ATCH 3 - Historic Analysis — Napa City Council, December 17, 2024

October 10, 2024
Gloria Riechers
Riechers Engineering
5 Canopy Ln.

Napa, California 94558
Subject: Proposal for Historical Evaluations of 1112 & 1126 George Street, Napa, Napa County, California.

Dear Alfonso,
This letter report and the attached DPR 523 forms comprise the Historical Evaluations of 1112 & 1126 George Street, Napa, Napa County, California.

Methodology
Brunzell Historical personnel conducted a site visit on July 24, 2024. The site visit included collecting photographs of all elevations of the building, parcel, and neighborhood setting. Staff conducted online research through the Napa County Assessor as well as Ancestry.com, Newspapers.com, and other websites in order to discover relevant historic contexts and land-use history of the property. The property was evaluated according to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR) criteria for historic eligibility and documented on DPR 523 forms as required by the California Environmental Quality Act as (CEQA).

Summary of Findings
The subject property is listed on the City of Napa Historical Resource Inventory (HRI); properties that have been listed on local historic registers are presumed to be historical resources under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The current project proposes a lot split under SB9, which does not allow parcel splits for qualified historical resources. The subject property was therefore evaluated for historic eligibility according to current SHPO guidelines and professional standards. Because this work was completed pursuant to CEQA, the listed house (1112 George Street) as well as the other house on parcel (1126 George Street) were both evaluated for CRHR eligibility. The property and its constituent historic-age buildings were also evaluated for NRHP eligibility. The study did not reveal architectural or historical significance under the relevant criteria, and Brunzell Historical recommends that the property is ineligible for historic listing and should be removed from the City of Napa HRI.

National Register of Historic Places
In conjunction with the following NRHP criteria, sites must be assessed for integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. A site may be considered eligible to the NRHP if it retains sufficient integrity of the elements listed above and it:

A. is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history;
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B. is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; C. embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, represents the work of a master, possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant or distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; D. yields, or may be likely to yield, information important to the prehistory or history of the area/region.

California Register of Historical Resources
The CRHR criteria are based on NRHP criteria. For a property to be eligible for inclusion on the CRHR, one or more of the following criteria must be met:

1. It is associated with the events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history, or the cultural heritage of California or the United States;

2. It is associated with the lives of persons important to local, California, or national history;

3. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of him construction, or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values; and/or

4. It has yielded, or has the potential to yield, information important to the prehistory or history of the local area, California, or the nation.

In addition to meeting one or more of the above criteria, the CRHR requires that sufficient time has passed since a resource’s period of significance to “obtain a scholarly perspective on the events or individuals associated with the resources.” (CCR 4852 [d][2]). Fifty years is normally considered sufficient time for a potential historical resource, and in order that the evaluation remains valid for a minimum of five years after the date of this report, all resources older than 45 years will be evaluated. The CRHR also requires that a resource possess integrity. This is defined as the ability for the resource to convey its significance through seven aspects: location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.

Summary Property History
The neighborhood around the subject property was subdivided for residential development in 1905.

A teamster and horse dealer named Charles Moore acquired the subject property in 1907; by 1910, there was a two-story stable (no longer extant) near the southwest corner of the current parcel. 1112 George Street was apparently constructed about 1911 as a home for Charles Moore and his wife Mary. In 1934, Gladys and Richard Bennett purchased the subject property from the estate of Charles Moore, who had died in 1932. The Bennetts moved into the original house with at least two of their four children. The house next door at 1126 George Street was apparently constructed around the time the Bennetts bought the property, and by 1935 their daughter Regina and her husband George Fidler were living in it. Members of the Bennett and Fidler families lived on the subject property until their deaths in the late 1970s. Both houses were substantially expanded and altered at unknown dates after 1949.

Evaluations
1112 George Street
Criterion A/1: The residence at 1112 George Street is not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. The property is generally associated with the residential development of Napa in the early twentieth century and the expansion of the original town footprint into formerly agricultural areas. Research has not revealed that the property ATTACHMENT 3

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is significant within that or any other historic context. Therefore, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion A/1.

