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8.B. - Page 32 of 66 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation for 970 Edgewood Road City. When sales did not prove brisk, three hundred of the lots were offered at auction at the end of May 1890, and 120 of them sold for prices of from $150 to $1,050 each, for a total income of $28,450 (or $237 per lot). These prices were very low even for 1890. Most of these lots probably sold to patient speculators rather than to people who would build homes. Today at least six fine houses in the tract area can be found that were built during the years 1909-1915. By 1925 the tract had been reincorporated as the Edgewood Park Company, with new officers and almost certainly new owners. Enough land remained unbuilt upon that the proprietors were able to re -survey most of the tract that lay west of Wellesley Crescent. The surveyor was civil engineer C. L. Dimmitt. New streets were cut through some of the blocks, and some of the existing streets were realigned, perhaps to accommodate automobile traffic. This work must have had a positive effect, for today many houses in the tract, now called Edgewood Park, date from the 1920s and later. The subject house is a late example for this subdivision, but others from this period can also be found, especially in the blocks to the west, farther away from El Camino Real. Construction of the subject house, 970 Edgewood Park This house was built in 1959, for owners Ray and Nita Spangler to designs by architect Edwin Wadsworth. There have been two additions to the house since then, both for the Spanglers and both to designs by Wadsworth. One was a 1966 garage addition adjacent to the carport (described above). The other was a small addition on the west side of the house for an all-purpose room, in 1978. That is the least visible side of the house, and the side that received a less formal architectural treatment compared to the others. In 1982 portions of the front fence were replaced. The building permit stated that 23 feet of wire fence would be replaced by a solid six-foot tall fence; that 58 feet of four -foot -tall wire fence would be replaced with a six -foot -tall wire fence; and that a four -foot gate would be installed at the front driveway, fifteen feet from the sidewalk. At an unknown date a garden plan for the property was created for the Spanglers by landscape architect Geraldine Knight Scott, of Berkeley. Ray Spangler (1904-1997) Ray Spangler had a long and distinguished journalism career in Redwood City. He was born in Oakland in 1904, moved with his family to South San Francisco in 1916, and edited the high school newspaper. Each issue was a single hand-written manuscript that was passed among students one by one. At Stanford University he worked on the campus newspaper, eventually becoming the editor, and at the same time worked as a 7 V