HomeMy WebLinkAboutAppendix A
Survey and Evaluation Update
Iowa City
Central Business District
Prepared for
City of Iowa City
Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission
Prepared by
Alexa McDowell
AKAY Consulting
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 2018
City of Iowa City
City Council
Mayor, Jim Throgmorton
Kingsley Botchway II
Rockne Cole
Susan Mims
Pauline Taylor
John Thomas
Mazahir Salih
Historic Preservation Commission
Chair, Ginalie Swaim
Thomas Agran
Cecile Kuenzli
Frank Wagner
Pam Michaud
Esther Baker
Zachariah Builta
Sharon DeGraw
GT Karr
Kevin Boyd
Gosia S. Clore
Neighborhood and Development Services
Bob Miklo, Senior Planner
Jessica Bristow, Historic Preservation Planner
Sylvia Bochner, Intern
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction 01-02
Figure 01. Map of Project Survey Area Showing 2001 & 2018 Boundaries 02
2.0 Methodology 03-05
Table 01. National Register Listed Resources in the 2018 Survey Area 03-04
Table 02. National Register Listed Resources in Adjacency 04
2.1 Community Engagement 04-05
3.0 Development Overview 05-12
4.0 Summary of Findings and Recommendations 12-43
4.1 Standards of Evaluation 14
4.1.a Individually Eligible 16
4.1.b Contributing 17
4.1.c Non-Contributing 20
4.2 Statement of Findings 21-42
Table 03. Resource Evaluation Findings 22-35
Figure 02. Resource Map 36
4.2.a Individually Eligible 37
Table 04. Individually Eligible Resources 37-38
4.2.b Historic District Eligibility 38-39
Figure 03. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries -1 40
Figure 04. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries - 2 41
4.2.c. Historic Preservation Overly Zones 42
4.3 Recommendations 42-43
5.0 Historic Preservation Incentives 44
5.1 Historic Tax Credit Programs 44
5.1.a Iowa Historic Tax Credit Program 50
5.1.b Federal Historic Tax Incentive Program 50
5.1.c Iowa Historic Property Temporary Tax Exemption Program 51
5.2 City of Iowa City Programs 51
5.2 a Tax Increment Financing 51-52
5.3 Iowa Downtown Resource Center Programs 52
5.1.a Main Street Iowa 52
5.1.b Model Communities 52
5.1.c Workforce Housing Tax Credits 52
List of Tables
Table 01. National Register Listed Resources in 2018 Survey Area 03
Table 02. National Register Listed Resources Adjacent to 2018 Survey Area 04
Table 03. Resource Evaluation Findings 22
Table 04. Individually Eligible Resources 37
List of Figures
Figure 01. Map of Project Survey Area – 2018 36
Figure 02. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries 40
Figure 03. Map of Proposed Historic District Boundaries Without Urban Renewal 41
List of Images
Image 01. Franklin Printing – 115 S. Dubuque Street – 1856 06
Image 02. View of west side of S. Dubuque with 1870s era buildings 07
Image 03. The Airliner – 22 S. Dubuque Street – ca.1877/1950 08
Image 04. Englert Theatre – 221 E. Washington Street – 1913 09
Image 05. Kresge’s – 119-123 E. Washington Street – 1930 10
Image 06. Eldon Miller Building (Gabe’s) – 330 E. Washington Street – 1955 11
Image 07. Carnegie Public Library – 309 E. College Street – 1903 15
Image 08. Coast & Sons – 10-14 S. Clinton Street – 1895 18
Image 09. Things & Things & Things – 130 S. Clinton Street – 1970 19
Image 10. Commercial Building – 112 E. College Street – ca.1915 20
Image 11. Historic Image – E. College Street – ca.1915 21
Image 12. Before: Letts-Fletcher Company Warehouse, Marshalltown - 2011 45
Image 13. After: Letts-Fletcher Company Warehouse, Marshalltown - 2011 45
Image 14. Before: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building, Cedar Rapids – 2014 47
Image 15. After: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building, Cedar Rapids – 2016 47
Image 16. Before: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building – Interior – 2014 48
Image 17. After: Barton-Ford Motor Company Building – Interior – 2016 48
Image 18. After: Iowa State Bank & Trust – 102 S. Clinton – 2018 49
Appendices
Appendix A. 2018 Survey Resource Table and Maps
Appendix B. Updated Multiple Property Documentation Form “Architectural and Historical
Resources of the Central Business District, 1856-1984”
Appendix C. Project Presentations
Appendix D. Iowa Historic Tax Credit Program
Appendix E. Federal Historic Tax Credit Program
Appendix F. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
Appendix G. Jan Olive Nash,“Iowa’s Main Street Commercial Architecture,” MPD, 2002.
Appendix A
1. Table of Findings
2. Resource Map
3. Proposed Historic District Boundary Map
4. Proposed Historic District Boundary Map Without Urban Renewal Resources
Site
Number
Image Address Historic Name
(Common Name)
Built
Date
Status
E. BURLINGTON ST.
52-04068
120
S. Burlington St.
Montgomery Ward & Co.