Criterion B/2: The residence at 1112 George Street is not associated with the lives of persons important to our history. It has been a house for multiple families over the decades, providing shelter for ordinary people. Research has revealed no important professional accomplishments or impacts on local history by individuals associated with the property. Therefore, the property lacks the association required for eligibility under Criterion B/2 and is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion B/2.

Criterion C/3: The property is not significant for its architecture. Research has revealed no evidence that it was designed by a notable builder or an architect, nor does the building exhibit the design elements present in architectural landmarks. It lacks decorative features or references to a particular architectural style. It is not an outstanding example of vernacular architecture. Furthermore, it has been substantially altered over the years. For these reasons, the property is recommended in eligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion C/3.

Criterion D/4: In rare instances, buildings themselves can serve as sources of important information about historic construction materials or technologies and be significant under Criterion D/4. 1112 George Street is an example of well-understood types of construction and does not appear to be a principal source of important information in this regard.

The property is recommended ineligible for listing on the NRHP or CRHR. Because it lacks the significance required for historical listing under any criterion, Brunzell Historical further recommends its removal from the City of Napa HRI.
1126 George Street
Criterion A/1: The residence at 1126 George Street is not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. The property is generally associated with the residential development of Napa in the early twentieth century and the expansion of the original town footprint into formerly agricultural areas. Research has not revealed that the property is significant within that or any other historic context. Therefore, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion A/1.

Criterion B/2: The residence at 1126 George Street is not associated with the lives of persons important to our history. It has been a house for multiple families over the decades, providing shelter for ordinary people. Research has revealed no important professional accomplishments or impacts on local history by the Fidler family; other individuals associated with the property lived in it outside the historic period. Therefore, the property lacks the association required for eligibility under Criterion B/2 and is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion B/2.

Criterion C/3: The property is not significant for its architecture. Research has revealed no evidence that it was designed by a notable builder or an architect, nor does the building exhibit the design elements present in architectural landmarks. It lacks decorative features or references to a particular architectural style. It is not an outstanding example of vernacular architecture. Furthermore, it has been substantially altered over the years with unsympathetic additions and window replacement. For these reasons, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion C/3.

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George Street is an example of well-understood types of construction and does not appear to be a principal source of important information in this regard.

Neither of the buildings on this property qualify as historical resources under CEQA.

Evaluator Qualifications
I meet the Secretary of Interior’s Professional Qualifications for both History and Architectural History. I hold a Master’s degree in Public History and have worked in multiple facets of historic preservation and cultural resource evaluation since 2007. My experience includes municipal preservation planning and working as the lead staff member of a non-profit preservation organization. Since 2012, I have worked full-time as a historical consultant, completing dozens of evaluations for CEQA and Section 106 compliance. Additionally, I have completed local and national register nominations, historic context statements, and Historic American Engineering Record recordation. The North Bay is the center of my practice, but I frequently work in the greater Sacramento area and other parts of the Bay Area, and have also completed projects in Southern California, Nevada, Oregon, New York, and Puerto Rico. In addition to my work with historic- period domestic, agricultural, and commercial properties for private clients, I have prepared reports on post offices, military bases, university campuses, hospitals, church properties, national parks, and a NASA site. I am listed as a Historian and Architectural Historian on the California Office of Historic Preservation’s roster of qualified consultants for every county in California.

Please contact me by phone at 707/290-2918 or e-mail at [email protected] with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

Kara Brunzell, M.A.

