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MEMORANDUM
DATE May 18, 2022 PROJECT
NUMBER
22036
TO Stephanie Williams, Planning
Manager
PROJECT 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View
Peer Review
OF City of Mountain View
500 Castro Street
P.O. Box 7540
Mountain View, California 94039
FROM Stacy Kozakavich, Cultural
Resources Planner, Page & Turnbull
CC Peter Birkholz, Page & Turnbull VIA Email
REGARDING 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View, Peer Review Memorandum
INTRODUCTION
This Peer Review Memorandum has been prepared by Page & Turnbull at the request of the City of Mountain View regarding the property at 177 Ada Avenue (APN 160-46-057). 177 Ada Avenue is located on the east side of Ada Avenue, between Serena Court and Brenton Court, in the eastern part of the City of Mountain View. The roughly rectangular, 0.4-acre parcel includes one two-story residence built ca. 1899-1900, with a one-story rear wing. The property additionally includes six sheds of varying sizes located to the rear of the residence. The original owner, architect, and builder of the house are not known.
The property is not currently listed in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) or California Register of Historical Resources (California Register). The property at 177 Ada Avenue was listed on the Mountain View Register of Historic Resources (Mountain View Register) until April 12, 2005, after which it was voluntarily removed from the register at the request of the property owner.
The building is not included in the most recent version available of the State of California Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) Built Environment Resources Directory (BERD) for Santa Clara County, issued March 2020, indicating that no record of a previous survey or evaluation is on file at an information center of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS).
In December 2007, Carey & Co., Inc. prepared State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523A (Primary Record) and 523B (Building, Structure, and Object Record) forms for the subject property as part of the Citywide Historic Property Survey completed for the City of DRAFT
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Mountain View. The DPR 523 forms evaluated the property’s historic significance and eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historical Resources.
Carey & Co., Inc. found that the property appeared to be eligible “under Criteria C/3 as a good example of National Folk/Colonial Revival architecture from the early twentieth century,” with a high level of integrity.1
In January 2022, Anthony Kirk prepared DPR 523A and 523B forms for the subject property at the request of the property owner. The DPR 523 forms evaluated the property’s eligibility for listing in the National Register and California Register, as well as the Mountain View Register. Kirk found that the property appeared ineligible for listing at the state or federal level under any criterion, and recommended that “the property should be removed from the Mountain View Register of Historical Resources.”2
At the request of the City, Page & Turnbull peer reviewed the DPR 523 forms prepared by Carey & Co., Inc. in 2007 and by Anthony Kirk in 2022.
Summary of Findings
Page & Turnbull concurs with Carey & Co. Inc.’s finding that the property appears eligible for listing on the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3 (Architecture), and retains integrity as a good representative example of a late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century single- family residence of a type once common in Mountain View’s formerly agricultural areas. Additionally, Page & Turnbull’s research identified an association with a significant pattern in Mountain View’s history: the development of fruit and flower growing by Japanese American families from the early through the mid-twentieth century. However, due to the subdivision and residential development of much of the original parcel, as well as surrounding properties, the residence no longer conveys its significant association with Mountain View’s fruit and flower growers.
Methodology
Page & Turnbull reviewed the following documents for this memorandum:
• Carey & Co., Inc., State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View, December 2007 (Appendix A); • Anthony Kirk, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View, January 7, 2022. (Appendix B).
1 Carey & Co., Inc., State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View (San Francisco, December 2007), 3.
2 Anthony Kirk, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View (January 2022), 3.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Page & Turnbull conducted a site visit of the subject property on April 21, 2022 to take photographs and observe existing conditions. Where additional research or analysis needs were identified in either of the two reports, as outlined in the Peer Review sections that follow, Page & Turnbull conducted supplemental research and has provided additional information in the Additional Research Findings section. Research regarding the subject property was conducted at the City of Mountain View Building Division, and using online databases including Newspapers.com, the UC Riverside California Digital Newspaper Collection, the UC Santa Barbara Library FrameFinder website, HistoricAerials.com, and Ancestry.com.
PEER REVIEW OF HISTORIC RESOURCE EVALUATIONS
DPR 523 Forms, Carey & Co., Inc. (2007)
DPR 523 forms prepared in December 2007 by Carey & Co., Inc. were completed as part of the larger Citywide Historic Properties Survey, Mountain View, California. The evaluation found the property at 177 Ada Avenue to be eligible for the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3, with a period of significance of ca. 1911-1921.
Page & Turnbull finds the overall level of detail included in Carey & Co., Inc.’s DPR 523 forms for the subject property to be consistent with accepted professional standards for documentation of individual properties as part of a large, citywide historic resources survey. However, the finding of eligibility would be better supported with additional contextual and property-specific information.
The following section focuses on those portions of the DPR 523 forms for which Page & Turnbull has additional comments.
AREAS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/DISCUSSION
Page & Turnbull’s review found that the following sections/topics would benefit from additional development as discussed below:
Property Description
Carey & Co., Inc.’s property description section provides only a brief description of the primary façade of the subject property, as the survey was completed from the public right-of-way. The section would benefit from the inclusion of a more complete description of the building, including photographs of all façades of the residence, as well as brief descriptions of site features, accessory buildings, and the surrounding neighborhood. A more thorough description of the building’s architectural character would contribute to the significance evaluation and analysis of the property’s historic integrity.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Architectural Style
Carey & Co., Inc.’s description of the architectural style of the residence at 177 Ada Avenue identifies the building as being of a “National Folk / Colonial Revival” style. However, neither the DPR 523 forms nor the larger Citywide Survey provide a definition or description of this style’s general features or significance in Mountain View or California at the time of the building’s construction. The Citywide Survey includes only a brief overview of the building type represented by the subject property in its summary of pre-1900 architectural styles:
The houses of this era that do survive are primarily found singly and at a distance from one another, reflecting the rural aspect of the area at that time and the organization of a single farm house located on large tracts of farmland. […] They range in style from Queen Anne Victorian, to Gothic Revival, to Italianate. They also exhibit a broad range in size, from large houses like those named above, to more modest Victorian cottages or small Folk Victorian houses. No matter the size, however, Victorian era architecture typically demonstrated ornate and abundant detailing. These Victorian era styles often lap over the turn of the century and continued to be used during the early years of the 1900s.3
The DPR 523 forms for 177 Ada Avenue and the associated Citywide Survey could be improved by including a brief description of the development and aesthetics of the National Folk and Colonial Revival architectural styles, as well as a summary list of features and characteristics that are typical of these styles as they were expressed in single-family residences during the early decades of the twentieth century. This information would provide the necessary context to understand the degree to which the house at 177 Ada Avenue is significant as a representative of the National Folk and Colonial Revival styles in this local context.
Historic Context
As the DPR 523 forms prepared for 177 Ada Avenue by Carey & Co., Inc. were completed as part of a larger survey project, the building’s DPR 523 forms do not include a discussion of the broader historic context of Mountain View or agricultural development within the region. The Citywide Survey document does include an adequate historic overview of Mountain View and its economic reliance on agriculture until the mid-twentieth century. Including a summary of these contexts directly in the DPR 523 forms would allow the forms to be useful as a standalone document, and provide 3 Carey & Co., Inc., Citywide Historic Properties Survey, City of Mountain View (San Francisco: Prepared for the City of Mountain View, September 2008), 28.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 necessary information to support the evaluation of the property’s significance under Criterion A/1 (Events).
Site Development History
The site history prepared by Carey & Co., Inc. provides insufficient information to understand the overall development of 177 Ada Avenue as part of a once-larger agricultural property. More thorough information regarding the development of Ada Avenue and the subject property would provide needed context for evaluating its significance under Criterion A/1 (Events) and Criterion B/2 (Persons).
Occupancy History
Carey & Co., Inc. attribute the initial construction of the residence at 177 Ada Avenue to owner Frederick G. Houseman, based on a 1911 newspaper article announcing the construction of a residence for Houseman, and a 1926 city directory listing which appears to list the Houseman family as the ”only occupant on Ada Avenue.”4. While stating that “additional research would need to be conducted to establish this connection,” the discussion is otherwise unequivocal in stating that the building is associated with Houseman and his family.5 Carey & Co., Inc. do not discuss the ownership of and residence at the property of the Tachibana family, aside from one mention of the family’s application in 1982 to build condominiums on adjacent, formerly orchard land. Page & Turnbull conducted additional research, including a review of United States Census schedules for Mountain View and historic newspaper articles, which provided additional information regarding Ada Avenue’s residents during the first decades of the twentieth century. The additional findings are discussed in the Additional Research Findings section below.
Significance Evaluation
As the building description, architectural style discussion, historic context, site history, and occupant history are not fully developed in documentation for 177 Ada Avenue, expansion of these areas in the forms would better support the findings of the significance evaluation. Under Criterion A/1 (Events), the evaluation should include additional discussion of the property’s association with Mountain View’s agricultural development in the early years of the twentieth century, particularly in relation to Japanese American families. Under Criterion B/2 (Persons), the evaluation should clarify the relative importance of the Tachibana family and their agricultural operation in order to justify the finding of ineligibility. As noted above, additional discussion of the associated architectural 4 Carey & Co., Inc., DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2. 5 Carey & Co., Inc., DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 styles, specifically within the context of Mountain View’s development and existing historic building stock, would support the findings under Criterion C/3 (Architecture).
Character-Defining Features
For a property to be eligible for national or state designation under criteria related to type, period, or method of construction, the essential physical features (or character-defining features) that enable the property to convey its historic identity must be evident. Thus, Carey & Co., Inc.’s finding that 177 Ada Avenue is eligible for listing on the National Register and California Register should be followed by a list of the character-defining features that convey the property’s historic significance.
DPR 523 Forms, Anthony Kirk, 2022
The significance evaluation included in the forms prepared in January 2022 by Anthony Kirk found the property at 177 Ada Avenue to be ineligible for listing on the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under any criterion.
Page & Turnbull finds the overall level of detail included in Kirk’s DPR 523 forms for the subject property to be adequate in its presentation of local historic context for Mountain View. However, property-specific information, including the description of the property and information regarding its ownership history is not sufficient to refute the previous 2007 finding and support the new 2022 finding of ineligibility. In addition, as DPR 523A and 523B forms had been prepared for 177 Ada Avenue in 2007, it was not strictly necessary for Anthony Kirk to prepare new forms as part of the 2022 evaluation of the property. Continuation sheets (523L) could have been prepared to include the additional information and reevaluation, which could be attached to the 2007 forms.
The following section focuses on only those portions of the DPR 523 forms for which Page & Turnbull has additional comments.
AREAS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/DISCUSSION
Page & Turnbull’s review found that the following sections/topics would benefit from additional development as discussed below:
Property Description
The physical description of the property prepared by Anthony Kirk includes a satisfactory level of general detail, but should include clear photographs of all façades, as well as brief descriptions and photographs of accessory buildings, site features, and the surrounding neighborhood. One error in the information presented in Kirk’s description concerns the foundation material: while the 2022 DRAFT
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 DPR 523A states that the building sits on a concrete perimeter foundation, portions of brick foundation were observed at the north side of the two-story portion of the building during Page & Turnbull’s April 21, 2022 site visit.
A long paragraph at the end of the Description section discusses the Santa Clara County Improvement Appraisal Record and the owner and occupant history of the residence. This information should be included in the Significance section of the DPR 523B form, not the property description.
Architectural Style
In the Architectural Style field of the DPR 523B form, Kirk identifies the style of 177 Ada Avenue as “Craftsman; no style.” No support for this attribution is provided. The building does not display characteristic features of Craftsman architecture,.
Historic Context
The general historic context for the City of Mountain View and its economic reliance on agriculture provides an adequate introduction to the broader history of the area. Kirk’s description of the site- specific history is not well supported by research, however, and there appear to be some errors in the interpretation of sources. For example, Kirk cites a statement from Eugene T. Sawyer’s 1922 History of Santa Clara County, California, that flower growing was abundant “just outside the corporation limits” of Mountain View. In response, Kirk states that the author “unfortunately, fails to mention anything about the growing of flowers in the town.”6 At the time the 1922 History of Santa Clara County was written by Eugene T. Sawyer, however, the subject property was located well outside of the town limits of Mountain View. City of Mountain View information indicates that this particular parcel was not annexed until 1981. Further, as discussed below, the subject property appears to have been used for fruit-growing – not flower growing - until after World War II.
Kirk’s criticism of the 2008 Citywide Historic Properties Survey is also erroneous in stating that there is “but a single mention of agriculture” in the report.7 Kirk is correct that searching the text of the PDF document for the word “agriculture” locates only one result, in the “Chinese and Japanese in Mountain View” section of the Historic Context. However, there is considerable discussion of Mountain View and Santa Clara County’s agricultural history in the broader Historic Context, including post-Gold Rush agriculture, as well as fruit growing through the later nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century.8 Kirk is correct that previous context statements which have
6 Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2.
7 Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2-3.
8 Carey & Co., Inc., Citywide Historic Properties Survey, 12-14, 19, 22, 26.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 been written for the City of Mountain View and Santa Clara County do not include adequate discussion of the economic role of floriculture. An evaluation of an individual property associated with flower growing, such as 177 Ada Avenue, provides a researcher with the opportunity to contribute to developing this context.
Site Development History
The site history prepared by Anthony Kirk provides insufficient information to understand the overall development of 177 Ada Avenue as part of a once-larger agricultural property. More thorough information regarding the development of the properties adjacent to Ada Avenue, and the subject property itself would provide needed context for evaluating its significance under Criterion A/1. Kirk notes in the significance evaluation for the property that “there were no greenhouses on the land owned by Tachibana and later Hayamizu and […] no greenhouses appear on the pages of Google Earth Pro, which provides an excellent view of the Ada Avenue area dating back to 1948.”9 As will be discussed further in the Additional Research Findings section, the current parcel was subdivided from what was previously a much larger parcel which contained greenhouses and row plantings.
Occupancy History
In both the description and significance sections of the DPR forms, Kirk posits that the subject property was built for Motokichi Tachibana, and that Tachibana acquired land on Ada Avenue in around 1900. As will be discussed in the following section on Additional Research Findings, the Tachibana family do not appear to have been the original owners of the subject property at 177 Ada Avenue. Kirk does not address the 2007 DPR forms’ assertion that the original owner of the property was Frederick G. Houseman.
Significance Evaluation
As noted above, the site development and association with the context of agriculture in the vicinity of Mountain View is not well-developed in the DPR 523 forms prepared by Kirk for 177 Ada Avenue.
Thus, the evaluation of the subject property under Criterion 1/A (Events) appears to be based on a lack of information more than a lack of significance. Similarly, the evaluation under Criterion 2/B (Persons) appears to be based on minimal research regarding resident families. With respect to the building’s architectural style, although Kirk uses the term “Craftsman” at an earlier point in the DPR 523B form to identify the building’s style, the evaluation under Criterion 3/C (Architecture) states that 177 Ada Avenue “possesses no pattern of physical features, or attributes, associated with a particular style” and “lacks meaningful architectural interest and is not significant, even at the local
9 Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 3.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 level.”10 This finding does not contextualize the house within its period of construction as a residence associated with a larger agricultural property, or as a particular residential property type in Mountain View.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH FINDINGS
Page & Turnbull conducted supplementary research to illustrate the property's existing conditions and architectural style, the development of its original property and surroundings, and biographical information regarding its previous owners and occupants. The results of this research have informed Page & Turnbull's opinion regarding the significance of the property in relation to its eligibility for listing on the national, state, and local registers.
Property Description
As noted above, Kirk’s 2022 building description provides sufficient general detail, but lacks photographs of all façades of the house and associated outbuildings. The photographs in Figure 1 through Figure 11 taken by Page & Turnbull on April 21, 2022, provide additional views of the property. A few additional details regarding the property were not included in the previous evaluations. The majority of windows at the main, original portion of the residence appear to be original double-hung wood windows with ogee lugs, with divided-lite upper sash at the second story.
Secondary entrances are located on the west and east façades of the rear wing, accessed by concrete steps, and at the rear of the original residence building. The latter entrance opens to a non- original low wood deck. The rear wing, at the northeast side of the original residence, appears to have been originally built with an open or screened rear porch spanning its width. A small shed- roofed addition with a domed skylight protrudes from its east side.
Carey & Co.’s 2007 building description states that “Four additional one-story structures associated with the greenhouse are located at the rear of the lot.”11 Kirk describes these buildings as “six outbuildings, all less than fifty-years old.”12 Page & Turnbull identified six sheds, including a mix of plywood, corrugated fiberglass, and corrugated metal construction, as well as temporary vehicle and equipment shelters (Figure 12 through Figure 16). A small wood-frame shed to the immediate south of the residence has siding matching that of the residence, and resembles an outhouse (Figure 17). None of the other five sheds appear to be contemporaneous with the residence.
10 Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 3.
11 Carey & Co., Inc., DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue. 12 Anthony Kirk, State of California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 3.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154
Figure 1. Primary facade, view east.
Figure 2. Interior of porch, view east.
Figure 3. Porch window with leaded glass transom,
view southeast.
Figure 4. North and west (primary) facades, view
southeast.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Figure 5. Brick visible at foundation of north facade,
below cross-gabled portion, view southwest.
Figure 6. Rear one-story wing with double-hung and
screened windows, view southwest.
Figure 7. North and east facades, including small
shed-roofed addition to larger rear wing. View
southwest.
Figure 8. East façade, view west. Note small
outhouse-like shed to south of building, at left.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Figure 9. South facade of rear wing with double-hung
windows, east facade of original residence, wood
deck. View north.
Figure 10. South and east facades, view northwest.
Figure 11. Example of shingle details and eave returns in cross gable at south facade, view northwest.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Figure 12. Contemporary shed to east of residence,
view east.
Figure 13. Contemporary shed and vehicle shelter at
rear of property to east of residence, view east.
Figure 14. Shed at northeast corner of property, view
east.
Figure 15. Shed to north of residence, view
northwest.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Figure 16. Shed to north of residence, view
northwest.
Figure 17. Shed to south of residence, view west.
177 Ada Avenue is deeply set back on its lot relative to neighboring properties to the north and south. The neighborhood setting of the property at 177 Ada Avenue is residential in character.
Single-family homes and condominiums built between the 1980s and 1990s are arranged in groupings facing small crescents and cul-de-sacs branching to the east and west of Ada Avenue. The residential buildings are typically one and two stories in height, and display contemporary interpretations of Colonial Revival and Craftsman architectural styles.
