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HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Ingimore and Veiga Johnson Speculation House 3522 Villa Terrace ~ North Park Neighborhood San Diego, California HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Ingimore and Veiga Johnson Speculation House 3522 Villa Terrace ~ North Park Neighborhood San Diego, California Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (858) 459-0326 (760) 704-7373 www.legacy106.com December 2016 1 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Architectural Historian P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (858) 459-0326 • http://www.legacy106.com 2 3 State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # ___________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ______________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial __________________________________ NRHP Status Code 3S Other Listings ___________________________________________________________ Review Code _____ Reviewer ____________________________ Date __________ Page 3 of 26 *Resource Name or #: The Ingimore and Veiga Johnson Speculation House P1. Other Identifier: 3522 Villa Terrace, San Diego, CA 92104 *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Point Loma Date: 2015 T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 3522 Villa Terrace City: San Diego Zip: 92104 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.) e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Elevation: 380 feet Legal Description: Lots Forty-Three (43) and Forty-Four (44) in Block Seventy-Five (75) of Park Villas, in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, State of California according to map thereof No. 438 filed in the Office of the County Recorder of said San Diego County, October 14, 1887. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel APN # 453-331-18-00. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries). This house is a excellent single story example of the Spanish Colonial/ Eclectic style with Mission Revival influences constructed in 1926. It is a single-family residence in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego, built by San Diego builder Ingimore M. Johnson. The east (front) elevation faces directly onto Villa Terrace. The home features a flat roof with decorative stepped parapet on the (east) front façade and front porch with front gable roof porch design covered in red fired mission clay tiles. The home utilizes an asymmetrical façade with triple focal window set on the right and a raised central covered porch entryway. (See Continuation Sheet.) *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) (HP2) Single family property *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date, accession #) View of east (front) elevation. Photo by Dan Soderberg, December 2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Water record dated February 25, 1926. Sewer record also dated February 25, 1926. Residential Building Record dated 1925. County Lot and Block Book dated 1926. First directory occupant listings in 1927. San Diego Union photo from June 22, 1941. *P7. Owner and Address: Ben Barnik 3522 Villa Terrace San Diego, CA 92104 *P8. Recorded by: (Name, affiliation, and address) Ronald V. May, RPA, and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., P.O. Box 15967, San Diego, CA 92175 *P9. Date Recorded: December 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Ingimore and Veiga Johnson House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., December 2016. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace and Dan Soderberg for extensive research, and other assistance with the preparation of this report. *Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List): DPR 523A *Required Information 4 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 4 of 26 *Resource Name or #: The Ingimore and Veiga Johnson Speculation House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) (Continued): (See Attachment D, Photographs) The home at 3522 Villa Terrace is a single story Spanish Eclectic style home, built with a rectangular form and an asymmetrical front façade. The home, built in 1926, has a mostly flat roof and parapet with stepped shaped parapet visible on the front side and tile gabled roof seen on the front porch. The home displays many architectural details indicative of the Spanish Eclectic style including arched porch entry openings and large arched three section focal window groupings molding on the front elevation. The low pitched Mission tiled red clay porch roof has eaves with very little overhang. The rectangular clay tile attic vent and simple stucco chimney are other defining features of the Spanish Eclectic style. Decorative stucco buttress wing walls project out from the front corners and stucco wall surfacing is consistent unless noted around the exterior of the home. The home's setting is on an early suburban residential street in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego. The home is in excellent condition and features cream colored sand irregular stucco exterior wall surfacing and grey painted wood detailing throughout unless noted. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home with Mission Revival influences. The home has all of the major character defining architectural features indicative of the Spanish Eclectic style which include the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing and arches above doors and windows. The home also exhibits some interesting features in the style including its use of decorative extending corner wing walls and engaged spiral corner columns at the front entryway. The home displays its Mission Revival influence typical of many Spanish Eclectic style homes of the period, with its simple decorative stepped mission parapet with no coping, which is seen on all façades. Also, the home's recessed curvilinear triple window grouping with arched molding above echoes the home's Mission Revival architectural influences. The façade is dominated by the gable covered front porch with arched openings and to the right, the front large three part window grouping which are balanced with single windows seen on the left, balancing each side of the covered arched front porch entry. The Spanish Eclectic, also known as the Spanish Colonial revival style, became popular in 1915 with the creation of the California pavilion and other buildings for the Panama California Exposition in San Diego. At the Exposition, architect Bertram Goodhue built upon earlier Mission Revival styles and added a more varied and accurate representation of original 16th century Spanish buildings. This romantic, sophisticated style borrowed from a broader rich vocabulary of Moorish, Spanish Baroque, Renaissance and Mediterranean architectural traditions with detailing often based on actual prototypes in Spain. The San Diego Exposition, along with Goodhue and other designers, publicized and promoted the style's popularity and it became a craze in California around 1925. East (Front) Elevation – Starting from the top, the highest point on the house is the stucco end chimney with metal spark arrestor seen on the right side. The simple stepping front facing parapet has a three step design which tops the home. This front facing shaped parapet is centered over the tripartite window. A secondary step up is seen on the left side creating a balanced effect on each side of the gable roofed front covered porch. On the flat roof and parapet, three rectangular clay tile attic vents are seen in horizontal arrangement below the decorative parapet. The flat parapet design with horizontal rectangular clay tile attic vents continues around the sides and rear of the home. The central low pitched gabled porch roof section is seen on the front façade with red clay barrel tiles. This mixture of clay tile gabled roof and flat roof with parapets is in keeping with the home's Spanish Eclectic and Mission Revival aesthetic and design. 5 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 5 of 26 *Resource Name or #: The Ingimore and Veiga Johnson Speculation House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): From left to right, two rectangular double hung windows have a slight recess with a square edged inset stucco reveal. The left window displays a six over one configuration while the window just to the right has a four over one design. These double hung rectangular windows match the 1941 historical photo (Attachment D1). The central covered porch is sheltered by a front facing gable with clay tile roof. This clay tile roof has very little overhang and extending decorative corner wing walls. The central covered porch has arched openings on two
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