within the roof surface. Its corresponding fireplaces are located on the main floor in the library and one of the main floor bedrooms. g. Stairways: There are no exterior stairways, but there are three brick steps leading to the both the northwest and southwest entrances and three brick steps leading the southeast patio. h. Openings:
Doorways and doors: The building has five exterior doorways; two are on the southeast façade, one on the southwest façade, and two on the northwest façade. All the doors have wooden screen doors and wide wood surrounds with no decorative molding. All but one door have surmounting decorative hoods. The main entrance on the southeast facade has the most ornate features including a paneled door with a large pedimented hood, a decorative bracket that encloses sidelights. The remaining four doors are glazed with multiple panes.
ii. Windows: There are L7 double hung windows with lamb's tongues on the southeast façade as well as a shed roof dormer which has a ribbon of three casement windows within. Three of these windows are six-over-six sash windows; the rest are four-over-four. All windows have shutters except for the dormer window. There are three sets of paired windows which share a pair of shutters. On the southwest façade, there are two large fixed multi-light windows. One window has 24 lights. The other has 18 lights flanked by L2-light windows on either side. The northwest façade has 14 windows, one BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 30
angled bay window and a shed dormer with two windows. Six windows are four-over-four double hung sash windows; two are two- over-two light sashes; three are six-over-six. All sash windows have lamb's tongues. Additionally, there are two six-light casement windows and one L2-lighl casement window. The dormer has two four-over-four double hung sash windows. The angled bay window has six-over six double hung sash windows flanked by four-over-four double hung sash windows with lamb's tongues. The northeast façade has six four-over-four double hung sash windows with lamb's tongues and one two-over-two sash window. Four of these windows do not have shutters.
i. Roof:
i. Shape, Covering: The roof is an irregular shape, composed of three sections corresponding to the progression of the construction of the buitding and its additions. The original section of the building has a side gable roof with two front gable projections, a shed roof dormer on the northwest facade and a front gable dormer window on the southeast façade. The eastern two-story section of the building also has a side gable. Connected to this is the southeast section of the building which has a front gable. The entire roof is clad in asphalt shingles.
ii. Cornice, eaves: There are shallow eaves and modest cornices along the exterior roofline of the building.
3. Description of Interior:
a. Floor Plans:
First Floor Level: The Richard Bard House's first floor level plan is comprised of a living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, foyer, den, library, two bedrooms and three bathrooms. The plan is irregular, reflecting the multiple additions to the house over time. The primary entrance is located on the central section of the building, on the southeast façade. The entrance leads to a central hallway and the main stairwell providing access to the second floor. Across the hallway and opposite the main entry is a doorway to the library. At the north end of the hallway there are entrances to two bedrooms that share an adjoining bathroom. The second (northeast) bedroom also has an adjoining bathroom to the west end of the room which is shared with the library. At the south end of the hallway is the foyer, BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 3 1
which leads to a laundry room to the northwest, the kitchen to the west, the living room to the southwest, and a powder room and den to the south. The living room is the largest room on this level and leads to the dining room at the west side of the building. The dining room is also adjacent to the kitchen to the north, which leads back to the hallway.
ii. Second Floor Level: The second floor is accessed through a stairway located in the hallway of the first floor. This stairway leads to the second floor hallway. At the north end of this hallway are entrances to a closet and two bedrooms which share an adjoining bathroom- nearly identical to the floorplan of the two bedrooms located below on the first floor. The second (northeast) bedroom also has an adjoining bathroom to the west end of the room which is shared with a third bedroom, located above the first floor library. That bedroom is accessed from the south end of the hallway. The fourth bedroom is accessed through the third bedroom, and is located within the roof space above the original section ofthe house.
iii. Cellar: The cellar is accessed through cellar doors located adjacent to the exterior of the building on the northeast façade. This cellar has a wooden ladder that leads to a concrete floor. The cellar has a water heater and storage space, but is not used as a main room of the building. b. Stairways: The primary stairway in the Richard Bard House is located with the central hallway, the entry to which is opposite the primary enffance on the southeast façade. It provides access to the second floor level. This stairway has plaster risers and wooden treads with nosings. The wooden railing has simple rounded balusters and a newel post at the base of the stairway. c. Flooring: The flooring of the house is primarily wood. The bathrooms, laundry room, and kitchen have tiled floors. d. Wall and Ceiling Finish: The interior walls are composed of drywall and plaster. e. Openings:
Doorways and doors: All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. On the main floor, there are 25 single wood doors, one of which is a swinging door leading to and from the kitchen, two squared entryways; five of these doors lead to the BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page32
exterior, On the upper story, there are 14 single doors; one of these doors leads to the exterior atop the roof of the one-story original section of the building. In the cellar, there are cellar doors that lead to and from the exterior. All doors are paneled wood and painted white.
ii. Windows: Two large windows are situated on the southwest façade. They are the largest windows in the building, have multiple lights and are fixed in place.
f. Decorative Features and Trim: The living room has decorative woodwork that includes exposed ceiling beams that have been painted. The wall surrounding the living room fireplace has ornamental plaster molding. The den also has decorative cross-board trim along the ceiling as well as built-in cabinets, window seats, and shelves. Built-ins are also found in the laundry room, the library, the closet underneath the stairway, the closets, and the bedroom above the original one-story section of the house. All of the fireplaces retain their original wood and brick materials.
g. Hardware: The doors and windows that have not been replaced retain their original hardware. Original hinges and knobs remain on the built-in features of the closets. Most of the original doors retain their original door knobs.
h. Mechanical Equipment:
i. Heating: The building is equipped with a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. Most of this equipment is located in the cellar.
ii. Plumbing: The building has running \ryater. The water heater is located in the cellar of the house.
iii. Electric: The building has electricity.
4. Site
a. Historical Landscape Design: The Richard Bard House is part of the larger Berylwood Historic District that includes a designed historic landscape- addressed in detail below in Section F. It is situated in the southwest corner of the district. Landscaping elements include the original plantings and trees, lamp posts that corresponded to the original driveway (demolished), and the eucalyptus treelined roads that lead to the estate. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page33
b. Outbuildings: The Richard Bard House has two remaining outbuildings: Building 3, Garage; and Building 5, Pool House.
C. Building 3: Garage of Richard Bard House
L. General Statement:
a. Architectural Character: The Garage is a single-story garage and residential building originally constructed as a single-story, one-bay garage circa 1925. At some point after acquisition by the Navy, the garage was expanded to include a second one-vehicle garage space as well as a central hall leading to a rear one-story residential addition. The garage/residence was not constructed in a particular architectural style and is irregular in plan. The wood frame building is sheathed in horizontal wood siding and rests on a concrete foundation.
The Garage is comprised of two single-bay garages that flank a central hall that contains a kitchen and bathroom, and leads to a bedroom and living room at the north end of the building,
b. Condition of Fabric: The building appeals to be structurally sound and in good repair. No areas of deterioration could be found.
2. Description of Exterior:
Overall Dimensions: The Garage is a two-vehicle garage with a rear one- story addition.
b. Foundations: The building is constructed atop a concrete foundation system.
c. Walls: The exterior walls are wood clapboard.
d. Structural System, Framing: The Garage is a wood frame building with a concrete foundation.
e. Porches, stoops, balconies, porticos, bulkheads: None of these elements are features of the Garage.
f. Chimneys: There are no chimneys on the Garage building.
g. Stairways: There are no exterior stairways.
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Doorways and doors: The building has three exterior doors; and two garuge doors. The two garage doors and one exterior door are located on the south façade. A second and third exterior door are located on the west and east façades, respectively. The exterior doors on the west and south facades are both paneled wood doors with glazing on the top part of the door. The east façade door is a paneled wood door with no glazing. The garage doors are roll-top electric wood doors.
ii. Windows: There are 10 wood windows; all double hung wood sash and one hopper window. There are three one-over-one sash windows with lamb's tongues. Two are located on the south façade and one is located on the east façade. The remaining sash windows are two- over-two with lamb's tongues.
i. Roof:
i. Shape, Covering: The roof has an irregular shape and is composed of four sections corresponding to the progression of the construction of the building and its additions. The original section of the building has a front gable roof. The second garage, the eastern section of the building, mirrors that front gable roof. The central section of the building, used as a residence and constructed between the two garages, has a flat roof. This central unit connects to the rear of the garages to another front gable roof section of the building. The entire roof is clad in asphalt shingles.
ii. Cornice, eaves: There are overhanging eaves and modest cornices along the exterior roofline of the building. Underneath the eaves are exposed rafter beams.
3. Description of Interior:
a. Floor Plan: The Garage has one level and it is comprised of two garage spaces, a central unit that has a bathroom, kitchen and stairs that lead to the rear living room area and bedroom. The primary entrance is located on the south façade between the two garage doors. The main entrance leads to the kitchen. The kitchen is located south of the bathroom area. To the north of the bathroom area is a hallway adjoining the rear to the living room area and a bedroom.
b. Stairways: There are steps located in and connecting the central unit and rear section of the Garage building. They consist of two carpeted steps with nosing. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 35
c Flooring: The flooring of the Garage consists of linoleum tiles within the kitchen and central unit; carpet within the living room area and rear bedroom; and concrete floors in the garage.
d. Wall and Ceiling Finish: The interior walls are composed of drywall and plaster.
e. Openings: i. Doorways and doors: All the doots, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. On the main floor, there are eight single wood doors, three of which lead to the exterior. The interior doors are flushed and painted white.
ii. Windows: There are 10 windows on the interior, Two windows on the south façade are paired; and two windows on the east façade are also paired.
f. Decorative Features and Trim: There are no interior decorative features or trim.
g. Hardware: The doors and windows that have not been replaced retain their original hardware. Original hinges and knobs remain on the exterior doors.
h. Mechanical Equipment:
i. Heating: The building is equipped with a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit.
ii. Plumbing: The building has running water. The water heater is in the cellar of the house.
iii. Electric: The building has electricity.
4. Site
a. Historical Landscape Design: The Garage is part of the larger Berylwood Historic District that includes a designed historic landscape-addressed in detail below in Section F. It is situated in the southwest corner of the district, north of the Richard Bard House. Landscaping elements include the original plantings and trees, and a driveway located to the south of the building.
b. Outbuildings: The Garage has no outbuildings. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page36
D. Building 4: Pool House
L. General Statement:
a. Architectural Character: The Pool House is a one-story ancillary building located north of the previously existing pool constructed for the Richard Bard family. The building was originally constructed circa 1938 as a dressing room. The building was not constructed in a particular architectural style, is T-shaped in plan and has a concrete slab foundation. The wood frame building is sheathed in vertical wood board siding. The Pool House is no longer in use as a dressing room and is currently vacant.
b. Condition of Fabric: The building appears to be structurally sound and in good repair. No areas of deterioration could be found.
2. Description of Exterior:
a. Overall Dimensions: The Pool House is one story and approximately one bay wide and three bays long. There is also a front gable projection on the south elevation.
b. Foundation: The building is constructed atop a concrete slab.
c. Walls: The exterior walls are vertical wood boards painted white
d. Structural System, Framing: The Pool House is a wood frame building with a concrete foundation.
e. Porches, stoops, balconies, porticoes, bulkheads: There is one porch which is recessed and fuIl-width. It leads to three flush wood doors.
f. Stairways: There are no exterior or interior stairways
g. Openings:
Doorways and doors: The building has four exterior doorways; one is on the east façade and the three others are on the north façade.
ii. Windows: There are two windows on the exterior of the Pool House. One is boarded over with plywood. The other is aluminum sliding windows.
h. Roof: BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repoft Page37
i. Shape, Covering: The roof has side and ftont gable roof clad in an asphalt roll.
i. Cornice, eaves: There are widely overhanging eaves and exposed rafters.
3. Description of Interior: The interior of the Pool House was not observed
Openings:
i. Doorways and doors: All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. There are four doors in the house; all lead to the exterior.
ii. Windows: One of the windows has been boarded over with plywood and the other has been replaced with aluminum sliders.
b. Mechanical Equipment:
i. Heating: The building is not equipped with a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning unit.
ii. Plumbing: It is unknown if the building is equipped with running water.
iii. Electric: It is unknown if the building is equipped with electricity.
4. Site: a. Historical Landscape Design: The Pool House was associated with the former pool and is located within the botanic gardens of the Berylwood Historic District-addressed in detail below in Section F. It is situated at the south of the district, east of the Richard Bard House. Landscaping elements include the original plantings and trees.
b. Outbuildings: The Pool House does not have any outbuildings.
E. Historic Designed Landscape/Botanic Gardens
1. General Statement: The Berylwood botanical garden was a designed landscape and an integral component of the estate of Thomas Bard. This landscape was shaped and formed as a result of Bard's passion for horticulture and botany, an interest he passed on to and shared with his wife and children. The gardens were used as a BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 38
sanctuary for the family, and later for a short time as a commercial nursery business. Thomas and Molly Bard planted numerous different types of trees, shrubs, and flowers from all over the world. The botanical collection within this garden was one of the largest and most extensive in southern California. Letters to the Bards from professors, landscape architects, garden societies, and others generally fascinated with botany indicate the garden was also used for educational purposes.