Brunzell Historical

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DPR 523A (1/95) *Required Information

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 Napa and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad Napa Date 1951 T_5N_; R _ 4W_; ___ ¼ of Sec __; _ _ B.M. c. Address 1112 George Street City Napa Zip 94558
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) APN 001-144-010-000 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) The 0.20-acre property is located in a commercial-residential neighborhood, approximately 0.75 miles from downtown Napa. The residence occupies one-sixth of its parcel, sharing the lot with a single-story residence (1106-1126 George Street) approximately 15 feet to the west, and two two-story storage sheds (2518 Jefferson Street) behind the house to the north. The residence is set back approximately 30 feet from the street and is irregular in plan with a cross-gabled roof with boxed eaves. The house is one story above a tall raised basement on that is utilized for garage and additional dwelling space. It is clad in narrow horizontal wood siding with wide horizonal wood siding at the basement level. There is a projecting partial-width porch on the main (south) elevation, with a shed roof supported by square wood posts and a simple wood balustrade. It shelters the main (south) entrance, which is slightly left of center, fitted with a paneled wood door, and accessed by a tall set of wide wood steps with a simple wood balustrade; steps lead to the side (west) rather than toward the street.

Secondary entrances on the west and north elevations have similar entry porches and steps. There are double hinged garage doors of vertical boards on raised basement, to the right of the main entrance. There is a short driveway leading to the garage. Fenestration consists of replacement aluminum-sash windows in tall openings with wood casings. The small front yard and the front yard of the adjacent house are enclosed in a low chain link fence. Landscaping is minimal with shrubs in the front yard and several mature trees in the back yard.

Storage sheds have sliding glass doors and lack fenestration. The house is in fair condition. *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP3, Muliple family property. *P4. Resources Present:  Building  Structure  Object  Site  District  Element of District  Other (Isolates, etc.) P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date,
accession #) Photograph 1: 1112 George St, south
elevation, camera facing north, July 24, 2024.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
 Historic  Prehistoric  Both
Between 1910 and 1917, USDA Aerials and Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps
*P7. Owner and Address:

Alfonso Garibay
1112 George Street
Napa, CA 94558
*P8. Recorded by:(Name, affiliation, address)
Kara Brunzell, Brunzell Historical
1613 B St
Napa, CA 94559
*P9. Date Recorded: July 24, 2024
*P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive
*P11. Report Citation:(Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “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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*Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 1112 George Street

DPR 523B (1/95) *Required Information State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________

BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
B1. Historic Name:

B2. Common Name: 1112 George Street
B3. Original Use: residential B4. Present Use: residential *B5. Architectural Style:
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alteration, and date of alterations) Original construction, between 1910 and 1917 Expansion of original tiny dwelling, between 1925 and 1948 Removal of full-width front porch and replacement with partial-width entry porch, basement level raised to create additional dwelling space and garage, replacement of wood-sash with aluminum windows, after 1949

*B7. Moved?  No  Yes  Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features:

B9. Architect: b. Builder:
*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. Also address integrity.)

B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) *B12. References:
(See Footnotes)
B13. Remarks:

*B14. Evaluator: Kara Brunzell

*Date of Evaluation: July 24, 2024

(This space reserved for official comments.)

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*Recorded by Kara Brunzell *Date: July 24, 2024  Continuation  Update

DPR 523L (1/95) *Required Information State of California – The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial ____________________________________________

*P3a. Description: (continued):

Photograph 2: 1112 George St west elevation, camera facing east, July 24, 2024.

Photograph 3: 1112 George St north elevation, camera facing south, July 24, 2024.

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*Recorded by Kara Brunzell *Date: July 24, 2024  Continuation  Update

Photograph 4: 1112 George St east elevation, camera facing southwest, July 24, 2024.

Photograph 5: 1112 George St and with second residence on property left frame, camera facing northeast, July 24, 2024.

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*Recorded by Kara Brunzell *Date: July 24, 2024  Continuation  Update

B10. Significance (continued):

City of Napa
The original inhabitants of the Napa Valley were the Asochimi people, later called Wappo by Europeans.. By 1848, the American population in the area had grown, and Nathan Coombs laid out a plat for Nappa City (the spelling changed to Napa by the 1870s).

