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5A - Application to designate the house and property at 819 6th St as a local historic landmark (HIS2008-00067) v MEMORANDUM August 20, 2008 TO: Landmarks Board FROM: Susan Richstone, Long Range Planning Manager James Hewat, Preservation Planner Allison Hawes, Preservation Intern Chris Meschuk, Preservation Planner SUBJECT: Public hearing and consideration of an application to designate the house and property at 819 6`h Street as a Local historic landmark as per Section 9- 11-5 of the Boulder Revised Code, 1981 (HIS2008-00067). STATISTICS 1. Site: 819 6`h Street 2. 7.oning: RL-1 (Residential -Low 1) 3. Applicant: Landmarks Board 4. Owner: Vapor Properties, LLC 5. Lot Size: Approximately 20,538 square feet 6. Date of Construction: 1954 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Landmarks Board adopt the following motion: The Landmarks Board forward to City Council an application to designate the house and property at 819 6`n Street as a local historic landmark, to be known as the Labrot House, finding that it meets the standards for individual landmark designation in Sections 9-11-1 and 9-11-2, B.R.C., 1981 and adopts the staff memorandum inciuding the following as findings of the board: FINDINGS The Landmarks Board finds, based upon the application and evidence presented that the proposed designation application, subject to the conditions of approval, will be consistent with the purposes and standards of the Historic Preservation Ordinance, and: 1. The proposed designation will protect, enhance, anal perpetuate buildings, sites, and areas of the City reminiscent of past eras, events, and persons important in local, state, or national history and providing significant examples of architectural styles of the past. (9-11-1(a), B.R.C. 1981) 2. The proposed designation will develop and maintain appropriate settings and environments for such buildings, sites, and areas to enhance property values, stabilize neighborhoods, AGENllA ITEM #5A PAGE 1 S:\PLAN\dataVongrangV-IIS'I~Laadmarks\6th.819\8.6.08 LPAB Designation Merno.doc v promote tourist trade and interest, and foster knowledge of the City's living heritage. (9-11- 1(x), B.R.C. 1981) 3. The proposed designation with the amended boundary draws a reasonable balance between private property rights and the public interest in preserving the City's cultural, historic, and architectural heritage by ensuring that demolition of buildings and structures important to that heritage will be carefully weighed with other alternatives. (9-I1-1(b), B.R.C. 1981). This recommendation is based upon staff's opinion that the proposed designation is consistent with the criteria specified in Section 9-1 I-5{c), B.R.C. 1981. SUMMARY: ¦ The purpose of this review is for the board to determine whether the proposed designation of 819 6`h Street conforms to the purposes and standards of Sections 9-11-1 Legislative Intent and 9-11-2 City Council May designate Landmarks and Historic Districts of the Boulder Revised Code (BRC). ¦ On March 28, 2008, Historic Boulder, Inc. submitted an application far individual landmark designation of the property at 819 6th Street. On May 7, 2008, the Landmarks Board initiated designation of the property. That same day, the ownership of the property changed, and the current property owner supports the designation. ¦ On July 16, 2008 a Landmark Alteration Certificate was issued for the rehabilitation of the house and addition of 1,830 square feet. ¦ Based upon analysis of the building's history and architecture, it is staff's opinion that it has significance under the historic, architectural, and environmental Individual Landmark Significance Criteria (1975), and the historic preservation ordinance. ¦ Staff recommends that the Board find that the designation of the house and property at 819 6th Street conforms with Sections 9-11-1 and 9-11-2 of the Boulder Revised Code and recommend to City Council the approval of the application for landmark designation, adopting this staff memorandum as findings of the Board. BACKGROUND: . The estate of M.S. Uberoi submitted an application to demolish the house in November of 2007. The application triggered a demolition hearing, which was held on December 5, 2007. At that hearing, the Landmarks Board placed a 180-day stay on the property. During the stay period, alternatives to the demolition were sought, and the estate placed the house up for sale. Vapor Properties, LLC, purchased the house on May 7, 2008. Additionally, during this time, Historic Boulder, Inc submitted a landmark application, which was initiated by the board on May 7, 2008. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Located in the Sparkman Addition of University Hill on the west side of 6th Street, between Cascade Avenue and Aurora Avenue, the approximately 20,538 square foot lot is located with the foothills serving as a dramatic backdrop. The 1450 sq. ft. one-story brick and wood frame house is set obliquely on the property and accessed via ahorse-shoe shaped driveway. The house at 819 6th Street was constructed for Sylvester Labrot in 1954 and subsequently expanded five years later with the construction of a Hobart Wagoner designed addition. AGENDA ITEM #SA PAGE 2 S:U'LAN\dataUongrang\HIS'I~Landmarks\tith.819\8.6.08 LPAB Designation Memo.doc Stylistically, the house can best be described as Expressionistic in inspiration as exemplified by its strong sculptural forms paired with non-traditional structural elements. The building is comprised of a pair of related, though distinct wings arrayed in a modified "V"-shaped plan, with the open end facing away from the street and sheltering a patio in the back. The most distinctive characteristics of the house are the complicated intersecting of swooping butterfly and planer shed-roof forms and exposed skeletal structural systems. These forms are accentuated by the ribbon windows, stacked Norman brick walls, and use of the same materials on both the interior and exterior walls of the house. The building was altered in 1959 with a Wagener designed remodel for Theo & Margaret Lord. The remodeling consisted of a south facing shed roof at the north of the house to provide south- facingclerestory lighting into the house. These changes were obviously of a functional nature to provide light and additional parking space on the property, but were also consciously executed to enhance the sculptural angularity of the building. The property was surveyed in 2000 as part of a survey of modern buildings in Boulder. (See Attachment B: Architectural Inventory Form). Tt a Z ~ ~ t. ` ~ ~ ,a` M ~~:e : pp t ~ ° y' i '~Y' sr v of 1 r d'iE ( S i i1~ , M-~- ~.~1~?E~~~p~ ~,"=g" „er. •-i_ ~ti ~ ~~s - . alp X ~ . 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Figure 4: South Elevation, 2007 CRITERIA FOR THE BOARD'S DECISION: Section 9-11-5(c) Public Hearing Before the Landmarks Bvard, of the historic preservation ordinance specifies that in their review of an application for local landmark designation, "thc landmarks board shall determine whether the proposed designation conforms with the purposes and standards in Sections 9-11-1 Legislative Intent, and 9-11-2 City Council May Designate Landmarks and Historic Districts". 