836 Prospect Street in La Jolla, known as the Sarah E. Beckwith/John L. Morgan House, built in 1922. The Tudor Revival style home with Craftsman influences is designated under HRB Criterion C, for architecture. It retains characteristics of the style, including a stucco and brick veneer exterior; half-timbering; a moderately steep, pitched cross gable roof with little eave overhang; a projecting, front-facing gable, massive brick chimney and tall, narrow multi-light wood-framed windows. The Craftsman influence is seen in the tapered front porch columns. The designation excludes the 1954 rear addition and the c. 1971 rear enclosed staircase.

2530 Bancroft Street in the North Park Community is the Roy F. and Anna L. Ridgeway House, constructed in 1930. It is designated under HRB Criterion C for continuing to embody the Spanish Colonial Revival style with design elements such as an asymmetrical facade, an arched wood front entry door, a combination of flat roof with gable and shed roof forms with mission half-barrel tile, medium sand stucco cladding, a stucco chimney with a mission tile top, and fenestration consisting of wood-framed multi-light and single-light double-hung and fixed windows. In the living room, the fireplace surround and hearth are included in the designation.

6714 Muirlands Drive in La Jolla is a Tudor Revival style home called the Wilber and Dorothy Larrabee/Edgar Ullrich House. This custom, high style residence with a round turret and a porte cochere with pointed Tudor arch details, retains integrity from its 1933 construction, meeting HRB Criterion C for architecture. Designed by Master Architect Edgar Ullrich, which qualifies it under Criterion D, it features high-pitched cross-gabled roofs, gabled wall dormers, a cantilevered second-story, stucco and wood siding, brick chimneys, and groups of tall, narrow, divided-light wood-framed windows. The house is a notable example of the many large, luxury residences Ullrich designed in La Jolla early in his career. It includes architectural features associated with this master architect, such as a sprawling floor plan, multiple bay windows, bands of divided-light windows, and restrained use of half-timbering. The designation excludes the 1984 additions.

4101 Lomaland Drive in Point Loma, is the location of Cottages #1 and #2, which are among the very few modest remnants of Lomaland, the campus of the internationally important Theosophical Society, founded in 1900. Cottage #1, the last of the society’s adult student boarding rooms (1910-1940), was designated under HRB Criterion A, as a special element of the City and Point Loma’s development with historical, cultural, and social significance. The designation excludes the garage and converted storage unit. Cottage #2, the Rose Vollmer/Richard Lareau Rental House, is a Mid-Century Modern home built c. 1966. It was designated under HRB Criterion C, as an example of the architectural style; and Criterion D, as a notable work of Master Architect Lareau. The board spent most of the meeting discussing these cottages, the potential designation of two similar ones on site, and their cultural value—as both individual structures and as a cohesive Theosophical Society cluster. SOHO Executive Director Bruce Coons gave an extensive architectural analysis, supported by slides, and evidence based on personal observations made over several years of visits in favor of designating all four cottages. People who had met with the late Lareau on site, including Coons and a longtime tenant, confirmed that the late architect designed three of the cottages, putting to rest authorship questions raised by HRB staff and consultants. Several board members repeatedly stated that visiting the group of four cottages gave them a resounding sense of time and place. Member David McCullough led an intense effort to designate all four cottages, but, in the end, the HRB designated only two of them. Read a telling and detailed account of this discussion, titled “Historic Designation for Rare Point Loma Sites,” in this issue. Current day view of cottages. Photo by Bruce Coons

7834 Esterel Drive in La Jolla is the Heinz F. and Elizabeth S. Poppendiek/Russell Forester House, built in 1965. It meets HRB Criteria C (for architecture) and D (as a notable work of a master architect). This International style design features a flat roof, lack of applied ornament, flush windows in horizontal bands, asymmetrical facades, square corners, and exterior brick veneer siding. It retains integrity from 1965 and reflects Master Architect Russell Forester’s original design, intent, and aesthetic in a notable, single-family residence designed in the International style in the 1960s.

4247 Alder Drive in Kensington is the Silas H. Corbett and Rita M. Corbett House, built in 1936. This Spanish Colonial Revival style residence meets HRB Criterion C, as it retains integrity and embodies character-defining features of the style. Among these features: a low-pitched mission half-barrel tile roof, projecting rafter tails, rectangular clay tile attic vents, front portico with arched detailing, light-sand stucco cladding, battered stucco chimneys, paneled wood front door with glass light, a rectangular wooden focal window with divided-light, and wood-framed, double-hung and casement windows. The designation includes these Spanish Colonial Revival style original elements: the living room fireplace surround, the primary bedroom beehive fireplace, and the detached garage.

3210 Xenophon Street in the Peninsula Community is a two-story Colonial Revival style home with Neoclassical influences. Built in Loma Portal in 1939, it is named the Dr. Alton and Margaret Harpst/Ralph L. Frank House. The HRB designated it under Criterion C, for its architecture, and Criterion D, for being a notable work of Master Architect Frank. The house embodies the distinctive characteristics and defining features of the Colonial Revival style with Neoclassical influences and retains integrity from 1939. Specifically, the resource includes a symmetrical primary front facade, a low-pitched side gabled roof with slight eave overhang; two interior gable-end chimneys, multi-light double-hung and fixed wood-framed windows, horizontal channel wood siding, a full-length/height front porch supported by six slender and squared columns, a wood panel front entry door accented by a triangular broken pediment with a decorative entablature, and a recessed side wing. It demonstrates Master Architect Ralph L. Frank’s cost-effective, Colonial Revival residential designs following the Great Depression, and is a rare case when he combined Colonial Revival and Neoclassical styles.

4976 Quincy Street in Pacific Beach is the Lloyd R. Koenig, AIA, and Ingrid G. Koenig House, designed by Lloyd Koenig as their own residence, and built in 1968 in the Post-and-Beam style. It meets HRB Criterion C as it continues to convey this Mid-Century Modern architectural substyle. The split-level home’s design is a direct expression of the wood structural frame, with horizontal massing, flat roofs with deep overhangs, and no applied decoration. Characteristic features include floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows, minimal use of solid load-bearing walls, strong interior/exterior connections, exterior finish materials of wood and glass, and site-specific design for a sloping lot. The designation includes the living room’s original built-in bookshelves and interior fireplace, as they reflect the home’s quality of design and workmanship. The designation excludes the rear deck.