APPENDIX 6.5 Cultural Resource Documentation Historic Resources Report DRAFT HISTORIC RESOURCES REPORT for ST. JOHN’S SPECIFIC PLAN Camarillo, California Prepared for: Impact Sciences 803 Camarillo Road, Suite A Camarillo, California, 93012 Attn: Mr. Joe Gibson By POST/HAZELTINE ASSOCIATES 2607 Orella Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 682-5751 (email: [email protected]) May 20, 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section_____________________________________________________________Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND REGULATORY SETTING .............................................1 2.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........................................................................................1 3.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................3 4.0 HISTORICAL CONTEXT .........................................................................................3 4.1 Pre-Contact through 1875 ...........................................................................................3 4.2 The Camarillo Ranch (1875-1927) .............................................................................4 4.3 City of Camarillo (1898-1940) ...................................................................................5 4.4 St. John’s Major Seminary (the Theologate) (1927-1940) .........................................6 4.4.1 Edward Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny............................................................7 4.4.2 St. John’s Major Seminary (1940-1961)..................................................................8 4.5 St. John’s Seminary College (1961-2008) ..................................................................8 4.5.1 Architectural Firms Associated with the Construction of St. John’s Seminary College ......................................................................................................................9 4.5.2 Camarillo (1940-2008)...........................................................................................11 5.0 DESCRIPTION OF RESOURCES INPROJECT AREA .....................................12 5.1 St. John’s Seminary College (Architectural Style and General Plan) .....................12 5.1.1 Packinghouse ........................................................................................................12 5.2 Buildings and Features.............................................................................................14 5.2.1 Administration/Dormitory Buildings....................................................................14 5.2.2 St. James Chapel ...................................................................................................15 5.2.3 Prayer Hall (lecture room) ....................................................................................17 5.2.4 Classroom/Recreation Building ............................................................................18 5.2.5 Refectory/Kitchen Building..................................................................................19 5.2.6 Convent.................................................................................................................20 5.2.7 Service Building....................................................................................................21 5.2.8 Athletic Fields and Swimming Pool .....................................................................21 5.2.9 The Carrie Estelle Doheny Memorial Library......................................................21 5.2.10 Planetary Observatory.........................................................................................22 5.3 Other Buildings structures and Features within the Specific Plan Area (Main Specific Plan Parcel)................................................................................................22 5.3.1 Pump House..........................................................................................................22 5.3.2 Water Tank............................................................................................................23 i Table of Contents: Continued Section_____________________________________________________________Page 5.4 Buildings on the West Side of Calleguas Creek (Specific Plan Parcel located West of Calleguas Creek) .........................................................................................23 5.4.1 Craftsman Style House (4728 Seminary Road) .....................................................24 5.4.1.1 The Craftsman Style ...........................................................................................24 5.4.2 House at 4712 Old Seminary Road........................................................................25 5.4.3 Mobile Home at 4900 Old Seminary Road............................................................26 5.4.4. Service Building 1.................................................................................................26 5.4.5 Service Building 2..................................................................................................26 5.5 Agricultural Component (Citrus Groves and Agriculture) .......................................26 5.5.1 Citri-Culture and Camarillo ...................................................................................27 6.0 IDENTIFICATION OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES.........................................28 6.1 National Register of Historic Places Criteria............................................................28 6.1.1 Historic Context.....................................................................................................29 6.1.2 Period of Historic Significance..............................................................................29 6.1.3 Integrity..................................................................................................................29 6.1.4 Identification of Historical Resources under the National Register Criteria .........31 6.1.5 Assessment of Integrity of Resources within the Project Area..............................34 6.1.5.1 Classification of Contributing and Non-Contributing Resources.......................39 6.1.5.2 Overall Integrity..................................................................................................41 6.2 California Register of Historic Places Criteria for Evaluation .................................41 6.2.1 Identification of Historic Resources under the California Register of Historical Resources Criteria ....................................................................................42 6.3 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Criteria for Evaluation..................44 6.3.1 The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation .................................46 6.3.2 Identification of Historical Resources under CEQA .............................................48 6.4 City of Camarillo Historic Preservation Ordinance..................................................49 6.5 Summary Statement of Significance.........................................................................52 7.0 EVALUATION OF IMPACTS ................................................................................52 7.1 Project Characteristics ..............................................................................................54 7.2 Determination of Impacts .........................................................................................54 7.2.1 St. John’s Seminary College Campus....................................................................54 7.2.2 St. John’s Specific Plan, Parcel west of Calleguas Creek......................................55 7.2.3 Landscape Features (rural landscape)....................................................................56 7.3 Impact Summary.......................................................................................................56 8.0 REFERENCES...........................................................................................................57 Addendum A (Maps and Figures) Addendum B (Aerial Photographs) ii 1.0 INTRODUCTION The project consists of a proposed Specific Plan for a 94-acre tract, which is part of the 134-acre property historically known as St. John’s Seminary, located on the north bank of Calleguas Creek, within the corporate boundary of the City of Camarillo (Figures 1 - 3). The project area is delineated on the north by Calleguas Creek, on the south by Padre Serra Roman Catholic Parish Church and Upland Road, on the east by an adjacent housing track and on the west by the 40-acre portion of the St. John’s Seminary property that will retained by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Figure 3). A discontinuous portion of the Specific plan tract is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Somis Road (Highway 118) and Las Posas Road and Upland Road. The City of Camarillo envisions the development of the Specific Plan area with cluster form residential housing on the main parcel and public park use for the tract on the west bank of Calleguas Creek (Figure 4). The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires analysis of impacts that may result from project development. These include impacts to listed or potential historic resources. The report follows the guidelines for Historic Cultural Resource Studies set forth in General Plan of the City of Camarillo, as well as State and Federal guidelines pertaining to the assessment of impacts to historic resources. These include the State CEQA Guidelines, specifically Section 15064.5, Determining the Significance