Farm Store
ca.1930 NC
52-05437
180
S. Burlington St.
(Commercial/Mixed-Use Building 2015 NC
54-05431
304
S. Burlington St.
(Commercial/Mixed-Use Building) 2006 NC
52-04064
310-318
S. Burlington St.
(Commercial Building) 1986 NC
52-00763
320-322
S. Burlington St.
(Commercial/Mixed-Use Building) ca.1985 NC
52-04063
340
S. Burlington St.
(Commercial/Mixed-Use Building) 1986 NC
S. CLINTON ST.
52-01938
8
S. Clinton St.
(105 E. Iowa Avenue)
Dey Building
(Iowa Book & Supply)
1917
C/K
52-01051
10-14
S. Clinton St.
Coast & Sons Building 1892 C/K
52-01052
16
S. Clinton St.
Namur Bakery Building
(McDonald Optical)
ca.1874/
ca.1884
C/K
52-01053
18-20
S. Clinton St.
Commercial Building ca.1874/
ca.1944
C/K
52-01055
22
S. Clinton St.
The Airliner ca.1888/
1950
C/K
52-01057
24-26
S. Clinton St.
Racine’s Cigar Store No. 3 ca.1874 C/K
52-01058
28
S. Clinton St.
Ewers Men’s Store ca.1874/
ca.1923
C/K
52-01059
30
S. Clinton St.
Bloom-Ries Building
(Moses Bloom Clothing Store)
ca.1870 C/K
52-01060
32
S. Clinton St.
Whetstone Building ca.1868 C/K
52-01063
102
S. Clinton St.
Iowa State Bank & Trust
(Johnson County Savings Bank)
1912 NRHP
52-04075
114
S. Clinton St.
Strub Building
(Roshek’s Department Store)
1865/
ca.2005
NC
52-04074
124
S. Clinton St.
Hawkeye Barber Shop 1979 C
52-01069
130
S. Clinton St.
Things & Things & Things
building
1970 C
52-04072
132
S. Clinton St.
Bill Hill Music Studio 1971 C
52-04040
210-212
S. Clinton St.
(Safeway 2000 Building/Joseph’s) 2000 NC
52-04070
224
S. Clinton St.
Commercial Building
(Bread Garden)
1955/
1995
NC
52-01071
226
S. Clinton St.
Carson & Thatcher Motor Co. ca.1905/
1980s
NC
E. COLLEGE ST.
52-05432
E. College from Clinton
to Linn St. and
S. Dubuque from
College to Iowa Ave.
City Plaza
(Ped Mall)
1978-79 C
52-01070
103
E. College St.
Savings and Loan Building 1877/
1940
C/K
52-04093
109
E. College St.
Dooley Block (west bay) ca.1874/
1929
C/K
52-04085
110
E. College St.
Carson Building ca.1916 C
52-04086
112
E. College St.
Commercial Building ca.1915 NC
52-01087
114-116
E. College St.
Schneider Bros. Furniture Store 1883/
1906
C
52-04091
111-113
E. College St.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. Building 1929 C/K
52-01088
115
E. College St.
Dooley Block (east bay)
ca.1895/
1929
C/K
52-04090
117-123
E. College St.
Crescent Block ca.1895 C/I
52-04087
118-120
E. College St.
Commercial Building ca.1874 C
52-01089
125
E. College St.
College Block Building 1878 NRHP
52-04088
128
E. College St.
(125 S. Dubuque St.)
Plaza Centre One 1977 C
54-05434
309
E. College St.
Old Library Condos/
Crepes De Luxe Cafe
2001 NC
52-01095
312
E. College St.
Iowa City Masonic Temple 1914 C/I
52-01096
320
E. College St.
Trinity Episcopal Church 1871 NRHP
52-04059
325-393
E. College St.
(Commercial Building) 1996 NC
S. DUBUQUE ST.
52-01545
1
S. Dubuque St.
(127 E. Iowa Avenue)
Park House ca.1867 C
52-01546
2-4
S. Dubuque St.
Market Hall 1873/
ca.1947
C
52-01548
5
S. Dubuque St.
F.J. Epeneter Building
(north half)
1883/
ca.1933
C
52-01549
6-8
S. Dubuque St.
Ham’s Hall
(north two-thirds)
ca.1873/
ca.1930
C
52-01550
7
S. Dubuque St.
F.J. Epeneter Building
(south half)
1873 C
52-01551
9
S. Dubuque St.
Patterson Block
(north half of north half)
1879/
1899/
1982
C
52-01552
10
S. Dubuque St.
Ham’s Hall
(south one-third)
1870 C
52-01553
11
S. Dubuque St.
Patterson Block
(south half of north half)
1879/
1899/
1982
C
52-01554
12
S. Dubuque St.
Commercial Building
(Sports Column)
ca.1870 C
52-04094
13-15
S. Dubuque St.
Prairie Lights Book Store 1983/
1993
NC
52-01556
14
S. Dubuque St.
Mueller Block
(Sports Column)