2. Description:
a. Natural Features: The success of the growth at the Berylwood botanical garden was due to artesian wells that Bard bored himself as well as the mild climate of southern California. Another factor was the virgin soil that allowed the seeds to grow quickly.es Today the landscape's natural features have little changed.
i. Topography: The topography is relatively flat at the Berylwood estate and gardens.
ii. Vegetation: Many of the plantings at Berylwood were imported specimens that Bard ordered from nurseries around the world and, in a few cases, as a result of his travels. As such, little of the vegetation is native to the area. The vegetation that was planted by Bard consists of numerous types of exotic trees, example of which include: Blue gum, Guadeþe palm, Queensland kauri, Southern mahogany, Chinese fountain palm, Australian tea tree, African honeysuckle, and ee the Chilean wine palm. Other vegetation includes shrubs and flowers, although only a few of these were likely planted by Richard Bard.
iii. Water: There are no natural water features at Berylwood botanical gardens.
b. Designed Features: Thomas Bard's original idea for Berylwood was to plant a forest of trees and other plantings surrounding his house. These trees grew ' quickly and soon the natural flat and barren terrain of the estate transformed into a garden with tall trees, thick canopy, and a grassy floorbed scattered with various exotic plantings. These designed features orient the landscape from its original horizontal orientation to a textured orientation of both vertical and horizontal planting features. Additionally, Myron Hunt e8 Sayler. ee Laurie Hannah, Georgia Pulos, and K. (Kevin) A. Knight, "Trees of Berylwood, Home of Senator Thomas R. Bard," GPS Tree Survey and Inventory,2003. B ERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 39
introduced a more formally designed landscape in the north garden, including Doric columns, garden walls, and a pond. He incorporated a specimen palm and jacaranda into the central axis of his design.
Land Patterns/Circulation: The main circulation pattem is the driveway which connects the Bard Mansion to the Richard Bard House from Ventura Road to the west and the residential surface streets that lead to the military housing neighborhoods to the north, east and south. The driveway follows the designed plantings and tall trees of the botanical garden which results in a curved driveway through a partial scenic tour of the landscape.
ii. Views and Vistas: The views and vistas of the botanical gardens of Berylwood were originally associated with the main driveway (partially demolished) as well as the views from inside the Bard Mansion and the Richard Bard House. These views and vistas highlight some of the focal points of the landscape such as the designed landscape in front of the east and south façades of the Bard Mansion. The driveway from the north gateway entrance toward the Richard Bard House also has vistas of the gardens as it turns from the south to the west to the house.
iii. Water: There are no water features in the Berylwood botanical garden.
iv. Buildings and Structures: The buildings associated with the Berylwood botanical garden include the Bard Mansion and the Richard Bard house.
v. Small Scale elements: These elements include the light posts that line the garden where the original driveway used to be to the east of the Richard Bard House and Bard Mansion; the main sign of the Berylwood estate that is near the northeast corner of the Bard Mansion and surrounded by plantings.
vi. Archeological sites: No archeological sites were surveyed for this project. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 40
Part III. Sources of Information
A. Architectural Drawings
Bard Residence, The Architect, San Francisco, American Institute of Architects, Yol. 12, No. 5, November 1916.
Diagram of Dwelling, Barn and Other Buildings belonging to Berylwood Investment Company and located near Hueneme, Ventura County, California. Dankin Publishing Co., San Francisco, California. April 20, 1911. 'Works Port Hueneme Inspection & Repair Drawings, Public Office, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Archives, Port Hueneme, California.
B. Early Views
Historic Photos of the Berylwood Estate. Friends of the Bard Museum Photographic Collection. Port Hueneme, California.
Historic Photos of the Berylwood Estate, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California.
Historic Photos of the Berylwood Estate. Museum of Ventura County. Ventura, California.
Photo of Richard and Joan Bard's House. Date unknown. Personal collection of Georgia Pulos. Santa Barbara, California.
"Photo of Richard and Joan Bard's House, circa 1916," in Greenland, Powell March. A Troubled Dream, Richard Bard's Struggle to Build a Harbor at Hueneme, California. Olive Press Publication, Los Olivos, California. 2005. p. 2.
C. Interviews
Marsh, Carol, Former Command Historian, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Telephone interview by Shannon Davis. October 28, 2071.
Friends of the Bard Mansion and Bard Family Descendents (Joanna Bard Newton and Georgia Pulos). Personal Interview by authors. Thomas Bard Mansion, Port Hueneme, California. Júy 7,201I.
Pulos, Georgia. Email correspondence with Shannon Davis. October I,20ll BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Repoft Page 4l
D. Selected Sources
1. Primary Sources:
Barnhart, Peter D. "The Bard Botanic Garden." The Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade World. 1925.
Contract for Bard Farm Buildings and Garage between Myron Hunt and Berylwood Investment Company, General Contract #82201, February 21, 1917, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard between Myron Hunt and Berylwood Investment Company, General Contract #8381, June 7, 1911. Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Descendants of Thomas Robert Bard and Mary Beatrice Gerberding, Compiled for the First Bard Family Reunion at Berylwood, Port Hueneme, California, July 28, 1990. Friends of the Bard Museum.
Excerpts from a letter written by Alethea Malden from Hueneme to her cousin Minnie Maude, in England on December 1, 1890. Box #2, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum.
Grimes, Lee. "Huntington Library: A Home for Bard Papers." PC, The Weekly Magazine of Ventura County. n.d.
Hannah, Laurie, Georgia Pulos, and K. (Kevin) A. Knight. "Trees of Berylwood, Home of Senator Thomas R. Bard. " GPS Tree Survey and Inventory, 2003.
Hannah, Laurie, Former librarian at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Letter to author, March 30,2012,
"House and Lot-The Times' Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building." Los Angeles Times, Aug. 6, 1905.
Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 42
"Notes from Conversation with Joan Bard," Interviewer unknown. Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. December 1972.
Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Program for the SüLnday Brunch and Garden Walk at the T. R. Bard Mansion September 21, 1997.
"Remember When," Ventura County Star-Free Press, August 18, 1968
Sayler, Charles. "Bard Garden at Hueneme Has Many Unusual Trees From Over 20 Far Lands." Publication Unknown, March 27, I93I.
Sheridan, E. M. "Senator Bard Acted as Host to William H. Seward in 1869," Ventura County Star, October 15 , 1929 .
Sheridan, E. M. "Senator Bard Once Had to Yield to a Smart Highwaymaî," Ventura County Star, July 13, 1929.
Sheridan, E. M. "Sequoia Tree Planted in Memory of Thomas R. Bard," Ventura County Star, January 21, L929.
Smalley, Jack. "The Bard Family, Part One," Ventura County Star-Free Press, March 28, 1964.
Smalley, Jack. "Bard Family, Part Three," Venttffa County Star-Free Press, April 11, 1964.
2. Secondary Sources:
Gebhard, David, ed. Myron Hunt, 1868-1952: The Search for a Regional Architecture. Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, California, 1984
Greenland, Powell March. A Troubled Dream, Richard Bard's Struggle to Build a Harbor at Hueneme, California. Olive Press Publication, Los Olivos, California. 2005.
Greenland, Powell March. Thomas R. Bard and his Beloved Berylwood Friends of the Thomas R. Bard Mansion, Port Hueneme, California. n.d. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 43
Greenland, Powell March. Personal correspondence with Georgia Pulos, December 19,2011.
Guerra, Suzanne. Final Thomas R. Bard Estate " I " Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme, CA, National Register of Historic Places. Report submitted to Naval Base Ventura County. Guerra & McBane, Bayside, California, February 21, 2002.
Hanafin, Therese T., "The Eclectic Architecture of Myron Hunt," Master's thesis, San Diego State, 1969.
Hutchinson. W. H., Oil and Politics: the California Career of Thomas Robert Bard. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, t96s
JRP Historical Consulting Services, Inventory and Evaluation of National Register and Structures at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, April 2000
Kaplan, David, and Pam O'Connor, Occidental College, Swan Hall Rehabilitation and Addition, Historic Resource Impact Assessment. Kaplan Chen Kaplan, Santa Monica, California, September 20,2010.
Mason, Jesse. Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California: With illustrations and biograptrjcal sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, 1961.
Michelson, Alan. "Myron Hunt." Pacific Coast Architecture Database, Architecture and Urban Planning Library, University of Washington, https://digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/197, accessed November 16, 201t.
Peterson, John C. wood The Bard Estate at the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme California. U.S Navy Report, 1963
Pumphrey, Michael, Sharmon Davis, Sarah Stringer Bowsher, James T. Daniels, Jr., and Jennifer Krintz. Historic Structure Report Building 51811 (San Onofre Beach Club) Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton San Diego County, California. September 201 1. BERYLV/OOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 44
Script for Slide Show on the Life of Thomas R. Bard. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Historian's Office, October 1993.
Smith, Amy Eleanor. Thomas Robert Bard Pioneer of Ventura County. Master' thesis for Department of History, University of Southern California, 1933.
Streets, Julie. "Berylwood, National Register of Historic Places Nomination." September 15, 1977 .
Transcript from Tour of Quarters A: The Richard Bard House. Record Group '7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. 1990. BERYLWOOD HISTORIC DISTIRCT HABS Report Page 45
APPENDICES Appendix A
Photographs Appendix B
Drawings Appendix C
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United States Department of the lnterior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
This form is for use in nominatìng or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of H¡storic Ptaces Reg¡strat¡on Form. lf any item does not apply to the property being documented, enler "N/A" for "not applicable." For functiõns, architectural classification, materials, and areas of signifìcance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional certif¡cation comments, entries, and narrative ¡tems on continuat¡on sheets if needed (NPS Form 10'900a)'
1. Name of historic name Berylwood Historic District other names/site number Thomas R. Bard Estate 2. Location Bounded roughly by Ventura Road (east), Addor Street (south), & number not for publication street Guadalcanal Street (west), and to the north by BOQ 1434, the tennis cou and 36th/34th Avenues Naval Base Ventura city or town Port Hueneme vicinity state California code CA county Ventura code 111 zip code 93041 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. ln 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
State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government
ln my opinion, the propedy meets does not meet the National Register criteria. - - Signature of commenting official Date
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4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is:
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5. Classification
Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) (Check only one box.) (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.)
Contributing Noncontributing private building(s) 4 8 buildings public - Local X district sites public - State site structures X public - Federal structure objects object 5 I Total
Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously (Enter "N/4" if property is not part of a multiple property l¡sting) listed in the National Register
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6. Function or Use Historic Functions Gurrent Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter cateçjories from instructions.)
DOMESTIC/sin dwelli DOMESTIC/single dwelling
DOMESTI C/secondary structure DOM ESTI C/secondary structure LAND LANDSCAPE/oarden
DEFEN SE/naval facility
7. Descri n Architectu ral Classification Materials (Enter categories from instructions.) (Enter categories from instructions.)
Italian Renaissance foundation: Concrete Colonial Revival walls: Stucco(Mansion) Wood and Svnthetics (R. Bard House) roof: Terra cotta (Mansion) Asphalt (R Bard House) other:
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Narrative Descri on (Describe the historic and current physical appearance of the property. Explain contributing and noncontributing resources if necessary. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, setting, size, and significant features.)
Summary Paragraph
The Berylwood Historic District is comprised of approximately 10 acres of land on Naval Base Ventura County located in Port Hueneme, California. Berylwood was the Ventura County estate of the Bard family from 1871 to 1944, which at one time consisted of more than 60 acres of gardens and farmland, with numerous support buildings. Currently, the district contains five contributing resources: the Thomas Bard Mansion (Bard Mansion), the Richard Bard House, Garage (associated with the Richard Bard House), Pool House, and the historic botanic gardens and landscape planted by Thomas Bard. The Bard Mansion and Bard House are the most prominent buildings within the district, and are surrounded by the supporting buildings noted above as well as the botanic gardens. The buildings within the Berylwood Historic District were all originally built and owned by Thomas or Richard Bard. The Bard Mansion, the central building of the district, is an Italian Renaissance Revival house constructed in 1911-12 by prominent architect Myron Hunt.' The Richard Bard House was first constructed in 1910 as a bungalow, with significant additions from 1916 to 1925, resulting in a dwelling exhibiting Colonial Revival elements. The Garage and Pool House were built later as support buildings for the Richard Bard House. The eastern edge of the district is defined by a row of Eucalyptus trees among those Bard planted in 1871. Additional stands of Eucalyptus trees help define some of the other boundaries of the district; however, the predominant character of the botanic gardens is the irregular placement of a wide variety of tree and plant specimens surrounding the two residences. The district is surrounded by Naval housing to the south and west, Naval facilities to the north, and non-military residential development to the east. Narrative Description
The Berylwood Historic District comprises the 10 core acres of the Berylwood Estate developed by SenatorThomas Bard and his son Richard Bard from 1871 to 1944. Those 10 acres are what now remains from the original estate grounds which at one time comprised more than 60 acres. The district contains five contributing resources: the Bard Mansion, the Richard Bard House, Garage (associated with the Richard Bard House), Pool House, and the historic botanic gardens and landscape planted by Thomas Bard. The buildings within the Berylwood Historic District were all originally built and owned by Thomas or Richard Bard. Prior to the sale of the property to the Navy, beginning in the early 1940s, the estate also contained additional buildings, primarily supporting the family's agricultural enterprises, more extensive gardens and surrounding farmlànd.
Gontributing Resources
Thomas Barn Mansion The central building of the district is the Bard Mansion, a two-story residential building constructed in 1911-1912 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The house is generally rectangular in mass, with an H-shaped plan oriented north and south, with the top of the "H" open to the north. The wood frame building was constructed with stucco over a brick veneer, terra cotta tile roof, concrete foundation, with architectural details in cast concrete, wrought iron, and wood. Fenestration is regular, with a high ratio of height to width. Those aforementioned character defining features of the building are largely intact and the Bard Mansion remains,a good example of the ltalian Renaissance Revival style, irrespective of inappropriate additions made to the central and wdstern sections of the house (see below). The original floor plan for the Bard Mansion included a first and second floor, full attic, and partial basement (see Additional Documentation, Page 4). Some of the materials (including wood framing and windows) for the house were reused from the Bard's earlier house located at the same site, a Victorian-style wood frame house. Most of the materials came from local distributors and suppliers based in Pasadena and Los Angeles.'
