Reso HRAC 15-04 (3076) 1305 El Camino Real

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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. 7 The El Camino Real and Wilson Project will not demolish, destroy, relocate, or alter 1322 El Camino Real, so the project will not affect the aspects of integrity related to location, design, materials, and workmanship. The"feeling"of the building refers to its aesthetic or historic sense of time and physical features that convey the property's historic character. In this case, feeling refers to the 1930s commercial business district of El Camino and the Art Deco/Art Modeme style. While El Camino today does not convey a sense of time of the 1930s, the building retains its Art Deco/Art Modern style and retains its feeling. Under association,there is no direct link between an important historic event or person and 1322 El Camino Real because there are no historically significant events or persons associated with the building. However, it retains its historic character of an Art Deco/Art Modeme style and therefore retains association. Finally, the question is whether the project will alter the immediate surroundings such that it would affect the resource's setting. In 2010, The Record Man building was evaluated by CIRCA: Historic Property Development and was found to retain its setting in spite of the changes that had affected El Camino Real, retaining"a good degree of integrity of materials, design, workmanship, feeling, setting, location, and association [sic]...and appears to meet Redwood City's criteria(Criteria B and C) for a historic resource." 8 17