California statehood in 1850 intensified population growth. Orchards and wheat gradually displaced cattle ranching as settlers’ primary source of income, and the first Downtown Napa winery opened in the 1870s. While settlers initially relied on Native labor, Chinese immigrants became a more important source of labor as Indian populations declined in the later decades of the nineteenth century. In 1875, the State of California built the Napa State Hospital for the Insane at the southern edge of town; the city had competed with others around the state for the asylum, which brought considerable economic benefit in terms of public funding. The Phylloxera louse infested Napa Valley in the late nineteenth century and killed thousands of grapevines, seriously threatening the local wine industry. Many farmers replaced their grapevines with fruit trees. As discrimination against Chinese immigration increased in the last decades of the century, farmers began to turn to Italian immigrants as a labor source.1 By 1900, Napa had a population of just over 4,000. Growth was gradual in the first decades of the twentieth century, with commercial and residential development following the traditional pattern of single-building construction. The neighborhood around Napa High School was mostly farmland at the beginning of the twentieth century. By 1876, the area bounded by Soscol, Pueblo, and Lincoln Avenues and Jefferson Street was labeled North Napa on maps, demonstrating that local boosters and property owners intended develop the area for residential and commercial use. However, residential expansion was gradual and agricultural uses persisted for many years; much of the area was not developed until the mid-twentieth century. The town was regionally important as the county seat and main shipping point for agricultural produce. Although the effects of the Great Depression were not as severe as in many places, growth remained slow, and the population increased less than twenty percent between 1930 and 1940. By 1940, the City of Napa still had less than 8,000 residents.

After the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, the San Francisco Bay Area rapidly transformed into an engine for production of war goods as well as the embarkation point for the Pacific Theater. As hundreds of thousands of newcomers flooded the Bay Area in search of work, Napa’s population exploded, and in 1942, it was one of the fastest-growing towns in the entire western United States. Although no war industries were located within city limits, the Basalt Rock Company was on the outskirts of town and thousands of Napa residents commuted to Mare Island Naval Shipyard during the war. By 1950, Napa’s population had nearly doubled from its size a decade earlier to 13,579.2
Population growth during the war meant that families had to find housing by any means necessary: renting rooms, doubling up, and living in warehouses or garages. Shipyard Acres near Basalt Rock, Westwood, and other wartime subdivisions met only a portion of local demand for housing. Between 1946 and 1950, developers constructed nearly 2,000 houses in and near Napa, and city limits were expanded several times to annex new subdivisions. New residents meant expansion of the local school system, and like other communities across California in the postwar period, Napa added gymnasiums and auditoriums to existing schools to accommodate more students. New schools were also constructed: by the end of 1948 Alta Heights and Westwood elementary schools were nearly complete and a third was planned, and several more were built over the next decade. Although some of this new development was infill, most was on former agricultural land miles from Napa’s historic core.3 The pattern of economic and population growth established during the war continued through the end of the 1950s. Blue-collar union jobs supported the local economy: by 1960, nearly 2,600 people were employed at Basalt Rock/Kaiser Steel and Napa’s smaller manufacturing plants. Thousands of Napans still worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and Napa State Hospital also had over 1,000 employees.

1 Stephen Powers, Tribes of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 196; C. A. Menefee, Historical and Descriptive Sketchbook of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, and Mendocino: Comprising Sketches of their Topography, Productions, History, Scenery, and Peculiar Attractions (Napa:

Reporter Publishing House, 1873), 15, 19, 22, 49 – 50, 52, 54 – 55, 218 – 219; Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California: vol. VII, 1860 – 1890 (San Francisco: The History Company, 1890), 438 – 439; Norton L. King, Napa County, An Historical Overview (Napa: Office of Napa County Superintendent of Schools, 1967), 6 – 7, 54 – 58; Lin Weber and the Napa Valley Museum, Images of America: Napa (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2004), 37 – 44, 100.
2 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1891, 1901; Lauren Coodley, Napa: The Transformation of an American Town (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 39; King, 48; Lin Weber, Roots of the Present: Napa Valley 1900 to 1950 (St. Helena: Wine Ventures Publishing, 2001), 31; Weber, Napa, 87; City of Napa, City-Wide Historic Context Statement, Prepared by Page & Turnbull, Inc., 1 September 2009, 111; James M. Campbell, Planning Consultant, “Economic Survey of Napa County,” 1960, 70.
3 City of Napa, 112-113; “With Near Completion of Alta Heights and Westwood Schools Plans Laid for Third Primary School,” Napa Register, 24 December 1948, 1.