(see Continuation Sheet for remainder of Section 7)
I Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard between Myron Hunt and Berylwood lnvestment Company, General Conlract #8381 , June 7, "191 1; and multiple letters of correspondence from 1911-1912, Boxes 13 C and D. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ' Multiple letters of correspondence from 191 1 to 1912, Boxes 13 C and D. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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Historic District Ventura Co. CA Name of Property County and State
8. Statement of Siqnificance Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions.) for National Register listing.) architecture Property is associated with events that have made a X A planning significant contribution to the broad patterns of our community and development history. politics and qovernment X B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our pasl. landscape arch itecture
X C Propedy embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high Period of Significance artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack 1871-1944 individual distinction.
D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Significant Dates 1912 (construction of Bard Mansion)
Griteria Gonsiderations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Significant Person Property is: (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Bard Thomas R. and Bard Richard A Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes.
Gultural B removed from its original location Affiliation
C a birthplace or grave.
D a cemetery. ArchitecUBuilder E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. Hunt, Myron H. F a commemorative property Shand, Reginald G less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years.
Period of Significance (justification) The period of significance of 1871 lo 1944 reflects the length of time the Berylwood estate was associated with Thomas R. Bard and Richard Bard. Thomas Bard first began developing the grounds at Berylwood in 1871, and it soon thereafter became his primary residence until his death in 1915. His son Richard (born at Berylwood in 1892) grew up on the estate, and returned after his father's death to manage the family business. He resided in the Richard Bard House on the estate from 1916 to 1944.
Griteria Gonsiderations (explanation, if necessary) N/A
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Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph (ProVide a summary paragraph that includes level of significance and applicable criteria.)
The Berylwood Historic District is significant for its association with Senator Thomas R. Bard, an influential and early oil and land developer of the town of Hueneme and the county of Ventura, California, as well as the founding president of the Union Oil Company and an avid horticulturalist. Thomas Bard first began developing the grounds at Berylwood in 1871. His son, Richard Bard, born at Berylwood, followed in his father's footsteps and also became an influential figure in the local development of Hueneme, and as a civic leader and philanthropist. As such, the Berylwood Historic District is eligible on the local level under Criterion A because of the role of the Bard family and the Berylwood estate in the development of Port Hueneme and Ventura County relating to the area of significance of Community Planning and Development.
Secondly, the Berylwood Historic District is eligible on the state level under Criterion B as the most important property associated with lives of Thomas and Richard Bard, both significant figures in local development, and Thomas Bard on the state level for his political positions culminating in his term as U.S. Senator, relating to the areas of significance of Community Planning and Development and Politics and Government.
Finally, related to the area of significance of Architecture, the Berylwood Historic District is eligible on the local level under Criterion C as the 1912 Bard Mansion is a fine representation of the work of master architect Myron Hunt and an excellent example of the ltalian Renaissance Revival architectural style, an eclectic style Hunt utilized especially during the 1910s. The district as a whole is further eligible under Criterion C, related to the area of significance of Landscape Architecture, as a cultural landscape, containing the remains of what was recognized as one of the largest and most extensive botanical collections in southern California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, exhibiting many rare specimens. Hunt, an early advocate of landscape architecture, respected and incorporated Bard's gardens in his designs for the mansion.
Berylwood (#77000360) was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as a discontiguous district at the local level under Criteria A, B, and C. This nomination form was developed as an update to that previous nomination, and written as a replacement for the original form.
Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.)
Developmental History of Berylwood and the Bard Family Senator Thomas Robert Bard (1841-'1915) purchased land in Ventura County (at that time part of Santa Barbara County) in 1868, to develop a homestead for himself and began planting trees and other specimens on the barren flat landscape at that time. That same year, Bard's brother Cephas, a doctor, joined him in Ventura County. Cephas married Clara Gerberding in 1871. Bard, at age 35, believed he would always remain a bachelor. However, he fell in love with Clara's younger sister Mary (Molly) Gerberding (1853-1937). The Gerberding girls were from San Francisco, daughters of a successful newspaper editor. Molly's mother insisted that Thomas and Molly wait until she was 18 to get married, and they did so. They married in 1876 and soon thereafter moved into a new cottage built on the property that year [prior to its completion they resided in Bard's small lST4 "bachelor" bungalow on the property (no longer extant)1. The new cottage, a single-story ltalianate-style house, was completed in 1876 and located one mile inland from the Hueneme wharf. The Bards lived in this house for 14 years, through the birth of six children (the first of whom died in infancy). At some point after the birth of their eldest surviving child, Beryl (1878-1957), the family began referring to the grounds of the estate as Berylwood. ln 1890, the Bard's single-story house was greatly expanded, likely to accommodate the continually growing family (two more children were born in the 1890s) and Molly's sister who moved in with them for a time after her divorce in 1889. The expanded house was a three-story wood-frame high-style Victorian, oriented to the east. Near the completion of the expansion, a young English woman, Miss Alethea Malden, was hired as a governess.' She grew to be considered a member of the family, was a constant companion to Molly Bard, and resided with them for many years.
(see Continuation Sheet for remainder of Section 8)
3 Excerptsfrom a letterwritten byAlethea Maldenfrom Huenemeto hercousin Minnie Maude, in England on December 1,'1890. Box#2, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. 5 United States Department of the lnterior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 513112012)
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9. Maior Biblioqraphical References Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.)
See Continuation Sheet
Previous documentat¡on on file (NPS): Primary location of add¡tional data: _preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67 has been X State Historic Preservation Office requested) _Other State agency X prev¡ously listed in the National Reg¡ster _Federal agency _previously determined eligible by the National Register _Local government designated a National Historic Landmark _University recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # X Other _recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # _ Name of repository: U.S. N Seabee Museum recorded by H¡storic American Landscape Survey # _ Listed in 1977 as Berylwood, #77000360
Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): lncluded in 1963 Survey of Historic Buildings, Structures, and Monuments within the Naval Shore Establishment. Naval Facilities Enqineerinq Command
10. Geoqraphical Data
Acreage of Property Approx. 10 (Do not include previously listed resource acreage.)
UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.)
1 1 15 297367 .32 3781997.50 311S 297620.33 3781699.22 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing
2 115 297629.60 3782186.63 4 11S 297410.66 3781704.34 Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing
Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.) The boundary of the Berylwood Historic District is defined on the sketch map. However, it generally is bounded by Ventura Road to the east, Addor Street to the south, and Guadalcanal Street to the west. The northern boundary is a jagged line starting at Guadalcanal Street just north of Bard Lane and extending east encapsulating the landscape north of Bard Lane but south of BOQ 1434 and tennis courts, then turning north to 36th Avenue and then east again to the intersection of 34th Avenue and Ventura Road.
Boundary Justification (Exptain why the boundaries were setected.) The boundary encapsulates the remaining buildings and botanic gardens of Berylwood that retain good integrity. West, south, and east of the boundaries are areas of housing (1960s and later) that no longer retain any resemblance to the historic grounds or setting of the estate. The northern boundary was drawn to include the remaining portions of the botanic gardens and Eucalyptus stand that visually define the northern and northeastern ends of the district. The landscape included in this northern portion of this district north of Bard Lane is that portion that retains the greatest concentration of vegetation and the least intrusion of the higher-density development located to the north. The boundary also excludes the tennis courts which have lost their integrity.
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DESCRIPTION
Thomas Bard Mansion (continued) The Bard Mansion measures approximately 155 feet by 83 feet. lt rises to a maximum height of approximately 44 feet from grade to the top of the cornice on the attic section. The wood frame building is constructed atop concrete slab and 1'x 1'wood posts which are found in the basement area belowthe kitchen. Thewalls are stucco on the exterior and dry wall and plaster construction on the interior. The exterior stucco is an off-white color. The red clay tile roof iè composed of three hipped-roof sections which intersect and have a near symmetrical H-shaped plan. The eaves are shallow with large cornices, underneath which are dentils. Fenestration is varied but symmetrical. The main or east façade contains the most prominent and ornamented exterior doonruay, with additional entrances on the south and north, which have simple narrow wood surrounds with no decorative molding. Windows on the first floor are either double or triple hung sashes oriented vertically. The second story windows are generally wood casements. On the third story or attic level, there are vents and small casement windows. The north and south façades contain large multi-light windows, additions or alterations undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s.
The interior organization is divided into a first, second, and attic level, and partial basement. The main entrance opens into a large main entry hall with access to several other rooms on the first floor, and a stain¡¡ay to the second floor. Rooms on the first floor open on to one another; there is no central hallway. A chamber with a dedicated bathroom was originally located to the north of the stairway, as well as a small closet for a telephone- however, this area has been reconfigured and now contains two restrooms. A study is located to the south of the entry hall, also with a separate half bath. A vault closet is located between the hall and the study. The entry hall provides access to the living room, located in the center of the first floor. The living room is flanked on either side by an enclosed porch to the north and an enclosed terrace to the south. The west section of the first floor contains a sun room on the south side, dining room (adjacent to the living room), secondary stainvay, and service area, with a large kitchen. A large auditorium/ballroom, an addition circa 1970, is located west of the original dining room. North of the auditorium and north of the original kitchen are located several large kitchen service rooms, additions circa 1980.
The second floor is organized around a roughly H-shaped hallway, and originally contained eight bedrooms or chambers and five bathrooms, all of which were connected to one or more bedroom chambers. Three bedrooms were located along both the east and west hall, and two were located south of the interconnecting hallway, with a sleeping porch opposite. Those two central bedchambers were reconfigured as one large room in the 1950s. The bedchambers on the second floor were originally dedicated to specific members of the Bard Family. The northernmost of the chambers in the eastern section was used by the family's long-term governess, Miss Malden. The center chamber on this wing was Mary Bard's, and Thomas Bard's room was furthest south. The central two bedchambers are believed to have been used by the Bard's two youngest children still living with the family at the time the house was completed, Elizabeth (24) and Philip (14). The northernmost chamber of the western wing was assigned to the Bard's eldest daughter Beryl (34 at the time the house was completed), and was adjacent to another sleeping porch. The two additional chambers to the south are believed to have been used occasionally by Richard Bard (20), the second eldest son, while the southern room used by Anna (28), the third eldest daughter.
Access to the attic is obtained through a door in the western section of the second floor, through an enclosed stairway. A wide hallway extends north/south in the western section of the attic, off which several storage rooms and one large room are located along the western wall. The central section of the attic contains two adjoining rooms accessed by the main hallway, and a secondary hallway extends along the southern wall. That secondary hallway also provides access to two rooms in the eastern section. Two additional small rooms are located in the northeast corner of the attic, accessed from rooms that open onto the hallways. The attic was used as living NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Section number 7 Page 2 quarters for servants and as storage space.a No information was identified about the specific rooms'functions. A partial basement is accessed from the kitchen. lt is comprised of one large and several small storage rooms.
The interior finishes of the Bard Mansion exhibit a great degree of ornamentation and craftsmanship. Significant decorative elements include wooden wall paneling, decorative cornices along the ceiling, and chamfered square columns within the main foyer of the building. The numerous fireplaces throughout the house exhibit marble and ornamented wood features. The primary stairway features a decoratively carved wooden railing and squared columns. Much of the original wood flooring remains, although some areas have been carpeted. Window and door frames are all wooden, with simple profiles. Most of the original hardware of the Bard Mansion, such as the door knobs, hinges, and handles have been retained. Lightfixtures dating to at leastthe 1940s have also been retained in the main dining room as well.
The aforementioned alterations to the Bard Mansion were undertaken by the Navy after it acquired the house in 1944. Based on remaining plans available in the Navy's current Public Works archive, it appears that the Navy enclosed the north porch and south terrace in the late 1950s, creating a sitting area in theformer porch space and a bar area in the terrace. Additional alterations at that time include the removal of the elevator and the creation of one large room (initially a cocktail lounge, later a meeting space) in the central section of the second floor by eliminating the two chambers and adjoining bath originally in the area south of the hall. Subsequent alterations included mechanical/electrical work and kitchen alterations. The first-floor chamber and bath to the north of the stairway were replaced by 1982 with two modern, separate bathroom spaces with multiple toilets and no baths. A major single-story addition was added to the west side of the house in 1968, which resulted in the removal of the windows and built-ins on the west wall of the dining room. That addition created a large multi-purpose room. A final single-story addition to the north of the new multi-purpose room created additional service facilities in 1977.5 Despite these modifications, the Mansion still retains most of its original exterior and interior materials and elements, and its original form and floorplan are clearly evident.
