SANTA CRUZ HISTORIC BUILDING SURVEY DRAFT VOLUME III – November 2012 DRAFT – November 2012 SANTA CRUZ HISTORIC BUILDING SURVEY ‐ VOLUME III Department of Planning and Community Development CITY OF SANTA CRUZ Prepared by Archives & Architecture, LLC Selections and research by Charlene Duval, Jessica Kusz, and Kara Oosterhous, Public Historians with the Santa Cruz Historic Preservation Commission Technical architectural descriptions by Leslie Dill, Architect Evaluations by Franklin Maggi, Architectural Historian City Planning Staff: Juliana Rebagliati, Eric Marlatt, Don Lauritson & Janice Lum Historic Preservation Commission Subcommittee: Judy Steen and Ian Blackwood November 2012 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 PLANNING BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 SANTA CRUZ HISTORIC BUILDING SURVEY ......................................................................................................................... 6 METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 PERFORMANCE OF THE SURVEY ............................................................................................................................................... 9 DPR523 FORMS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 HISTORIC EVALUATION CRITERIA ........................................................................................................................................ 10 SANTA CRUZ CRITERIA FOR LISTING ON THE HISTORIC BUILDING SURVEY .................................................. 11 CALIFORNIA REGISTER OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES CRITERIA ............................................................................ 12 FOCUSED THEMES FOR VOLUME III ........................................................................................................................................ 13 SEABRIGHT ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 BLACKBURN TERRACE ................................................................................................................................................................ 14 SOQUEL AVENUE COMMERCIAL STRIP ............................................................................................................................... 15 MISSION STREET COMMERCIAL STRIP ............................................................................................................................... 16 FRONT STREET ............................................................................................................................................................................... 16 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................................... 17 RESORT & RECREATION DEVELOPMENT .......................................................................................................................... 18 EDUCATION ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 PROPERTY PAGES ............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 PROPERTIES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 WALLS AND STAIRWAYS ........................................................................................................................................................ 115 HITCHING POSTS......................................................................................................................................................................... 121 INDEX OF PROPERTIES ............................................................................................................................................................ 129 GLOSSARY OF MAJOR ARCHITECTURAL STYLES ............................................................................................................ 133 3 4 INTRODUCTION The city of Santa Cruz is fortunate to possess a great number of distinctive buildings and structures that represent the community’s cultural and historical evolution. Many of Santa Cruz’s historic resources have been lost over time, but the city as a whole retains a significant amount of its historical buildings. The development of the city of Santa Cruz, from an early commercial port and later as a vacation resort, to the mature urban community that exists today, is represented in the architecture of its neighborhoods, the commercial, industrial, and tourist centers that drive its economy, and the educational, institutional, and religious sites that serve its populace. In recognition of the city’s rich past, the Santa Cruz Historic Preservation Plan was adopted in 1974 as an element of the General Plan. The Historic Preservation Commission was formed following the adoption of the Historic Preservation Ordinance that enabled the identification and protection of buildings, structures, and sites that have particular historic, architectural, and engineering significance to the community. The Santa Cruz Historic Building Survey was initiated as an ongoing planning project to identify and evaluate historic and architecturally significant structures deserving protection under the ordinance. The survey is based upon a statement of historic context that provides an overview of Santa Cruz, from its beginnings as the Mission Santa Cruz and the Villa de Branciforte on the Spanish frontier of North America, to its present‐day community of 60,350 residents at the north end of the Monterey Bay. Cultural resource surveys and historic context statements are technical documents created by communities throughout the United States. These documents provide a comprehensive planning tool for the identification, evaluation, registration, and treatment of historic properties. By developing and maintaining historic resource surveys and historic context studies, local governments are able to implement planning policies addressing historical and cultural resources, policies and practices that have century‐old roots in the United States. Preservation of the nation’s heritage has long been part of the national purpose. In 1966 Congress called upon the Secretary of the Interior to give maximum encouragement to state governments in the development of statewide historic preservation programs. The National Park Service (NPS) has developed methodologies for survey planning and preservation programs that are outlined in a number of published guidelines, primarily within the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Archeology and Historic Preservation. Cities such as Santa Cruz utilize and adapt these federal standards for preservation planning within the city. 5 PLANNING BACKGROUND Historical surveys, and their resulting resource inventories, provide a basis for sensitive and effective planning decisions. Santa Cruz’s surveys and inventories provide documentation that allows informed assessments of its built environment during the development review process. With the information provided in these documents, Santa Cruz planners and policy makers can understand the history of the city in a variety of ways, and Santa Cruz’s citizens can preserve and celebrate significant buildings that convey the city’s past. The current Historic Building Survey maintained by the City of Santa Cruz, and the adopted City Historic Context Statement, compile a variety of types of research, including historical patterns of development, identification of diverse community values associated with the built environment, and comprehensive evaluations of individual resources. SANTA CRUZ HISTORIC BUILDING SURVEY The Santa Cruz Historic Building Survey is contained in three volumes. Volume I was prepared in 1976 by the firm of Charles Hall Page & Associates. With amendments, it contains over 300 properties with structures that were built from approximately 1850 to 1930. Information contained in Volume I was drawn from existing sources. The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture, published by John Chase in 1975, was the primary resource in establishing this first inventory of historic properties. Charles Hall Page & Associates also prepared the Santa Cruz Renovation Manual. Criteria used to determine inclusion in the survey came from a variation of the quantitative methodologies under development at that time, and included a numerical ranking system that evaluated historical significance, architectural significance, and importance to the neighborhood, original design, neighborhood setting, and physical condition. All of the properties