HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House 5232 Marlborough Drive ~ Kensington Neighborhood San Diego, California Ronald V. May, RPA Kiley Wallace Legacy 106, Inc. P.O. Box 15967 San Diego, CA 92175 (619) 269-3924 www.legacy106.com February 2016 1 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principal Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Architectural Historian P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (619) 269-3924 • http://www.legacy106.com 2 3 State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # ___________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ______________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial __________________________________ NRHP Status Code 3S Other Listings ___________________________________________________________ Review Code _____ Reviewer ____________________________ Date __________ Page 3 of 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House P1. Other Identifier: 5232 Marlborough Drive, San Diego, CA 92116 *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: La Mesa Date: 1997 Maptech, Inc.T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 5232 Marlborough Dr. City: San Diego Zip: 92116 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.) e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Elevation: 380 feet Legal Description: Lots Three Hundred Twenty-three and Three Hundred Twenty-four of KENSINGTON HEIGHTS UNIT NO. 3, according to Map thereof No. 1948, filed in the Office of the County Recorder, San Diego County, September 28, 1926. It is APN # 440-044-08-00 and 440-044-09-00. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house, located in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego, is a large two-story example of the Spanish Revival/ Eclectic style built in 1929. It has a low pitched gable, hipped and shed red tile roof. The east (front) elevation faces Marlborough Drive and utilizes an asymmetrical façade with a repeating arched front porch and porte-cochère and upper level balcony. A single story gabled front wing extends out on the northern side with a large arching focal window. The raised arching front porch maintains the original arching front doorway and iron porch railing. An upper level corner balcony sits beneath the principle hipped roofline of the home (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 Kiley Wallace, February 2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Tax Assessor’s Residential Building Record, 1929 Water record is dated November 27, 1928 signed by builder Carl B. Hays. San Diego Union article and photo May 12, 1929 completed with builders listed as Donahue and Hays. San Diego Union article and photo January 5, 1929 show home under construction. Index to Property (Lot Book), assessed in 1930 *P7. Owner and Address: Devin and DeLayne Harmon 5232 Marlborough Drive San Diego, CA 92116 *P8. Recorded by: (Name, affiliation, and address) Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., P.O. Box 15967, San Diego, CA 92175 *P9. Date Recorded: February 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House, San Diego, California for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., February 2016. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace 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 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 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 subject property at 5232 Marlborough Drive is a two story Spanish Revival/Eclectic style home with an asymmetrical façade and a compound irregular floor plan. The home was originally built on a triple lot with walled garden to the north and tennis court to the south. The southern lot was sold with a home later added circa 1950. The adjoining walled northern lot has never had separate ownership and recently had a small detached guest house added as the owners did not want to disturb the historic residence with an attached addition. The home features a variety of roof styles and varied heights and massing helping to break up the massing of this large single family home. This varied composition is a character defining feature of the Spanish style and helps create the feeling of grouping of structures added to over time. The front façade features three repeating arches on the first level, that form the covered front porch and covered porte-cochère with shed roof. A matching arched fixed focal window opening is seen to the right (north) completing the rhythmic design of repeating arches on the arcade first level. The main dominant feature of the upper level is a central strap iron covered balcony above the first level arched entryway covered porch. this upper level balcony is supported by rustic square wooden beams with corbels and is fronted with a iron strap style railing. The home sits on a lightly sloping hillside with the original meandering walkway connecting the sidewalk with the front porch and entryway. The house has a low pitched fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative rafter tails on the eave ends below the roofline. The gable ends feature the classic three round clay tile attic vents with the added elaboration of verge boards with overlapping tiles and extending wood purlin beams. The low pitched gable and hipped roof eaves display these subtle wooden rafter tails. Fenestration consists of mostly three light double casement wood window groupings which have been carefully restored in-kind or are original. The home retains its original deep inset arched entryway with original paneled door with original arched viewing port and wrought iron grille. The home's clay roof tile pattern matches the layering of tiles seen in historic photos. The home features stucco wall surfacing throughout which has been restored matching the original stucco. The home has the characteristic defining architectural features of the Spanish Revival/Eclectic or "California Style" home, as local architect Richard S. Requa referred to it. These include the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing, and arches on principle windows and porch supports. The home also exhibits some interesting features of the style including its use of the front porch colonnade with repeating archways and its covered upper level balcony with iron strap work balustrade. A large brick topped stucco chimney is seen on the front and northern façade. Windows are forest green painted wood unless otherwise noted. The house has just undergone an extensive multiyear restoration and displays excellent architectural integrity. The Spanish Eclectic, also known as the Spanish 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 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. Many important architects of the style traveled to Spain for inspiration. The San Diego exposition, along with Goodhue and other designers, promoted the style's popularity and it became a craze in California in the late 1920's. East (Front) Elevation – The second level displays a combined hipped and gable roof that follows to the back of the home utilizing fired Mission half barrel tiles in a hand laid pattern with short wooden rafter tails below the eave ends. The crossing gable and hipped roofs shelter the house and continue back the length of the house as opposed to the more common (and less expensive) flat roofs, fronted by shed roofs or decorative gable ends which are more commonly seen on more modest Spanish Eclectic homes 5 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 5 of 38 *Resource Name or #: The Enrique and Esperanza Aldrete / Carl B. Hays House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: February 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): of the period. The home's varied heights and combination of roof types is typical of larger high style "landmark" examples of the Spanish Eclectic / Revival style which replicates the informal irregular designs of Spanish villages. The front façade displays a forward facing two story hipped wing with a lower secondary one story gable roofed wing protruding to the right, finally each end of the front façade of the home is flanked by shed roof side wings with the arched porte-cochère seen to the left and a raised covered patio seen to the right supported by large square columns.