6 - Update MemoFebruary 7th, 2007
TO: Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board
FROM: James Hewat, Chris Meschuk
SUBJECT: Update Memo
Work Plan
Valmont Butte Mill
On January 30 during the City Council Valmont Butte study session, staff presented
information regarding the history and potentially historic elements on the property. The
city is cunently in negotiations to se1171 acres of the 101 parcel the Trust for Public
Lands. Staff will be reporting back to the Council as to the impact that landmarking
significant cultural may have on the value of the property.
Transit Village Area Plan Update
Historic Preservation and Environmental Sustainability Integration Project
The City Council reviewed Revised Option B at their January 16~ , 2007 meeting and
voted unanimously to provide staff with direction regarding the Historic Preservation and
Environmental Sustainability Integration project. In your packet is a draft of a brochure
intended to assist owners of designated historic properties to make historic buildings
more energy efficient.
County Historic Preservation Forum
Depot
See attached memo.
New and Pending Land Use Review Applications (see attached)
ARTICLES AND INFORMATION:
National Preservation Institute 2007 Professional Seminar Information.
Traditional Building Exhibition (Boston) Information.
"Getting the Depot Home". Clay Evans, Boulder Daily Camera, 01/28.07
"Columbus Explored". John King, Dwell, pgs. 170-182, July/August„ 2006
Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board
Stay of Demolition Status Summary, February 7~h, 2007
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Green Strategies for Historic Buildings
Seminar Overview
Discuss practical applications of using green building strategies for historic structures. The environmental
goal of "reduce, reuse, recycle" can enhance the caprtal cost competitiveness of preservation projects.
Review the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards used to assess building
performance. Focus on preservation challenges relating to energy efficiency, windows, lighting, indoor air
quality, HVAC, and local and national codes and regulations.
Agenda
Overview of Green Design
Strategies appropriate to historic buildings,
identified by LEED category
^ Products
Navigating the Maze
Protecting historic buildings should align with the
protection of our natural world. Greater visibility
of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEEDrM
rating system, as well as an increase in mandates
from building owners, are challenging the
caretakers of historic buildings to do more than
merely protect, restore, and renovate landmark
structures.
^ Lighting
Past, Present, and Future working together
^ Energy Sources and Systems
Fuel Cells, wind, micro turbines, cogeneration,
geothermal, photovoltaic, and system choices
for HVAC
^ Building Envelope
ASHRAE 90.1, Energy Modeling and Insulation
(or not)
^ Windows
Myth and Reality
Case Study Summary
Comparative analysis of historic buildings
showing green design achievements by category
Ch~s seminar ofFers an overview of the LEED
rating system and its application to historic
buildings with descriptions of environmentally
responsible choices for historic buildings,
including energy sources, materials selections,
and facility management.
Conflicts or tensions exist among environmental
coals, rating systems, code requirements, and
e buildings. Learn about historic exterior
~,~e:~ ~qand energy codes, historic materials and
re~,. ._ment or maintenance materials, and the
cvaluauon of historic materials using life-cycle/
cost-benefit analysis tools.
Case histories of building renovahons and
operations are reviewed that incorporate both
sustainable design principles and The Secretary
of the Interior's Standards for Ihe Treatment of
Hrstoric Properties.
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NPI Seminar Green Strategies for Histonc t3uildmgs
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Green Strategies for Iiistoric Buitdings
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Faculty
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Jean Carroon, AIA, principal of preservation at Goody Clancy, a Boston-based architecture,
planning, and preservation firm; LEED 2.0 accredited professional with expertise in sustainable
design strategies for historic buildings
Seminar Overview
Discuss practical applications of using green building strategies for historic structures. The
environmental goal of "reduce, reuse, recycle" can enhance the capital cost competitiveness of
preservation projects. Review the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
standards used to assess building performance. Focus on preservation challenges relating to
energy efficiency, windows, lighting, indoor air qualiTy, HVAC, and local and national codes
and regulations.
Participants
Facility and project managers; engineers; property owners; developers; preservation azchitecYs;
design professionals.
AIA/CES
AIA members will receive 6 learning units each day for designated seminars that meet the
criteria for programs in the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System.
Locations and Dates
. Denver, CO
June 21, 2007
in cooperation with
APT Rocky Mountain Chapter, the Colorado Historical Society,
Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation,
Historic Boulder, Inc., and Historic Denver, ]ne.