Figure 18. Front yard of 177 Ada Avenue, view southwest toward neighboring residences.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Architectural Style
While the DPR 523 forms by Carey & Co., Inc. identify the house at 177 Ada Avenue as “National Folk” and “Colonial Revival,” the subject building could most accurately be described as a vernacular residence incorporating some Greek Revival and Folk Victorian features. Residential buildings in the Greek Revival style typically include low-pitched gabled or hipped roofs with wide trim, partial or full- width porches supported by square or rounded columns, pedimented openings, and primary entrances with sidelites and transoms.13 While most popular for civic and residential buildings in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century, Virginia and Lee McAlester note that Greek Revival style as expressed in the gable-front and gable-front and wing varieties of National Folk style houses remained popular in some rural areas as late as the 1930s.14 Less elaborate than the Queen Anne style with which it bears some similarity, Folk Victorian residences constructed between the 1870s and 1910s are characterized by combinations of architectural elements in often asymmetrical and varied compositions. Character-defining features may include steeply-pitched gabled, pyramidal, or cross-gabled roofs, usually with dominant front- facing gable; asymmetrical massing; wood clapboard siding; patterned shingles, especially in gable ends; and first-story porches.
With its gabled and columned detail at the primary entrance, suggesting Colonial Revival influence, and Folk Victorian elements such as the shingled and ornamented gable ends, asymmetrical fenestration, and steep, cross-gabled roof, the house at 177 Ada Avenue combines elements of these two residential architectural styles which were popular in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, as evident in both Carey & Co., Inc. and Kirk’s evaluations of the property, the house does not adhere strictly to a specific architectural style.
While not a full expression of a definable, formal architectural style, however, the building at 177 Ada Avenue is an example of the type of rural residence that would have been common in the agricultural properties surrounding Mountain View, and other Santa Clara County communities through the end of the nineteenth and first decade of the twentieth centuries. Review of the surveyed properties in the 2008 Citywide Survey completed by Carey & Co., Inc. and of the properties included in the Mountain View Register of Historic Resources indicates that, while there are several historic homes in Mountain View dating from the 1870s through 1910, there are a relatively small number which represent the type of residential building associated with the small family-owned farms and orchards which were economically significant in Mountain View’s development. Variations of the front-gabled, two-story house originally built as part of an agricultural property appeared in 13 Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (New York: Knopf, 1995), 90-93; 179. 14 Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses (New York: Knopf, 1995), 184.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 images of the area’s growth as early as the 1870s, but appears today to be represented by few extant examples, such the house at 462 Sleeper Avenue, formerly listed on the Mountain View Register but voluntarily removed at the owner’s request (Figure 19 through Figure 21). With its elaborated gable ends and pedimented porch, the subject property was built with, and retains, more architectural detail than many rural family homes of its era.
Figure 19. The residence of W.H. Bubb, Mountain View,
pictured in Thompson & West's Historical Atlas Map of
Santa Clara County, 1876. Source: David Rumsey Map
Collection.
Figure 20. The Richardson Farrell Theuerkauf
House, photographed ca. 1900. Formerly located
on Stevens Road, the house was destroyed by fire
in 1976. Source: Mountain View Public Library.
Figure 21. 462 Sleeper Avenue, built ca. 1900
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Historic Context
Settlement of Properties on Ada Avenue
The 2007 DPR 523 Forms prepared by Carey & Co., Inc. attribute original ownership of subject property to Frederick G. Houseman based on a newspaper announcement that he had, in 1911, built a “commodious residence” on Ada Avenue and the observation that the “city directory published in 1926 lists Frederick G. Houseman as the only occupant on Ada Avenue.”15 Page & Turnbull’s research, however, identified a greater number of residents and earlier period of development for properties on Ada Avenue. The Houseman family was neither the first, nor at any point the only, household residing on Ada Avenue.
Among the first residences built on Ada Avenue in Mountain view was that of Isaac Milner, who arrived from North Dakota in 1899, and planted a prune orchard at his ten-acre Ada Avenue property. In that year, Milner planned to build a “seven-room, story and a half house and a barn,” and were occupying “the neat little cottage of Mr. Yan opposite their place” while waiting to build.16 The presence of this cottage indicates that Milner was among the first, but not the first to build on Ada Avenue. The 1900 United States Census lists Milner in Fremont Township of Santa Clara County (parts of which would later be incorporated as Mountain View); however, no street names are included in the census.
By 1910, the United States Census enumerated five families on Ada Avenue: the family of Fred G.
Houseman, a fruit farmer; the family of Graham A. Baker, a printer; Joseph P. Merrill, a eucalyptus tree farmer; and the households of Isaac Milner, a farmer and retail merchant, and his adult son Fred, a retail clothing merchant.
In 1920, eight households were enumerated on Ada Avenue, including those of five fruit growers.17 The greatest number of households recorded on Ada Avenue between 1910 and 1950 was in 1930, with 14 families, including eight fruit growers. The families residing on Ada Avenue in 1930 included adults born in the United States, Japan, England, Yugoslavia, and Switzerland.
By 1940, the residents of Ada Avenue included families headed by Japanese, Italian, and Yugoslavian immigrants. For the first time, there were no American-born heads of household listed in the census for that year on Ada Avenue.18
15 Carey & Co., Inc., DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2. 16 San Jose Mercury News, October 30, 1899.
17 United States Census Bureau, Fourteenth Census of the United States, Population Schedules for Fremont Township, Santa Clara County, Enumeration District 132, Sheet 3A, 1920
18 United States Census Bureau, Sixteenth Census of the United States, Population Schedules for Fremont Township, Santa Clara County, Enumeration District 43, Sheet 8B, 1940.
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Original Ownership of 177 Ada Avenue
Census information and land records from the early 1930s conflict with Carey & Co., Inc.’s preliminary finding that the house at 177 Ada Avenue was built by Fred G. Houseman. After Houseman died in 1921, his widow, Kate, continued to live until at least April of 1930 at a property which she owned on Ada Avenue, and which was valued at $12,000.00. As of January 1930, while Kate Houseman still resided on Ada Avenue, Wasaburo Tachibana was recorded as trustee of a property on Ada Avenue which includes the subject property, a five-acre parcel referred to as Lot Number 13 in Block J of the Miramonte Subdivision. Tachibana held the land in the names of his two eldest sons, pursuant to California’s Alien Land Law of 1923.19 In 1932, Fred R. and Leona Milner, the son and daughter in law of Isaac Milner, who had built a house on Ada Avenue in 1899, sold the 5- acre Lot 13 of Block “J” in the Miramonte tract, to Hideo and Masao Tachibana.20 Based on the continued residence of the Houseman family at the time the Tachibana family moved to Ada Avenue, and that the Tachibana Family purchased the subject property from Fred R. Milner, it is most likely that the house at 177 Ada Avenue was built by the Milner family. It may be the family’s original, 1899 residence.
Japanese American Floriculture in California
Like many of their neighbors of different backgrounds and nationalities, the earliest growing operations undertaken at the subject property by the Tachibana Family focused on fruit growing. As recalled by Sei Tachibana in 1977, the family grew apricots, strawberries, and tomatoes in the years before World War II. Beginning in the 1950s, the family appears to have shifted their agricultural focus to floriculture, and by 1977 grew chrysanthemums at the Ada Avenue property.
Japanese immigrants to California began growing flowers in the San Francisco Bay Area in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It was in the San Francisco Bay Area that the state’s Japanese American cut flower industry originated with growers such as the Domoto Brothers, Yohnoshin and Kanetaro, from the Wakayama prefecture in Japan, who began their nursery in Oakland around 1885. With brothers Motonoshin and Mitsunoshin, the Domotos bought two acres of land in Oakland in 1895 and soon employed a large workforce of Japanese-born laborers. 21
In the first decades of the industry’s growth, the Bay Area’s flower producers were located in two concentrations of activity: the East Bay, including Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland; and the San
19 Written report filed by Wasaburo Tachibana, Trustee, January 29, 1930. 20 Grant deed, Fred R. Milner and Leona Milner to Hideo Tachibana and Masao Tachibana, January 4, 1932. Records of the Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder, Book 599, Page 242.
21 Noritaka Yagasaki, Ethnic Cooperativism and Immigrant Agriculture: A Study of Japanese Floriculture and Truck Farming in California. (Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1982), 39.
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In the depression years of the early 1930s, individual growers on the Peninsula experienced difficulty securing payment on their orders from shippers, who were expected to collect payment from the flowers’ purchasers. In response to these pressures, the California Chrysanthemum Growers Association was founded in Redwood City and formally incorporated on April 6, 1932. With its membership entirely consisting of Japanese American growers, the organization was one of many ethnic cooperatives in northern California’s floriculture industry established in the early decades of the twentieth century.24
After the end of World War II, when many chrysanthemum growers returned to their peninsula farms following forced relocation and internment, production of the flower resumed growth in the area. In the 1950s, Peninsula growers adopted the use of black cloth and artificial lighting to extend the blooming season of chrysanthemums, whose harvest had originally been limited to a short period in the fall.25 Greenhouse growers could harvest three times each year, using steam sterilization and fungicides to prevent root diseases as they reused growing sites.26
Site Development History
When first developed, the current, 0.4-acre subject property was part of the five-acre property referred to as “Lot number 13 in Block J” of the Miramonte subdivision (Map Book G, P 14-15, 1892) (Figure 23). While the owner and use of the subject property is not conclusively known prior to 1929, when the Tachibana family’s ownership of the subject property began, some information regarding the Tachibanas’ general use of the parcel can be understood based on aerial photographs.
The earliest available aerial photograph, dating to 1939, shows the residence and yard at its current location, with the remainder of the larger surrounding parcel subdivided into eight rectangular “fields,” likely corresponding to different crops (Figure 24). In an oral history interview recorded by
22 Yagasaki, Ethnic Cooperativism and Immigrant Agriculture, 46. 23 Jagruti Patel, Japanese Americans in Redwood City: A Local History (Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, San Jose State University, 2004), 5.
24 Brian Niiya, Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present. (New York, NY: The Japanese American National Museum, 1993).
25 California Chrysanthemum Growers Association, Kiku Kumiai, Fifty Years, edited by Hiroji Kariya (Palo Alto: 1981), 9. 26 Gary Kawaguchi, Living With Flowers: The California Flower Market History. (San Francisco: California Flower Market, 1993), 72.
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 the Mountain View Public Library, Sei Tachibana, Wasaburo Tachibana’s wife, recalled that the family grew tomatoes and strawberries at their Mountain View property, and also operated an apricot ranch.27 A 1949 joint tenancy deed in the records of the Santa Clara County Clerk Recorder28 documents that Masao and Hideo Tachibana deeded a 125-foot by 70-foot (0.2-acre) rectangular lot at the northwest corner of their property to Kikuyo and Takashi Sugimoto, however, there is no indication in the aerial photographs or later deeds that the property was developed separately from the Tachibana’s other lands.
In 1956, a row of what appear to be greenhouses were constructed near the center of the parcel to the southeast of the residence (Figure 25). In 1965 and 1968, most of the land within the parcel outside of the residence’s yard was occupied with greenhouses and planted rows, some covered with temporary shade structures (Figure 26 and Figure 27). The difference in appearance between 1965 and 1968 indicates changing uses in different areas of the parcel, potentially corresponding to changing crops and/or seasonally-based shade needs. When Sei Tachibana was interviewed in 1977, she stated that the property was, at that time, used only for growing chrysanthemums.29 In the early 1980s, the Tachibana Nursery belonged to the California Chrysanthemum Growers Association, and was represented by Sei Tachibana, her son and daughter-in-law, Shig and June Tachibana, and son- in-law Sam Hayamizu (Figure 22).30
The change from open crops to a mixture of open crops and greenhouses can be seen outside of the subject parcel as well, with a similar pattern of development across Ada Avenue to the west. In 1980, though the subject parcel and its neighbors facing Ada Avenue remained largely agricultural, suburban residential development bordered the rear of the subject property to the east (Figure 28).
The Tachibana’s five-acre parcel on Ada Avenue appears to have first been subdivided in March 1986 when owners Masao, Shigeru, and Hideo Tachibana filed a parcel map with the County of Santa Clara for Tract No. 7879. This parcel subdivision split the rectangular lot into two parts: an approximately one-acre lot, “Lot 2”, at the southwest corner of the parcel, which included the residence; and the remainder of the property, “Lot 1,” on which 19 detached residential buildings containing a total of 49 condominium units were constructed. In 1997, the southern portion of Tract No. 7879, Lot 2, owned by Hideo Tachibana, was subdivided as Tract No. 8968, Ada Gardens, for
27 Interview with Sei Tachibana, recorded by the Mountain View Public Library, October 10, 1977, electronic resource at https://archive.org/details/cmv_001200, accessed April 28, 2022. Interpreted from Japanese by Aisha Sawatsky. 28 Joint Tenancy Deed, from Masao Tachibana and Hideo Tachibana to Kikuyo Sugimoto and Takashi Sugimoto, October 17. 1949. Records of the Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder, Book 1866, Page 598. 29 Interview with Sei Tachibana, recorded by the Mountain View Public Library, October 10, 1977, electronic resource at https://archive.org/details/cmv_001200, accessed April 28, 2022. Interpreted from Japanese by Aisha Sawatsky. 30 California Chrysanthemum Growers Association, Kiku Kumiai, Fifty Years, edited by Hiroji Kariya (Palo Alto: 1981), 33; nursery worker Sam Hayamizu married Masako Tachibana, Wasaburo and Sei Tachibana’s daughter, between 1955 and 1962.
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Figure 22. Members of the Tachibana Nursery pictured in Kiku Kumiai, ca. 1981. From left, Sam Hayamizu, Shig Tachibana, Sei Tachibana, and June Tachibana.
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Figure 23. Detail of 1892 map of Miramonte Subdivision, County of Santa Clara Volume G, Page 15. Original 5-acre parcel shaded red. Source: County of Santa Clara, edited by Page & Turnbull.
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Figure 24. Aerial view of subject property, 1939. Original five-acre parcel indicated by dashed line. Current parcel indicated by yellow line. Approximate footprint of house shaded yellow. Source: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Flight C-5750, Frame 285-82. Collection of University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, edited by Page & Turnbull.
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Figure 25. Aerial view of subject property, 1956. Original five-acre parcel indicated by dashed line. Current parcel indicated by yellow line. Approximate footprint of current house shaded yellow. Source: Aero Services Corporation, Flight CIV-1956, Frame 2r-36. Collection of University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, edited by Page & Turnbull.
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Figure 26. Aerial view of subject property, 1965. Original five-acre parcel indicated by dashed line. Current parcel indicated by yellow line. Approximate footprint of house shaded yellow. Source: Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Flight CAS-65-130, Frame 5-111. Collection of University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, edited by Page & Turnbull.
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Figure 27. Aerial view of subject property, 1968. Original five-acre parcel indicated by dashed line. Current parcel indicated by yellow line. Approximate footprint of house shaded yellow. Source: Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Flight CAS-2310, Frame 1-107. Collection of University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, edited by Page & Turnbull.
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Figure 28. Aerial view of subject property, 1980. Original five-acre parcel indicated by dashed line. Current parcel indicated by yellow line. Approximate footprint of house shaded yellow. Source: Cartwright Aerial Surveys, Flight GS-VEZR, Frame 1-148. Collection of University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries, edited by Page & Turnbull.
Alterations to the residence itself are more difficult to discern from aerial photographs, due to the resolution of available images and the presence of large, mature trees close to the building through much of its history. The date of construction of the rear wing identified by Kirk as an addition is not known though, based on aerial photographs, it was present by at least 1964. With shingle detail matching that of the house in its east-facing gable, the wing may have been an original one-story rear wing, or may have been constructed as a cottage or accessory building at the time the house was built and later relocated to its current position. Permits on file at the City of Mountain View do not provide information regarding alterations to the property, in part because the parcel was not annexed by the City until 1981, and in part because there appear to have been few changes made to the building itself. The metal roof tiles are visibly non-original, as is the deck at the corner of the east façade of the original building and south façade of the rear wing. Second-story windows on the east, north, and south facades lack header trim, instead intersecting directly with a horizontal band of trim beneath the gable or soffit. It is unclear if this is an original condition, or if it reflects replacement of trim at some point in the building’s history. A barn set to the rear of the house,
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Occupancy History
Milner Family
Born in England in 1840, Isaac Milner moved with his family to the United States as a child, where they settled in upstate New York by 1850, and in Minnesota by 1857.32 Enlisting in the Union Army in Minnesota, Milner served between 1862 and 1866, mustering out as a Corporal. Milner married his wife, Hester, in 1867 and in 1870 lived in St. Paul, Minnesota where he worked as a “peddler.”33 Ten years later, the Milner family lived and farmed in Cass County in the Dakota Territory.34 When the Milners moved to Ada Avenue in 1899, the couple was already 59 years old, and brought with them their only child, Fred Rowntree Milner, then 20 years old, and a 25-year-old niece, Lillian Milner. Prior to 1906, Isaac and Fred Milner opened a men’s clothing and “furnishings” store, “Milner & Son,” which was destroyed by the April 1906 earthquake which devastated San Francisco.35 The father and son opened a new store on Castro Street in Mountain View in 1907 (Figure 29). The store appears to have operated until December of 1915, when Milner & Son advertised the sale of all store and office fixtures.36 Also in December 1915, Isaac Milner, then 74 years old, married Lovina Greiner of Mountain View. While operating their clothing store in Mountain View, the Milners grew apricots and prunes at their Ada Avenue property.37 Isaac Milner died at his Ada Avenue home in 1917.38 His son, Fred R. Milner and daughter in law, Leona Milner had moved to Vallejo, California by 1920.39
31 Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 3.
32 United States Census Bureau, Population Schedules for White Creek, Washington County, New York, 1850; Minnesota Territorial and State Census, Ramsey County,1857.
33 United States Census Bureau, Population Schedules for St. Paul, 4th Ward, Ramsey County, Minnesota, 1870. 34 United States Census Bureau, Population Schedules for Cass County, Dakota Territory, Enumeration District 62, Page 12, 1880.
35 “Mountain View Suffered Heavily by the Earthquake,” San Jose Mercury News, April 21, 1906. 36 Advertisement, San Jose Mercury News, December 30, 1915. 37 “Mr. Milner’s Orchard,” San Jose Mercury News, July 20, 1913. 38 “Isaac Milner Dies at Home, Mountain View,” San Jose Mercury Herald, January 17, 1917. 39 United States Census Bureau, Fourteenth Census of the United States, Population Schedules for Vallejo Township, Solano County, Enumeration District 207, Sheet 4B, 1920
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Figure 29. Fred Milner at the entrance of the Milner & Son clothing store, Mountain View, ca. 1907.
Source: Mountain View Public Library.