ca.1910 C
52-01557
17
S. Dubuque St.
J.J. Stach Saloon ca.1876 C
52-01558
19-21
S. Dubuque St.
Scanlon Saloon/
Maresh & Holubar Tin Shop
ca.1874/
ca.1875
C
52-01559
23
S. Dubuque St.
Commercial Building 1879/
1970
NC
52-05429
109
S. Dubuque St.
Jefferson Cafeteria ca.1915 C
52-01561
111
S. Dubuque St.
Commercial Building ca.1860 C
52-01562
115
S. Dubuque St.
Franklin Printing House 1856 NRHP
52-01564
118
S. Dubuque St.
Commercial Building ca.1881 C/K
52-01567
124
S. Dubuque St.
Iowa Theater 1936 C
52-04065
220
S. Dubuque St.
Holiday Inn
(Sheraton Hotel)
1984 C
54-05430
229
S. Dubuque St.
Dubuque Condominiums 2015 NC
E. IOWA AVE.
52-01940
113-115
E. Iowa Ave.
Bashnagel Building ca.1875 C
52-01941
117
E. Iowa Ave.
Studio Tea Room ca.1922 C
52-05436
119
E. Iowa Ave.
Commercial Building 2004 NC
52-01943
121-123
E. Iowa Ave.
Brunswick Hall ca.1890 C
52-01944
211
E. Iowa Ave.
C.O.D. Steam Laundry Building ca.1895 C
52-01945
213
E. Iowa Ave.
Reardon Hotel ca.1900 C
52-05423
219
E. Iowa Ave.
Capitol Square Condominiums 2002 NC
52-05428
225
E. Iowa Ave.
Brueggers Bagel Bakery 2011 NC
52-05425
229
E. Iowa Ave.
Vogel House 2001 NC
52-04039
325
E. Iowa Ave.
Tower Place & Parking Facility 2000 NC
S. LINN ST.
52-02225
13-15
S. Linn St.
Hohenschuh Mortuary 1917 C/K
52-02227
28
S. Linn St.
Old Post Office 1904/
1931
NRHP
52-02228
104-116
S. Linn St.
J.A. O’Leary Velie Co. Garage/
Iowa Apartment Building
1919/
1924
C
52-02229
122
S. Linn St.
Meardon Building 1977 C
52-04056
123
S. Linn St.
Iowa City Public Library 2004 NC
52-05426
201
S. Linn St.
Plaza Towers/Hotel Vetro 2004 NC
52-02230
218
S. Linn St.
Iowa City Public Library
(Carnegie)
1903 C/I
52-04054
222
S. Linn St.
Leff Law Firm 1966 NC
52-02231
224
S. Linn St.
Residence ca.1888 NC
52-04055
225
S. Linn St.
Dubuque Street Parking Ramp 1980 NC
E. WASHINGTON ST.
52-02800
109
E. Washington St.
Hands Jewelry Building ca.1868/
1968
C/K
52-02804
110
E. Washington St.
Western Union Building 1938 C
52-02805
112
E. Washington St.
Sunier Music & Jewelry Store 1900/
1929
C/K
52-02806
114
E. Washington St.
Commercial Building ca.1874 NC
52-02807
111-117
E. Washington St.
Younker’s Department Store 1951 C
52-02808
118
E. Washington St.
Freeman Building ca.1874/
ca.2002
NC
52-02809
120
E. Washington St.
Bremer’s Building 1964 C
52-02810
121
E. Washington St.
S.S. Kresge Co. Building 1930 C
52-02811
124
E. Washington St.
Security Insurance Co. building ca.1869/
ca.2010
NC
52-02812
126
E. Washington St.
Commercial Building ca.1869 C
52-02813
128
E. Washington St.
Arcade Building 1874/
1927
C
52-01487
129-131
E. Washington St.
Hotel Jefferson 1913/
1926
C/I
52-02814
132
E. Washington St.
Pryce & Schell Building ca.1879 C
52-05427
201
E. Washington St.
Park@201 2012 NC
52-02815
202-214
E. Washington St.
First National Bank 1911 C/K
52-02816
207
E. Washington St.
Paul-Helen Building 1913 NRHP
52-02818
216
E. Washington St.
Stillwell Building
ca.1880 C/K
52-02819
218
E. Washington St.
IXL Block (west bay) 1883 C/K
52-02820
220
E. Washington St.
IXL Block (center bay) 1883 C/K
52-02821
221
E. Washington St.
Englert Theatre 1912 NRHP
52-04053
225
E. Washington St.
Schump Transfer & Storage 1910 C
52-04052
227
E. Washington St.
Stilwell Building 1910/
ca.1949
C
52-02823
228
E. Washington St.
First National Bank Drive-In Bank 1962 NC
52-04051
229
E. Washington St.
Meacham Travel 1971 C
52-02824
319
E. Washington St.
Iowa City Press-Citizen Publishing 1937 C/I
52-02825
320
E. Washington St.
Ecumenical Housing 1980 NC
52-02827
325
E. Washington St.
B.P.O.E. Hall 1909 C
52-05433
328
E. Washington St.
The Abbey Apartments 2011 NC
52-02829
330
E. Washington St.
Eldon Miller building
(Gabe’s)
1955 C
52-02826
332
E. Washington St.
Boerner-Fry Company/
Davis Hotel
1899 NRHP