• Santa Fe, NM
September 20, 2007
in cooperation with
the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division
Cost (see Register for more information)
$225 (6-week advance registration); $275 (regular registration)
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he Colts are in the Super
Bowl. America is bogged
down in a vicious, failed
war overseas. And Betty
Chronic, tireless advocate for
preserving local history, is trying to
save the old Union Pacific Depot
IYs 2006. But all the same things
can be said of 1971, tl~e last time the
Colts made tl~e big game (when
they played in Baltimore), when our
war of choice was in Vietnam and
when Chronic began trying to save
the depot.
"I'm tired of getting old while this
damned project goes forward;' says
Ghronic, 81.
Forward? Just barely.'I'he latest
news is that Re~ency Centers,
which owns the
land on which ON THE
~the historic
stone building WE$
has sat (in the Comment on Clay
Whole Foods Evans' column.
parking lot) ~,dailycamera.
since 1973, will com/staff/
pony up half a clay-evans
million bucks to
hoist and move the building across
the street to city property. For its
trouble, Regency will get a$150,000
tax break on its redevelopment of
the area from the city. But the
company is still paying $350,000 to
be shed of an albatross.
What becomes of the depot once
it creeps across 30th Street is
anybod~s guess.
City planners have fabulous
no6ons that the building should
become part of a"Depot Square" at
the quasi-utopian "transit village," a
mixed-use "concept" about which
nobody seems to give a hoot except
- natch - city planners. (It "will
Ue a catalyst for a 25-year
revitalization and redevelopment.."
etc., etc.) But the transit village is
mired in thc morass of endless ~
planning, snafus and public ~n
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estimates it will cost
~d thousand dollars"
to resurrect
But when (if?) the city gets
~ around to building the transit
village, and if the depot finds a
home down by the railroad tracks,
what will it be used for?
That's what concerns
independent land-use consultant
Vince Porreca, who is working with
transit-village site and has
two depot relocation
As one of Porreca's clients says, if
the depot is just going to be used
for "cat shows" and ttie occasional
wedding, how is that going to
,,contribute to "revitalization"?
"I am an absolute train wacko,"
Porreca says. "But I don't
understand what the~re planning to
do with the depot"
By the way, if you paid $35 to buy
bricks for "'I'he Depot Project" back
in the early'90s, fear not: Chronic
says the money -$40,000 of it - is
safe and sound with the Parks and
Recreation Foundaiion. Eons ago,
the city parks and rec deparhment
thought it might manage and use
the depot somewhere. But tha~s
ancient history, now.
"People are going to see their
brick in the ground befare I die,"
~ Chronic declares, miffed at three
". . decades of delay. "I do not like
~ taking people's money under false
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Look, the depot is a cool building.
I remember when it was down on
14th Street But now iYs going up
on blocks in a crummy vacant lot,
probably for many years. It will
continue to be vandalized, and who
knows how much it will cost when it
comes time to move and resurrect
it? ~
So is dumping 700 grand or more
in public and private money into the
depot worth it? Chronic says it is,
noting that it would be worth $2
million or more on the open market
I defer to her judgment
But havedt we heard this tale -
lovely idea, bureaucratic bungling,
interminable delays, soaring costs
- in Boulder once too often?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs demohstrates the new iPhone during his
and Expo in San Francisco. It's a long way from Heny Ford
Rouge to the light-filled atrium of r~pple Inc.'s corporate hea
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By Wiiliam 5aletan
Speci~tl to The Wruhington Purt
nce upan a time, there was
a little girl named Ashley.
And she stayed litde forev-
er.
IYs a true story. You can read it on
her parents' blog, http://
ashleytreatment~spaces.live.com. Ash-
le}~s brain stopped developing when
she was 3 months old. Nobody lcno~vs
why. She never learned how to roll
over, sit up or walk.
But Ashley's body kept growing. It
was hard work lifting her and moving
her around. When she was 6, her par-
ents discovered something amazing.
"We learned that attenuating growth
is feasible through high~iose estro-
gen therapy," her mom writes. "This
treatment was performed on teenage
girls starting in the '60s and '70s,
when it wasn't desirable for girls to be
tall, with no negative or long-term side
effects."
Eureka. Ashley didn't have to reach
her natural adult size. She could be
Her parents call it the "Ashley Ti
ment" "I'hey lay it out in three st~
on their Web site: First, limit fin~
height using high-dose estrogen
apy. Second, avoid rnenstruation
cramlls by reznoving the uterus (
terectomy). Third, limit ~rrowth c
breasts by removing the early br
buds.