Tachibana Family
In 1920, the family of Wasaburo Tachibana (born in 1902), which included his father, Motokichi (born in 1872) and mother, Ko (born in 1873), lived on University Avenue, Los Altos.40 Both Wasaburo and Motokichi worked as farm laborers. All three were born in Japan, with Motokichi coming first to the United States in 1902, followed in 1916 by Ko and Wasaburo. Wasaburo Tachibana returned to Japan in 1922, where he married Sei (born 1903) in December of that year. The couple returned to California, and by 1930 lived on Ada Avenue with five California-born children: Masao (born in 1924), Hideo (born in 1925), Kikuye (born in 1926), Shigeru (born in 1928), and Masako (born in 1930). As of 1930, the five-acre parcel which included the subject property, referred to as “Lot number 13 in Block J” of the Miramonte subdivision (Map Book G, P 14-15, 1892), was legally held in the names Hideo and Masao Tachibana, Wasaburo Tachibana’s two eldest sons (then six and four years old).
This arrangement had been necessitated by exclusionary land ownership laws, most recently the 1923 passage of the Alien Land Law (Chapter 441, Page 1020, Statutes of California). According to
40 United States Census Bureau, Fourteenth Census of the United States, Population Schedules for Fremont Township, Santa Clara County, Enumeration District 125, Sheet 7B, 1920.
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As of 1940, the Tachibana family operated a berry farm at their Ada Avenue property. The household still consisted of Wasaburo and Sei Tachibana, their five children between the ages of 16 and 10, and Wasaburo’s parents, Motokichi and Ko Tachibana.41
Following passage of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, the Tachibana family faced mandatory relocation and internment. Sei, the five Tachibana children, and Wasaburo’s parents, Motokichi and Ko, were held at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from approximately June until September 1942, after which they were interned at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming relocation center, at the address 30-19-C, until 1945. Wasaburo Tachibana was held at a detention camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico until he was transferred to Heart Mountain in December 1943. During their time at the camp, the Tachibana family published announcements in the camp’s newsletter, the Heart Mountain Sentinel, thanking neighbors for the send-offs given for their sons Hideo and Masao as they each departed for active service in the United States Army. 42
By 1950, most of the Tachibana family had returned to their property at 177 Ada Avenue and resumed farming. Wasaburo Tachibana helped found the Mountain View Buddhist Association in 1954, which helped provide a post-war organizational and cultural focus for some Japanese American residents of Mountain View.43 Masao (“Mas”) Tachibana, the eldest son of Wasaburo and Sei Tachibana, moved to Santa Cruz in the 1950s, where he contributed to the establishment of a flower nursery. Mas Tachibana was a partner in Sakae Brothers nursery, which grew carnations in Capitola and La Selva Beach. This nursery opened in 1955 when “smog became a problem” at the Sakae Brothers’ Mountain View nursery, which was located near the intersection of Alviso Road South and Whisman Avenue, not far to the southeast of the subject property.44 Between 1962 and 1968, nursery worker Sam Hayamizu and the Tachibana Nursery were listed in Mountain View city directories at 177 Ada Avenue. Shig Tachibana, who had taken over ownership of the family’s nursery, lived across the street at 172 Ada Avenue.45
41 United States Census Bureau, Sixteenth Census of the United States, Population Schedules for Fremont Township, Santa Clara County, Enumeration District 43, Sheet 8B, 1940.
42 Heart Mountain Sentinel, August 5, 1944; April 7, 1945. 43 Mountain View Buddhist Temple, “Our History,” electronic resource at https://mvbuddhisttemple.org/about-mvbt/our- history/, accessed May 8, 2022.
44 Margaret Koch, “Cut-Flower Grower’s Life is Far From Being Bed of Roses,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 17, 1961; Mountain View City Directory, 1964.
45 As of a 1964 survey map filed with the County of Santa Clara for a Portion of Block “N” of the Miramonte Subdivision in Mountain View, Shigeru Tachibana owned a one-acre parcel at 172 Ada Avenue, across the road to the west of the subject property. The parcel was subdivided for condominiums in 1989 as Lot 1 of Tract No. 8242. The ownership and development history of this property has not been researched further as part of this peer review.
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Significance Evaluation
Although the subject property’s agricultural setting has been compromised, the house at 177 Ada Avenue does appear to be significant under Criterion C/3 (Architecture) as a good example of a late- nineteenth or early twentieth-century family home from Mountain View’s years of agricultural growth. Built as a vernacular interpretation of Greek Revival and Folk Victorian architectural styles popular around the time of its construction, 177 Ada Avenue is a rare remaining example of a once- rural property on its original site which, though surrounded by more recent developments, provides a visual linkage to an important period of the city’s history. It appears to retain sufficient integrity of location, design, materials, and workmanship to convey its significance. With its deep setback and treed lot, the property retains some integrity of feeling and association. It is visibly distinct in its development history from neighboring properties. Based on land title evidence that the Tachibana family purchased the original 5-acre parcel containing the subject property from the Milner family, who began building their first home on Ada Avenue in1899, Page & Turnbull recommends revising the Period of Significance to ca. 1899-1900.
Page & Turnbull’s research regarding 177 Ada Avenue provided additional context about the Tachibana family’s occupation of the property to that provided in Carey & Co. Inc. and Anthony Kirk’s previous evaluations. Residing at the property at least as early as 1929, the focus of the family’s work for their first two decades at the five-acre property was fruit growing, as the use of the land had been under the Milners’ ownership. During the post-World War II period, after more than 50 years of development of Japanese American floriculture in the San Francisco Bay area, members of the Tachibana family began commercial production of cut flowers at their Santa Clara County, and later Santa Cruz County, properties. While Mas Tachibana expanded the production of flowers in the Capitola area, his family does not appear to have been early or influential growers in commercial flower production in Mountain View or Santa Clara County. When they began focusing on flowers, they were participating in a larger pattern which had been established by two earlier generations of Japanese American flower growers in northern California.
Where the Tachibana family does appear to be significant, however, is by strongly representing many aspects of the experience of Japanese American families in California during the first half of the twentieth century. This includes their experience with legal restrictions on land ownership by Japanese-born residents, relocation and internment during World War II, followed by a return to their family’s home and industry in Mountain View in the post-war years. The Tachibana family’s story, as experienced at 177 Ada Avenue, was aligned with that of many California families of Japanese descent. Despite the significance of stories like that of the Tachibanas, the residence at 177 Ada Avenue does not appear to be eligible for the National Register or California Register under DRAFT
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 Criterion A/1 or B/2 for its association with Japanese American fruit and flower growers, or for the Tachibana family. The significance of the property in relation to these themes would be conveyed better in the agricultural character of the overall property, which no longer exists, than in the house by itself. Unfortunately, the subdivision of the original and surrounding parcels, and development of a dense residential subdivision around the house, has diminished the setting and association of the building with its agricultural history. While still situated on a relatively large lot compared to neighboring properties, the house alone does not convey an association with the fruit and flower growing which took place there from the early twentieth century through the 1980s.
Character-Defining Features
Character-defining features of the residence at 177 Ada Avenue related to its significance under Criterion C/3 (Architecture), with a period of significance of ca. 1899-1900 include, but may not be limited to:
• Two-story massing with irregular footprint, including rear wing • Steeply pitched, cross-gabled roof with eave returns
• Wood v-rustic siding
• Front porch spanning the primary façade, with wood floor and ceiling, simple column supports and railing, and a hipped porch roof with pediment over entry. • Decorative square butt and diamond shingle pattern in gable ends • Original wood windows, including double-hung and diamond-lite casement, where present • Oeil-de-boeuf windows at the front and rear gables of the main house • Greater setback on property than at neighboring residential buildings
Features which are not original and/or which are not character-defining include:
• Existing curved metal tile roof cladding
• Small shed-roof addition at east façade
• Roof-mounted antenna
• Doors and trim at secondary entrances on north and east facades • Wood deck at rear (east) of building, south of rear wing • Existing outbuildings and site features, including vehicle circulation and paved areas
CONCLUSION
Page & Turnbull reviewed DPR 523 forms prepared by Carey & Co., Inc. in 2007 and DPR 523 forms prepared by Anthony Kirk in 2022 for the property at 177 Ada Avenue in Mountain View, California.
In addition, Page & Turnbull staff conducted a site visit and supplemental historic research to document existing physical characteristics and evaluate the property’s historic significance. Page & Turnbull concurs with Carey & Co., Inc.’s determination that the house at 177 Ada Avenue is eligible DRAFT
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PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154 for listing on the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3 (Architecture) as a good example of a late-nineteenth- to early twentieth-century family residence associated with one of the many small family farms and orchards which surrounded Mountain View until the last decades of the twentieth century.
Based on supplemental research, Page & Turnbull found that 177 Ada Avenue is associated with the potentially significant Tachibana Family, and with the history of Japanese American families in Mountain View and other Peninsula communities. However, due to loss of integrity caused by subdivision of the original five-acre agricultural property and construction of suburban residential subdivisions surrounding the property, the house at 177 Ada Avenue cannot convey its significance related to these significant themes.
While the property was removed from the Mountain View Register by voluntary action of the owner in 2005, its eligibility for listing on the California Register provides a basis for the City of Mountain View, as lead agency under CEQA, to define the property as a historical resource for the purposes of environmental review.
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APPENDIX A
Carey & Co., Inc., DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2007.
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View Date: T ; R ; ¼ of ¼ of Sec ; M.D. B.M. c. Address: 177 Ada Avenue City: Mountain View Zip: 94043 d. UTM: Zone: 10 ; mE/ mN (G.P.S.)
e. Other Locational Data: Elevation:
Assessor Parcel Number: 160-46-057
*P3a. Description:
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2, Single-family property; HP6, 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5b. Description of Photo:
View of the west façade; September 19,
2007
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources:
Historic Prehistoric Both
c. 1911; Mountain View Register-Leader
*P7. Owner and Address:
Sam O. Hayamizu
1495 E San Martin Ave
San Martin, CA 95046
*P8. Recorded by:
Carey & Co., Inc.
460 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
December 2007
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
P5a. Photo or Drawing
This turn-of-the-century home is a two-story, rectangular-in-plan structure with a steeply pitched, front gable roof clad in asphalt shingles. The building is clad in wood horizontal siding and has a full-width porch with round column supports.
The primary window type is wood-sash, nine-over-one, double-hung. Wood shingles and a wood-sash oxeye window (obscured by trees in the photo below) are located in the front gable. Four additional one-story structures associated with the greenhouse are located at the rear of the lot.
*P11. Report Citation: Carey & Co. Citywide Historic Properties Survey, Mountain View, California. September 1, 2008.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List):
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 177 Ada Avenue
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Single-family home B4. Present Use: Nursery *B5. Architectural Style: National Folk/Colonial Revival *B6. Construction History: Constructed around 1911.
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None.
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Hill and Lindholm *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: c. 1911-1921 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
Little is known about this house, since it does not appear on the citys Sanborn Maps, and city directories did not uniformly list addresses of occupants in the 1910s. An newspaper article from 1911 announced the construction of a commodious residence by building contractors Hill and Lindholm for Mr. Houseman on Ada Avenue but did not give an exact address. The city directory published in 1926 lists Frederick G. Houseman as the only occupant on Ada Avenue; therefore, it is possible that this farmhouse was constructed around 1911 for Houseman. However, additional research would need to be conducted to establish this connection. Frederick G. Houseman (1850-1921) was born in England and immigrated to California around 1880, after serving the British Empire in Australia. He first settled in Watsonville and worked in the apple industry. Houseman moved to Mountain View in 1908, where he established an orchard business and built this house on Ada Street for his wife and six children in 1911. One daughter, Edith, became a milliner in a gown shop.
The property was later converted into a nursery, and the surrounding one-story buildings associated with the greenhouse
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
*B12. References:
See continuation sheet.
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Carey & Co., Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: December 2007
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Carey & Co., Inc. *Date: December 2007 Continuation Update
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
Continuation of B10. Significance:
were constructed. In 1982, owner Masao & Shigaru Tachibana applied for a permit to build the 60-unit condominium structure that now occupies the land adjacent to the structure, land that formerly comprised the orchards at 177 Ada Avenue.
This property does not appear to be eligible for the NRHP/CRHR under Criteria A/1, B/2, or D/4. It is not associated with persons, events or broad patterns important to local, California or National history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. However, the house appears to be eligible under for the NRHP/CRHR under Criteria C/3 as a good example of National Folk/Colonial Revival architecture from the early twentieth century. The house itself retains a high level of integrity and appears to have undergone few alterations, including a replacement window on the main façade. Although its setting has been significantly altered with the construction of the modern structures, such as the condominiums, it continues to convey its significance as an early Mountain View farmhouse. The house is set back from the street and partially obscured by vegetation, so a closer inspection would need to be conducted to fully assess its integrity.
Continuation of B12. References:
Fastweb Property Profile. 177 Ada Avenue. http://fwprodweb1.firstam.com/FastWeb/FASTOrder/PropertyLookUp (accessed October 1, 2007).
Mountain View City Directories, 1896-2005.
Mountain View Register-Leader.
Building Permit Records, Community Development Department, City of Mountain View.
Mountain View Preservation Alliance. Ada Avenue Farm House. http//www.mv-pa.org/properties/177Ada/index.html (accessed August 15, 2007).
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177 Ada Avenue, Mountain View, Peer Review Memorandum [22036] Appendices
PAGE & TURNBULL 170 MAIDEN LANE, 5TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94108 TEL 415-362-5154
APPENDIX B
Anthony Kirk, DPR 523 Forms for 177 Ada Avenue, 2022.
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DPR 523A (1/95) *Required Information
State of California -- The Resources Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
Primary # ___________________________________________
HRI # ______________________________________________
Trinomial ___________________________________________
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code ______ Reviewer ______________________ Date _______________________
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Santa Clara and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary) *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad Mountain View Date 1995 T 6 S; R ; 2 W; Sec 22; Mount Diablo B.M. c. Address 177 Ada Avenue City Mountain View Zip 94043 d. UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources) Zone ; mE/ mN e. Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc., as appropriate) Santa Clara County APN 160-046-057
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting and boundaries) The single-family residence at 177 Ada Avenue is a two-story wood-frame house that was constructed in 1900, according to the Mountain View Register of Historic Resources (DPR 523A photo and figure 1). It faces west by north, or west as it described in this report for simplicity and clarity, toward Ada Avenue. It is irregular in plan and rests on a concrete perimeter foundation. A single addition was made to the rear of the house at an unknown date. On the west side two concrete steps lead to a full-width front porch with a wooden floor. The original glazed-and-paneled door provides entrance to the house. A wooden balustrade runs along the edge of the porch and three wooden columns, set on large pedestals, support a hipped and gabled roof. Fenestration is asymmetrical and consists chiefly of double-hung wood-sash windows of various configurations, one-over-one, six-over-one, and nine-over-one. Two casement windows with diamond lights provide illumination for the staircase. The exterior walls are clad with v-rustic siding. The upper section of the gables, the portion above the windows, are clad with patterned shingles. An oeil-de-boeuf window, with four decorative wooden strips, enlivens the front and back gables. The addition at the rear of the houses encloses some four- hundred square feet and is characterized by screened windows on the east and south sides. The steeply pitched cross- gable roof is characterized by closed eaves with little overhang and is finished with metal tiles (continued on page 3)
P5b. Description of Photo: (View,
date, accession #) Looking southeast at
north and west sides of house,
12/17/21.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: Historic
Prehistoric Both
1900; Mountain View Register of
Historic Resources
*P7. Owner and Address:
Judy Hayamizu
16689 Rock Creek Road
Nevada City, CA 95959
*P8. Recorded by: (Name,
affiliation, and address)
Anthony Kirk, Ph.D.
2644 State Street, No. 22
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
*P9. Date Recorded: 1/7/22
*P10. Survey Type: (Describe)
Intensive
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP2 – Single Family Property *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) *P11. Report Citation: (cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none.”) None
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List)
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DPR 523B (1/95) *Required Information
State of California -- The Resources Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
Primary # __________________________________________
HRI # _____________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 177 Ada Avenue
B1. Historic Name: None
B2. Common Name: None
B3. Original Use: Single-family residence B4. Present Use: Multiple-family residence *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman; no style
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alteration, and date of alterations) Constructed 1900; addition to rear of house ca. 1950-70.
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features:
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme n/a Area n/a
Period of Significance n/a Property Type n/a Applicable Criteria n/a (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Address integrity.)
The City of Mountain View began as a stagecoach stop on El Camino Real, which linked San Francisco and San Jose. In 1852 a stagecoach stop was established southeast of Stevens Creek. It was named Mountain View by the village’s first postmaster, Jacob Shumway, because both the Diablo and Santa Cruz Mountain Ranges could be seen. The railroad arrived in the 1860s, which rendered the stagecoach stop obsolete. The railroad divided the village into two sections, the old and the new. With the passage of time, the center of the village shifted to New Mountain View. Agriculture was the earliest local industry, with surrounding acreage devoted to the raising of grain and hay. Wheat fields gradually gave way to specialized crops, such as avocados, asparagus, and beet root. With the passage of years, fruit orchards came to dominate Santa Clara Valley. By the turn of the century, three thousand small farms populated the Valley of Heart’s Delight.” The town of Mountain View was incorporated in 1902, a year or two after Motokichi Tachibana acquired land on what became Ada Avenue. At the time, a thousand or so residents lived within its boundaries of Mountain View. It served as a shipping point for agricultural products, chiefly fruit. In 1922, according to the History of Santa Clara County, California, written by Eugene T. Sawyer, “millions of the choicest flowers known to the florists’ art” were grown in greenhouses outside the corporate limits of Mountain View. The author, unfortunately, fails to mention anything about the growing of flowers within the town. There is but a single mention of (continued on page 3)
(This space reserved for official comments.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes (List attributes and codes):
*B12. References:
Improvement Appraisal Record, 177 Ada Avenue, Office of the Santa Clara County Assessor.
Archives & Architecture, County of Santa Clara, Heritage Resource Inventory Update; Historic Context Statement (2011).
Carey & Co., Citywide Historic Properties Survey, City of Mountain View (2009).
Eugene T. Sawyer, History of Santa Clara County, California (Los Angeles, 1922)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Anthony Kirk, Ph.D.
*Date of Evaluation: 1/6/22
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
CONTINUATION SHEET
Primary #
HRI#
Trinomial
*Recorded by Anthony Kirk, Ph.D. *Date 1/7/22 x Continuation o Update
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required Information
P3a. Description:
that possess an outer layer of asphalt. They were installed in 1985, replacing the original wooden shingles.