9-11-1: Legislative Intent states: (a) The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by protecting, enhancing, and perpetuating buildings, sites, and areas of the city reminiscent of past eras, events, and persons important in IocaI, state, or national history or pl•oviding significant examples of architectural styles of the past. It is also the purpose of this chapter to develop and maintain appropriate settings and environments for such buildings, sites, and areas to enhance property values, stabilize neighborhoods, pl•omote tourist trade and interest, and foster knowledge of the city's living heritage. (b) The City Council does not intend by this chapter to preserve every old building in the city but instead to draw a reasonable balance between private property rights and the public interest in preserving the city's cultural, historic, and architectural heritage by ensuring that demolition of buildings and structures important to that heritage will be carefully weighed with other alternatives and that alterations to such buildings and structures and new construction will respect the character of each such setting, not by imitating sun•ounding structures, but by being compatible with them. AGENDA ITEM #5A PAGE 5 s:1PLAMdata\tongraug\HIS'I~L:andmarks\Gth.819\8.G.U8 LPAB Designation Memo.doc (c) The City Council intends that in reviewing applications for alterations to and new construction on landmarks or structures in a historic district, the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board shall follow relevant city policies, including, without limitation, energy- efficient design, access for the disabled, and creative approaches to renovation. 9-11-2: City Council may Designate Landmarks and Historic Districts states: (a) Pursuant to the procedures in this chapter the City Council may by ordinance: (1) Designate as a landmark an individual building or other feature or an integrated group of structures or features on a single lot or site having a special character and historical, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value and designate a landmark site for each landmark; (2) Designate as a historic district a contiguous area containing a number of sites, buildings, structures or features having a special character and historical, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value and constituting a distinct section of the city; (3) Designate as a discontiguous historic district a collection of sites, buildings, structures, or features which are contained in two or more geographically separate areas, having a special character and historical, architectural, or aesthetic interest or value that are united together by historical, architectural., or aesthetic characteristics; and (4) Amend designations to add features or property to or from the site or district. (b) Upon designation, the property included in any such designation is subject to all the requirements of this code and other ordinances of the city. To assist in the interpretation of the historic preservation ordinance, the Landmarks Board has adopted significance criteria to use when evaluating applications for individual landmarks. The criteria are included in Attachrnent C. The Board may approve, approve with modifications, or disapprove the application. Findings must be adopted within 30 days of the hearing date. Should the Board disapprove the application, the Board must notify City Council of that action within fourteen days of the hearing date. City Council may call up a decision disapproving a designation. Should an application be disapproved, the same application may not be submitted for a period of one year. If the Board finds that the proposed designation conforms to Sections 9-11-1 and 9-i l-2 of the code, it shall adopt specific findings and conclusions approving or modifying and approving the application. If the board approves the proposed designation, the application will be forwarded to City Council (within 100 days) for a public hearing. ANALYSIS: AC"rENDA ITEM #SA Yf1GE 6 S:\PLAN\data\longrangVilS'I~landmarks\6th.819\8.6.08 LPAB Designation Memo.doc Staff has identified the following as key issues related to this application: A. Does the proposed application protect, enhance, and perpetuate buildings, sites, and areas of the city reminiscent of past eras, events, and persons important in local, state, or national history or providing significant examples of architectural styles of the past? B. Does the proposed application develop and maintain appropriate settings and environments for such buildings, sites, and areas to enhance property values, stabilize neighborhoods, promote tourist trade and interest, and foster knowledge of the City's living heritage? C. Does the proposed application draw a reasonable balance bettiveen private property rights and the public interest in preserving the City's cultural, historic, and architectural heritage by ensuring that demolition of buildings and structures important to that heritage will be carefully weighed with other alternatives? A. Does the proposed application protect, enhance, and perpetuate buildings, sites, and areas of the city reminiscent of past eras, events, and persons important in local, state, or national history or providing significant examples of architectural styles of the past? The staff finds that the proposed application will protect, enhance, and perpetuate a building, site, and area of the City reminiscent of past eras, events, and persons important in local history and provide for a significant example of an architectural style of the past to be preserved. The Staff believes that the application meets the historic and architectural criteria for individual landmarks as outlined below: HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE: Summary: The house located at 819 6~' Street has historic significance under criteria 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1. Date of Construction: 1954 Elaboration: The building is an early example of Boulder Expressionism. 2. Association with Persons or Events: Hobart D. Wagener, Dr. Mahinder S. IJberoi Elaboration: The house is the early work of Hobart D. Wagener, an acknowledged master of Boulder Modernist architectural design, Born in 1921 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Hobart D. Wagener graduated from The Grniversity of Michigan in 1944 and moved to Boulder in 1950. He worked with Eggers & I-Iiggens in New York, Pietro Belluschi in Portland, Oregon, and James Hunter before opening his own practice in Boulder in :1953. His firm, Hobart D. Wagener Associates, designed over 200 projects, sixteen of which were featured in architectural and professional publications; ten received national or regional awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Examples of his work include the Wagener House, which was published in The Architectural Record in 1967 as part of a national recognition of twenty homes in America; Fairview High School, an addition to Casey Middle School (Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit Award, 1957), St. John's Episcopal Chapel, The Williams Village Dormitories at the University of Colorado, the Mountain Savings & Loans Building (Western Mountain Region, AIA, Design of Excellence, 1956), Presbyterian Manor apartments (Federal Housing Authority National Awards Program, First Honor Award, 1963), the Boulder County Justice Center, the Boulder City Hall Addition, Wesley Foundation Student Center & Chapel (Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit Award, 1958).Wagener co-authored the book `The School Library' in 1963 and served as the president of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce in 1971, Chairman of AGENDA ITEM #SA PAGE ~ S:\PLAMdata\longrang\HTS'11Landmarks\tith.8ll\8.G.08 LPAB Designation Memo.doc the Boulder Planning Commission in 1966 and acted as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President and President of the Colorado Society of the American Institute of Architects. He was named "Architect of the Year" in 1995 by the American Institute of Architects Colorado. Wagener died September 30, 2005. See Attachment E.