HISTORICAL NOMINATION of the Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House 3244 Dumas Street ~ Loma Portal 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 November 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 (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 55 *Resource Name or #: The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House P1. Other Identifier: 3244 Dumas St. San Diego, CA 92106 *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 Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: San Diego and (P2b and P2c or P2d.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: 3244 Dumas St. City: San Diego Zip: 92106 d. UTM: Zone: 11 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.) *e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc.) Legal Description: Lot Ten (10) and the Southeasterly 1/2 of Lot Eleven (11) in Block C and Lot Twelve (12) and the Northeasterly 1/2 of Lot Eleven (11) Block C all of Chatsworth Terrace Annex according to map 1599 filed in the office of the County Recorder September 22, 1912. It is Tax Assessor’s Parcel # 450-110-011-00. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) This house is an excellent two-story example of the Spanish Eclectic style on a corner lot with a rear side facing attached garage. The resource is a large single-family wood framed residence in the Loma Portal neighborhood of San Diego, built in 1929 and completed in 1930. The southwest (front) elevation faces directly onto Dumas with the secondary façade facing northwest onto Willow Street. The home has an "L" shaped plan stucco surfacing throughout. The home utilizes an asymmetrical cross gabled front façade. The home features a cross gabled front façade with flat roof garage wing with surrounding parapet and balcony on the second level. On the main front façade, the house features a large arching focal window on the left, inset front entry porch in the middle and a cantilevered upper level to the right. Mission fired red clay tiles are used on all gabled roofs. Wooden shutters are seen in historic photos have been replaced in kind (See Continuation Sheet.) *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP2 *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District *P5. Description of Photo: View of front elevation, November 2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both The Notice of Completion shows the home was actually completed on February 5, 1930. The Residential Building Record is dated 1930. Historic photos shows the home completed in 1929 . The water permit is dated December 9, 1929. The sewer permit is dated December 9, 1929. *P7. Owner and Address: Stephane Beauvais & Megan Beauvais 3244 Dumas Street San Diego, CA 92106 *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: November 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.") Historical Nomination of the Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House, San Diego, California, for the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board, by Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace, Legacy 106, Inc., November 2016. Legacy 106, Inc. is indebted to Alexandra Wallace for 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 55 *Resource Name or #: The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: November 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) (continued): The subject property at 3244 Dumas Street is a Spanish Colonial/Eclectic style single family residence. The home has an asymmetrical façade and a compound rectangular floor plan. The mixture of varying heights and roof types along with the varied front façade break up the massing of this single family home. The home has a red clay mission tile roof with wooden rafter tails seen just beneath the eaves. An inset central porch entryway is visible on the front façade. The lot has a slight grade change of approximately 2-3 feet from the front sidewalk down to the rear portion of the home. An attached double garage wing with a flat roof and balcony sits at the rear of the corner of the lot is original as seen on Sanborn maps. The front façade gable is topped by a deep inset round attic vent, sometimes called a roundel, which is matched on the rear facing gable. Decorative wooden shutters and wrought iron pot holders are seen on the upper level. Projecting upper level rooms are seen on the front (southwest) and side (southeast) elevations supported by decorative wooden brackets. The central inset covered front porch entry has matching decorative wooden brackets and a flared stucco door reveal. A large segmented arched window opening focal window is also seen on the front elevation. Various decorative window grilles are seen around the home on the primary and secondary elevations and utilize wooden spindles and stucco privacy grille work openings. A large stucco end chimney is seen on the secondary elevation. Sets of three pane wood casement are the main windows seen around the home. Some windows have been replaced in-kind in 2002 as part of the Quieter Home Program (see Attachment A.4). Unless noted, all windows and doors retain the original soft inset stucco reveal. The one story resource features a cross gabled front façade and low pitched mission red fired tile roof with minimal eave overhang and decorative rafter tails. The rear two car garage is covered by a flat roof with parapet and wrought iron pot holders matching those seen on the front façade. The home features stucco wall surfacing and blue painted wood detailing throughout. The home has the characteristic defining architectural features of the Spanish Colonial / Eclectic style, including the asymmetrical façade, low pitched red tile roof, eaves with minimal overhangs, stucco surfacing, and use of arches, especially the large arched focal window. The home has a hand troweled irregular stucco exterior surfacing seen on all façades. Windows and doors are blue painted wood unless otherwise noted. The resource is positioned squarely on a rectangular corner lot on Dumas Street which runs diagonally from northwest down to southeast. 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. Bertram Goodhue also designed the Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruit Depot in 1922- 1923 in Loma Portal which greatly influenced the housing designs and styles of Point Loma. The San Diego Exposition, NTC designs along with Goodhue and other designers, publicized and promoted the style's popularity. It would grow to became a craze in California in around 1925. Southwest (Front) Elevation – Visible on the right, just below the second floor front facing gable roofline, is the recessed round attic vent. This decorative metal vent is deeply inset into the stucco to give it the wall the appearance of thick adobe style construction. This deep reveal attic vent is sometimes called a roundel and was a favored architectural detail used by Pasadena based builder the Bathrick Brothers and other Spanish Eclectic builders and architects which simulated thick masonry construction. 5 State of California The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 5 of 55 *Resource Name or #: #: The Minnie Scheibe / Bathrick Brothers Speculation House *Recorded by: Ronald V. May, RPA and Kiley Wallace *Date: November 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): Along the upper level, below the central attic vent, a wooden rectangular double casement window with soft inset