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Kostura, Mills Act nomination for 731 Edgewood Road, Redwood City Summary This house was built in 1936 in a Monterey Revival style blended with with Colonial Revival elements. The first owners were Glenn H. Ticer, a salesman for the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) office in San Francisco, and his wife Annabelle. The original architect is unknown. Major additions were made to the rear of the house in 1968, a swimming pool was added to the back yard in 1972, a former garage was remodeled as a family room, and a new free-standing car port and a driveway were added in 1974. This house appears to be eligible for the California Register of Historical Resources under Criterion 3 as a fine example of the Monterey Revival style. The contributing features of the house include its Monterey Revival front porch and balcony, with posts and railings, its symmetrical facade, double-hung windows with divided lights and shutters, a brick first story and clapboard second story, and a finely-detailed Colonial Revival entrance. All of the later additions are non-contributing. Please see the Evaluation section of this report for more details. Description of the property 731 Edgewood Road is located in the Wellesley Park subdivision of Redwood City. This is a neighborhood of free-standing single-family houses on larger than average lots. Because many of the houses, including this one, were built during the 1910s-1930s, they were usually designed in historical styles with fine detailing. The grounds and landscaping This property occupies one-third of an acre of land, on a lot roughly 70 feet in width by slightly over 200 feet in depth. The house sits about 50 feet back from the front property line, which leaves space for a large back yard. A driveway runs along the south property line and leads to a garage structure in the rear of the property. A white picket fence fronts most of the lot and, at its south end, turns inward at a right angle to allow room for the driveway. A front yard situated between the fence and the house is dominated by a large, mature oak tree that is set in the middle of the yard. A circular border of nine concentric courses of red bricks surrounds the base of the oak tree. The yard is flanked on three sides — along the north property line, just inside the fence, and immediately in front of the house — by border plantings of shrubs, ferns, flowers, ground cover, and an avocado tree. The oak tree must be fairly old, but whether it dates to the beginning of the house’s history is unknown. The arrangement of the border plantings and the picket fence are also of unknown dates, but they most likely date to recent decades. The driveway to the south dates to about 1974. It is concrete, and has brick borders. The backyard has several conspicuous features. They include a free-standing garage and a swimming pool, both from the 1970s, and a brick patio. The pool is surrounded by an apron of 2 9.A. - Page 71 of 247 329