• Resume: Hobart D. Wagener, FAIA, Architect Mahinder S. Uberoi was a professor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado from 1963 until 2000. Born in India in 1924, he earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1957. He served on the faculty at the University of Michigan until 1963, when he joined the CU faculty as chair of the newly named Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Dr. Uberoi had earned a reputation for his work in magneto hydrodynamics, turbulent flow and other basic sciences of fluid flow. As chairman, he built up the new department, adding faculty strong in basic research areas in fluids, controls and biology (to create a bioengineering program). His term as chair ended in 1975. He was the author or co-author of a number of scholarly papers, including "Directional Spectrum of Wind Generated Ocean Waves," published in the Journal of Fluid Dynamics in 1963; "Magnetically Distorted Polytropes: Structure and Radial Oscillations," in The Astrophysical Journal in 1972; and "Magnetized Positive Column Between Coaxial Cylinders," in Physica Scripta in 1986. Dr. Uberoi later filed eight lawsuits over six years against the University, alleging among other complaints, discrimination against foreign-born faculty, hazardous laboratory conditions and violations of the state's Public Records Act. He was terminated as a member of the CU faculty in 2000, making him the first tenured faculty member to be dismissed by the Board of Regents. Dr. Uberoi died December 21St, 2006. See Attachment D: University of Colorado Obituary: M.S. Uberoi 3. Development of the Community: Modernist Architectural Movement Elaboration: The building is associated with the development of the local Modernist architectural movement and survives as a unique and remarkable example of early Expressionist design from the post-war period in Boulder. 4. Recognition by Authorities: Model-n Architecture Survey Elaboration: The building was recommended as being eligible for listing in the State and National Registers of I-Iistoric Places in the 2000 survey of Boulder Modernism. Its is also significant as an early, unique, and remarkable embodiment of Expressionism, as the work of Hobart Wagener, for its high standard of construction and craft, and its organic relationship to its site and associated landscape design. Furthermore, the house is significant for the special engineering features required to resolve the structural requirements of the roof and as a building identified as being a contributing resource to the proposed Flatirons Park Historic District. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Summary: The house at 819 6th Street has architectural significance under criteria 1, 2, 3, and 4. 1. Recognized Period or Style: Expressionism Elaboration: The house embodies the forward-looking architectural manner of Expressionism of the 1950s and i960s through its dramatic sculptural forms, non- traditional structural elements, butterfly and shed roofs, and uses of the same materials AGEtiDA ITEM #SA PAGE S S:U'LANkiataUongrangV-I1S'I1Landmarks\6th.819\8.6.08 LPAB Designation Memo.doc inside and out. Architectural historians credit the forms found in American Expressionism to have been as influenced by Streamline Moderne architecture of the pre- war period as much as from 1920s German Expressionism from where the American variant takes its name. Never-the-less, Expressionism is a rare form of modern architecture in the United States, but did find acceptance in Boulder where at least fifteen examples of this type were built including the Methodist Student Center (Wagener,1957), Volsky House (Ilaertling, 1966), and the Boulder Valley Eye Clinic (Haertling, 1967). The house at 819 6th Street retains a very high degree of historic integrity. Original drawings of the house and addition are located at the Carnegie Library. 2. Architect or Builder of Prominence: Hobart Wagener Elaboration: Early work of Hobart Wagener an acknowledged master of Boulder Modernist architectural design. 3. Artistic Merit: Sculptural roof, high standard of construction and craft Elaboration: Unique and remarkable example of Expressionism exemplified by strong sculptural forms paired with non-traditional structural elements. The building is comprised of a pair of related, though distinct wings arrayed in a modified "V"-shaped plan, with the open end facing away from the street and sheltering a patio in the back. The building is notable for its complicated intersecting of swooping butterfly and planer shed-roof forms and exposed skeletal structural systems accentuated by ribbon windows, stacked Roman brick walls, and use of the same materials on both the interior and exterior walls of the house. The building exhibits a high level of attention to detail in the structural requirements for construction of intersecting butterfly and shed roofs, custom brickwork and windows, exterior wall and associated landscaping. 4. Example of the Uncommon: Expressionism Elaboration: Unique and remarkable example of early Hobart Wagener architectural design in Boulder. Expressionism is a rare post-war variant of Modernism in the United States, but found acceptance in Boulder were a number of buildings of this type were built. Expressionistic buildings remarkably varied in foam, but are characterized by dramatic sculptural forms, non-traditional stnuctural elements, butterfly and shed roofs, and uses of the same materials inside and out. Expressionism is most often associated with the "jet age" and architecture of the late 1950s and 1960s in its soaring forms. Probably the most famous examples of Expressionism in America are Dulles Airport (Eero Saarinen) and the Air Force Academy Chapel (Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill), both constructed in 1962. The 2000 survey of Modern Architecture indicates that this building is the earliest example of Expressionism in Boulder by at least three years. Of the fifteen buildings identified as being constructed in this manner in Boulder, five were designed by Hobart Wagener. 5. Indigenous Qualities: None observed B. Does the proposed application develop and maintain appropriate settings and environments for such buildings, sites, and areas tv enhance property values, stabilize neighborhoods, promote tourist trade and interest, and foster knowledge of the City's living heritage? AGEITDA ITEM #SA PAGE 9 S:\PLAN\dataVongrang\HIS"[lt.andmarks\6th.819\A.G.08 LPAB llesignation Memo.doc Staff finds that the proposed application would maintain appropriate settings and environments for such buildings, sites, and areas to enhance property values, stabilize neighborhoods, promote tourist trade and interest, and foster knowledge of the City's living heritage. Staff believes that the application meets the environmental significance criteria for individual landmarks as outlined below: ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE: Summary: The building at 819 6th St. has environmental significance under criteria 1, 2, 3 and 5. 1. Site Characteristics: Sited at the base of the Foothills, landscaping Elaboration: Integration of house into the landscape; interior/exterior design of house. Mature juniper trees, native yucca, scrub, and grasses and boulders. 2. Compatibility with Site: Integration into site Elaboration: House is consciously sited and designed to b compatible with site. Flatirons to the north are echoed in the dominant roof forms of the house. 3. Geographic Importance: Familiar visual feature Elaboration: Unique placement, orientation and form represents an established and familiar feature of the 6th St. streetscape, Flatirons, neighborhood, and city as a whole. 