The first step alone can reduce
child's adult size by 2 feet and 10
pounds, according to Ashley's da
tor~. Other parents are dlreacly a:
for the same t~-eatrnent. We don't
to make tt~e world fit people anyr
We can shrink people to fit the w
Is tllis a good idea? Ashle~s pa
tl~ink so. 771e less she weighs, th~
more she can be "held in our ai-rr
anci transported to stimulating ac
ties, they argue. ~thout treatme
she would exceed her stroller's
weight limil and "stop fitting in a
clard size bathtub." And breasts v~
get ui the way of her wheelchair
straps.
'I'hat isdt the way Amer-icans h
traditionally dealt ~Nith size Rroble
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CoMumbus, Indiana, is just another bucalic Midv~~estern t~wn
with the usual strip ~r~alis and chain resia~rants. Quite un-
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tour ai Columi~us,
a, s~arts at the visitors center on Fifth Street, an
omewith a i995 addition by Kevin Roche, zg82
rof tne Priial~er Architecture Prize. lt sits next
~ tt~e library by I.M. Pei, r983 Pritzker winner, and
fram [he First Christian Church by Eliel Saarinen,
ated a National Historic Landmark in aooi as
f the first Modein religious Uuildings in Americ~."
if you want to see how contemporary design fits
tne Columbus of today, a better place to begin is
th Street near Marr Road. There you'll find a new
of the Irwin Union Bank designed by architect
ih Berke of New York: a study in precise minimal-
iere a nine-and-a-half-foot high and zo-foot-wide
structural cltannel glass forms a translucent
above the drive-through lanes to an office thaYs
of subdLed brown brictc. It ma}~ be the most
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mercial strip that begins with a WaI-Mart and ends with
an Italian chain restaurant housed in a mock Tuscan
villa that Iooks like it arrived by way of Las Vegas.
"ThaYs Columbus in a nutshell," says planning direc-
tor )eff Sergman, with a grin. "We have our elements of
sophistication, and there are just as ;nany peopfe who
think a monster truck rally is a good thing."
Architectural purists might cringe, but Bergman's
right: The ;9,00o residents of Columbus find noihing
incongruous in the notion that their small city is i~oth
a modernist mecca and Anywhere U.S.A. The classics
that draw tourists are venerated, and striking new works
such as Berke's l~ank are still on the rise. Bnt as residents
of this city 43 miles south of Indianapolis search for
ways to revive their downtown, they also see potential
development sites in land covered by the work of highiy-
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fJ'oore's Large R~ch, 2372,
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of I.M. Pei's 1969 Cfeo Rogers
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i ecture, design guidelines don't zven exist.
°?~fy coileagues in other cities find themselves de-
6a.ing architecture standards, Uut the discussion in
;olumbus is a lot different," says Bergman, who's been
inhispost two years. "They'll call asking me for our
guidelines, and I don't have anything to give them."
~iedern architecture gained a foothold in Columbus
ttiuil:s to J. Irwin Mi11.er, alumnus of Yale and Oxford,
a~oderare RepubIica~, Iongtime hzad of Cummins
~~-ine Co. and ihe family (ir~n~in) bank. It was Miller,
thestory goes, who nudged his mother to call Eliel
~Darinen down from the Cranbr~ok Academy to design
ane~vhome for the church to which the family be-
longed. And when the fast-growing city needed to build
xhools in the r95os, Miller said Cummins would pay
!he design fees if officials agreetl to select an architect
from a list prepared by Cummins's foundation.
That offer siill holds-and 48 public projects later,
Cummins has written checks to a roster of architects
ranging from Robert Venturi (a fire station) and Richard
Meier (an elementary schoo]) to james Polshek (a public
health facility) and Edward Charles Bassett of Skidmore
Owings & Merrill (the ~ity hall). The pace slowed as
Columbus matured, but Boston architect William Rawn
designed a firehouse that opened in i998-it's an ami-
abty abstract riff on a barn-and a middle schooI by the
Chicago firm Perkins+Will is now under construction.
Miller, who died in zoo4 at the age of 95, wasn't just
another rich guy with an edifice complex. Far from it.
