HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Joe H. Kruger House 4366 N. Talmadge Dr. - Talmadge Park 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 December 2014 1 HISTORIC HOUSE RESEARCH Ronald V. May, RPA, President and Principal Investigator Kiley Wallace, Vice President and Investigator P.O. Box 15967 • San Diego, CA 92175 Phone (619) 269-3924 • 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 23 *Resource Name or #: The Joe H. Kruger House P1. Other Identifier: 4366 North Talmadge Dr., 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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: 4366 North Talmadge 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: Lot Forty Five (45) in Talmadge Park in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, according to map 1869 thereof filed in the office of the County Recorder of said San Diego County, December 3, 1925. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel APN # 465-332-04-00. *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 Revival/Eclectic style with Italian Renaissance influences. It is a large single-family residence built in 1927 with central hipped roof raised ceiling entry/ living room with arched window openings in the Talmadge Park neighborhood of San Diego. The front elevation faces south onto North Talmadge Drive and features a front patio enclosed by a low site wall. The home utilizes an asymmetrical but balanced façade with repeating Mission clay tile roof and flattened raised stucco surfacing. The home has a rectangular front facing U-shaped plan on a rear canyon lot and features a combination gabled, flat and hipped roofs. (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 South Elevation, Photo by Dan Soderberg, November 2014 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both Notice of Completion - January 29, 1927 Residential Building Record, 1928 Tax Assessor’s Lot and block book, first assessed -1927 Water and Sewer records were not found as is common in the Talmadge neighborhood. Historic aerial photos show the house circa 1930, 1933 *P7. Owner and Address: Charles and Katie Ferraro 4366 N. Talmadge Dr. 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: December 2014 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Joe H. Kruger 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 2014. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace, Michelle Graham, 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 23 *Resource Name or #: The Joe H. Kruger House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2014 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 4366 North Talmadge Drive is a Spanish Revival/Eclectic style home with Italian Renaissance influences and displays an asymmetrical cross gabled façade with a compound U-shaped floor plan. Two wings extend out from both sides of the home and wrap around a central walled front courtyard with formal living room and large arched focal window seen on the eastern side and front facing attached double garage on the western side. These two front facing gabled wings, central shed roof entry, walled courtyard and higher upper hipped roof are all displayed on the front façade facing the street. The home also displays a mixture of roof types and varying roof heights. This, along with the home's complex irregular form and higher central wing, break up the massing of this large single family home. The home's clay tile roof has repeating regular tile layering of roof tiles. The central higher roofed section has a hipped roof and two lower single level gable roof wings which project out on both sides creating the central courtyard entry area. On the left, behind the one story front gable garage wing a flat roof with simple parapet is visible at the rear saving expensive tile roof materials while giving the home overall a multilevel cross gabled front façade. The house has a low pitched Mission red fired tile roof and minimal eave overhang throughout. The home also features flattened raised stucco wall surfacing and original painted wood windows with wooden surrounds and sills throughout. This is an excellent example of a Spanish Eclectic home and displays multi-level hipped, gable and shed roof sections all on the front façade. The home features the indicative architectural features of the Spanish Revival / Eclectic, which include the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with shallow overhangs, stucco surfacing, and multiple arched window openings. The home also exhibits some interesting features in the style including its central higher roofed entry and its use of Italian Renaissance influences and detailing. Italian Renaissance details seen on the home consists of the setback central raised ceiling portion of the home with low pitched hipped roof. This slightly higher 1 and 1/2 story central portion of the home displays arched windows above the central doorway at the rear facing the canyon. A central entryway is flanked by pairs of tall rectangular wooden divided light casement windows which is a typical design seen on Italian Renaissance style homes, as are the resource's regularly laid interlocking fired clay tiles and set back front entry. The home has a raised but "knocked down" irregular pink painted stucco exterior surfacing seen throughout. Windows and doors are painted wood and otherwise noted. Based on Sanborn maps, historical photos and site analysis, the home has an intact building footprint, and has retained overall good architectural integrity. This 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 in around 1925. South (Front) Elevation – From the top, the main front façade is topped by a central rectangular stucco eave chimney with metal spark arrestor is seen to the east of the central hipped roof portion of the home. Just below, to the left is a hipped roof 1 and 1/2 story entry and living room with a large segmented arched fixed window. This upper level window is repeated at the rear of the home. The fixed arched window opening sits above a lower single story entry with shed roof creating an intersecting cross gabled roof effect. This and all tiled roof portions of the home contain original repeating red clay tile pattern with very little eave overhang. The red clay tile roof has fired Spanish clay tiles in a repeating regularly laid pattern. This arched upper window matches the arch profile of the arching focal window seen on the right on the western extending front gable wing. 5 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 5 of 23 *Resource Name or #: The Joe H. Kruger House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: December 2014 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): The front paneled solid wooden door is flanked on each side by two tall rectangular divided light wooden window groupings. These spaced rectangular wooden casement windows each have four rectangular glazed panes. The entry door and side windows is sheltered by a canvas awning. These central rectangular front casement windows on each side of the door all have matching wooden window sills matching the others seen on the home. The front facing shed roof entry sits below the upper main hipped roof central tower portion. The main house is single story which appears to be cross gabled but actually utilizes a flat roof behind the two front facing wings.