4. Environmental Appropriateness: None observed 5. Area Integrity: Contributing building in potential historic district. Elaboration: The property has been identified as being a contributing resource to the proposed Flatirons Park I-listoric District. Boundary Analysis: The property proposed for designation includes the entire parcel, identified as Lot 8, Spackman's Subdivision. This boundary will maintain an appropriate setting for the building, as all alterations to the site will be within the landmark boundary. C. Does the proposed application draw a reasonable balance between private property rights and the public interest in preserving the City's cultural, historic, and architectural heritage by ensuring that de»aolition of buildings and structures important to that heritage will be carefully weighed with other alternatives? This application draws a reasonable balance between private property rights and the public's interest in preserving the city's cultural, historic, and architectural heritage. The property owner supports the designation. ATTACHMENTS: A: Resolution initiating Individual Landmark designation B: Architectural Inventory Record Form C: Significance Criteria for Individual Landmarks D: Directory and Deed Research E: Hobart Wagener information F: Current photographs AGENDA ITEM #5A PAGE 1Q S:\PLAMdataUongrang\HIS'IlLandmdrksl6th.819\8.6.08 LPAI3 Designation Memo.doc Attachment A RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF THE LANDMARKS BOARD INITIATING THE DESIGNATION OF 819 6`" STREET AS AN INDIVIDUAL LANDMARK. WHEREAS, on March 26, 2008 Historic Boulder, Inc, a recognized historic preservation organization, submitted an application to designate the property at 819 6`h Street, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LANDMARKS BOARD OF THE CITY OF BOULDER, COLORADO: Section 1. The City of Boulder Landmarks Board initiates the designation of 819 6`h Street, finding probable cause to believe the building may be eligible for designation as an individual landmark consistent with the- standards set out in 9-11-1, 9-11-2, and 9-16-1 of the Boulder Revised Code, and will schedule a designation hearing in accordance with the historic preservation ordinance no fewer than sixty days and no greater than one hundred-twenty days from the date of this resolution. ADOPTED this 7th day of May, 2008. G' Chair, L• ndmarks Preservation Advisory Board ATTEST• t / G Secretary to the Board llpentla Item PaQe ~ j Attachment B Architectura! Inventory Form Fage 3 of 4 Resource # 5BLI3215 819 6th Street HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS ,S1 Original usels Single Dwelling 32 Intermediate use/s Single Dwelling 33 Current use/s Single Dwelling 34 Site type/s Not applicable 35 Historical background See Boulder Modern Context and statement of significance 36 Sources of information See bibliography, Boulder Modern Survey Vl. SIGNIFICANCE 37.1 Locai landmark designation No 37.2 Date of designation Not applicable 37.3 Designating authority Not applicable 38.1 A. Associated with events No 38.2 B. Associated with significant persons No 38.3 C. Architectural significance Yes 38.4 D. Yielded/likely to yield import hist No 38.5 Criteria considerations Letter Architecture 38.6 Meets no criteria Not applicable 39 Areas of significance Architecture 40 Period of significance 1954 41.1 National No 41.2 State Yes 41.3 Loca! Yes 42 Statement of si nificance The Labrot House is significant for its association with the development of the Modern movement in architecture in Boulder. Built in 1954, it is an early example of an important building in the history of post-war architecture in Boulder. The Labrot House is significant in that it embodies the characteristics of the Expressionist style: it has a strong sculptural form with non-traditional structural elements, the same materials are used inside and out, there is a geometric floor plan and ornamental program, there is the use of the cantilever, and there is a complex roof structure composed of butterfly and shed roof forms. The Labrot House is significant for the high standard of the construction craft. The masonry, wood and glass work is of the highest quality. The unconventional building form created special construction problems that were deftly solved. The Labrot House is significant because it is the work of Hobart D. Wagener, an acknowledged master of Boulder architecture. The Labrot House is an early example of Wagener's work. The Labrot House is significant for its relationship to its site. The building is dramatically sited above the street at the rear of a large lot, set against the backdrop of the foothills. The Labrot House is significant for its relationship to an associated landscape design. A related wood fence to the north divides the front yard from the rear. Formal outdoor spaces behind the house serves as outdoor living areas. The Labrot House is significant for the special engineering features required to resolve the structural requirements of its unconventional form. The Labrot House has been identified as being a contributing building to the proposed Flatirons Park Historic District. The Labrot House also satisfies Criteria Consideration G, achieving significance within the past fifty years due to its exceptional significance. This exceptional significance is defined by its integral relationship to the post- war development of Modern architecture in Boulder, a movement which has received extensive press coverage; by comparison with other Modern architecture of the post-war period in Boulder; and as documented by an ever-increasing body of scholarly evaluation on the historical importance of Modern architecture which developed during the past-war period. 43 Integrity Largely original condition 1loencla Nem # taaoe # ~ 2 Architectural Inventory Form Page 4 of 4 Resource # 5BL8215 819 6th Street VI1. NATIONAL REGISTER ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT 44.1 NR Eligible Yes 44.2 NR Not Eligible Not applicable 44.3 NR Need Data Not applicable 45.1 NR District Potential Yes/No Yes 45.2 NR District Potential Discussion See Boulder Modem Context and statement of significance 45.3 If district potential, Contributing Yes 45.4 If district potential, Noncontributing Not applicable _ _ 46.1 If existing district, Contributing Not applicable 46.2 If existing district, Noncontributing Not applicable 47.1 Photograph Numbers Roll 02, Exposures 17-21 47.2 Negatives filed at City of Boulder Planning Department Files 48 Report Title Boulder Modern Architecture Survey 49 Date June 1, 2000 50 Recorder Diane Wray 51 Organization None 52 Address 3058 S. Cornell Circle, Englewood, CO 80110 53 Phone number 303-761-8979 s;', , : l//J ti~ - ~ ( r R~;' w - ems. { . *_d '~+~`~~,+a TF _ r' I ~~N. Cj t 'Y. _ - c-1 ti - _ s 1i ~ _ - J: 1 f _ _ ~ rs a _ r~ 1r Y 1 ~ . ~ ( - tJ.S. 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The purpose of the ordinance is the preservation of the City's permitted cultural, historic, and architectural heritage. The Landmarks Board is permitted by the ordinance to adopt rules and regulations as it deems necessary for its own organization and procedures. The following Significance Criteria have been adopted by the Board to help evaluate each potential designation in a consistent and equitable manner. Historical Significance The place (building, site, area) should show character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the community, state or nation; be the site of a historic, or prehistoric event that had an effect upon society; or exemplify the cultural, political, economic, or social heritage of the community. 1. Date of Construction: This area of consideration places particular importance on the age of the structure. 2. Association with Historical Persons or Events: This association could be national, state, or local. 3. Distinction in the Development of the Community of Boulder: This is most applicable to an institution (religious, educational, civic, etc) or business structure, though is some cases residences might qualify. It stresses the importance of preserving those places which demonstrate the growth during different time spans in the history of Boulder, in order to maintain an awareness of our cultural, economic, social or political heritage. 