Decades before Richard Florida began touting the gospel
of the creative class, Miller understood the ~visdom of
nurturing a well-rounded community where intelligent
people wouldn't mind settling down. ~
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tdc. 6(apposite) sit:a just off
Indiana Highway 4~i0 SouYh.
Cofum6us's netvsp~,per, The
Republic, is based in this
1971 buiiding by S~~M's
Myron Goldsmith (below).
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Hesummed up his philosophy at ihe ig64 opening
a Cummins-funded project that tourists rarely visit
it locals still cnerish, a goIf course designed by Robert
ent Jones: Cotumbus should be "the very best com-
unity of its size in the country... a community that is
~en in every single respect to persons of every race,
lor and opinion; that nlakes them fee] welcome and
home here:'
Forty-two years later, Columbus has a stable and
1-contained prosperity thaYs rare in today's America.
iere's no obvious blight; downtown may be sluggish,
it it hasn't emptied out lilce so many other small-towm
nters_ Without the crutch of being either a suburb or
:ollege town, Columbus stands on its own just fine.
rlrchitecture is part of the reason: R.s many as io,ooo
~ople a year pay $io to take a iwo-hour bus tour led by
~l~nteers, who first talce a i z-hour course on how the
civic ]andscape came to be. Other guests pay $z for the
seif-guided tour map. Local archiiecture is featured on
rzfrigerator magnets, T-shirts, videos, souvenir pencils,
and coffee mugs-many bearing the city's official sio-
gan> `Different by Desig7."
Still, an outsider who hits town expecting a black-
clad oasis is oif the marle. Yes, inside the glassy pavilion
of tl~e main branch of the Irwin Union $ank-an Eero
Saarinen masterpiece from i954 thai would do Mies
van der Rohe proud-a pIaque proclaims its national
Historic Landmarl: status as "an important work in
the devzlopment of modernism." But when you step
inside the Kevin Roche-designed addition next door,
the worker who walks by is wezring a sweater decorated
with cute little lambs.
You see the same collisien of high design and n4iddle
America when driving through Columbus's soft terrain, -
Eero Saarinen's 1964 [~orih
Christian Church, w~ith its
dist'tnc4ive ~92-fc+~t-tall spire
and hexagonal pl:~n, was the
tast structure completed hefr,re
his untimely death.
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was intended to be a dignified
madernist take on the o;a-fash-
ioned general store.
its canopy of trees soon giving way to far_mland. Look
beyond the Hollywood Video on National Road, and
there's Eero Saarine~'s North Christian Church, with its
impossibly deft z9z-foot-high spire. The red arch by Jean
Muller that marks Columbus's presence on I-65 is pre-
ceded by a Holiday Inn with fake Western storeftonts.
But after So years, it all works out: The collision
is the context. In Columbus-perhaps more ihan any-
where else in America-modern architecture has proved
tower at Northeastern University, yet he considershis
fire station near an industrial park on the soneh side of
Colnmbus to be one of his best buiidings.
"Working there was incredibly satisfying," Rawn
says. He recalls exactly t«+o design requests. The mayor
wanted glass walls perpendicular to the street so res-
idents could see there were fire trucks inside, and fire-
fighters wanted spacious quariers to rest in during the
Zq-hour shifts. "There were serious ques[ions, but no
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Kevin Roche's 1970 post
office was the first in the nation
designed by privately paid
architects. The Pritzker Prize
winner's building is now being
considered for demalition_
Here's hov~~ long big-name architecture has been in
CoIwnbus: Some of it may be torn doivn in the name
of progress. The most likely candidate is <i post otfice
by Kevin Roche from i97o that fills a block just off
V~~ashington Street, the city's Lraditiana] main drag. But
many storefronts now are filled with offices or commu
nity programs, and Columbus leaders are inirigued b}'
the sort of mixed-use projects that other cities have used
to lure people downtown.
°There are buildinas in Columbus that helped shap~
our architectural reputation but don't fit into the
community vision of its future," says Torn Vujovich,
president of the city's redevelopment commission.
"Downtown today is an 8-to-g existence, aiid ~,-e
want it to be more." -
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far cry from the light-filled
rcades of Reagan Airport,
esar Pelli's 1973 Cammons
rovides indoor shopping for
olumbus's chilly winters.
adly, though, many of the
torefronts are now empty.
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Even if this means demolishing the work of a Pritzker
Prize winner? Sut consider: the city of Columbus has
four other buildings Uy Roche, a favorite of J. [rwin
Miller. Nor is the post office a bureaucratic jewel.