The house, which appears to be in very poor condition, is currently rented to four tenants. It sits far back from Ada Avenue on a large lot that is surrounded by condominium and townhouse complexes. An unpaved driveway runs along the north side of the lot to a backyard, where six outbuildings, all less than fifty-years old, stand. A photograph pasted to the Santa Clara County Improvement Appraisal Record for the property shows a large tankhouse at the rear of the property, near the north side of the parcel. It was demolished in 1988 according to the Appraisal Record. Parenthetically, this two-page form is devoid of all information typically associated with an Improvement Appraisal Record, including a plat of the house and relevant details, such as the date or estimated date of construction, and the character of the roofing, exterior siding, and windows. It notes only that it was owned by a Flower Grower, which would have been Motokichi Tachibana, a Japanese immigrant who had arrived in California in 1903 with his wife, Ko Tachibana. Tachibana, a farmer who raised flowers, died in October 1951, and according to his obituary, in the Mountain View Register, he had resided in Mountain View for forty-nine years. As such the house on Ada Avenue may have been built for him and his family.
Nothing is known about him as a flower grower, such as how many acres he owned and whether he grew only flowers.
The wife of his only son, Wasaburo Tachibana, was interviewed in October 1977 and stated that she and her husband leased land on Ada Avenue and subsequently purchased it, but she did not mention if it was close to property owned by Tachibana. Upon the death of Tachibana, the property was purchased by Sam Hayamizu, who continued to operate the business until the mid-1960s and possibly later as Tachibana Nursery. It subsequently came into the possession of his daughter, who has rented the house to for some years.
B10. Significance:
agriculture in the Citywide Historic Properties Survey, City of Mountain View, prepared in 2008 by the San Francisco firm Carey & Co. It states that agriculture, particularly the fruit industry, depended on Chinese labor. Slightly more information is available in the Historic Context Statement for the County of Santa Clara, published in 2004 and revised in 2011 by the firm Archives & Architecture, but even this volume does not address the growth of the flower industry.
The property at 177 Ada Avenue is not associated with events that have made an important contribution the broad patterns of United States or California history. Flower growing was apparently a significant enterprise in Mountain View, but it is unknown whether the flower-growing enterprise owned by Motokichi Tachibana was an important business, or whether he was a large or small flower grower. After the death of Tachibana, the property was acquired by Sam Hayamizu, who continued to operate the business until the mid-1960s, and possibly later, as Tachibana Nursery. No information on what plants Hayamizu grew and offered for sale has come to light. Within this context it should be noted that there were no greenhouses on the land owned by Tachibana and later Hayamizu and that no greenhouses appear on the pages of Google Earth Pro, which provides an excellent view of the Ada Avenue area dating back to 1948. The property does not appear to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, the California Register of Historical Resources under Criterion1, or the Mountain View Register of Historical Resources under Criterion B. Because nothing is known about flower growing on the property, it is impossible to state whether Motokichi Tachibana or Sam Hayamizu was significant for contributing to the culture, history, or development of Mountain View. As such the house appears not to be eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion B, the California Register under Criterion 2 or the Mountain View Register under Criterion A. Architecturally, the house possesses no pattern of physical features, or attributes, associated with a particular style. It is not known to be the work of a prominent architect nor a master builder. It lacks meaningful architectural interest and is not significant, even at the local level. The house does not appear to be eligible for listing in the N ational Register under Criterion C, the California Register under Criterion 3, or the Mountain View Register under Criterion C. Like most other single-family residences there is no evidence that it is likely to yield information important to history. It appears not to be eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion D, the California Register under Criterion 4, or the Mountain View Register under Criterion D. In my opinion, the property should be removed from the Mountain View Register of Historical Resources.
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
CONTINUATION SHEET
Primary #
HRI#
Trinomial
*Recorded by Anthony Kirk, Ph.D. *Date 1/7/22 x Continuation o Update
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required Information
Figure 1. Looking southwest at east
and north sides, 12/17/21.
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier: 1195 BONITA AV
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1181 BONITA AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94040-3109 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 19306023 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement, Fixed Window Material: Wood
Porch: Engaged, Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Prairie style wood windows; and square wood columns at recessed (engaged) porch. The parcel contains the subject Craftsman style residence addressed 1181 Bonita Avenue, as well as a Minimal Traditional single-family residence addressed 1195 Bonita Avenue.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 15, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1930; Mountain View Register
*P7. Owner and Address:
MANOLI JOSEPHINE A, 1195 BONITA AVE,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 1181 BONITA AV
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 1181 Bonita Avenue was built ca.1930 and has continued to be used as a single-family residence. A second house, addressed 1195 Bonita Avenue is located on the same lot, but was built ca.1951 and is not the subject of this evaluation.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca.1930 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Cuesta Park neighborhood designed in the Craftsman style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The earliest owners or occupants were not identified through the course of research.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The subject building appears largely unaltered apart from a concrete stoop at the primary facade and a rear porch and deck, added at unknown dates.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, the residence is currently listed on the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Architecture) and continues to retain historic integrity and eligibility. The period of significance is ca.1930, the approximate date of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Gabled roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails Recessed (engaged) porch with wood fluted columns
Wood clapboard siding
Fenestration pattern and original Prairie-style wood windows with flat wood surrounds and sills Wood vent in gable end.
Continuation of B12. References:
“Historic Preservation Permit-1181 Bonita Avenue.” City of Mountain View Department of Community Development, June 23, 2009. https:/ /laserfiche.mountainview.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=46993&dbid=0&repo=CityDocuments.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial
NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
Review Code Reviewer Date
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 206 BUSH ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1331 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15822032 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable, Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel, Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Vinyl
Porch: Partial Width, Secondary/Rear Garage: Detached Garage Other Architectural/Site Features:
Cross-hipped roof with primary front-gabled bay; shiplap wood siding with fish scale wood shingles at the gable end; partial-width entry porch with turned-spindle posts; and partial-width side porch. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1904; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
LI ARTHUR AND CHI PATTY TRUSTEE, 4152
WILLMAR DR, PALO ALTO CA 94306
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 206 BUSH ST
B1. Historic Name: James Shower House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History:
206 Bush Street was built in 1904. It first appears on the 1908 Sanborn Map with the address 22 Bush Street, which was changed to 206 Bush Street sometime before 1921. At the rear of the parcel, a two-story carriage house or barn is shown on the 1921 Sanborn map addressed 22 1/2 Bush Street. The carriage house/barn was converted to a residence in the 1920s and later subdivided onto its own parcel and replaced with a larger residential building in the 1940s.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1904 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: B/2 (Persons), C/3 (Design)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Old Mountain View neighborhood designed in the Folk Victorian style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
It was built around 1904 and first occupied by James Showers. Showers worked as a sheriff in Bodie, California and as a peace o fficer in Santa Fe, New Mexico before relocating to the Santa Clara Valley. By 1889, he was listed in county directories as a farmer. Before his death in 1910, Showers was active in the Mountain View community and served on the Board of School Trustees and as a delegate to the State Convention in Stockton.
By the 1920s, the rear carriage house/barn was converted to residential use and occupied consecutively by two Japanese-American families, the Matsui and Sato families. By 1943, it was enlarged or replaced with a larger residential building with T-shaped plan.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
From analysis of historic aerial photographs, the detached garage appears to have been built ca.1960s. The windows were replaced with vinyl at an unknown date. No further alterations were noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
206 Bush appears to retain eligibility for the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under Criterion B/1/a (Persons) for its association with prominent early civic leader James Showers; and under Criterion C/3/c (Design) as a good local surviving example of Folk Victorian residential design reflective of Mountain View's early patterns of development.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Pedimented front-gabled bay with fish scale shingles
Partial-width porches at the primary and side facades, with turned spindle posts at the front porch Horizontal shiplap siding
Original fenestration.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1888, 1891, 1897, 1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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NRHP Status Code
Other Listings
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 272 BUSH ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1331 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15822048 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable, Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Drop/Groove, Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Bay Window, Double-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Partial Width, Secondary/Rear Garage: Detached Garage Other Architectural/Site Features: Front-gabled roof above a bay window has shingles in gable end, and is next to a partial-width porch with turned-spindle balusters. A garage with attached ADU is set back at the rear of the property. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1900; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
YARWOOD KEITH AND MCCORMACK
CAROLINE, 272 BUSH ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 272 BUSH ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian
*B6. Construction History: The subject property was constructed c.1900. A gabled addition was added in 2005 to the north side facade, and a covered side porch was added to the south side facade at an unknown date.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca.1900 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
272 Bush Street is a Folk Victorian single-family residence located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The property was built ca.1900 and is a good local example of a transitional Folk Victorian cottage built during an early period of residential development in Mountain View.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The garage was originally located at the northwest rear corner of the property and has since been converted to residential use. A new, additional rear garage building with an attached ADU was constructed on the property's southwest corner at an unknown date. No further alterations were identified through research or visual analysis.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
272 Bush Street appears eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register at the local level under Criterion C/3 as a good and rare surviving local example of an early 20th-century transitional Folk Victorian cottage. It is otherwise not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. Despite several alterations including additions to the north and south facades, the additions are minimally visible from the public right-of-way and do no impact the overall original form and massing. Therefore, the residence retains sufficient historic integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. The period of significance is ca.1900, the estimated year of construction. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Hipped roof with front-gabled bay
Partial-width porch with turned spindle baluster and decorative brackets Vented gable end with shingle cladding
Bay window
Original double-hung wood sash windows
T ongue and groove wood siding.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 415 BUSH ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2105 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15830020 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Wood Shingle
Exterior Material: Half Timber/Faux Half Timber Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Dormer, Double-Hung, Fixed Window Material: Wood Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Chimney partially clad with brick, clapboard siding at the gable ends, and shingle siding at the shed dormer. Detached garage with vertical wood plank doors. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1935; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
BETTMAN R B AND KATHLEEN H TRUSTEE, 415
BUSH ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 415 BUSH ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Tudor Revival/English Cottage *B6. Construction History: 415 Bush Street was built in 1935 as part of the development of Palmita Park, a subdivision planned and built by the Minton Lumber Company. The subject property was designed by Dole F. Thomson and Erwin Reichel. The detached garage was constructed together with the main residence, as evidenced by original drawings.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Garage
B9a. Architect: Dole F. Thomson; Erwin R. Reichel b. Builder: The Minton Company *B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1935 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
415 Bush Street is a Tudor Revival style single-family residence located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 415 Bush Street was built in 1935 as part of the development of Palmita Park, a subdivision planned and built by the Minton Lumber Company.
Palmita Park subdivision is a residential neighborhood bounded by Bush, Dana, and Velarde Streets and Calderon Avenue. It was developed over 20 years, beginning in 1924, by the Minton Lumber Company and Bert Holeman, a local businessman. The Minton Lumber Company was founded in 1911. Bert Holeman was a Kansas native who arrived in Mountain View in 1912. He founded the First National Bank in Mountain View, for which he served as president until 1925. In 1923, the Minton Lumber Company bought 9.5 acres fronting Calderon Avenue from W. A. Goodpasture and 4.5 acres fronting Bush Street from Bert Holeman. Holeman collaborated with the Minton Company to promote residential development on the combined 14 acres. A contest to name the new subdivision elicited the name Palmita Park; palm trees were planted along the Bush Street frontage in honor of the subdivision’s new name. In March 1924, Palmita Park was annexed to Mountain View. Between 1924 and 1925, the developers graded, curbed, paved, and installed sewer, water, gas, electric and telephone service for lots along the frontage on Bush, Loreto, Anza, and Velarde Streets. In 1926, the Minton Company added Westinghouse electroliers (streetlights) to the subdivision. Lots were sold only to buyers who, at the time of purchase, made a contract with the Minton Company for the construction of a home. The contract included the planting of lawns and shrubbery, and house sites were established with a common setback and uniform distance from lot lines.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
None
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In 2003, alterations were made to the fenestration of the west facade facing Bush Street. The southern (right) dormer window of the west facade was replaced in-kind, and the northernmost (left) double-hung window at the grade level was replaced and infilled with a smaller, fixed window. The central window (along the northern side of the west facade) was also replaced in-kind, and a double-hung window (aligned to the right side) was compatibly installed to replace an existing, smaller double-hung window. At an unknown date, a double-hung wood window was installed at the gable end of the garage facing Bush Street. No further major exterior alterations were noted.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
Construction started from Bush Street at Loreto and moved east toward Calderon Avenue. Advertisements in the Mountain View Register Leader in 1924 and 1925 suggest that some of the subdivision’s early houses were built on speculation by the Minton Company for immediate purchase while others were built according to the Minton company's plan books from which buyers could select a plan and style for customized construction. The Palmita Park houses built in the 1920s and early 1930s exhibit the range of cottage and period revival styles popular in that decade; however, the Great Depression interrupted the full build-out of the subdivision. Houses from the late 1930s and the post-World War II building boom in the Minimal Traditional style appear to have filled out the remaining blocks. 415 Bush Street was designed by Dole F. Thomson and Erwin R. Reichel.
415 Bush Street appears eligible for the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3 as an excellent local example of Tudor Revival architecture. Apart from a grouping of windows replaced in 2003, the property appears minimally altered and retains sufficient integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. The period of significance is 1935, the year of construction. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Setback from the street and lot size
Steeply pitched gable roof with wood shingles
Stucco and faux half-timbered style cladding
Exterior stucco chimney with brick base
Entrance portico
Dormer with shingle siding
Curved bargeboards
Wood-paneled gable ends
Fenestration pattern and original one-over-two double-hung wood sash windows Detached garage with vertical wood plank garage doors.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 537 BUSH ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2107 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15825074 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Queen Anne Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2.5
Roof Style: Cross-gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Stucco, Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Bay Window, Casement, Dormer, Fixed, Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Enclosed Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features:
Curved enclosed entry porch and exterior chimney at the primary facade. The gable ends are clad with fish scale shingles and feature eave returns. The upper sash of wood windows have lancet patterned leaded glass. Multiple shed-roofed dormers.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1912; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
PRATI MASSIMO TRUSTEE & ET AL, 537 BUSH ST,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 537 BUSH ST
B1. Historic Name: Ward-Minton House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Queen Anne
*B6. Construction History: 537 Bush Street was constructed from 1911 to 1912. From comparison with the 1921 and 1956 Sanborn maps, it appears that the only change to the building footprint is a one-story rear addition at the northeast corner sometime after 1956. Some of the shed roof dormers may be additions.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: None b. Builder: John R. Ward
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1912 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
537 Bush Street is a Queen Anne style single-family residence located in Old Mountain View, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The subject property was built by John R. and Hannah Ward as a personal residence for their family. It was occupied by Earl D. Minton (1888-1955) from 1940 through his death in 1955, however, the Minton family retained ownership through the early 1990s. Earl Minton founded the Minton Lumber Company, a notable local building company known for developing the Palmita Park subdivision.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
From the review of a 1977 photograph, the original brick chimney on the primary west facade has been covered with wood shingles. The north side facade also appears to have been reclad with stucco at an unknown date. Sanborn Insurance Maps show that the two rear outbuildings were constructed sometime after 1956.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
537 Bush Street appears eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3 (Design) as a distinct local example of the Queen Anne style with elements of Colonial Revival. The property appears largely unaltered and retains sufficient integrity for the National Register and California Register. The period of significance is 1912, the year of construction. Despite the association with Earl Minton, the subject property does not appear eligible under Criterion 2 (Persons) as it does not reflect the most important period of Minton's career during the 1920s and 1930s. The property is not associated with any other persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. This evaluation does not address eligibility for the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Cross-gabled roof with eave returns
Wood shingle siding with fish scale shingles at the gable ends Rounded, enclosed entry porch
Bay windows
Fenestration pattern, including original wood double-hung casement and fixed windows, some with lancet-shaped leaded glass.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online September 2024, https:/ /www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
Ward-Minton Home. 1977. Photograph. California Revealed from Mountain View Public Library. https:/ /californiarevealed.org/do/4b6bebd9-a5fa-48f5-a6e1-556402422b9f#page/1.
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P1. Other Identifier: 411 CALDERON AV, 445 CALDERON AV
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 449 CALDERON AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15857001 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Italianate Plan Shape: L-Shape
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Wood, Metal
Porch: Attached, Partial Width Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Site also contains a newer three-story multi-family residential building. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1885; Carey & Co. Inc. “445 Calderon Avenue.”
Historic Resource Evaluation, May 11, 2010.
*P7. Owner and Address:
BRILL DERK T TRUSTEE & ET AL, 411 CALDERON
AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 449 CALDERON AV
B1. Historic Name: Abbott/Bakotich House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Italianate
*B6. Construction History:
The building was constructed ca.1885 by Charles M. Abbott as a single-residence with an orchard. It was originally part of a larger estate that has since been subdivided and infilled with new development. Sometime prior to 1956, the residence was moved by owner James Bakotich to the front of the parcel, closer to Calderon Avenue with a small setback behind several mature trees.
Bakotich also laid a new foundation, replaced the original wood porch platform with concrete, and excavated a basement with a door installed at the rear of the property.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? No ✓ Yes Unknown Date: ca.1956; 2013 Original Location: 445 Calderon Avenue *B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: None b. Builder: Charles M. Abbott
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca.1885-1926 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons) Statement of Significance:
441 Calderon Avenue is a community amenity building, originally built as a single-family residence in the Italianate style, located in Old Mountain View and associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 441 Calderon Avenue (also listed in archival records as 445 Calderon) was built ca.1885 as a farmhouse by Charles M.
Abbott, a prominent early orchardist and builder. It was originally sited on a much larger parcel with apricot, walnut, and cherry orchards.
Abbott, a native of New Hampshire, was trained as a carpenter and constructed several early large farmhouses in Mountain View (all since demolished). After settling in Mountain View in 1885 with his wife, Emma, Abbott built two houses- the subject property on Calderon Avenue and one at Hope and Villa streets (non-extant). The family resided at the house until ca.1888. By 1926, it was purchased by Antoinette and James Bakotich, immigrants from Yugoslavia, who resided at the property through their respective deaths in 1956 and 1979.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Other unrecorded alterations include the installation of a window on the former hayloft door in a gable end and replacement of the two front windows with wood sash (without ogee lugs). A rear porch was constructed at an unknown date, and an accessible ramp was added in 1992.
This rear porch, along with the original hayloft gable, were demolished at an unknown date. A review of Google Maps street view and historic aerial imagery shows that the building was rotated and moved again in 2013 as part of a 19-unit senior housing development project. The original landscaping was completely removed and the residence was partially demolished; the residence with rectangular wings extending out of a central square volume was altered to it's current L-plan configuration. Any original windows have also been replaced. The building is now used as a common space for the adjacent multi-family development.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
441 Calderon Avenue is currently listed on the Mountain View Register and retains eligibility under Criteria a as one of Mountain View's earliest surviving farmhouses built during a period of early agricultural development by an important early builder and orchardist, Charles M.