4. Recognition by Authorities: If it is recognized by Historic Boulder, Inc. the Boulder I-tistorical Society, local historians (Barker, Crosson, Fi~ink, Gladden, Paddock, Schooland, etc), State Historical Society, The Improvement of Boulder, Colorado by F.L. Olmsted, or others in published form as having historical interest and value. S. Other, if applicable. Architectural Si nificance The place should embody those distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, a good example of the common; be the work of an architect or master builder, known 04.OSsignif-indiv Page 1 of 2 nationally, state-wide, or locally, and perhaps whose work has influenced later development; contain elements of architectural design, detail, materials or craftsmanship which represent a significant innovation; or be a fine example of the uncommon. 1. Recognized I'eriod/St~ It should exemplify specific elements of an architectural period/style, ic: Victorian, Revival styles, such as described by Historic American I3uidding Survey Criteria, Gingerbread Abe (Maass), 76 Boulder Homes (Barkar}, The History of Architectural Style (Marcus/Wiflin), Architecture in San Francisco (Gebhard et al), History of Architecture (Flectcher), Architecture/Colorado, and any other published source of universal or local analysis of "style." 2. Architect or Builder of Prominence: A good example of the work of an architect or builder who is recognized for expertise in his field nationally, state-wide, or locally. 3. Artistic Merit: A skillful integration of design, material, and color which is of excellent visual quality and/or demonstrates superior craftsmanship. 4. Example of the Uncommon: Elements of architectural design, details, or craftsmanship that are representative of a significant innovation. 5. Indigenous Qualities: A style or material that is particularly associated with the Boulder area. 6. Other, if applicable. Environmental Significance The place should enhance the variety, interest, and sense of identity of the community by the protection of the unique natural and man-made environment. 1. Site Characteristics: It should be of high quality in terms of planned or natural vegetation. 2. Compatibility with Site: Consideration will be given to scale, massing placement, or other qualities of design with respect to its site. 3. Ge~phic Importance: Due to its unique location or singular physical characteristics, ix represents an established and familiar visual feature of the community. 4. Environmental Appropriateness: The surroundings are complementary and/or it is situated in a manner particularly suited to its function. 5. Area Integt~it~ Places which provide historical, architectural, or environmental importance and continuity of an existing condition, although taken singularly or out of context might not qualify under other criteria. 6. Other, if applicable. 04.OSsignif-indiv Pac-gee- 2 of 2 J. 4_.,. r l ~ w. ~ 1 Attachment D 819 6th Street Directory and Deed Research Owners of 819 6th Street Bold indicates long-term owners 1955-1958 Sylvester Labrot 1959-1963 Theo W. Lord 1964-2008 Mahinder S. Uheroi 2008 to present Vapor Properties, LLC Residents of 819 6th Street Bold indicates long-term residents 1955-1959 Sylvester Labrot 1959-1964 Theo W. Lord 1964-2006 Mahinder S. Uberoi 2007 to present Vacant ~ernne4s M..n ~ ~-~,ft- tip.. ~ ~ `t MAHINDER S. UBEROI (December 21, 2006) Former faculty member Mahinder S. Uberoi of aerospace engineering sciences at CU-Boulder died on Nov. 25 in Boulder. He was 82. Dr. Uberoi was born in iy24 in India. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He earned his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1957. He served on the faculty at the University of Michigan until ~y63, when he joined the CU faculty as chair of the newly named department of aerospace engineering sciences. Dr. Uberoi had earned a reputation for his work in magneto hydrodynamics, turbulent flow and other basic sciences of fluid flow. As chairman, he built up the new department, adding faculty strong in basic research areas in fluids, controls and biology (to create a bioengineering program). His theory was to bring in researchers strong in basic sciences and have them apply their work to engineering. His term as chair ended in 1975• I He was the author or co-author of a number of scholarly papers, including "Directional Spectrum of Wind Venerated Ocean Waves," published in the Journal of Fluid Dynamics in 2963; "Magnetically Distorted Polytropes: Structure and Radial Oscillations," in The Astrophysical Journal in 2972; and "1Vlagnetized Positive Column Between Coaxial Cylinders," in Physica Scripta in 1986. Dr. Uberoi later filed eight lawsuits over six years against the University, alleging among other complaints, discrimination against foreign-born faculty, hazardous laboratory conditions and violations of the state's Public Records Act. I-ie was terminated as a member of the CU faculty in 2000, making him the first tenured faculty member to be dismissed by the Board of Regents. His case arguing that CU was subject to the open records law went to the Colorado Supreme Court. The court ruled in xy84 that the law did not apply to CU, but in 1985 the Legislature enacted a subsection to the law, bringing every state institution of higher education, including the University of Colorado, under the provisions of the open records act. Dr. Uberoi also was a longtime member of the folkdance community in Boulder. He had no family in the local area. Crist Mortuary of Boulder was handling arrangements. Merxia IDem # ~ ~ t Regents terminate tenured professor MAHINDER UBEROI FIRED 'FC?R CAUSE' FROM UCB POST - February 24, 2oov By Jefferson Dodge In a highly unusual move, the Board of Regents approved a resolution last week dismissing one of CU-Boulder's tenured professors, an individual who has filed numerous lawsuits against the university and has claimed for years that CU has hindered his teaching and research. Mahinder Uberoi, a 75-year-old full professor who has been rostered in UCB's College of Engineering and Applied Science since 1962, was terminated for cause. Whereas faculty are sometimes dismissed because of budgetary constraints or program discontinuance, termination for cause is described in the CU Faculty Handbook as "demonstrable professional incompetency, neglect of duty, insubordination or other- conduct which falls below minimum standards of professional integrity." The board's resolution notes that Uberoi was given an opportunity to be heard before a faculty committee and the regents. It also states that the dismissal, which was recommended by President John Buechner, will not be effective until Feb. 2$, 2ooz, so Uberoi will continue to receive his $4o,5zo annual salary for one more year. "This action by the Board of Regents makes a significant statement in two ways," the regents said in a prepared statement. "First, we value the tenured faculty at the University of Colorado. Their importance is strengthened by the board's action. Second, the regents are restating our long- term commitment that with faculty rights go responsibilities." Because of legal concerns, CU officials would not comment further about the action, and Uberoi did not return calls from Silver & Gold Record. But a review of previous S&GK articles and several documents obtained in an open records request reveal that Uberoi and the University have been at odds for decades. Uberoi, a native of Delhi, India, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen, earned his Ph.D. in engineering in 1952 from Johns I-Iopkins University and six years later, was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow for study and research at European universities. After serving as chair of UCB's aerospace engineering sciences department from r962 to 1975, he appeared before the regents in 1976 to object to the appointment of Franklin Essenberg as the new chair of aerospace engineering sciences, accusing engineering Dean Max Paters of ethnic discrimination. Six years later, he filed