Richard Bard House The Richard Bard House is a two-story residential building originally constructed as a one-story building in 1910 and with additions made between circa 1916 and 1925, possibly even earlier. lt is located south of the Thomas Bard Mansion, at the south end of the historic district. No early plans exist for the Richard Bard house. The most recent plans available date lo 1944. Later additions and alterations obscure architectural evidence that might provide a definitive picture of the original 1910 floorplan, and few photos from the first two decades of this building's history exist. However, the 1910 house was generally comprised of one or two public rooms around one central fireplace with likely two bedrooms, a kitchen at the north side, and bathroom. lt was originally rectangular in shape with a central chimney, hip roof, and vertical plank siding with a porch to the south.6
Additions were made to the house after newlyweds Richard and Joan Bard moved into the cottage in 1916. Their growing family was the impetus for several additions made between circa 19'16 and 1925, so that the residence is comprised of three sections, resulting from addition5 to accommodate the increasing number of family members. The first section is the original one-story building located on the southwest side of the building. The second section is a central two-story section (first constructed as a single-story two-room addition). The third section is the two- a Carol Marsh, Former Command Historian, Naval Fac¡lities Engineering Command, Telephone lnterview by Shannon Davis. 5 Dates for alterations to the Thomas Bard Mansion obtained by review of plans for Building 36, Port Hueneme lnspection & Repair Drawings, Public Works Office, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Archives, Port Hueneme, California. 6 Footprint of building ¡ncluded on Diagram of Dwelling, Barn and Other Buildings belonging to Berylwood lnvestment Company and located near Hueneme, Ventura County, California. Dankin Publishing Co., San Francisco, California. April 20, 191 I . Photos of the house include: Photos of 1910 Bungalow, Friends of the Bard Museum Photographic Collection; Photo of Home of Richard and Joan Bard in 1916 in Powell March Greenland, , Olive Press Publication, Los Olivos, CalifornÍa, 2005,2: and Photo of Richard and Joan Bard's House, Personal Collection of Georgia Pulos, Santa Barbara, California, Date Unknown. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. B/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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The order or evolution of the changes and additions to the house is indicated in photographic and architectural evidence (window and door patterns, roof forms and lines, chimneys, and floor plans), supported by the recollections of Richard and Joan's daughters Joanna and Margaret. The first addition was a single-story section to the east of the house that included two bedrooms and an adjoining bathroom, with exterior doors from both bedrooms that opened to the south, and a change in the roof form to a gable roof.7 This addition may have been completed prior to Richard and Joan's occupancy; possibly as early as 191 I when the extended Bard family used the cottage as a temporary residence while the Bard Mansion was under construction. Richard and Joan added another bedroom to the southeast corner of the house, a bathroom, and likely reconfigured the earlier two-room addition to include a new entry and hallway. Next, a second story was added above these three bedrooms, which also included two adjoining bathrooms.o ln an interview conducted with Joan Bard in 1972, she stated that Reginald Shand was t-he architect for that addition.e The last second-floor bedroom was added around 1928 in the former attic of the original section, with the addition of two dormer windows to the north and south. The original front (south porch) was enclosed to expand the living room space at an unknown point in time. Sometime after 1944, a small northern single-story addition was added to the kitchen and current laundry room, expanding that section of the original building and adding a northern cross-gabìe roof.
The Richard Bard House possesses some features of the Colonial Revival Style, although its irregular plan as described above is not one of them. The residence measures approximately 58 feet by 55 feet. The wood frame building rests on a concrete foundation. The exterior walls are sheathed in horizontal wood siding and the interior walls are composed of drywall and plaster. The roof is an irregular shape, composed of three sections corresponding to the progression of the construction of the building and its additions. The original section of the building has a side gable roof with two front gable projections, a shed roof dormer on the northwest facade and a front gable dormer window on the southeast façade. The eastern two-story section of the building also has a side gable. Connected to this is the southeast section of the building which has a front gable. The entire roof is clad in asphalt shingles. There are shallow eaves and modest cornices along the exterior roofline of the building.
Fenestration is regular, with the doors and window predominantly similar throughout the building. There are five exterior doorways: two on the southeast façade, one on the southwest façade, and two on the northwest façade. All the doors have wooden screen doors and wide wood surrounds with no decorative molding. All but one door have surmounting decorative hoods. The main entrance on the southeast facade has the most ornate features including a paneled door with a large pedimented hood, a decorative bracket that encloses sidelights. The remaining four doors are glazed with multiple panes.
There are 17 double hung windows with lamb's tongues on the southeastfaçade as well as a shed roof dormer which has a ribbon of three casement windows within. Three of these windows are six-over-six sash windows; the rest are four-over-four. All windows have shutters except for the dormer window. There are three sets of paired windows which share a pair of shutters. On the southwest façade, there are two large fixed multi-light windows. One window has 24lights. The other has 18 lights flanked by 12-light windows on either side. The northwest façade has 14 windows, one angled bay window and a shed dormer with two windows. Six windows are four-over- four double hung sash windows; two are two-over-two light sashes; three are six-over-six. All sash windows have lamb's tongues. Additionally, there are two six-light casement windows and one 12-light casement window' The dormer has two four-over-four double hung sash windows. The angled bay window has six-over-six double hung sash windows flanked by four-over-four double hung sash windows with lamb's tongues. The northeast façade has six four-over-four double hung sash windows with lamb's tongues and one two-over-two sash window. Four of
i lbid. 8 Georgia Pulos, Email correspondence with Shannon Davis, October 1, 2011 ' n "Notes from Conversalion with Joan Bard," and Trahscript from Tour of Quarters A: The Richard Bard House NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. B/2002) OMB No.1024-0018 (Expires 5-3'l-2012)
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There are three porches; the main one located on the southeast façade leading to the main entrance and also a secondary entrance that leads to the living room. The second porch is located on the southwest façade, and is an open brick stoop with an entrance to the dining room. The third porch, also an open brick stoop, is located on the northwest façade leading to two entrances to the laundry room and the kitchen. There are three chimneys: one located off of the southeast porch with two corresponding interior fireplaces on the first and second floors; a second located within the original one-story building with a corresponding fireplace in the living room; and a third chimney in the northeast section of the building with corresponding fireplaces in the first floor library and one of the first floor bedrooms.
The interior organization is divided into a first and second floor, with a small cellar with exterior access. The main entrance on the southeast façade opens into the entry hall with immediate access to several other rooms on the first floor, and the stainruay to the second floor. The first floor is comprised of a living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room, foyer, den, library, two bedrooms, and three bathrooms. The plan is irregular, reflecting the multiple additions to the house over time. Opposite the main entry and across the hallway is a dooruray to the library. At the north end of the hallway there are entrances to two bedrooms that share an adjoining bathroom. The second (northeast) bedroom also has an adjoining bathroom to the west end of the room which is shared with the library. At the south end of the hallway is the foyer, which leads to a laundry room to the northwest, the kitchen to the west, the living room to the southwest, and a powder room and den to the south. The living room is the largest room on this level and leads to the dining room at the west side of the building. The dining room is also adjacent to the kitchen to the north, which leads back to the hallway.
The second floor contains four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Access is via the stairway located in the hallway of the first floor which leads to the second floor hallway. At the north end of this hallway are entrances to a closet and two bedrooms which share an adjoining bathroom-nearly identical to the floorplan of the two bedrooms located below on the first floor. The second (northeast) bedroom also has an adjoining bathroom to the west end of the room which is shared with a third bedroom, located above the first floor library. That bedroom is accessed from the south end of the hallway. The fourth bedroom is accessed through the third bedroom, and is located within the roof space above the original section of the house.
The interior finishes of the Richard Bard House exhibit a moderate degree of ornamentation and high quality craftsmanship. Significant decorative elements include decorative woodwork in the living room including exposed ceiling beams, ornamental plaster molding surrounding the living room fireplace, and decorative cross-board trim along the ceiling in the den as well as built-in cabinets, window seats, and shelves. Built-ins are also found in the laundry room, the library, the closet underneath the stairway, the closets, and the bedroom above the original one- story section of the house. The numerous fireplaces throughout the house retain their original wood and brick materials. The stairway features plaster risers and wooden treads with nosings. The wooden railing has simple rounded balusters and a newel post at the base of the stairway. Much of the original wood flooring remains, while the bathrooms, laundry room, and kitchen have tiled floors. Window and door frames are all wooden, with simple profiles. Some of the original hardware remains, on those doors and windows that have not been replaced and on the built-in wooden elements.
Recent alterations to the Richard Bard House include a large-scale sensitive renovation project that resulted in replacement windows (designed to ,match the originals), in-kind wooden horizontal siding, some replacement hardware (designed to match the originals), and renovated kitchen and bathrooms. Despite these modifications, the Richard Bard House still retains a good degree of its original exterior and especially interior materials and elements, and the floorplan dating from 'l 925 has been retained. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Garage of Richard Bard House Built circa 1925, this single-story building was historically used as a garage for the occupants of the Richard Bard House, or in subsequent years for Quarters A. ln later years, after an addition was made by the Navy, it was also used as a small dwelling. lt is located just north of the Richard Bard House. There are no original or early plans or photos prior to 1944, at which time the building was a single-bay garage-that section which currently comprises the westernmost portion of the building.to At some unknown date after 1944, the Navy expanded the building with an addition to the east, more than doubling its size. The addition was comprised of a small central dwelling and a second garage bay. The central dwelling contains a kitchen and bathroom in the front (south) section, which leads to a bedroom and living room at the north end of the building.
The garage/residence was not constructed in a particular architectural style and is irregular in plan. The wood frame building is sheathed in horizontal wood siding and rests on a concrete foundation. The exterior walls are wood clapboard and the interior walls are composed of dn¡ruall and plaster. The roof has an irregular shape and is composed of four sections corresponding to the progression of the construction of the building and its additions. The original section of the building has a front gable roof. The second garage, the eastern section of the building, mirrors that front gable roof. The central section of the building, used as a residence and constructed between the two garages, has a flat roof. This central unit connects to the rear of the garages and to another front gable roof section of the building. The entire roof is clad in asphalt shingles. There are overhanging eaves and modest cornices along the exterior roofline of the building. Underneath the eaves are exposed rafter beams.
The building has three exterior doors and two garage doors. The garage doors and one exterior door are located on the south façade; the other doors are located on the west and east façades. The exterior doors on the west and south facades are both paneled wood doors with glazing on the top part of the door. The east façade door is a paneled wood door with no glazing. The garage doors are roll{op electric wood doors. There are 10 wood windows; all double hung wood sash and one hopper window. There are three one-over-one sash windows with lamb's tongues. Two are located on the south façade and one is located on the east façade. The remaining sash windows are two-over-two with lamb's tongues. There are no interior decorative features or trim. The five interior doors are wood, flushed and painted white. All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. The flooring of the Garage consists of linoleum tiles within the kitchen and central unit, carpet within the living room area and rear bedroom, and concrete floors in the garage.
Farm Dwelling The Farm Dwelling is a one-story residential building originally constructed circa 1942. lt is located northwest of the Bard Mansion adjacent to the former farming/dairying area of the estate. The building was once part of a grouping of buildings that included several barns, other farm dwellings, and a milk house. The barns and dwellings have been demolished and the milk house was moved to another location on the installation north of the historic district and rehabilitated as a dwelling. The building is also referred to by the Navy as the Doll House or Guest House (the latter of which it was identified by in the original NRHP nomination).
There is little information on this building's construction. lts shape, size, location, and features (including the fireplaces and windows).indicate that it was constructed as a dwelling. The earliest plans identified forthe Farm Dwelling date to 1970." The appraisal papen,uork from the Navy's purchase of the property ascribes to it a construction date of 1925. However, the Bard children and grandchildren do not recall the building, and confirmed
10 Historic photos document that the building at this location was originally a single-bay garage: Photo 5955, Base Archive Appraisal Photos, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, and Photo 11287, Aerial overview of proposed housing construction site near Bard Estate, view Southeast. Original structures intact, base housing adjacent. Circa 1944, Contracts NO y-8173, Projects 3-20 1943. U.S. Navy Seabee Museum. A servant's quarters (no longer extant) was located southwest of the garage.
11 Alterations to Building 39, Feb. 16, 1970, Public Works Draw¡ng No. F-1736, Port Hueneme lnspection & Repair Drawings, Public Works Office, Naval Facilities Engineer¡ng Command Archives, Port Hueneme, California. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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that it was never used as a guest house.12 Edmundo Chavez, the son of the Bard family's gardener, grew up on the estate in a house built in the 1880s near this site, and does not recall it being there prior to his enlistment in the Army in 1941.13 That 1880s dwelling was torn down shortly after he enlisted, and this Farm Dwelling was likely erected around that time by the Bard family to replace th > previous dwelling.la
Upon acquisition bythe Navy, the building was first used as married officer's quarters in 1945.1s However, itwas later determined that the bgilding was too small to qualify as public quarters, and it was then used as the Housing Office from 1954 to 1958.'o ln 1958, the building was converted to residential use again, and has been used as temporary living quarters for visiting officers.
The residence was not constructed in a particulgr architectural style and has an irregular plan. The wood frame building rests on a concrete foundation. Exterior walls are sheathed in channel drop wood siding and interior walls are composed of dn¡¡wall and plaster. The building is approximately three bays wide and three bays long. The gable roof is intersected by a side gable, both of which are clad in wood shingles. There is a front shed roof projection on the south façade. The building possesses shallow eaves and moderate cornices and scalloped wooden beadboard underneath the gable ends. The exterior walls are channel drop wood painted white and decorative vertical beadboard siding underneath the gable ends painted in blue and cut in an ornate fish-scale pattern along the board ends. There is one brick chimney located on the exterior of the main façade which coiresponds to the fireplace in the living room.
Two porches are located on the south and north façades. The south porch is formed by an extension of the roof and supported by a single wood post, and provides protection for the main entrance. The other porch is located on the north façade and consists of a stone patio that leads to a concrete step and sliding-door entrance. The building has three exterior doonruays; one is on the south façade and the other on the north. The south entrance door consists of a wooden flush door with a metal handle and magnetic card reader. One entrance on the north facade consists of a glass sliding door. The other entrance has a flushed wood door. Both entrances have modest unadorned surrounds. There are six wooden windows with moderate casings. Three are located on the west façade; two of these are paired casements and the third is a tripartite casement window. On the north façade is one window located on the corner of the main façade. lt is a paired casement with lights. Each casement window has three lights. There is a fixed corner window on the south façade projection with 18 lights.