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Between 1950 and 1957, nearly 5,000 dwelling units were constructed in Napa County, most of which were single-family houses in or near Napa city limits. Downtown remained the seat of county/city government and the commercial center of Napa during the postwar period through the mid-1960s. Commercial development Downtown was limited to relatively small infill projects during this period. The City’s gradual development of a new City Hall, Police Station, and Fire Station at the Downtown Civic Center between 1950 and 1961 represented the most significant change to Downtown’s built environment during this era.4 In the 1960s, the local economy began a gradual shift away from its industrial roots. Napa County’s wine business finally began to recover from decades of Prohibition, depression, and war as it shifted to production of premium varietal wines. Tourism began to replace manufacturing as an engine of the local economy, but the City of Napa was a place tourists passed through en route to wineries rather than a destination. Highway 29, which historically passed through Downtown on Third Street, was rerouted to the east when a portion of the highway became a freeway in the late 1960s, exacerbating Downtown Napa’s commercial decline due to competition with malls and strip development. The City Council established a Redevelopment Agency in 1968, which was responsible for the destruction of many of Napa’s historic commercial buildings in the early 1970s. A citizen backlash slowed the process in the mid-1970s, but not before several landmark buildings were replaced with parking structures or new commercial development. The late twentieth century redevelopment efforts failed to re-establish the City of Napa as the commercial heart of the Napa County, and Downtown continued to suffer high turnover vacancy rates through the 1990s. This trend was finally reversed after 2005 following successful flood control measures that made investment in Downtown more attractive, and in 2024 Downtown Napa is a hub of the local hospitality industry featuring a concentration of hotels, restaurants, and wine-tasting rooms.5 1112 George Street
The neighborhood around the subject property was not included in the 1901 Sanborn Map, indicating that there was little development in the area. The southern half of the block bounded by Central Avenue and Jefferson, George, and Brown Streets was subdivided for development in 1905 and named Bates Subdivision. The area was still outside city limits in 1920, although the development of Napa Union High School on the northwest corner of Lincoln and Jefferson the following year would stimulate nearby residential development.

The residence at 1112 George Street was built between 1910 and 1917. The parcel changed hands many times in the early 1900s. In 1907, Charles Marion Moore (c1876-1932) acquired the subject property from C. G. Bates, who had recently subdivided several acres in the immediate vicinity. Moore, who was born in Nebraska, worked as a teamster, handling the deliveries for a farm, and was also a horse dealer. By 1910, there was a two-story stable near the southwest corner of the current parcel. Moore married Mary Keyes in 1911, and presumably built the original residence on the property about the same time. By 1918, the couple was living on George Street, and in 1920 US Census records show them living there with a 13-year-old daughter named Mary, who was already working as a private nurse. The original house (which appears on the 1924 Sanborn Maps) was much smaller than the current building, and probably consisted of just one or two rooms and a full-width porch. In 1922, the couple separated, and Charles Moore paid his wife just over $1000 to relinquish her claim to the George Street house and adjacent lot. Charles continued to live on alone at the property, portions of which he mortgaged to his brother David and David’s Urslyn wife for $450 in 1930. Shortly before his death in 1932, Charles Moore deeded the house to his brothers David and Edgar along with their wives.6
In 1934, Richard Bennett (1884-1976) and his wife, Gladys Bennett (1894-1978), purchased the property from the Moores, their coworkers.

The tiny original house was expanded by the Bennett family, roughly tripling its size so it approximated its current footprint, although it retained its full-width porch until at least 1949. The Bennetts were married in 1913 in Merced and moved to Napa in 1926. They both worked as technicians at the Napa State Hospital for a couple decades before retiring in 1940. They had two daughters and two sons.

Their daughter, Helen Bennett (1916-1979), worked as a nurse at the Napa State Hospital with them. Their two sons, Richard and John Bennett served in the United States Navy. John Bennett (1919-1942) died during his service in Casablanca, Morocco. Richard Bennett Jr.