a $x55 million lawsuit against CU and 62 University officials and employees, including President Arnold Weber, UCB Chancellor Harrison Shull, regents, faculty, department chairs and engineering deans. In the suit, Uberoi alleged that CU had blocked the Hiring of foreign-born professors, claiming that when he was department chair he had been ordered not to hire C.S. Yih of the University of Michigan, who is of Chinese descent. Uberoi also said in the suit that the University had disrupted his research, reduced his academic standing and rendered him a "professor without a portfolio," with no classes or other academic work. Uberoi alleged that he had received poor teaching evaluations because of unsubstantiated student opinions and was exposed to carcinogenic chemicals after he was forced to clean up oil spills in his lab when his requests for better working conditions were ignored. The lawsuit ballooned over the following few years, as Uberoi filed a half dozen other complaints against CU, including an assault and battery charge against campus police. In 1884, after Uberoi had requested a host of documents under the state Open Records Law to buttress his suit against CU, the Colorado State Supreme Court denied his request, ruling 5-2 that the state's sunshine laws did not apply to the University. Largely because of that ruling, by 198 the Legislature passed bills placing CU and the Board of Regents within the scope of the Open Records Law, a move that allowed then-State Rep. Bill Owens to sue CU later that year for withholding information about a planned sabbatical in Cuba for Larry Mosqueda of political science at UCD. In 1986, U.S. District Court .Judge Lee West dismissed Uberoi's szzit against the University as "frivolous" and ordered him to pay CU's court costs, which were later determined to be $79,000. In dismissing the suit, West said Uberoi had "sabotaged" the case by failing to comply with federal rules and orders of the court. West said Uberoi submitted an "absolute avalanche of procedural motions and reconsiderations" after the court had denied the same motians once, twice or three times. "The conclusion is inescapable, he does not seek a fair trial on the merits, but only to punish the defendants for disagreeing with him on any matter, important or unimportant," West wrote. "[Uberoi's] demands, if met, would make a mockezy of the court system." In X990, after Uberoi had persisted with his litigation against CU, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that he must stay out of the courts unless he hires an attorney, upholding a Boulder District Court decision disallowiYZg Uberoi from serving "pro se" as his own attorney, which he had done throughout the previous decade. Dzzring the 198os, on his annual UCB reports of scholarly, professional and university activities, Uberoi listed his litigation efforts against CU under "Public Service in a Professional Capacity." He also claimed in those reports that former engineering Dean Richard Seebass "denied Uberoi's request to teach in Uberoi's ~ ~ ern discipline, stating that there are no courses for Uberoi to teach in the College of Engineering." Uberoi also alleged in the reports that Seebass and others had packed up his teaching and research materials and put them in storage. "For years, the University has not allowed me to teach," Uberoi wrote in a letter to the editor of S&GR in 1989. "It has dismantled and destroyed my research projects. It has packed my research data and writings in 351arge boxes and moved them to unknown places." Since records indicated that he has not filed an annual report of his activities since i99o, it is unclear what Uberoi's teaching and research load has been over the past io years, although he is listed in UC13 course catalogs as the insti-~ictor of several classes during the 1992-93 academic year. 1 aim ~ ~ ~ ~ 18 F~b149c1Thomas J. Loran Thomas Loran passed away Tuesday, February i5 UG(- ;,~ppl 16, 1999 at his Boulder Canyon home from a Jorge Luis Lopez-Cadena ~ gain tumor. Tom was born in Mandan, North July 2, 1968 - Ocr. 13.2001 Dakota on November 6, 1931 to Nicholas and orge Luis Lopez-Cadena of Rose Loran. He and his wife Carol were married Boulder died Saturday, Oct ~ i ~ in Boulder in 1961. They raised two sons, 3, 2001, of complications from Christopher, born in 1964, and Mattfiew, born in brain surgery. He was 33. 1968. Tom has one surviving sister, Alvina The son of Santiago Lopez 3ecker, of McCook, Nebraska. His other sister, and Amada Cadena, he was ~ ' Rita Bristor, preceded him in death. born July 2, 1968, in Chihua- Tom studied ror two years at Bismarck Junior College before he ' hua, Mexico. He married Mar- transferred to the University of Colorado, where he com leted a lene Rachwht on May 25, 1988. p He earned a high school di- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. Tom was then drafted and ploma in Chihuahua, Mexico. served for two years in the U.S. Army as a medic. He returned to the He worked as a cook at Frasier University of Colorado to complete his Master's degree in Chemical Meadows Manor in Boulder. Engineering. He lived in Boulder County ~ In his first twelve years of working as a Chemical Engineer Tom since 1994. acquired twelve patents for his employers. He left corporate work and Survivors include his parents he and Carol started their own business, Canyon Products Inc. Tom of Chihuahua; his wife of Eu- earned fourteen more patents, both US and foreign, which he marketed less, Texas; a son, Jorge Lopez worldwide in the computer and recorded music industries. Their Jr. of Euless; five sisters, Lean- company won the 1978 State of Colorado Award of Excellence or Lopez and Angelica Lopez, both of Chihuahua, Socorro for Special Achievement and Contribution to the Furtherance Hanlon of Fort Worth, Texas, of Colorado Export. Carmella Lopez of Phoenix, In 1993 Tom took the US Patent Bar Exam and became a US Patent and Chela Soliz of Boulder, fi_v_e_ Agent. He wrote patents for many clients, including two for his wife brothers, Romulo Lopez of Carol. They started a second business marketing her products in Boulder, Ramon Lopez of Chi- addition to his patent services. ~ huahua, Eulojio Lopez of Long- Tom was a lifetime member of the scientific Society of Sigma Xi, and mont, Martin Lopez of La- a member of the Professional Engineers of Colorado. fayette and Santiago Lopez of Funeral Services will be held Friday, February 19, at 10:00 am at Broomfield. Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 14th and Aurora, Boulder, He was preceded in death by Colorado. Contributions may be made to the Hospice of Boulder. a sister, Diva Elia Lopez de County, 2825 Marine Street,..~9~,lder. CO. 80303. Vargas, on Oct. ? in Chihua- hua. A vlsftatlon will be from 3 to 6 Margaret J. Lord p.m. Tuesday at Crist Mortis- ary, 3395 Penrose Place, Boul- Nov. 23, 1912 - Sep r. 24, 2000 der. A rosary will follow at 6 BOc y o c} no o a p m argaret J. Lord of Olathe, Marianne Sullivan of Sarasota, Fla.; M Kan., and formerly of Boulder, a brother, Jim Jones of Costa Mesa; A funeral senrits will be at 10 died Sept 24, 2000, at Good Samari- two sons, Ted Lord Jr. of Colorado a.m. Wednesday at Sacred tan Center in Olathe. She was 87. Springs and Tim Lord of Clovis, Heart of Jesus Church, 2312 The daughter of the Rev. Alva P. Calif; three daughters, Barbara 14th St, Boulder. The Rev. Jones and Mary Ethel Harrison Ware of W;,,:1 ni~.;a n.,~;..*.,., Daniel Leonard will officiate. sor, " a""..."