The Farm Dwelling's floor plan is comprised of a living room, bedroom, laundry room/office, bathroom, kitchen, and dining room. The primary entrance opens directly into the living room. The bedroom is located to the east, within the shed roof southern projection. The bedroom can be enclosed by a partition accordion wall that slides on a track along the floor and ceiling. To the north of the living room are the office/laundry room and the north entrance. There is another partition accordion wall that divides the office/laundry room from the living room. Leading east from the living room is a short hallway that leads to the bathroom, dining room, and kitchen. The kitchen is located in the northeast section of the Farm Dwelling and contains the third exterior entrance. The flooring of the house is carpeted except the bathroom and kitchen which have tile floors. No original interior trim or decorative features exist. All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. There are three interior doors which consist of two accordion partition walls and one flushed wood door. All of the windows are original wood with their original latches and hinges and wide sills.
12 Friends of the Bard Mansion and Bard Family Descendents (Joanna Bard Newton and Georgia Pulos), Personal lnterview by authors, Thomas Bard Mansion, Port Hueneme, California, July 7,2O11. 13 Marsh, and Pulos, October 1',,2011. 1a Marsh. tu John C. Pelerson, , Port Hueneme, California, U.S. Navy Report,1963,12. 1u rbid. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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The building was altered in 1970 and in the years since then, but no known additions have been made. The building was originally a two-bedroom house, but in 1970, one of the interior bedroom walls was removed to create a larger living room. Much of the original finishes have been replaced, including the flooring and ceilings materials. Fewer alterations have occurred on the exterior, although the original composite sheet roofing material was replaced with wooden shingles. lJpdates to the Previous Berlywood Historic District Nomination Form
Pool House The Pool House is a one-story ancillary building located north of the previously existing pool constructed for the Richard Bard family. The building was originally constructed circa 1938 as a dressing room. lt was not initially identified in the original Berylwood Historic District nomination.
The Pool House was not constructed in a particular architectural style. lt is T-shaped in plan, one bay wide and three bays long, and rests on a concrete slab foundation. There is also a front gable projection on the south elevation. The wood frame building is sheathed in vertical wood board siding, painted white. The roof has a side and front gable roof clad in an asphalt roll, and there are widely overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. There is one recessed, full-width porch on the north façade, protecting three flush wood doors. The only other door is located on the east façade. All the doors, door surrounds, and door framing are wood. There are two windows: one is boarded over with plywood and the other is aluminum sliding windows. The Pool House is no longer in use as a dressing room and is currently vacant.
There are no original or early plans or photos prior to 1944. AI that time, a historic photo indicates the building's current appearance is nearly identical in form and materials to its original design.
Historic Designed Landscape/Botanic Gardens The original Berylwood Historic District nomination excluded the designed landscape and botanic gardens of Berylwood. ln 1868, Thomas Bard acquired the land which is now Berylwood, and began planting it within a few years. Designed as an escape from his ventures in business and politics and as his main hobby was horticulture, Bard planted exotic trees, flowers, and shrubs onto his estate grounds from 1871 until his death in 1915. The majority of the original Berylwood gardens were planted before 1890, but plantings and trees were constantly planted by Thomas and Molly Bard until Thomas' death in 1915. Over 260 trees in 48 genera and 78 species were documented by Thomas Bard in 1905.1/ Plantings lined the roads and circulation patterns within the estate, including Ventura Road, and what are now Addor, Guadalcanal, and Coats streets and Bard Lane. The pathway of the original driveway and approach to the Bard Mansion is still evident, beginning at the corner of Ventura Road and Addor Street and weaving diagonally northwest to the east façade of the mansion. This path is now planted with grass, but the plantings and street lamps help to delineate the route.
The topography is relatively flat at the Berylwood estate and gardens. Mostly all of the plantings at Berylwood were imported as a result of Thomas Bard's travels, so likely none of the vegetation is native to the area. The vegetation that was planted by Bard consists of several types of exotic trees, example of which include: Blue gum, Guadalupe palm, Queensland kauri, Southern mahogany, Chinese fountain palm, Australian tea tree, African honeysuckle, and the Chilean wine palm.18 Other vegetation includes shrubs and flowers.
17 W. H. Hutchinson, . University of oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1965,276. 18 Laurie Hannah, Georgia Pulos, and K. (Kevin) A. Knight, "Trees of Berylwood, Home of Senator Thomas R. Bard," GPS Tree Survey and lnventory, 2003 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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As a result of the Navy's acquisition of the property beginning in the early 1940s, portions of the historic landscape have been lost or altered. The original gardens extended beyond the approximate 10 acres that remain today. Additionally, the Navy removed some of the original circulation patterns and constructed military housing within portions of the gardens that remain today. However, the character and elements of the botanic gardens within the remaining acreage is largely intact. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Non-Contributing Resources Naval housing within the district constructed after the Navy acquired the property are not associated with the areas of significance for the Berylwood Historic District nor the period of significance, and as such should be considered non-contributing resources. Eight units of Capehart officer housing were constructed in 1963-typical military construction for the mid{wentieth century. All are single-story ranch-style buildings, primarily rectangular side- facing gables with gently sloping roofs, composition shingles, vertical wood siding, and enclosed single-car garages. The buildings are set back on the lots, at slight angles to the street and the largest trees. The front yards are unfenced, while the back yards are fenced with vertical boards. The yards of these buildings do contain trees, shrubs or other plants associated with the district's period of significance.
The eight non-contributing buildings are as follows:
. 1032 Guadalcanal Street (Capehart) . 1034 Guadalcanal Street (Capehart) . '1011 Addor Street (Capehart) . 1013 Addor Street (Capehart) . 1015 Addor Street (Capehart) . 1017 Addor Street (Capehart) . 1019 Addor Street (Capehart) . 1021Addor Street (Capehart) lJpdates to the Previous Berlywood Historic District Nomination Form
Some of the structures previously included in the Berylwood Historic District as contributing resources are no longer extant, have lost integrity, and/or are outside the current recommended boundary. As such, they should no longer be listed as contributors. Those structures are the Gardeners Shed, Pool, and Tennis Court.
The Gardeners Shed was demolished and replaced by the bachelor officers quarters (BOO) at 1434 Bard Lane circa 1970. The BOQ is one of several large scale multi-unit residential buildings located just to the north of the district and Bard Mansion. ln addition to the former Gardeners Shed, thistarea of the property originally contained a greenhouse, residential building, and the original Bard Family cemetery, as well as additional garden areas.
The Pool was demolished more recently, in 2008. A commemorative plaque has been installed interpreting the significance of the pool to the Bard family.
The Tennis Gourt is located just north of the district, on the site of the former Bard family tennis court. lt has been so altered that it no longer resembles the historic Bard family tennis court, which occupied only a portion of the site of the current tennis courts (a much larger footprint). As the tennis court has lost all of its original materials and design characteristics, it can no longer be considered a contributing resource.
It should also be noted that three members of the Bard family (Thomas R. Bard, Mary Bard, and their infant son Robert) were at one time interred at a cemetery adjacent to the district boundary (not the location of the original family cemetery) at the southwest intersection of Ventura Road and Addor Street. They were later moved to lvy Cemetery, and the site is now a memorial. This was not considered a contributor to the original nomination, and the current revised district boundary was purposely drawn to exclude this site, as it does not meet the criteria for an eligible contributing resource. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. B/2002) OMB No. '|O24-OO1B (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Statement of Significance (continued)
By'l 910, the Bards decided to tear down their 2O-year-old Victorian house and replace it with a new house. Molly was the primary impetus for this decision, as she reportedly did not like the Victorian, which she believed was haunted and which held some bad memories for her (the core of it was the house in which her first child had died, and her sister spent many years living with the family after her divorce, much of the time shut away in her room battling a mental illness). ln a letter written in 1905, Molly told. her husband that she loved the gardens at Berylwood more than the house which has sad memories for her.'o Bard's failing health was also a factor, in that he now required an elevator to reach the second floor-which the Victorian house did not have. Rather than remodel, the Bards hired local architect Russell Ray in the spring of 1910 to design a new house based on a floorplan sketched by Molly and Reginald C. Shand (their future son-in-law, who married Elizabeth Bard in 1913).17 However, Thomas became severely ill shortly thereafter, and Ray was instructed to put the drawings on hold. By the following spring of 1911, Thomas had largely recovered and plans for the new house were revived. However, the Bards decided to hire architect Myron Hunt instead, and paid Ray a final bill with apologies and "regret if abandonment of your plans should be in any way harmful to you."'o
Although there is a good deal of correspondence existing between Hunt and Bard in regard to the construction of the house, there is no record of the specific reasons the Bards decided to hire Hunt, and to abandon the first architect they hired. The Bards were acquainted socially with the Hunts prior to hiring Myron Hunt as their architect.'" Hunt completed one of his most significant private residences, the Huntington Mansion in San Marino, California, in 1910. lt is likely the Bards'decision was influenced by the success of that project, which was widely recognized and admired. Bard^.pent Hunt plant clippings from Berylwood during the project, and the two clearly shared an interest in gardens.'u Hunt's ability and desire to incorporate the landscape in his designs may have also been a motivating factor in choosing him.
Hunt showed the Bards elevations at the end of May and a contract was drawn June 7th.21 Hunt finished his plans by August of 1911; construction was undertaken shortly thereafter and completed by the end of 1912.The earliest plans located for the house were published (presumably by Hunt) in November 1916, four years after the house was completed, in lhe Architect, the San Francisco-based publication thatwas the "official organ" of the Southern California chapter of the American lnstitute of Architects (AlA).22 Those plans only include the first and second floor, with no elevations. No early plans were found for the full attic or basement. However, Hunt's original drawings for the mansion are believed to exist, and are potentially being acquired by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California. The general contractor for the construction was E. D. Tyler, at Hunt's recommendation. Bard also hired Shand as his "supervisor" for the construction at $5 per day.23 Shand eventually practiced as an architect, though the extent of his training at this point in his life is unclear.2a
16 Hutchinson, Vol. l|1,275. 17 Letterfrom Huntto Russell Ray, May 16, 191 1, Box 13C, Papersof Thomas RobertBard.The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 18 Letterfrom Hunt to Russell Ray, May 22, 1911, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 1s The personal interview lhe authors conducted wilh the Friends ofthe Bard noted this social connection. The social connection prior to the construction of the house is confirmed in Harriet Hunt's journals, in which she notes that their son Charlie went camping with members of the Bard family in the summer of 1910 and 191 I (Entry in journal of Harriet Hunt, August 191 '1, Myron Hubbard Hunt Collection. The Huntington Llbrary, San Marino, California). 20 Correspondence from Hunt to Bard, May 13, 191 1, Box 13 D. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 21 Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard between Myron Hunt and Berylwood lnvestment Company, General Contract #8381, June 7, 191',t. 22 Bard Residence, The Architect, San Franc¡sco, American lnstitule of Architects, Vol. 12, No. 5, November 1916, plate 78. '3 Letters from Bard to Otto Gerberding, July 14 and July 17, 1911, Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. '4 Two soLlrces indicate Shand was an architect by the t¡me he designed additions to the Richard Bard House in the 1920s: "Notes from Conversat¡on with Joan Bard," lnterviewer unknown, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-00'18 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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The Bard family moved into the new mansion by Christmas of 1912. During construction, they lived in a small cottage constructed in 1910 south of the house (which eventually became the Richard Bard House). The household was less numerous than normal-the adult children traveled, and Philip was at boarding school. Molly spent much of her time at the Potter Hotel in Santa Barbara, which the Bards had helped finance in 1901 and where they maintained a private suite.
