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May & June 2017 HRB Designations

During Preservation Month, the City of San Diego Historical Resources designated five new historical resources, including one associated with a well-known local publisher, Helen Copley.

1445 Granada Avenue in South Park was constructed in 1912 by Joel L. Brown in the Craftsman style. Designated as a good example of this architectural style under Criterion C, its features include exposed roof beams and rafter tails, multi-pane windows, deep eaves, square-butt wood shingles, and original highly textured stucco.

3705 Pringle Street in Mission Hills is a Spanish Eclectic style home built in 1925. Features include both a flat and hip roof with clay tile, wood and steel multi-pane windows, ornamental window grills, and quatrefoil windows. Designated under Criterion C, this house embodies the Spanish Eclectic style.

3522 Villa Terrace in North Park embodies the Spanish Colonial Revival style through its flat roof with stepped parapet, multi-pane wood sash windows, flared wing walls, Salomónica porch columns, and arch detail above the focal window. Constructed in 1926, this house is designated under Criterion C, for conveying the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

1263 Virginia Way in the La Jolla Village was constructed in the Tudor Revival style in 1927, and became associated with Helen Copley, a prominent local and national publisher, from 1981 through 2004, when she passed away. Copley purchased the house shortly after her husband James Copley died, adding her own architectural flourishes to the building, including the exterior timber framing and entry porch enclosure. Designated under Criterion B, for an important association with Helen Copley, this is the only property purchased solely in her name. She owned the house at the time one of her San Diego newspapers won one of two Pulitzer Prizes awarded under her tenure. This designation includes Copley's distinctive additions to this Tudor Revival style house.

3455 Charles Street in La Playa is of the Modern post and beam architectural style, constructed in 1964, with strong horizontal massing, deep eave overhangs, floor-to-ceiling windows and doors, and vertical cedar wood siding. Designated under Criterion C as an excellent example of the style, the designation also includes a stairway composed of wood and concrete and the mature rhaphiolepis shrubs in the front yard.

 

In June, the HRB designated four houses in addition to providing staff with direction on the impending Spalding Place Historic District in North Park.

This new district includes 14 properties and is highly significant because it represents a small enclave of workforce housing. Developed between 1909 and 1912 and financed by Frank Carr Spalding, this one-lane street runs for two blocks between Park Boulevard and Georgia Street south of Adams Avenue. Read more.

 

1306 Torrance Street in Uptown is a 1912 Craftsman style house. Designated under Criterion C, this house is a good example of this style due to its wrap-around porch with square pillars, transom and multi-pane sash windows, wood shingle and clapboard siding, and carved rafter tails.

3851 Hawk Street in Mission Hills is a Colonial Revival style bungalow constructed in 1920 by Master Builder Martin V. Melhorn. The side gambrel roof, Tuscan front entry columns, flared siding, and tall narrow front windows illustrate architectural integrity for designation under Criterion C, while Master Builder Melhorn supports designation under Criterion D.

350 San Fernando Street in La Playa is designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by two master architects, Herbert Jackson and Richard Requa. Constructed in 1927, the home's significant features include an asymmetrical façade with clay tile roof of variegated colors, smooth sand finish stucco, multi-light casement windows, and decorative ironwork. Designated under Criteria C and D, this house embodies the Spanish Colonial Revival style and represents the work of two San Diego master architects.

5805 Camino de la Costa in La Jolla was built in 1927 by the A. M. Southard Company in the Spanish Eclectic style. Designated under Criterion A as important to the development of La Jolla, the physical location of this house is a local landmark at the southern entrance into La Jolla and the Hermosa subdivision. This house also represents the transition of La Jolla from an artists' colony and vacation destination to a year round and higher class residential area. Features include the prominent corner turret covered in red clay tile, corbels, arched windows, and multi-pane wood casement windows.

 

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