...ce Jones, she was born Nov. 23, 1912, of Gardner, Kan., and Deborah Interment will follow at 11 a.m. in Evanston, ill. She married Ted W. Treiber of Granby, l6 grandchil- Wednesday at Green Mountain Lord in 1936. He died in 1973. dren; and 14 great grandchildren. Cemetery. She graduated from Roosevelt She was preceded in death by a High School in Oklahoma City and daughter, Karen Lunblad; two sis- attended Emporia State Teachers tern, Vera Teller and Vonda Ray, College. She was model for Emery and two grandsons. Byrd'Iliayer in Kansas City, Mo., A memorial service will be at 1 for several years. p.m. Saturday at Church of the She played the violin and the uku- Eternal Hills in Granby. lele. She enjoyed sewing and Contributions may be made to • bridge. the Olathe Good Samaritan Cen- She lived in $oulder from 1957 to ter, 20705 W.151st St, Olathe, KS 1965. 66061 or to the Church of the Eter- Survivors include two sisters, Hel- nal Hills building fund, 518 New en Terry of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Church, Gran~y, CO 80446. , v ~n r~r,. ~l,t(S.•'M '~r 1~ ~ \ f-i-` eS..i... a iri _I l Attachment E r 1 RF.~UM,E • HOBAPT D ir3AGENER,, AR~HTTECT F~.~.L i PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: My architectural practice, Hobart D. Wagener Associates, was established in Boulder, Colorado, in 1953, and j continued as our partnership, Wagener Vander Vorste Architects, from 1977 until I retired in 1986. We designed f' mare than two hundred projects many of which received design awards and were published in professional magazines. In 1995 I was selected "Architect of the Year" for the State of Colorado. This recognition, awarded by the American Institute of Architects Colorado, is made annually to only one architect in the state; my award was received in the third year since the establishment of this program. In 2984 the local organization Histori.~ ~aulder selected me for the recognition "the outstanding designer in Boulder aver the past 50 years". The professional magazine Tie Architectural Record included our own house in Boulder in its annual selection of twenty houses for national recognition. These residences were featured in the May, 1967, publication. A photograph of our home was the cover picture. The book ~5 Years of Record Houses, Edited by Herbert. L. Smith, Sr., and published in 1981 by McGraw-Hill, includes our own Boulder home in its selection of 50o award houses constructed throughout the United States during the past twenty-five years, 1956 to 1981. Y co-authored the book The 5Ghoo~~ibrary with Ralph E: Ellsworth, birector of Libraries at the Univesity of Colorado; this research project for facilities far independert._.s-tudy in the secondary school was done for the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories. 7 was president of the Colorado Society of the American Institute of Architects in 1973, president of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce in 1971, Chairman of the Boulder Planning Commission in 1966. I was selected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. in 1971. This recognition, awarded . by colleagues within the profession, is the second highest award made at the National level by the AIA, and is held by approximately 2600 architects in the United States. I am included in the Marquis publication Who's Who in America. ~ .'1' l ~ Page 2 RESUMfi OF HOBART D. kVAGENER, F.A.I..A. ~ - PROFESSIONAL My architectural practice, Hobart D. Wagoner Associates, • PROFILE cvas established in Boulder, Colorado, in 1953. Our present partnership, Wagerer. Vander Varste Architects, continues our commitment to quality design by personal involvement of partners throug2iout aIl phases of each project. • My professional experience began with Eggers $ Higgins, Architects, in New York City (1946-1947), and continued with Pietro BeIluschi, an internationally racogxzi.zed architect, in Fartland, Oregon (1947--.1950) . In Baua.d.er I worked with James M. Hunter, Architect (1.950-1953} . Hobart D. Wagoner Associates and Wagoner Vander Vorste Architects have designed over two hun died projects including:. C O MMER C IAL]I:ND U S TR IAL Boulder Country Club First National Bank and Drive-Up Facflity,. Boulder . Public Service Offices, Boulder Acacia National Headquarters, Boulder - Z3 Branch Offices for Midland Federal Savings, including Boulder, Arvada, Aurora, Longmont, Westminster, Pueb7.o, Ft. CoIlins, Greeley, Lakewood, Loveland., Denver Ball Brothers Technical Tower; Boulder Fruehauf's Plant & Garden Center., Boulder Executive- Office Building, Boulder Lifecare Services Buffding, Boulder Koch Construction Office Building, Longmont Hohnstein Block Renovation, Ft. Collins ~ ~ - Mountain Savings Office, Boulder - _ Naxth Broadway Shopping Center, Boulder - RoIling Hi71s. Country Club, Golden - . Sunset Office BuBding, Boulder DUR Plaza Office Buflding, Boulder Boulder Medical Center Addition D~11on Community Center, DzIlon Bodin Realty, Boulder Community Plaza Shopping Center, Boulder Ar~rda Mara # Dr.~oA ~t ( % ~ • , c / % Page 3 PUBLIC Boulder County Hall of Justice and Clerk's Offices Boulder County Health and Welfare Bufiding Boulder County Mental Health Buildin g Boulder Justice Center Central Fire Station, Boulder • DZartin Park Recreation Building, Boulder North Boulder Recreation Building South Fire Station, Boulder Boulder Municipal Building Addition SCHOOLS • Baseline Junior High Addition, Boulder Boulder High School Addition Casey Junior High School Addition, Boulder Centennial Junior High School; Boulder Fairview Senior High School, Boulder Southern Hl~s Junior High School, Boulder RELIGIOUS Congregational Church Remodelling, Boulder First Methodist Sanctuary, Boulder First Presbyterian Education Building, •Boulder Methodist Student Center, University of Colorado 5t. John's Episcopal Chapel, Boulder _ Trinity Lutheran Sanctuary, Boulder UNIVERSITY • • WiIliams Village Dormitories, University of Colorado Darley & Stearns Towers Kittredge Dormitory Complex, University • of Colorado : _ • Andrews, Arnett. Buckingham & Smith Halls, & • Commons Building (Principal in charge in joint venture of architects) Engineering Sciences Complex, University of Colorado (Minor member in joint venture of architects) e~,~ rein ~ ~ w~.. ~ ~ Ir \\l l Fage 4 MUL'1; IPLE HOU SIN G Presbyterian Manor Apartments, Boulder . XIII West Apartments, Boulder Parkhampden Apartments, Denver Ski Ranch on NIt. 6Verner, Steamboat Springs Kappa Alpha Theta Addition, Boulder' . RESIDENCES Approximately one hundxed new homes and additions including Bartkus, Boulder Buchanan, Boulder Garrett, Loveland • Gebhardt (now •Fazrbanks), Boulder • Parke, Ft. Collins Short, Boulder Sowers, Boulder • Stampfli, Salida - Udall, Ft. Collins Wagener (now Moses) , Boulder ` Miller, Palo Alta, California Barxett, Ca1•dwell, Idaho . PROFESSIONAL We have received design awards from the Western ' AWARDS AND Mountain Region American Institute of Architects, RECOGNITION American Association of School Administrators, Federal Housing Authority, and Sunset Magazine. . . Projects receiving awards include : - . Fairview High School • . ; Southern HRls Junior High School . - Boulder Countxy Club • Presbyterian Manor Apartments First Presbyterian Church Education Building Casey 3unior High School Addition Mountain Savings Office Mercantine (now United) Bank .(before remodelled) ':Methodist Student Center • Wagener Residence llwnwris fle,~ 1! 