Abbott. The property's later association with the Bakotich family does not appear to rise to the necessary level of significance. Due to being moved and altered significantly including changes to massing, setting, use, and materials, the property does not retain sufficient historic integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility for association with Charles M. Abbott under Criterion a (Persons). The removal of the agricultural setting and the significant alterations to the building's overall design and massing have diminished its integrity under Criterion b (Events) and Criterion c (Architecture)..
The period of significance is ca.1885, the estimated date of construction, to 1926, the year that the Abbotts sold the property.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
One-story height with hipped roof
T ongue and groove wood siding
Overhaning boxed eave with decorative brackets
Partial-width porch with square columns, stick work, and decorative brackets Original openings and fenestration
One-over-one double-hung windows.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc. “445 Calderon Avenue.” Historic Resource Evaluation, May 11, 2010.
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Google Maps and Google Earth Pro, historic aerial and street view imagery.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online October 2024, https:/ /www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 711 CALDERON AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2313 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15804001 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: First Bay Tradition Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Compound, Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle, With Photovoltaic Panels Exterior Material: Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Dormer, Double-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Engaged Corner Porch Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features:
At time of survey fieldwork, the building had been raised off its foundation, rotated and relocated on site, and was under renovation. Other notable architectural features include the boxed eaves with exposed rafter tails and a denticulated cornice. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
ca.1900; Mountain View Register
*P7. Owner and Address:
WHITMAN JULI A TRUSTEE & ET AL, 789 CALMAR
AVE, OAKLAND CA 94610
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 711 CALDERON AV
B1. Historic Name: E.T. Johnson House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: First Bay Tradition
*B6. Construction History: 711 Calderon Avenue was built ca.1900. Analysis of historic photographs dating from the early 1900s and 1977 shows that the subject building was originally accessed through a set of wood-frame stairs with a stepped baluster, and at the rear facade, a wood frame stoop was covered with a shed portico. At an unknown date, the baluster at the front porch entryway was replaced with a solid wood-frame and shingled baluster. The portico above the rear stoop was replaced with a hipped roof and a wood-frame and shingled baluster was added.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
No ✓ Yes Unknown Date: ca.2023 Original Location: Same parcel, rotated 90 degrees. *B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: ca.1900 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family home located in Old Mountain View designed in the First Bay Tradition (Shingle Style) that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 711 Calderon Avenue was built ca.1900 as a residence for Edward T. Johnson, a well-known pharmacist in Mountain View and the owner of a drug store on Castro Street. Johnson occupied the subject property until his death in 1915. By 1917, ownership transferred to Lee W. and Rose Hawkins along with their three children. The Hawkins family occupied the property until 1930.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B6. Construction History
By 2023 the building was raised, rotated 90 degrees, and moved from the center to the rear, west. The subject building now fronts Church Street. Photovoltaic (solar) panels have been added, aligned with the roof plane.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
711 Calderon Avenue appears to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register under Criterion C/3 (Architecture) as a distinctive local example of the First Bay Tradition style. Also known as the Shingle style, the style is a unique regional expression of turn-of-the-century shingled residential architecture that draws on eclectic references from Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and vernacular styles. Extant examples are very rare in Mountain View, and the architectural design of 711 Calderon Avenue is highly intact. The property does not appear to be eligible under any other criteria for association with significant events or persons. Despite alterations to the porches and relocation of the building to another location on the subject parcel, the building retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its architectural significance. The building retains overall integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and association. The period of significance is ca.1900, the year of construction. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Shingle cladding
Hipped roof with hipped dormers
Boxed roof eaves with exposed rafter tails
Cornice with dentils
Fenestration pattern and original double-hung and picture wood windows Engaged (recessed) corner porch.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
E.T. Johnson Home, 1973. Photograph. Mountain View Public Library.
E.T. Johnson Home, 1977. Photograph. Mountain View Public Library.
Google Maps StreetView, 2020, 2022. Accessed August 2024.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 725 CALDERON AV City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2313 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15804043 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Craftsman Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1.5
Roof Style: Gable Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Dormer, Single-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Partial Width Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Wide overhanging eaves have exposed rafter tails and wood knee braces; side dormer has a shed roof; and hung windows have divided-lite upper sashes and ogee lugs. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1910; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
HERTZBERG ERIC AND SYLVIE TRUSTEE, 725
CALDERON AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 725 CALDERON AV
B1. Historic Name: Willie Garliepp House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman
*B6. Construction History: 725 Calderon Avenue was built in 1910. No major exterior alterations were noted during the course of research.
Research did not determine whether the detached garage is original. *B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1910 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family home located in Old Mountain View designed in the Craftsman style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 725 Calderon Avenue was built in 1910 for Edwin Zahn, principal of Mountain View High School, and Lilian Zahn, who resided at the property through 1917 when it was sold to Bert W. Holeman. Holeman founded the First National Bank in Mountain View and served as the company's president until 1925. He also co-developed the Palmita Park subdivision, which is bounded by Bush, Dana, Claderon, and Velarde Streets and was developed over the span of 20 years by Holeman and the Minton Lumber Company, one of Mountain View’s pioneering businesses. In 1931, Holeman sold the property to William L. and Nellie Garliepp, who occupied the property until William's death in 1971. The Garliepps, who owned the property for over 40 years, were an early prominent family in Mountain View. William Garliepp owned a successful stationary and news store along with several fruit stands on El Camino Real. As recently as 2008, the property was still owned by descendants of the Garliepp family.
The architect and builder are unknown.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not directly associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. While a number of prominent Mountain View citizens lived at 725 Calderon Avenue over the years, their respective reasons for significance are not directly tied to the residence, but rather their places of work. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The residence is eligible for the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Design) as a good local example of the Craftsman style, noted for its deep eaves, large knee braces, and original tripartite windows. With no notable exterior alterations, the property retains historic integrity. The period of significance is 1910, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Front gabled roof
Overhanging eaves with knee-brace brackets and exposed rafters Clapboard siding
Partial-width engaged (recessed) porch with square wood posts Fenestration pattern, including groupings of three double-hung windows with divided-lite upper sash Shed roof dormers on side roof slopes.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
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P1. Other Identifier: 690 CALIFORNIA ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 696 CALIFORNIA ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2004 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823026 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Queen Anne Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel, Wood - Shingle Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Awning, Double-Hung Window Material: Wood Porch: Partial Width, Secondary/Rear Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features:
Hipped roof has flared, boxed eaves; flared gabled roof elements are located at the primary (west) facade and above an angled bay window on the north side facade; decorative shingling at the cornice and in gable ends; tripartite arched wood vents in gable ends; exterior brick chimney.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1906; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
SPENCER SUZETTE M TRUSTEE & ET AL, 646
CHURCH ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 696 CALIFORNIA ST
B1. Historic Name: McDonald House
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Queen Anne
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed in 1906. Sometime between 1956 and 1979, the original front porch was enclosed. An original detached stable, later converted to a garage, was demolished in 2003. Sometime between 2011 and 2014, the front porch was restored to its original design.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1906 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: Not Evaluated for Mountain View Register Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story, single-family Queen Anne Cottagee located in downtown Mountain View associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed in 1906 for Richard W. McDonald and his wife Emaline Atwood McDonald. Richard McDonald operated a blacksmith shop at 363 Castro Street (demolished) from 1895 through 1934, in partnership with Dan Burke. Later owners include Austin Spencer from at least 1959-1964, an assistant manager for the First Western Bank's Mountain View branch.
The property appears to be eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register and at the local level under Criterion 3/c (Design) as a distinctive example of a small Queen Anne cottage. Intact examples of Queen Anne residences from this era are increasingly rare in Mountain View and 696 California Street is an exceptionally intact example that, while modest in scale, has several unique features that are characteristic of the style, including flared eaves, decorative shingling at the cornice and gable ends, tripartite arched wood vents in gable ends, a bay window, and recessed porch with Tuscan columns. The property is not associated with signifi cant events, and is therefore not eligible under Criterion A/1 (Events). The property is associated with Richard McDonald, but research does not suggest that he significantly impacted local, state, or national history, or that his role as a blacksmith is directly associated with the subject residence and is therefore not eligible under Criterion (B/2/b). The period of significance is the year the building was constructed, 1906. The property retains all aspects of historic integrity and overall retains integrity for listing in the National Register and California Register. This evaluation does not address Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, "696 California Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 13, 2002.
Google Street View (2011, 2014)
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1908, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 990 CALIFORNIA ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1215 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15812043 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Queen Anne Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung, Casement, Dormer Window Material: Wood Porch: Engaged Corner Porch Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Hipped dormer with leaded glass window; decorative wood brackets under front bay window; and ornamentation at top of porch columns.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1904; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
LI MARK K AND MARIA K TRUSTEE, 1106
TOURNAMENT DR, HILLSBOROUGH CA 94010
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 990 CALIFORNIA ST
B1. Historic Name: E.Z. Hitchcock House
B2. Common Name: 990 California Street
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Queen Anne
*B6. Construction History:
990 California Street was built in 1904. A Sanborn map from 1908 confirms the existing building footprint as mostly original, apart from an addition to the rear sunporch that was added by 1921. The subject building was originally sited on a slightly wider parcel, with a small wood frame outbuilding at the eastern edge of the parcel built between 1908 and 1921.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1904 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a single-family residence located in the Old Mountain View neighborhood designed in the Queen Anne style that is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. 990 California Street was built in 1904 and originally occupied by the owner E.Z. "Bert" Hitchcock and his wife, Mary. Bert operated a local gravel business and resided at the subject property for 47 years until he died in 1953. Mary died in 1944. Research did not identify any evidence that the Hitchcock family provided any notable contributions to local, state, or national history.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B6. Construction History
Photographs of 990 California Street from 1913 and 1977 show several alterations were made to the subject building during this period, including the removal of diamond-patterned mullion transoms at the corner box bay window, removal of a diamond-patterned mullion casement window at the primary facade, removal of flared pointed finials at the gable peaks, and replacement of the original wood steps at the entrance with poured concrete steps. A garage was built at the north side of the parcel after 1956. More recently, a wood frame banister has also been added to the porch.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance and historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, the property has sufficient integrity as a good local example of a Queen Anne transitional cottage from the early 20th century in the Old Mountain View neighborhood and is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c with a period of significance of 1904, the year of construction. The residence retains its overall hipped roof form, dormer with decorative leaded glass muntins, projecting box bay window, and engaged corner porch. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Hipped roof
Hipped dormer with leaded glass window and diamond-patterned mullions Bay windows, including a corner box bay and angled side bay with knee brace bracket supports Fenestration pattern, including double-hung wood windows Clapboard siding
Engaged (recessed) corner entrance porch with decorative dentils and scrolled brackets at the square columns.
Continuation of B12. References:
Hitchcock Home. 1977. Photograph. Mountain View Public Library.
Hitchcock Home, 1913. Photograph. Mountain View Public Library. “Hitchcock Rites to Be Held Friday.” Daily Palo Alto Times, February 11, 1953.
Sanborn Map Company. “Insurance Maps of Mountain View, California.” Sanborn Map Company, 1908, 1921, 1956. Fire Insurance Maps Online.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1560 CALIFORNIA ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1134 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15410056 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: American Foursquare Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Pyramid Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung, Slider Window Material: Wood, Metal Porch: Engaged Corner Porch Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Two-story bay windows at the primary and side (east) facades; original double-hung wood sash windows with ogee lugs. There is an attached garage with an accessible wood-frame ramp in the surface parking area that occupies the east side of the corner lot.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1900; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
JONES JAMES CARROLL JR TRUSTEE & ET AL, 441
VIEW ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 1560 CALIFORNIA ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: American Foursquare
*B6. Construction History: The property was constructed in 1900 as a single-family residence. The 1921 Sanborn map shows a two-story single-family residence with one-story rear laundry porch, detached one-story tank house, and a detached one-story garage. The tank house and garage were both set back behind the main residence. By 1943, the original garage was demolished and an attached garage was built along the east facade facing California Street. An additional story was also added to the rear laundry porch.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: Tank House
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1900 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
1560 California Street is a residential duplex, originally built as a single-family house, located in the Shoreline West neighborhood, designed in the American Foursquare style with Colonial Revival and Craftsman elements. It is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1859-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The property is an early residence built in 1900 in the former Bailey Tract prior to the period of increased residential development spurred by the Pacifi c Press in the Shoreline West area of Mountain View. An early photograph shows the subject property in an open field with unpaved roads and several other houses and water tank houses nearby, including one under construction. In the 1970s, the property was occupied by the Community School of Art and Music.
Information on the original owners or occupants was not uncovered through the course of research.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP4. Ancillary building
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation of B6. Construction History
Sometime after 1956, a second front door was added to the entry porch, and the property was converted from a single-family home to a duplex; with one or both units used as a music school during the 1970s. An accessible wood-frame ramp was also constructed along the west side facade, and the garage door has been replaced. On the east side facade, a small window was replaced with a metal slider, and all windows appear to have been covered with screens. The status of the tank house (if extant) could not be confirmed from visual analysis from the public right-of-way.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property retains eligibility for the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Design) as a rare, early American Foursquare residence from the turn of the 19th century when the area was still rural in character, prior to the development of the Shoreline West neighborhood after the arrival of Pacific Press. At the time, some residents with the means chose to build in this area where there were larger lots and houses could be larger than right in downtown Mountain View. Apart from a new garage and accessible ramp added to the east side facade and porch, the property appears to retain most of its original fenestration and materials.
Therefore, it retains sufficient overall historic integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1900, the date of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Hipped roof with wide, overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails Recessed, partial-width porch with simple Tuscan columns and solid wood-frame balustrade Two-story bay windows at the primary and east side facades Wood clapboard siding
Fenestration pattern and original double-hung wood sash windows with ogee lugs Detached tank house.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online October 2024, https:/ /www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
Perry, Nicholas. "Then & Now: Mountain View." Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1610 CALIFORNIA ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1135 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15410018 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle
Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Wood
Porch: Wraparound Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Curved bay windows; and projecting square volume over the wraparound porch has a steep, pyramid hipped roof.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP3. Multiple family property *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1900; Historic photograph
*P7. Owner and Address:
STEVENS RYAN AND MARIA L, 1770 HACKETT
AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 1610 CALIFORNIA ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Multi-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Folk Victorian/National Folk
*B6. Construction History:
1619 California Street was built in 1900 as a single-family residence. According to the 1943 Sanborn map, the property was divided into five apartments, and several alterations were made to the building footprint, including modifications to the front porch and enclosure of the porch spanning the east side facade. The rear porch was also expanded.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1900 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
1610 California Street is a multi-family residence, formerly a single-family residence, located in the Shoreline West neighborhood, associated with the theme of Residential Development (1859-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. A photograph dating to 1900 shows the property under construction and located within a rural setting. While the property is within the Bailey Subdivision, it predates the development of the subdivision and the later residential development spurred by the Pacific Press Association.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
From visual analysis, the front porch appears to have been restored to its original open wrap-around configuration, however permit research could not confirm this. Most windows on the primary facade appear to be original wood sash windows. Two small, gabled dormers appear to be non-original. The detached garage is not original.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. The building does not rise to a level of significance or distinction as an example of the Folk Victorian style for individual listing in the National Register or California Register. However, the property is currently listed in the Mountain View Register and appears to retain eligibility under Criterion c (Design) as a rare, extant example of the Folk Victorian style in the Shoreline West neighborhood. Although the building was subdivided into apartments previously, it was restored to have its original wraparound porch configuration. Other minor alterations to the rear and small dormer additions do not detract from the overall historic integrity. The residence retains other original character-defining features, including bay windows, wood sash windows, and the distinctive roofline. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility. The period of significance is 1900, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Curved bay window at the primary facade
Horizontal clapboard siding
Fenestration pattern and original double-hung wood sash windows Hipped roof with boxed eaves
Projecting square bay with steep pyramid hipped roof
Wraparound front porch
Angled bay window at side facade.
Continuation of B12. References:
Carey & Co. Inc, "Citywide Historic Properties Survey Mountain View, California." Vols. I and II. Prepared for City of Mountain View, September 1, 2008.
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online September 2024, https:/ /www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 1690 CALIFORNIA ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1135 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15410023 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Vernacular Bungalow Plan Shape: L-Shape Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Jerkinhead Roof Material: Asphalt - Shingle Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Double-Hung Window Material: Vinyl
Porch: Portico Garage: Detached Garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Knee braces, entry portico with arched pediment and curved brackets; asymmetrical fenestration; and arched door and doorway.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP2. Single family property
*P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1928; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
CARGILLE BRIAN D AND BORNSCHLEGEL
ANDREA, 1690 CALIFORNIA ST, MOUNTAIN
VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 1690 CALIFORNIA ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Residential - Single-Family B4. Present Use: Residential - Single-Family *B5. Architectural Style: Vernacular Bungalow
*B6. Construction History:
The subject property was built in 1928. It first appears on the 1943 Sanborn map as a one-story wood-frame residence with a roughly square plan.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1928 Property Type: Residential - Single-Family Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
1690 California Street is a vernacular bungalow in the Shoreline West neighborhood designed with some Colonial Revival and Craftsman elements. It is associated with the theme of Residential Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
1690 California Street was built as part of the larger pattern of residential development in surrounding blocks spurred by the need to house employees of the Pacifi c Press Association, whose printing facility was located less than a half mile to the northeast of the property. The neighborhood now referred to as "Shoreline West" grew as a residential area at what was then the west edge of Mountain View following the ca. 1904 establishment of the Seventh Day Adventist publisher, the Pacifi c Press publishing company. The publishing company's plant was located on Villa Street west of what is now South Shoreline Boulevard, having moved to Mountain View from its previous location in Oakland. where it was established in 1874. Seventh-Day Adventist families who moved to the area with the business built their homes in the blocks along Mariposa Street, Pettis Avenue, Palo Alto Avenue, and Mountain View Avenue. According to historian Nick Perry, about 100 Seventh-Day Adventist families moved to Mountain View along with the Pacifi c Press Association, establishing an industrial enterprise in a town that previously had a population of around 600 and whose economy was based on agriculture. In subsequent decades, members of the Seventh Day Adventist community established to the southwest of the Pacific Press Association built local institutions such as the Mountain View Academy high school, established in 1922, and became active in local politics. By the start of World War II, the neighborhood consisted of dense residential blocks interspersed with patches of orchards remaining from its previous agricultural use. The publishing plant remained in operation in Mountain View until 1984.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. The property has an active Mills Act contract.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In 1991, a one-story addition was made to the rear southeast corner of the main residence creating and L-shaped plan, and the original wood sash windows appear to have been replaced with vinyl double-hung windows with simulated divided lites. No other major exterior alterations are visible. A one-story detached garage was added at an unknown date.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not individually associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. While the property does not rise to the level of significance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed in the Mountain View Register. The property retains eligibility for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion c (Design) as a good example of a vernacular bungalow associated with the residential development of Shoreline West following the arrival of Pacific Press. The bungalow, while modest in scale, has several distinctive features, including a Craftsman style jerkinhead roof with wood knee braces (brackets) and a Colonial Revival style pediment hood at the entrance. Although the original windows have been replaced, the replacement double-hung windows have a compatible style and appear to be in original openings, and the rear addition is not visible from the public right-of-way. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its significance for listing in the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1928, the year of construction.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Entry portico with an elliptical pediment, eave returns, and curved brackets Jerkinhead roof
Overhanging eaves with knee-brace brackets
Horizontal wood clapboard siding
Original fenestration pattern
Arched entryway and door
Arched wood vents at side facades.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center, 2002.
