State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # ____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # _______________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial _____________________________________ NRHP Status Code 6Z Other Listings ______________________________________________________________ Review Code __________ Reviewer ____________________________ Date ___________ Page 1 of 11 *Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 651 Mathew Street Map Reference Number: P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Santa Clara County And (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad San Jose West Date 1980 T; R; of Sec Unsectioned; B.M. c. Address 651 Mathew Street City Santa Clara Zip 94050 d. UTM: (give more than one for large and/or linear resources) Zone 10; 593294 mE/ 4135772 mN e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc., as appropriate) Parcel #224-40-001. Tract: Laurelwood Farms Subdivision. *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) 651 Mathew Street in Santa Clara is an approximately 4.35-acre light industrial property in a light and heavy industrial setting east of the San Jose International Airport and the Southern Pacific Railroad train tracks. The property contains nine (9) cannery and warehouse buildings formerly operated by a maraschino cherry packing company, the Diana Fruit Preserving Company. The first building was constructed on the property in 1950 and consists of a rectangular shaped, wood-frame and reinforced concrete tilt-up cannery building with a barrel roof and bow-string truss (see photograph 2, 3, 4, 10). A cantilevered roof wraps around the southwest corner and shelters the office extension. The walls are sheathed in stucco and concrete. The fenestration consists of a large freight opening with a metal roll-up door at the main (south) and side (west) façades, a row of 9-pane fixed steel-sash windows at the clerestory on both side elevations (east, west), and metal-frame, single-entry doors along the east and west facades. The south façade office portion has been completely remodeled with doors and windows filled in and new openings created including a single-entry door flanked asymmetrically by vinyl-frame, sliding-sash windows. Metal piping runs across the south and west façade below the roof line. (See Continuation Sheet) *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP8 (Industrial Building) *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other P5a. Photograph or Drawing (Photograph required for buildings, structures and objects) P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date, accession #) View looking northeast from Mathew Street, 10/25/2016. *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: Historic Prehistoric Both 1949/ Assessor Records *P7. Owner and Address: Diana Land Company, LTD 651 Mathew Street, Santa Clara, CA 94050 *P8. Recorded by: (Name, affiliation, address) Aisha Fike Architectural Historian ICF International 620 Folsom Street, 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94107 *P9. Date Recorded: October 25, 2016 *P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive *P11. Report Citation: ICF International, Draft Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration: 651, 725, 825 Mathew Street (McLaren) Project. Prepared for the City of Santa Clara, California, 2016. *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 DPR 523A (9/2013) *Required Information State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________ BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD *NRHP Status Code 6Z Page 2 of 11 *Resource Name or #(Assigned by recorder) 651 Mathew Street B1. Historic Name: Diana Fruit Preserving Company, Diana Fruit Company B2. Common Name: B3. Original Use: Cannery B4. Present Use: Cannery *B5. Architectural Style: Utilitarian/Industrial *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alteration, and date of alterations) See Continuation Sheet *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location: *B8. Related Features: B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown *B10. Significance: N/A Theme N/A Area Period of Significance: N/A Property Type: Applicable Criteria N/A (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity.) Historic Context Santa Clara County was incorporated in 1850 as part of the first twenty-seven counties created by the California legislature. In 1853 the northern portion of Santa Clara County (Washington Township) split from the county to form the southern portion of the newly formed Alameda County. The construction of a railroad station in 1863 brought an increase in industry and population to Santa Clara and enabled many of the industries to flourish. Fruit and vegetable orchards dominated the Santa Clara Valley and drove the local economy from the 1890s well into the 1940s. As a (Sketch Map with north arrow required.) result of the dominant orchard economy, local canning operations quickly multiplied and dotted the subject area located in the northeastern portion of the County. Other early industries such as manufacturing, leather tanning, and wood products were also See Sketch Map DPR 523K sustained well into the twentieth century. (Archives & Architecture, LLC 2012: 36-41; City of Santa Clara 2010: 3-2; City of Santa Clara 2016). The fruit packing industry flourished in Santa Clara during the first third of the twentieth century. The Block Fruit Packing Company, one of the first established in the area in 1878 by German settler, Abram Block, became well known in California within ten years of operation for its pears and cherries. The Pratt-Low Preserving Company was established in 1905 and would become the largest operation in Santa Clara. By 1922, the company shipped ten million cans of apricots, pears, peaches, cherries, and plums annually throughout the United States, England and Asia from its sprawling ten acre Santa Clara packing and processing plant. Pratt-Low employed 400 to 1000 people to handle, sort and can during the harvest season. Rosenberg Bros. opened a branch in Santa Clara in 1915, its eighth in California and claimed to be the largest fruit packer in the State (City of Santa Clara 2016; Garcia 2002: 60-61, 90, 99). Santa Clara Valley provided nearly half of the world’s fresh, dried and processed fruit and remained the leading center for the industry by the end of World War II. Following the war however, light industrial and high-tech research and development facilities, coupled with expanding suburban housing development, gradually replaced the valley’s vast orchards, and ended the regions dominance in fruit packing and other industries of agriculture. Pratt-Low leased its plant to Duffy-Mott Company in 1960, who eventually closed the operation in the mid-1970s. The population of Santa Clara grew from 6,500 in 1940 to 86,000 by 1970 due to the increased pressure for housing. The region’s landscape was transformed from rolling hills, valleys, and orchards into a modern center of industrial parks and suburban tracts dominated by single-family homes (Archives & Architecture 2012:45; Garcia 2002: 117; City of Santa Clara 2010: 3-3). (See Continuation Sheet) B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) *B12. References: (See Continuation Sheet) B13. Remarks: n/a *B14. Evaluator: Aisha Fike, ICF International *Date of Evaluation: October 29, 2016 (This space reserved for official comments.) DPR 523B (9/2013) *Required Information State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________ SKETCH MAP Page 3 of 11 *Resource Name or #(Assigned by recorder) 651 Mathew Street *Drawn by (Map by): Google Earth Pro, 2017, created by Aisha Rahimi-Fike *Date of Map: October 2016 DPR 523K (9/2013) *Required Information State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial ____________________________________________ Page 4 of 11 *Resource Name or #(Assigned by recorder) 651 Mathew Street *Recorded by Aisha Fike, ICF International *Date October 25, 2016 Continuation Update *P3a. Description (continued): A wood-frame Storage/Shop Building (1951/54) is to the east of the Cannery Building with a gable roof and corrugated metal siding (see photographs 3, 4, 6). A large freight opening with a metal-roll-up door is at the north façade of the building. No other fenestration is visible on the building. A heavy wood and steel-frame Boiler House is to the rear of the Storage/Shop Building clad entirely in corrugated metal and with a flat roof (see photograph 7). A pole-frame building (2003) sheltering tanks fronts the Boiler House (see photograph 6). To the east of the Storage/Shop Building is a larger metal Pole Frame structure sheltering tanks (see photographs 3, 5, 6). A detached wood-frame, one- story Office Building (1971) is at the southwest corner of the property