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(1924-2000) moved to Vallejo after serving in World War II. Their eldest child, Regina Bennett (1914-1979), married George Fidler in 1934 and moved into the house next door, apparently never living at 1112 George Street with her family.7 In the late 1990s, Ismael Garibay (b.1952) and his family owned and resided on the property. He and his wife, Martina Hurtado (b.1966), had a son, Alfonso Garibay, in 1994. They purchased a house in Modesto in the 2000s, which Garibay spent time modernizing. The property has remained in the Garibay family.8

Figure 1: Map with subject property outlined in red, 1910 (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps).

7 Napa Valley Register, “Gladys Bennett,” Oct. 16, 1978, 10; Napa Journal, “Napans With Uncle Sam,” Apr. 28, 1944, 11; United States Federal Census, Napa, California, “Bennett,” 1940; United States Federal Census, Napa, California, “Fidler,” 1940. 8 Modesto Bee, “Sewers Replacing Septic in Shackelford,” Aug. 22, 2006, B1.

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Figure 2: Map with subject property outlined in red, 1924 (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps).

Figure 3: Aerial with subject property outlined in red, 1940 (USDA).

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Figure 4: Map with subject property outlined in red, 1949 (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps).

Figure 5: Aerial with subject property outlined in red, 1965 (USDA).

Evaluation:

The NRHP and CRHR require that a significance criterion from A-D or 1-4 (respectively) be met for a resource to be eligible.

Criterion A/1: The residence at 1112 George Street is not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. The property is generally associated with the residential development of Napa in the early twentieth century and ATTACHMENT 3

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the expansion of the original town footprint into formerly agricultural areas. Research has not revealed that the property is significant within that or any other historic context. Therefore, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion A/1.

The property is recommended not eligible for listing on the NRHP or CRHR. It does not qualify as a historical resource under CEQA.

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DPR 523A (1/95) *Required Information

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: 1106 George Street
*P2. Location:  Not for Publication  Unrestricted *a. County Napa and (P2b and P2c or P2d. Attach a Location Map as necessary.) *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad Napa Date 1951 T_5N_; R _ 4W_; ___ ¼ of Sec __; _ _ B.M. c. Address 1126 George Street City Napa Zip 94558
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) APN 001-144-010-000 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries) The 0.20-acre property is located in a commercial-residential neighborhood, approximately 0.75 miles from downtown Napa. The residence occupies one-sixth of its parcel, sharing the lot with a single-story residence (1112 George Street) approximately 15 feet to the east, and two two-story storage sheds (2518 Jefferson Street) behind 1112 George Street. The one-story residence is set back approximately 20 feet from the street and is L-shaped in plan with a cross-gabled roof. It has louvered wood vents on the gable ends and exposed rafter tails at the eaves. It is clad in narrow horizontal wood siding with wide vertical wood siding at the base. The east wing has a lower-height side-gabled roof and a taller crawlspace than the primary volume; it is clad in wide wood siding and appears to be an addition to the original small house. The rear volume of the house has a low-pitch gabled roof, is clad in vertical groove plywood, and also appears to be an addition. There is a projecting partial-width porch on the main (south) elevation, with a front-gabled roof supported by three square wood posts. It shelters the main (south) entrance, which is fitted with a partially-glazed paneled wood door and accessed by a set of wide concrete steps and a concrete walkway from the street. There is an alley along the west side of the property that provides access to the small gravel parking area in the front yard. Fenestration consists of replacement aluminum windows in tall openings with wood casings.