NETR Online, aerial photographs, 1948-2020. Accessed online October 2024, https:/ /www.historicaerials.com/viewer.
Perry, Nicholas. "Mountain View." Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier: 124-126 CASTRO ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 124 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1202 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15815038 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Italianate Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Gable, Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Rolled Exterior Material: Wood - Clapboard/Lap/Bevel Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Storefront, Transom Window Material: Wood Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Wood cornice with decorative wood brackets and wall panels. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
October 9, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1874; Ritter, Ed. “Mountain View in Review,”
Mountain View Register Leader, August 7, 1939.
*P7. Owner and Address:
CLICK ENTERPRISES LLC, 11335 EASTBROOK
AVE, LOS ALTOS HILLS CA 94024
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 124 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: S. Weilheimer & Sons; S. Rummelsburg & Sons B2. Common Name: Weilheimer Store
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Italianate
*B6. Construction History: 124 Castro Street was built in 1874 as a one-story wood-frame building, just one bay wide. The Weilheimers doubled the building’s footprint to the south in 1896. At some time between 1908 and 1921, a one-story rear addition was constructed of concrete masonry units (CMU).
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: None b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1874-1914 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events), B/2 (Persons)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons), MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The Weilhemier Building is an Italianate style former general store located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The Weilheimer Building is currently listed in the Mountain View Register and appears to be eligible for listing the National Register and California Register at the local level of significance under Criteria A/1/b (Events) and B/2/a (Persons). Under Criterion A/1/b, the Weilheimer Building is the last remaining nineteenth century commercial example of Castro Street’s initial establishment as the spine of the “New Mountain View” central business district. Under Criterion B/b/2, the Weilheimer family, Jewish immigrants from Germany, commissioned the building’s construction to house their mercantile business. Various members of the Weilheimer family worked in the general store, which also contained Mountain View’s first post o ffice and Wells Fargo express operations. In addition to operating this mercantile business, the Weilheimers established other businesses when they settled in Mountain View in 1859, including a hotel and a livery stable (both no longer extant). Some of these businesses, like the general store at 124-126 Castro Street, were passed onto Weilheimer children, making the Weilheimer name synonymous with early and ongoing business success in Mountain View as well as exemplary of` Jewish-German immigrant contributions in the Santa Clara Valley. The period of signifi cance for the Weilheimer Building is 1874 to 1914, the year of the building’s construction through its ownership by the Weilheimer family.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
At some date prior to 1922, the wood sign above the parapet, which contained the original S. Weilheimer & Sons lettering, was removed. By 1922, the storefront configuration had changed to dual entrances, and permits dated 1963 outline the application of stone veneer and stucco cladding to the building’s primary (east) façade as well as the installation of a flat metal awning that spanned the full width of the building over the storefront glazing. In 1983, the entrance area of the storefronts was modified to include a concrete ramp. Permit history indicates a kitchen installation in 1985, and since this time both storefronts have hosted restaurant tenants. Between 1993 and 1994, the building underwent exterior changes and seismic retrofits. Between 2009 and 2010, the building underwent a complete renovation. Its primary (east) façade was renovated, including the removal of the midcentury metal awning and the replacement of clapboard cladding, storefront glazing, transoms, bulkheads, and door systems. Wall paneling was added that did not exist in its earlier years. The building was also reroofed at this time, though the material changed from asphalt shingles to membrane roofing.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The Weilheimer Building retains integrity of location, setting, feeling, and association, and sufficient integrity of design. Alterations resulted in the loss of integrity of materials and workmanship. Despite this loss of material and workmanship integrity, the Weilheimer Building conveys its significance under Criteria A/1/b (Events) and B/2/a (Persons).
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Wood clapboard siding
Gable roof behind wood parapet
Parapet with wood cornice and carved brackets.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View Planning Department, "Now and Then: Exploring Mountain View's Architectural Heritage." City of Mountain View, April 1979.
Fresno Morning Republican, “Weilheimer is Dead,” June 6, 1900.
Fresno Weekly Republican, “Removal!,” September 16, 1887.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center and Foundation, 2002.
Los Gatos Mail, “Fresh and Newsy News,” October 25, 1900.
Mountain View Public Library, Historical Photograph Collection.
Mountain View Register-Leader, “T own’s Oldest Store Building,” July 28, 1922.
Perry, Nicholas. "Then & Now: Mountain View." Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.
Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, Samuel Weilheimer Obituary, September 8, 1902.
Ritter, Ed. “Mountain View in Review,” Mountain View Register Leader, August 7, 1939.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1888, 1891, 1897, 1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
San Francisco Call & Post, “Retired Merchant Dies,” June 6, 1899.
San José City Directory, multiple years. Accessed online through www.ancestry.com.
San José Mercury News, “For Sale!,” September 21, 1882.
San José Mercury News, “Mountain View Notes,” June 4, 1896.
San José Mercury News, “Another Pioneer Passes Away,” June 5, 1899.
San José Mercury News, “Directors of Bank Chosen,” May 12, 1905.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
United States Federal Census, multiple years. Accessed online through www.ancestry.com.
United States Voter Registers, “Great Register, Santa Clara County: 1867-1879,” accessed online through www.ancestry.com.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 134 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1202 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15815008 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Neo-Chinese Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 2 Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Not Visible Exterior Material: Concrete - Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU), Glass Curtain Wall Primary Door Material: Aluminum Window Style: Curtain Wall Window Material: Aluminum
Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Metal awning evoking the style of a Chinese pagoda roof at the parapet and over the primary entrance. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1967; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
HA DONNA DOMPLING ET AL, 1670 ZANKER RD,
SAN JOSE CA 95112
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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*Resource Name or # 134 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name:
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Neo-Chinese Revival
*B6. Construction History:
The building was originally constructed in 1967. No significant exterior alterations were uncovered through research.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1967 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The property is a two-story commercial building located in downtown Mountain View designed in a Neo-Chinese Revival style that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed in 1967, and was first occupied by the Qui Hing Low restaurant. The Qui Hing Low restaurant first occupied a commercial space at 156 Castro Street in 1933. By the 1960s, business had grown so much that Qui Hing Low's owners, Qui and Hing Liu, had the subject building constructed to operate as a second location immediately next door to their original, still-operating restaurant. Both locations continued to operate side-by-side through the late 1970s. By the mid-1980s, the building was occupied by a different Chinese restaurant, Plum Garden, and has been occupied by a series of different Chinese restaurants since then through 2024.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of signifi cance for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is representative of the 1960s trend of Mountain View's Chinese community moving into Castro Street and opening new businesses and restaurants, like the original Qui Hing Low restaurant (156 Castro Street; extant, altered) and Andy's Chinese Restaurant (174 Castro Street; extant, altered).
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
HP36. Ethnic Minority Property (Chinese/Chinese American)
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
As the building was constructed during the 1960s, is situated within an early cluster of post-World War II Chinese-owned and operated businesses on Castro Street, and as the building has been occupied by an unbroken chain of Chinese restaurants, the building represents this association with postwar downtown Mountain View commercial development more than other commercial buildings in the area. Additionally, while the Neo-Eclectic and Neo-Chinese Revival style architectural features are not overall distinctive or architecturally significant, they have high integrity to the building's period of significance of 1967, and support and communicate the character of the building as significant for its association with Chinese and other Asian-owned businesses maintaining commercial activity along Castro Street in the 1960s and 1970s while other retailers moved to the suburbs. Thus, the building is eligible for local listing under Mountain View Register Criterion b (Events).
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Two-story anodized bronze curtain wall at the primary facade Chinese Revival style metal awnings at the parapet and over the primary entrance Projecting bulkheads flanking primary entrance
Continuation of B12. References:
"Castro Street, holidays, 1977," Photograph PHA S71 6, Mountain View Public Library, 1977.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier: 169-175 CASTRO ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 169 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1201 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15820012 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mission Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame, Brick Number of Stories: 2 Roof Style: Gable, Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Rolled Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Bay Window, Hung, Storefront Window Material: Wood Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Shaped parapet; two commercial storefront entrances and an third entrance to the upper tenant spaces; fabric awnings; and bay windows and wood balconette with decorative wood brackets below. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
March 15, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1904; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
JEHNING KURT M TRUSTEE, 20220 AVENUE 228,
LINDSAY CA 93247
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 169 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Ames Building
B2. Common Name: Ames Building
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Mission Revival
*B6. Construction History:
The building was originally constructed in 1904. It was significantly damaged in the 1906 earthquake, particularly its rear portion, but was immediately reconstructed with some alterations. A wood-framed one-story addition clad in iron panels was built along the north side façade, and later expanded to two stories sometime before 1912. In 1934, the Mission-style parapet, relief ornamentation, and second-story wood balcony were removed.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1904-1909 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Mission Revival style commercial building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
Constructed in 1904 for Professor Daniel T. Ames, the brick-framed two-story building at 169-175 Castro Street was designed in the Mission Revival style with ground floor multi-tenant retail spaces, originally including a hardware store and a men’s clothing store, while the second floor contained at least one residential unit. The second floor was assessable via an interior staircase near the middle of the front façade as well as an exterior rear staircase. Professor Ames, an international expert in handwriting and forgery, and his family lived in an upstairs unit.
After Ames died in 1909, the upper residential floor was later used by various social organizations. Upon Ames’ death in 1909, his wife Fannie inherited the building, maintaining in until her death in 1918 when it was sold to Agostino Armanini. Armanini was a prominent local resident and graduate of Stanford University who owned multiple buildings in the downtown area. In 1943, Armanini sold the building to Joseph and Annette Gonzales. The Gonzaleses divided the interior back into two retail stores, operating their “Bi-Lo Market” from one unit.
In 1960, the City of Mountain View purchased the rear parking lot area of the property by eminent domain for $11,000, and the portion containing the building remained under Gonzales family ownership until 1996.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
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*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
After 1943, a wood-framed one-story volume was also constructed on the rear façade. By 1976, the building featured a flat clay tile-capped parapet and replacement storefront glazing and door systems, and the front (west) and north façades were clad in painted stucco. The storefront and entry door configuration had also been altered by this time. Sometime between 1976 and 2003, transom windows were reinstalled over the Castro Street storefront. Between 2003 and 2007, new owners renovated the front façade to resemble the original exterior architectural features that were removed in 1934. Work included the construction of a Mission-style parapet, relief ornamentation, second-floor wood balcony, which resemble the original design but are not exact reconstructions. Work also included installation of awnings over most of the building’s windows, and upgrading/reconfiguring the storefront glazing and door systems.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not individually associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. The building has undergone extensive alteration, most notably before the mid-1970s, when it was stripped of most of its original Mission Revival style ornamentation and materials. Although a renovation project in the early 2000s took inspiration and cues from the post-1906 earthquake Mission Revival style design of the building, the proportions and configuration of the parapet, glazing, woodwork, and other exterior ornamentation are not accurate for a true reconstruction. The existing configuration of the storefronts and entrances also does not reflect the post-1906 earthquake design of the building. As such, the property does not have sufficient historic integrity for listing in the National Register or California Register as an example of Mission Revival style architecture.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance or historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is an good local example of the Mission Revival style and representative of early commercial development in Mountain View. The property is currently listed in the Mountain View Register and appears to remain eligible under Mountain View Register Criterion c (Design). As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility. While the property does not retain integrity of materials or workmanship, enough of the design has been restored to have sufficient historic integrity for listing in the Mountain View Register. The period of significance is 1904 to 1909, spanning original construction through post-1906 earthquake renovations by the original owner.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing, including north bay
Shaped parapet with decorative plaster ornamentation
Stucco cladding
Two bay windows with hipped roofs, hung wood windows, and decorative wood brackets Central tripartite wood window and balconette with wood balusters and brackets Presence of ground-floor storefront windows with transoms and paneled bulkheads.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, Register of Historic Resources Form, March 14, 2002.
City of Mountain View. Building permit application records. "Hand Writing Expert Dead." San Diego Union, August 27, 1909.
Mountain View Public Library, History Room. Historical photos. "Mrs. Fannie Ames of Mountain View Dies." San Jose Mercury, May 7, 1918.
Public records available through Ancestry.com.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
San José Mercury News. “New Building Opened.” June 8, 1913.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
Winter, Thomas A. “State Historical Building Safety Board letter re: Ames Building,” August 15, 2003.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 191 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1201 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15820010 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Classical Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Rolled Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood
Window Style: Double-Hung, Fixed, Mitered Corner Window, Storefront Window Material: Wood Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features:
Projecting wood cornice with modillions and dentils below the flat parapet; wood pilasters between storefront windows and paired windows at the second story; and denticulated stringcourse below the second story window. A one-story commercial building addressed as 185 Castro Street is located on the same parcel immediately north of the Mockbee Building (191 Castro Street) and is excluded from this DPR form.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1906; Sanborn maps; Peninsula Times Tribune,
November 3, 1987
*P7. Owner and Address:
D & K 191 CASTRO LLC, 1777 S BASCOM AVE
STE. D, CAMPBELL CA 95008
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 191 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Mockbee Building
B2. Common Name: Mockbee Building
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Classical Revival
*B6. Construction History:
191 Castro Street was constructed in 1906. The Mockbee Building remained relatively unchanged until the early 1960s, after the longtime ground-floor tenant Mountain View Hardware closed in 1962. With this vacancy, the building was deemed “dangerous” following an inspection by city officials, who outlined various upgrades and improvements as part of the Mountain View Revitalization Project Plan and to better align the building with current building codes.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1906-1935 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: B/2 (Persons), C/3 (Design)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Classical Revival style commercial building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The Mockbee Building is eligible for individual listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register at the local level of signifi cance under Criteria B/2/a (Persons) and C/3/c (Architecture). Its signifi cance under Criterion B/2/a (Persons) relates to Mountain View pioneer, businessman, and early civic leader Jacob Mockbee. Jacob Samuel Mockbee (March 16, 1859 – February 11, 1935) was “a native son of Mountain View,” born there in 1859 to migrant parents from Kentucky and Missouri. The Mockbees arrived in California in 1855 to farm in the area and had 11 children. Mockbee contributed to Mountain View’s early establishment as a town, aiding in the founding of schools and businesses. Mockbee was a founder of the town’s chamber of commerce as well as a founding director of the Farmers & Merchants Bank at 201 Castro Street in 1905, which was the second bank established in town and became the most successful.
He served as mayor of Mountain View from 1916 to 1918 and continued as a city councilman and in various other civic roles through the 1920s. Mockbee was “captain” of the Order of Elks of Mountain View in 1916 and was a member of the Mountain View Democratic Club.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
*Recorded by: Page & Turnbull *Date: January 2, 2025 ✓
Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
These alterations included various electrical upgrades as well as improvements to overall egress and fire safety in 1964. By 1965, the storefront glazing was replaced and the door system reconfigured, resulting in the loss of the original angled entryway at the southwest corner. The new primary entrance was centered on the primary (west) façade. In 1981, the building exterior was fully rehabilitated by the firm San Francisco Renaissance to closely resemble the original Classical Revival ornamentation. This work included replacement of like-kind wood-framed double-hung windows on the second floor, reconstruction of molding and cornice detailing, improvements to the second-floor cantilevered balcony with a new door opening on the north façade (which also addressed necessary egress requirements), replacement of the storefront glazing and door system, installation of new tenant signage, and exterior sandblasting and painting. The proportions and configuration of the restored glazing and ornamentation appear to be an accurate representation of the original façade, despite the ground floor storefront configuration remaining altered with a central entrance. In 1982, the building interior was prepared to accommodate retail and/or restaurant space on the first floor with an associated use in the basement and office space on the second floor. Also between 1981 and 1982, improvements were made to a non-historic second-floor cantilevered balcony on the north façade to address egress concerns.
Between 1982 and 1984, various interior reconfigurations, replacement of interior finishes, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing upgrades were made. Additional interior reconfigurations, fire sprinkler piping updates, exterior painting, and replacement storefront glazing (sliding metal-sash windows above bulkheads) was made in 2015.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject corner lot at 191 Castro Street was owned by Jacob Mockbee by 1895, if not earlier, as he constructed a two-story, wood- framed blacksmith building operated by McDonald & Burke in that year. The building was removed in 1906 after it sustained damage from the 1906 earthquake, which provided the space necessary for Mockbee to construct the extant two-story wood-framed Classical Revival- style commercial building in the same year for $13,000. The Mockbee homestead (no longer extant) shared the block to the east of the Mockbee Building. Jacob Mockbee was an integral civic-minded leader within the Mountain View community from the 1890s through the 1920s and assisted in the formation of many of the town’s early institutions and services. The building at 191 Castro Street is the last extant property associated with Mockbee’s individual legacy.
Under Criterion C/3/c (Architecture), the building is an excellent example of an early twentieth century commercial building that embodies distinctive characteristics of the Classical Revival style. The Mockbee Building was constructed in 1906 during Mountain View’s reconstruction period following the 1906 earthquake. The two-story commercial building is one of few surviving early buildings along the then burgeoning Castro Street commercial corridor, and its Classical Revival design remains an icon of this central business district. Despite previous alterations in the 1960s, the Mockbee Building was restored in 1981 and therefore conveys its original Classical Revival design, and retains all seven aspects of integrity. The adjacent one-story building at 185 Castro Street does not contribute to the significance of the property.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Flat roof with parapet
Stucco cladding
Projecting wood cornice with modillions and dentils
Fenestration pattern, including ground floor wood storefront windows and transoms, fixed divided lite wood, and paired double-hung wood windows
Wood pilasters
Projecting bands between first and second floors.