Thomas Bard lived in the house only three years before his death at age 73 in 1915. After Bard's death, Molly, Beryl, and various other members of the Bard family continued to live in the Bard Mansion. Molly became interested in dairying, and she and Richard Bard hired Hunt again to construct a complex of farm buildings northwest of the Bãrd Mansion in 1917.'u ln 1933, a new house in Ojai (another town to the north) was constructed, and after that point the mansion at Berylwood became a seasonal residence for Molly and Beryl primarily. By then none of the remaining children wanted to make the mansion their permanent residence. Richard and Joan Bard (living in the Richard Bard House to the south of the mansion) used the main floor of the mansion to host large social functions.26 ln the early 1940s, the family sold some of the extensive land around the mansion to the military, developing a Naval Base for World War ll's Pacific Fleet. ln 1944, the Navy undertook a lease forthe mansion to serve as an Officer's Club (prior to that lease, the Farrel Residence, now known as Quarters D, served that purpose¡.27 Of the 62.45 acres leased by the Bards to the Navy, approximately 20 acres consisted of the house and surrounding botanic garden, whereas the remaining acreage was farm land. The estate was bounded on the east by Ventura Road, on the south by Pleasant Valley Road, on the west__and north by the previously established U.S. Naval Advanced Base Depot (land previously sold to the Navy).'u The farm land was developed with housing units almost immediately. The lease only allowed use of the first floor of the Bard Mansion, as the family was concerned about the structural stability of t-he flooring upstairs.2e The entire estate was sold to the Navy in 1951 for $149,500.30 The firstfloor of the Bard Mansion continued to serve asthe Officer's Club forseveral decades, while the second floor initially was converted to officer's housing, and later offices with additional recreational space. The Bard Mansion continues to be occupied by the Navy, now as a conference center, event space, and offices. ln the early 1960s, the Bard family hired author W. H. Hutchinson to write a biography of Senator Thomas Bard. Hutchinson was provided with Bard's extensive collection of personal papers. After publication of the two-volume biography in 1965, Richard and Philip Bard donated the papers to the Henry H. Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, which said the donation was "the largest single collection and one of the finest gifts ever received by the Library."31
The Berylwood estate once contained additional structures, largely those supporting the gardens, farm, recreational activities for the Bard family, and some additional housing. Of those structures, all that remains today are a Farm Dwelling and the Richard Bard House, with its associated Garage and Pool House. Of those buildings and structures that have been lost, most were located outside the boundaries of the current district. Those lost within the boundaries of the district include the Pool (demolished 2008), Tennis Courts (renovated to the point that
December 1972; and Transcript from Tour of Quarters A: The Richard Bard House, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, 1990. 2sContract for Bard Farm Buildings and Garage between Myron Hunt and Berylwood lnvestment Company, General Conlracl#82201, February 21, 1917 , Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; and Marsh. 26 Marsh. 27 lbid. 2B Peterson, 4. 2s Marsh. 30 Peterson, 1. 31 Lee Grimes, "Huntington Library: A Home for Bard Papers," PC, The Weekly Magazine of Ventura County. n.d. NPS Form l0-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Bard's middle son, Richard, inherited the small bungalow south of the Bard Mansion in '1 916 and his new wife Joanna (Joan) March Boyd, to whom he was married for 53 years. Together they had three daughters and two sons who grew up in the Richard Bard House and were the impetus for its continual expansion into the mid-1920s. The original small core of the Richard Bard House was first constructed for and occupied by Anna Bard for a short period of time after it was completed. Anna preferred a more solitary life style than the busy mansion offered, but not long after her bungalow was completed, she moved to Northern California. From mid-191 1 to December of 1912, lhe house became the temporary residence of the remaining members of the Thomas Bard family living at Berylwood during construction of the current Thomas Bard Mansion. lt was used as guest quarters until 1916, when the house became home to the Richard and Joan Bard. The Richard Bard family lived in the home until 1944. ln 1944, il became used as the quarters for the Naval installation's commanding officer, and continues in this use today (Quarters A). Thirty-three commanding officers and their families have lived in the house from 1944 to 2011. ln 1944, the Bard family leased the Berylwood property and mansion to the Navy. ln 1951, the property was then purchased by the Navy from the Bard family. Richard and his wife then moved to a house in Moorpark, California. He died in 1969 at the age of 77. ln 1963, housing units were constructed for senior officers in locations within the botanic garden surrounding the Bard Mansion and Richard Bard House. Eight units of Capehart housing-typical military construction for the mid- twentieth century-were constructed within the boundary of the district, primarily on the periphery along Addor and Guadalcanal streets. Attention was paid to their siting in that they incorporated the historic botanic gardens within the yards of each housing unit, and their low, horizontal form resulted in less of a visual disruption to the overall landscape than other alternative housing forms. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. B/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Thomas Bard
Senator Bard was born in December 8, 1841, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, son of Robert M. Bard, a prominent lawyer, and Etizabeth Smith Little.32 As a young man, he initially pursued a law career, but health reasons led him to a more active job conducting engin >ering survey work for coal companies in his early 20s."" During the Civil War, he was the transportation agent for the Cumberland Valley Railroad at Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was responsible for transportation of Union troops and supplies to the Potomac and Shenadoah Valley-highly contested areas during the war, and in a town that was home to many Southern sympathizers. Through this position during the war he met Thomas A. Scott, Assistant Secretary of War, Vice- President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, anã oil magnate.3a
Near the end of the war, Scott acquired more than 275,000 acres of former Mexican. ranchos in Southern Califor:nia, primarily in Santa Barbara County and what would become Ventura County.35 Scott hired Bard to manage his Southern California land interests and oil exploration. ln 1865, at age 24,Bard arrived in California, first in San Francisco and then traveling to Santa Barbara County where he lived in Ojai for seven years in a newly constructed Swiss-style cottage/office that Bard named "No. 1" after the nearby oil well, the first he established."" Bard introduced the first free-flowing oil well in the state at well No. 6 in Ojai. However, by the following year, it became clear the California's oil was not as desirable as that from the east, which was also so prolific that the oil market became temporarily saturated.3T Bard recommended to Scott that^there was profit to be made instead by selling his vast land holdings in smaller parcels and developing the area.tu Bard received a commission for each sale, and began to grow his own wealth. ln 1867, while exploring the coastline with a captain of the U.S. Geological Survey, Bard learned of a deep submarine canyon east of Point Hueneme. That visit first sparked Bard's interest in establishing a wharf here."" He purchased land in 1868 along the south side of Santa Clara Street and formed the Salisbury Company to develop the wharf and a lighthou"ã, both complete by 1875.40 The Hueneme Wharf grew to become the greatest grain port south of San Francisco and the second largest on the Pacific Coast from 1871 lo 1895."' The success of the Hueneme Wharf lead to the Salisbury Company's development of other wharfs at Lompoc, Gaviota, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Santa Monica, and Santa Rosa lsland.az However, it was the Hueneme Wharf that provided the principal means for transportation to and from Ventura County south of the Santa Clara River, until the railroad was extended to Oxnard in 1898.*"
ln October 1868, Bard purchased more than 20,000 acres in Hueneme, the former Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o'la Colonia, from Scottforthe sum of $150,000. Bard created 40 subdivisions from that acreagefor resale. He
32 Jack Smalley, "The Bard Family, Part One," Ventura County Star-Free Press, March 28, 1964. 33 Jesse Mason. biooraphical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, 1961. 3o rbid. 35 Powell March Greenland, Thomas R. Bard and his Beloved Bervlwood. Friends of the Thomas R. Bard Mansion, Port Hueneme, California, n.d., 31 and Amy Eleanor Smith, Thomas Robert qard Pioneer of Ventura Countv, Master's thesis for Department of History, University of Southern California, 1933, 5. 36 E.M Sheridan, "sequoia Tree Planted in Memory of Thomas R. Bard," Ventura County Star, January 21,1929. 37 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 36. 38 lbid. and E. M. Sheridan, "sequoiaTree Planted in Memoryof Thomas R. Bard." 3s Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 3. ao lbid., 5. a1 Peterson,3. a'lbid. a3 Julie Streets, "Berylwood, National Register of Historic Places Nomination," September 15, 1977 ' NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No, 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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platted the town in 1872 and named its main streets. Bard reserved a portion of Subdivisions 87 and 89 as his homestead and operation headquarters, the area that eventually became known as Berylwood.aa
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Bard proved influential in the growth and development of Ventura County. ln partnership with other associates, he purchased a good amount of Scott's land himself, along with the mineral rights. His sale and leasing of this land_to new settlers proved to be very profitable, and bythe late 1880s he was the wealthiest man in Ventura County.o" He continued to pursue oil development and became president of several small oil companies, with whom he helped build the first refinery in California, lay the first California oil pipeline, and build the first tanker ship on the Pacific Coast.a6 ln 1890, along with eight other oilindustry pioneers, Bard created the Union Oil Company in 1890, for which he was founding president (1390-1894).ot The Hueneme Wharf proved to be an asset as a viable shipping port for the oil. Concurrently, Ventura County was irrigated and the numerous individuals to whom Bard had sold land converted the area's vast open lands to fertile grain fields, fruit orchards, and dairy farms. Hueneme itself became the largest town in the Oxnard Plain in the late nineteenth century.a8
ln 1910, cognizant of his own mortality and concerned about the fragmentation of his assets after his death, Bard formed the Berylwood lnvestment Company-a family corporation. The board was comprised of blood family members. Bard intended that his son Richard would eventually become General Manger of the company upon his graduation from college.
Richard Bard
Richard Bard was born at Hueneme in 1892 as the seventh child of Thomas and Molly Bard. Like his father, Richard was an important figure in the development of Port Hueneme and the maintenance of the Berylwood estate into the twentieth century.
As a youth, Richard attended Throop Poly (now Cal Poly) lnstitute in Pasadena and subsequently Princeton University where he attended law school. He graduated from Princeton in 1916, one year after his father, Thomas, passed away. He returned home to Berylwood after graduation and assumed his position as general manager for the family business. At the outbreak of World War l, Richard joined the army and served in France. He returned home after 19 months of service in 1918, and resumed his managerial duties for the family's Berylwood lnvestment Company.
Richard Bard's greatest contribution to Hueneme was his leadership efforts in following through with his father's dream of constructing its harbor. ln the late nineteenth century, Thomas Bard had purchased land and constructed a wharf along the Hueneme shoreline after learning that there was a deep sea canyon off the coastline that could accommodate a harbor entrance. With his intention of capitalizing on the potential for a shipping industry into Hueneme, Bard was instrumental in this effort. At the turn of the twentieth century, Bard sold off much of his land holdings to developers, which changed hands over time. Before his death, Thomas Bard had obtained twenty percent of.^the stock of the Farmer's Warehouse Company, the company that owned the wharf and its operations.ae
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After his father's death, Richard Bard became interested in finishing what his father started and began to seek out other interested investors for the construction of a port at Hueneme. ln 1926, Richard Bard also purchased 250 acres of mud flats and sand dunes adjacent to Point Hueneme for a harbor site and organized local businessmen and farmers to support the project.s0 Despite 10 years of battle with opposition for the Hueneme port, including politicians and businessmen in Ventura who wanted to open a port in their own city, Bard continued to fight for a port at Hueneme. He was instrumental in the formation of a harbor district, called the Oxnard Harbor District, from 160,000 acres of local farmland. Bard donated his own 250-acre site to the district. After the residents of the Oxnard Plain voted in favor of a bond for a Hueneme harbor, construction began in 1939. The harbor was finally completed in June 1940.
One year later, Pearl Harbor was attacked and the U.S. government began to rally a strong military presence on the west coast. The Navy took over the Port of Hueneme and the new Naval Base was officially established in May 1g42. Over the course of World War ll, the Port of Hueneme shipped more than 150,000 tons of cargo.each month making the harbor the second largest shipping point for war material of any port on the Pacific Coast'"'
Although Richard Bard is best known for his leadership in the completion of Port Hueneme, he was also a prominent member of the community as well as a civic leader and philanthropist. He served in both World War I and World War ll, where in the latter he was a recipient of the Croix de Guerre with silver star medal from General Charles de Gaulle. ln his later years, he was appointed as a Ventura County supervisor from 1947-1951 , as well as a board member on several committees including education and agriculture. He served as the Hueneme School District president for 25 years. ln '1956, Richard Bard donated 112 acres for the Ventura County Small Boat Harbor.52
Politícs and Government ln addition to Thomas Bard's role as a land and oil developer, the life-long Republican also served the people of Ventura County and the state of California in elected office. His first position was as the Superuisor of Santa Barbara County from the district of Ventura (Ventura did not become a separate county until 1872) for successive terms from 1868 to 1872.53 As Supervisor, he was asked to meet visiting Secretary of State William H. Seward as his guide though the county, traueiing with him from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara in 1869.s ìn1877, Bard ran for the State Senate, but lost.ss ln 1880, he was a presidential elector, and in 1884, a delegate to the Republican National Convention.su From 1886 to 1887, he served as director of the State Board of Agriculture, which although not an elected position reflects his continued involvement with local and state government. ln 1900, Bard was elected to the U.S. Senate for one term. At the time of his election, his brother-ìn-law Albert Gerberding wrote to congratulate him for "winning Se_natorship in the way he received it (without having to use tons of money and political backing or shady business).""' Gerberding was referring to Bard's election to office during a special session of the State Legislature, which chose U.S. Senators at that time, after a year's vacancy in the oifi"" a result of political disagreement.ss Bard's friends were largely the proponents of his election, doing little ""
50 Transcript from Tour of Quarters A, The Richard Bard House, Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, 1990. 51 Greenland, Thomas Bard, 11. 52 Peterson, 15. u3 Mason. s4 E. M. Sheridan, "senator Bard Acled as Host to William H. Seward in 1869," Ventura County Star, October 15, 1929. 55 smith, s6-s7. uu lbid., s7, and "Remember When," Ventura County Star-Free Press, August 18, 1968. 57 Hutchinson, Vol. ll, 153. 58 Jack Smalley, "Bard Family, Part Three," Ventura County Stat-Free Press, April 1 1, 1964. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-20'12)
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campaigning himself.se That disagreement was rooted in the late nineteenth century domination of California politics by the interests of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Bard, who was well-known for his opposition to corporate influence in the political realm, was supported by the new influx of Progressive Republicans in the state legislature, and who shared these opinions.ou
Bard qlickly became respected by his colleagues in the Senate as a result of his wide knowledge of the Pacific Slope,o' Of note in his term was his opposition to statehood for Arizona and New Mexico.62 His contributions as a U.S. Senator include influential projects that affected Southern California's Native Americans and forest land. Bard served on the Committee for lndian Affairs, having always been sympathetic to issues surrounding Native Americans. He visited a number of reservations in Southern California and Arizona, and helped establish the Sherman lnstítute for lndians at Riverside. Bard introduced Senate Bill 3536, an appropriation to assist a group of Native Americans at Warner Hot Springs to relocate to a reservation which afforded much better living conditions. Bard was also a member of the Committee of Public Lands and lrrigation. During Bard's term in office, President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. The two shared similar interests and Bard made a personal appeal for Roosevelt to issue an executive order to assist with the creation of the new Santa Barbara Forest Reserve (later incorporated into Los Padres National Forest). Reflecting his avid personal interest ln plants and gardens, one of Bard's favorite places in Washington, D.C. was the National Botanic Garden.o'After completing his term as Senator in 1905, Bard essentially entered retirement, although he was appointed by the Governor as regent of the University of California.il Architecture
Myron Hunt (1868-1952) is recognized as a master architect in Southern California, and noted for his efforts to establish an architectural style appropriate for the region and time during which he practiced (1896 to 1947). Hunt was born in Sutherland, Massachusetts, the second of six children, but spent most of his childhood living in the suburbs of Chicago, lllinois. Hunt attained an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University before earning a degree in Architecture from Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology (M.!I) in 1893. While at MlT, he worked as a draftsman for the Boston architecture firm of Hartwell and Richardson.o" After finishing his academic studies, he spent more than two years in Europe where he studied architectural antiquities. ln 1896, he began working as a draftsman for the Chicago office of Shepley, Tutan, and Coolidge, a prominent Boston firm. He became a Principal with the firm bythe following year, and primarily designed expensive suburban homes in Evanston, lllinois.66 Hunt shared office space with Frank Lloyd Wright during that time, andrHunt's lllinois projects reflect their shared perspectives of organic architecture and the Prairie School of design.
