4640 West Talmadge Drive in Kensington is a 1926 house built in the Mission Revival style. Named the Charles and Geraldine Zurn Spec House, it is designated under HRB Criterion C, for its architecture. The house embodies the style’s distinctive characteristics and retains defining features with integrity. Among these are a flat roof with arched parapets and crenelations, a clay tile visor roof, a clay tile roof covered porch, Tuscan style porch supports, oversized corner bollards, a battered stucco chimney, wood-framed French doors, and several fenestration styles: deeply inset arched focal windows, a tripartite window, and double-hung windows, with walls finished in a light-sand stucco. The designation excludes the detached, modified garage/ADU structure.

1150 Anchorage Lane in La Playa is a curved, six-story building called Le Rondelet Condominiums. Constructed in 1967, it retains its original Brutalist style with Googie style elements, meriting designation under HRB Criterion C for architecture. Character-defining aspects of its Brutalism include the exposed and expressive concrete structural system, monumental massing, exposed concrete finish, repetitive facade pattern, and intentional avoidance of traditional architectural components or ornament. It also retains Googie style elements, such as its C-shape, expressive flat roof form, large porte cochère, and continuous bands of anodized dark-finished aluminum windows and sliding glass doors. The designation excludes the pool, spa, and cabana.

Left The Ordway House (c. 1888) in Little Italy is one of the few remaining buildings from downtown San Diego’s oldest development and today stands with three others of its era on State Street. Courtesy the California Historical Resources Inventory Database (CHRID) Right The historic Ordway House, if the San Diego Planning Commission approves, is destined for an unorthodox new life on State Street. A new eight-story, mixed-use project called Celine plans to use the cottage and its rooftop for commercial purposes, surrounded by 52 high-rise rental units. Courtesy economic feasibility report by ZLD Consulting

1625 Robinson Avenue in Hillcrest is the Elmo and Angeline Crabtree Spec House #2, built in the Craftsman style in 1913. Because it retains original Craftsman design elements and integrity, the board designated the house on HRB Criterion C, for architecture. Specifically, it features a low-pitched roof, wide unenclosed eaves, exposed rafter tails, extended beams, double front-facing gables, a partial-width front porch, decorative cross-braced beams, square wood columns and piers, wood shingle siding, one-over-one single-hung wood-framed windows with extended sills, and a stucco chimney. The designation excludes the 1957 rear bedroom addition and the east elevation laundry room additions.

3140 2nd Avenue in Uptown is a 1916 Prairie style home called the Ellen Thompson/Walter Douglas House. It meets HRB Criteria C, for architecture, and D, for a Master Architect. The designation includes several interior elements and the detached garage. It embodies and retains character-defining features of the Prairie style with Italianate influences. Other stylistic elements from its 1916 construction: an asymmetrical primary facade, a flat roof with wide overhanging eaves, brackets, heavy sand stucco cladding, a projecting one-story enclosed front entry with columns, a focal window with partial-width columns and an integrated flower box, and original wood-framed fenestration in a variety of styles, including several fixed stained-glass windows. The original interior stairs and stair railing, stained-glass window at the base of the stair, living room built-in cabinets and dining room buffet are included in the designation and are consistent with the home’s Prairie style and contribute to its significance. The house was also designated under HRB Criterion D as being a notable work of Master Architect Walter Douglas, a prominent and accomplished architect who designed many quality structures in San Diego and the Colorado Springs area, some of which are listed on the Colorado State and National Registers of Historic Places. The house is a significant example of Douglas’ custom residential work in the Prairie style. In designating this house, the board simultaneously approved Douglas’s Master Architect status.

2456 Clove Street in the Loma Portal community is the Samuel Campbell Spec House #1, built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1936. Designated under HRB Criterion C, it retains integrity and exemplifies the Spanish Colonial style with its asymmetrical façade; low-pitched, combined hipped-and-gabled roof with little eave overhang; red tile roof covering; stucco wall surfaces; a roofed balcony with wood railings; decorative wood shutters; and decorative tile vents.

1124 F Avenue is a Mediterranean Revival style house with a detached car portico built in 1919. It merits historic designation under two criteria: (A) as a special element of Coronado military history and (B) for architecture that retains integrity and embodies key features of the style. Former owner Madeleine Sharp donated the house to the Red Cross Coronado branch for its headquarters during World War II. The house retains these elements of the Mediterranean Revival style: simple and imposing massing, two-story height, hipped roof with red clay tiles, boxed eaves with large brackets along the cornice lines, classical columns, articulated window surround, divided-light windows with no trim, and Churrigueresque style sculptural elements around the main entry door. It is one of the only architect-designed, Mediterranean Revival Style estates to be built along or near Ocean Boulevard. Because of that proximity and high level of style, the house is recognized as one of Coronado's earlier, high-profile residences. Pasadena-based architect Elmer Grey designed it, his only project in Coronado. Courtesy Zillow