Continuation of B12. References:
City of Mountain View, Community Development Department, building permits, multiple years.
Evening News, “New Bank at Mountain View,” June 1, 1905.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center and Foundation, 2002.
Mountain View Public Library, Historical Photograph Collection.
Peninsula Times Tribune, “Jacob S. Mockbee, Pioneer Mt. View Civic Leader, Dies,” February 12, 1935.
Peninsula Times Tribune, “First obstacles cleared in Mt. View parking program,” October 16, 1953. ---Peninsula Times Tribune, "Happy Birthday Mountain View," November 3, 1987.
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. “Classical Revival Style 1895-1950: History.” Accessed online July 7, 2023, http:/ /www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/architecture/styles/classical-revival.html.
San José Mercury News, “Annual Installation of Officers for Elks,” March 27, 1916.
San José Herald, “Mountain View Democrats,” August 30, 1884.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps ( 1897, 1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
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P1. Other Identifier: 198 CASTRO ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 194 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1202 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15815013 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Mission Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 2
Roof Style: Gable, Parapet Roof Material: Built Up Roof/Tar and Gravel Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Fixed Window Material: Aluminum, Wood
Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Shaped parapet; plaster ornamentation at parapet and corner merlons; and raised bands and geometric Southwestern-inspired ornamentation at the second story windows. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1913; Smith, "The Story of Mountain View,"
Mountain View Register, January 24, 1913
*P7. Owner and Address:
HANSON AMERICA LLC, PO BOX 4631,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map ✓ Continuation Sheet ✓ Building, Structure and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other
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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 194 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Odell & Jurian; A. Jurian & Co.
B2. Common Name: Jurian Building
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Mission Revival
*B6. Construction History: The Jurian Building was constructed in 1913. Between 1913 and 1921, a wood-frame rear addition was constructed across the full west façade, and an exterior wood staircase was removed from the south façade.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Frank Delos Wolfe b. Builder: William H. Bates *B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1913-1943 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events), B/2 (Persons), C/3 (Design)
Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion a (Persons), MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design)
Statement of Significance:
The property is a Mission Revival style commercial building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The Jurian Building appears to be eligible for the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register at the local level of significance under Criteria A/1/b (Events), B/2/a (Persons), and C/3/c (Architecture). Under Criterion A/1/b, it was constructed as a mercantile building with second- floor gathering space at what was considered the most valuable intersection of the Castro Street business district. Under Criterion B/2/a, Andrew Ivan Jurian (1864-1943) commissioned the building’s construction along with his dry goods business partner, George Odell, who sold his portion of the business to Jurian shortly after the completion of the building. In addition to Andrew Jurian’s contributions to the agricultural and commercial development of the city, during his nearly 35 years in Mountain View, he was an active civic and social leader, especially as it related to Yugoslavian a ffairs. He was the founder and president of the American-Yugoslav Defense League, first president of the Napredak Club, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and chairman in the Kiwanis Club. In 1936, he ran a corporation that owned the Yugoslav newspaper Narodni Glasnik, or Croatian for “People’s Herald.” Ultimately, Andrew Jurian and his family were locally notable for their horticultural and retail development influences during the early twentieth century in Mountain View, a time when the newly founded city was burgeoning into a primary center of commerce for the surrounding farmlands. Under Criterion C/3/c, the Jurian Building is an excellent example of an early twentieth century commercial building embodying the distinctive characteristics of the Mission Revival style with geometric Southwestern design in fluences. The building was designed by San Jose-based master architect Frank Delos Wolfe (1862-1926) and constructed in 1913 of reinforced concrete with stucco cladding. The two-story building is one of few remaining early buildings with high integrity along the Castro Street commercial corridor. Its Mission Revival design remains a unique icon of Mountain View’s historic central business district. The period of signifi cance is 1913 to 1943, spanning from the year of the building’s construction to the death of owner Andrew Jurian, which ended his direct ownership.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Property was previously listed on the Mountain View Register, but was later voluntarily removed from the Register by the property owner. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
Sketch Map
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
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CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Between 1921 and 1943, a reinforced concrete enlargement was made to the existing wood-frame rear addition. The property boundary was reduced around 1960 to accommodate the construction of Wild Cherry Lane to the west of the building. Between 1962 and 1964, an extensive “repair and renovation of [the] existing building” was performed with work valued at $13,000, following the issuance of a “notice and order to repair and rehabilitate [a] dangerous building.” This work included a general remodel of the interior for commercial use, installation of a flat canopy at the storefront, wood shutters installed on the second-floor windows on the primary façade, new signage, and improvements to the electrical system, fire safety, and egress via an exterior second-floor rear stair. In 1981, the storefront glazing and door systems were replaced and the original one-over-one wood-framed windows on the second floor of the primary (east) façade were replaced with aluminum sash windows; replacement awnings were also installed at this time. Also in 1981, repairs were made to the roof trusses. In 1983, various mechanical, electrical, and plumbing improvements were made. The bulkheads were updated with ceramic tile, and repairs were made to sections of spalling cement plaster cladding in 1999. Once the exterior cladding was repaired, the façade ornamentation was retouched/repointed and then the entire exterior was painted. By 1999, the rear surface parking area was converted to an outdoor patio, enclosed with stucco and decorative iron fencing. In 2012, the interior was reconfigured with improvements made to kitchen enhancements, fire safety, and interior and exterior accessibility. Also at this time, the historic glass block transom windows on the east and south façades were replaced with metal-frame tripartite transoms. In 2014, the exterior was painted, and exterior signage was mounted to the east façade.
At an unknown date, alterations were made to the opening configurations on the south façade.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The Jurian Building retains all seven aspects of historic integrity for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register. Windows and storefront systems have been replaced but are in original openings, and the building retains other materials and ornamental features that convey its original design and workmanship. The building also retains integrity of location, setting, feeling, and association.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Two-story, rectilinear massing
Reinforced concrete construction with stucco cladding
Shaped parapet and corner merlons at the primary (east) and south facades Quatrefoil ornaments at the east and south parapets
Gabled parapet and coping at the rear (west) facade
Decorative window surrounds and ornate precast concrete medallions between the second story windows Ornamental features at the corners and center column of the primary façade.
Pattern of original window and storefront openings, including ground floor storefront and transom window openings and punched openings at the second floor.
Continuation of B12. References:
Archives & Architecture. "Historic Resource Assessment: Jurian Building, 194-198 Castro Street." Prepared for Chee-Yee Chong, Hanson America LLC, June 2023.
Building and Industrial News, January 7, 1913.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center and Foundation, 2002.
Mountain View Public Library, Historical Photograph Collection.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1888, 1891, 1897, 1904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
San José Mercury News. “Real Estate Transactions.” September 23, 1912. Accessed online April 6, 2023, California Digital Newspaper Collection.
San José Mercury News. “New Building Opened.” June 8, 1913. Accessed online April 6, 2023, California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Smith, P. Milton. "The Story of Mountain View," Mountain View Register, January 24, 1913.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
Van Laan, Krista. Frank Delos Wolfe: California Prairie Architecture (2014). Archives & Architecture, LLC: San José, CA.
Weitze, Karen J. California’s Mission Revival (1984).
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P1. Other Identifier: 761 VILLA ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 201 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1326 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15822011 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Richardsonian Romanesque Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Brick Number of Stories: 3
Roof Style: Hip Roof Material: Metal - Standing Seam
Exterior Material: Sandstone Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Arched Window Material: Wood
Porch: None Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Rough-cut (ashlar) stone texture; cornice and second-story belt course with scrolling modillions, egg-and- dart molding, and dentils; and paired window openings with ashlar arch springs from squat columns with decorative cushion capitals. Third- story hipped roof addition has dormers along the Villa Street facade. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1905; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
AKKAYA CIHAN AND SERIFE, 4304 BERESFORD
ST, SAN MATEO CA 94403
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 201 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Farmers & Merchant's Bank
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Richardsonian Romanesque
*B6. Construction History:
201 Castro Street was built in 1905. In 1922, a contract with the Larson-Sampson Company of San Francisco outlined $40,000 worth of remodeling improvements to the bank, including a one-story rear addition that measured thirty feet along Villa Street to accommodate a new vault as well as refinishing the interiors, installing a new alarm system, and installing new and enlarged bronze doors for the bank entrance. Sometime between 1922 and 1947, the angled primary entrance was redesigned and the original arched transom was replaced with a rectangular transom.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Wolfe & McKenzie b. Builder: William H. Bates *B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1851-1909) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1905-1927 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: A/1 (Events) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events), MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Richardsonian Romanesque style former bank building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1851-1909) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The Farmers & Merchants Bank Building appears to be eligible for listing in the National Register and California Register at the local level of significance under Criterion A/1 (Events) as one of the earliest, extant bank buildings in Mountain View, California. The Farmers & Merchants Bank Building was constructed in 1905 and the bank’s original board of directors was comprised of prominent local businessmen and civic leaders, including Julius Weilheimer, Jacob Mockbee, and Wilbur Camp, to support the growing financial needs of Mountain View’s burgeoning population (mostly comprised of farmers and small business owners) in the early twentieth century. As a sturdy masonry building, it survived the 1906 earthquake to remain a steadfast financial and commercial icon of Mountain View’s early central business district. The period of significance for the Farmers & Merchants Bank Building is 1905 to 1927, from the year of the building’s construction through its use as a bank building by the Farmers & Merchants Bank. The building has diminished integrity of design, materials, and workmanship due to the large third-story addition, replacement windows, and alteration to the design of the corner entrance. However, despite alterations, enough of the original design is present to be legible as a former bank, and the building retains integrity of location, setting, feeling, and association which are sufficient to convey its significance under Criterion A/1.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The original partial-height columns flanking the entrance were replaced with full-height columns with an entablature. Also during this timeframe, the ground-floor window openings were enlarged (removing a portion of the sandstone bulkhead) and the windows were replaced with six-part rectangular windows. The decorative arched terra cotta trim around these windows was also removed. Sometime between 1922 and 1974, a secondary doorway on Villa Street (between the second and third window bay from the angled primary entrance) was infilled with sandstone to match the existing façade. The permit history for the building includes a 1949 renovation, but the extent of this work is undocumented. In 1981, the two-story vertical addition was constructed. The work was performed by the building owners at the time, Herring and Worley Partnership (a design and engineering firm). This vertical addition required the removal of the original sandstone parapet with embattlements. Also at this time, the non-original ground-floor windows were replaced with the current wood windows with arched heads within the existing (and already altered) openings. The easternmost window opening at the 1922 addition was converted to a deeply recessed entryway with transom to access the office space in the new vertical addition. The walls of this vestibule are clad in painted stucco to match the sparse vertical surface of the third-floor addition.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The Farmers & Merchants Bank Building is currently listed in the Mountain View Register under Criterion b (Events) for its direct association with early commercial development in Mountain View and Criterion c (Design) as a good local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, designed by notable local architects Wolfe & McKenzie. As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. Thus, despite modifications to the design of the building include the large third-story addition, replacement windows, and reconfiguration of the corner entrance, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Original two-story form and rectangular massing
Masonry construction and ashlar sandstone cladding
Cornice and belt course with scrolling modillions, egg-and-dart trim, and dentils Fenestration pattern, including rectangular window openings at the first story and paired, arched openings at the second story Ashlar arch springs from squat columns with decorative cushion capitals at second story Location and angle of the corner entrance
One-story rear addition with matching cladding.
Continuation of B12. References:
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. "Milestones: A History of Mountain View, California." Cupertino, CA: California History Center and Foundation, 2002.
Mountain View Public Library, Historical Photograph Collection.
Palo Alto Times Tribune, “Happy 85th Birthday: This walking tour is a journey to the downtown’s early years,” November 3, 1987.
Peninsula Times Tribune, “Local Items,” November 16, 1905.
Peninsula Times Tribune, “Contract Awarded for Remodeling Bank,” April 14, 1922.
Peninsula Times Tribune, “Instruments on File: Santa Clara County,” March 12, 1927.
San José Evening News, “New Brick Store,” June 17, 1905.
San José Mercury News, “Directors of Bank Chosen,” May 12, 1905.
San José Mercury News, “Mountain View’s $20,000 Bank,” June 18, 1905.
San José Mercury News, “Sylvania Rents M.V. Office Space,” April 25, 1958.
San José Mercury News, “Journal,” December 24, 1984.
San José Mercury News, “Journal,” September 26, 1985.
San José Sunday Mercury News & Herald, “Mountain View Notes,” August 6, 1905.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (11904, 1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
DPR 523L (1/95) *Required information
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 228 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1204 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15813039 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Art Deco Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 2 Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Built Up Roof/Tar and Gravel Exterior Material: Masonry, Stucco Primary Door Material: Wood Window Style: Casement, Hung Window Material: Wood, Metal Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Fluted concrete pilasters; stepped parapet with bow truss roof behind; and non-orignal marquee and canopy.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1926; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
ASTAREA LLC, 228 CASTRO ST, MOUNTAIN VIEW
CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
*Resource Name or # 228 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Mountain View Theater
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Entertainment/Arts B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Art Deco
*B6. Construction History:
The building was originally constructed in 1926 with Spanish Colonial Revival features at the facade, including ornamental upper window surrounds and clay tile at the parapet, as well as Art Deco features commonly associated with movie theaters of the era, including a zig-zag edged marquee and speedlines at the bulkhead and ticket window. The building was altered in 1962, rebuilding the north and south storefronts, removing the original vertical neon blade sign, replacing the original marquee, filling-in original second-story openings, reconfiguring the ground floor and removing other original features like the ticket booth.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Alexander A. Canton b. Builder: Unknown *B10. Significance: Theme: Civic Growth and Social, Religious & Cultural Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1926-1941 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The property is a two-story former movie theater located in downtown Mountain View, originally designed in the Early 20th Century Commercial style, and is associated with the theme of Civic Growth and Social, Religious, and Cultural Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The building was originally constructed as the Mountain View Theater in 1926 for original owner Fritz Campen, who owned a small "nickelodeon" movie theater on the 100 block of Castro. Alexander A. Cantin (1874-1964) was a San Francisco architect of merit who designed buildings throughout the Bay Area from the 1920s through 1950. Cantin is most well known for his series of Pacific T elephone and T elegraph buildings in San Francisco, culminating in his collaboration with Miller P flueger on the Coast Division Building of the Pacifi c T elephone and T elegraph company at 140 New Montgomery Street. The majority of his designs were for movie theaters, including the Roosevelt Theater in Oakland (ca. 1928, nonextant), working from 1948 onward with his son Alexander M. (Mackenzie) Cantin under the firm Cantin & Cantin. The building was used as a movie theater until 1998, when it was altered to combine all interior spaces for use as a night club. The building has been continually used as a night club from 1998 through 2024.
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level historic integrity required for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Although not assigned an eligibility criterion at the time it was added to the Mountain View Register, the property appears to be signifi cant under Criterion b (Events) as an example of an early movie theater and entertainment venue in downtown Mountain View's early commercial development. The period of signifi cance is 1926 to 1941, spanning original construction and the period that the theater was run by the first two owners Campen (1926-28) and Blanco (1928-41).
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
The property is currently listed on the Mountain View Register. Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
The building was remodeled again in 1998, removing the two storefront commercial spaces that flanked the central recessed primary entrance, and altering or removing materials, openings, and fixtures from the 1962 remodel. The 1998 remodel did not remove any then- surviving original features such as the fluted concrete pilasters, stepped parapet, central recessed entrance, and two second-story windows over the entrance.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. The central recessed entrance and overall massing are able to convey the former use of the building as a theater, and as such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall massing and bow truss roof
Stepped parapet
Four fluted pilasters at the second story
Central recessed entrance
Continuation of B12. References:
“Cantin, Alexander & Mackenzie,” UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, March 6, 2022, https:/ /ced.berkeley.edu/collections/cantin-alexander-mackenzie.
City of Mountain View, "228 Castro Street input form," Mountain View Historic Register, March 13, 2002.
David Downey, “Moving Pictures in Downtown Mountain View,” Welcome to Silent Movies, accessed November 20, 2024, http:/ /www.welcometosilentmovies.com/features/mtnview/mtnview2.htm.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 292 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1204 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15813046 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Art Deco Plan Shape: Rectangle
Construction Type: Concrete Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Built Up Roof/Tar and Gravel Exterior Material: Concrete, Tiles applied on primary facade Primary Door Material: Aluminum Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Wood, wood with butter glass Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features:
Stepped parapet with fluted panels; transom window with stepped header; and angled entrance and storefront windows.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1932; Mountain View Register-Leader, November
11, 1932.
*P7. Owner and Address:
TOPLAND ASSOCIATES, 786 DANA ST,
MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 292 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Knight's Pharmacy
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Art Deco
*B6. Construction History:
292 Castro Street was built in 1932. Various alterations to awnings and signage have been made over the years and all interior furniture and finishes have also been altered, removed, and/or replaced.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1932 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is an Art Deco style commercial building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The commercial building at 292 Castro Street was built in 1932 in the Art Deco style. The property was owned by Orestie Scarpa, who also owned the meat market on the corner. The building was constructed to house the new location of Knight’s Pharmacy, a local business run by Abram J. Knight, who served as mayor of Mountain View from 1932-1934, and his son, Robert S. Knight. By 1932, Knight’s Pharmacy had been operating in Mountain View for 12 years. Although not a large building, the new pharmacy, described as “Modernistic” in contemporary newspapers, also had a fountain lunch counter, beauty parlor, and circulating library. The one-story, narrow, rectangular concrete building had a peaked parapet with an accordion-pattern concrete panel, surrounded by square tiles. Tiles with geometric patterns were also located along the pilasters framing the large plate glass storefront windows and at the bulkhead below. A rendering in the newspaper shows the angled entryway and a paired door with an Art Deco pattern, with a leaded-glass stepped transom above. By 1944, Knight’s Pharmacy moved to a new location at 288 Castro Stret, and 292 Castro Street was occupied by The Gift Shop, a business that appears to have formerly gone by the name Barker’s. The Gift Shop was purchased by Mildred C. Lawson and Wilhelmino Goudzward from Margaret Bunds in 1956. Later businesses occupying the building included The Children’s Shop (c.1960s); King Croissant (1984); Food Street, a Chinese restaurant (2000); vacant (c.2007-2013); Buffalo Restaurant (2014-2015); Srasa Kitchen (2016-2017); and Icicles, an ice cream shop (2017-2024).