Hunt married Harriet Boardman immediately upon graduation from MlT. Harriet traveled throughout Europe with her husband for the next three years, and helped nurture his career.68 After returning to the U.S. an¿ moving to Chicago, the couple had three children. However Harriet suffered from tuberculosis, and doctors recommended a warmer climate. As such, Hunt left behind his highly successful practice in Chicago, and moved to Pasadena,
un smith, 63-6s. 60 Script for Slide Show. ut smith, 76. u' lbid. 63 Hutchinson, Vol. ll, 167. ua smith, 93. 65 Alan Michelson, "Myron Hunt," Pacific Coasl Architecture Database, Architecture and Urban Planning Library, University of Washington, https:ädigital.lib.washington.edu/architecUarchitects/197/, accessed November 16, 2011. uu Michelson and JRP Historical Consulting Services, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, April 2000, 34 ut lb¡d. 6B Therese T. Hanafin, "The Eclectic Architecture of Myron Hunt," Master's thesis, San Diego State, 1969, 139. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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California, in 1903. The coupleweretypical of the manyothereast-coasttransplants locating in Pasadena. Hunt's reputation for his work in Chicago helped him quickly build a clientele in the Los Angeles area. Hunt designed his own home at 200 North Grand in Pasadena in 1905, and the familywelcomed a fourth (and last)child in 1906." Even in the dry warm climate of Southern California, Harriet Hunt was never able to overcome her tuberculosis, and died in 1913. Two years later, Myron married Virginia Pease, whom he came to know while designing Pasadena's Polytechnic lnstitute, which Pease founded and served as the school's first principal. They had a long marriage, and were recognized for their consistent philanthropy to the community of Pasadena.
Although the Hunts resided in Pasadena, Hunt located his office in downtown Los Angeles. He practiced independently from 1903-1904 and again from 1910-1921. He also had successful partnerships, first with Elmer Grey in the firm of Hunt and Grey (1904-1910). From 19211o 1947, Hunt partnered with Harold C. Chambers, a 190ô graduate of the Armour Art lnstitute who had been a junior Architect in the Hunt and Grey firm.70 During the diffìcult years of the Great Depression, Hunt and Chambers had far fewer commissions than in previoüs years, and in 1-930, at the age of 62, Hunt scaled back his work load.71 Hunt and Chambers remained in partnership until Hunt's retirement in 1947. After retiring, he moved to Port Hueneme, where he died at age 84 in 1952-nearthe Bard Mansion that he had designed four decades earlier.
During the span of Hunt's career (1396-1947), he is known to have designed more than 400 buildings.t'He is tecognized for designing numerous well-known Southern California landmarks. His most significant and widely recognized works include the Huntington Mansion and Library in San Marino (1910, with Chambers in 1920), Occidental College Campus in Los Angeles (1910-16, with Chambers from 19221o 1944), First Congregational Church in Riverside (1913), and the Rose Bowl (with Chambersin 1922). Other significant works include the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena (Hunt and Grey, 1907), Flintridge Country Club (with Chambers in 1922), Huntington Hotel in Pasadena (1913), the courtyard wing of the Mission lnn in Riverside (1914), Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (1919), Flintridge Hotel (with Chambers in 1927), Palos Verdes Public Library (1920), and Pasadena Public Library (527).ln addition to his most well-known private residence for Henry Huntington, Hunt and his partners also designed numerous houses for Southern California's elite. Hunt served as member of the state licensing board, named as a Fellow with the American lnstitute of Architects (AlA) in 1908, became President of the AIA's Southern California chapter and was the first Southern California representative to the Architectural League of the Pacific Coast in 1909.73
One of Hunt's characteristics as an architect was his ability to practice in a variety of architectural styles. He primarily practiced in popular early to mid{wentieth century, eclectic period revival styles, although his progression of work reflects a desire to develop a regional architecture for Southern California. Hunt's earliest designs in Chicago exhibit Prairie School influences, while his better known works in California-for example, the Rose Bowl and the Huntington Library-follow the Beaux Arts, neo-classical tradition.Ta He is noted as one of the first architects to design in the lavish Churrigueresque idiom, a highly stylized, heavily ornamented style most closely associated with the Spanish Colonial Revival, as seen in his First Congregational Church design in Riverside, which Hunt professed was his favorite design.75 Yet he also designed in the more restrained Craftsman bungalow and Moderne styles. ln this way, Hunt's designs reflect the interests and attitudes of his clients. Hunt strove to incorporate the landscape and climate in his designs, no matter what stylistic reference he chose to work with, and usually incorporated outdoor living spaces such as porches and verandas. Shortly after moving to California, Hunt published a 1903 article in the Los Angeles Express in which he stated that it was inevitable that "architects and
6n "House and Lot-The Times' Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building," Los Angeles lrmes, Aug. 6, 1905. 70 David Gebhard, ed. Mvron Hunt, 1868-1952: The Search for a Reoional Architecture. Hennessey & lngalls, Santa Monica, California, 1984. t1 JRP, 34. 72 Gebhard, '1 1o-1 15. tt lbid. ta JRP, 35. 75 Gebhard, TT . NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Hunt, along with a group of Southern California architects (including George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, Reginald Johnson, Gordon Kaufman, Ronald Coates, William Templeton Johnson, Marston, Van Pelt, and Maybury, and Mead and Requa), is credited for developing a "Californian" architectural style. Hunt's personal interpretation was a blend between Mexican, Spanish, and American influences. This native approach acknowledged an influence from Spanish Colonial ranchos and missions, but had stronger overtones from the Californian miner and rancher. Unlike Spanish Revival, this technique celebrated simplicity with minimal detail and was more dictated by taste and climate (which Hunt felt grew naturally out of the landscape and culture of Southern California) than its Mediterranean counterpart.Ts
Early in his career, Hunt embraced the use of concrete as a building material, and sought constant improvement of itfrom his suppliers. ln 1903, Hunt noted that use of concrete and plaster he had obserued in Southern Europe was also an appropriate choice of materials for California.tn ln 1915, he commented that "southern California is almost devoid of the usual building materials. There is no good building stone within hundreds of miles; there has always been an inclination, especially since the advent of reinforced concrete, to lean toward a plastered exterior surface, the work of the old padres forming a natural precedence."Eo Hunt's body of work reflects not only his preference for concrete, but also his innovations with this material. ln the 1920s, he and Chambers began designing with hollowed wall concrete-double walls of reinforced concrete with air space in between.sl ln terms of Hunt's body of work, the Bard Mansion was completed during a very productive and notable period in the architect's career, at the beginning of the decade of his work as an independent architect. Hunt began designing the Bard Mansion in 191 1, one year afterthe completion of his most celebrated private residence (the Huntington Mansion), and while he was continuing his major commissions for the Occidental College campus, the Polytechnic School in Pasadena (where Bard's youngest son Philip was in attendance), and other commissions for Huntington. Hunt's publication of the photographs and plans of the house in The Architect indicates that it was a project he felt worthy of publicity. Hunt's design of the Bard Mansion was likely responsible for other commissions he received in Port Hueneme: Hueneme Grammar School (1919), Bank of Hueneme incorporated by Bard (1925), and Civic Center (1925). He completed few other projects within the whole of Ventura County, primarily practicing in Los Angeles County.
The Bard Mansion is a typical example of his residential designs and eclectic style preference. ln particular, it is representative of his application of ltalian Renaissance Revival design elements, popular with Hunt and other California architects at the time as an appropriate expression for the region. The style also integrated well with the Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial revivals, also popular in Southern California in the 1910s. Having spent several years in ltaly after finishing college, Hunt was very familiar with the architecture of ltalian villas. ln the Bard Mansion, Hunt employed many of the characteristics of the ltalian Renaíssance Revival-the proportion of mass, symmetry, rectangular shapes, stucco walls, tiled hipped roof, deeply recessed rectangular windows, lonic pilasters, and the overall restrained nature of the style. His own interpretation of the style includes elements such as the refined dentil on narrow overhanging eaves, a double string course, and delicate iron balustrades.B2 lnterior features were dictated as much by the Bard family as Hunt and include the an open floorplan of large public rooms
76 Hanafìn, 173. tt rbid. 78 Paragraph drawn from both JRP and Hanaf¡n. 7e Hanafin, 173-174. uo lbid. 81 Gebhard. 82 Hanafin,181. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024'0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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The Bard Mansion also reflects Hunt's willingness to work with his clients to create a design that best met their desires. After the completion of the house, Hunt wrote to Bard: "The building of this house, and my dealings with you and your family, have been a source of so much pleasure to me, that I want to conclude the work with the knowledge that you are as nearly satisfied in our entire relations as is possible for me to make you."83 Correspondence between Thomas Bard and Hunt indicate that the Bards and Shand communicated frequently with Hunt throughout the design and construction phases, both in writing and in visits with Hunt at his Los Angeles office. Hunt is believed to have largely used the rough floorplan provided to him at the outset of the project by his clients, and also incorporated their requests for specific materials. Hunt found ways to reuse features and materials from the 1890 Victorian in his plans for the new house. Hunt, a pioneer in landscape architecture, was certainly a good choice of architect for the Bards in that he was not just willing but eager to incorporate the surrounding landscape that Bard had been cultivating for 40 years in the design and orientation of the house. This is evidenced in Hunt's own words, in a letter to Bard in January 1912, in which he stated "The garden is an essential part of the house, and every line seen from within the garden should, if possible, be parallel with the house."e
La ndscape Arch itecture
The Berylwood botanical garden is a designed landscape and an integral component of the Berylwood Historic District., and at one time was one of the largest and most extensive in southern California. This landscape was shaped and formed as a result of Bard's passion for horticulture and botany, an interest he passed on to and shared with his wife and children. Thomas and Molly Bard planted numerous different types of trees, shrubs, and flowers from all over the world. The Bard family utilized the landscaped grounds of the Berylwood estate for recreation and leisure, as well as in later years to support a short-lived commercial enterprise to sell some of the plantings.
Early descriptions of the land in the Hueneme area were described as a remote desert plain, lacking vegetation, and much of the land was used for cattle grazing. As such, Bard began planting trees and various specimens of plants in the barren landscape of his new land soon after acquiring it in 1868. Among the earliest of these plantings, in June 1871, were rows of several_hundred Eucalyptus seedlings, to serve as windbreak, that h^e bougnifrom Elwood Cooper of Santa Barbara.ss Varieties incluåä¿ Monterey Cypress and Norfolk lsland Pine.86 Shortly after moving to Hueneme in 1876, Molly Bard described the bleakness of the land surrounding her new home: "where there is no tree or bush except those which we have planted."87 Early photographs of Berylwood at that time illustrate the young vegetation. Trees could not be seen above the single-story building's roofline.