0....s K i1'n ~ . ~ ~i' Fa e 5 g Magazines which have published articles of our pxojects include The Architectural Recoxd, Architectural Foxum, Nation's Schools, New York Times, House Beautiful, • and Sunset. Published pra7ects include ; Fairview High School Boulder High School Addition Southern Hills Junior High School • Casey Junior High School Addition Boulder Country Club Midland Federal Savings Office, Aurora Mountain Savings Office Boulder Justice Center First Presbyterian Chuxch Education Building Methodist Student Center Presbyterian Manor Apartments Kittredge Dormitory Complex William Village Dormitories N uu~erous p.esidences The Wagerer Residence is one of twenty houses recognized by The Architectural Record magazine for its annual National. House Awards in 1967. The book 25 Years of Record Houses, recently published by the editor of rchitectural ecord, includes the Wegener house as one of its selection of 57 Award Houses constructed throughout the United States dozing the past twenty-five years. I was made a Fellow `in the American Institute of Architects . in 1971.. This recognition, awarded by ,colleagues within the profession, is held by approximately 1600 architects in the United States. I am included in the Marquis publication Who's Who i.rt America, _ , Aoenda item ~ ~ ~ i. - ~ ~ ~ Page ~ CIVIC AND I have participated on community boards, committees, and PROFESSIONAL organizations including: ACTIVITIES Boulder City Planning Board (Vice Chairman & Chairman) ' Boulder Chamber of Commerce (Vice President & President) Boulder Lions Club (Vice President & President) Junior Achievement Program {President) Boulder Art Association (Vice President) Presbyterian Church IIder (Member of the Session} Colorado State Supreme Court Selection Committee appointed ~by the Governor of Colorado I have served as Treasure, Secretary, Vice President,. and President of the Colorado State Society of the, American Institute of Architects, PERSONAL AND I was borzz in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1921, graduated EDUCATIGN.P_I, from the University of Nlichigan (B. Arch., 1944), and serried as a line officer in the Navy during Work War::Il. We have traveled extensively in Europe, South America, Central America, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. My wife,- Violet (B.A., Indiana University, M.L.S., University of Michigan) is a librarian . - Our children are Diane (B . S . , university of Colorado, P .H . D Stanford and Harvard) is a geneticist at' the University of Pittsburgh. Jeff (B . S . ~ M.D., University of Colorado} is a .~~.peutiatzician-: at. the.University.'of. Aria~ona-..Medical--Schbal. S'ha.v#._(B_A.,'Claxemorit~ Merisrr.Cbllege):is an. exe~cu~tive intern at the Capital Group, Los' Angeles. .cfa ttem ~ ~ i~~o's'Who in Ame~ica® 54th Edition • 2000 _ 4 E WA54BC 0 l? 43910004 Since 1899. Amerin's lading biographical reference source. MARquis wHOrs wxo POST PUB UPDATE BC 0 121 Chanlon Road • P.O. Box 2 ~ New Providence NJ 07974-0002 Phone: I-800-621-9titi9 gat. 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IDe crest of any error fa pebllcetiea, Ibe sole raspoasibilily of Marquis Wbo's who still be to correct tacb etrat is • sCCeeedl edition of pvbllcaUen. Such carncttan it ie Ilea el say mtier N°bar t D . Wagener i. remedy. Margris WAe's Wbo a: pressly disclaims all otAer liabt 1 / JO Avenida De 1 Mundo for loss ar Ineidenbl or uasegrentiU damage wAetAu aNsiag r Coronado CA 921 18-302 1 aeg ligencge, contract, er nth ar cause !o any patty for errors is r DuDlisbio Signature Drte FOR OFF{C'E 04439100/N/110/950/ 11921/M/NNNNNNN---/A USC ONL1' O Copyright i9S9, btAn~U15 7rt.;s '.~Gu. All tights react Underlined information will not appear DO NOT RETURN SKETCH in the published biography. Unless re needed. BAS WAGENER, HOBART D., retired architect; b. PAR Sioux Falls, S.D., May 10. ]921; s. Frank Samuel and Beatrice (Hobart) W.; m. Violet LaVaughn, Dec. 16, 1944; children: Diane Kay Wagener welch, Jeffrey Scott, Shaw EDU 010 Bradley. BArch, U. Mich., 1944. - ' CER Registered architect, Colo. CAR 010 Draftsman Eggers & Higgins, 020 Architects, N.Y.C., 1946-47, Pietro ' Belluschi, Architect, Portland, Oreg., 030 1947-50; tlestgner James Hunter, 040 Architect, Boulder, Colo., 1950-53; prin. Hobart D. Wagener Assocs., Boulder, 1953-77; 050 prin. ptnr. Wagener V~nderVorste, 060 ArchlieCt5, ©outder, 1977-86; ret., 1986; CRE mem. selection com. Coto. Supreme Ct., CRW Denver, 1968-72. Co-author: The School Library, 1962; work pub. 1n Archtl. Record, Sunset msg., N.Y. Times, House Beautiful, 25 CIV Years of Record Houses. Chmn. Boulder Planning Commn., 1966; pres. Boulder C. of ' C., 1971. Lt. (j.g.) USN, 1944-46, PTO. 4WD Named Outstanding Designer for past 50 yrs. Hist. Boulder, 1983; also numerous nat. 41EM and regional design awards. Fellow AIA (pres. Colo. 1973, Colo. Architect of Yr. award 1985, pres. swat N. chpt. 1998). Lions 4CH (pres. Boulder 1965). Avocations: 4DR Ot0 travel, golf. Address: 1730 Avenida Del Mundo Coronado CA 92118-3021 6t 435-5403 L CHANGE See reservation form for your special pre-publication discounts. O .a~l.ta t: ttor_n__nuu~ai rani ~ o wl,t a rtro~_n__nuuaai.nnn~ n M...w~~- a.....~ SLIDES OF BUILDXNGS FROM HOBART D. WAGFNER OFFICES 1: Our architectural office building at 777 Twenty-ninth Street. Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit award, 2960. 2: First Presbyterian Church Education Building & Courtyard at 16th and Walnut. Western Mountain Region, AIA, Honor award, 1957. This was my first major commission after opening my office in 1953. 3: Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbrier. ~ Western Mountain Region, AIA, Honor award, 1973 4: Fairview High School interior, Student Center. 5: Casey Junior High School, 2410 Thirteenth Street. Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit award, 1957. 6: Southern Hills Junior High School, 2500 Knox Drive. Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit Award, 1962; special citation from American Association of School Administratoxs;. 7: Centennial Juniox High School, 2205 Norwood Avenue. 8: Kittredge Dorxxutory Complex, University of Colorado. I was the design architect with the partnership Associated Architects of Colorado for this project. 9: Kittredge Dormitory Complex. 10: Williams Towers Dormitory Complex, Baseline & 30th. 11: First Methodist Church Sanctuary addition, 1401 Spruce. 12: First Methodist Church Sanctuary interior. 13: St. John's Episcopal Church Chapel, 1419 Pine. 24: Proposed expansion plan for St. John's Episcopal church courtyard. ~.e... ~ ~L1._ ate,.. ~e I 31: Wesley Foundation Student Center & Chapel, 2400 University Heights. Wes#ern Mountain Region, AIA, Merit award, 1958. 32: Fruehauf's Nursery & Greenhouse, 1665 33rd Street. 33: Community Plaza, Alpine & Broadway. {original before remodeling). 39:: C>ur family home at 3230 Fifth Scree#. (the second honne we bunt after remodeling a chicken coop into our first home at 3222 Fifth Street}. 35: Ctur family home at 7060 Roaring Fork Trail, (the third home we built). Western Mountain Region, AIA, Honor Award, 1967. Sunset Magazine Western Home Awards program, Honor Award,1.967 Published as one of 20 homes selected nationally as record homes for the year 1967 by the Architectural Record Magazine. Included in the book " 25 years of Record Houses" published by McGraw-Hill; selected as one of 57 award-winning of the record homes from throughout the country during the period 1956 -1981. . Now owned by +r~k L~cyt 36: Udall residence, Claymore Lake west of Ft. Collins. This is the first project I designed after opening my own office in 1953. 37. Gebhardt residence, Gunbarrel. 38. Miller residence, Palo Alto, California. 39: Hewes residence, 335 Sixteenth street. 15: Boulder Country Club, Gunbarrel Greens. Western lviountain Region, AIA, First Honor award, 1965. 16: First National $ank original building, Broadway & Canyon. 7 7: First National Bank redesign and reconstruction; Wallace Palmer associated on this project. 18: Mountain Saving & Loan Building, Broadway & Mapleton. Western Mountain Region, AIA, Design of Excellence, 1956. 19: Mercantile Bank 8~ Trust, 13th & Walnut (before remodeled as United Bank of Boulder, which, I believe, now is merged with Norwest Bank). Western Mountain Region, AIA, Merit award, 1957. 20: Midland Savings & Loan branch in Ft. Collins. (now Bank Western}. 21: Midland Savings & Loan branch interior, Downtown Ft. Collins. 22: Midland Savings & Loan branch in Lakewood. (now Bank Western) 23: Midland Savings 8~ Loan branch in Arvada. (now Bank Western) 24: Presbyterian Manor Apartments, 1050 Arapahoe Avenue. 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