Meeting the street with massive columns covered in
salt-glazed tiles thac match the Cor-ten steel roof, iYs a
leaden exercise in funereal pomp. As far back as i976,
Chicago Tribunearchitecture critic Paul Gapp dismissed
it as "a grim, oppressive building that would be ugly
in any setting."
Downtown's enclosed shopping mall is also on the
long-term endangered list-even though iYs by Cesar
Pelli, one of the nation's best known architects. The
Commons is a two-block complex developed in r973
by Irwin Management Co. It has its good points,
such as an enclosed public plaza that gets heavy use in
winter, but e~cept for the Sears at the back of the mall,
most storefronts are empty. And the design-a long
shoe box cloaked in brown glass-is about as alluring
as it sounds. The downtown strategic plan approved by
the city last year that calls for developing the post-office
block also suggests "redefining" the Commons as a din-
ing and lifestyle retail destination.
So far, there haven't been complaints locally about
thinning out the stock of high-profile buildings that put
Columbus on the architectural map in the first place.
"I think it's progress;'says architect Nolan Bingham,
whose work includes a discreet addition to the First
Christian Church. "There are only a few buildings that
will last a truly long time." ^
New and Pending Land Use Reviews
as of February 7, 2007
950 28`h Street
Concept Review Comments:
The First Christian Church at 950 28"' Street was constructed in 1960 after designs
by noted Colorado architect, Thomas Nixon. An architectural survey of
Modernism undertaken in 2000, recognizes this bttilding as an exceptional
example of modernist Usonian architecture with its strc~ng west facing prow-like
mass, horizontality, cubist fc~rms, ribbon windows, and dramatic siting on thc
crest of a small hill. The 2000 survey also includes a recommendation that that
the building is eligible for individual listing in the National Register oF Historic
Places under Criteria consideration G for buildings less than fifty years in that it
is an exceptional and iconic example of post-WW II modernist design in Boulder.
The building is also eligible for designation as a local historic landmark under
criteria adopted as administrative regulations by the Landmarks Preservation
Advisory Board in 1975. Staff considers the building eligible for landmark
desi~nation having historic significance (distinction in the development of
Boulder), architectural significance (as an example of exceptional design
executed by a prominent Colorado architect), and environmental significance
(rcpresenting a distinctive and iconic visual feature in Boulder},
The proposed concept plan appears ta show more than half of the rear of the
main church building to be demolished. The day care building just immediately
east of the church is shown to be completely demolished. Staff considers that
removal of the day care building and wood construction at the southeast corner
of the church may be appropriate, but that all other portions of the church
(including the free-standing chimney) are character defining, integral to the
sculptural quality of the buildin~;, and should be preserved. As shown, the
propc~sed re-development of the property will have a significant impact on the
First Christian Chttrch. Staff recommends that all portion~ c>f the First Clzristian
building be preserved and that the applicant landmark the building as a
condition of site review approval per policy 2.33 Preservation of Historic nnc~
Ci~ltur~l Resources of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
1820 15~h Street
Concept Review Comments
The Gothic-Revival/Romanesque Revival inspired First Presbyterian Church at
1820 15"' Street was constructed in 1895 after designs by Denver architect,
Franklin Kidder. While not individually landmarked, the building is located in
and considered a contributing resource to the Chamberlain Historic District. As
stich any exterior changes to that building will require a landmark alteration
ccrtificate.
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The annex building located northeast of the church was constructed in 1955. It
does not appear to be of architectural or historic interest and is located outside of
the Chamberlain historic district boundaries.
900 28"' Street, Greenshields Building - Landscaping and parking, no exterior
changes to building
Site Review Comments
The Green Shield Office Building (commonly referred to as the Lotus Building)
was constructed in 1959 after designs by noted Boulder architect, Hobart
Wagener. An architectural survey of Modernism undertaken in 2000, recognized
this building as one Wagener's finest designs expressing the Usonian idiom with
its strong horizontal form, ribbon windows, geometric ornament, and use of
wood and stone. The architectural historians who undertook the survey in 2000
refer to the importance of this design in terms of its relationship to designed
landscape, situated as it is in a fairly dense setting of mature bushes and trees.
The 2000 survey also included a finding that, though less than 50 years in age
(typically the minimum age for buildings to be listed), the property was eligible
for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria
consideration G for buildings less than fifty years old due to its exceptional
significance as an example of post-WW II design in Boulder. The building also
appears to be eligible for designation as a local landmark.