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
Alterations include: in-kind replacement of plate glass windows (1938); unspecified repairs due to a basement fire (1941); partial removal of tile cladding (before 2008); removal of all exterior tile cladding and replacement with larger granite tiles (2013); removal of an original leaded glass transom window, and replacement with a new transom window and signage (2013); removal of interior bulkhead displays (2013); installation of new storefront windows and frames (2013); and replacement of the entrance doors (unknown date).
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The property at 292 Castro Street does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria. It is not associated with persons, events, or broad patterns important to local, California, or national history, nor is it likely to yield information important to history or prehistory. The Knights pharmacy business was not innovative and was not significant to the history or development of Mountain View. As such, the property does not appear to be significant under Criterion A (Events). Although one of the business owners, Abram J. Knight, served as mayor from 1932 to 1934, Knight’s brief tenure as mayor does not appear to be significant to the history of Mountain View, and his role and activities as mayor are not directly linked to the former pharmacy building. The property has not been identified as the work of a notable architect or builder and does not possess high artistic merit. When originally designed and constructed, the building exhibited the Art Deco style, but the design would likely not have risen to an individual level of significance for listing in the National Register or California Register, and now lacks sufficient integrity of design, materials, and workmanship.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance or historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it is a rare local example of an Art Deco commercial building in downtown Mountain View. As such, the property appears to be eligible for listing in the Mountain View Register under Criterion c (Design). As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. While integrity of materials and workmanship have been lost, some elements of the overall façade design convey the original Art Deco design and feeling of early 20th century commercial development, and the building retains integrity of location, setting, and association. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Stepped parapet with accordion-patterned concrete panels Pointed corner pilasters
Transom window opening with stepped header
Angled entrance, storefront windows, and bulkheads.
Continuation of B12. References:
“A New Home for Knight’s Pharmacy: Grand Opening Mon., Nov. 14,” Mountain View Register-Leader, November 11, 1932. “Business Changes,” San Jose Mercury News, July 8, 1956.
Google Street View, 2008-2024.
Mountain View Public Library, History Room. Historical photographs. “Mt. View C. of C. Elects Directors,” Peninsula Times Tribune, November 16, 1932.
Murphy, Candace. “The Road to Good Chinese Takeout,” Mercury News, June 14, 2000; and Google Street View 2007-present. “New Mt. View Building Opening on Monday,” San Jose Evening News, November 11, 1932.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1921, 1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library. “Suit Is Filed to Clean Easement,” San Jose Mercury Herald, August 18, 1936. “The Gift Shop,” advertisement, Mountain View Register-Leader, June 22, 1944.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 301 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1205 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823042 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Late Moderne Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Wood Frame Number of Stories: 1
Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Not Visible Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Fixed Window Material: Wood
Porch: Recessed Entrance Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features:
Mottled blue, ribbed terra cotta pilasters and base; bezeled terra cotta frame around vertical, double- height window bays; double-height interior space; small awning windows above fixed windows. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present: ✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1946; San Jose Evening News, January 9, 1947.
*P7. Owner and Address:
SHP CASTRO LLC, 2600 EL CAMINO REAL STE
410, PALO ALTO CA 94306
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 301 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Bank of America Building
B2. Common Name: Levin Building
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Late Moderne
*B6. Construction History:
The building was completed in late 1946. In 1955, Bank of America vacated the building and its signage was removed. This change of occupant led to the first major alterations on the property. Sometime between 1956 and 1960, a rear, one-story, L- plan CMU addition was built, which functioned independently of the primary building.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved? ✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: DeMartini & Igaz b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1946 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The property is a Late Moderne style commercial building located in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The former Bank of America Building appears to be eligible for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register under Criterion C/3/c (Design). The building is an individually distinctive, locally rare, and signifi cant example of the Late Moderne style and embodies distinct characteristics of a postwar branch bank typology. After Bank of Italy (originally founded in 1904 in San Francisco) merged with Los Angeles’ Bank of America in 1928, the financial conglomerate utilized a branch banking strategy to become “the world’s largest commercial bank” by 1945 and continued to focus its service toward the working class. At the time, the City of Mountain View was transitioning from a predominately agrarian pre-World War II economy to a proliferating technology and defense center following the conclusion of the war. As its population mushroomed and land area was annexed during these post-war years, Bank of America, which had a Mountain View presence since 1926 (at 201 Castro Street), constructed a new facility to reflect its continued participation in the City’s midcentury modernization.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
In the 1960s as part of a major public works project, Blossom Lane, an alley leading to a municipal parking lot, was laid out, resulting in the property’s current immediate setting at the rear. The building was reroofed in 1985 and again in 1996. In 2002, an interior remodel was completed, which included the addition of 35 square-feet of conditioned first floor space; alterations to interior finishes; lighting, mechanical and plumbing upgrades; and alterations to the exterior façade and entrance. Exterior alterations included the installation of multiple gooseneck light fixtures at the top of the primary façade, metal light fixtures at pilasters on primary and north façades, new storefront below primary façade glazing, and new tempered glazing entry doors and sidelights. Around 2013, “The Levin Building” lettering was added to the glazed section above main entrance. In 2019, the front entrance was reconfigured to create a recessed vestibule with new doors, a secondary recessed entrance was inserted in the eastern (left) window bay on the north façade, and the building was re-stuccoed and painted, removing the horizontal grooves that originally extended the length of the building’s street-facing west and north façades.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The building was designed in 1946 by the San Francisco-based architectural firm of E.P. Demartini & Rudolph Igaz, Jr. (DeMartini & Igaz), who were respected branch bank designers in Northern California during the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s. Their use of the Late Moderne style conveyed the longevity and permanence of Bank of America in the City of Mountain View while also signaling its modernity and expansion into a larger facility. Classical motifs, like fluted terra cotta pilasters, created continuity with previous Neoclassical architectural styles that were generally associated with traditional banking institutions, while sleek, streamlined details nodded to the era’s industrial design. The window bezels are mottled blue terra cotta manufactured by the Gladding McBean Company. Its Late Moderne design remains a unique icon of Mountain View’s historic central business district. The period of significance is the building’s date of construction, 1946. The Bank of America Building retains all aspects of integrity to convey its significance as a 1946 commercial building designed in the Late Moderne style.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing
Flat roof behind flat parapet
Smooth stucco cladding
Fenestration pattern, including double-height openings with multi-lite steel windows and small punched openings with multi-light steel windows
Mottled blue terra cotta watertable, fluted pilasters, and window bezels (projecting surrounds) Double-height interior volume.
Continuation of B12. References:
“Antioch Gets Big New Bank Building.” Contra Costa Times, December 20, 1948, 3. “Bank Building Remodel.” Architect & Engineer of California (August 1950). “Bowling Alley And Store.” Architect & Engineer of California (October 1950), 47. “Bowling Alley Building.” Architect & Engineer of California (February 1950), 44.
Dyson, Carol and Anthony Rubano. “Banking on the Future: Modernism and the Local Bank” in Preserving the Recent Past 2. Edited by Deborah Slaton and William G. Foulks. Washington, D.C.: Historic Preservation Education Foundation, Association for Preservation T echnology, and National Park Service, 2000: 2-43.
Gruner, George. “Building of Antioch Bank Slated to Start Jan. 2.” Oakland Tribune, December 19, 1948. “Hillsborough Names New Councilman.” The Times (San Mateo, CA), February 12, 1951.
Mountain View Public Library, History Room. Historic photographs. “N.C. Bank to Build Soon in Sutter.” Independent -Herald (Yuba City and Marysville, CA), January 11, 1951. “New Bank Building for San Bruno.” Organized Labor, November 1, 1947.“New Quarters Due for Mt. View Bank; Old Site Changes Hands.” San Jose Evening News, January 9, 1947.
“New Sunnyvale Bank Building.” San Jose Mercury News, August 29, 1947. “New Quarters Due for Mt. View Bank; Old Site Changes Hands,” San Jose Evening News, January 9, 1947. “Reno Architect Returns From Air Force Duty.” Reno Gazette-Journal, March 5, 1957. “St. Mary’s Square Underground Garage.” Architect & Engineer of California (May 1954): 11-17. “Women Dies as Car Hits Truck.” Modesto Bee, December 2, 1949. “Woman Purchases Bank Building,” San Jose Evening News, January 9, 1947.
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P1. Other Identifier: 329 CASTRO ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 331 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-1205 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15823100 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Spanish Colonial Revival Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 1 Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Clay Tile
Exterior Material: Stucco Primary Door Material: Aluminum Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Aluminum
Porch: Not Applicable Garage: None
Other Architectural/Site Features: Parapet has molded brackets at ends, Spanish clay tile on slope, and decorative wood brackets below; storefront windows and entrance are slightly recessed; and painted wood lintel above two window bays. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
May 3, 2023
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1930; The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 1, 1930.
*P7. Owner and Address:
329 CASTRO STREET ASSOCIATES LLC, 445
NORTH WHISMAN RD, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
94043
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 331 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: Mountain View Register-Leader Building B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use: Commercial B4. Present Use: Commercial *B5. Architectural Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
*B6. Construction History: The building was originally constructed in 1930. At some point between 1957 and 2008, both original storefronts were replaced and the building was re-stuccoed.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: Civic Growth and Social, Religious & Cultural Development (1910-1944) Area: Mountain View
Period of Significance: 1930-ca.1955 Property Type: Commercial Applicable NR/CR Criteria: None Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion b (Events) Statement of Significance:
The property is a one-story commercial building located in downtown Mountain View designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style associated with the theme of Civic Growth and Social, Religious and Cultural Development (1910-1944) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement.
The first occupants of the 329-331 Castro Street building when it opened in 1930 were a Pacifi c Gas & Electric (PG&E) o ffice and the Mountain View Register-Leader main office and printing facility. PG&E occupied part of the building until it briefly moved to 743 Dana Street (extant) in 1954. The Mountain View Register began printing in 1888, and merged with the Mountain View Leader in 1910. In 1930 they occupied part of the subject building for writing and printing. Around 1955, the Mountain View Register-Leader outsourced its printing to Sunnyvale, combined its daily edition with the Sunnyvale Standard, and began printing weekly. By the 1960s the Mountain View Register- Leader no longer occupied the building, and renamed to the Valley Journal. A separate printing business split from the Mountain View Register-Leader when they outsourced their printing to Sunnyvale, operating as Register Standard Printers, which occupied 329 Castro Street until 1978. More recently, the building has been occupied by a restaurant business.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The subject property does not appear to be individually eligible for listing in the National Register or California Register under any criteria.
While the property does not rise to the level of significance and historic integrity for individual designation in the National Register or California Register, it appears to be eligible for the Mountain View Register under Criterion b (events) for its association with the Mountain View Register-Leader, a long-running local newspaper. The Mountain View Register-Leader used part of the subject building for writing and printing their daily newspaper for 25 years from 1930 to c. 1955, when printing operations were outsourced. The building is the only known remaining building associated with the Mountain View Register-Leader, as, all earlier offices were demolished. The integrity of the building is somewhat diminished, due to the replacement of original storefront materials and fixtures. The building was re-stuccoed, possibly with a rougher texture stucco, but still conveys its Spanish Colonial Revival style features and design through its original details above the storefront bays, including the red clay tile sloped parapet, corbels, and decorative pottery. As currently written, the Mountain View Historic Preservation Ordinance does not provide a definition of historic integrity or threshold for integrity assessment, and a somewhat lower threshold of historic integrity compared to National Register and California Register-eligible properties may be utilized in assessing properties of local significance for the Mountain View Register. As such, the property retains sufficient historic integrity to convey its local significance for Mountain View Register eligibility.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing including two bays
Sloped red clay tile parapet with flat roof behind
Stucco cladding
Corbels underneath parapet
Molded corbel-like embellishments at the north and south ends of the sloped parapet Decorative pottery at north and south ends of the sloped parapet Lintels above storefront bays
Continuation of B12. References:
"Bird's Eye View of Castro Street, 1957," Photograph PHL L11 3, Mountain View Public Library. "Daily Newspaper to be Published at Mountain View," The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 17, 1928.
Google Street View (2008, 2014, 2020).
"Happy 85th Birthday," The Peninsula Times Tribune, November 3, 1987. "Mountain View Beginnings 'Mostly Mud,'" The Peninsula Times Tribune, November 4, 1977. "Mt. View Paper Plans to Cease Daily Publication," The Peninsula Times Tribune, December 23, 1958. "Pacific Gas & Electric Company at 743 Dana Street," Photograph PHL B28 1 , Mountain View Public Library, 1955. "P. G. & E. T o Open Mt. View Branch," The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 1, 1930.
Sanborn Map Company, fire insurance maps (1943, 1956). Accessed via San Francisco Public Library.
TreanorHL. “City of Mountain View Downtown Precise Plan Area Historic Resource Survey Report.” Prepared for City of Mountain View, Draft June 2020.
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P1. Other Identifier: 444 CASTRO ST
*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 492 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2008 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15811058 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Late Modern Plan Shape: H-Shape
Construction Type: Steel Frame Number of Stories: 12
Roof Style: Flat Roof Material: Not Visible
Exterior Material: Concrete - Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU), Concrete - Precast, Fiberglass Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Fixed, storefront Window Material: Aluminum, Fiberglass Porch: Entry plaza Garage: Below-grade parking garage
Other Architectural/Site Features: Entry plazas of Castro and Bryant streets and two-story commercial retail podium. Rectangular window panels with rounded corners; and mitered windows at building corners. *P3b. Resource Attributes: HP7. 3+ story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1971; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
SIC-MOUNTAIN BAY PLAZA LLC, 220
MONTGOMERY ST 20TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO CA
94104
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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*Resource Name or # 492 CASTRO ST
B1. Historic Name: International Environmental Dynamics (IED) Building B2. Common Name: Mountain Bay Plaza
B3. Original Use: Office Building B4. Present Use: Office Building *B5. Architectural Style: Late Modern
*B6. Construction History: The property was designed during the 1960s, however, construction was not completed until 1971.
See Continuation Sheet.
*B7. Moved?
✓ No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features: None
B9a. Architect: International Environmental Dynamics; Bryce I. Cann, David E. T ermohlen, and John Conte b. Builder: Unknown *B10. Significance: Theme: Commercial Development (1945-1979) Area: Mountain View Period of Significance: 1971 Property Type: Office Building Applicable NR/CR Criteria: C/3 (Design) Mountain View Register of Historic Resources Criteria: MVRHR Criterion c (Design) Statement of Significance:
The International Environmental Dynamics (IED) Building located at 444-492 Castro Street is a Late Modern style highrise o ffice building in downtown Mountain View that is associated with the theme of Commercial Development (1945-1979) as elaborated in the City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement. The 12-story building was designed by the architecture and development firm International Environmental Dynamics in collaboration with architects Bryce I. Cann, David E. T ermohlen, and John Conte, who was a mathematician. The building was constructed using a unique and innovative steel frame construction method from the top down, with each floor suspended by steel straps from two central core towers. Following completion, IED went into foreclosure and the building was vacant for 11 years, during which it was subject to deterioration, vandalism, and deferred maintenance. In 1981, it underwent extensive interior renovations by Perrini Land and Development Company and was reopened in 1982 as the Mountain Bay Plaza. While the building experienced a period of vacancy during the 1970s, it was rehabilitated in the 1980s and has since been occupied by tech startups and other office tenants.
See Continuation Sheet.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
None
*B12. References:
See Continuation Sheet.
B13. Remarks:
Located in Downtown Precise Plan Area H.
*B14. Evaluator: Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
*Date of Evaluation: January 2, 2025
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Continuation Update
Continuation of B6. Construction History
From visual inspection, sections of glazing on the plaza-level buildings aligned towards Bryant Street appear to have been replaced in more recent years, and ground-floor ATMs have been added.
Continuation of B10. Statement of Significance
The IED Building is significant as the first and only high rise in Mountain View and as a notable work of innovative structural engineering and Late Modern design. The property is eligible for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register with a period of significance of 1971, when construction on the building was completed. The property has not had any major exterior alterations and retains overall integrity for listing in the National Register, California Register, and Mountain View Register.
The character-defining features of the resource include:
Overall form and massing, including 10-story rectangular tower on two-story H-plan podium Semi-enclosed entrance plazas with landscape features
Fiberglass curtain wall with square window openings with rounded corners Mitered glass windows at building corners
Steel structural cores
Alternating striated concrete at podium level
Fully glazed metal window and door systems at the podium level.
Continuation of B12. References:
“More and More...People Are at Home With DION FR Polyesters.” AIA Journal. May 1975. Accessed online, June 2024, USModernist.com.
Daniel DeBolt, “Mt. Bay Plaza’s muddy beginnings,” Mountain View Voice, January 5, 2000, accessed online June 4, 2024, https:/ /www.mv-voice.com/news/2009/01/05/mt-bay-plazas-muddy-beginnings.
PPG Industries advertisement, Progressive Architecture (July 1971), 112. Accessed online, June 2024, USModernist.com.
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*P2. Location: Not for Publication ✓ Unrestricted *a. County: Santa Clara *b. USGS 7.5' Quad: Mountain View (Date: 2021)
c. Address: 501 CASTRO ST City: Mountain View Zip: 94041-2009 d. UTM:
e. Other Locational Data: Assessor Parcel Number (APN): 15824061 *P3a. Description:
Architectural Style: Commercial Modern Plan Shape: Rectangle Construction Type: Reinforced Concrete Number of Stories: 1 Roof Style: Flat with Parapet Roof Material: Asphalt - Rolled Exterior Material: Tilt-up concrete and glazed storefront system Primary Door Material: Fully Glazed Window Style: Storefront Window Material: Metal
Porch: Colonnade Garage: Surface Parking Lot
Other Architectural/Site Features: Hexagonal concrete columns and cast concrete briese soleil panels with elongated hexagonal openings create a colonnade at the north and west facades. Behind the arcaded columns are full-height glazed metal storefront window systems. At rear, a parking lot is bordered by a concrete retaining wall with matching modular openings. There are geometric cast concrete planters at the street level along either facade.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: HP6. 1-3 story commercial building *P4. Resources Present:
✓ Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.) P5a. Photo
P5b. Description of Photo:
April 26, 2024
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
✓ Historic Prehistoric Both
1959; Santa Clara County Assessor
*P7. Owner and Address:
ANDERSON DOROTHY J TRUSTEE, P O BOX
5155, SAN RAMON CA 94583
*P8. Recorded by:
Page & Turnbull, 170 Maiden Lane, 5th Floor, San
Francisco CA 94108
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 2, 2025
*P10. Survey Type: Intensive
*P11. Report Citation: Page & Turnbull, "City of Mountain View Historic Context Statement," prepared for City of Mountain View, Final Draft, October 1, 2024.
*Attachments:
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