The small front yard is enclosed in a low chain link fence. Landscaping is minimal with a mature tree in the front yard and several mature trees in the back yard. Storage sheds have sliding glass doors and lack fenestration. The house is in good condition. *P3b. Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) HP3, Multiple family property. *P4. Resources Present:  Building  Structure  Object  Site  District  Element of District  Other (Isolates, etc.) P5b. Description of Photo: (View, date,
accession #) Photograph 1: 1126 George St, south
elevation, camera facing north, July 24, 2024.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources:
 Historic  Prehistoric  Both
Before 1910, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
*P7. Owner and Address:

Alfonso Garibay
1126 George Street
Napa, CA 94558
*P8. Recorded by:(Name, affiliation, address)
Kara Brunzell, Brunzell Historical
1613 B St
Napa, CA 94559
*P9. Date Recorded: July 24, 2024
*P10. Survey Type: (Describe) Intensive
*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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*Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 1126 George Street

BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
B1. Historic Name:

B2. Common Name: 1126 George Street
B3. Original Use: residential B4. Present Use: residential *B5. Architectural Style:
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alteration, and date of alterations) Original construction, before 1924 – 1935 East addition, north addition, windows replaced, unknown dates after 1949

*B7. Moved?  No  Yes  Unknown Date: Original Location:
*B8. Related Features:

B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) *B12. References:
(See Footnotes)
B13. Remarks:

*B14. Evaluator: Kara Brunzell

*Date of Evaluation: July 24, 2024

(This space reserved for official comments.)

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*P3a. Description: (continued):

Photograph 2: 1126 George St east elevation, camera facing west, July 24, 2024.

Photograph 3: 1126 George St east and north elevations, camera facing southwest, July 24, 2024.

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Photograph 4: 1126 George St west elevation, camera facing northeast, July 24, 2024.

Photograph 5: 1126 George St and with second residence on property right frame, camera facing northeast, July 24, 2024.

B10. Significance (continued):

City of Napa
The original inhabitants of the Napa Valley were the Asochimi people, later called Wappo by Europeans. By 1848, the American population in the area had grown, and Nathan Coombs laid out a plat for Nappa City (the spelling changed to Napa by the 1870s).

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gradual development of a new City Hall, Police Station, and Fire Station at the Downtown Civic Center between 1950 and 1961 represented the most significant change to Downtown’s built environment during this era.4 In the 1960s, the local economy began a gradual shift away from its industrial roots. Napa County’s wine business finally began to recover from decades of Prohibition, depression, and war as it shifted to production of premium varietal wines. Tourism began to replace manufacturing as an engine of the local economy, but the City of Napa was a place tourists passed en route to wineries rather than a destination. Highway 29, which historically passed through Downtown on Third Street, was rerouted to the east when a portion of the highway became a freeway in the late 1960s, exacerbating Downtown Napa’s commercial decline due to competition with malls and strip development. The City Council established a Redevelopment Agency in 1968, which was responsible for the destruction of many of Napa’s historic commercial buildings in the early 1970s. A citizen backlash slowed the process in the mid-1970s, but not before several landmark buildings were replaced with parking structures or new commercial development. The late twentieth century redevelopment efforts failed to re-establish the City of Napa as the commercial heart of the Napa County, and Downtown continued to suffer high turnover vacancy rates through the 1990s. This trend was finally reversed after 2005 following successful flood control measures that made investment in Downtown more attractive, and in 2024 Downtown Napa is a hub of the local hospitality industry featuring a concentration of hotels, restaurants, and wine-tasting rooms.5 1126 George Street
The neighborhood around the subject property was not included in the 1890 or 1901 Sanborn Maps, indicating that there was little development in the area. The southern half of the block bounded by Central Avenue and Jefferson, George, and Brown Streets was subdivided for development in 1905 and named Bates Subdivision. The area was still outside city limits in 1920, although the development of Napa Union High School on the northwest corner of Lincoln and Jefferson the following year would stimulate nearby residential development.

The residence at 1126 George Street was built sometime between 1924 and 1935. The parcel had changed hands many times in the early 1900s. In 1907, Charles Marion Moore (c1876-1932) acquired the subject property from C. G. Bates, who had recently subdivided several acres in the immediate vicinity. Moore, who was born in Nebraska, worked as a teamster, handling the deliveries for a farm, and was also a horse dealer. By 1910, there was a two-story stable near the southwest corner of the current parcel, roughly where 1126 George Street is today. Moore married Mary Keyes in 1911, and presumably built the residence next door at 1112 George Street about the same time. In 1934, Richard Bennett (1884-1976) and his wife, Gladys Bennett (1894-1978), purchased the property from the Moores, their coworkers.

