Reso HRAC 15-01 (3055) Recommending 601 Marshall Street

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is positioned in its environment can reflect the designer's concept of nature and aesthetic preferences. The physical features that constitute the setting of a historic property can be either natural or manmade, including such elements as the topographic features(a gorge or the crest of a hill); Vegetation; Simple manmade features(paths or fences); and Relationships between buildings and other features or open space. These features and their relationships should be examined not only within the exact boundaries of the property,but also between the property and its surroundings. This is particularly important for districts. Feeling is a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of time. It results from the presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the property's historic character. For example, a rural historic district retaining original design,materials, workmanship, and setting will relate the feeling of agricultural life in the 19th century. A grouping of prehistoric petroglyphs, unmarred by graffiti and intrusions and located on its original isolated bluff, can evoke a sense of tribal spiritual life. Association is the direct link between an important historic event or person and a historic property. A property retains association if it is the place where the event or activity occurred and is sufficiently intact to convey that relationship to an observer. Like feeling, association requires the presence of physical features that convey a property's historic character. For example, a Revolutionary War battlefield whose natural and manmade elements have remained intact since the 18th century will retain its quality of association with the battle. Because feeling and association depend on individual perceptions, their retention alone is never sufficient to support eligibility of a property for the National Register. The Redwood City downtown has changed greatly since the 1890s when 611 Middlefield Road and 620 Jefferson Avenue were built. Originally,the immediate area was made of single family houses. As Redwood City grew during the 20th century, the downtown saw the construction of single-story and multiple-story commercial buildings, multiple-story residential buildings, and surface parking lots, among other changes. The development that occurred during the 20th century greatly changed the historic setting, feeling,and association of 611 Middlefield Road and 620 Jefferson Avenue. Nevertheless, the loss of these aspects of historic integrity did not preclude these buildings from designation as historic resources in the Downtown Precise Plan. Given that the historic setting, feeling, and association of the buildings were already greatly changed before these buildings were designated as historic resources, the development of the 601 12 ATTY/RESO.30481HRAC RESO RECOMMENDING 601 MARSHALL STREET EXHIBIT A REV:01-16-15 VR