The proposed landscaping plan calls for the areas at the south end of the
building to be modified to remove the existing driveway and parking and grade
to provide terraced areas that are to be landscaped. Existing landscaped areas at
the north, east and west of the property are to be left intact.
While this project appears to have little impact on the property, more intensive
redevelopment of the property requiring discretionary might include conditions
of approval requiring the submittal of a completed application to landmark the
building as per policy 2.30 Preservation of Historic and Cultural Resources of the
Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
865 Arapahoe Avenue, Highland School property
Site Review Comments
The carriage house at 865 is a non-landmarked building located adjacent to the
Romanesque-Revival Highland School building at 885 Arapahoe which was
designated a local landmark in 1976.
A preliminary review of the proposed design indicates that that the proposed
new construction will have no direct effect on the Highland School landmark
property. •
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2200 Broadway, Trinity Lutheran Church, Housing development adjacent to
(across alley) from church.
Concept Review Comments
The Trinity Lutheran Church is a non-landmarked building located adjacent to
the Mapleton Hill Historic District. Historic survey information indicates that the
late gothic-revival church was constructed in 1929 after designs by Margaret
Read of the architectural office of Glen Huntington. While the church is notable
for its 1920s gothic-revival architecture location its location in an area known as
Boulder's "church districY', it is also significant as having been designed by one
of city's most prominent women architects. The property is potentially eligible
for designation as a local historic landmark.
A preliminary review of the proposed design indicates that that the proposed
new construction will have no direct effect on the historic church building. The
new construction indicates sensitivity to the historic building and overall context
of the area. Since the church is potentially eligible for landmark designation a
condition of site review approval should be the submittal of a completed
application to landmark the building as per policy 2.30 Preservation of Historic and
Cultural Resources of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan.
McKenzie Junction, Diagonal Highway
Concept review Comments
The McKenzie Oil Well site was designated a local historic landmark by City
Council in 2002 and in 2005 the property was individually listed in the National
Register of Historic Places.
The McKenzie Well is historically significant as one of the first commercial
producing wells in the short-lived but productive Boulder oil field which
resulted in an oil boom in the area during the first decade of the twentieth
century.
Plans for the development of the property should not only preserve the well-
head and associated equipment and property, but should consider the context of
the property and its history per Preservation of Historic and Cultural Resources of
the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan. Any exterior change to the designated
property will require review for a landmark alteration certificate according
Section 10-13-18 of the historic preservation ordinance and the General Design
Guidelines for Boulder's Historic Districts and Individual Landmarks.
1350 Pine Street, demolition of terrace houses called up by the design review
committee - scheduled for Landmarks Board hearing, February 7'h, 2007 no site
review application filed
1803 Pine Street,
Increase in density, early carriage house on property, possibly 100 years or more
in age.
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2123 Walnut Street
Concept Review comments
The vernacular wood frame house located at 2221-2223 Walnut was constructed
prior to 1898 in what was then known as the Boulder East addition of the city.
Research indicates that in 1898, the house was occupied by Richard Ching, a
bricklayer, and in the 1930s was owned by Harry and Pearl Waddle. A 1988
historic building inventory of the property represents that the property then
retained a relatively high degree of historic integrity with its decoratively
shingled front facing gable, paired double hung wood windows with architrave
surrounds, one-bay bay porch and stone foundation. The 1988 survey found that
while the building has architectural significance in that it represents a type,
period, or method of construction, it was not eligible for designation as a local
landmark. However, staff considers that the building may now be eligible for
designation as a local historic landmark.
Plans for the re-development of this property call for the removal of post 1960
rear additions, the "restoration" of the main portion of the existing of the house,
the construction of a rear addition, and the demolition of a detached garage. Staff
strongly encourages the property owner to consider submitting an application to
landmark the house per Section 2.33 of the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan,
Preservation of Historic and Cultural Resources. Designation of the building would
provide the property owner with the opportunity to take advantage of a state
historic preservation tax credit (20% of the project cost up to $50,000) for the
restoration of the house. Sanborn map research indicates the garage at the rear of
the property is older than fifty years in age. Its demolition will require
submission of an application for the demolition of a non-designated building
older than fifty years in age per Section 9-11-23 of the Boulder Revised Code to
determine whether or not there is "probable cause' to consider that the building
may be a historic landmark.
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