It became an early dream of Thomas Bard to create a garden escape from his business and political ventures. Bard wrote that "The future of Southern California depends more on Forest tree planting than all other industries... Desert plains offer but little to an intelligent mind, the influence on the train of thoughts is discouraging, contracting. The social feelings are blunted, hope destroyed. ln fact man cannot exist without forest trees."" The
83 Lelter from Hunt to Bard, December 12, 1912. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California' 8a Letter from Hunt to Bard, January 14, 1912, Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 'u Hutchinson, Vol. l, 200 and 268. 86 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 6. ut rbid., vor. r, 29s. 88 Hutchinson, Vol. l, 2oo. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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An account of Berylwood at the end of the 1880s by a visitor to the estate, published in Overland Monthty, indicates that the barrenness that Molly first encountered had been replaced by a well-developed botanic garden:
". . . we drove toward what seemed a wilderness of gum and pepper trees, but which turned out to be an enclosure of sixty acres of orchards and gardens. ln the foreground was heaped the scarlet of geraniums around the great basin of a fountain. Wide graveled walks wandered throughout a confusion of tropical plants, with gorgeous-hued blossoms and gigantic leaves grotesquely shaping all manner of fans and sun- shades."e2
Historic photographs show the construction of the second Berylwood house in 1890 with large trees and exotic plantings surrounding it. Bard continued to plant extensively throughout the grounds, which included a green house and resident gardener. Molly and his daughters also played an active role in overseeing the-landscaping. Historic photographs illustrate the girls in the gardens, and Bard named rose variations after the girls and Molly. By the turn of the twentieth century, the nearby town of Oxnard had grown. After enough people started wandering on the Berylwood grounds thinking it was a community park, Bard decided to post signs and hire men to assist with keeping them off his property. o"
After retiring for the Senate, Bard and Molly traveled to Naples and collected seedlings for Berylwood.sa Gardening became his creative outlet, and by 1905, Bard had catalogued 260 trees in 48 genera and 78 species on the groundsof Berylwood, species from North and South America, the Canary lslands, China, ltaly, New Zealand, and the U.S.ss
After Thomas Bard's death, Molly and Richard Bard were also instrumental in the maintenance of the estate gardens. ln the early 1930s, through the Berylwood lnvestment Company, they created a botanical garden business-selling varieties of plants to local distributors. Because the country was in the midst of the Great Depression, the commercial nursery business was only in operation from early 1931 to mid-1932. ln the meantime, the gardens were becoming a world-renowned botanical collection in Southern California. Landscape architects, journalists, and horticulture and botany professors visited the grounds at Berylwood throughout the early twentieth century which at times were used for educational purposes. Newspaper articles and private correspondences with Richard and Molly document the importance and fame of the Berylwood botanical garden, particularly for the wide variety of trees and plantings. lt was once noted as being "one of the most interesting... and fascinating places for the lover and student of plant life along this coast."s6 One newspaper article describes the innovations of Bard and his gardens upon the natural terrain of Ventura County: "From a waste of sand dunes un Charles Sayler, "Bard Garden at Hueneme Has Many Unusual Trees From Over 20 Far Lands," Publication Unknown, March 27, 1931 so Hutchinson, Vol. l, 318. e1 Greenland. Thomas R. Bard, 6. s' lbid., 7. nt Hutch¡nson, Vol. ll, 96. sa Hutchinson, Vol. ll,270. nu lbid., 276, and Program for the Sunday Brunch ber 21, 1997. e6 Peler D. Barnhart, "The Bard Botanic Garden," 1925. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Mr. Bard transformed the acreage into a garden containing more rare and unusual trees and flowers than any other in Southern California, demonstrating that Ventura County is favorable for most varieties of trees and vegetation."eT
Since the Navy's lease of the property in 1944, the gardens have been continually used for recreation and leisure by the military. Within the boundary of the historic district, the landscape's natural features have little changed. One exception to that is the removal of some of the historic circulation patterns, replaced with grass; in some instances those patterns can still be read within the landscape. Additionally, eight low-scale single-family residences were constructed in the 1960s, and although they should be recognized as intrusions to the landscape, the manner in which they were sited minimally impacts the overall character of the gardens. Beyond the boundaries of the district, some of the tree specimens planted by Bard remain within the grounds of the Naval Base and the military housing areas surrounding the district to the south, west, and north. The character of those areas, however, no longer retain sufficient overall integrity to be included in the district, largely due to the denser concentration of residential construction.
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A. Architectural Drawings
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Diagram of Dwelling, Barn and Other Buildings belonging to Berylwood lnvestment Company and located near Hueneme, Ventura County, California. Dankin Publishing Co., San Francisco, California. April 20, 191 1.
Port Hueneme lnspection & Repair Drawings, Public Works Office, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Archives, Port Hueneme, California.
B. Early Views
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C. lnterviews
Marsh, Carol, Former Command Historian, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Telephone interview by Shannon Davis. October 28,2011.
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D. Primary Sources
Barnhart, Peter D. "The Bard Botanic Garden." The Florists Exchanqe and Horticultural Trade World. 1925. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Contract for Bard Farm Buildings and Garage between Myron Hunt and Berylwood lnvestment Company, General Contract #B.2201, February 21 , 1917 , Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Contract for Residence for Thomas R. Bard between Myron Hunt and Berylwood lnvestment Company, General Contract #8381 , June 7, 191 1 . Box 13 C. Papers of Thomas Robert Bard. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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Grimes, Lee. "Huntington Library: A Home for Bard Papers." PC, The Weekly Magazine of Ventura County. n.d.
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Sayler, Charles. "Bard Garden at Hueneme Has Many Unusual Trees From Over 20 Far Lands." Publication Unknown, March 27, 1931.
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Smalley, Jack. "The Bard Family, Part One," Ventura County Star-Free Press, March 28, 1964
Smalley, Jack. "Bard Family, Part Three," Ventura County Star-Free Press, April 1 1 , 1964 NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Hutchinson. W. H., Oil. Land. and Politics: the California Career of Thomas Robert Bard. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1965.
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Kaplan, David, and Pam O'Connor, Occidental College, Swan Hall Rehabilitation and Addition, Historic Resource lmpact Assessment. Kaplan Chen Kaplan, Santa Monica, California, September 20,2010.
Mason, Jesse. Reproduction of Thompson and West's History of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California: With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Howell North Books, Berkeley, California, 1961.
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Streets, Julie. "Berylwood, National Register of Historic Places Nomination." September 15,1977. NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev.8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012)
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Transcript from Tour of Quarters A: The Richard Bard House. Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum' 1990. (Expires 5-31-2012) NPS Form 10-900-a (Rev. B/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018
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1 View looking west at Berylwood Historic District from Ventura Road, with Shan non Oct. 18, 201L Bard Mansion in distance and Capehart housing in foreground Davis 2 View looking north at Addor Street and stand of Eucalyptus trees defining Shannon June23,2OI! the eastern boundary of the district Davis 3 View looking northwest toward Bard Mansion along the route of the original Shannon June23,207t entrance lane to the property from the intersection of Addor Street and Davis Ventura Road. Note the numerous planVtree specimens that comprise the heart of the botanic ens. 4 View looking east toward Capehart housing (non-contributing) from the Jennifer June 23,2OLt center of the district Krintz 5 View looking southwest toward the Richard Bard House from the center of Jennifer June 23,201.1. the district depicting more of the botanic garden and the spatial relationship Krintz of the two houses to on 6 View looking southeast toward the original entrance lane and the heart of Jennifer June 15, 201L the remaining botanic gardens from the second floor/southwest corner of Krintz the Bard Mansion 7 View looking southwest toward the Thomas R. Bard Mansion's primary Jennifer June 15, 2011 (east) façade Krintz 8 View looking south toward the north façade of the Bard Mansion Shannon June 15,2011 Davis 9 View looking southeast toward the west façade of the Bard Mansion (note Jennifer June 15, 2011 western additions), as well as some of the landscape features north of the Krintz house 10 View looking north toward the south façade of the Bard Mansion (note Jennifer June 15, 20L1 southern porch addition) Krintz 11. Historic view looking north toward the south façade of the Bard Mansion Je n n ifer July 7,2O1,I (Courtesy of Friends of the Bard Mansion) Krintz t2 View looking northeast of the interior main hall, first floor of the Richard Jennifer June 15, 2011 Bard Mansion, exhibiting typical interlor Krintz L3 View looking northeast of the study, first floor of the Richard Bard Mansion, Jennifer June 15, 20LL exhibiting typical interior finishes Krintz L4 View looking northwest toward the Richard Bard House's primary Jennifer June 23,2OLL (southeastern) façade Krintz 15 Historic view looking northwest toward the southeastern façade of the Jennifer Oct. L8,2011 Richard Bard House, 1944 (Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Krintz Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California) 1.6 View looking southeast toward the northwest façade of the Richard Bard Jennifer June 23,2O1,L House Krintz T7 View looking west in the fìrst floor interior living room of the Richard Bard Jennifer June 23,201.1 House Krintz NPS Form '10-900-a (Rev. 8/2002) OMB No. 1024-0018 (Expires 5-31-2012\
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1,8 Historic view of the Richard Bard House circa 1916 depicting the original Jennifer July 7,2O77 core bungalow with a side gable roof addition, view looking west (Courtesy Krintz of Friends of the Bard Mansion L9 Historic view looking southwest of the living room of the Richard Bard Jennifer Oct. 18, 2011 House, 1944 (Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Krintz Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California) 20 View looking northwest at the Garage, note the addition of the central core Jennifer June 23, 201L and second garage to the east Krintz 21. Historic view looking northwest at the Garage, note its original single-bay Jennifer Oct. 18, 2011 configuration, 1944 (Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Krintz Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California) 22 Oblique view looking east toward Pool House's west and south facades Jennifer June 23,2O1.L Krintz 23 Historic view looking north toward Pool House's south façade, 1944 Jennifer July !9,20t1. (Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S Krintz Navy Seabee Museu California) 24 View looking south from Pool House toward former site of the historic pool, Jennifer June 23,201,7 note the military house beyond the fence that is directly south of the district Krintz 25 Oblique view looking northeast toward Farm Dwelling's west and south Jennifer June 15, 2011 (primary)facades Krintz 26 Historic oblique view looking northeast toward Farm Dwelling's west and Jennifer Oct. 18, 2011 south facades,1944 (Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Krintz Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California) 27 View looking northeast toward northeastern landscape and the tennis courts Jennifer June 15, 2011 (non-contributor) Krintz 28 Historic aerial view of the Berylwood Historic District, circa 1944, viewing Shannon Oct. 18, 2011 looking roughly north. Ventura Rd runs north and south on the right side of Davis the photo, with Addor Rd (and the entrance to Berylwood ) located in the middle of the photograph. Military housing and structures had already been erected by this time as evidenced on the left hand side of the photo.( Courtesy of Record Group 7, Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California)
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Bard Mansion-O8 1944 historic interior of dining area on first floor. (Courtesy of Record Group 7,Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California.) Bard Mansion-O9 Current interior of typical second story bedroom. Richard Bard House-O1 Current exterior south façade. Richard Bard House-02 Cvnent exterior north façade. Richard Bard House-O3 Current exterior south façade main porch. Richard Bard House-O4 Current interior living room of original bungalow. Richard Bard House-05 Current interior of typical second story bedroom. Richard Bard House-06 1944 historic interior looking west of original bungalow. (Courtesy of Record Group T,Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California.) Richard Bard House-O7 Date Unknown. Historic exterior of original bungalow with a hipped roof. (Courtesy of Record Group T,Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Narry Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, Califomia.) Richard Bard House-08 Date Unknown. Historic exterior of original bungalow with a side gable roof and addition. (Courtesy of Friends of the Bard.) Garage-Ol Current exterior of main façade. Garage-}2 1944 historic exterior of main façade, (Courtesy of Record Group T,Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S.Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California.) Pool House-Ol Current exterior oblique of main and west façades. Pool House-)2 1944 historic exterior oblique of main and west facades. (Courtesy of Record Group T,LocaI History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Musoum, Port Hueneme, California.) Landscape-Ol View from Richard Bard driveway looking southeast. Landscape-O2 View from Richard Bard driveway to Bard mansion looking north. Landscape-O3 View looking west at bamboo trees, the fence of the military housing infill, and lamp post where the historic driveway used to be. Landscape-O4 View looking north at the eucalyptus treeline along Addor Street. Landscape-O5 Date Unknown. Historic view of landscape from the east entrance of the Bard Mansion. (Courtesy of Record Group T,Local History Collection, Bard Estate, U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Port Hueneme, California.) Landscape-06 Date Unknown. Historic view of the eucalyptus windbreak on the Berylwood Estate. 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Electrical - Ground & Service Entry ,. Electrical - Install New Gírcuits : ' :. Electrical-LightingFixturel ' Electrical - New Service Lines to Garage H,lectrical - Security Lighting and:Alari¡r '' ' Elec:rical - New Outlets Fence - Repair or New Flashing Floor Furnace - Remove or Restore floor Flooring - Carpet Flooring - Repair Flooring -Repair Wood F'loors Flooring - R.eplacernent Faundation - Bolting and Seismic'Work Foundation - New Foundation - Repair Gable or Attic - Re-screening Garage Ðoor ITEM 6a Gutters & Downspouts House Relocation HVAC - Complete New System HVAC - Maintenance & Replacement/Plumbing Service & Painting Insulation -'Walls - Blown-in Insulation - Attic Interior Trim - Reñnish Kitchen - New Counters Masonry - New Masonry - Repair or Replace Tile Hearth Masonry - Repair or Repoint Masonry - Repoint Brick Mechanical - Air Conditioning Mechanical - Heating Unit Mechanical - Ventilation - New KitchenÆath Fan & Duct'Work Mechanical - Venting & Duct Mechanical - Venting & Duct Work Minor Painting and Exterior Repairs Painting - Exterior Painting - Interior Painting - Removal of læad Based Paint Painting - Exterior Trim Patio - Repair Plastering - Remove, Replace, or Refinish Plumbing - DWV, Drain, Waste & Vent Plumbing - Fixtures Plumbing - Install new supply lines Plumbing - Install Sump Pump & Discharge Drain Plumbing - Minor Repairs Plumbing - New Supply Plumbing - Service Lines Plumbing - Sewer Plumbing Repairs Porch - Ceiling replacement Porch - Rebuild or Replace Porch - Repair Porch - Repoint Brick Porch Railing - Repair orReplace to Code Porches - Resurface Remove Substandard Construction (Tin Shed) Repair Eaves and/or Overhangs Repair Exterior Stucco Repair Garage Replace Garage Replace Non-Historic Feature Roof- Minor Repair Roof- Reroof Roof- Strip and Install New Security Lighting and Alarm Systern Seismic Retrofitting - Other than Foundation Siding - Remove Asbestos Siding & Restore Siding - Repair ITEM 6a Skylights - Replace Stair - Repair Stair - Replacement Stonework Stoop - Repair Stoop - Replacement Structural - New Framing or Repairs Structural Bracing Structural Modifi cations Structural Repairs - Roof and/or Ceiling Joists Termite Treatment Termite Treatment and RePair Tile - Replace, Repair or RePoint Utility Enclosure - New Ventilation - Attic Fan V/aterproofing Weatherproofing lVindow - Screens or Hardware Windows -Repair Windows - Replacement in kind ITEM 6a