The residence at 1126 George Street was likely built at this time, replacing the barn on the property. The Bennetts lived in the Moore residence at 1112 George Street and rented out the second residence at 1126 George Street to their daughter and son-in-law.6 By 1935, George Fidler (1903-1957) and his family lived at 1126 George Street. He was born in Idaho and married Betty Madoerin (1902- 1933) of Sonoma in 1927; the couple lived in Napa. Betty was the mother of two toddlers, George and Elizabeth, when she died of measles in 1933 (at the age of 21). In 1934, George Fidler married Richard and Gladys Bennett’s 20-year-old daughter Regina (1914-1979). The couple moved into the subject property, renting the house from the Bennetts, who lived in the older house on the subject property. The couple had two children together, Thomas and Theresa. Fidler worked as a hide cutter for the Sawyer Tanning Company in Napa for 23 years. Regina Fidler worked as a psychiatric technician at the Sonoma State Hospital, where her parents had also worked. After Fidler’s sudden death in 1957, Regina Fidler continued living on the property until her own death in 1979. In the 1980s, Barbara Montelliar lived in the residence. In the late 1990s, Ismael Garibay (b.1952) and his family owned and resided on the property. He and his wife, Martina Hurtado (b.1966), had a son, Alfonso Garibay, in 1994. The two-house property has remained in the Garibay family in the 2020s.7

4 Campbell, 17, 38.
5 USGS Maps, Napa, California, 1958, 1963, 1969; City of Napa, Downtown Historic Context Statement & Survey Report, Prepared by Page & Turnbull, Inc., 29 July 2011, 88 – 90; Napa Valley Welcome Center, 2017, accessed 25 October 2017, https://www.visitnapavalley.com/blog/post/napa-valley- town-guide-napa/.
6 Napa Weekly Journal, June 9, 1911, 9; Charles Marion Moore, World War I Registration, 1918; Deeds on File at the Napa County Recorder’s Office; Napa Valley Register, “Notice of Sale,” Jun. 16, 1979, 9. 7 Napa Journal, “George Fiddler To Marry Sonoma Girl,” Aug. 12, 1927, 8; Napa Valley Register, “George Fidler Dies Suddenly At Plant Here,” Oct. 15, 1957, 3; Napa Valley Register, “Obituary,” May 10, 1979, 12; Napa Valley Register, “4 Napans Jailed on Drug Charges,” Apr. 15, 1988, 2; Modesto Bee, “Sewers Replacing Septic in Shackelford,” Aug. 22, 2006, B1.

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Figure 1: Map with subject property outlined in red, 1910 (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps).

Figure 4: Map with subject property outlined in red, 1949 (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps).

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Figure 5: Aerial with subject property outlined in red, 1965 (Frame Finder).

Evaluation:

The NRHP and CRHR require that a significance criterion from A-D or 1-4 (respectively) be met for a resource to be eligible.

Criterion A/1: The residence at 1126 George Street is not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. The property is generally associated with the residential development of Napa in the early twentieth century and the expansion of the original town footprint into formerly agricultural areas. Research has not revealed that the property is significant within that or any other historic context. Therefore, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion A/1.

Criterion C/3: The property is not significant for its architecture. Research has revealed no evidence that it was designed by a notable builder or an architect, nor does the building exhibit the design elements present in architectural landmarks. It lacks decorative features or references to a particular architectural style. It is not an outstanding example of vernacular architecture. Furthermore, it has been substantially altered over the years with unsympathetic additions and window replacement. For these reasons, the property is recommended ineligible to the NRHP or CRHR under Criterion C/3.

Criterion D/4: In rare instances, buildings themselves can serve as sources of important information about historic construction materials or technologies and be significant under Criterion D/4. 1126 George Street is an example of well-understood types of construction and does not appear to be a principal source of important information in this regard.

The property is recommended ineligible for listing on the NRHP or CRHR. It does not qualify as a historical resource under CEQA.

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Napa City CouncilDecember 17, 2024

Napa City Council
December 17, 2024